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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA The Kingston Outbreak The outbi-eak at Kiugston Peiiileutl- ary tame in the nature of a sudden slio«ii to the people of Canada. We have been so used to regarding our prison administration as beyond re- proach that we have come almost to a Pharisaical attitude in regard to the prisons over the border which have witnessed not a few shocking out- breaks during the past few years. Now the matter comes nearer home and there is a very resolute conviction that thi.s must bee investigated thoroughly and without delay, and that any evils existing must al.so be remedied wltli- out delay. â€" Montreal Daily Star. Conditions Improving Saskatchewan is conquering depres- sion, and by the method of reducing unemployment. What that province has been able to da is an evidence ot the uncontu'erable spirit of the west. Conditions are obviously improving, and already there is noticeable a change in tlio mentality of the people. They are realizing that conditions which they have been responsible for creating can also be overcome by themselves when lUey have the cour- age to face the facts. â€" Victoria Colon- ist. Safe Driving Oue of the sound rales for .-:afe driv- ing is to "watch the other fellow." WUeu we form the habit of doing just that we keep our eye.s on the road ahead. When we keep our eyes on the road ahead it's ever so much easier to keep our minds on the all-important job of driving safely. Watching the other fellow develops a new interest in him, too. It fosters a badly needed highway courtesy. It is a con.«tant re- minder that the road is owned by all, and not by any one driver. It tells us that the other fellow has equal risht.s â- with our own, and that if we infringe on these rights we do so at our own peril. â€" Brandon Sun. Movement of Wheat Although the price of wheat con- tinues at a disappointingly low level, the sale of so much grain even at pre- sent rates means bringing into the country many millions of new money. Transportation interests are enjoying gratifying activity in consequence and general business is reviving steadily. â€" Calgary Herald. The New Empire It must not be forgotten that the Ottawa agreements form but the first steps in the direction of a great and far- reaching adjustment of trade. The Empire has decided to trade more with Itself. That means that henceforth it will be more interested in investing in Itself and in developing itself. The new order of things should mean some- thing far beyond increased trade ia tills commodity or that. It must mean, if it is to be a success, new Empire lines thrown out and around Empire coun- tries â€" lines of emigration, lines ot in- vestment, lines of cultural contactâ€" in short, a more closely-knit, more solid Empire than the past has known. â€" Vancouver Province. BRITISH Money and Employment The first essential to the provision of jobs is money. Despite the prevail- ing depression, there (s no lack of money in this country. Vast sums are lying idle in the banks. What is need- ed is the release of some of this money, and its flow directed towards the provision of employment through a. plan of National Development. â€" Lon- don Daily Herald. The Crisis of the League We have had the League of Nations only a few years now, and in that short time it has done much. It has bound up some wounds ot the last war, cured some ills of the present, and prevented some evils for the fu- ture. It cannot attempt everything all at once â€" to give peace in twelve years to a planet which has been distracted by war for more than double that num- ber of centuries. It can only attempt what a sufficient number of its sup- porters want it to attempt. The real danger in this crisis in its affairs is not of too slow in'ogross but ot its fall- ing back through lassitude and ignor- ance on the part of Governments and peoples into a state where nobody cares whether it lives or dies. That must not be; the world would have no use for an apologetic survival linger- ing on like a Holy Roman Empire or a Holy Alliance long after the lite had left itâ€" Manchester G-.iardian. Fasting Unto Death Gandhi has established what seems to us a bad precedent, and wo note that ho threatens, should the occasion •rise, to fast again. We may have a vhole series of questions decided by this sort ot appeal to a pity which Is akin to terror. We do not say that there is any fear ot the practice q>reading to the West. Moreover, we •re confident that, even If our Prime Minister or the Secretary of Stat« were to sit down under an oak tree at Chequers, or a plane tree in Whlte- liall. with a glass ot soda water beside Iheni. it would make no ditterence at •U to the policy ot Congress In India. â€" London Evening Post. France Building 70,000 Ton Liner EMPIRE Britain's Trade Agreements We are not surprised to learn that lOuropean nations are "tumhliug over one another" in the desire to conclude new trade agreements with Great Bri- tain. It is doubtful, however, whether they will receive treatment quite so generous as that accorded to the Domin- ions; a meticulously careful weighing of privilege against privilege is much more likely After all," Great Britain has had all the disadvantages of inter- national trade and none of its advant- ages for decades past; it is time we square up the account.â€" Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg!. Ottawa Logic "Britain is the keystone of our Em- pire economic structure, and without a prosperous Britain with a high pur- chasing power all our efforts must fail," snys Mr. Stanley Bruce. That is a sound point of view, though it is one which many Australians have failed to appreciate. We cannot sell to advant- age in our best markets unless people there who are anxious to buy can do so; and they can only do so it their economic circumstances are favour- able. The making of concessions on our part is therefore a form of enlight- ened self-interest. â€" Melbourne Aus- tralian. The New India It is often said that Great Britain has gone too tar in the surrender of power in India to retreat from what she has done but it is equally true that India has gone too far ever to get back to the evils of the past. A democratic India, an India devoted in far larger measure to industrialism, an India to which world trade will be an essential, will be an India transformed in her social life The India of the future will not be an India in which millions are damned from birth or in which privi- leges are reserved for the few, irre- spective of their deserving. It will be an India in which the opportunities will be equal to all. We are witness- ing the slow dying of an eiwch. It is for us ftll to see that it is replaced by something bettor. â€" Calcutta States- man. A Good Prospect For Jamaica Not a fortune for a few but a liveli- hood for the many is what we must aim at in producing fruit for the con- sumers of England and Canada. The masses in England are wage earners with a very small margin for luxuries, but when luxuries become cheap they also become necessities, and those parts of the Empire which can produce food and fruit that will be both lu.x- uries and necessaries will beueflt greatly by preferences giving them first place in the British market. â€" -Jamaica Gleaner. Not content with just launching the fastest des troyer in the world, Prance is now busy buildiug the largest liner. Here we see building operations at Saint Nazairo. She's 1,024 feet long and has a displacement ot 70,000 tons. The rivets used, if placed end to end. would stretch 400 miles -and that's not stringing a liner. The Danger of Roads Speed in itself is rarely a danger. Yet the road offence upon which police officers spend moat time and ingeuuity is the trapping of motorists who travel at 35 miles an hour, when often the circumstances would render safe an even greater speed. The culpable motorist is the one who imagines that the whole width ot the road is his rightful preserve, that ho can stop, turn or swerve without signal, and â-  that he can swoop into a main road as though he were turning into his own gate.â€" Cape Argu.s. Students of McGill 1 To Be X-Rayed for T.B. Montreal â€" Five hundred fust-year students at JIcGill University will be x-rayed for tuberculosis germs, by the department of physical education dur- ing the next few weeks. McGill is the first Canadian university to car- ry out an experiment of this kind. The addition ot X-ray apparatus to the facilities already available in the department of physical education at McGill is made possible through the co-operation of the university with the Quebec industrial hygiene com- mittee and with the financial support of one of the McGill governors, who preferred to remain unidentified. The X-ray photographs will be care- fully studied and filed away iu order that a complete history of tlie health of these 500 students may bo kept all through their university course. In this way it will be possible to deter- mine how the "white plague"attacks students and what percentage ia af- fected. Next session it is hoped to X-ray another 500 incoming siudents, both men and women, and thus have a re- cord ot some 1,000 undergraduates. It will require about five years to get the first fruits ot the investigation, but the practical value of the X-ray- ing will be immediately available to the students. Game Birds Take Toll of Crops in Alberta Irrlcana, -Vita. â€" Hundreds of ducks and geese are taking heavy toll of the wheat still remaining in the fields of this district it was noted last week. Only 10 per cent, ot the crop has been harvested due to the delay caused by the early snowfall. 1 The game birds are attacking hun- dreds ot acres ot wheat, securing rare ! feeds from the crop. Two farmers of the district complained their 300-acre crops have been ruined by the birds. Non-Permanent Branch Of Air Force Considered Ottawa. â€" Formation, of a Canadian non-permanent air lorce on lines sim- ilar to the auxiliary air force in the I United Kingdoiv is under -onsidera- tion by the Department of National Defence an an announcement is ex- pected shortly. The proposed force would consist of three squadrons, located at points yet â-  > be selected. Each squadron would contain ab:>ut 20 officers and 175 other ranks, with a reserve of officers. Ap- plicants for commissli-ns would be re- quired to obtain pilots' licenses and be acceptable to the other officers. As a brancli of the Royal Canadian Air Force the new body wruld be operated along about the same lines as the present non-permanent active militia. Watch Dial on Egg Shell Leads To Speculation on Hen's Diet Chester, Eng. â€" -.Vn egg laid by a hen at Barton Malpas, Cheshire, had a perfect replica of the face of n watch marked on its shell. The Ro- man numbers are complete and even the minute divisions are perfectly plain. The numerals and divisions are raised above the surface of the shell and there is a deep impression above the number XII, corresponding to the winder of the watch. The egg has aroused great interest in the Chester market and the owner of the hen has been offered large sums of money for It. There is no explana- tion for this freak of nature, but some persons are wondering whether the hen has lately swallowed a watch. AMERICA A Genius Needed Portland, Ind., erects a stone shaft memorial to Elwood Haynes as ia- ventor of the modern automobile^ But ! what a row ot shafts a grateful public would be willing to erect to anybody who invented an automobile that would stay modern for more than one season:â€" The Christian Science Moni- tor. King Reduces Rents London. â€" The King has reduced by 20 per cent, the rents for allotments of the Sandringham estate. One year ago the King took over the adjoining 1200- acre farm when no new tenant was forthcoming and it will now ha used by GO workingmen, who will hold their allotments by tenancies let by the King personally at $4 an acra Belgium Now Has Phone Service to Leopoldsville in the Congo Brussels. â€" Telephone communica- tion between Belgium and Leopolda- villo in the Belgian Congo has been inaugurated. The lines will be open fiom 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from L'.30 p.m. to .'5.30 p.m. on week days, and from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m on Sundays. j A three-minute conversation will , cc-sl 390 Belgian francs (about $11.14), and each extra minute will be charged for at the rate of 130 francs. Persona desiring to converse with somebody : in the Congo are advised to arrange for . the call some hours in advanceâ€" pre- ferably the day before. Home in the North I know a house beside the sea Where rocks and gulls call down to me Of other shores more wide and fair Than those beneath the window there; With bolder rocks and whiter sand. And hills behind more green and grand. I never listen, for I know That wheresoever I may go, No other place could ever seem More beautiful, no water's gleam More . bright with memory's magic foam. Than those about my northern home. That, nestling in its hills apart. Gathers me ever to its heart. â€"Elizabeth Fleming, in the Christian Science Monitor. More Tourists Visit Belgium According to the Belgian tourist of- fice, the number of foreigners who came to Belgium this Summer was greater than last year. Hollanders came first, in the matter ot numbers, followed by French and Germans. There were few .Americans and Bri- tish. Tho tourist oflice directed its advertising efforts toward Holland, Northern France ami Central Europe. Much is being done to attract parties of school children, with their teach- ers. Rich Copper Deposit in Nevada A huge deposit of copper, averaging !G per cent., now is being developed in the northern part of Elko County by the Rio Tinto Copper Company. It Is said to be the world's richest copper deposit and, according to experts, would be a money maker even at pre- sent starvation copper prices. Census In China Reveals 474,787,386 Population Shanghai.â€" The Mini try of the In- terior in Nanking has completed a cen- sus of China which it claim, is tha most nearly accurate ever made. It establishes the population at 474,787,- 38G. This includes Manchuria, Mon- goldia, and Tibet, over which China claims sovereignty. Previous estimates of China's popu- .• tion have varied from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000. Tho Ministry does not explain how it has obtained such pre- cise census figures in territory over which it has no actual control. Italy Seeking Speed Record Despite Loss of Pilots, She Still Keeps After World Record on Lake Garda Rome. â€" The tragic death of Lieuten- ant .\rlosto Neri, Italy's "speed Wl»- ard," has led to a delay iu the pre- parations which are beiug made at Desenzano on Lake Garda to wrest from England the world's seaplan* speed record, but the intention ot r»- gaining this much-sought-after honor has by no means been abandoned. Oa the contrary, it is stated that a fresh attempt will be made as soon as tem- peratures are steadily cool enough for racing seaplanes to take off. Tho Italian machine which is to make tha attempt to conquer the world's speed record will be piloted by Warrant Offi- cer Agello, who was formerly No. 2 ot the Italian team and has become No. 1 since the death of Lieutenant Nerl. Italy has paid a heavy toll ot lives to high-speed flying. -Vo loss than nine of her very best pilots have lost their lives in the last four years iu practice flights in Desenzano. Never- theless, there is no decrease in tho de- termination to conquer the world's speed record. Tho latest Italian raiing seaplane, which was built for the last Schneider Trophy race, but was not in readiness in time to take part in the contest, is considered to be by far the fastest fly- ing machine in existence in the world to-day. It has developed, however, a mysterious defect, the exact nature ot which the engineers have not yet been able to discover. No less than three ot these machines, while flying at top speed over Lake Garda, have suddenly nose-dived and plunged into the water of the lake. The pilot, in each case, was killed, so that it has been impossibla to find out to what these accidouta were due Flier Avoids Crash I Lieutenant Neri himself, in a prac- 1 tlco flight before his death, in wliicli I he is said to hav^reached a maximum I speed somewhere iu the neighborhood i of 470 miles an hour, had his rudder ' carried away. Only his truly extra- i ordinary skill enabled him to land j safely on the lake, without Injury to j himself or his machine. It is thought [ that perhaps the destruction ot the â-  other machines v.as due to a similar breakage ot the elevators. These, how- I ever have been carefully checked in : the remaining machines, without any visible defect. Others believe that the detect lies in the two engines revolving in oppo- site dirctions with which the new ma- chines are fitted. Italian engineers be- lievo liiat a great future is In stor« for machines of this type, as the fact that the two engines revolve in oppo- site directions eliminates tho tarqua I which is so troubles ome to pilots in , light racing machines. Th& mechau- i ism, however, is extremely compU- : cated, as the two propellers are driven jby means of two concentric tubular j shafts, revolving in opposite dire* : tions, the one inside the other. It I« j more than possible that the accidenta ' are due to some slight defect which, I develops at high speed iu this intricate ! mechanism. Judges at Royal Winter Fair The Right Honorable the Earl ot Westmoreland a prominent member ot that elite group of hunting en- thusiasts and sportsmen who, carry- ing on the long tradition of the Dukes ot Beaufort, have made tho little Gloucestershire village ot Badminton world famous as tha centra ot all- round sport, will head the list ot judges for hunters and jumpers at tha Royal Winter Fair Horse Show next month. The Earl has just cabled his accept- ance ot tho Royal Winter Fair's Invi- tation to attend and to judga In the most interesting and numerous classes ot the horsa show programme. With him In the hunter and jumper division will be Elliott S. Nichols ot Detroit and Georga B. Elliott ot Toronto. . The other judges for tha Royal Horse Show are: Harness Horses and Ponies â€" Wm. H. Wanamaker. Jr, Philadelphia, Pa.; Thos. W. Clark, Edgemont, Pa. Saddle Horses and Poniesâ€" Frank Adair, Atlanti, Oa.; Holland B. Judklna, New York. N.T. Commercial Classeaâ€" Thos. H. Irwiil, Lambton Mills, Ont.; Audrevr O. Bala, Hamilton, Ont. Roadsters â€" Hart>«i CoUaoutt, Port Parry, Ont.; Frank .\dalr, Atlanta, Ga. IT -y- Sunday Island Sunday Island, In th« PaaHai, la really tb» tallMt mountala la tit* world. U rlsM 1,000 to*t out 9f flv» miles of watar, aod it thus nearly ^0.- 000' feet from hase to summit. First Gales of Season Sweep Elnglish Coast %^ "•¥^-'^, ' ''â- >»S ifcS: *^ ' ^^;^v::^- â- '**^^=»*«i?4»- â- -*i*fT««i: "^s^ iirtmr- Leprosy Gains in Brazil Rio De Janeiro. â€" The increase ot, leprosy in Brazil ia alarming sanitary exports who assert that the malady la spreading .so rapidly especially in the north, that it should receive the iia- mediate attention of the government. Unofficial figures indicate tbat aft fected persons are scattered through* out Brazil, Physicians are asking fof special legislation to permit the foP' mation of centres where lepers maf be segregated in an effort to preveal further spread of the disease. At present there is only one offlciai leper hospital in Brazil. That is at Jacarepagua, on tha outskirts of Riff da Janeiro, and has accommodations for only a small number ot patients. Tha holidayers have departed and the residents ot Claclon, England, are now settling down for the « Inter. A bit risky to walk along the prom when the waves act this way. England Forces Wealthy To Pay for Schooling Ijondon. â€" New regulations which re-' duce free education in tha aecondarj^ schools â€" corresponding to public higli schools here â€" were announced in th» HoHsa ot Commons last week by Her- wald Rarasbotham, Parliamentary so* retary ot tha Board ot Education. He estimated tha saving to Uia Govern- ment would bo £400,000 a year. Tho regulations establish a "meang test" which lays down a scale of In coma above which parents must pay tees. Rumania Seizes Automobilel Bucharest. â€" Autoniobilists have been halted by policemen during the laal few days and ordered to get out. 0* complianca they have simply beoq handed a slip ot paper stating thai their cars are requisitioned tor th« forthcoming manoeuvres. Thereupon the cars have been driven oflt by mllh, tary chauffeurs and tha owners left t4 tend for themselves. Motor truck< have been similarly halted on tha higk road, forced to unload and driven off. .> Russia Mas Placed Order* For Equipn^ent In BHtain London. -Russian orders for manan factnrer* and transport equlpmaBl costing £450,000 (about |>,Q0O.OOO •! par), have been placed with BrlHsfc firm*.