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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large ♦â- Â» « » « « « I CANADA British Film* Going Strong Most Canadians are pleased to know that British-made Aims improve in quality, and that the British Industry prospers abundantly. We base this Btatement ui>on reports brought back from England by returning Canadians and upon frank admissions published In United States trade Journals. Mr. Walter Wanger. vice-president of the Columbia Pictures Corporation, inter- viewed by the Film Daily, an influen- tial United States trade organ, is quoted as saying: "It might be well to note that al- tliaugh the American Industry has made little progress through this period of world depression, enormous profits have been raade in England by producers, distributors ahd e.xliibltors. Should this !;ituation make us think? Those in control of production do not seem to realize that there is an entire- ly new world i-uint of view which has to be met in picture product. This changed viewpoint radically affects the type of entertainment that must be furnished, as well as the attitude of the audience. Artistically, the busi- ness must improve." The quality of restraint and whole- someness, observable in many Old Country films, is one that recommends them to Canadian patrons. â€" Toronto Mail and Empire. Something Lacking Here The end of the limit seems to have been reached when a man in Montreal was sent to jail tor 15 days because he begged a cigarette from a more for- tunate individual. Somehow that rubs heavily against the grain of a normal person. This man certainly was more sinned igainst than sinning and the citizen who "turned him in" apparently had completely forgotten the Biblical quo- tation, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" while his accoster appar- ently went on the Biblical assumption of "Ask and it shall be given unto you.'' If this thing is carried too far we know a great number of office "friends" who will shortly be on the Inside looking out: â€" Kitchener Daily Record. The Bacon Quota The Ottawa agreements provide for tree entry into Britain of 280,000,000 pounds of Canadian bacon "of good quality." "Good quality" means the grade known In Canada as "select." ast year Canada only produced one- fifth of the number of hogs required to supply this quota of "good quality" bacon). These figures may give those not acquainted with the industry some Idea of the huge task facing depart- ments of agriculture, packers, breed- ers and farmers if Canada is to take full advantage of this important con- cession. Already an intensive cam- paign towards hog improvement has been undertaken by the departments here and in Toronto. A revolution wiUiiu the industry will be required. Breeders are faced with low prices for bacon in Britain, the e.\change and other major considerations but leaders in the Indus-try claim the bacon quota caa be worked out to the advantage of the Canadian farmer if only sufficient co-operation and good will are shown ^y all concorued.â€" Ottawa Journal. Radio Licenses A total of 514,129 radio re^-elving licenses have been isiue<l by the Cana- dian GovernE'.ent Radio Branch from April 1 to September 30, 1932, or ap- pro.ximately one to every eighteen per- sons of the population of the Do- minion. â€" Acton I'ree Press. Comeback For the Horse The hcrse will reappear In great force as the motive jwwer for urban cind suburban street and road trans- portation, if a certain British organi- zation has its way. That organization, founded to further the Interest of the breeder and user of the horse and ony, is known as the National Hors* Association of Great Britain At the request of various bodies commercial- ly Interested In the malntenanca of borse traffic. It Is conducting an active Bropaganda for the encouragement ot |lho use ot horses for transport puj> j>oses, and Is meeting with support and ^â- operation from firms with large do- llverlos to make.â€" Welland-Port Col- borne Tribune. Helpful Reading .\ fondness for good books doesn't |ust happen. It must be cultivated In the child, as well as in the adult who fl!d not acquire It in Its youth or loet It ia the transition from youth to ma- turity. Homes v.'lth good libraries â- well-read by adult members of the family seldom are the scene ot Juve- nilo revolt against helpful reading. â€" Saruia Cauadiun-Oi)sevver. of earth raised Is a sort of deposit In the bank which cannot fail, and on which one can draw cheques In kind, for the maintenance of life for a con- siderable period. Naturally, one has to work hard, but the earth Is an em- ployer which does not stint bread to Its workers. â€" La Liberie, Winnipeg. Russian Jewels Part of Legacy The Plowman The plowman is the symbol of the countless men and women who Iiave 1 gone before us wrestling from the soli , the means ot sustained life and higher i aspiration. He is the embodiment of; all tliat Is noble In human labor. Some- how, the hands that have guided a plow through the fresh-smelling earth | are better for having done so. â€" Ottawa Citizen. Supported by the Law The British policeman is backed up by the law tar more effectively than officers in some countries. When he makes an arrest there are not a thous- and loopholes in the criminal law by which an unscrupulous lawyer can free his man. There are not a lot of criminals who go untouched because they have influence. The British po- liceman very truly represents "the ma- jesty of the law.' He does not, as a usual thing, need to carry a weapon with him. â€" Victoria Times. THE EIV1PIRE Idle Money If millions ot pounds ot money sta.t to drift out of circulation â€" as they have been drifting outâ€" and begin to pile up in the banks, clearly the con- sequences are going to be serious. Fewer goods will be bought becau.-> the money to buy them is les. by the amount lying unused on deposit, and unemployment must ri.se. There is no other way of stimulating output and employment at the present time than by getting this money back Into circu- lation. â€" London Daily Herald. The principal pan of the ?1,032.3-IS in personal property left by Edith Rockefeller McCormlck consists of jewelry. Over 1,700 dia- monds, many pearls and emeralds are shown in these two pieces. Dangerous Policy The Japanese see China rapidly dis- integrating before their eyes, and they ask themselves whether their best course Is not to strive to save some- thing from the ruins, and to mark out and secure at least one area which they can immunize from the surround- ing contagion? It is a desperate policy, but it is Intelligible to anybody who will admit that Japan's interests ' in China are more vital to her than the ! interests which the Shanghai defence; force was established to protect so short a time ago were to England. It is a dangerous policy. Dangerous to Japan, because it tends to revive the prestige ot the military casfe, to strengthen the waning feudal ideology. Dangerous to civilization, because it creates on more septic focus in a dis- ordered world.â€" Round Table. London. Peace With Honour The time tor rapprochement be- tween the Government and the Con- gress will come only when civil dis- obedience Is definitely called o£t, and when there are guarautes which fully satisfy the Government tliat there will be no attempt to revive it in any shape or form. Even then, past ex- perience cannot but make the Govern- ment cautious In accepting any over- tures for peace that may come from the other side. India cannot afford to risk a repetition of the disastrous ex- perience that followed the Irwin-Gan- dhl Pact.â€" Calcutta Englishman. The World's Banker Even improvident people are com- pt^iled to bo thrifty ou the land. They tannot In actual fact get •'» the o d rf their resource.5, for a haud-ln-moutb lite Is lmpoK3iMc for them. The pro- cess of fsrmii):; makes the farmer klac« his Invy-itnunts in the soil, •very improvement to lils land, every IP^tn of seed, e\e!y furrow', t-vry s-'d OTHER OPINIONS Home Tovin Advertising Mr. Merchant, the newspapers from the larger cities near your community are coming into the homes ot your own customere these days with adver- tising columns bursting with an- nouncements ot real values. If you will go to your home town newspaper advertising man he will help you with your advertising prob- lems and make your advertising just as appealing to your customers as the "big city' advertising Is. You, Mr. Merchant, have to keep that lead. Local advertising has the jump on advertising that comes In from the outslds, bjr properly utilizing tbe home town newspaper columns con- sistently and with careful attention to the preparing of copy. â€" Kenton, Ohio, News Republican. Plant Surveys Proposed In Fight on Hay Fever Manhattan. Kan. â€" Plant ..urvey.^ of communities as an aiJ to hay-fever control are urged by Miss Elsa Horn, Kansas State College botanist, who has completed such a project In .Man- hattan, a city of 12,000 population. "Only ten of these vitally needed surveys have been nia'de In the Uni- ted States," MisS HorL said, "but botanists must take up this work If hay-fever Sufferers are ever to get much relief." Three varieties of ragweed, hemp and pigweed were identified in Miss Horn's research as Manhiattan's worst offenders among the 250 pos- sible varieties of trees, grasses and weeds which may cause hay fever. She found that 571.8 acres, or 22 per cent of the city, was in weeds. A single acre ot ragweed, which grows in profusion In Manhattan, had been found to give off sixty pounds ot pollen, the botanist said. In arguing the importance of weed surveys, Miss Horn pointed out that 60 per cent of all asthma is hay fever in Its advanced stages. UNLOVED One sorrow only in God's world has birthâ€" To live unloving and unloved on earth: One joy alone makes life a part of heaven â€" Tlie joy of happy lovg received and given. Give me the heart that spreads its wings, â- Like the freed bird, that soars and sings. And sees the bright side ot all things. From Behring's Straits to Dover. It is a bank that never breaks, It is a store thief never takes, It Is a rock that never shakes. All the wide world over. Motors Replace Horses Of Royal Mounted Police Winnipeg. â€" B'or forty years famed throughout the English-speaking world as the Scarlet Coated Riders of the plains, the Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police at last have discarded their horses and taken to the motor car. Before there were dirt roads across the prairies, before the era of the railways, the old Northwest Mounted carried law enforcement, the Crown's justice, into every nook and cranny of the Western prairies. They did so v.'ith the aid of horses and their prow- ess as horsemen. Their ability to travel weeks and months living off the country, cut oflf completely from supply depots, earned for them the reputation of the greatest mounted police force in the world. New meth- ods of crime, new problems of law enforcement have changed all this. The photographs and paintings of the old scarlet-coated riders, astride their horses, is now only a relic of a North- west which is gone. Development of the Ontario Agricultural College News despatches recenilv told of the visit of His Excellency the Gov- ernor-General to Guelph to dedicate and upen formally the matpiilicent new adniinistratioii and residence building of the Ontario .\j?riculturai College. These reports were exceed- ingly interesting. It ma^ b-^ ques- tioned, however, if the public are thoroughly conversant with the splen- did work for agricul.ure being done at that institution, now presided over by Dr. G. I. Christie. The year 1873 saw its inception and on May 1, 1874, the Ontario School of Agriculture was declared open, thirty-one students be- ing admitted. Under but four presi- dents the Colhige has deveU^ed, until in all 35,855 studc.ts have ».;nrolled, there being an enrollment of 5(58 stu- dents in the agricultural courses for the seaion of 1931-32. Since the in- ception of the O.A.C., degree courses have been established and the study of home economics and short courses have been added. The Macdunald Institute, the gift of Sir William Macdonr.ld, was opened in 1903, as a part of the ( oUjge for training in home economics. The Col- ege has also been of inestimable aid to farmers in the setection of test seeds, in fact, a new variety of barley named "nobarb" originated there. The O.A.C. looks ako after the registra- tion of beekeepers in the province, about 660 apiaries, v.ith approximate- ly 162,000 colonies, being registered. Much help was given by the College in the corn-borer battle, while in the Canadian School of Baking the Trent Institute conducts commercial baking courses and does research and demon- tration work. Poultry research, soil survey, animal husbandry, fruit grow- ing, cold storage, grading of m.ilk, killing of weeds and other features of the work of the school show the importance of O.A.C. to agriculture in this country. To the Guelph Mer- cury, which published an attractive special edition to mark llij Excel- lency's visit, we are indebted for many fact's concerning this admirable insti- tution. â€" Toronto Mail & Empire. New Regime in Turkey ' Introduces Family Names Istanbul. Turkey. â€" Millions of Turks are racking their brains to choose; family names for themselves while the! Minister of Interior prepares a law to enforce this latest western reform. Any names may be chosen as long as they are consistent with Turkish customs. Heretofore family names have been non-existent in Turkey, thousands of women being simply "Fatimas' and thousands of men "Mu.^taphas" or "Husseins." Sometimes men have added names indicating they are the sons of a sl.x-flngered man or a flsh- mogner â€" just for distinction. Names must be chosen within six months after promulgation of the new law. Low-Cost Rations for Cows Economical cow rations that New , Jersey dairymen can feed as one step toward making readjustments to meet^ reductions in milk prices are listed in I a recent statement by E. J. Perry,' extension-service dairjTna;. at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Since the cost of roughage ; ar.d grain constitutes from 50 to 60 j per cent, of the entire annual expense ' of keeping dairy cows, feed is the major expinse which the owner can probably reduce with the least diffi- culty, Mr. Perry points out. For the ' dairy farmer who has such home- gro\vn grains as corn, oats, barley or I wheat, and plenty of choice alfalfa, soybean or clover hay, Mr. Perry re- ; commends the following ration as one that is economical and capa'ole ofi stimulating high production: 1,000 pounds of a 20 per cent, raady-raixsd ; feed and 1,000 pounds of corn meal, [ com and cob meal, ground barley, j ground wheat or a combination of] seme or all of these. This mixture' contains 14 to 16 per cent, total pro- 1 ttin, and, fed v.-ith good legumes, is a- balanced ration. Is Letter-Writing Out-of-Date? Publication in England of a nevf and complete edition of Sir Wallet Scott's letters, «hich reveal him at one of the mv.st prolific missive writ- ers in the annals of literature, leade a commentator in The London Morn- ing Post to reflect upon the "positive-' ly appalling number of old Irtters which have been preserved in print. "I have heard a famous historian, after his third glass of mellow old port in a college common-room, utter a fervent wish that the celebrities of the past had made it a point of honor to burn all one another's letters," he says. "Seeim; that his domain was modern history, even a literary critic could excuse the outburst. Dr. John- son wrote 300 letters to Mrs. Thrale, and Disraeli 800 to Lady Bradford, while there are in existence more 'han 1,000 of Edward Fitzgerald's. "A prodigious mass of correspon- dence has to be examined by experts on this or that phase of eighteenth- century history one of whom has as- sured me that he had read more thao a ton of handwriting, rtiuch of which v.as cr:;bbed and crossed and very difficult to decipher. And a whole morning's work, he added, spent in thus spoiling his eyesight sometimes failc(' to provide him with a signifi- cant sentence." However, the author of the articls has his doubis as to whether th« young swains of today are keeping up the old, gracious custom of writing love letters. "They seem to prefer the tele- phone," he observes, "because, as on« young and adequately ardent devote* tells me, "I'd sooner hear her voice than have to chaff her about mistakes in spelling.' .There is something in that, and when television is perfacted^ and the lover can hee him beloved as well as hear her, the walls of spaca and lime will be down between the two neighbors. "Another swain insists that the writing of 'the old-fashioned love let-' ter' is really a dangerous practice. 'Two people don't see one another for a long time,' he explained, 'and write scores of letters cracking one another up in the most absurd way. And whin they meet again neither comes up to the other's specifications, and the en- gagement is called off.' '' German Warship at Philadelphia No Chang* The many Americans who are con- stant readers and admirers ot Punch had naturally a moment ot dismay when It was announced the other day that Sir Owen Seaman, who has been the editor for the lut 28 years, was about to retire But the fears that a new editor mlg'ht give us a new, twen- tieth-century, wise-cracking Punch, a Punch of studied irroverenco and TUl- garltyâ€" In the spirit of some of lt» contemporaries, notablr In Oermany and the United Statee â€" are hapi^lly set at rest. Sir Owen's successor la likely to be E3. 0. V. Knox, the "Eroe" that has lonj; been signed to some of Punch's most dellglitftil bits of satire I and parody In prose and verse^ â€" Bos- ton Transcript. South Favors Soy Beans Raleigh, N.C.â€" North Carolina's greatest agricultural accomplishment in the last 25 years h.as been to in- crease the acreage planted to soy beans, in the opinion of Mr. C. R. Hudson, who has just rounded out his twenty-fifth year in farm demonstra- tion work in this State. Mr. Hudson believes that the introduction of the soy bean into eastern North Carolina and its use over the entire State has been of tremendous importance to agricultural development. When Mr. Hudson came to North Carolina in 1907 his first work was launched in a few counties around Statesville, in the piedmont. From that limited beginning, the county agent system has grown to the point where there are now 80 counties hav- ing farm agents. Matches 100 Years Old Lighted at Centenary Dogliani, Italy.â€" Matches lOC years old were used to light candles and cig- arettes at a celebration here in honor of Domenico Ghigliano, their manu- facturer. DogUani credits Ghigliano, a native Sun, with being the inventor of the sulphur match. Similar claims have been made by others, hut Dogliani is so convinced that it ha.s erected a monument to its townsman. The mayor produoeu the ancient bo.K at 6 ceremony marking the him- dredth anniversary of the invention. The first match broke into flame at j the second stroke. Other honor guests I were ailowed to strike the remaining ', ones, all of which were good. j Ghigliano was a poor chemist when : he produced his first match. There- after he manufactured them in bo.xes. I . â€" r' â€" . ! Mexican National Railways Ban Foreign Employees j Mexico City. â€" Indications that the I National Lines of Mexico strictly will I hold to the letter of the law requiring i that only Mexican nationals be em- 1 ployed except in iechnica! and uirec- I tive posts, were seen in the decision I on the appeal of a foreign worker. I W^illiaui Barliow, who was employed in the Jalapa, Vera Cruz, shops, ap- ! pealed his discharge after an accideni I and asked for indemnity. The Fed- I eral Council of Arbitration Piul Con- , ciliation ruled against him, citing in ; the decision the argument that undet the labor law his post should have been given to a Mexican c:ti7.e;i. Leads in Farm Tree Planting Harrisburg, Pa. â€" Pennsy.vania led the nation in 1931 in farm forest planting, according to the State De- partment of Forests. Of the 25,500,- 000 trees planted on farm forests during 1931 in the United States, Pennsylvania planted 6,000,000 trees. New York was second with 4,800,000, Ohio third with 1,743,000. Fine Imposed For Posters London. â€" Fines were imposed in two cases recently in courts in Ox- fordshire and Montgomeryshire against individuals who had disfigur- ed the country side by the use of posters along the highways. In both cases court action was t.aken in this field of lawbreaking for the first tim*. Airplane Device Is Tested Milan, l:a'y. â€" Successi..; lest flights have been made here •.\IUi an airplane embodying principle."! "ike those of the wind t'jn:-.c!. .Air is forced by a tractor propeller tliniufrh a hollow compartment in th.: fuiJolas-J narrowing toward the centre and wid- ening again at the rear. T5-e cirec; is to add to th<> drivin? ' â- â€¢ - i" the propeller. Population of China Peiping. â€" The Ministry of liie In- terior has announced China's total population as 474,787,3S6. oi whom 25,000.000 are under Japanese control in Manchuria. Kiangsu, with 34,- 120,000, is the most densely populated province; Ninghsia, with l,44O,0('O, ia the sniallost. May Sell Cigarettes Singly Rome. â€" Slot machines to sell single cigarettes to persons who do not wish to or cannot buy a whole package are being considered by the government tobacco monopoly. Never increase discontent by care- ^ less j||d«Q(i . I Kor the lirst lipio prior to the world war. a German warship visit- 1 l Philadelphia. Seaman Herbert Batslaff ot the Cruiser Karlsruhe evid' ntly enjoys tbe change ot scene. "I hear your wife insists on going I to Monte Carlo? "Yes, she's msd oa I it But I put my foot down absolute- ly." "So she's not going after allT* "WelL not with my conjiaat.'' "What is meant gambler?" One irho never tries to chest police out of tbeir nike-oC* ."quare