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I Voice of the Press Ginada, The Empire and The World at Larfje CANADA. Clean and Fast. Hockey can lio both "licctlc" and •â- â€¢jxtitlng," however, without being loul. The sooner sport i<uhlicli>ts lu both tbtt United States and Canada desist from (usterlug the illusion that liucliey i«> a savage and sanguinary sani<i, the belter fur profesbional hufkey. The truth Is that it can be the cleanest as well as the fastest game in the world. â€" Ottawa Citizen. Timber Problem. It Is reported from Oninyevill© that In two years 4<i9,000 trees have been planted In the Dufferln County for- est reserve. If such practical worli fi-eiB carried on throiiKhout the Do- minion lis timber problem would be solved in another generation or so. â€" Toronto Globe. Sign of Improvement. It does look as If the depression 1» being discouraged. In Canada for the fourth successive ni|)nth, sales of aew automobiles at retail in October •how a gain over the corresponding month in 1932. The number in- creased 22.4 per cent., while their value increased 19 per cent. The number of trucks and buses sold â- bowed a gain of 20.4 per cent., while their value increased 50.9 per cent.â€" Brandon Sun. The Greater Peril. A game of checkers so excited four Apache Indians that a light followed which ended in four deaths. The authorities had better keep this tribe In Ignorance of contiacl Ijrldge â€" Ed- monton Journal. Current Butineii. More widespread employment, even overtime operations In some trades, renewed interest in construction, a larger share in the world wheat trade and an Increase In exports of basic commodities, including animal products, metals and newsprint, ure the features of recent developments iu Canadian economy. A considerable im- provement in Canada's position in re- lation to the Inturnatlonal balance of payments is foreshadowed by her more favorable showing on merchandise ac- count. â€" Montlily Letter of the Cana- dian Bunk of Commerce. Daughters of Canada. Marie Dressier, the Canadian-born screen star, though 62 years of age, has staged a great comeback and is today the most popular screen actress lu the United States. May Pickford, America's sweetheart, is also a Cana- dian, as is Norma Shearer. Canadians are Justly proud of the foremost place taken in the entertainment world by daughters of the Dominion. "Think I'll hop along to the Minny southland," say some fed up with Toronto's cold weather. But maybe tliey'll change their minds when they see this picture of Californlans digging out their car after a 56-lnch snowfall. A Good Paper. A good town paper is not the pro- duct of chanco. It is the growth of time, brains, energy, devotion and, essentially, the loyal support of the community It serves.â€" Renfrew Mer cury. THE EMPIRE. A Tercentenary. At Cowes, In the Isle of Wight, England, there was celebrated the ter- centenary of the sailing from Cowes on November 22, 10^3, of the little ships, the Ark and the Dove carrying the first British settlers to Maryland, U.S.A. A bronze plaque, presented by the Ark and Dove Society in Mary- land, was then unveiled; it was hand- ed over by Lord Fairfax, a descend- ant of one of the first British set- tlers in the American state. â€" Inver- ness Ileview. Rights of the Citizen. Perliaps it is tliis thingâ€" determina- tion to preserve the rights of tlie citizenâ€" that makes British law and Justice things apart. Justice iu Brit- ain is not merely an agency to pnn- ls!i wrong-doers; it is something to unhold liberty; the thing that Macau- lay liad In mind when he spoke of "law sustained by llberly, and lib- erty .sustained by law." It Is a tra- dition which we here iu Canada may always follow to, our gain.â€" Ottawa Journal. And Toronto a Centennial. When wTiting your friends don't neglect to remind them tliat Port Arthur will have a semicentennial celebration ne)ft yearâ€" Port Arthur News Clironicle. The Housing Problem. The number of houses required is still colossal, and a recent estimate In a responsible quarter has put the figure at 1,400,000. The Census fig- ures of lOol show clearly that houses in some such numbers will be want- ed if overcrowding is to be ended; an overcrowding is not merely a fea- ture of existing slum.s but the most potent cause of future slums. Even if it were true that at some time in the distant future this deficiency would be made good without any fur- ther development of housing policy, the Government would bo well advi.s- ed to do something to advance this liappy time, provided always that a new effort did not inflict indirect and connterl).-ilancing disadvantages upon the poor whom it is destined to bene- fit. â€" London Times. No 'Hopper Boundary. Grasshoppers know no international boundary, a factor which is increas- ingly important with the knowledge that a trend from comparatlveiy liarm- less types to types of a mlgnitory nature la in evidence. Iiuloi'd, much of the area found infested in West- ern Canada tills fall was populated by 'hoppers whicli flew in from un- known sourcesâ€" Winnipeg Free Press. Billboard Restrictions. A news despatch Irom Quebec states that Hon. J. K. Perrault, Minister of Roads and Minos, lias conciU(l(!d ne- gotiations with national comnurcial and ailvertislng companies to tlio ef- fect that at tlie beginning of next year billboards will no longer be placed close to provincial highways. This Is a safety step that might well be taken in Ontario. The bililioard di.stracls the attention of some speed- ing motorists on country highways <»nd thereby causes trafllc accidents. Diphetheria Prevention. Resiilt.H at Ottawa confirm the evi- dence from other cities, whore ener- getic immunization programs have been carried out, as to the possibil- ity by this means not merely of end- ing diphtheria epidemics In a commu- nity but eventually stamping It out. It ha."i beyn proved beyond question that the toxoid trentment both pro- TcnU diphtheria and saves lives where tho dl.iea.se has got a foothold. There la no longer any reason to fear this former dread disease which look in the past a heavy loll of lives and cftu.sed untold suffering and sorrow. All parents should feel it a duty to see that their children get this sim- ply-aUmlnlstered, Inexpensive protec- tion. -Kingston WhlK-Standai<i. Close Budgeting. A committee of the British Medical Association has created something in the nature of a sensation by declaring that tiie average man doing moderate muscular work can be fed for as. ind. (about $1.40) per week. Tho commit- tee is not content with a generaliza- tion, but makes a detailed statement of the various articles of food in the dietary. . . It is ail very well to say that the dietary provides an average of 3,386 calories per day. but how is tiie twoouuce egg to be distributed, how muiiy meals will the one-half pound of liver, or minced meat, or bacon or corned beef provide for a hungry man'? Tho distribution of the one and three-quaiter pint of milk over a full week is somewhat of a problem in warm weather when sup- plies have to be bouglil daily if liiey are to be rca3onal)ly fro.sh. Practical caterers providing for largo numbers of men might keep to the cost as an average, but the Individual kept to a Bcientlflo diet would soon become a man with a grievance against the world. - Edinburgh Scotsman. 102 New Ships by 1939 Asked for U.S. Navy Washington. â€" The United States navy la planning to ask congressional authorization for an ambitious ship construction and replacement program designed to establish the service on treaty parity basis by 1939. Under present plans, Consre.ss will be asked to approve two resolutions, one to authorize building the navy to the strength allowed by the London naval treaty or any other arms agree- ment to which the United States might become a parly, the other to authorize the President to maintain the fleet at that strength. Under the navys present idea, the fleet would bo brought to treaty strength by 1939. To bring it to full strength, 102 ships must be construct- ed, or approximately 20 ships for each fiscal year. The program tor next year would call for two heavy destroyers or destroyer leaders, 12 destroyers, one crui.ser carrying eight-inch guns, two cruisers carrying six-Inch guns and six sul)marines. This would leave the navy with the following new con- struction and replacement to be built by 1939: 24 submarines. 51 destroyers, three cruisers carrying six-incli guns and one aircraft carrier of 15,200 Ions. The total cost of the treaty strength program, including equipment and air- planes, is roughly estimated at $510,- 000,000, or approximately .$100,000,000 a year. To man sucli a fleet with an S5 per cen;. complement, enlisted strength, would be increased from the present 79,200 to about 100,000 and murine strength from 15,200 to about 20,000. W'ith tho ?23S,000,000 turned over to it by President Itoosevelt from public works funds and $40,000,000 of regular appropriations, the navy is now build- ing or has contracted for 54 ships. The ultimate purpose of the navy's program is to eliminate tlie present nieUiod of authorization tor a consid- erable Quantity of vessels in one cate- gory and then having them 15 or 20 years hence all become average at the same time. Plane Nearly Crashes On Buckingham Palace London, Eng. â€" Crowds watching the ever-popular ceremony of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace were startled recently when an airplane pas.sed, apparently only a few feet above the roof of the palace. The plane, w^hich was in ti-ouble, made a forced landing in Hyde Park, a short distance away. Its occupants were uninjured. The King and Queen, who were in residence at the palace, made in- quiries. An eye-witness said the plane swerved sharply to avoid cra-shing in- to a flagstaff. "It looked for a mo- ment that he could not avoid hitting some part of the palace, but by a great effort he managed to get the plane away," the eye-witness said. Some of the women in the crowd screamed. Highway Lightir0 Ontario possesses about 3,000 »v,'e» of Kinjr'a highways, aboui .V^O milca of which are heavily traveled, writes the Electrical News and Engineering. For instance, the hijhway joining VVind-sor and Montreal \t used coty- tinually both summer and winter by private and commercial licensed ve- hicles, and particularly by toi-rists. What a splendid contribution to safe- ty to commerce, and to Canada's tour- ist trade, it would be if this main highway were adequately UlumL-ated. At the present time the many mu- nicipalities en route light about 75 miles, but there still remain unlighted about 475 miles between Windsor and the Ontario-Quebec border. A super- ficial survey would show that, owing to the advantageous existing facilities along this route, the capiUl cost oi Installing complete lighting would b« around $700,000, and the total annual c'hargea, including interest, deprecia- tion, maintenance, power and lamp re- newals would be only |200,000 per annum. Would not thia investment pay for itaelf? The Quebec authoritiea would soon light their 50 miles from th« boundary to Montreal, the munieipali- tie» would improve their lighting,, and this highway would then become on« of the most traveled and safest high- Names Eighteen Men Who Understand Money! ways on this continent. New York. â€" Eleven college i>rofee-; *" sors, two bankers, and flve foreign | London Preparing authorities were listed last week aa - ^-^ "the persons In the world who under- stand the real meaiiitig of money," by Profassor Irving Fl.sher. of Yale, In Event Gas Attadc London. â€" Lord Moynihan and othei great doctors and surgeons hav« been Tho prominent economist, in reply ' asked by the Home Office to help in to a request of the Consumers Guild I the task of creating an organization of America, listed the following pro- I to protect the civil population from fessors: poison gas attacks, Harry G. Brown, University of I A series of conferences has recently Missouri ; G. F. Warren and F. B. j been held in London between thes« Pearson, Cornell University; J. Har- j medical experts, Home Office officials, vey Rogers, Yale; WiUford I. King, i represenUtives of the War Office and New York University; John R. Cora- 1 others, mons, University of Wisconsin; Dr. j Warren N. Persons, New York City; A Nice Piece of Work. Mrs. John Home, Jr. of Port Col- borne, grew weary of the number of times a burglar was making hH way Into her home. On cjno occasion the burglar had secured $4 In rash and Bome rings. At otht-r times he had come, and Mrs. Home was certain be always entered by a cellar win- dow. Mrs. Home was ready to receive him when he came axaln. She turned out the llghls, took up her stand In tbe cellar and had with ber as com- panion and adviser the family rolling pin. The burglar came. He entered the window and Mrs. Home went into actVon. The bi^rglar was knocked out cold. Then the police came and took blm away.â€" Stratford Beucon-Herald. Standards of Living. Japan is taking our markets, is tak- ing even our business of currying these goods. Japan's millowners pros- per; Japan's shipowners reap the harvest of the waters. How is it done'? Uocause tlie Japanese work- ers live more cheaply. Could we? Un- doubtedly. The Ilrliish Medical Asso- ciation is telling yon that any lieallhy man can live on 5s. 10 '(.d. a week. Muybo lie can, especially if he starts the week healthy and well nourished. it migbt not be so good, say, with two years' uni'mployment as the prelude. Most of the world could live a little worse than It does. The (|uesllon Is: Why should It? World rulers every- where are cutting down production, while hungry citizens go short. The priests of Ilaal who cut Ihcmselvoa with knives did not commit more folly.â€" I/Oiidon Daily Kxpress. Partridges Enter City to Get Food Sauit Sle. Marie, Out. â€" Hungarian parlridH:eâ€" hundreds of tliciu â€" arc on welfare relief in the Soo. Citizens are responding to the plea of the (Janie, Fish and Forest As.so- ciation to feed the birds. .Snow ha.s licen removed from cxtonsivo lots and food, donated by citizens, is being thrown daily to them. Several hun- dreds of tho l>iids, driven by hunger from the woixls, recently invaded the city. Tear Gas Causes Panic At War Demonstration Bucharest. â€" The drastic metliods pursued by an army officer at his lecture on gas and air defense in the Village of Csikcsicso recently caused a panic among the audience. To demonstrate the elfect of tear ga.s and the methods of defense ajraiiist it, the colonel relea.scd the contents of a tear-gas bomb. The audience, consisting mainly of women and children, taking it for poisonous ga.s-, jumped up from their seats and rushed to the exits. In the ensuing panic all window panes were smashed and a number of persons seriously wounded. Three children who were trampled under foot are not expected to recover. ♦ Cattle Rustlers Aided By Women in Southwest Pueblo, Col.â€" Sijuthwest peace otri- cers are looking for the queen of cat- tle rustlers'. A cattle rustling ring that has operated in Colorado, Kan- sa.s. New Mexico and Oklahoma is be- lieved to be directed by a woman who iias several men and women in her employ. The women >btain jobs as C(X)ks on ranches and study brands, pas- tures and round-ups. This information ufocs to the higlier-up and one night a fleet of trucks carries away live- stock. The cook leaves soon for an- other job. The stolen cattle are taken to the Denver, Wichita or Oklahoma City market and sold before the owner can report his loss. Edwin W. Kemmerer, Princeton; Cyril James. University of Pennsyl- vania; John H. William?. Harvard, and Jacob Winer, University of Chicago. The bankers Include Frank A. VanderUp, former president of the At these meetings the protection of civUiana from host-'lo s^n bombing by means of respirators was discussed. The Home Office so far has not yet made any decision as to whether it will encourage the purchase of gas masks by civilians. The protection of the civil popula- , , „,. „ tion from air attacks is not, of course National City Bank, and George Le the on^ly subject which governmen Blanc, former Equitable Trust Com- officials are considering pany official. | pjans ai^ being draw-n up for the Among the foreign academic removal of various national "nervi monetary economists there are Key- centres" from London in ca^e of an ne."!. of England: Cassell. of Sweden; | emergency Krisch, of Norway; Van Schu'ze I Whitehall is now con..ideroci too Gav^rnilz. o Oermany. and among; "vulnerable" for the Adn iraltv W« a':r F^he?idd'^ ''^''"""' °^ ""^â- . "«^'<;f ^' ^^â- ^- •^^â- "'â- ^^'â- >- -^- •«- -[ lau. risner anueu. j war ' occurs. Professor Warren, named In the' _. _ American group, is- the present mon- ' o l ii n • V* ri! etary advisor to President Roosevelt •snowball Bridge Rolls Consplcuoui-ly absont from the list Up Charity Funds wer. Professor O. M. W. Spra.gue, re- Berlin.-'^Snowball Bridge" fo, cently resigned Treasury adviser, charity has becor,,^ nil fi • Colonel Leonard P. Ayres. of Cleve- Berlin '''''"' '" land, widely-known as an authority ' To ri-i..« fnr,,i.. f *u x- • . fion.-i pertaining to money would be mailed to tho 18 authorities named, and that, from the replies a sympos- ium would be compiled and mailed to all members of Congress. eign Affairs, invited 700 guests, in eluding the whok diplomatic corps, tx a bridge party, eacli guest paying om mark (about 25 cents) into the fund Each guest moreovei undertook t« give another bridge party, large o: simall, on the same terms; the giiesti at these to keep up the chain. Thus the Nazi campaign conducte<i und« II-.. I ^"° -'*•'«»" "no German shall suffj Indications are that the ! hunger or cold t is Dominion and Provinces May Confer January 17 to be a success. winter" promise- -C- Ottawa.- Dominion - Provincial Conference, scheduled for Jan. 11, will be post- I>onod to Jan. K, to meet the wishes of Premier L. A. Taschereau of Que- bec. Premiers of all the provinces were queried luo to the stability of the later 'late, and all but one had replied agreeing to the change. Quebec Legislature wMl assemble on Jan. 9 and no large delegation of min- isters could be spared to come to Ot- tawa so soon after the opening of the House. Ontario to Preserve Early Architecturt Toronto.â€" Tlw recording of carl' buildings and lands, and the presi?rva tion of the early ai-chitecture of thi Grumbling Ontario Residents View This! THE UNITED STATES The Land Lookina Up. So miicli publicity Is given to farm mortgage foreclosures und farm dis- tress that there is an impression that farm land no longer has value. Thia Is, of c(mrMe, absurd. There are far- mers who are living and paying debts off, and thousands of farmers who are free fri>m debt. Food Is being pro-! duced and producers are making ends • meet even under the adverse clrcuiu- I stances of the last few years. More- : over, th'Te are perfoiis who are look- 1 lug for farni-i, with the money lo buy . them. Land Is basic. It either comes back or u coiinlry peri.shes. and (here Is no body who aulicipales the down- fall of the United States.- -Topeko Call/ CaplUL I ^mm Heie's what happened when Old Sol turned his rays on Washington state mountains, pourln thousands of tons of water into sm i I streams which fliioded Tacoma and many other cities. Nine llTi were loat. inaugurated Architectural Con^erv ancy of Ontario. The Lieutenant Governor was named honorary presi dent and Mr. H. S. Southam president Many buildings erected early in th. history of Ontario have a high degr» of architectural merit, said Mr. South am. Most of them were built by tht United Empire UyaKsts, and nian' were even lu.xurious. The associaiioJ proposes to try and have the old Fop Hem-y at Kingston restored, the worl to be done as an unomploynient relie' project. Latest 1933 Diseases Were Suffered by Anclenti St. Louis.â€" There are "very fo\i diseases which men have today thai the ancient men did not have" Dr Howard A. McOordock of the Wa.-^h- ington University .School of Medicin* told the members of the St. LouU Medical Society. "From time to time wc run acrosi a di.iea.se that is supposed to be a ne^ malady." Dr. McCoixlock said. "Wf are prone to believe that many degen. erative diseases are the result of th« artificial life of the prre.sent day. A ettjdy of mummie."!, however, qiiickW convince.'* us that there are very fei chronic diseases that ancient man ikl not have. "Mummies of ancient Egypt »ho« chronic arthritis, decayed teeth, t* berculosis and other maladies. "There is th» case of the Egyptia. woman with ceJtl dust in her lungs.* ^ Inveeti gat ions are in proKres:^ bj the Dominion Department of Agn- culture to learn the most efficiont tn 1 least inexpen.sive method* «f stedi/J •nd harvesting crop*. . #"\