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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA AVIATION IN CANADA Commercial aviation touchos the economic interests of the country in a vital spot. It enters into Canada's conviction that this country has rich resources as yet undeveloped, and that development can be speeded up by organized use of air facilities. It enters into Canada's well-founded be- lief that this country has a position of rare stratcKic value in the planning of world aerial hlRhways. Broadly speaking no country in the world Btands to gain more from well organ- ized and strongly supported commer- cial aviation than this Dominion of Canada. â€" Winnipeg Tribune. TOURIST STATISTICS Travel between the United States and Canada is greater than over any other international boundary in the world, according to a return just is- sued by the Canadian Government dealing with the tourist traffic of Canada. During 1933 the number of automobiles from the United States which entered Canada for touring purposes was 3,090,887. Of these, 2,233,418 were admitted for a piriod not exceeding 21 hours; 863,- 13G for a period not exceeding CO days; and 333 for a period not ex- ceeding six months. From "nforma- tion received from various .'^ources in- cluding co-operation with United States officials it is estimated that the average expenditure per car in the 21-hour class was $7.68; in the 60- day cla.^s, $59-80; in the six-months class, $234.07. Total expenditures by visitors by automobile from the United States during the year are placed at $77,250,000 in Canadian funds. â€" Canada Week by Week. A FUNNY LOT, HE SAYS Farmers, city people, young people, old people, busy people and people who have little to do; they all huddled into the office where one secures car markers and they all wanted to get attended to at once. . . . We do the same thing in a number of ways. We find out when • we go to light the furnace in the Fall tn. We knew about it months ago, that the grates are warped and brok- but not until there is need for fire do we attend to it. People know right now that the fly door of last year is no good, they are aware that the lawn mower would not cut butter and they know the lawn hose leaks like a sieve, but will they attend to these matters? Not much. Not un- til stern necessity takes them by the neck and forces action, and then they will desire service quick and good. Actually we are a funny lot of people. â€" Stratford Beacon-Herald. HOCKEY TEAMS ABROAD The trips abroad of our hockey •earns are not all unprofitable. Other countries are seeing the sort of skates We use. The archaic and traditional Bkates of many P^uropean countries arc apjftirently giving way before the Canadian brand, for in the last two years there has been a large increase in the export from Canada. In 1931 Canada sent only 6,001 pairs of skates to Europe, but in 1933 the export was 24,418 pairs. COATS AND HumAN'S There are two old stories about goats. The one where two goats met on a narrow bridge, but being just goats, refused to give each other the right of way and there they stuck, till each succeeded in butting its oppon- ent into the stream below. The other story tells of two goats, which had attained some degree of civilized amenities, for one lay down, the other passed carefully and safely over it, whereupon the first rose and proceeded on its way. Thus both crossed the narrow bridge in safety and without a ruffling of feelings. Was there not something valuable for mortals in the old .school-book story? â€"Halifax Chronicle. DEAD AND BURIED Now that wi- are reading again about records in industry and com- merce, we think of old man Depress- ion as gone, dead un.l buried- Among others, a new high record for powi^r output was established in Februjiry whi-ii the previous high, in .January, was I'xcocded by 3.6 per cent. Indus- try in the .second month of this year â- was served by over l,(i00 million kilo- watt hour.s. - Cnnadiiin Itu-siness- BETTER THAN DITCHES Welcome announcement i.s nuule by K. M. .Smith. Deputy ."HinLster of Iligh- way.'*, that ten-foot .shoulders will be proviiled along provincial highways, providing >afe space for pe.le.sti ians and al.-o a track for sleigh.s in the winter time. Certainly the .shoulders will be better than the pre.sent dan- gerously deep ditches in which so many people have been killed. -Nia- gara ^'alls Review .Journal. LEARNING TO LIVE We have to live in order to know what living is about. Maybe it really doe.sn't make any difference, but it Bf-em.'^ we have pnt too much empha- •i» on the ability of youth to liave fre-'-h an.>.wers for piesent troul)le.s. It makes nice rearling in Sunday .Mip- plements but it really isn't so. The younger gen -ration i» clear-eyed per- haps, but when it gets a few cinders in its optics â€" which is experience â€" it will learn the wisdom of blinking und when it learns that it will have ceased to be a younger generation. â€" liind-say Post, FORTY YEARS AGO The^re were few traffic jams, no radio crooliers, nobody thought of resetricting production of any sort whatever, and if a dollar a day was a good wage for a workman, at least he was allowed to run his own affairs without so much official interference as governments impose today. Nobody dreamed of talking across the continent by telephone, much loss with Europe; aviation was in the vis- ionary stage, health regulations were comparatively sketchy and we dispos- ed of our own garbage. In short, it was a simpler age, and contained less to worry about. We can't get back to it, and if we could we should probably think twice about it. But at this distance it has a sort of halcyon look. It is misty with enchantment, because it was a time when the problems which beset ua now were still below the horizon. â€" Woodstock Sentinel-Review. GOOD CITIZENSHIP â€" Consider this as a fine type of British Columbia citizenship. A resi dent of Burnaby inquired of the re- lief department of that district the amount he and his family had drawn since he had become unemployed The information was duly given to him and he replied: "Thank you! 1 wish to refund to the municipality the relief afforded my family, as we have come into a little money and are now in a position to repay." It was a bit of a shock for the relief officer; but we are told that he promptly ral- lied and gave the man a receipt for the full amount which he returned to the public fund. â€" Victoria Times. ON PAYING BILLS In many towns tradespeople are ruined because people, perfectly well- to-do, do not pay their bills for a year or two. That is only a form of theft. The man who can pay and does not is on precisely the same level as a man who puts his hands into a till and takes out what he finds there. Such people are common robbers. â€" Dr. Heywood, Bishop of Hull, quoted in Public Opinion (London). HIGH HAT The mo.st revolutionary things which have happened to masculine dress in the period have been the dis- appearance of the frock coat and the decline in popularity of the top hat. A top hat shining in the June sun is a very beautiful .spectacle, suggesting a world of peace, progress and pros- perity in full swing. It is the crown of the successful man. â€" Y, Y., in the New Statesman and Nation (Lon- don). VICTORIA'S GOLDEN AGE The Victorian period was the classic age of British Imperialism. Immense new territories were then ac- quired; others were settled. Trade vastly increased; Government became effective, and the Crown succeeded the chartered companies. The Brit- iil. were in that ag? incomparably the most successful In perialists. I suggest that this was due to the in- herent qualities of the English and Scots than to the more complete ac- ceptance by them of nineteenth cen- tury culture. France, torn between Republicanism and .Monarchism, Re- ligion and Irrelisio.i, was lets sure of herself, less culturally gnostic, and .so less successful. â€" The Earl of Id- desleigh, in The English Review (Lon- don). NEW TRAFFIC LAWS Tile amendments to the existuig law of the road which are embodied in the new Hoad Traffic l!dl cover most of the needs revealed in the re- cent official analysis of tne cau.-ie.-; of road accidents. The Bill rightly re- cognizes that all blame for accidents does not fall upon one class of road u.ser8, and it proposes a number of changes calculated to make motoring, cycling, and walking all safer. The first main provision affecting motor- i.st8 is the reimposition of a speed limit of thirty mile.s an hour in built- up areas, which are ingeniously ilefin- ed as areas provided with .street lighting. This provision lias few of the disadvantages of the old general -speed limit of twenty miles an hour. The old limit was abolished because it could not be enforced. It gave the motori.st too much occa.sion to think the law was an ass and to act accord- ingly on .stretches of open road in the country. The new limit will ap- peal to the reasonable motorist as it- self reasonable â€" London Times. 1 ranscanada Hikers Unique Tipping System in China Difference in Wages Paid to Servants is Made up by Lavish "Cumshaw" All the way from Vancouver, with their hutbands, to jobs in Newark, New Jersey, came these two ladies, Mrs. Frank Connors, left, and Mrs. Alex. Simpson, right. The two couples were arretted recently in Sudbury, charged with stealing rides on trains and given 10 days. The ladies are seen just after their release from jail. by concentrating upon it. Improve- ments in production and in market- ing must go hand in hand. â€" Times of India. BLESSED COMMON SENSE Perhaps we should bo thankful for what foreigners most criticise in us. The Briton is accused of being too rational, too unimaginative, too unre- sponsive. Foreigners find him rather a dull fellow. But if volatility, tem- perament, and imagination find ex- pression, in the hour of crisis, in des- truction and disorder, the Briton may thank his .stars for his dullness. To put it differently, he may thank his common sense. Surely the greatest triumph of common sense is to be found in the policy of Great Britain. Here is a country to which other na- tions still look for the preservation of world peace, and to which Britons may still look as a rallying ground of civil liberty. It is not too much to hope that in the continuance of this policy lies the brightest hope of the future. â€" The Australasian INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STANDARDS Except for cotton, for which there exist the East Indian Cotton Associa- tion standards and the corresponding Karachi and Liverpool standards, most Indian agricultural produce is sold without any systematic and or- gani.sed grading. Enlarging the agri- cultural wealth of India depends on a number of factors of which improved marketing is only one. Much is be- ing done by scientific research, but progress will not be achieved solely New "Dead Sea" Has Been Found Down in Ocean Is From 50 to 100 Feeet Be- low the Surface Between Arabia and India. Cambridge, Eng. â€" Another "dead sea" has been discovered â€" one which, unlike that in Palestine, is not open to the sky and in whose musky and mysterious depths moves no living thing. It is far down in the ocean between Arabia and India. To depths of from 50 to 100 feet below the surface the waters teem with marine life. Below tho.se levels life does not exist. The discovery is due to the re- search of the expedition financed by the late Sir John Murray. The com- mander sent a fresh report to Prof- Stanley Gardiner, exi)edition sec- retary. Prof. Gardiner expressed the opin- ion that the lack of life in the depths may be laid to the petroleum which has been seeping into the ocean from the land through the ages â€" producing an effect similar to the familiar Pale- stinian Dead Sea by bituminoua de- [vosits. Pioneers Best Liars Declares Professor Toronto. â€" Inhabitants of this continent are bigger liars than peo- ple from older countries, in the op- inion of Prof. Peter Sandiford, edu- cational psychology expert at the Ontario College of Education, who thinks Ananias, the lyin^i Greek must surrender his mendacity title to some of the sturdy pioneers who sat round camp fires and told tales when they weren't busy car^•ing out an empire or two. Commenting on the recent Sault Ste. Marie Hackle club's Ananias competition, which was won, lying up, by Alex. Dorou, Profes-sor San- diford stated such competitions were fro(|uent sources of entertainment among pioneers. "Humorous exaggeration is typi- cal of this continent," declared the professor, instancing the yams of the horse-swapper, David Harum. Prof. Sandiford thought the old pio- neers didn't have much in the way of entertainment, so they ju.st told fanta-stic stories. "I believe in home rule, but I also l>elieve in good governments."â€" Sam- uel Seabury. "Indecencies" Condemned American Theatre Ovsmers Say "Sex Angles" Cut Box Receipts "Hollywood. â€" "Indecencies' in motion pictures were condemned in a resolution introduced before the American Theatre Owners' Associa- tion. The resolution said "wise cracks and sex angles" were resulting in decreased box office receipts. It will be acted upon soon with another resolution assailing "block booking," the practice by which theatre owners buy sight unseen the studios' season supply of feature pictures. 'The owners took under consid- eration a plan to appoint a commit- tee to meet here with the makers of Ifims in an effort to eliminate mis- understandings. The breach between the exhibi- tors and producers widened when speakers said they were "being fed apple sauce in the land of 'citras fruit." They referred to a defense of the producers, made by Louis B. Mayer, in which the exhibitors' charges that present-day pictures were indecent and immoral were de- nied. World Pblice Force Talked Punishment o f Warlike Nations Discussed In House of Lords LONDON, Eng.â€" An international police force for the punishment of any belligerent nation was discussed recently in the House of CommonB. Proposed by Lord Davies as one way of approaching the disarmament question, the suggestion was taken up by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who said the only moral use of force in international affairs would be through an international police force. Objections were posed on behalf of the government by Earl Stanhope, who pointed out the time was now Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, opportune for the realization of such a plan, a number of the larger na- tions being unrepresented In the League of Nations. He termed the League the only body that could con- trol such a police-force army. Earl Stanhope concluded: "The League of Nations was conceived to prevent war rather than to make war." SHANGHAI. Chinaâ€" An Inveetlga^ tlon of .social usages In Shanghai re- veals the fact that even wealthy Chinese families pay their servants only one-third or even one-fourth of the wages paid by the average foreign family. A Chinese family, for In- stance, will pay only $12 a month for a good cook, but a foreign family will pay from |30 to 145. The Chinese habit of tipping lavish, ly accounts for the difference In the wage scale. No guest In a Chinese home ever thinks of leaving without handing out a "cumshaw" or tip â€" the money usually being wrapped in red paper for good luck. At lavish feasts the guests are sup- posed to tip from $2 to $20, the money being handed either to the master or mistress of the house for distribution amongst the staff of servants. Chinese hosts make a habit of sending their own rickshaws, carriages or automobiles for their guests, and the guests are supposed to hand rather lavish tips to the rickshaw puller, the coachman or the chauffeur. At most Mah Jongh parties a spe- cial ash tray is prominently displayed into which the winner of each game Is supposed to put 10 per cent, of his winnings. The host or hostess will first take enough money from the ash tray to pay for the cigarettes and sweet-meats consumed, and will then hand the rest to the "No. 1 Boy" for distribution amongst the servants. It Is a gala day when tlie master of the house sends out a wedding gift. The recipient must pay the bearer 10 per cent, of the estimated value of what he receives, If the tip is small, the servant reports to his master, and the master will be deeply offended at the implication that he sent a cheap present. Extend Dental Relief Service Larger Area Included in Gov- ernment Plan, Dr. Robb States. Toronto â€" Announcement has been made by Hon. Dr. J. M. Robb, Min- ister of Health and Labor, that the scheme for emergent dental service, by which the citizens of Ontario on relief have their immediate and urgent dental needs attended to, is being extended to include the cities of Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Ix)n- don. '"Originally," stated Dr. Robb," it was felt that the urgent dental re- quirements of the people in the rural and semi-urban sections of the prov- ince should be taken care of and that this should be done through the practicing dental profession. The dentists in the areas concerned co- operated remarkably well with the department in this effort, and so well was the work handled through the advisory commitee of dentists that we appointed for the purpose, that it was not long before the scheme could be extended to include all the smaller cities of the province. "The extension we announce makes ii, possible for every person in Ont- ario who it on relief, to have dental service for extractions, for the relief of pain, and for repair of dentures." The cost, stated Dr. Robb, was in the neighborhod of $4,000 per month. "That," said he, "is slight compared with the amount of work that is be- ing done, and it has been made pos- sible by the splendid assistance which the dental profession is extending to the government, in connection with this policy" Magician's Wife ' Takes Last Curtain] Late Mrs. Howard Thurston Was a Native of Kentville, Nova Scotia Kentville, N.S.â€" The floal curtaia has rung down for Nina Hawes Thur. ston, wife of Howard Thurston, in- ternationally famous magician. A native of this town, she waa at one time a choir singer in St. Jamea Anglican Church. At the age of 16 she left to begin a stage career In the United States. Upholding one of the finest tradi- tions of the stage â€" "The show mast go on"â€" her husband and daughter Jane carried out their performance In a New York theatre although they knew the third member of "Thurs- ton and company" had left them for- ever. A sorrowing father, George Hawes, well known, retired railway man, mourns her passing here. She attend-J ed a finishing school In New England) and was a stage director In New York before she married the magi- cian at the age of 23. i Accompanying her bnsband on all his national and International tours,' Mrs. Thurston has been three times around the world and has seen him perform before monarchs and chief administrators of several nations. For 20 years she was stage direc- tor and handled a large portion of the business affairs of the "great Thurs-! ton." j In a recent issue of a leading Am-) erican magazine, the man of mystery, attributed the major share of his sue-' cess to his wife. During a visit to her/ father here last November, her 23rdi wedding anniversary was celebrated.' Radiantly happy on that day after talk-' ing by telephone to husband and daughter then in Toronto, she said that in all their married life they hadi never exchanged a cross word. I Struck by an automobile in Newi York several years ago, Mrs. Thurs-' ton never completely recovered. I Thurston and company had just be-i gun the first of two night shows, wheal the magician received word that hlsi wife had died. Thurston spoke with his daughter^ for a moment and then informed th»^ theatre manager that they would not cancel the show. They carried' through to the finish. Besides her father, husband and daughter Jane, she la survived by one step-brother. Rev. B. H. Penwarden, Kennetcook, N.S., and three step-sis- ters: Mrs. George Chase, Saint John; Mrs. C. Halt. Windsor, N.S.; Mrs. W. Van Blanco. Weehawken, New Jersey.. Popular Music Taste Changes Summer School Oxford to House Empire Students July 21-28 This Year LONDON. Eng â€" Empire summer schools under the auspices of the Royal Empire Society, which last year attracted many from overseas, will be held at Oxford this year. July 21-28. Speakers will include three British cabinet ministers- Sir Philip CunlltTe- Lister, Walter Elliot and Mr. Ormsby- (lore; Malcolm MacDonald. Under- Secretary for Dominion Affairs; Earl Peel, the High Commissioner for .Aus- tralia; John Huchan, M. Andre Sieg- fried, well-known French writer on Hrltlsh administralion, and Air Com- modore Fellowes, who flew over Mount Everest. Members of the school commodated in Wadham Colleges and elsewhere. will and lie ae- Oriel Vallee, Whiteman, Olsen and Harris See New Trend New Vorn â€" More like music, less like noise^that is the future of jazz as envisaged today by four widely known orchestr.. leaders. "Repeal is having a teeniendous ef- fect on our popular music," comment- ed George Olsen. "People, I think, are returning to waltzct- in Viennese tem- po. Somethlhg like old gypsy songs, with light and dark shades. Explaining he is just a tiddler and not a prophet, Paul Whiteman placed the future of jazz on the doorstep of .American compo.sers. "They must wiite something im- portant," said the genial Whiteman, "before we can play it.'' "Every novel effect has been tried," said Rudy Vallee. Individuality in in- strumentation, in his opinion, will be the keynote of popular dance orches- tras in the next few years. "Popular music from now on must l>e played properly," ?aid Phil Harris. "Bands will be composed of qualified musician.«, men who could play what we call 'long haired' music if neces- sary." Trade Agreements LONDON, Eng. â€" Negotiations short- ly between the British and Australian governments regarding expiring por- tions of the trade agreement signed at Ottawa may conceivably have an important bearing on future discus- sions with other Dominions. Stanley Bruce, Australian high com- missioner, it was thought, would like- ly play an important role In the coming discussions In laying the foundation for the wider negotiations that will be necessary when the main Ottawa pacts run out. The Ottawa agreements generally, as with Canada, are for a period of five years, expiring in 1937. but so far as meat is concerned the agreement with Australia expires at the end of uert June, while the dairy products agreement runs out next year. The Road We road shall not travel by the we make; Ere day by day the sound of many feet Is heard upon the stones that now we break, We shall be come to where the cross roads meet. For us the heat by day, the cold by night, | The inch-slow progress and the heavy load, And ileath at last so close the long, grim fight With man and beast and stone; for them the road. For them the shade of trees that now we plant, The safe, smooth journey and the certain goal â€" Yea, birthright in the land of cov- enant ; P'or us day-labour, travail of the soul. .And yet the road is ourj as never theirs; It is one gift on us alono be- stowed ! For us the joy of joys, O pioneers; We .-ihall not travel, but we make the I'oad! â€" V. H. Friedlander Cow Adopts Pig Brantford â€" Willard Leflcr's cow apparently ha.-; read about the cat that adopted the rat. The cow at Lefler's farm in Waterford had a calf. But bossy wasn't satisfied with such a small family, so adopted a two-weeks-old pig, and is feeding both of them without any fuss. I 4 4 Monkey fur is to he used extensively tor tntforeil and evening ensemttlsa, liat irimiuings and accessoriet.