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Voice of the Press Canada, T\\e Empire and I he World al Large Suicide Attempt Fails CANADA FRIENDLY CITY HALL.â€" Many people must liavv wondciud -nbat It was all about when thef rvsui in the Poiit the rvpuit of a pur|iurtcd trial when Miss Helen Lyons was sen- tenced to a life of happiness by Ma- gistrate G. A. Junlan in view of her Cuming marriage. Such trials have taken place be- fore- There was one a few year.s ajto for instance, before Town Clerk W. K Allely became married, when he was charged in all solemnity and legal ter- minology with deserting his post with out the consent of the others in the building. This has been the method followed by employee in the town's offices ma- king a presentation to a friend on tbe Threshold of Matrimony. The friend- ly spirit that reigns at such court ac- tiiins is the same spirit that links tho various town offices and lends such a pleasant atmosphere at all times. â€" Lindsay I'ost REMOVING A MENACE.â€" The Highways Department was a long time in getting started on tho ditih-filling project, but now that the â- work has been commenced in elimin- ating these death traps, the provin- cial authorities evidently intend mak ing a job of it. Hundreds of men are al work in Central and Western On- tario removing this menace. And it is worth every cent it will cost. â€" From the Cuelph Mercury. PROFESSIONAL SECRECY.â€" The Lancet, England's leading me- dical publication upholds the Minnea- polis physician recently fined and im- prisoned for not informing the auth- orities that he had treated John Dil- lingcr, the bandit. The gist of its ar- gument IS that as a medical man he had to observe professional secrecy. But what about the prospective vie tims as long as the niurduier is free? â€" Brantford Kxjjositor. IMPRESSIVE TOTAL.â€" Small investors in the United King- dom have something like $12,4.00,000, 000 tucked away in Post Office Sav- ings Bank, Trustee Savings Bank* and in national savings certificates In England these small investors are never spoken of collectively as the big interests. â€" St. Catherines. Stan dard. PACIFIC OYSTERS. In British Columbia waters exper- iments have been carried on with the eastern Canada oyster and the Ja|)- •nese oyster, as well as with the nat- ive variety. Preliminary investigation by the Biological Hoard indicated that the Eastern ('anada oyster suffered excessive mortality on being trans- planted to Pacific waters. The .lapanese oyster, it was found provided a method of producing suit- able cuUchâ€" material for collecting oyster spat â€" for the native variety and its cultivation would thus over- come one of the main difficulties of increased yield of the home product. The .lapanese oyster itself, though differing from the British Colum- bia and eastern Canada varieties in flavour and appearance is regarded by many as an acceptable and nut- ritious sea food. The most extensive acreage of na- tive oyster beds in British C^olumbia was found in Boundary Bay on the mainland, and Ladysinilh Harbor on Vancouver Island but small beds are reported in more than lialf a dozen o- ther localities. The report of the Bio- logical Board recoinnienued measures to increase the yield of the native va riety, together with the introduction of the Japanese variety in localities not suitable for the native variety.- - Victoria Times. DEBTS AND pO|.LARS.â€" If it is im|K-rative to reduce the am- ount 6f general debt, it is a thoOsand pities that we have not the courage to do so frankly and openly, and leave our dollar intact- But as we look ar- ound the world we can see practical- ly no one who is doing this. We are all fiddling with our cui-rency. We are like inrchants who have contract- ed to deliver ten pounds of sugar a year in the future, but find ourselves | unable to do so. Instead of admitting this however we adopt the far simpl- er and more deceptive method of cut- ting a section off the j>(>und weight. â€" Montreal Star. THE EMPIRE SIR FREDERICK BANTING.â€" At first glance at the Birthday Ho- nours List you may say 'Not very ex- citing, that list." You look again. You read there that Dr. Frederick Bant- ing of Canada has been made a knight Ho discovered insulin. He conquered the dread disease diabetes. Young un- known, penniless this student at the Western Ontario Medical School was consumed with an idea- How to dis- sipate that unused sugar in the body which is the cause of diabetes. Day and night, he worked baffled, disap- pointed, mistaken, till on the verge of despair he stumbled on the secret substance in the vital gland which will break up that surplus sugar. In- sulin is the name we call it now. Ban- ting, who found it, is one of the great heroes of man's struggles against Death. â€" London Daily Express EMPIRE TIMBER RESOURCES.â€" The Prince of Wales did well to emphasize that in all the modern de- velopment of the timber trade long term planning is a condition of suc- cess. The increase of consumption of Canadian timber has thus far been restricted by the inevitable difficul- ties of adjustment to- a new market by the need of organization of pro- duction to the conditions and grades required and of the arrangement of economical shipping. Beneath all this lies the fundamental question of long term forestry schemes. No Dominion whatever its primeval wealth of tim- ber can any longer neglect planning to con.serve and multiply that wealth as an investment for B<enerations. The United States has already discov- ered what the wasteful exploitation fo virgin forests means. â€" I,onilon Dailv Telegraph. KchI I'liu tinal' nearly had tor it.-> piKicipal beautiful KdiCh Mera (above) famous French film star, who was found unconscious ia her Pans apartment after an unsuccessful suicide at.'.empt. No mot- ive could be foun<l for her action. MEAN STREAK.â€" It's all right to be a good sport, most of the time, but it pays to havi^ just enough meanness about you to keep people Healing ynu wellâ€" The Montreal Star. SUDIST PROBLEM.- Over in the United Stales they are planning a goli course for nudists But what will a nudist do if he slices his linlic into a pasture and has to go for it through a barbed wire fence? â€" Ottawa Journal. SRITISH METHODS BEST.â€" President (Jreeii, of the Ami^rican Federation of Labour says that then' • i< »till 10,t)Hi,0O0 penpli out of work •cross the line. The Nl'.\ has iinfcir tunnlely not accomplished «o nuicii •s the more sane metf'ods followed In (Ireat Britain and thi i est of the Empire. Brantford Expositor. -EAR EXPOSURE ^ The Orman Ooornnient xeems to be made particularly uncomfortable when foifi;»»i correspond' nts insist on sending Klories to I heir home newn- paperr tc the effiTl th.ii tlierc i't sc fret redlining in the rouiitry. - Sar- sic r'anndinn Observer •PRETTY DULL'.â€" So far as the general night life in Hong Kong is concerned we mu.st ad- mit that it is pretty dull. There is no place that one can go to after mid- night though up till that hour there is plenty enough for one to do. There 'are those who hold that after mid- night "all good people should be in bed," but it must be borne in mind that if we are to cater to holiday ma- kers â€" and those are the people we want to attract in Hong Kong. â€" we must offer enough entertainment to make them come back again or to re- commend Hong Kong as a 'good place in which to spend a holiday," and the only way to do it is to tell the world what a graiKl place this little outpost of the British Empire is. â€" Hong Kong Press. •MERCHANTS OF DEATH."â€" W'e .shall convince arms merchants that We do not intend to allow them to sell guns to foreigner.s to kill the British soldiers and sailors, or to stir up wars in which for their pro- fit thousands of our fellow-country- men may [lerish, by one means only; and that is by abolishing absolutely tho sale of arms for private profit. As 1 a preliminary demonstration this S. American embargo will serve very ' well. l.et the British fJovernment now say promptly and definitely that whatever other countries may do we will forbid absolutely the export of arms from this country to South A- inerica London News Chronicle ing defect of the Ottawa agreements was that they failed to create any permanent machinery to carry on the work of economic co-operation from Conference to Conference. The sooner this defeat is repaired the sooner it will be possible to construct and to apply a coherent policy for the harm- onious developments of the resources and energies of the whole Empire. In- formal personal discussions, for which there will be plenty of oppor- tunity this year and next to set uj some kind of economic clearing house for the Empire, and thus help to en- .sure full success of the next Imper- ial Conference, wha^eer date may be chosen for it. â€" London Times. THE HOURS OF MARRIAGE.â€" It is seldom that an Act of Parlia- ment gets on to the Statute book with out any notice being taken of it by one of the parties chiefly affected by its provisions. But th Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out to Convoca- tion the- .urious fact that the Hours of Marriage Act which became law last month and which extends the hours during which a marriage may ; be performed from 8 a.m. until (i p.m instead of three p.m. was passed through both the Houses uf Parl- ; iamciit without his knawledge. j The omission officially to advise the clergy of the change is the more re- ! miss since in fact canon law will have I to be altered â€" a cumbrous proceeding I â€" to bring the clerica' system into line with the Parliamentary decision. Marriage throughout the centuries was kept to the earlier part of the day for reasons good in their time. I For one in a possibly merrier but a 1 certainly more irresponsible England I the danger of the parties so celebrat- ing till' event in advance as to be in I fit state to face the clergyman was I no fit state to face the clergyman was 1 that if so important a step were per- j mitted after darkness had fallen the I risks of personation might l>e increas- jed. i Such considerations no longer : weigh and the extended facility was [ ovi'idiii-. --Manchester (iuardian. BREAD â€" The rapidly developiiiK wheat cris- is is a supreme illustration of the mad folly of the modern doctrine of restriction- For months past the far- mers have been encouraged to keep their wheat acreage down to assist the upward movement of p»-'-es. Now with the coiilinuanre of toe C.rcat Drought, next years's harvest is threatened and the dread of an acute wheal shortage is added to our other i-conomic terrors. I. on Ion Dailv Her- ald. EMPIRE PRODUCTION â€" nnforliinately there exists no body in the Empire whose duty it ia to assemble all the facts and to note all the ileelopments which must be taken into consideration if a policy ia to be evolved embracing the schem- e.s for internal recmisl roil ion, hoth iigriciilluin! ami industrial the nec- essary co-opentlion w'Mi the Domin- ions ami the parallel niHessily for ex paiidiiig fore !{n trade. The uul.olanii- Drummer Boy's Liberty is Brief I/mdon, Eiig. â€" The 15-year-old brass-buttoned drummer boy who who performed the imi>ossibIe and escaped from the Tower of I/ondon is back again. A sergeant and a drum- major who trailed him found him with his mother at her home in Ken singtoii and promptly escorted him back to the grim fortress. The young red-coat. Jack Robert- son, whose father was killed in the war, wante<i to follow his footsteps, but ho tired of learning to In; a drum- mer. Ho asked permi.ssiun to mail a letter, walked out the big gate and started to run. At the tower they arc seeing that h« does not escape again, but said they may grant h\n mother's applic- attion for a discharge. If Only Will Remove Tack From Child's Lung j St I,oiiis, â€" Kight vewr-old Norma I Anne Simmons of Sedan. Kan., wilt . breathe eartier aflar her operation. I K()r Ihrert year.H the child ha.-? been i troubled by shortness of breath and a I comlillon similar to asthma. A recent [ physical examiiinllcm showed a large tack, which she recalls having swal- low>-i| years ago. lodged In tier right lung. It will be removed by -iurgeona. If only I could have them bick again, The misspent hours, the vain and wasted days, Tbe things that might nave been of thought and pea ^ That bloomed instead ia such un- seemly ways- How happy would 1 be, aud how my heart Would leap to know once more that liackward track, To cleanse of folly each unworthy part â€" If only I could sdmebo* have tliem back! If only I could have them b:ick again. The things I might havt; done and did not do. The kindness, the good to teilow-raeu. How happy 1 to live those days anew. The gate is closed. I cannot now re- trace Tho path where once my stiimbliug feet were set. Backward in shame I turn my stream- nig face. The ghosts of other yeiu'S pursue me yet. •It only I could have them back ai;ain". Vain cry of many a 3ad aru', con- trite soul. .Arisel Today's own burdt-u lake, and then Strive upwards to a new ai'd bet- ter goal. l'ori;et the past. Turn back no more your eyes, Play well tlie part that still re- mains to play. .\ot on tlie backward trail lie-- Par- adise â€" Today's liest strength is to be strong today. Edison Dream Coming True Goldenrod Rubber â€" U.S. Ex- perimental Farms Take Up Project. KOKT MYERS, Fla.â€" Rubber, har- vester like gralu from fields of com- mon goldenrodâ€" the last brilliant dream of the late Thomas Alva Edi- son â€" has been accepted by Uncle Sam and experts from the United States division of plant exploration aud in- troduction. now are working in close conjunctioa with the Edisoa botani- cal research toward this end. That the Government has become i actively Interested in methods of ex- 1 Iractlng commercial rubber from gol- ] deiirod was revealed here by Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor, who is tarpon-flshing In Lee County wat- ers with other Edison officials. Thomas A. Edison's final ambition towards which he struggled for five years prior to his death and in which he actually produced rubber from the ^ plant known botanically as "Solidago Levanworthli" Is now progressing In the hands pf Uncle Sam's experts at experimental stations In Savannah, Ua.; Columbia, S.C. and Miami, Fla. Edison experimented in more than 500,000 testa with each plant, tree, shrub and vine known in the country, finally narrowing his pursuit to the goldenrod. Other rubber plants require four to seven years for actual production. Edison's experiments reduced this to six months, which would make avail- able an emergency supply of rubber, should the tropical sources be closed suddenly. Discovery that particular plants which the inventor developed from the common goldenrod now test 12 per cent, rubber has spurred the «ix- perts. Edison had declared 6 per cent, would assure success. Edison's miniature goldenrod plan- tation here still is the production centre of rubber-bearing plants. Five botanical experts undei H. G. Ukel- berg continue the work, cooperating with Federal experts. ity tbroui^out China during receat years, particular!/ iu Shangt?ai pro- per, though tbe airplanes clU<;'ly taka notice In flying over densely peopled country districts. In sucb areas, tha upper surfaces of the kites oi> a clear hreeze day will seem almost like a pavement from tbe viewpoint of tha pilot coasting along only a few feet above the higher kite levels. It i« dilflcult to understand bow Ibf, kitea could constitute a real menace, how- ever, for they are clearly vIsiMe and however numerous they may be. tha pilot can always make out eiiougb below to keep his bearings â€" in addi- tion to which all commercial flieri operate closely by compass becausi tbe landscape of tbe Yangtse is to« flat and monotonous to provide gooi land marks. Adults and children are equall] keen on kiteflying. In Nanxing re cently kiteflying received the .'.ponsor ship of various high offlciaU includ ing Dr. Cho Ming-yi„ chief secretarj of the Executive Yuan, and prizei were given for altitude Sport Barred TOO MANY KITES MENAOE AIR PILOTS IN CHINA TO Sll-WGHAIâ€" China, the land where kiteflying is supposed to hav,j origin- ated many centuries ago, must fly no more kites, according to a decree of the Ministry of Communicatior s But in matters of vital personal mo- ment like this, the average t binese is an individualist more likely to bo guided by his own inclination than by even the weightiest of e;overnn.ient or- ders. The reason for the Ministry's edict is that kites at high altitudes are al- leged to impair visibility for aviators. Pending more formal orders from higher authority, as result of repre- sentations which the Ministry has made, a request has been sen', to the city government of Greater Shanghai asking that Shanghai inhabitants be instructed not to fly their kites. Thus far, kiteflying continues with- out check and it is a trifle dirtlcult to imagine the local gendarmerie scour- ing the broad Yunglse plain for kite- Hiers. The Christian "Science Mon'tor cor- respondnt has flown over tl-.e Vang- ise areas in several diiections al this season and can testify that kites are a prominent feature of tho aerial landscape. Whether they are -ii-y real menace, however. Is more of a ques- tion anil none of the American pilots in either commercial or military ser- vice with whom the correspondent has talked are disposed tn regard kites as a flying hazard. Kitetlyim;; has increased in jiopular- Everything's To Kay Author Loses Plagiary Suit Richard Washburn Chi!?! As- ked Million From Film Firms New York â€" With the assertion, •'it gave me a pain,'» Federal Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed a $1,000,- 000 plagiarism suit brought by Rich- ard Washburn Child, author and dip- lomat, iigainst James Hagan, play- wright, Leo Peters, Leslie J. Spiller, Paramount Productions, Inc.. and two film distributing companies. Child alleged that in producing "One Sunday Afternoon," as a stage and cinema play, the defendints had plagiarized his story "The Avenger." "I studied the matter carefully," Judge Woolsey said, "and im satis- fied that tliere was no plagiarism. It gave me a pain. The charges are ab- solutely unwarranted." Judge Woolsey awarded costs to eac>h defendant, and $500 for counsel fees to Hagan and $250 for similar use to each of the other defendants. The matter came before Judge Woo- lsey on a motion to withdraw sub- mitted by Herbert McKennls. Child's attorney, and on motions to dismiss by Harry Weinberger and Arnold Gross, counsel for the defendants. Loses Life in ..Theory Test Indiana Boy Wanted to See How Lone He Could Hang Self Fort Wayne, lud., â€" His number- ship in a strange juvenile suicide club which flirted with death for weeks in testing th© power< of the human to resist strangulation by han- ging was counted as tbe sole force which prompted a 16year-old higb school student to hang himself. Howard Shelley, Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelley died at the end of a rope in his father's basement whiU apparently trying to establish how long he could strangle himself with out losing consciousness. That was the objective of a secret club to which Howard belonged. E Nadeaii Kalamazoo, Mich, brother-in law said Howard told him the chih se crets several weeks ago. In some detective matrazirt How- ard said one of the boys resisted han ging 18 times. The '•suicide fraternity" was formed to finil out exactly how long a person could hang without dy- ing. The boys had read also that by wrapping the throat with a heavy to- wel, one "probably eould resist stran- gulation indefinitely,*' Nadeau said Howard told him. Arctic Calls 'Cap'. Bob' New Yorkâ€" With a cow and sev eral golffish aboard, Capt. Bob Bart- lett sailed recently in the two-masted .<chooner Morrissey for a three- month's tru along the west coast of Greenland to obtain specimens of birds and animals for the Philadel- phia .\cademy of Natural Sciences. The cow, a registered Guernsey, ^ a gift from the president of the academy to t'aptain Bartlett's moibei in Brigus, Newfoundland. The goldhsh ".Captain Bob"' ia going to the pastor of a church in Brigus. Two other persons, Mr. Williarc K. Dupont Carpenter of Wilmington Del., and Mr. Harry J. I,ance, .'r., oi Philadelphia, are aboard. Two othen will join the ship at St John'l Newfoundland. .\ttiri'<l ill multi-coloiiij liolidiy i.istunn-s even .c. iho ta I . ;• pers, peasaiitji of Tokay, Hungary, enjoy the ie,-.ult if 'h-iir oilvi.a in celebration of a successful season ol wine-tiiuking. Summer Ensembles Couturiers have turned to the navj for idea.s this suninie' , with the result that there's a distinctly nautical ftavoi about -ome of the to«n and countrj costuins that smart vcmen are wear ing. Not only nre red, white and blue color coii.binalions p.>pu!ar, but trim- mings that go 01. sailors' middies, officer.^ lap"-- and -sleeves and some of the ri^ginjr on the boats themselve,* h.ve ruinished inspiratiop (or tmart ucsign."*.