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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA EMPIRE FRUIT Cunadu lliis year has imported 100,000 cases of oraii(,'e.-> from South Africa â€" five tim«s a.s many an In any previous season. This is a very satisfactory volume of business of benefit to both parties, I ut after all it is only an introuclion to the po- tential market in this Dominion for Kmpire fruits. â€" Ottawa Journal. . THE BRITISH WAY Pride in achievement is a satis- fying reward for most of those m- tang-ibles which build up the tradi- tions upon which mighty empires have been been founded and upon which a people is cemented. The British race, of course has no need to shout from the housetops or to boa.st as noisier nations of their ac- complishments. They speak for them- selves. â€" Urandon ijun. pert after our own liei'.rl. From llio Sudbury. SHE" STAY "Greta GarUo" a lloilyw(M)d des- patch says, "signed a new contract with Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer today at a reputed salaxy of $300,000 a pic- ture, und announced ti!iat sho would not return to Sweden." The last part of the dospatcb looks like a wasto of perfectly irood money In tele- ^aph tolls. â€" Border Cities Star. IN TIGHT SHOES? If a woman wishes to be really smart this winter she must wear a colore.l ring on the small toe of her left foot to match the color of the nail varnish she uses on her fingers. â€" Yorkshire Telegram. WONDERFUL, ISN'T IT? Modern blessings are manifold. Today you can step into your car and go anywhere your wife says, provided your children agree. â€" Aylmer Express. TEAR DOWN OLD SHACKS While Cornwall is short of houses of the right size and kind, it has some that it would be better with- out. There is quite an assortment of decrepit old shacks scattered over the ci\-ic landscape â€" houses in al- ir.ost the last stai-vs of diintegra- tion. .-ijiparently only waitinj: for the first } ul wir.d to flatten them. How they stand up is a mvstery.â€" Cornwall Standard. REMEMBERED HIS ALMA MATER In accordance with directions con tained in his will the technical lib- rary of the late Major J. Mackin- tosh Bell of Almonte has been dis- patched to Kingston where it win be placed in Miller Hall, Queen's University, and will form the nuc- leus of a library in geology and geo- graphy for graduate students to be known as the Mackintosh Bnll.â€" Almonte Gazette. GANDHI AGAIN Gandhi, it is said, plans to retire from leadership of the AH-lnuia Na- tionalist Congress, but retiremem, means little :n the Mahatm,-;'3 .se- dentary, !)ut somewhat i.xciting life. Time and again he has been "re- tired" by the British authorities for preaching civil disobedien -c, has gone on fast and furious fasts, but has alw.-iy,, bobbed up again, full of goat's miiK orange jdi.t .ind the oln vim, v.goT and vitaii-y.â€" iJoi.lcr Cities Star. THE SPAN OF LIFE The span of life is eulaiKiug and that Includes the spun of physically fit life. The forties aro undoubted- ly a lime for beginning cautious Ivlng but no man should bo turned lown for a Job because he has turn- ed the fourtih decade. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. THE BEST Premier Doumerguo of Franco, Is proposing changes in the constitu- tion, which wUl give the cabinet greater power. TMie moves are a- long the lines of the British parlia- mentary system, which the teat of time has proven is the best system of government for man by man yet de- vised. â€" London Free Press. GOLD AND SILVER The old saying that the yellow races prefer the white metal wliile the white races prefer the yellow metal holds good. It would be very difficult to wean the Chinese from their affection for silver. The ef- forts whldi have been made In In- dia witiii the same end in view failed I inHplcuously.â€" Hamilton Spectator. Out Of Uniform PUBLIC DEBT A United States journal, writing on government .spendings warns the ptople that each dollar of new debt incurred by the government is a mortga^p on tho earnings and pro- perty of every citizen. To-morrow It will be foreclosed in the form of confiscatory increases in tho levies on incomes an additional imposts on all commerce. Your home, youi means of living, constitute the col- lateral your governiiient offers. I'ub- lic debt, mortgages your secirity and that of your .Icscc ndants. â€" Brunilon Sun. MYSTERY OF COLDS There is no greater .service nicli- cal science can do mankind than by discovering the germ or wnniever n IS that cau-es that most prevril- ^nt human ailment.s, the col.l, yet doctors know les.s about the com- mon cold than about any other of man's ills, with the po.s.Hible excep- ts n of rancir. Almost everybody has nt least one cold a year, «vita con-eqiicnt di.s.omfoit and lo-i of Work. It ,,s estimated that mor.. than Half of all the time lost though s,ok- ness by .'mploy.s i^ due to bad colds â€" barnia Obse-vev. A BUSY TOWN Quite recently, one of our busi- 16S3 men was telling us that he had ome work for a young man to do, end had a Iiard time finding such a person who was unemployed, and finally ha4 to get an older man to do the work. Just at the present time, Tavistock's four major indus- rles are working full time, and In fact, one Is working 24 hours a day, and another 10 hours a day, wiUi sometimes two and a halt hours overtime, two or three times a week. Show us another village of this size where a yqjing man unem- ployed Is hard to flnd.~Tavlstock Gazeitte. Car Accident ToU $26,000,000 Mounts in Ontario Revenue Gain "Wie Ueht's, Leutnant" â€" Hand extended, ChanceWor Adoll Hit-- ler of Germany eagerly greets an officer of his guard after official reception of foreign diplomats in lierlin. ments any woman can make witiii 8trir>-, hairpins, match-sticks and other simple lool.s, on the crude man-made gadgets of her own kit- chen. But woman still rocks the cradle by hand. -Manoiiester Sun- day Chronicle. AWAITING CONQUEST Britain gained the mastery of the â- eas not by the multitude of her people, but because of the intrepid- ity of her navigators. The air is now waiting to be conquered. We should see tha/t we master It just as we con- trolled the seas. It is not in war- ships that we have dominated the oceans, but in commerce and ships COMMON COLDS of commerce. So also in airships of Two California professors have. commerce we must make our ad- chaaienged existing theories. It fg vance. â€" London Express, said: "TOey have not been able they say, to infect one person with tho cold of another. Inoculation will not work, and they doubt very much the theories held almost as lousehold axioms about the disease being higihly catching. They think also that germs oae a result, not the cause of the disease. Some day presumably wo shall know. â€" Saint John Telograph-Journal. Tim RIVIVAL OF CHIVALRY In a r.r..|,l issue (»f the i,o„,i„n a leport was given of a din- ner of Knights of the Hound Table Club. wli. 11 the prliirlpi,! «,|,|reH» had lor Its thcmo the need of Chair<i of Cblv;il,>- at the unlversltleH The •peaker said ho had a pradlcal pur- pose in putting It forward, and the Idea wan wolcomcNl |,y the Bu.llencc. Jtu, l«n>feSBor of Chlvalrv the spea- kw hopefully antlclpate.l, would be •a authority on the medieval roman- Jw, acquainted with the whole llleiw- jnr* of chivalry, but hl.i task would M to revive In the unvorsltlc.-) and trough thorn In the whole country •• loM spirit of an earlier age "- Halifax Uorahl. GOOD EXCUSE n<».l leaves ahouM he allowed to Wnaln unraked becau-v Hiey enrich «• soil, according to • garden ex THE EMPIRE THE TOLL OF THE ROADS Official figures show that the ter- rible weekly increase in road deaths ceased some time ago. And now for several weeks a downward tendency has set in. But a really successful cru.sado against road accidents will have to go much deeper. It will have to tackle the whole road sy- stem. So long as pedestrians and all kinds of traffic are mingled chaoti- cally togelher on one road surface Traffic will have to be sorted out properly. .That will be a long bus- iness of building modern roads with verges and separate track.s for dif- ferent sons of tiafric. The longer the Job the quicker It had belter he started. -Ijondon Daily Herald. TIPS The illogicality of the system of tipping and the desirability of ex- tirpating it are emphasized anew In tho volume of "Tbe Survey of Lon- don Life and Labor," published to- day. Nothing would please the pub- lic more than to be rid of the prac- tice. It operates unfairly as between man and man, .since one person gets tipped and another does not. â€" Lon- don Daily Mail. THE COMMON COLD The announcement that the execu- tors of the late Sir Henry Koyce's es- tate have in terms of hi.s wi.shes de- cided to devote a tenth part of his es- tate to founding two research fellow- .shlps for discovering a cure lor the connnoii cold and influenza, will he universally welcomed. ThiK i.s an act of rual benevolence wOilch we all .h>opo will tjiumi»hiiiitly achieve its purpose, for tliere are few Indeed who are proof against what must bo rogardcd as being both the least and the grealBst of ininian ailments. Even If wo Ignore lliu serious conse- quences of complications that often follow a cold there reniin (iie loss of timo and efficiency wlih which the milder typos of Infection are Inevit- ably associated. Glasgow Ueralrt. INVENTIVE WOMEN Nearly all the psychologists agree tlkat the feminine mind Is quick and instuitave, but always imitative, never inventive, and now, with the example of Mrs. Richardson of Shep- herd's Hush, l>erore them, tliey can guess again, for she has won the first prlie at the International Kx- hlbRlon of Inventions with her de- vice for flndlDK and Identifying radio stations. She nwy puzilo the paychologlsts, but will snrprls,, no- body who haa seen the lmi.:ove- 10 BRITISH GUIANA'S PROBLEMS Houses roofed with gold and streets lined with diiimoiuls were what the early explorers confidently expected to find in British Guiana. But the vision laded and, Uiougli a quantity of diamonds and n.)U\ lias been taken out of the country dur- ing the last 400 yr.s., British Guiana today Is almost as much awaiting development and settlement as it was in Ualelghs irae. As Sir Kd- ward Denham the former Governor, once declared, If the resources and wealth of British Guiana are to bo tapped. It can only be by the advent of men and money on a scale to de- termine '"lio problems of this "un- developed asset of the British Km- pire." Assyria immigration will not solve a title of British Guiana's pro- lems. It may bring some local ben- efit In the long run, however and may also servo to direct world-wide attention to the vast possibilities of this woefully undeveloped of all Url- aln's possessions In tho nelghbour- lood of the Caribbean â€" Trinidad luardlan. Hair-Dyer Loses When Cook Sues Risks, Says Englith Judge London.â€" Judge Sir AJfred Tobln gave bis views on women's hair dur- ing the hearing of a case against a hairdresser. "We always heard of grey hairs being treated with res- pect," he said. When counsel commented that wo- men did not seem to like it the ttie Judge said: "The most beauti- ful thing a woman can have is beautiful white h«lr." "Burning Sensation The action was brought by Mrs. Blodwon Gulllck 40, a cook in a pri- vate house, who claimed $500 dama- ges from a hairdresser or injury to her head by alleged negligent appll- oatlon of a hair dye. She went to file hairdresser to get her hair dyed because It was showing streaks of grey. He applied a solution which caused a burning sensation. A doctor said she was suffering from oedema of tho scalp and diffuse erythemaâ€"- the one a swelling and the other a rash. Mrs. Guillick was awarded $250 damages with costs, and I Judge To- bln said he thoiigvixt the case was of giuieral Importance. He held that It was the hairdresser's duty to warn women of any risks run. Toronto Surgeons Lengthen Man's Leg Toronto, Ont. â€" Orthopedic surge- ons at a hospital here arc bringing to fruition a test case in which they seek to make the legs normal of a man born with one shorter than the other. The patient, or clinical subject, is George McKay, 20, whose left leg was three inches shorter ' than his right when he entered the hospital several weeks ago. He ii being sub- jected to corrective principles evolv- ed eight years ago by a St Louis orthopedist, in which weights are used to stretch the abnormal leg. McKay's leg has been stretched two inches in five week, doctors say. It will be normal. Although the mineral content of honey In very small It Is worth not Ing, saya the Donilntnn Apiarist, that such elements as lime and lron_ ne- cesary to the well being of .the hum an body are present. Wear Old Clothes Until Threadbare, Germans Advised Herlinâ€" Dr. Karl Gordeler, Herr llUer'B new price "dictator," took ac- tion against rising prices today, or- dering National Socialists to wear their old clothes "down to tlie last thread" and threatening profiteers with "merciless" treatment. He told (!erni«iny "no one loses one bit of his dignity if he wears Lhreadbaro clothes," while "ho acts against the nation's Interests If he hoards clolliing." In an address explaining his func- tions a.s commissar for control of prices. Herr Gordeler criticized the tendency to alarm and spoke reas- suringly about the raw materials Blluation, Ho .said prices and wagcw would be maintained at the same level und 'every unjustifiable price rise will be mercilessly dealt with," Declaring his chief duty would be to prevent the rise of prices of ne- cessities Jie warned manufacturers tliat they must bo content with small l-roflts and Instructed merchanta to ii'fuso to sell unusual quantities of any commodity. Tho surplus of imports over ex- ports was reduced to 52.000,000 marks (approximately $20,800,000) fi compared with 161,000,000 marks (luring the second quarter. Toronto. â€" Automobile accidents in I Ontario or the f'rst nine months of 11*34 were 9.2 per cent above tho same period last year, with tho death toll at 300, Hon. T. B. McQu»- 6teu, Minister of Highways announc- ed recently. T-'ie minister declared the figures "clearly indicate that stricter measures must be adopted." These stricter measures be continu- ed would mean Increased fines and jail penalties. Increases in the sus- peiifilon period for licenses of drivers convicted of offence also will ap- pear. ' There were many more cars on the road this year than latt," the minister said. Potato Harvest of 1934 According to the preliminary esti- mate recently issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the total pro- duction of potatoes In Canada in the year 19S4, will be 47,241,000 cwt from 568,800 acres or 83 cwt. per acre, as compared with a revised estimate of 42.745,000 cwt. from 527,700 acres or 81 cwt. per acre In 1933, and 40,017,- 000 cw;. from 564,000 acres or 82 cwt. per acre, t.'ie average for the five years 1928-1932. By provinces the yields in cwt. per acre are, in order as follows, with last year's figures within brackets: New Brunswick 128 (115); Prince Edward Island 120 (100 BriMsh Columbia 113 (90) ; Nova Sco- tia 112 (91); Quebec 97.7 (101.0); Ontario 69.6 (G4.2) Manitoba 50 (63); iVIberta 53 (58) and Saskatchewan 31.4 (50.0). There is an increase of 7.8 per cent in the 1934 potato acreage over that of 1933. In addition the yield per acre in Canada was 2.5 per cent high- er in 1934 than in 1933, so t^at the total p4-oduction is placed at 10.5 per cent above the 1933 level. Canada's Earnings For Seven Months Soar; More Also Spent Ottawa â€" Recovery of business is reflected in the Dominion revenue statement for the first seven months of the fiscal year. Total ordinary r». venue shows an increase of |26,(M)0,- 000 for the period April to October, inclusive. The big producer was the sales tax, which, with excise taxes, yielded $63,863,000 since April 1, or $8,000,- 000 more than the corresponding period last year. Customs revenue, totalling $45,- 000,000 was $9,000,000 ahead of last year, excise duties totalling $26,000,- OOO were $5,000,000 up, income tax- ation yielded $49,404,000 and $1,- 000,000 better than last year, while the gold tax thus far has brought in $3,873,145. Ordinary expenditure for the first seven months of the fiscal year was $11,000,000 more than in tie like period of 1933, $5,000,000 of whicli was accounted for by increased in- terest on the public debt and $2,500,- 000 for old age pensions. Loans and advances to provincial governments so far this year have totalled $23,862,558. Unemployment relief for the seven months under review totalled nearly $23,000,000, or nearly $6,000,000 more than in the corresponding period of last year. Mary Looks Ahead Mary Pickford Interviewed by the Kansas City Times â€" I had some interesting talks with Marconi," she said, "and he tells me television is much nearer liian we think. It's going to be a staggering blow to the movies, but I think they will survive it. It seems certain to bring back the legitimate theatre but for a time at least, there will be a tendency to have all mech- anical entertainment played direct to tho home. "I believe there will be perhaps three producing organlzaitioos, one of the type of hokum that Is just plain moron fodder, one for popular entertainment of a fairly high level and one for things of real artistic worth. I believe each unit will be ample to place receiving sets in your home and that these sets may have meters. You will pay for your en- tertainment as you pay for long dis- tance telephone bills. "Probably each unit will have broadcasting stations la the main di- visions of the country. This should bo a promising thing for the talent of the country." No 'Plane Allowed On Coat-of-Arms Heat From Cold Coal When Experience Didn't Count Russian farmers have discovered a way to speed up the ripening of their cotton crops by a month or more. They use coal to warm the cot- ton plants without burning the coal. Tlii.s seeming paradox is being performed at Kazakstan. Obtaining heat from coal without burning is the application of a simple fact of physics that dark colors absorb the heat in the suns rays better than light colors. The Kazakstan farmers simply spread coal dust lightly over their fields; about one hundred pounds to an acre. The darkened surface of the land is a better absorber of heat during the day and reradiales more of it as warmth during the night. The higher average temperature of the land during the growing sea- son, therefore, shortens the time necessary for the crop to iiialure by over a month. â€" Science. Scientifically Raised Twins Not At All Alike in Foot Tricks Airplanes Are Not Heraldic, Say Noted Authorities London â€" "Airplanes are unknown in heraldry." That is the ofiScial rea- son why the Duke of Bedford cannot j honor his wife, the "Flying Duchess," in a new coat-of-arms. The duke had prepared a new armorial shield. One of the quar- terings showed an airplane. But the Herald's College, final authority in such matters, said "No.'' Never since the days of chivalry had any coat-of-arms borne a flying machine. So airplanes are barred. "I wonder what today's knights and dames of the air will think of that," says the duke. He has hung the shield he had prepared for the duchess among all the other coats-of-arms among all duchesses which blazon the walls of Woburn Abbey. The present duchess was the only one who did not bring a coat-of-arms to the Duchy of Bedford when she married. She was Mary du Caurroy Tribe, daughter of Archdeacon Tribe of Lahore. But since she became world fa- mous by reason of her flying ex- ploits in all parts of the globe, the dukeâ€" in true line with the spirit of chivalry â€" determined to com- memorate her deeds for their de- scendants by a coat-of-arms. He has failed. Winter Sport A motor car had Just knocked down a man, fortunately without injuring 1 liii. The young woman driver faced him de.ermlnedly. "I am sorry it happened," she said. 'Vou should take more caro when >ou are walking. I have been driving a car or seven- years. 'Well," replied the victim, "I am not a novice myself. I have been wal- king myself (or fifty-seven veara," Judging by the experiences of Johnny and Jimmy, twin.'i Who are growing up In a scientific playroom in New York, the right ago to take lip roller skating is about seven months. Ji'hnny v/an a good roller -ikater about tiho timo he w:is ccUbratIng his first birthday. Jimmy contln- od himself to more natural i ouroes concerning roller skates, such as biting them, until hp wmb 2 months old. Then ho tried to use the skates or getting around, but his efforts cost hira a great series of Ingenious spills, and two months of applica- tion brouf^t little progress. What scientific observers want .'o know Is wheher the higlily trained Johnny had any real advantage over Jimmy, who Just grew up like Top- ay while his little brother was learning a series of astounding featw. Johnny seems no brigtiter at solving problems the pair are made to work om In their play, and when they started even at rldini; the tri cycle. Jimmy learned to pedal like a champion of the six-day meot.t while hia pre<:oclous brother was still cry Ins for Ills skates. On tlie trail of health and sport, two skiers inva<le the winter sanc- tuary of the IJiffelberg abore /lermatt, Switzerland. Looming in the rear are the famed twin pea«», t'a.-jtor and Pol I ox.