4 voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada british films going strong most canadians are pleased to know that britlshmado films improve in quality and that tho british industry prospers abundantly we bse this statement upon reports brought back from kngland by returning canadians and upon frank admissions published in united states trade journals mr walter wanger vicepresident 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 though the amorican industry has made little progress through this period of world depression enormous profits have been made in kngland by producers distributors and exhibitors should ibis situation make us think those in control of production do not eeem to realize that there is an entire ly new world point of view which has to be met in picture product this changed viewpoint radically affects tho type of entertainment that must ho furnished as well as the attitude of tho audience artistically the busi ness must improve the quality of restraint and whole- eomeuess observable in many old country films is one that recommends them to canadian patrons toronto mail and empire every improvement to is land every grain of seed every furrow every sod of earth raised is a sort of deposit i tho bank which cannot fail and jn which one can draw cheques in kind for the maintenance of life for a c sidcrablo period naturally one has to work hard hut the earth is an e ployer which does not stint bread to its workers la llberte winnipeg the plowma tho plowman is the symbol of the countless men and women who iave gone beforo us wrestling from tho soil the means of sustained life and higher aspiration he is the embodiment of all that is noble in human labor sone- how the hands that have guided a plow through tho freshsmelling earth are better for having done so ottawa citizen bells for hamilton something lacking here the end of the limit seems to have been reached when a man in montreal was sent to jail for 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 against than sinning and the citizen who turned him in apparently had completely forgotten tho 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 friend who will shortly ho on the inside looking out kitchener daily record supported by the law the british policeman is hacked up by the law far more effectively than officers in somo 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 thero are not a lot ot criminals who go untouched because they have influence the british po liceman very truly represents the ma jesty ot tho law he does not as a usual thing need to carry a weapon with him victoria times canadian takes u of t student goes south military event found dead roxana ridden by lieut body clad in girls under cleland is first in jumpoff toronto fast and brilliant com- petitiion between irish free state canadian and united states mounts who tied for first honors in tho inter- wear in rooming house bed suffocation is blamed toronto nov 21 clad in nothing but the stolen silken underclothing of a young woman roomer in the same national military event at the royal h fc formerly of winter fair horse show was the climax to a line program which was offered to a crowd which filled every available space in the coliseum satur day night in response to the warmth of the enthusiasm which greeted their ap pearance in the ring al mounts ap peared to be in their finest form and jumping was exceptionally good the course offered to the military mounts was difficult a handy course including hazardous jumps and of the 2 entries winnipeg third year medical student at the university of toronto was found dead in his bed early sunday night apparently a victim of suffo- cation after the use of cloroform j police and the chief coroner at an early hour this morning were still probing the mysterious circumstances of the curious death and the bizarre clothing of the corpse i a fellowroomer in the same house i on st george street uncovered the tragedy when he went to cohen onlv threo succeeded in clearing the 4 i room to inquire into his non-appear- crowd showed keen debt t that these ance were representatives of three coun tries the fine chestnut ltoxana ridden by lieut marshall cleland ot the governorcenerars body guard the irish free state slievenaraon ridden fcportea that the ether had not been i in the room polic found two bot tles one containing other the other 1 chloroform chief coroner crawford the empire idle money if millions of pounds of money sta to drift out of circulation as they have been drifting out aid begin to pile up in the banks clearly the con sequences are going tj be serious fewer goods will be bought becau the money to buy them is lef by tho amount lying unrsed oi deposit and unemployment must rise there is no other way of stimulating output and employment at the present time thai by getting this money back into circtfc latiou london daily herald the eacon quota the ottawa agreements provide for fixe entry into britain of 2s0000000 pgunds of canadian bacon of good quality good quality means tho grade known in canada as select ast year canada only produced ono- ftftli of the number of hogs required to supply this quota of good quality bacon i these figures may givo 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 within the industry will be required breeders are faced with jw prices for bacon in britain the exchange and other major considerations but leaders in the industry claim the 1 aeon quota can be worked out to the advantage of the canadian farmer if only sufficient cooperation and good will are shown byall concernedottawa journal radio licenses a total of 514129 radio receiving licenses have been issued by the cana dian government radio branch from april 1 to september 30 1932 or ap proximately ono to every eighteen per sons of the population of the do minion acton free press comeback for the torse the horse will reappeai in great force as the motive power for urban and suburban street and road trans portation if a certain british organi- ration has its way that organization founded to further the interest of the breeder and user of tho horso and ony is known as the national horse association of great britain at the request of various bodies commercial ly interested in tho maintenance of horse traffic it is conducting an activo propaganda for the encouragement of tho use of horses for transport pur poses and is meeting with support and cooperation from firms with largo de liveries to make wcllandport col- borne tribune dangerous policy the japanese see china rapidly dis integrating beforo 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 japans 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 torovive the prestige of the military caste to strengthen tho waning feudal ideology dangerous to civilization because it creates on more septic focus in a dis ordered world round table london peace with honour tho tinio for rapprochement be tween the government and the con gress will come only when civil dis obedience is definitely called off and when there are guarantes which fully satisfy the government that thero 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- dhi pact calcutta englishman workmen of whitechapel england are now busy preparing tho inner mould for a four and onehalf ton bell the largest ot a carillon for the new cathedral at hamilton out this is the bell core being moulded while baking canadas exports up for october 1088178 increase as com pared to 1931 trade balance off ottawa canadas exports to for eign countries increased by 10ss178 during october according to figures released last week by the department of national revenue the increase compared with the figures for october 1931 occurred chiefly in exports of wheat the volume of which was more than double that of the same month last year last months exports had a value of 56026095 as against 55537917 for october 1931 reexports were 534- 279 compared with 9960s2 for the same month last year a heavy decline in imports from 45932572 in october a year ago to 37182206 last month boosted can adas export balance to 1997406s total trade for the month under re view had a value ot 94s465st as against 5101166671 for october 1931 customs and excise revenues during october decreased by 1613515 from the same month a year ago revenues for last month were 1034004 and for october 1931 1s547520 an increase of 159454 in income tax collections is shown the total for october 1931 was s25u3 and for last month 12s1s9s helpful reading a fondness for good books doesnt lust happen it roust ho cultivated in the child as well as in the adult who isld not acqulro it in its youth or lost it in tho transition from youth to ma turity homes with good llbrries jvollrcad by adult members of the tamlly seldom aro tho sceno of juve- fello revolt against helpful reading garnia cnadianobserver the worlds banker even improvident people are corn- polled to bo thrifty on tho land tho cainot in actual fact get to tho d pf their resources for a handtomouth iifo is impossible for them tho pro cess of farming makes the farmer placa his investments in the soil other opinions home town advertising mr merchant the newspapers from the larger cities near your community are coming into the homes ot your own customers these days with adver tising columns bursting with- an nouncements ot real values if you will go to your homo town newspaper advertising man he will help you with your advertising prob lems and make your advertising just asappealing to your customers as the big city advertising is you mr merchant have to keep that lead local advertising has tho jump on advertising that comes in from the outside by properly utilizing tho homo town newspaper columns con sistently and with careful attention to the preparing of copy kenton ohio news ropublican searchlight to carry human voices 25 miles schenectady ny a searchlight will carry human voices 25 miles into the adirondacks when general elec tric engineers renew their experi ments with transmission of sound on light rays focusing a powerful 36inch search light northward upon a point in the mountains near lake desolation en gineers at the sending and receiving end will talk back and forth across the searchlight beam the rays will be collected upon a 30inch concave mirror set up at the mountain lake and there focused upon tho mechanism which will reproduce the sound poetry is quite a heavy job two hours of work is a good day wil liam butler yeats head of lakes ships tied up blizzard of midwinter pro portions reported snow in west winnipeg the weathermans week end fare was varied at the head of tho lakes a blizzard of midwinter char acter swept the district sunday night resulting in a complete tieup of lake shipping further snowfall was re ported in manitoba and saskatchewan districts while warming breezes and sunshine came to the foothills of al berta on the tail of a chinook wind temperatures sunday v r above the freezing point in calgary light planes can be made cheaper than autos montreal if light airplanes were made in the same quantities as light automobiles are aircraft would be cheaper than cars according to adrian comper member of an englis- air craft firm who is visiting canada tn an airplane you have none of the expensive parts that you have in an automobile he said you have just an engine and a crankshaft you have no clutch no gears no expensive rear axle you havent got springs or four wheels with powerful brakes certain ly a light airplane should be cheaper than a light car if made in the same quantities by capt corry and ansonia ridden by lieut e f thompson el the united states called back for a jump off roxana touched some of the chloroform had been used investigation also showed that the underclothing was the property of the won the international event for the young woman aforementioned who roomed in the same rouse how it second time in the winter fair show this year by another clean perform ance slievenaraon knocked the gate in tho middle of the course ansonia faltered at rails just pre ceding the gate and so took third rib bon the second going to the irish horse tenace ridden by captain clave of france who had had the next best performance to those who had cleared the first time over the course won the fourth ribbon quebec night the program throughout the even ing had been of a high calibre and had included two other exciting jumping events as well as display to celebrate quebec night of all prizewinning live stock entered by that province in tho fair the coliseum filed early in the evening and by the time the first jump ing contest the touch and out stake had been called there was not even standing room available in the bui ing the touch and out brought in 36 entries over a course so difficult v i although jumping was splendid not one cleared the first dozen in fact faltered at either first or second jumps and only four went as far as the fifth coming near the last of the entries pompeian a big chestnut owned by mrs mcneil dovis blyn mawr pa and ridden by howard lomis von v- 1 first cheers of the night and took f stake when he went over all but the very last jump siftons faithful brian boru who had reached the second to last obstacle before he faltered took the second ribbon us industrial production exceeds august 10 pc washington industrial production in the united states including both manufactures and mining was 10 per cent larger in september than in august the federal reserve board report ed today that harp increases in physical output the recent months had been largely oncentrated in the textile and leather industries but in september included meat packing pro ducts steel and coal have two sets of twins less than a year old indianapolis a local attorney and his wife aro parents of two sets of twins each less than a year old ter- rence and donna herbst were born last march 13 arleu and arlene ar rived nov 12 all aro well canadas meat exports show marked increase ottawa exports of meats for the month of october were valued at 4s7- 233 an increase of 31269 as com pared with 455969 in the previous month but a decrease of 86113 when compared with the corresponding month of 1931 when the figures were 573361 says a report issued by the dominion bureau of statistics the chief purchaser last month was the united kingdom with 361s72 the value of meat exports for the 12 months ending october says the re port was 6721594 as agcnst 1097- 512 in the previous 12 months grain show fees reduced regina fees for entry to the co-n- was taken from her room she could not explain she said the garments were there on saturday she discov ered they were missing early yester day suffered from migraine while unable to make a complete statement on the case last night cor oner crawford said he had learned that cohen had suffered considerably from migraine which causes intense almost unbearable pain in the head the student may have used the chloroform to relieve the pain the doctor said while the autopsy had not been completed he was inclined to believe that death was caused by suffocation after the anaesthetic had been taken upset by the fatality the woman in charge of the rooming house end fel lowroomers of cohens barred the door to all comers hut police and the coroner you must get everything from the coroner vas the rerlv to all ques tions suffocation blamed dr crawford in making his inves tigation was of the opinion that suffo cation by the pillows may have been the main cause of death cohen 24 years old regarded an- ong his friends as an oversensitive type of youth was last seen at mid night saturday by students rooming in the same house with him he was seen preparing to take a bath on the second floor of the house he had been to a restaurant on spadina for a late supper although he left his rooming house with another student to go to the restaurant he is believed to have lcturned unaccom panied dr crawford found that cohen was subject to attacks of migraine which he described as a blinding headache an acute attack of migraine he ad mitted might suffice to affect the victims mind unaware it had gone the girl whose underwear figures in the case was unaware of its dis appearance until asked about it by in vestigating officials no theory could be advanced to explain the youths strange action in taking the clothes and wearing them cohens room on the second flooi f the house had been locked all day with the blinds down anxious over his condition owing to a certain neurotic john d rockefeller snapped as he arrived at ormond beach fla where he regularly passes the winter medical discovery not new to canada petitive classes of the worlds grain behavior during recent days percy show regina 1933 have been reduced from 5 to 3 and from 2 to 150 it was announced- by grain show officials here last week in classes for which the total prize money amounts to 2400 or more the entry fee was form erly 5 and in all other classes 2 canadian fruit enroute to continent no change the many americans who aro con stant readers and admirers of punch had naturally n moment ot dismay when it was announced the other day that sir owen seaman who has been tho editor for tho last 26 years was about to retira but the fears that a new editor might give us a new twon- tiethcentury wisecracking punch a punch of studied irroverncj and vul garity in tho spirit ot somo of its contemporaries notably in germany and tho united states aro happily set ntrcst sir owen3 successor is likely to bo e g v knox tho evoo that has long boon signed to some ot punchs mest delightful bits of satiro and parody in proso and verse bos ton transcripl muir of fort william a second year art student forced the door and found the body cohen a member of a jewish fra ternity apparently assumed the name of gowan at the university being registered as cowan and so known to his friends coronr crawford however kst night insisted that the correct name was cohen and said that he had notified relatives in win nipeg by that name of the young mans death worked too harj a fellowstudent in his own year who had worked at the same desk with cohen in the laboratory last year j k jermyn believed he was at tempting altogether too much work and said that was the general feeling of the students who knew him mr jermyn stated that he was trying to got his unior frcs next year that he was working very hard and that he was inclined to worry over his wcrk occasionally he seemed depressed when his jaw and teeth ached no doctor had been able to clear up the awful pains which he suffered u times in his head his fellow student said newly announced treatment in us already used by medical profession here in thousands not restricted by patent montreal compounds of copper and iron as a treatment for secondary anaemia announced as a new dis covery from madison wis are not new to canadian medical men ac cording to local authorities thousands of cases have already been successful ly treated by this method in the do minion over three years ago states john b frosst wellknown director of labora tories here experiments were con ducted both in the laboratory and in a montreal hospital clinic as soon as the effectiveness of the ironcopper compound was sufficiently proved by actual test it was made generally available to the medical profession in canada the technical name of tho compound is forrocatalytic experiments in the clinic mr frosst explained showed clearly that the ad dition of copper to iron was effectivo as a treatment for secondary anaemia of the first ten cases none of which bad reacted to iron all responded when copper was added thousands of cases have since been successfully treated he added chief interest in canada in the american announcement lies in the fact that it is stated that patents have been taken out on this new us dis- covery mr frosst states that tho canadian public is fully protected as steps were taken at the time that the efficacy of the treatment was demon strated here and a dominion patent issued at the time in view of the importance ot the discovery to tho health of the general public mr frosst and his colleagues made it available for manufacture by any licensed pharmaceutical company without the payment of royalties when tho norwegian steamer stargaart left ths dock at st catharines the other day she carried 1100 tons of assorted ontario products ia cans the- first of many such shipments according to reports measles treated too lightly declares french professoi measles is by no means a benign dis ease thinks the french professor nobecourt whose views are set forth in the concours medical paris measles he fears is on the increase the malady is malignant in the case of the mere babe and it the child he less than a year old the utmost cau tion is required parents take measles too lightly it is responsible for more deaths than diphtheria whoopingcough oi scarlatina then we get thesefurthci interesting facts in ono decade measles caused li europe about a million fatalities thil hecatomb comprised principally babes especially the youngest how aro wo to account for the im munity of certain babes and what li the effectiveness of such immunltyl how long does it last observation shows that mother who have had measles impart im munity to their offspring tho immunity of the babe appean to bo absolute during the first twe months of its life and practically so during the first three months ii would be relatively so during the fourth to the sixth month but from tho sixth month onward this immunitj would end a babe whoso mother never had measles is not immune somo authori ties affirm that tho mother who nursei new use for peanuts her babo lmarts immunity to it up to use ror rean the sixth month that is it the moth- ames iowa tho more peanuts the cr has had measles if the mother fans in tho football stadium ot iowa has na mea within a certain brief stato college eat tho harder its going period prior to tho birth of tho child to bo on tho flies peanut 8hell3 tile balro is apparently born immune found on tho stadium floor this year wero taken to the schools chemical principles laboratory whero j burke jacob col- 1 strengthen tho principle of per- lega chemist i3 reducing them to sonai llfo for it ls by tno s liquid form to bo used as flykilling o individual strength that energy j spray i caa j manifested outside