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voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada ideal of home restored notwithstanding the depress with much constituent distress court of general sessions in at le ion he as lo counties of this province had noth ing of a criminal character betore it huron county was saved the expenses or a jury when a lean criminal sheet was presented to judge costollo there were no jury civil cases and only eight nonjury in victoria and llallhurtou there was no work either criminal ot civil lor the court judge ponton complimented both the citi zens who constitute a lawabiding community and also the members of the legal profession for curbing liti gation and settling disputes by the jive and take method toronto mail and empire world on parade tank ot england janitor changing a ticket on banks gold stores paying englands war debt france refus ing to change tickets on gold reserves ot the bank of france premier bennett dining with rudyard kipling describing him as poet laureate of empire belgium and prance for ming new governments the po lish minister to washington explaining why poland cant pay amy john- sun failing to make a record on a south africa to london light mussolini threatening jugoslavia sir george perley offering new south wales canadian buffalo england announcing that her birth rate has de clined a new york geophysicist discovering a new method to detect minerals canadian wheat exports touching a new high manufact urers announcing an increase in the price of shoes three new mines in ontario producing gold bur eau of statistics announcing we have u radio sets per 1000 people all this in a day ottawa journal naturalization pecord the substantial number ot persons applying at county centres for cana dian naturalization is such as to at tract general notice but probably few litizeus realize the increase which has actually taken place in the past few- years in the fiscal year ending last march 32517 aliens obtained naturali zation in canada this total is a 50 per cent increase over that for the preceding year which was only 21392 in 192930 it was about the same at 122l and ia the preceding ear was niy 13090 in al the years mention ed a great majority obtained naturali sation through the county courts in jaet the number dealt with under jther sections of the act has been de ceasing from year to year and in 193132 was only 933 woodstock sen- iinelfleview on the gold standard th- farmer with a tenacre woodlot and a couple of husky boys has a gold i mine these days exeter timesadvo cate family settlement so far very few families have been taken from reliet lines in the city an placed on farms where they have an opportunity to become selfsupport ing it is necessary to go to manitoba to get a better view of what can be done alberta will do well it its au- inorities expand the back to the land scheme here also as a part of the 1933 relief program every family firmly on its own and permanently off relief is a real advauco toward the final elimination of unemployment edmonton journal a difficult question a property owner in this city has been compelled to ask municipal relief because he can find no work and can not pay his taxes and mortgago inter est lie has five houses including his own but his tenants are in tho same plight as himself rather than evict them and install now tenants who would pay him he has asked for tem porary holp from the city will those who object to granting it tell the city what they would do in such a case loudon advertiser help them to iucrease their knowledge and to while away their leisure hours it is an important problem and will have to be settled before we can reach an end of our present difficulties la presse montreal the empire australian loan the most hopeful pi diction did not contemplate that the new south wales 12360000 conversion loan would be underwrileu at less than 4 per cent but in happy fact mr bruce has succeeded in getting the loan underwritten at 3 per cent with an issue price c 97 10s which works out at l per cent even the wisest of the wiseacres will have to admit that so striking a practical ex pression of confidence in australia in that sensitive centre v nerves ra diate from threadneedle street is worth more to us than even the saving in interest of 1137500 during the five years currency of the converted loan melbourne australian all profits and qi returns the egyptian state railways ad ministration has at las reaped tho le- ward of enterprise it has made dras tic reductions in fares and freightage along various routes and the result revenue has product startling figures in lowering the freightage between suez and cairo from 110 piastres to 75 piastres per ton a fortyday period of receipts jumped from e 2g5 to e 2s19 cairo sphinx tommys new kit the new equipment is lighter and better arranged than the old so that a soldier in full marching order may feel less like a human furniture van but his looks gone is spit and polish gone sartorial harmony and the appeal to the young female heart the comments of the editor of the tailor and cutter which we have seen are coustic those of the adjut i and sergeantmajor of the old school which we have heard are unprintable new statesman and nation lon don signs of winter frozen fish when the rita b docked at the boston fish pier the other day her cargo was on ice and no mistake she carried the heaviest amount of any schooner thus far this season british films in trinidad now that british film makers seem to have abandoned that insular outlook which made their pictures too foreign for the tastes of other countries there is every chance provided other fac tors of box office success remain pre sent of their capturing a great and constantly expanding market in the caribbean just as they have expanded it in other parts of the empire next year they are promised a quota to aid them in this colony perhaps a quota is not necessary at least it can be looked upon rather as a reward for their efforts than as a protection for their films trinidad guardian american gandhis contribution it was gandhi however with his ascetic posturing his quaint dishabille and his goat that led the world to a better understanding of the indian pro blem that was what he said he wish ed to do but the understanding is lit tle to his liking the world now under stands that british rule in india is more nearly right just and tolerant than had been supposed before gan dhi staged his showoff seattle times transportation by areoplane the manner in which are machines aro commencing to invade not only passenger travel but also mail service was rocontly made manifest in the old land from croydon aviation field a giant liner loft on route for india with 21 people somo freight and let- tors having a total weight of nearly a ton the incident passed almost with out comment but it was nevertheless very significant branttord expositor rural libraries it will not bo enough to send back tho unemployed to cultivato tho soil vta must tako steps to koep them tkero to mako them contented with their new situation and to put an end to the idea ot returning to urban cen tres as soon as the present crisis 13 finished this is hero tho rural lib rary comes in to fill an important role very many of thoso who havo left the iown to go back to tho farm havo ac quired tho habit of reading and will qulto naturally want to go on satisfy ing that habit how aro they going to do so it they havo not easily acce3- plbta and aufftclently varied books to shifting dunes bury abandoned villages grand haven mich giant sand dunes that travel by day and night havo overcome and almost obliter ated a number of small towns that once dotted the eastern shore of lake michigan at grand haven a few- rotting piles are all that is loft ot the once extensive warehouses docks and trestles of a railway and steamer terminal happy hollow the vil lage in a small valley high in the hills back of the terminal where tho workers lived was abandoned halt a century ago twenty years ago some of the roofs still could bo seen but they are gone now mills camp3 and docks have disappeared along with villages british and french foreign trade gains the balance of french trade in creased during october and british imports and exports were higher during november nccording to the weekly review of tho department o commerce a reaction took place in south african businoss sub3esuent to recent improvements business conditions in the irish free state according to the review became more dopressed as a result of tariff troubles with great britain but government re venues wero encouraging ameri can sales in china underwent fur ther injury duo to tho latest decline in silver exchange but somo improve ment in various parts ot chinese trade were noted export prices of tho philippines moved lower 0 the small boy is likely to get his desserts when the pantry door is left open 1932 sees anniversary of the cigarette among the savin graces of bu rn beings is their capacity to forget theii troubles says the ottawa jour nal l this editorial thus amid all tle tumult over war debts nd dis armament and the depression ami a ere of other things paris is mark ing the centenary of the cigarette which it is declared lates from 1832 according to the records the first cigarette was invented by an egyp tian soldier at the time of the siee o the turkish stronghold cf st jean dacre in lisi the egyptians cap ered a caravan of camels loaded with tobacco but the victorious soldiers had no pipes then one bright troop er conceived the idea of wrapping up some tobacco in the paper casing of a cartridge when others followed his example the cigarette was lorn but althouh ciggarettes soon found their way to france it war i t n 1861 that they were introduced to england their sponsor being a grk wh opened a store in leiccster square london even then the eng lish slow to change regarded them suspiciously it is toid that one of the things which helped to harden public opinion against oscar wilde wao a report that he smoked cigar ettes the habit was regarded as de cadent today the cigarette is replacing the pipe warring on the cigar france last year smoked 18co0oo0000 of t cm england as many more the un ited states more than 40000000000 and canada over 5000000000 cigarettes in fact have become uigbusiness in the united states a ringb machine turns out 2500 fags a minute hundreds of thousands of tons of tobacco are used in their manufacture ten of nillions used in advertising them the 1930 adver tising appropriation for one brand alone was over 10000000 time was when cigarettes were coffin nails when the doctci warned against them now we hav eminent medical journals noting that the warnings have largely ceased because most doctors themselves have become cigarette smokers perhaps another and better explanation is that tho warnings became futile which is understandable hearing endlessly about 11 the thlrgs that hurt them from not eating spinach tj not play ing golf people go into the mood that as something was bound to de stroy them anyway there was lit le sense in worrying first rocket flight with pilot this spring madgtburg german- the worlds first rocket ilifcht with a human pilot directing and controlling the fiery space ship is now scheduled tentative ly for iext spring in an attemtt to furtle tii prac tical development of rocket flying the city authorities the police and the governor of th madgeburg district jve decided to grant permission for the first ascent of a rocket device oc cupied by a pilot engineer hcinrich x bel has plans ready for the construction of such a icket the rocket which expected to reach an altitude of about 3000 feet is to retuir to the ground by means of a large parachute ihat un- fvlds itself automatical and the pilot fter leaping ore or rhe fiery sky ship is to be brought down by a separate parachute the inventor who is a member of the berlin society for the exploita tion of rocket flying claims to have solved the problem of the starting speed his rocket motor constructed in accordance with tiie backstroke principle will work with a number of adjustable nozzles making it possible for the pilot to regulate the velocity of the ascent give samples of future shows aachen germany samples of vhat theatre goers may expect this season have been show by the muni cipal theatre here to drum up ad vance sales the management of four evenings offered at low prices a pro- tram showing excerpts from operas and dramas on the winter program the evenings were successful and the administration is optimistic family tree of twins milford conn mrs clyde mea- chem gave birth to twins recently at milford hospital she was a twin as were her father her mother and both her grandmothtrs her husbands moth er was also a twin the electriclight bill is not always a light burden withering looks will not make a talkative woman dry up large farms lose less than small study shows urbat a 111 on a percentage basis large fcrnis are losing less money than small farms says v e john ston of the department of agricul tural economics at the university of ilinois his study of farm operating costs and income reveals that losses in 191 on 400acre farms expressed as a percentage of capital invested were less than on 100ac farms the reason johnston explains lies ir the fact that it is easier tor larger farms to reduce oper irg expenses to meet declining prices acre operating costs drop as the size of the farm increases both be cause of the increased efficiency and b- ruse there is less work an acre on large farms there ij less work be cause there is less livestock to the acre he explains illinois farmers johnston says have been able to cultivate large acre ages efficienti because of the intro duction of motor cultivators bigteam hitches combines and other labor sav ing equopment in 1931 about 12 worth of feed an acre was fed to productive livestock on farms averaging 100 crop acres le explains while the same cost a eraged 850 on 200acit farms and rs5 on 300acre farms the total labor power and ma- c nery cost for each crop acre on these three grou of farms was 1309 915 and s3- respectively that the amount of livestock has an important bearing on operating costs is indicated by the fact that among the farm with 300crop acres the labor power and machinery cost for each crop acre was 780 where 5 worth of feed a crop acre was fed fci productive livestock as compared at 890 where 11 worth of feed as fed 980 whre 19 worth of feed was fed and 1030 where 27 worth of feed was fed soviet foreign trade j continues to dscline moscow soviet foreign trade la the first nine months of 1932 con- tlnued to be unsatisfactory with an 1 unfavorable balance of 142000000 rubles official figures for the period i recently made available disclosed j the exceedifly conservative polii cles of the foreign trade monopoly j however were evldencd in maximum rstrictions on imports the negative balance serious though it may be compares well with an unfavorable balance of 210000000 rnbles in the same nine months of 1931 sharp declines were registered as compared with the corresponding period of 1931 on both the export and j the import sides of the balance more over a steady declii e of prices in tho foreign markets cost the soviet government tens of millions ofi rubles exports in ruble fell more precipitately than exports in volume soviet exports from jaiuury through i sep ember this year totaled 12454- 3cs metric tons and brought the gov ernment 410913000 rubles in the same months last year the figures were 15670220 tons and 593474000 rubles the benefits from price reductions accruing to the soviets on imports were not large enough to balance losses on exports imports in the nine months amounted to 1749000 tons or 532921999 rubles worth the corresponding figures in 1931 were 2550719 tons and so 1272000 rubles the sharpest fall in trade was de veloped as between the soviet union and the united states the total belgiums future queen spanish treasure ship found porto longone island of elba- the treasure ship pc luce which sank in 1807 as it fled with the wealth of ferdinand iv of spain threatened by napoleon has been located off this port in 200 fet of water and a sal vage company of genoa will try to recover the gold napoleon spent his exile here fj vancouver boy stages knockout turnover for the period was 35537- 000 rubles as aprainst 2039s2000 rubles a year ago imports from america fell from 1ss 155000 rubles to 24105000 exports to america fell from 15027000 rubles to 11432- 000 a trade balance of 104000000 rubles in favor of the united states was thus reduced to the negligible figure of 4000000 ubles m princess josephine fiveyear- old daughter and eldest child ot the heir to the belgian throne prince leopold and princess ostrid niece ot swedens king shorts only one woman in great britajl practices the profession of teatasting london has now fifty automatic telephone excha ges cov ring 220000 lines traffic lights have been installed in more than 200 towns in great britain shughter houses belonging to pri vate owner in the united kingdom number about 10000 last ear oyer 100000000 pennies were collected from telehone call boxes in the london area alone one london manufacturer whoso factory did not exist nine years ago is now turning out 230000 toys a week practically all britains telephone equiment is low british made less than one per cent of the total beiinr imported from abroad gt britains rat population has been estimated at the enor ious figure of 40000000 which is not far short knocked oat heads of families bar heavv reich tax burden berlin the governments statisti cal department has figured that ger man fathers of the lowearnings group pay twice as much in taxes as do french and english in the same class it is announced that a german with of the human population a wife and two children who earns new zealand has a bird 500 a year must pay 10050 or 2132 per cent for income social and con sumption taxes this compares with 1009 per cent in france and 9s4 per cent in england in the 5000 class the ratio is 1932 per cent here against 1057 in france and 1462 in england tle bulk in each country going for income levies nomad children quit families for school tripoli italian north africa a hundred nomad children o the tri- politan hinterland have reluctantly come in to the special italian school established at hamada el hombra on the edge of the desert because it is impossible for the children to return at night to their parents tents which seldom are in the same place twice they live throughout the winter at govern ment expense next june will come the first clash between civilization and wanderlust when the pupils are restored to their families large number of french holiday in england during september 3200 french visitors wont on holiday to england official figures reveal this figure does not include day excursionists of whom thore were believed to be several thousand the railway and steamship com panies believe that tourist trips to britain from franco will iucrease next year and the weekend excur sion service will be extended pedestrians put sand on ice as civic duty vienna city authorities hero are mobilizing the walking population to combat winters slippery pavements and street crossings tho street cleaning department stores paper bags filled with sand in kiosks at street car stops and at cross walks the pedestrians duty is to grab a bag toar off a corner and strew his pathway with sand the kea parrot which preys upon oheep it hunts in parties and des so nurh dama that a subsidy it paid for every kea parrot killed a rainfall of one inch i equal to 100 tons of water to the acre it takes a snowfall of about twelve inches to equal one inch of rail as a distinction for having complet ed more than ten years without an accident 412 british motor drivers have been awarded an oak leaf bar by the safety first association american college students pay for their ducation in curious ways at one texas college a student turned up with a herd of cows and pai 1 his way by selling milk to the other students typists employed by the l ne railway have lessons twice a week in dancing fencing and otlier forms of physical cultlre in a big gymnasi um under liverpool street station london certain continental nations are in creasing much more rapidly han the british in the first quarter of this year the population of england wales and northern ireland increas ed by 3309 while that of italy in creased by 101791 and of poland by 124391 by cutting down the dinner intei val by half an hour and closing halt an hour earlier in the afternoon ill is estimttcd that 10000 will be saved in the lighting and heating of london elementary schools between nov 1st this year and march 31st next taxation in great britain is the highest in the whole world here are the figures of the principal countries per head of the population great britain 15 17s lid fratce 10 0s 2d germany 7 0s 5d united states 5 18s 2d and italy 4 9s gd is air trael ideating boat and rail in the four months may to august this yetr 29947 passengers flew across the channel from england this is an increase of 92 per cent over the same period in 1901 gypsies going to school budapest tho first special school for gypsies in hungary is to open soon at szekesfehervar south of here gypsies havo been free to attend ele- montary schools but generally have preferred to remain in blissful ignor ance ot the three its soil map to provide farmers with technical information a soil map 13 being comploted by prof a h joel ot university of satkatchewan aftor eleven years ot work surveying farm lands over 120000 miles of satkat- chewan mclarnln laughs as fuller misses with a wild left jimmy molaraln ot vancouver sammy fuller ol boston in the eighth round la tttel now york fight jimmy had a 10pound advantaso la weight i napoleon relic brings 200 paris a letter from mmo letltla ramollno bonaparte to her famous son napoleon i was sold at auction here tor 200 at the same sale a letter from king john the good 13501364 to his son charles fetched a similar sum had a good teacher stratford beaconherald fred hann used to be a soldier id tho german army having been a resi lient of holstein although a native ot denmark after the war he came to canaia and started farmiri- in al berta this year he captured tha championship in oats at the chicago exhibition his exhibit being from a crop which ran 100 bushou to tho acre before hann started farming for himself he spent three years with herman trelle the wheat king of tho west that is intorsting it makes it appear that this man trelle was ready and willing to show to others what ho has found out himself it sptaks well for trelle that hia f rmer hired man should follow in tho wake of his employer and produco crops which are good enough to win against all comers and it speaks well for hann thai when he was preparing himself for the business of farming in the west fc should have so thoroughly master ed the problem that ho shares cham pionship honors with herman treltfc