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voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada well behaved tne census of 1931 showed that there were 1037678s people in can ada of these 8069258 were natives of the dominion england contributes 723 86 j scotland 279762 ireland 107- e48 and wales 22348 the remain ing 112269s plus 731 born at sea were foreigners last year there were 4164 convicts incarcerated in our jails of these 2806 were natives ot canada 309 english or welsh 113 scots 40 irish and the remainder foreign which included 307 citizens of the united states the irish seem to have about the cleanest record in proportion to population but taken altogether the people in this coun try appear to be a pretty wellbehave lot stratford beaconherald precedent established it has been pointed out that thl3 is the first time since the united states secured its independence that a british mine minister was ever a guest in the white house itself in the past as on the visit of mr mac- donald to president hoover the visit ing prime minister has stayed at the british embassy and it 13 probably correct to point out that it is the first time in history that a canadian prime minister was a house guest in the home of the president history- is being made of a surety in 1933 nd precedent established st cath arines standard hurts their own business surveys of the parking problem reveal the fact that many business men drive their own cars to their place of business park them in spaces which otherwise would be occupied by visitors and thus tend to increase the parking difficulty this is particularly injurious to trade on saturdays and other busy days of the week but in spite of various warnings the prac tice seems to continue chatham news standing timber believe it or not a tree that was severed completely through at the butt after being notched was so well balanced that it would not fall so the woodsman a farmer near ford- wich and an assistant from st marys left it overnight thinking the wind would cause it to topple but when they returned next mornlngthe tree was still standing a crowbar was necessary to overbalance it and ths dangerous task was accomplished without mishap remember it was cut right off fordwlch record home town news the importance of home town news in the small town paper has been em phasized by a large gathering of edi tors o the smaller american news papers in new york local needs and little personal items it was shown possessed the strongest appeal for their readers the dwellers in a binall town is undoubtedly more in terested in what is going on immedi ately around him than he is in plans say for the development of wheat- growing in siberia it is what most immediately con cerns us tha is of the greatest per sonal interest to us that does not mean that a man in a small town has no interest in world affairs in many instances indeed it will be found that the editors of small town newspapers are exceptionally well- informed upon world affairs but they wisely judge that their readers will find more delectable material for debate in the developments and hap penings of the town in which they live than in what is going on in tibet or timbuctoo there is in this nothing of narrow ness nothing of prejudice nothing of email vision it is just plain horse eense montreal dally star now for a holdup a police chief says he will arrest women who appear in trousers for breeches of the law regina leader- post lowing up his appointment of misj frances perkins as secretary of labor he has named ruth bryan owen daughter of the great commoner as minister to denmark london free presa no women transients everyone knows what a transient means some are worthy of help and aym- pathy others are not both kinds are to be seen everywhere they are on every road and highway every house holder has catered to and fed them every town hall in every town and village has sheltered them almost every night duriug the past winter but they are all men why are there no women out of work unable co secure employment ot any kind no women hard up undoubtedly there are thousands upon thousands ot them how do they live or exist or how do they clothe themselves in these times ot depres sion is it pride or are they more will ing to work at any kind of work are they more adaptable than men more easily satisfied are they more grateful for small mercies have they more bone and less wishbone than men more sand or what whatever it is there are no women transients not in the country huron expositor the empire britain and the gold standard it has been said that we shall not return to the gold standard until we are convinced that other nations are ready to work the system so that it shall fertilize the world and not be broken down again by semicorners until the world economic conference has come and gone it is not possible to judge of the possibilities of the requisite conditions being fulfilled london financial times fighting the mosquito the other day at edenvale near marltzburg three native members ot the antimalaria staff of the marltz burg municipal health department who had been sent out to spray oil on a stream were attacked by native men and women armed with sticks and bicycle chains on the ground that they were poisoning the water no doubt this incident seems start ling to white people among whom there is a tendency to blame the au thorities for not keeping malaria un der better control it is not even an exceptional occurrence but it la a timely reminder that in fighting mal aria in the native areas the same old enemies of progress that domin ated the p m o in india and the contemporaries of copernicus and galileo still have to be overcome johannesburg sunday times canada applauds sterlings rise burden of operating agricul tural stabilization fund slashed ottawa the burden of operating the agricultural stabilization fund this year announced by finanjj min ister rhodes in his budget speech is shrinking rapidly under the upward moveruert of sterling exchange on march 21 when the budget was announced the pound was at 110 and the forecast was made that the i government stabilization plan fixing the pound fcr purpose of purchase of 13 commodities at 400 woud cost canada approximately 1005000c in the current year on friday the pound soared to 451 at montreal wiping out at least fourfifths of the anticipated cost the legislation here will be pro ceeded with as it removes the factor of doubt as to exchange rates and under the new circumstances if maintained by action of sterling ex change the plan will become in real ity one of stabilization instead of a bonus may broaden list ottawa if the pound sterling should be stabilized at approximately the value it has at present in relation t the canadian dollar the list of products which will be brought within the scope of the governments stabil ization fund may be substantially broadened prime minister r b bennett held out this hope during dis cussion of the final stages of the bud get in his earlier remarks respecting appeals for additions to the list of products benefitted by the fund he had observed that the door was not closed mr bennett recalled he then had in mind the possibilities of a rise in the value of the pound in relation to the dollar but had not ex pected it to come so soon it was his ideathe prime minister continued that the present level of exchange was not a sure indication of the rate at which the pound would be stabilized notablelncrease dominion exports to gt britain higher hog prices farmers throughout ontario are ielatert at the higher prices being paid for hogs and a still further increase is prophesied owing to the scarcity the farmer who continued in the liog business will now reap the bene fit of his good judgment glencoe transcript not public property it cannot bo too strongly emphasiz ed that trees growing in the country iire not public property but belong to ho owners ot tho land upon which they aro growing two guelph men recently discovered to their sorrow jvhen they were convicted in police court ot having cut or damaged no fewer than 65 trees belonging to a noarby farmer and wore sentenced to servo fifteen days in jail the pwner of tho trees did not want to boo tho men imprisoned but tho crown attorney said that there was rouble of the same description every year and an example should be made abrockvllle recorder fair to fair sex president roosevelt js evidently a believer in women in public life fol- 2443 per gent increase noted in orders for canned meats a huge increase in the export to the united kingdom of ontario farm pro ducts was noted for the year ended jan 31 1933 as against the previous twelvemonth period says t l ken nedy provincial minister of agricul ture citing some of the canadian items wheh mounted in export trade colonel kennedy referred to canned fruits to bacco leaf honey cheese condensed milk and canned meats in tho la-i- named item the increase was 2443 per cent thero being 153ss pounds ex ported in 1931 and 391354 pounds in 1932 tobaccoleat exportation grew from 6s39000 pounds in 1931 to 13969000 in 1932 cheese 70 per cent ontario from s047s0 hundredweight to 833- 638 canned fruits 80 per cent on tario 5112000 pounds to 10442000 pounds honey 80 per cent ontario 1861000 pounds to 2230000 and con densed milk 84062 pounds to 171000 pounds income tax revenue 20764572 in 1932 ottawa tho government collected 20704572 in income tax during 1932 from individuals companies corpora tions or others who paid on incomes ranging from 500000 to 1000000 this was the reply given by hon e b ryckman minister of national re venue in the house of commons to eusebo robergc lib megantfc house passes last budget resolution ottawa with almost an audible sigh o relief the house of commons passed the last budget resolution through committee stage friday night in one form or another the finance ministers budget has been before the house since march 21 and only one more procedure remains probably not a contentious one to give first sec ond and third readings to the- four bills implementing the resolutions the income tax schedule was passed early in the day then the provision to tax interest paid by nonresident holders of canadian bonds then with a final tussle at tariff items the re solutions were passed through commit tee upturn noted in us industry railways and steel mills are finding increased busi ness grains going up chicago may 7 the mercury in americas business barometer today was pointed upward under impetus of favorable news from coast to coast with factory whistles playing a tune of good times the railroads find ing business where none had been for months farm prices swelling and em ployment increasing there were pre dictions from everywhere that were on the way some of thi increase was seasonal but far from all of it from the great steel centres of youngstown buffalo pittsburg gary and cleveland there were reports of increased operations orders piling up the mills were turning out three times as much steel as a few months ago the reason demand for finished steel at newlyhumming factories railroad carloadings another sel domfailing business indie tor took the sharpest jump of the year during tho week of april 29 the american railway association reported to haul the increased freight made by beer and increased other outputs the railroads needed 42706 more cars than were used in the previous week a total of 535076 for the farmer the close of satur day markets found wheat up virtu ally 30 cents from a few weeks ago with dollar wheat talked of on the board of trade and other grains moving along in sympathy from americas cheese capital at plymouth wis come quotations of cheese prices a 11 cents a pound up 3vi cents from march 10 business leaders in several in stances announced their employees would share in any new prosperity roosevelt pledges action to raise commodity prices i promises to stabilize dollar lower level to ease debtors load explains reason why us will redeem obligations with paper currency world news titbits explosion and fire cause damage of 5000 welland ont fire caused by an explosion of unknown origin destroyed the home of mr and mrs george faz- zarl here with a loss estimated at 5000 partly covered by insurance the dwelling a twostory structure was owned by frank longo a crowd rushed to the scene follow ing the explosion and the firemen for a time were hampered in thlr work immediately after the blast the entire building became a mass ot flames the house was unoccupied at the time apples pies are saved as bunkhouse blazes kirkland lake the bunkhouse at toburn mines was completely de stroyed by fire today with damage estimated at 3000 the loss is cov ered by insurance furniture and three unbaked apple pies were sal vaged from the fire but a new frigeration plant was burned manitoba upholds tax on wages two per cent general levy brings out 5000 in demonstration winnipeg may 7 the law levy ing a two per cent tax on all wages is on the statute books and the mani toba government is going to carry it out manitoba citizens were informed after more than 5000 men and women staged an orderly demonstration in the grounds of tho legislative build ings here yesterday john queen independeit labor leader in the manitoba legislature made the announcement as premier john brackens reply to a deputation which conferred with the government in the building while the mass meet ing was addressed by a corps of speakers outside premier bracken told the delega tion threats had reached him of un employed rioting if they did not get more and of employers striking against paying the tax he said he believed good citizenship would pre vail and was confident there would bo neither strikes nor riots bisley team named sail on june 23rd ottawa the canadian rifle team for bisley has been selected and will sail from montreal on friday juno 16 arriving in england on saturday june 23 the team is as follows commandant ltcol r b slm- monds halifax ltcol c w gibson hamilton lient d o white sack- ville nb capt h w bishop otta wa capt j t steele guelph cqms w c moorish highland creek ont ltcol f w utton tor onto pte a o hutchinson fergus sm n j mcleod toronto csm g m emslie toronto sgt e g stock toronto sgt j borland mt j dennis lieut a g gunter saint john sgt p hooper milton pei i pte g a thompson lemesurlor que washington may 8 president roosevelt sunday night promised the nation he woul i use the inflation pow ers granted by congress when as and if necessary to raise commodity prices and stabilize the doiar at a lower level in a statement to the public through the press and which was broadcast reviewing his first two months in office mr roosevelt said his administration definitely was pledged to raise commodity prices they should be raised he said to such an extent that thes who have borrowed money will on the average be able to repay that money in the same kind of a dollar which they bor rowed however the president added we do not seek to get such a cheap dollar that they will be able to pay back a great deal less than they borrowed the thief executive also announced definitely that he would propose well considered and consrvative measures to give to the industrial workers of tho country a more fair wage return prevent cutthroat competition and unduly long hours of labor and at the same time to encourage each in dustry to prevent over- production a bill for this purpose drafted by senator robert f wagner dem n y is to be laid before the president today industrial cooperation plan elaborating on the industrial co operation plan the president added the government ought to have the right and will have the right after surveying and planning for an in dustry to prevent with the assistance of the overwhelming majority of that industry unfair practice and to en force this agreement by the authority of government the socalled antitrust laws were intended to prevent the creation of monopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies that pur pose of the antitrust laws must be continued but these laws were never intended to encourage tho kind of unfair competition that results in long hours starvation wages and over production although there are evidences of a business revival mr roosevelt said he was not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of overenthusiastic as surance he warned against unjusti fied optimism which would increase crop and factory production and added we cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity summarizes legislation mr roosevelt listed as leigslation passed or in the process of enactment which he considered part of a well grounded plan the following 1 employment of onequarter of a million men in the reforestation camps 2 approaching enactment of the muscle shoals and tenessee valley development project 3 legislation soon to be passed easing the mortgage distress among farmers and home owners 4 approaching enactment of the farm bill designed to increase prke3 of farm moducts and reduce over production 5 the administrations railroad bill which would coordiiatc the activities of the nations carriers reduce ex penses and put the roads on a paying basis mr rosevelt said he soon would submit a public works program which would put additional men to work the chief executive answered criti cism at home and abroad on the gov ernments action in refusing to re deem its securities payments and in terest in gold he pointed out tho government in tie past had agreed to redeem nearly 30000000000 of its debts and its currency in gold private corpora tions in this country have agreed to redeem another 60000000000 or 70000000000 of securities and mortgages in gold could not fulfill agree ments the government and private cor porations were making these agree- mmts when they knew full well that all of the gold in the united states amounted to only between three and four billions and that all of the gold in the world amounted to about eleven billions mr roosevelt said if the holders of these promises to pay started in to demand gold the first comers would get gold for a few- days and they would amount to about j onetwentyfifth of the holders of the securities and the currency he con tinued the other 24 people out of 25 who did not happen to be at the top of the line would be told politely jhat there was no more gold left we have de cided to treat all 25 in the same way in the iiterest of justice and the ex ercise of the constitutional powers of this government in conclusion mr roosevelt thank ed the people for the cooperation they had given his administration and for their patience during the depres sion we are encouraged to believe a wise and sensible beginning has been made he declared in the present spirit of mutual confidence and mu tual encouragement we go forward london motorist caught with 1931 auto tags london ont william e hern sim- coe street city was summonel to po lice court last week on a charge of driving with wrong markers he was using a 1931 license which were black letters on a yellow background the same paint effect as used this year constable ed coulter noticed the slight difference and had him haled in to court hern paid 10 and costs out of court and was advised to procure a current license if he wished to c tinue driving 87 millions of gold purchased since 931 ottawa since october 1931 the government has purchased gold valued at 87403310 on which the premium paid was 12236902 this answer was given in the house of commons by hon e n rhodes minister of fin ance to g g coote uia macleod the markets torontonians welcome crack train dominions appoint world conference delegates londonstanley bruce australian cabinet minister esident in london will represent the commonwealth at the world economic conference which opens on juno 12 it was announced from canberra general smuts is one of three delegates from south africa and the others are likely to bo n c havenga minister of finance and os wald pirow minister of railways a braw scot comes t toon hundreds of toronto citizens were on hand to inspect tho royal scot rrltains crack locomotive en routo to chicago for the worlds fair photo shows tho crowd at duffor- in street siding grain quotations following are quotations on to ronto grain transactions for car lots i rices on basis cif ports manitoba wheat no 1 hard 70ic no 1 northern 68vac no 2 north ern 6744c no 3 northern 66v2c manitoba oats no 2 cw 349ic no 3 cw 32c no 1 feed 31v4c mixed feed oats 20c man barley no 3 cw 40vc no 1 feed screenings 14 per ton south african corn 59c ontario grain approximate prices track shipping point wheat 09 to 72c oats 26 to 28c barley 32 to 35c corn 50 to 52c rye 32 to 35c buck wheat 28 to 30c wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to retail dealers pork ham 1314c shoulders 9c butts lie pork loins 13vc picnics 9c lard pure tierces lovsc tubs llc pails 12c prints 12c shortening tierces 10 to 10 he tubs 0ac pails 10c prints 10c livestock quotations steers up to 1050 lbs good and choice 475 to 5 do mod 425 to 460 do com 375 to 425 steers over 1050 lbs good and choice 475 to 525 do mcd 450 to 475 do com 1 to 125 heifers good and choice 175 to 5 do med 425 to 460 do com 375 to 4 fed calves good and choice 575 to 625 do med 450 to 550 cows good 325 to 375 do mod 3 to 325 do com 225 to 275 canners and cut ters 1 to 2 bulls good 275 to 3 do com 175 to 225 stockcr and feeder steers good 375 to 4 do com 3 to 350 milkers and spring ers 25 to 50 calves good and choice veals 5 to 6 do com and med 2 to 450 hogs bacon fob 5 do off trucks 520 do off cars 550 good ewe and wether lambs 8 to 850 do med 750 to 775 culls 5 to 650 good light sheep 3 to 350 do heavies 2 to 250 do culls 1 to 150 dance inventor dead new york billy was rhythm thats all he could teach dancing by waving his hand folks from broadway an harleu gathered in his studio and talked about billy pierce negro soldier of fortune who trained some of the stages premier dancers billy died ol influenza he was 42 and fat no long er able to illustrate his routine off the rialto few folks knew of billy on the rialto the bright lights blazed with the names of bis pupils the charleston ard the black moon were billys handiwork on gold coin basel switz the gold supply of the bank of international settlements the worlds superbank amounts to one 25cent gold piece minted in san ran- clsco in 1852 this coin was given to the bank by a friend when ho learned that the banks vaults contained no precious metal the banks gold holdings are stored in other banks sideboard of tickets bolton eng a jobless bolton musi cian mr busfield johnson has made a sideboard from 1000000 tram tickets and some match boxes and brown paper with a knife and a pair of pliers as his only tools the task took him more than a year to complete of antique design the sideboard holds all his books and the drawers are filled with articles of clothing layers of the tickets and strips ot match boxes were pressed tightly to gether with stones bound with wlro and then pasted and covered with spe cial brown paper the appearance of dark oak has been produced with the aid of stain and varnish millionaire jailed los angeles ted kleinmeyer 27 who inherited 650000 at the age of 21 and has 1000000 coming to him in slightly more than two years was sent to work on the county road gang for one year when he pleaded guilty to a charge of issuing no fund cheques rich diet poplar bluff mo roy timmons jersey cow turned up her nose at or dinary teed he offerel her the last few days when she came home at night from the far corners of a pasture on his farm she was not hungry timmons followed the cow and found her munching contentedly in a thicket investigation disclosed her diet consisted of reakfast food and candy which burglars had hidden there courts by air port credit ont this little town on the shores ot lake ontario has learned what caused notes and letters to drop from the skies bill cutton toronto has taken to aerial corres pondence with lois farrow port credit and are carrying on a unique courtship bill has a friend dave who owns an airplane in the course of a recent flight bill thought it might be a good idea to drop a note to lois he did that started it every time the plane went over more notes flutered to the ground it turned out to be such a good idea we kept on doing it said bill dave does his flying and i do my courting wainwright of cpr dies at age of 62 montreal may 7 w a wain wright assistant chairman of cana dian pacific steamships limited died suddenly at his home here today ho was 62 years old i know of no one in our official family who was more loved and more respected than he said e w beatty icc chairman of the canadian pa cific steamships in paying tribute to mr wainwright his long and varied experience in marine affairs and his remarkably sound judgment made him an invaluable officer of the company and a great asset to the shipping in terests of canada canada increases trade with empire countries ottawa the continued empire- ward trend of canadas trade is very clearly shown in official trade figures for the fiscal year just ended while imports and exports are both lower than in the preceding fiscal year a marked increase is shown in exports to great britain while imports from the empire have decreased only slight ly compared to the decrease from for eign countries imports from the united states have dropped by nearly 110000000 or ap proximately onethird while those from great britain decreased by only 20000000 ontario rates reduced for burglary insurance mary pickford prohibits dougs projected flight new york mary pickford the canadian movlo actress is the boss of tho family at least as far as air travelling is concerned douglas fairbanks returned from europe friday he planned to fly to 18v hollywood but a telegram arrived be- j have been effected by transferring fore he ought his ticket it was from j towns from high to lower rated terrl- mrs mary pickford fairbanks and torles the changes have been pro- it said in effect niulgated to the entire agency force no night flying douglas and go into effect immediately the canadian casualty under writers association after an examina tion of the experience figures has de cided on a substantial reduction in the rittes charged for private residence burglary insurance throughout the pro vince of ontario representatives ot the tariff association when interview ed stated that the reductions rango from approximately 37 jjj per cent to for the various policy forms and