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CANADA,
The Empire at Ottawa
A party of Jews and Arabs went
down yesterday from Jerusalem. They
• are on their way to Ottawa. They are.
orange growers, from that strip of
green country wliieh makes an oasis
across the ancient country of the Phis-
istines. They will come down on the.
military railway that the British built
in the Palestine campaign of the
Great War, alongside the old caravan
route out of Syria and Judea down to
Egypt, where the Children of Israel
once passed in their flight from the
tyranny and the servitude of the Phar-
aoh. They are coming to Ottawa, to
Sell Jana oranges to the Empire, per-
haps, and certainly to tell the Empire
that the Jaffa orange is the best in the
world.
What a touch of color It lends to the
preparations for the Ottawa Confer-
ence, this latest pilgrimage out of the
Holy Land! Jews, and Arabs are com-
ing, those ancient and modern ene-
mies, reconciled in this imaginative
project of a larger trade and communi-
cation between the diverse peoples
who, in greater or lesser degree, pro-
fess a common interest in the destiny
of the British Commonwealth.
President de Valera, fresh from his
alarums and excursions about the
Oath of Allegiance, is seriously con-
sidering whether he, had better not
come to Ottawa himself. Merchants
of spices and cotton are coming from
India, and tea planters from Ceylon.
There will be men there from Kenya
and Uganda, rubbing shoulders with
the official delegates of Australia and
New Zealand and South Africa. All
roads of the Empire, all trade routes
. of the seven seas, lead these days to
the capital of Canada, where the Ot-
tawa runs down to the mother of Cana-
dian waters.—Vancouver Province.
He Failed in Mathematics
Much has been said by way of ex-
posing the unsatisfactory character of
written examinations as a test of
scholarship and fitness far academic
degrees and positions of trust. Edu
oationists recognize that while some
students have the faculty for express-
ing what they know on paper, others
have not. It often happens that a
poor scholar may do better than a
good scholar in a written paper. That
is one reason why schools, colleges
and departments of education have
been trying to get away from the
straight -jacket of examinations. A
school in. New York has recently
found a novel way out of the well
known dile. ma. �'��` te., ucoln
con no c•vrpasa era.' Te hope-
essly failed in that subject. He did
Well in languages, wrote plays and es-
says, shone in music, but mathematics
stumped him. " The management look-
ed about for credits to compensate for
re failure in a single field. It was
found in his natural aptitude for crea-
tive work. Art came to his rescue.
The Lincoln school has a new set of
'murals of singular merit, and William
Beal has his diploma. This is an idea
to which educationists may well give
consideration. — Mail and Empire
(Toronto),.
Menace of Faulty Headlights
It would be interesting to know how
many motorists, reading the warning
given by Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Min-
ister of Highways, about the import-
ance of headlights, have bothered to
check up on this particular equipment
of their own cars. Every driver, out
on the highway after nightfall, knows
that the headlights of the majority of
approaching cars are a menace to his
safety . . but in all probability
he hasn't taken the trouble to ascer-
tain whether or not his own beams of
illumination are as annoy -lug to others.
There were 250 accidents in Ontario
last year directly attributable to faulty
headlights, the Minister of Highways
declares. Twelve of these had fatal
termination—Hamilton Spectator,
give them 'a longer weep -end respite
frons their arduous tasks,
THE EMPIRE
The Bulldog Breed
The heart ef'the nation is still high.
The British people have . borne every
burden imposed upon them with cour-
age an dwith cheerfulness, Business
and industry, though sorely pressed
by the burdens of taxation, are son
reaching out to new flelde of enter -
Prise. The confidence of the people
in their ultimate triumph is as strong
as ever.—London Daily Express.
Britain and Ottawa
Britain already has given more than
adequate evidence of her sincerity. At
the time of her deepest distress, when
she was compelled to abandon her
century -old tradition of fret trade, she
deliberately exempted Empire produce
from the scope of her import duties.
From that action she could expect
nothing 'rut good -will, and good -will
she gained in plenty—from all Doinini-
ons save the Free State, which de-
rived the greatest benefit. If her as
tion, and the reactions of the older
Dominions, are a foretaste of the Com-
monwealth's decisions at Ottawa,
those decisoins will be precious and
enduring. If tho Free State's reaction
as illustrated in her fantastic tariff
policy, serves as a symbol of her atti-
tude towards the Ottawa Conference,
she will be the "wall -flower" of the
imperial ball.—Dublin Weekly Irish
Times.
Each For All and All For Each
After Lord Beaconsfield, there is
one name that stands above all others.
Joseph Chamberlain. Because of his
work for the Empire, we stand on the
threshold of the Ottawa Conference-
and because of the movement he
founded we have to -clay the first prac-
tical instalment~ of his great policy,
Imperial Reciprocity. He crystallized
that policy in an undyink phrase:
"Each for all, and all for each," It is
a slogan we should remember when
we are apt to become impatient with
progress.—Trinidad Guardian.
The Ottawa Conference
The negotiations at Ottawa will
necessarily be difficult, and in some
cases delicate, but they will be con-
ducted on all sides in the friendliest
spirit and with frank recognition of
the fact that, while the common good
should be teh aim of all, no part of
the Empire is in a position to disre-
gard its own material interest, or can
be expected to do so, ---Cape Argus.
Holiday for Farm Folk
The municipal Council of the Town-
ship of West Luther unanimously
passed anovel resolution at its last
meeting. The motion expressed the
wish of the council that the rate-
payers observe every Saturday after-
noon as a public half holiday during
the month of June and on the first two
Saturdays of July in 1932. Coupled
with the wish was a suggestion that
games and sports be held at conveni-
ent centres for the ratepayers of the
municipality. The Arthur Enterprise-
News, in referring to this action, con-
atulates the council on the move
ithus initiated -and expresses the hope
that it will develop into fullfruition,
The initiative thus shown by West
Luther council Is surely worthy of
comineuclation, The Municipality is
.thus linked up with urban centres in
avhieh the weekly half holiday has been
observed for years by merchants and
other business men. This weekly
period of recreation has cone to bo
regarded in torvns and villages as a
necessity. People engaged lir agricul-
Ore would find it difficult to break the
continuity of their week's work with a
;Vreclnesday half holiday, shell as gen'
'evilly is observed by urban folic. To
them ,'Saturday afternoon would be
more advantageous and would also
Awarded Medal
Even if she didn't make Paris
by plane, Amelia Earheart Put-
nam was given a great reception
there. Air -minister Painleve award-
ed her the Legion of Honor.
It stays where it is, and a continuance
of drift will carry Europe inevitably
into it in no long time unless the lead-
ers of Europe have courage and
strength to drive the ship against the
current—The Spectator (Loudon).
Cobblestone Farmers
A prominent citizen of Pennsylvania
proposes that the State should finance
unemployed city workers in the pur-
chase of farms and stock. That kind
of aid might be welcome to a genuine
"back -to -the -lander" . who had been
brought up in the country, but how
can it benefit the man who has never
known of life outside a city? He could
not tell a horse crupper from its head -
stall, he is helpless when he seats
himself on a milking -stool at a cow's
flank, he has the vaguest ideas on
none at all as to the proper feeding
and care of swine. You might as ;wellbring a discouraged farmer to the wit;
Forest Fires and expect him to make a success of
Total Eclipse
In addition to the Imperial
noetic Conference which will open In
Ottawa on July 21st there wall be
another event in Canada t1ele Mini -
mer which promises to attract uut.
versal attention. This will be the
total eclipse of the sun on August
31. The eclipse will be visible from
a zone running through tite province
of Quebec and skirting the city of
Montreal,
Though usually total eclipses of
the sun occur almost every year,<the
director of the Canadian government
observatory,',points out their occur-
erence as total at or near any specl-
fied locality it a somewhat rare phe
"uocnenon. The last one to be via-
ble as total in Canada was on Jan.
24, 1925, on which occasion the path
of totality' swept across western On-
tario, crossing the Niagara river
into the.; United States and passing
into the Atlantic Ocean near New
Haven, Conn, After the 1932 total
eclipse the next One to be visible
in Canada will be in 1954.
For the 1932 eclipse the central
line of the path of totality begins in
the Arctic regions, sweeping down
across Hudson Bay and skirting the
eastern shore of James Bay; it
crosses the St. Lawrence near Mao-
kinonge and Pierreville, Que., some
fifty miles east of Montreal, and
passes across the international boun-
dary a few miles east of Rock Island
and Derby, Vermont, passing into
the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of
Portland, Maine. The width of the
shadow zone in southern Quebec is
approximately 100 miles; the west-
ern edge passes through Montreal
and near Boston; Mass., the eastern
edge will be about 25 miles to the
east of Three Rivers, Que.
The duration of totality on the
central line is about 100 seconds,
diminishing to zero at the eastern
and western limits. The shadow
travels at au average speed of abont
half a mile per second, traversing
the distance of roughly 700 miles
from James Bay to the coast in a
little over 20 minutes; it crosses the
River St. Lawrence at 3.24 p.m. East-
ern Standard Tiiue, the international
boundary at 3,27, and leaves t'he
coast of Maine at 3.31, The direc-
tion of the sun at this time is about
20 degrees south of west and the alti-
tude about 30 degrees.
Several parties of scientists from
other countries are coming to ob-
serve the eclipse and Montreal. will
be one of the principal points where
these parties will concentrate in or-
der to take advantage of the facili-
ties and co-operation of McGill Uni-
versity.—dont Canada Week by
Week.
In view of the immense damage that?
running a beauty parlour or a high-
is wrought every year by bush fires in l class specialty shop.—Boston Tran-
script.
Australia, the difference of opinion •
which exists as to their cause is as-
tonishing. Tens of thousands of
pounds' worth of property are destroy-
ed, hundreds of people are cast into
homeless despair, great suffering and
loss of life ensue, yet many talk as if
bush fires were occurrences to be in-
cluded in the legal category of "acts
of God" or unpreventable accidents.
Careful observers are satisfied that
most bush fires are preventable. Is
it not time that they were prevented,much larger amount than is invest -
and that those who cause them, either! ed in any other single industry in
by act or negligence, were punished? Canada except agriculture and trans-
-Melbourne Australasian. 1 portation.
Capital in Water Power
The total capital invested in the
water -power industry in Canada is
now about $1,514,000,000 and of this
nearly $1,370,000,000 has been ex-
pended on laud, buildings, plant,
and equipment for the generation,
transmission,. and distribution of
hydro -electric power. This is a
Ottawa and Foreign Trade
As soon as satisfactory arrange.'
ments have been made at Ottawa for
reorganizing the Empire so as to
make the most of its economic ca-
pacity in all directions, each foreign
nation should be considered on its
merits and offered terms for negotia-
tion.
egotiation. If this question of suitably
blending our foreign trade relations
with our development scheme within
the Empire can be settled satisfactori-
ly, so as to give a stimulus both to in-
ter -Imperial trade and to international
trade at the same time, the one would
react favourably on the other and an
important step will have been taken
towards the improvement of world
economic conditions. But if, on the
other hand, Ottawa leads to an all -Bri-
tish economic policy of isolation on
narrow, well-contained Imperial lines,
ignoring the foreign trade of Great
Britain and her Dominions, there will
be a grave danger that Ottawa may
merely drive one more nail into the
coffin of our world economic system.—
Major Poison Newman in the Nine-
teenth Century (London),
!se Months' Leave too Short
Shanghai.—After spending nine
years doing missionary work in
Tbibet, E. Rathbone, an Englishman,
has just returned to his labors
without seeing anything of the "out-
side world" except Shanghai and
Chefoo. Granted a nine -months
leave, he left his station, at Tunhua-
fu, on his way to England. But
Thibet is far away, and travel is
slow, so when he arrived here, he
had already been away from Tun-
huafu four months. Returning
would certainly be no faster and that
left him only one month in which
to go from Shanghai to England
and back—a manifest impossibility
—so he started back to spend anoth-
er nine years in Thibet.
OTHER OPINIONS
Europe on the Brink
In an atmosphere of impotence,
nervelessness and fatalism Europe is
drifting helplessly towards even more
stormy waters than threaten already
to engulf it. Every day some new evi-,
dente of the deterioration of the gen-1
eral situation conies to hand, Not a
country, with the temporary exception
of our own, hardly one but goes on
imposing new, restrictions on imports
in the desperate hope of somehow
keeping the trade balance even. The
difficulties at Lausanne are vast, but
the consequences of failure would be
too grave to contemplate. The temp-!
talion is to temporize and, drift. The'
effect f Mat would be to double all the
•diflioulties when the Conference net.
again. .The whirlpool does not recede,
Falls "Clear"
A spectaeuloe action picture showing Tofu Cox of Pasadena, Cali-
fornia, being thrown 'oft his motorcycle 'in tho Murphy Canyon hill
climbing ontost.
A "Brainy" Miss
Nineteen -year-old Frances Emer-
son, graduated this year with a
doctor of philosophy degree, the
highest obtainable from the Uni-
versity of Missouri.
The Aims of France
By Edouard Herriot, Premier
of France.
In accord with the Covenant of the
League of Nations, which is the fun-
damental
undamental chart for the future, and in
the spirit of the Pact of Paris, we
shall seek security not for ourselves
alone, but for all nations, all of which,
small and great, have equal claims in.
our eyes.
Within this general framework the
government of the republic declares
it will favor all solutions, even those
which are partial, which in. the light
of the discussions at Geneva and after
a loyal exchange of opinions will per-
mit, without compromising national
security, the lightening of military
charges and will represent a step to-
ward progressive, simultaneous and
controlled disarmament. At once, so
as to associate itself with this effort,
the government will put in force all
possible economies which can be under-
taken without imprudence.
Regarding reparations, France can-
not permit those rights to be contest-
ed which are the outcome not only
of treaties but of .contractual agree-
ments protected by the honor of the
signatories. If tire World ' 16 with'`
drawn from the sovereignty of law it
must sooner or later fall under the
empire of force.
In affiming' that principle the gov-
ernment of the republic is conscious
of, defending no egotistical privileges,
but universal interests. For the rest,
it is ready to discuss any project, to
take any initiative, which will pro-
duce the :compensation of greater
world stability or loyal reconciliations
in peace.
Intelligence of Animals
All observers and writers agree
that birds and animals are endowed
with an extraordinary sagacity and
instinct to a far greter extent than
we give them credit for. How to public buildings, schools, amuse-
wonderfully a dog understands his ment places, and parks.
Each village will be constructed ac
cording to a definite plan. Each house
owner must pay $30 Mexican to the
village cofnmittee, or may pay in
terms of labor.
France Tightens
Cheek on Aliens
Secret 'Police Now Ride on Ali:
international Trains to
Bar Violations on
Passports
Paris. --The French police have
greatly increased .the strictness Of
their surveillance over all foreigners,;
according to William P. Carney ie
The N.Y. Times.
France regrets her past hospitality'
to political exiles frown other Euro-
pean countries, from among whose
ranks have come the assassins of two
of her Presidents, and the new regula-
tions governing the entry of foreign-
ers into the country and their sojourn
here are being enforced by the police
in co-operation with the immigration
authorities.
Members of the Surete Generale,
the secret police, now ride on all inter-
national trains to make a second ex-
amination
xamination of the passports of all pas-
sengers after they have been hurried-
ly stamped at the frontiers by the im-
migration officers.
The same procedure is carried out
on all boat trains, which connect at
French ports with steamers from -the
United States and the Orient.
Fines imposed on hotel keepers who
fail to report to the pollee within
twenty-four hours that they have
given lodging to foreigners have been
greatly increased. Foreigners wish-
ing to remain in France more than
sixty days formerly were required to
obtain identification cards from the
police. Now they are obliged to get
such cards after staying only two
weeks.
Inasmuch as there are now 4,000,-
000 foreigners who desire to live in-
definitely in France, a tremendous
amount of documentation is necessary
and large clerical staffs are kept con-
tinuously busy in the identification -
card department of the Prefect of
Police. In 1906 there were only
about 1,000,000 foreigners residing
more or less permanently in France.
The number of foreigners who have
fled to France from their own coun-
tries to escape starvation of the tyr-
anny of oppressive- governments has
steadily increased since the reign of
Louis Phillipe.
The secret police are responsible
for surveillance over political exiles
who have sought refuge in France.
Whenever one of these is caught en-
gngi:ng in any kind of plot against
the existing government in his own
country his identification card is with-
drawn and he is summarily expelled
from France.
Such police measures as these might
have prevented the assassination of
President Dourer by the Russian ex
tremi , Ger ulof last month. Presi-
0
100 -House Villages
Planned by Chinese
Nanking.—Ten rules for a system-
atic
ystematic construction of villages in the
northwest have been issued by the
Suiyuan Provincial Government. The
plan will cover a period of four years.
Five' persons will be elected as a
construction committee for each vil-
lage to be constructed. Each village
will be limited to 100 houses. Tho
first year will be devoted to the build-
ing of homes and barns; the second
year to the village walls and streets;
the third year to the building of gov-
ernment buildings, and the fourth year
master's habits and wishes, and how
faithful in his affection! This has
been the thence of countless stories
in the past hundred years and what
owner of a dog to -day could not tell
remarkable stories from their own
experience. The horse, too, what
wisdom and judgment he can ex- King Alfonso's Fortune
hibit when treated with kindness and Confiscated by Spain
intelligence. These are the two pre-
eminent friends of man but the sante Madrid. — Former King Alfonso's
private fortune was declared confis-
cated recently by the director of the
Spanish Republic's treasury.
The fortune included more than
$2,500,000 in cash and securities, as
and is it not reasonable that we well as Other possessions valued at
should defend and protect theist from' more than $500,000.
cruelty and exploitation! —J. J. Kelso. The money and bonds would be at-
tached to the public treasury and the
immovable property would belong to
the state, the director said. He re-
vealed that 21,000,000 pesetas (about
$1,100,000) worth of seized property
It is said that during the making of ,
had not belonged to the deposed ling,
the film "Disorderly Conduct" search but to societies over which he pre,
was made for odd statutes and sided.
among dozens of others these were
found: That Pennsylvania hos a law 1 "-
forbidding singing in the bathtub; 1 "Mystery" Rail Excursion
that in Kentucky any one operating r A <'Mystery excursion" is the latest
a still must blow a whistle; that im-`venture of an American railway tom.
personating Santa Cletus on the street , pany to stimulate, passenger business.
is illegal in iliinneapolis; that in Neither, the passengea nor the train -
`Vest Virginia it is against the law , men know where the excursion is go-
to sneeze on Sunday.; that In New- iu until the train leaves. Atter the
ark, N.J., it is illegal. to sell fee after g
slat p.m. without a doctor's pi'esr.rig_ train pulls out the engineer receives
tion, and that in Zion, 111.• it le a iris sealed orders,
crime punishable by a prison sen- The first trip was a 100•mile ride; a
t�ntwenty-five-mile automobile ride, a
citece to make tiny faces at any chicken dinner, and a ride !tome—an
eleven and a . half hour holiday for
$1.75. There were 650 passengers on
the first adventure, and the railway
company. announced there would be
more excursions it the near ftttnre.
characteristics will be found in every
species of bird or animal when they
are domesticated and treated in a
reasonable and humane manner, They
add immensely to the joy of living
Some Queer Laws
i Alassnchnsetts has some queer
laws, but other states can bat it.
Pine Blister Spores Fly Far
Amherst, Mass.--Slsores of white
pine blister rust are lrnown to have
down 700 miles to infect currant
bushes, IVlassach usetts State College
researeh wovkers report, But spores
which develop ,on currants can travel
only a few'ltundred feet to infect the
nines,
Flitch of Sett
A pinch of salt placed in the water
will preserve the freshness of flowers
for a longer length of time than
their natural life.