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Voice of the Press
Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
CANADA patch of business, or the same raw
t The Landward Movement sure of agreement, if the delegationti
There is a landward movement in had been scattered — as they must
all countries, It is inevitable, and the I have been. at Lausanne, or for the mat -
present efforts in Manitoba and the ter of that in London—in a dozen sep.
other provinces of Canada may draw arate offices and hotels. They owe
attention to this and may encourage not a little of their success to the spa-
cious capacity of Parliament Buildings
and the Chateau Laurier. But political
leaders everywhere are bound to
justify themselves in the end to their
conetituents. Oppositions are not to
be controlled. There will be attacks
and counter-attacks, suggestions that
too much has been conceded and too
little secured, complaints that there
has been no dramatic climax and no
Free immediate decline in unemployment.
It is quite inevitable that every GoV-
ernment should be driven to make the
best case for its own performance at
the Conference; and there will be no
harm in it so long as they observe the
ono essential condition that the ease
is not made to the detriment of any
other Government.—London Times:
a wider, voluntary movement from the
cities to the rural districts. But the
success of the efforts now being made
here will depend en adherence to the
Atria and almost severe methods that
have been eollowed thus far, and oi
giving only a minimum of assistance
so that the settlers .will know that
they must mend for themselves and
make the utmost use of their oppor-
tunity.—Winnipeg
Press.
Independence Impossible
Nothing has so far emerged from re-
publican Ireland to give the least pro-
mise of Irish economic independence.
Politically Ireland may be as inde-
pendent as Canada, but financially Ire-
land is no more independent of out-
side money power than Canada is in-
dependent of New York. President
de Valera may know how to bring
about Irish independence, but it cer-
tainly never will be independent so
long as the national credit has to be
pledged to private sources. The pre-
sent Irish administration will be made
to toe the line, just as surely as Eng-
land had to toe the line last September
or as Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and other countries have been com-
pelled to submit to the policy of de-
flation imposed from outside sources.
—Ottawa Citizen.
Dangerous Drivers
Picked observers of the American
Railway Association who made a sur-
vey of the actions of motorists at
grade crossings, report that 74 per
cent, of the drivers exercised reason-
able care, 14 per cent. were reckless
and 12 per cent. doubtful. Reasonable
care meant reduced speed, looking in
both directions and obedience to warn-
ing signals. It is pretty safe to say
that the 74 per cent. class had little
or no representation. in the accidents
that did occur at crossings. The fact
that 26 per cent. are either reckless
or "doubtful" shows that at this late
day there is still need for safety les-
sons for motorists, and for highway
police to control the dangerous ones.
—Montreal Gazette.
Motorbus and Public
Regulation of motor -coach traffic out
of London is a problem both urgent
and difficult. When the Road Traffic
Act came into force last year, the
roads were overburdened with super-
fluous coaches whose owners were not
concerned so much to serve the pub-
lic as to establish their claims to the
Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner's
sanction. Accordingly the Commis-
sioner, faced with the enormous task
of bringing order into a vast, spon-
taneously -generated chaos, did not
hesitate to be restrictve. The final re-
port of Lord Amulree's committee of
inquiry just issued deals with the ap-
peals against the Commissioner's re-
strictions, and in the majority of cases
it recommends modification, complete
or partial, of his original decisions. The
obvious common sense of the situation
is that there should be on the road
enough motor -coaches to supply the
public need, and no more, and, second,
that the economic laws of supply and
demand will realize that ideal, in the
long run, better than arbiters* legisla-
tion.—London Morning Post.
Automobiles on the Farm
At the present time Canada counts
one motor car for every 2.27 farms,
Ontario having •the highest percent-
age, with one car for every 1.53 farm.
Quebee comes last on the list with a
car for 5.06 farms, which, by the way,
cannot be considered a drawback, for
though the car may be a great con-
venience, it is still very often an ob-
ject of great luxury and, for young
farmers, a constant invitation to re-
laxation and idleness.—La Tribune,
Sherbrooke.
Better Food
Not the least of the human victories
of these latter centuries has been the
conquest el new foods, of better foods,
of more varied foods. Explorers and
scientists and inventors have all play-
ed their parts. And the good work
still goes on. The Food Investigation
Board of the Department of Scientific
and Industrial Research is a body for
which the public cares little. It is
neither spectacular nor costly. But its
work, amongst other things, gives
promise of fresh British fruit all the
year round. The time is near when
it will be no queerer to have fresh
raspberries than fresh beef at Christ-
mastime.—London Daily Herald.
Never Satisfied
If prices are up, we are not satis-
fied. If they are down, we are still
grumbling. What, then, will bring us
content? The thing that is needed is
stability. It is not the fact that prices
are high or that they are low that mat-
ters so much as that they refuse to
stay anywere. When they go up, the
dollar goes down, and people who have
dollars find they are worth only 90 or
30 or 70 per cent. of ther former value
—in goods, that is. When prices are
down, the dollar becomes worth more,
and the individual who borrowed at a
different level finds he has to prodtice
more goods or put in more hours of
labor than he had counted on to pay
his debt. It is this fluctuation which
has given rise to the demand for "the
honest dollar"; that is, the dollar that
will buy approximately the same
quantity of goods to -day as to -morrow
and next year as last year. — Van-
couver Province.
New Altitude Record
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The other day, Maryse Hiltz, daring Frenchwoman, hit 32 500
feet in het- plane—a new record. Men aviators better look to their
laurels.
Canadian Notes
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warehouseuflteia
40 Edmoeton has been authorized by
the 'Motor Car Supply Company of
Canada, wording to an Renounce-
ment by Mr. C. D, Mace:Com:1e, man-
ager of the Edmonton branch The in his tare, He mentioned the tons
new building, which will contain 20,- of horse -meat fed to the carnivales,
000 square feet of space, will be con- the hay and beet sugar provided for
structed on a site owned by the coin- the elephants in Winter and the freet
pally, and is expected to be ready clover for the dainty antelope. But
for occupation by October 15: he said nothing about the hundred
Calgary, Alta.—Cars of cattle being and one tricks used by the animals
shipped at the present time are re- to beg food from visitors to supple -
Ported to bo in better condition thau ment their diet.
for many years, Pasture and amis. judging by the action's of the
ture conditious have been excellent beasts, the official menu is about 50
since early spriug and are still fav- per cent below par. Lions and
ora,ble. The C,P.II.. Holstein cows tigers patrol their -cages, beating
from the Strathmore farm were the their lean flanks against the iron
winners in this class of livestock at bars, the sea lions lift their voices
the recent Calgary Extibition. The In protest and sea fowl rush the
condition of these cows was the sub- visitors for food.
Jed of much favorable comment The elephants know best how to
ment, improve each shining hour; they
Vernon, B.U. — The Co-operative bew for coppers to be Burned into
Growers at Penticton are goieg In tid-bits by •their keepers.
for crystallizing cherries this year,
under the direction of an expert from
the Dominion Experimental Station at
West Summerland. Plans provide
for treating 20 tons of Royal Anne
cherries for consumption at soda
fountains and as candied or Maras- is now making a living by selling
chino cherries. A good market has books frorh a public stand in one of
been assured for the product. the leading streets of the city.
Vancouver, B.C.—Consolidated Min-
ing and Smelting Company's chemical
fertilizer industry is being develop-
ed along extensive lines and more
than $250,000 worth of sulphate of
ammonia has been shipped during
News Tit43i
Elephants Beg for Ceppere
Brussels,—The director of the 'Ant-
werp Zoo, who has little sense of
humor, reported that titer° have been.
"no oases of sickness from oVerfeed-
ing" among the thousauds of animal's
Executioner Sells Books
Prague.—The former public execu-
tioner of Prague, broumarsky, who
lost his job because he gave an un-
athorized interview to a newspaper,
the last few weeks. The company
.;France and Defense Fruit Production
Is .shipping fertilizer to the *planta-
tions of Hawaii, the citrus. orchards
Fy Paul Reynaud, Recent Minister of In the 'Dominion of California and the farming regions and the Dutch East Indies.
Finance of France, on arriving at of China
New York.
A cargo of 3,000tons of fertilizer
I am afraid that the spirit of peace The final estimate of the commer- fertilizer was recently sent to the
in Europe is not controlled as we cial fruit production of Canada in Dutch East Indies. Indian agricul-
would like. It is a serious question, 1931 gives the total value as $14,756,- tural interests have asked for samples,
requiring great thought and meditas 636, thus confirming the preliminary and it is expected that a large
tion. We never speak of peace in estimate previously published. Ontario quantity of fertilizer will be market -
France except with enthusiasm. We led the provinces in the value of its ed in India later in the year.
suffered too much from the war. The commercial fruit production, with Nanaimo, B.C.—Fisheries Experi-
love of peace is just as great in British Columbia second, Nova Scotia mental Stations at Nanaimo and at
France as it is here. The American third, Quebec fourth and New Bruns- Prince Rupert have fouled the liver
a the French views are the same on wick fifth. The value of the output oil of halibut off this coast rich in
this question. for Ontario was $5,894,017, British Vitamin A. There is value also in
President Hower but recently de- Columbia $4,894,143, Nova Scotia V,- salmon livers, formerly a total loss,
dared, when the issue arose as to re- 851,881, Quebec $911,545, and New and in the livers of the grey or ling
duction in effectives, that America Brunswick 206,050. The total value cod and the grey fish (dog fish).
should never be left h. such a position for the Dominion showed a decline of Tests are still being carried out with
as to make her susceptible to the in- $3,408,640 from the value on 1930. salmon, grey fish and grey cod, but
vasion of foreign troops. We in There were decreases in all the pro- halibut liver oil is now an establish -
France have the same feeling. It is vines but New Brunswick, the larg- ed factor and brings steady commer-
the feeling of the peasant, and the est falling -off being in British Coi- cial returns from eastern manufac-
spirit of the peasant of France is the umbia. turing laboratories.
soul of France. Although 1931 showed a reduction Victoria, B.C. — The fisheries of
France is governed by fact. How- in the total value of the Dominion British Columbia constitute one of its
ever many changes in Ministries may fruit production from 1930, neverthe- principal industries. The total
take place, the policy of France, which less there were increases in the crops value of output of the province in
is influenced alone by fact, remains of a number of varieties of fruits. The 1931 was $11,'09,822. The size of
the sense.The transition fin' ield of apples showed an advance, as the annual revenue from the British
party. leadership to anotherisa re . iid'aleoathate of peaches r 'apricots, Columbia fisheries is dependent chief -
observable. strawberries, raspberries, and grapes, ly on the size of the salmon ack.
...—__.,e___.., _ but there were declines in the yields Last year the total marketed value
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of pears, plums, prunes and cherries. of the salmon, including used fresh,
Spanish Farmers Seek The value of the apple crop of the canned, dry -salted, etc., was $7,196, -
Relief on 800 A.D. Tax Dominion last year was $8,863,797, '74. The halibut catch, which is
second place being held by strawber- second in importance in British
Columbia to the salmon, amounted
to '82,005 c'wt. The catch of fish of
all kinds in British Columbia in 1931
amounted to 4,649,962 cwt. with a
value to the fishermen of $5,880,935.
Idle Musicians to Give Opera
Paris—Hoping to relieve somewhat
the plight of hundreds of uneinploy-
ed musicians in Paris, an association
they have just formed will produce
the opera "Aida" in the open-air
sports stadium at Colombes. Sing-
ers of the Paris Opera have promised
to play leading parts in the cast
of more than 500 persons. " There
will be an orchestra of 120 unemploy-
ed musicians and the brass band of
the Mounted Republican Guards will
be present.
OTHER OPINIONS
British Redivivus
Far from being discouraged by
world economic conditions, Great Bri-
tain is redoubling its efforts to assure
its industrial future by great national
enterprises. One of the most import-
ant is a scheme for electrical power
distribution known as the Grid Sys-
tem, expected to be more simple and
economical than any other in opera -
ton in the world. The basis of this en-
terprise which is to link up the entire
industrial system of Britain is in a
great electric station, the first unit of
which recently was opened with na-
tional ceremony on the bank of the
lower Thames. The site in 1923 was a
desolate and remote marshland and
to make a foundation for the build-
ngs vast superstructures of piles and
cement had to be prepared. When
completed 40 acres of the 100 -acre
tract will be'occupied by the station.
A jetty has been built at which ocean-
going vessels can discharge their car-
goes of coal at all states of the tide.—
Detroit News.
Saving on Health
If there should prove truth in the
report that among the economic mea-
sures the Provincial Government con-
templates the abandonment of the ser-
vicee of the Public Health nurses as
built up since 1916, then the full mea-
sure of the risk should be known. Six
months ago the staff of 50 nurses was
.distributed over the whole Province
and not as heretofore only in those
municipalities willing to pay a part of
the cost. The equipment for the wel-
fare stations, the first aid and the edu-
cational work is all at hand. The only
'oost is that of maintaining the nurses
in the field, which averages about
0,000 per nurse. The total amount
Salted if, the whole service is wiped out
de estimated. at $100,000. And the
whole structure of years which has
yielded blessing far and wide will go
into the discard. — Winnipeg Free
Press.
Peasant and Soviet
The peasant and his wife have no
use for Soviet notes except as means
of purchasing the goods they require,
and if they cannot obtain these goods
they will stay at home and keep their
produce for themselves. The Soviet
Press is now denouncing the light in-
dustry organizations for not supplying
suitable wares, and efforts are being
made to meet the deficiency. Even tb.e
big factories engaged in heavy Indus-
try have been ordered to utilize their
scrapheaps to make nails, buckets,
and other articles for peasant use. And
to cope with the difficulty from the
other side all the factories have been
nstructed to organize "self -supply sys-
tems," to relieve the Government's
task of findiag food by establshing pig-
sties and poultry farms, and to make
their own bargains with the peasants
for the supply of produce from the
country. To make the. outlook still
more depressing, the reports of the
conslitioa et crops grow steadily more
discouragIng.—London Times.
THE EMPIRE
Reasons For Conference Success
They (the delegates at the Imperial
Conference) have worked as they have
never Workedbefore; and let it Colter
be forgottett that it wan the initiative,
the resources, and: the orgaaizatio1 of
the Canadian Government, whose dr-
tilmstancee have tended to 'Make them
the storm-eetitre of criticism that pro-
vided the opportunity for this intense
concentration on single task. There
Could MOW MVO been the same die-
.
Madrid. — Thirteen farmers from ries at $1,691,471, while peaches came
third at $1,173,654, raspberries fourth
at $822,362, and grapes fifth at
$813,280.
Logrono Province called on Premier
Manuel Azana recently and sent him
delving into history books. They ask-
ed merely to be relieved of a tax sys-
tem imposed in 800 A.D. by the Visi-
goth King, Ramiro of Leon.
Administration of the property' has
descended from the princes to a board
of asse,ssors, which visits the farmers
each spring. This year the assessors
threatened the farmers with eviction.
Man is only miserable so
so.—Sannabaro.
far as he
thinks
Return to Mountain Farms
Lexington, Ky. — The back-to:Ana
land Movement is being translated
into back -to -the -mountain in Ken -
War. Seven thousand fanaliees heve
returned to farms in tWentYeilx :mot-
e:en mountain counties et /Itentuel'Y
in the litet to years,
himself
Women Voters Exceed
Men—in Barcelona
Spain's premier city, Barcelona,
has a total of 545,152 registered vot-
ers. Women surpass the men by 53,-
102. The two sexes list as follows:
Women voters, 299,127; men voters,
246,025.
4.
Team Work
"Road work with hubby makes one fit," says Mre, Max Beer,
better half of the fistieuff ace, She believes a 'Meant place is with
her husband and rises early to accompany Max through his paces.
Eiffel Tower to Be Painted
Paris—The Eiffel Tower soon will
weigh thirty-eight tons more, when
the task of cleaning and painting it
is completed. Thirty-eight tons ot
paint will be required to cover the
entire surface of the steel structure,
which weighs 7,700,000 tons. The
painting is done every seven years.
To Ski Over Aegean Sea -
Vienna.—Fritz Ettelmayr, who in
1928 at the age of 19 made the first
crossing of the English Channel in
a collapsible boat, left Villach in
Carinthia recently on water-skis, on
which he intends to walk by water to
Athens.
He is following the course of the
Drave and the Dentine to the Black
Sea, and will then ski through the
Bosporus and the Dardenelles across
the Aegean Sea to Athens. He will
return to Austria by skiing over the
Adriatic along the Dalmatian coast.
He is being accompanied only by
his friend Ferdinand Schwamberger
in a collapsible boat.
—e—es
Business in Germany
By Dr. Hans Luther, President of the
Reichsbank.
Regaeding German debts abroad, I
would like to refer to a recent inter-
view given by Dr. Warmbold, the Min-
icter of Economics, in which any idea
of unilateral interference bythe gov-
ernment in German interest obliga-
tions was unequivocally repudiated.. •
I shall not say that the economic
crisis has actually passed the turning
point, but the elemental force of the
economic shrinking process .is no
longer so great as to prevent cur now
making the utmost efforts to re -
encourage enterprise. . . M-uch which,
in the former chase of the crisis,
would have been engulfed by the
'veight of events can ram be under-
teken with the prospect of buccess,
especially since Lausanne has de facto
eliminated the superpressure of repa-
Restoration of "Angelus"
A Two Month's Task
Paris.—Two months of work by ex-
perts will be necessary to repair "The
Angelus," the Millet masterpiece
which was slashed recently by a man,
believed by police to be a lunatic, at
the Louvre Museum.
The .process is a delicate one. First
of all, the severed threads of the
canvas have to be drawn together and
gummed. Following this a new foun-
dation is formed by a piece of fine
gauze. This operation alone takes
three weeks. After that the cut in
the actual painting has to be repaired,
Artists, experts in this class of work,
are employed. The tints of ,he old
paint are exactly =itched and the
scar is filled so cleverly that when the
paint is quite dry nothing et the rert
can be detected.
Jean Mistier, Under-Secretary for
Fine Arts, has brought formal charges
against Pierre Suillard, 31 years old,
an engineer, living in Paris. If alien-
ists find him responsible, the maxi-
mum punishment of seven years at
hard labor will be sought, to discour-
age repetitions of his crime. The man
rations. . . . who stole Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona
But the stagnation of business can. Lisa" received five years.
be overcome only by the will of busi-
ness men no longer to stagnate. Even Illiteracy Shows Drop
seems to be a way toward vigorous; Of 6 Per Cent in U.S.
if the government's economic erogram _ _
co-operation, what matters in the last' Group data compiled by the Census
analysis is that those called upon to
conduct private enterprises should
now really be minded to set them
going.
The contention that the credit strin-
gency of Germany is due to the fact
Germany has so little gold is a fairy
tale. Nor is it made truer by being
maintained by persons who ought to
know better. German industry and
business can perform the enormous
tasks facing them only if their cur-
rency is safe against unforseeable
fluctuations --briefly, only if Germany
maintains the gold standard.
Saskatchewan's Butter
Bureau on the 1930 reports, says "The
Philadelphia Bulletin, "show a reduc-
tion from 6 to 4,3 per cent. in Iliteracy
in the United States, The efficacy of
the school system and the effective-
ness of compulsory attendance are re -
fleeted in the fact that only 420,538 of
American illiterates in 1930 were un-
der twenty-one. This group was 598,-
79 in number in 1920, the percentage
of improvement beng 1.1 at compared
with 2.3 in the group including ages
from twenty-five to thirty-four.
During a forty -year drop in illitexe
acy, from 13.3 td 4.3 per cent., the per-
centages of male and temile illiterates
have been nearly &Mal, in 1930 4.4 per
cent. among melee and 4.3 among ie.
Males in 1920 had a percent
Output Up age of 6.0, females 5.9 per cent, each
The output of creamery butter in group making an improvement o2
Saskatchewau for the' first six in the figures. Male and female white
months of 1932 was 9,038,489 pounds, in 1930 had the pixie percentage ot
ii -
according to the agricultural depart- literates, 2.7, To reach this equality",
merit a the Canadian National Rata the male white • population gained ft
ways. This Is an increase of 4.7 per trifle more than the females, as lit
cent, Over the corresponding period 1920 the percentages were 4.1 mato
11
of last year, literates and 4.0 teMalefr