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Canada, Ile Empire and The World at Large
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CANADA
Leave Garage D'aoes Open
In shite of repeated warnings, deaths
tient earbert noeoxide poisoning in
garages continue to mount up, The
death oN a young Kitchener business-
man,. ovt i ;eznn by' twines from the
motor et 1, is automobile, is the latest
example of the foll • of remaining in a.
garage while the engine is "heating
tip." in this case it is stated that the
door 0 the garage ryas partly open. Un-
. ler the. most ordinary circumstances
motorists should be sure to see that
the (loots of the garage are wide open
before attempting to start up their
motors, After they are started the
safest plan is to get out as soon as
eossible and let the engine "Beat up"
n the open alr.-C'hatliam News.
Carrying a Gun
• The law and the police ought to
nnako gun -toting so hazardous that
' 'criminals will not run the risk of hay -
lug one about their person,—Edmon-
ton Journal.
Canadian. Seed
The.numerous prizes won by Cana -
Ilan grain at the Hay and Grain Show
;n Chicago suggest that Canada has
sn opportunity, if she will seize it, to
establish ierself as the seed -producer
par excellence of the world. The
vigour of northern -grown seeds is pro-
verbial. It is all very well to produce
grain in large quantities for the mar-
kets of the world. Canada will, no
doubt, continue to do this. But why
should slie not take full advantage of
the rewards offering in the smaller,
more specialized field of seed -growing.
The rewards are worth gathering.—
Vancouver Province.
Over -production in Canada
We have, in the past, put practically
all our eggs in two different baskets—
wheat.in the West, wood -pulp in the
East. There is no more wheat being
sold, and newsprint plants are partly
closed up, three-fourths of them being
In bankruptcy, ;,In both . cases there
has been overproduction, in' relation to
the possible market. Shall we know
enough to profit .by the lesson, when
business picks up again? Or ere°we
going to repeat the .mistakes of the
past? --Le Devoir, Montreal.
Back to Small - industries
Are we to experience -a revival of
the village industries that were forced
out of business by the pressure of
mass production centred in the larger
towns and cities of the country?
A report ftonithe province of Que-
-Ileo is dial 7et'ent mofths have wit-
nessed the re -opening of a number of
email tanneries situated in that part
of the Dominion that have been closed
for from 25 to 50 years. The farmers,
seeking a market for their hides, are,
apparently, finding it in these small
•industrial institutions which are in
turn contributing to the `domestic pro-
duction of footwear.
These Quebec farmers are evidently
finding it profitable to return to the
opening of industrial eatablishments
with a limited capacity in order to
market their products and ;also to fill
their leather needs.—Bracicville Re-
corder.
Still Waiting -
Auother Christmas, the fourth of the
depression, and the world is still wait-
ing for the sunrise. It's been a long,
tough wait, but at least the sunrise is
,three years nearer than it was in 1929.
A lot of grief is behind us.
We look to the future with renewed
hopes, enheartened by the indications
that things are moving at last, The
world has finally awakened to the fact
that waiting is not good enough, that
»ositive action is necessary to effect
release from the depression morass,
The peoples of the world are at last
coming to grips with the- real issues
Vii' the depression, those of money,
credit ,war debts, tariffs, taxation and
armaments, and something is going to
result. Next Christmas ,should be a
substantially brighter one than this. --
P. M. R. in Toronto Saturday Night.
Hospital olliciais announce that
babies now are $15 to $30 cheaper than
toy used to be. And the quality le
Tactically the same.—Woodstock Sen-
t nee -Review,
THE EMPIRE
The Canadian Banking System
3t must have come as a shock to
ana.ny persons In the United States to
d that part of President Hoover's
st address to Congress in which he
aMed out that since January, 1930,
ire have been 4,655 bank failures in
" United States, whereas In Canada,
ere the altuation 'has been in a
go degree identical with ur own,
iMere have been no substantial bank
�`eilures," This Is an open admission
the superiority of the Canadian
nkieg eystenn, a conteseion that the
meted States had something ota very
portant character to learn from sit
et of the British Empire.—Kingston
{ ainaica) Gleaner.
Helping the British Farmer
Though the plight of the meat mat-
ltet may be, and everyoue hopes it Will
be, tompoeary, the disposition to urge
the elainne Of the British farmer, to
place thein above those of all others
IS not likely to pass away, Duties qn
Empire produceare by no means im-
possible. It is signifcaut, fpr instance,
that in the Ottawa agreements the
schedule dealing with eggs, . butter,
cheese and poultry assures free entry
to the exports of the Dominions for
three years, but reserves thereafter the
right to impose duties or quantitative
restrictions so long as preference over
foreign produce is given. No Do-
minion is entitled to a word of protest
against this policy, because, as al-
ready suggested,, their own practice in-
hibits them from objecting to the exer-
cise by Britain of a liberty they have
always claimed for themselves—Auck-
land Weekly News.
The Dual Policy in India
In two spheres at the sama time the
Government are trying to carry out
what is known as the dual policy. The
principal aspect of the duality which
seems inherent in the British Govern-
ment's mentality at the present junc-
ture is the decision to press on with
the new Constitution while firmly
striking at all unconstitutional forms
of agitation. In a country such as
Great Britain, or most Western coun-
tries where the Government bave an
immense' backing among the educated
as well as among the uneducated por-
tion of the community, such a policy
might prove workable. It will never
prove workable in India, where the
Government has little or no following
among the educated Indian communi-
ties to whom it is proposed to band
over power, There are no moderate
and friendly parties in India to whom
Great Britain can hand over with sure
expectations that they will play fair;
and deliver the goods.—Calcutta Eng-
lishman.
Britain's New Start
In the heavy industries coal is on
the verge of fresh developmeut It is
well known that hydro -generation and
other chemical processes are ready
now to give a -vigorous impetus to fur-
ther output. The opportunities for it
are immense. The coal measures of
the United Kingdom are greater than
those of Germany, the most highly in-
dustrialized State on the Continent,
The deposits of bituminous coal in this
country are far richer than those of
even the United States. It remains
now for the people of Great Britain to
make full use of these unrivalled pos-
sibilities by an energetic increase of
tp.e national production. — London
Daily Express.
rooting the Bill
John. Buli is used to paying. He has
been spaying ever sineeitt'ltie war`; and
has become hardened to standing treat
to the nations. The pleasing convic-
tion prevalent abroad that whatever
happens John Bull will foot the bill,' so
sedulously fostered by successive Bri-
tish'Governments, is as strong as ever.
Even the staggering prospect of hand-
ing over colossal sums to the U.S.A.
while getting not a penny from our
own debtors does not appal the Bri-
tish taxpayer. Nothing appals him
any more. He knows from long ex-
perience that he is "for it" in any
case.—Plain Dealer in Truth, (Lon-
don.)
The Price of Wool
Australia is easily the world's
largest producer of high-grade wool;
and its supremacy is not threatened.
No largely increased quantity of this
wool could come quickly from any
other country. Further, the world has
been consuming current production, Of
almost every other agricultural pro-
duct there are large stocks; of wool
there has been practically no carry-
over for years. Yet the committee
which was appointed to inquire into
the wool industry finds that Australian
wool Is costing a great deal more to
produce than it is fetching in the mar-
ket This Suggests that there is some-
thing radically wrong somewhere. Un-
less competition in some shape or
other is driving us to it, why are we
selling at a loss?—Sydney Bulletin.
AMERICA
Distress in the United States
It is easily possible for the total
economic situation to be worse evert
though the employment statistics are
better. It Is worse, And that for at
least two reasons. The 'men who are
going back to work are going back at
lower wages; and those who still have
lobs or businesses of their own have
lower incomes and depleted reeervele
so that it is. with more difficulty that
they can extend aid to' the unemploy-
ed..
nemployed.. Careful estimates from every
quarter are absolutely unanimous in
their agreement that the needs for re-
lief will be greater this winter than
ever before in the history of this B,e-
public. Christian Century (New
York),
Italy Educates Libyan Nomads
Roneen--Tha efforts made by this
Italian Government to abolish nomad
life In the Libyan colony and to trains;-
form the wandering tribes into atria
citliburiate is beginning to bear fruit.
Evidence of this is afforded by the
increasing number ofchildrenbelong-
ing to tribes who attend the Italian
schools at the oasis of Hamada, et
Hombre. The nomad children will re-
wain at the oasis during the school
t: rm auri will be housed'., clothed and:
r" ,1 by the Italian Govern i,8ni,
A Father At 80
Congratulations showere
Cholmondeley 'and wife. Mr;
day on December 1. On'•Dee
on England's Brigadier -General Hugh
olinondeley celebrated his 80th birth -
r 4 his wife gave birth to a daughter.
$1,334,562 Is Received
On Radio. Licen
Ottawa.—The net cash received
the Department of Marine for ra
receiving set licenses for the ler;
eight and a half months of the pre-
ent fiscal year, that is up to the mid-
dle of December, amounts to $1,334;-
962, according to a statement issued
recentle by Hon. Alfred D..ranlean,
Minister of Marine. This does not
include the commissions to those
authorized to sell the licenses.
This collection would indicate that
about 685,000 radio licenses have been
sold since April 1 last, with 3 1-2
months of the fiscal year yet to be
accounted for.
The Minister said that the co-oper-
ation of radio manufacturers, deal-
ers and service men, in ensuring the
collection of all license fees, had.
proved very satisfactory. 'Under the
regulations no set may be sold or
serviced unless the owner, or prospec-
tive owner, possesses a license.
It would appear, from bureau •of
statistics' figures accompanying the
Minister's statement, that all radio
owners leave, not paid their_ 1icei
fees. ,.leave
estiinated recently
that Canada had •a total of 770,436
radio -receiving sets, or 79.32' sets per
1,000 of population.
Ancient High School.
At Emmerich in Germany this fall
the high school will celebrate .iths 120th
anniversary. When it was firet estab-
lished Charles Martel was fighting td
d eve the Saracens out of Europe and
the so-called Dark .Ages were just be-
ginning. In 1592 it became so famous
a school that it had 2.000 pupils, and
during the course of its history it has
been controlled by the Jesuits, and the
Knights of Malta and in 1811 it was
closed by order of Napoleon Bona-
parte.
onaparte. Many well-known statesmen,
and ecclesiastics have been among its
students. Emmerich is on the .Rhine,
an ancient walled town of Rhenish
Russia, about 50 miles from Dussel-
dorf.
France Plans Abolition
Of All Grade Crossings
Paris.—Pending complete abolition
of grade crossings, the French Min-
istry of Public Works has issued an
order prohibiting ground -level rail-
road crossings to be constructed in the
future.
In the national equipment bill a
regular allotment of -funds in each
budget has been devoted to suppres-
sion, of the existing grade crossings.
There are nearly 40,000 of them and
it will be many years before the work
can be finished. From possessing only
100,000 motor vehicles in 1914 France
has come to have 1,700,000 automo-
biles. Although there are fewer acci-
dents in France than in many other
ctuntries, the Ministry of Public
Works' regards grade crossings as a
principal. cause of accidents.
Five hundred ground -level cross-
ings have been marked for early re=
placement by viaducts or tunnels.
Barcelona's Police Gayly Clad
Barcelona.—Barcelona's police offer
the only anachronist note in this new
"pocket' Stete" which prides'•itself on
its modernity. .Although they throw
the plait khaki -clad army officers into
the background when it comes to the
reception of admiring female glances,.
their scarlet coats, blue trousers and
tall white helmets are regarded as
akin to comic opera uniforms by cer-
tain more sober citizens of the Gen-
eralidad-
Eminent Radiologist
• Is Martyr to Science
Paris. -Dr. Georges Haret, emin-
ent. French radiologist and head of
the radiology department at Lana
boisiere Hospital, died here last week
as a'result of X -Ray burns incur-
red in. a seientic career beginning
with treatment of wounded soldiers
during the war. He was 58 .years old.
Previously the fingers of his right
hand and then his right arm had
been amputated.
For -The :Nearly Blind
These new telescopic glasses 'designed by Dr. Feiubloom of New'
York are hailed as a Clod -send for the. nearly blind. Persons o1ily two
Per cern, normal may have their vision restored.
-,1
Recent Quakes in Europe
Laid to Z.*yder Zee Filling(
P,'enlin. ,. In a re.cer.t issue of the
" 1Vicuwe Rotterdamsehe Courant" a
eeisinologist presents his opinion of
the p mbable cause of the recurring
.rth tremors in . the Rhine Valley
t eel in Holland.
Acording to him these tremors
were not of a volcanic nature, but
were the direct result of the filling up
of the Zuyder Zee. It will be recalled
that the Dutch are at present con-
ducting this gigantic work of pump-
ing out the winters of this deep in
land bay in order to recover an en-
tire province.
-` The article in the Rotterdam news-
paper recalls that even in 1929, be-
fore tuns filling up of the Zuyder Zee
had been under way long, an Anieri-
san seismologist predicted essential
terrestrial movements as the proba-
ble result of the carrying out of this
project. He said that by pumping
out the waters of the bay the pres-
sure on the sub -strata would be con-
siderably lessened, which in turn
would find expression in tremors.
It appears that these predictions
have been boina out by recent events.
Records of seismographic observator-
ies, both in Holland and western
Germany, agree that the epicenter a•
the latest tremors in the Rhine Val-
ley was to be sought in Holland.
Brazil to Return Visit
Of the Prince of Wales
Rio De Janeiro. - Brazil, like Ar-
gentina, will send a mission to Eng-
land to repay the visit made here by
the Prince of Wales two years ago,
the newspaper "A Nolte" reports.
The mission, according to the news-
paper, will be headed by Oswald()
Aranha, Minister of Finance, and
will leave for London early in Janu-
ary. Argentina's special' mission
will leave Buenos Ayers for London
shortly.
President Aguston Juste or Argen-
tina will confer with Provisional
President Getuilo Vargas here In
January regarding economic and dip-
lomatic matters, "A Nolte" also re-
ported.
"Escape Proof" Block
Is. Proved Escapable
Ossining, N.Y.—Two convicts es-
caped from Sing Sing's new "escape
proof" cell block recently. They
sawed out of individual cells, slipped
past three guards, and used the prls-
on's own ladders to get over the wall.
They were John Egan, 33, serving
ten years for assault, anella William
Sutton, 30, serving 30 years for rob-
bery.
The convicts used a length of rope
kept by the guards to pull up water
and food to slide down the outside of
the wall. •
An hour after the escape, the men
were seen walking along a highway
toward Albany. They were still in
prison uniform.
Madrid Plans to
Electrify Roads
Madrid. -- A commission has beeu
appointed to study the electrifica-
tion of all railroad lines within a
radius of forty or fifty miles of Ma-
drid and the construction of an un-
derground station in the centre of
the capital. The project is to make
commuters of the people living at
Aranjuez, Toledo, Avila, Segovia,
Alcala de Henares and other near-
by cities It is also planned to bring
the Sierra Guadarrama mountains,
with their Winter sports, within a
few- minutes of Madrid.
Cigarettes 1 Cent Each
McClelianville, S.C.—Many vier -
chants in this section obligingly break
open a package of cigarettes and sell
them at one cent each to customers
who find it necessary to buy their
s -"pokes in small quantities. One day
recently a cuetomer came into a local
store and asked for one cigarette. The
merchant took one from r, package
and laid it on the counter. The cus-•
tomer then carefully removed an egg
from his pocket, laid it on the counter,
picked up the cigarette and walked
away.
Son is Punished
For Disrespect to Father
Rome,—The newsppers give- prom-
inence to the action of one of the pro-
vincial Fascist chiefs who has sus-
pended a member of the Fascist party
for two months on the ground that he
"acted disrespectfully toward his fa-
them," This, it is pointed out, ie en-
tirely in line 'with Ronan .traditions,
hich are based on the principle of
"patria podestas." It is also coinplete-
ly in accordance with Fascist grin-
ciples, which have made of the family
unit the foundation of the State.
Capt. Mollison Planning
One -Stop Flight to Brazil
Loam ---Capt. Janes A. Mollison,
only man to succeed in flying west-
ward crossing of the Atlantic alone,
is planning a one-stop flight from
Ireland to Rio de Janeiro in Febru-
ary, it was learned this week.
Mollison, husband of Amey Johnson
1Vlollison, will use his small biplane
"Heart's Content," in. which he flew
non-stop to New York,
Ile intends to refuel at Dakarbe-
fore starting across the Seale At-
lantic,
it is underetoOd
Pluck and Persistence
It was mice of Amy Jobe'son te
time her arrival in England from
Cape Town just when Britain needed
something to cheer her up a bit aftt7t'
digging down for that $95,000,000 she
awed—and paid. Notbiug scene tq
shake the Britisher's bulldog tenacity'
in '-seeiag things through" even
when the way is as foggy as it ap-
peared to H. G. Wells' elderly and
Perplexed war -time hero, Mr.. Britling,
Miss, Johnson and her eouutryT both
did their stunt In upholding the use
tional reputation.
The Sahara behaved quite 'dap e-,.,.
antly and ungallantly, for it ' staged
a particularly gusty sandstorm; Mn..
southwest Africa a tornado tried very
hard all one night to catch up with.
the little winged clipper, and heavy
snow made visibility difficult when
topping the Atlas Mountains, but it
takes more than that to stop, Miss
Johnson. "A 'plucky' .Jvoinan rata -un
hae her way," to paraphrase an anci-
ent Scottish law.
Back of the pluck with which the
Young aviatrix is so largely endowed
stands another admirable quality—
persistence. Probably more than
one stenographer has dreamed of
being an air pilot. Amy Johnston •
wove her dream into actuality,
She did It by getting up at 5 o'clock
in the morning to take flying lessons.
at a minor airport. She did it by re.
fusing to listen to the limitation that
aviation was the sport or avocation
o! the rich. She prepared herself:
to cope, with mechanical difficulties
on her solo epic across -the -world
ffiglits by the prosaic method of
working for and winning a ground
engineer's license. Incidentally, the
ex -stenographer was the first wo-
man in Great Britain to get one.
Amy Johnson's accomplishments in
the air have stirred the world, Her
persistency gives it inspiration.—The
Christian Science Monitor.
, A
Women Out -Talked
In British Commons
London.—One spot where women
do not out -talk mein, is Parliament.
The record for a year, just compiled,
shows that lady legislators were
buried, so to speak, under a moun-
tain of male oratory.
The biggest talker in the last ses-
sion was Sir Stafford Cripps.'a Labor
Opposition leader. According to the
Parliamentary Gazette from Novem-
ber 3, 1931, to November 17, 1932,
Sir Stafford spoke enough to fill 374
columns.
Women fared comparatively badly.
The highest was the Duchess of
Athol], who had 68 columns.
Second rank to Sir Stafford was
taken by George Lansbury, leader of
the Labor party, with 348 columns.
The Prime .Minister, Ramsay Mac-
Donald, had 83 columns.
In the House of Lords, Viscount
Hailsham headed the list with 265
columna.
60 Kinds of Taxes
Raise Food Peiping Prices
Peiping—Sixty different kinds of
taxes are collected in Peiping, ac-
cording to the returns • of the Muni-
cipal Finance Bureau. All business
operations are heavily taxed while
even the small property ' owner has
been made "land poor" because of
the levies imposed by the authorities.
Food prices have mounted rapid,
ly as a result of the taxation burden.
Social workers have estimated that
taxes on :meat amount to 30 per cent.
From the time an animal enters the
city until it is delivered to the con-
sumer it is taxed ten times. Thea
figure does not include levies im-
posed as it enters the city gates.
Plans British Airship Line
Loudon.—Dr. Hugo Eckener, the
Graf Zeppelin's commander, is plan-
ning a weekly airship service between
England and South America next
spring, according to The Sunday Dis-
patch.. He is said to have won the
consent of the British Air Ministry to
make the English base at Cardington,
whence the ill-fated R-101 started her
last voyage two years ago.
"The immediate plans are for sere
vice between. Eugland and the con-
tinent and South America," the Dia -
patch says. 'But it will not be long
before a .similar service is organized
"between England and North America"
Albertans See Distant .
Capital Reflected in Skye
Leduc, Alta.—A. number of residontsi
here have reported seeing In the sky;
a mirage of the city of Edmonton, ea -t
pital of the Province of Alberta.
City streets of Edmonton, 'witnesses
said, appeared clearly in the mirage,
with the Legislature Buildings and
other familiar structures standing out
in the sky. Edmonton Is about twenty
!miles north of this hamlet.
Dogs Bite 8,000 a Year
Trenton, • N.J.—More than 8,000
persons in New Jersey were bitten by
dogs during the first year of the en,
forcemeat of a law snaking oomputi
sory the reporting of accidents of t
character, a report by the State
pertinent of Health shows. • This fl
ure emphasizes, according to Dr.
Lynn Mahaffey, director of the depar
ment, the necessity of the annual lit
ocnlation of dogs against rabies.
The report shows further that of 9i}(
dogs examined 535 were toped to tet
suffering from rabies.
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