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CANADA
VOICE OF THE PRESS—stet head
HUMAN PROGRE'"aS
For all the good work the League
of Nations has done, and in spite of
the thirty -month talk fest at the Dis-
armament Conference, the world con-
tinues to spend a great deal more on
arrmamen•ts than it did before the
war which was supposed to be the
war to end war, was fought. This is
a striking commentary on so-called
human progress.—Victoria Daily
Times.
STIFFER TESTS FOR DRIVERS
The examination intended to test
the qualifications of new drivers ap-
plying for permits are for the most
part perfunctory things and in al-
most every community there are peo-
ple subject to certain diseases which
make them unfitted to drive motor
cars. And continuance of the present
rate of increase in motor accidents
M bound to be followed by a tighten-
ing of driving tests which, cons=ider-
ing the perils of the road at the pres-
ent time, is perhaps already over-
due. — Brocleville Recorder and
Times.
GOOD RAINS IN DRY BELT
Good rains have been falling in
Alberta and have been .,prea1ing to
Saskatchewan and to the drouth
areas. Waters in practic.lIy all of
the far northland are said to be
abundant. They are no longer at
drouth levels. They have been re-
plenished by abundant rains. This
moisture will find its way south, driv-
en before still northern breezes, and
southern Saskatchewan will perhaps
soon be able to shake off the shack-
les imposed by the south which has
exacted a very severe toll in the
west—.Regina Leader -Post.
HOMESPUN WITH GOLD LINING
It is said that Will Rogers is the
movie actor who is paid $315,000 a
year. Come to think of it, you can
afford to have a "homespun philo-
sophy" with that salary to support
it.—Regina Leader -Post.
ERRONEOUS BELIEF
The prevailing belief that China
is a much over -populated country
has been made the subject of a re-
cent book. The writer maintains
that there is really no more over-
population in China than there is in
any western country. The people do
not make the most of their oppor•
tunities, that is all.—Winnipeg Tri -
tune.
CANADA'S WHEAT EXPORTS
Canadian wheat or wheat flour
went direct to one hundred countries
of the world during the crop year
ending July, 1934. From Arabia to
Japan, from Egypt to South Africa,
and thence to New Zealand and Aus-
tralia, from Newfoundland to the is-
lands of the West Indies, from Vene-
zuela to Chile, from Alaska to the
Philippines and the Fijis and beyond,
from the Irish Free .State to Malta,
to practically every country, small
and great,—Brandon Sun.
THAT'S TOUGH ALL RIGHT
Longfellow, remarks a contempor-
ary, could take a worthless piece of
paper, write a poem on it, and make
it worth $65,000! That's genius!
There are some men who can write a
few words on a piece of paper and
make it worth a million. That's capi-
tal! The Dominion can take an ounce
and a quarter of gold and make it
worth twenty dollars, That's money!
A mechanic can take material worth
five dollars and make it into watch
springs worth one thousand dollars.
That's skill! There is a man in Paris
Prince Enjoys Sports
Fit for a king was this im.
promptu meal devoured by Prince
Von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice
Chancellor, at Vienna sports
meeting. Plates and other equip-
ment were missing, so fingers
Dere in order. •
who can take a fifty -cent piece of
canvas, paint a picture on it, and
make it worth one thousand dollars.
That's art! A man can take an ar-
ticle costing seventy-five cents and
sell it for a dollar. That's business!
The quoter of this could write a
cheque for ten thousand dollars, but
it wouldn't be worth a cent. That's
tough!—Brandon Daily Sun.
ANCIENT PLUMBING
During the excavation of part of
Nero's Golden House in Rome, a coma
plete system of drainage was discov-
ered, which Prof. Terenzo, who is in
charge, put into working order by
merely clearing the pipes of earth
and rubbish. Perhaps the Roman
plumbers in ancient days were so
well equipped and did their work so
completely that they did not have to
go back for their tools. The job in
Nero's house was permanent—Mon-
treal Gazette.
GOOD AS ANY
Man in St. Thomas found a mush-
room which was 11 inches acro: s the
top, and now we are waiting for
some old -tinier to announce that
large mushrooms mean a cold and
long winter.—Lindsay Post.
THE CRITIC WHO KNOWS
In a recent conversation about
newspapers one person was very sure
about the correctness of his views.
He stated solemnly that there wasn't
a daily newspaper in the country fit
for reading on the part of any one,
old or young- And he offered the
proof by saying: "1 know what I am
talking about; for I haven't read a
daily newspaper in 12 years." ---Kit-
chener Record.
RECOMPEN SE
Chicago people, they say, are look-
ing ahead at a pleasant Winter. They
can sit around in the evenings and
count up all the relatives they're go-
ing to get even with next Summer
for just dropping in on them while
at the World's Fair.—Brockville Re-
corder.
AND LOOK AT NEPEAN!
The township of Scarboro in On-
tario, with a population of 20,000,
has not had a case of diphtheria for
a year. This is the result of a ten-
year program of inoculation in the
schools and among children of less
obvious? — Saint John Telegraph -
than school age. Is not the lesson
Journal.
BONDS AS SECURITY
In cases where persons holding
city bonds are in financial difficul-
ties and unable to pay their taxes, it
has been decreed that they may de-
posit these bonds with the city as
security and that, in consequence, no
steps will be taken to register their
properties in the name of the muni-
cipality.
This ruling, made recently, is,
it seems to us, eminently fair and
reasonable. When the city owes a
man money it is hard playing the
game to seize his property because,
for lack of funds, he has failed to
pay his taxes.—Border Cities Star.
THE RUBAIYAT
A sale in London recently for some
$750 of an old copy of the Rubaiyat,
that originally sold for twopence,
caused a discussion that revealed the
fact that cultured Persians are sur-
prised and annoyed at the popularity
of Omar in English-speaking coun-
tries. These Persians declare the
Rubaiyat lacks grandeur of vision
Journey 1
000 Miles To Spend A Day In London
One hundred and fifty men and women spent a day in London. They arrived at Southampton
from Canada, and a day later started on their retu rn journey, all together 12,000 miles. The above
photo shows John Caesar, 84, and Andrew Knight, 8, oldest and younest members of the party, talking'
with one of the Beefeaters during their visit to the Tower of London,
most popular choruses ran as fol-
lows:
And Spaniards and Dutchmen
And Frenchmen and such men
As foemen shall curse, them,
The yeomen of England
During the war, however, the
enemies of the past gave place to
Austro -Hungarians,
And German barbarians --
a lapse deplorable even in those hec-
tic years. After the war, when cool-
er counsels prevailed, specific attacks
gave place to a wholesale outbreak
of ferocity, in which
Nations to eastward
And nations to westward
were defied. Surely the original his-
tory book patriotism might be reviv-
ed in an opera that is nothing if not
romantic?—Manchester Guardian,
NEED TIGHTENING UP
The `Morro Castle' fire, coning
after the `Atlantique' and `Georges
Philippar' disasters, throws the re-
cord of British liners into favorable
relief. How long it is since a Bri-
tish ship was gutted I cannot say,
but there is certainly nothing in re-
cent history to compare with the fires
on these French and American boats.
But some British lines might pro-
fit by the `Morro Castle' tragedy to
tighten up their regulations about
boat -drill considerably. On some
of the pleasure cruises passengers
are allowed to be far too casual about
turning up with their life -belts at the
appointed boat -station. In an emer-
gency their slackness might cost doz
ens of lives.
A modern liner, now that for de-
corative purposes light woods are
substituted for the less inflammable
oak, and the demand for long pro-
menades and large pubic rooms
makes it much more difficult to lo-
calize a conflagration, blazes quick-
ly once it gets well alight—and much
more so, of course, in a high breeze
at sea than if the fire starts (as in
the case of the `Europa') in dock. ---
London Spectator.
POINTING WITH PRIDE
Every member of the British group
of self-governing nations is now well
on the road to recovery. That the
Empire is unmistakably better ..off
than the rest of the world is striking
and that they would prefer that such 1 proof of the success of British meth -
writers as Hafiz, Sa'di and Firdausi i ods. South Africa, thanks partly to
were known instead of the hedonis- I the gold boon, is so prosperous that
tic tentmaker. However, they must it is settling in full its war debt of
first find a Fitzgerald to make a £8,000,000 to Britain, whose tax-
translation.—Edmonton Journal. payers will benefit. New Zealand,
profiting from the improvement in
the wool market, due to great pur-
chasing power in Britain, has its first
Budget surplus for many years, Aus-
tralia's finances are healthy from
the same cause. Canada, which bas
necessarily shared the misfortunes of
tht U.S.A., is' now more prosperous
than its great neighbour, and begins
to share the good fortunes of its sis-
ter nations. Once more a world of
close association was never more 'ap-
parent. In the trade war, as in the
Great War, Britain and the Domin-
ions present a united front.—Man
to the 1932 level, because in the final cl1estcr Chronicle.
analysis those who are indebted to
this country can only pay in goods
and services. The increase in im-
ports is mainly accounted for by raw
materials. This indicates a healthy No storm hurts a man who believes.
condition of trade, for a reduction _,Ovid.
or no more than the maintenance of
such imports would imply either in -
TIME ENINRE
THE TRADE REVIVAL
Judged by a number of important
financial and commercial indices the
recovery of trade whch has been
gradually proceeding ever since the
National Government took office
still continues. All of these indices
now stand at or about their highest
points. Imports and exports continue
to expand, and to a great exporting
and creditor nation not the least gra-
tifying feature of the latest return
is that the surplus of imports is back
Words of Counsel
Dra Inge, Retiring, Remains
"Gloomy Dean" to the End
"No One is Wanted Very Much," He Says
By MILTON BRONNER
LONDON—A huge gap will be
created in the public life of England
in October. For the very Rev-
erend William Ralph Inge will then
retire from his position as Dean of
St, Paul's Cathedral in London to go
to an estate at Wallingford in Berk-
shire and cultivate his garden.
There will be nobody in the Church
of England to fill his shoes, for he was
at one and the same time theologian,
philosopher, Greek scholar, scientist
and a speaker of arresting phrases.
Long years ago a clever reporter
dubbed him "The Gloomy Dean" and
the name has stuck to him ever since
—much to his distaste. He was called
gloomy and pessimistic because he
doubted the success of democracy,
lashed the follies of his age, recalled
the good old days, feared the decline
of England's greatness.
OUTSPOKEN IN DISLIKES
He is full of prejudices. Pet dislikes
are Soviet Russia, Ireland, America,
the Roman Catholic Church, the
working classes, modern women with
their rouged lips and painted finger-
nails. He is original, fearless -and
often witty as well as gloomy. In
religion he was a liberal, holding
miracles and such things very cheap-
ly.
ternal stagnation or loss of exporting
power. But a welcome feature of
the returns is that while our imports
have been increasing our exports re-
latively have increased at a greater
rate, --London Times.
"THE YEOMEN OF ENGLAND"
The welcome revival of "Merrie `
England"—Sir Edward German's
tuneful light opera, beloved of ama-
teur operatic societies—raises an in-
teresting problem of international
politics. In pre-war days one of the
We must beware of giving ear to
flatterers.—Cicero.
Believe that you have it, and you
have it—Latin Proverb.
Believe me it is a clever
know .how to give. --Ovid.
thing to
It ill becomes a philosoher to be
cast down in mind. --Cicero.,
Minds which are lifted up must
be humbled. ---Latin Proverbs
He was preordained for the pulpit.
His father was a distinguished
clergyman. His mother was an Arch-
deacon's daughter, He was fated to
become Dean of England's most fam-
ous church, and now is retiring, be-
cause, at 74, he feels himself apt old
man with all his work done.
Dr. Inge probably sets little value
upon his fame. Last July, in an even-
song sermon, he said:
"We ought neither to fear death
nor to wish for it. We ought to feel
that death simply does not count. All
that matters is that a life shall be
well lived up till the time of its
close."
A CYNICAL PARTING REMARK
He said he set small store by the
talk, when some famous person died,
that lie had left his work unfinished.
He wound up with this bitter sent;
ence: "This is perhaps a world where
everyone is wanted, but no one is
wanted very much."
Dr. Inge is far away from fund-
amentalism. On one occasion he said
that science gave no clear answer
whether we should believe in a per-
sonal God, but he had a very clear
conviction that if there is a God, Ho
is not at all what many religious be-
lievers have supposed Him to be. Said
Dr. Inge:
"If there is a God, He is certainly
not like some capricious, oriental
Sultan from whom favors be
His
may
obtained by making friends with
courtiers. . . . He is certainly not
the head of the clerical profession."
YIe is not afraid to advance daring
thoughts. Thus in 1930 he suggested
it might be a civilized thing to allow
a criminal, condemned to death, to
carry out the sentence in his own
away. He added also that he would
not censure a man who, knowing he
is dying slowly of an agonizing dis.
ease, 'wished to end his suffering, and
he rather favors birth control.
THINKS DEMOCRACY FAILS
Looking around his world, he felt
that democracy was largely a. failure,
If he lashed many of the working
class as "won't -works," he attacked
the rich for their money madness,
Loating the revolution which put
the Soviets on top in Russia and the
Hitler revolution for its persecution
of the Jews, he said in an address to
the 1912 Club of London last June:
"T think revolution is really an
epidemic disease now become endemic
—a contagious moral insanity, .
Every civilized country is full of sav-
ages and barbarians, ripe for revolt
and ready to destroy."
Again he said: "Homo sapiens (the
thinking animal) does not deserve his
title; but at least he is more intelli-
gent than the chimpanzee and a
million years hence he may really be
a noble creature."
Other flashes from the Inge brain
are these:
"The tendency in middle life is for
people to develop a sort of fatty de-
generation of the conscience and cir
rhosis of the moral sense."
"My list of the four most preferable
things in life is: first, wisdom; sec-
ond, domestic happiness; third, re-
cognition and encouragement; fourth,
welfare of one's country."
HOLDS DISLIKE FOR U. S. •
Dr. Inge, who twice had pleasant
visits in the United States, once
figured in a celebrated Senate
episode. In December, 1928, the
late Senator Gillett of Massachusetts
said he would vote for the big navy
bill. Two years before he would not
have done so. He said he was moved
by a passage in one of Dr. inge's
books which he quoted as follows:
"It is more than possible that
European nations, enraged by the
bloated prosperity and airs of su-
periority of the man who won the
war, will unite to draw Shylock's
(Uncle Sam's) teeth."
Capt. Walters
.. Ls Displeased
Shabby Treatment -- Will
Never Take Bluenose To
Toronto Again.
Quebec, -- Capt. Angus Walters
News
of the
Air
There is one sure-fire topic for cone
versation which can be depended on 99
times out. of 100 to start a peachy ar-
gynrent with everyone within holler-
ing distance.
The subject for debate, (gentle rea-
der, or not so gentle, depending on
how you feel about it) is: "Who has
the best band on the air?" We have
a few alleged ideas about these here
orchestras that we've been wanting to
get off what we fondly call our mind
for a long time: Heading our list, aa
always, we have Hall Kemp a•nd his
International favourites orchestra,
who have moved ,from the famous
Black Hawk Restaurant in Chicago to
the equally famous roof in New York
City. The band has tonal balance, ar-
rangements which we think are at
least five years ahead of the majority
of bands, plus three of the keenest vo-
calists, Next in our favour comes lsh.-
am Jones. A different style band from
Kemp's, but an aggregation of some
of the bestest musicians on the con-
tinent. Would you believe that the av-
erage age of the band, leaving Jones
out of it, is around 21.
To Freddie Martin and his music
from the St. Regis, in N.Y„ goes third
honours. Featuring a more mellow
type of music, (he uses three saxes,
three violins and only ono trumpet in
the voice of the band) he appeals to
the radio listener tired of hot licks
and noisy unintelligible arrangements
His programs which bring back songs
that were sang a few years ago, have
found a tremendous appeal among the
radio audiences,
After Freddie Martin, we find there
is Glen Gray's Casa Loma Band, War-
ing's Pennsylvanians, and Mal Hallet
and his orchestra, All equally popular
with us. There are a great many peo-
ple who say that the Casa Loma Band
is a better band than Isham ..ones'
whose type of arrangements Glen
Gray imitates. But while Glen Gray's
arrangements are the atscaya, he has
not the musicians to compare with
Isham Jones, Then again, Pewee Hunt
and Ken Sargent, his vocalists, never
fail to ruin a song for me.
Fred Waring has without
the finest novelty orchestra
all. Did you hear him play
My Sudden Accent" last week? But we
do wish that he would liven rtp that
glee club of his a bit.
Mal Hallet is one of our coming
bands. Watch him!
Some of you, probably all of you are
wondering when in blazes we are go-
ing to mention Guy Lombardo, Wayne
King and Jan Garber, Well, if we had
our way we would relegate them to
our list of Canadian orchestras, there-
by giving them a free ticket to obliv-
ion.
Guy Lombardo—Every time I hear
the name alone, 1 imagine discords
and off-key noises. He has absolutely
the worst of the big time bands, His
saxes play out of tune, not to mention
the use of a nibrato that carries the
.impression of Carmen, that's their
very own sax tooter and no one else's,
thank goodness suffering with a case
of the jitters, and when he sings he
sounds as though he contracted the
belly laugh, in addition to the afore-
mentioned jitters.
As for Wayne King, well, we always
like to read a book or do anything
else but listen to him while he is on
the air,
Jan Garber's band is so much like
Lombardo's, the less said the better.
We realize as well as the next per -
with his famous schooner Bluenose, son that these three bands are exceed -
on his way home to Lunenburg, N.S., ingly popular ones, but it only goes to
after an absence of two years from prove that public opinion is always
the fishing banks seemed much dis- wrong.
satisfied with his'aistay in Toronto. With that profundity we leave you
where according to his views expres- till next week, and to the strains of
sed in an interview he received "very "Isn't It a Shame," we say Heigh-ho.
shabby treatment."
"I have no intention of bringing the
Bluenose anywhere near Toronto in
the future if I can possibly help it,"
the Lunenburg, N.S., skipper said in
commenting on his Queen City visit.
Canadians in general, he said gave
the 'schooner and its crew the same
good support received last year in
Chicago, but he criticized Toronto ot-
ficials with whom he came in contact
for their lack of co-operation and sup-
port,
"We received very shabby treat-
ment to say the least and we very
much regret that we turned down a
very favorable offer from Chicago,
which city wanted us back again this
summer."
Capt. Walters expressed doubt as to
the prospects of an international
schooner race this fall, but stated that
he could have his craft ready by the
end of October, if he received word
soon enough that a contest would take
Place. If suoh a race materializes the
American schooner Gertrude L. The -
baud would be his rival, he thought,
and the races would be held off Glou-
cester, Mass.
a doubt
of them
"Pardon
They' who cross the seas change
their sky but not their disposition. ---
Horace.
Allow time and moderate delay;
haste administers all things badly.
Statius.
Kept Fire Log
aneseeeeseeeaeNTeeePale
William W. Trapp, cadet en.
ginecr, was able to provide the
Federal Inquiry into the Morro
Castle fire with an accurate log
of orders to the engineroom. lie
testified in New York that ten
orders were given in eleven min-
aetee.
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