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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-04-28, Page 6te Canada. TheEmpire and The. Wori4 at Large • CANADA White Collar 1iorals A noteworthy experiment his just: • been successfully concluded in Mont- real. It has been demonstrated' that there is a real demand for adult educt tlaa and late/lee-Wel 'stimulus amoa the !wwhhite-collar. „unemployed In city, The. Department of . Extra itratl :Relations at McGill offered three regu- itlr lecture courses of seven weeks}• ': duration without fee to the unemploy-. ed. The responsewas little sititrt of astounding:. ?!those ,m charge agreed'. .that;1? asyinany as"forty or ffty•attend oil. regula ly.theJ experiment wouid be. -well • justified.. Actually an'•average of one hundred and:•flfty attended the historical: ,and' literary 1ectgr'ee and eighty odd followed the medical course Montreal Star. British Speed The flight of Mr. J A.;MolIison, re- • WO on his critics..:. London Nark' Chronicle... • • Indian Disorders • s Congress,"*.. the„ political organ of orthodox.Hinduismm. Orthodox Hindu, ism b the heir of 4,000 _years of a static social system#. we' are .the ex ponents of a brununagen'democracy; and the older civilization :dietrusts the ?,onager.. How deeptthis aversion goes: few Englishmen can fathom 'unless they have lived with•it.. It isfar great.': any re - lig pus odf m a Teel* in our Western. ,expert- once It ;is ,lased on ,Elie conviction' that our dennocratic practice, if on forcede'upInds; would. mean •an 'end' ;to the. Sanctity ; of the' fa ,'the confusion .of righhteousneSi#' ifft. impurity; they overthrow". ofan':ordering,'Of human 11fe. which is- divine ';iiu, its. origin ..I' ani of us'felt "equally' strongly:"about •a Pelt cal creed which is being pressed upon ns, the odds., are that we should be zirarkable young'Scotsman, fiom Ent; jet Ile vehement as Congress in re - land. to Cape Tattle 6,300 miles in the sisting iter -Lord Melton in the ,Nine-. fipmst r ishimrpassi, ng Ilse ofe .p. fourevioas daysrecor1Zeed tee: iii, Century (London). • b, Germane Struggles to, Her Feet joy' 15 hours, ;•has demonstrated 'amain;' Germai>g's spinal cold • is ,and' •re- p the words of the Aft Minister's con >aGes' her middle •classi It fewee,nd :14- p patul*ryr ;message, "What British tie-' eir planes. engines and pilots ,can do." He treason to progressive ;, ideals tri the Iles' actuallybrought the"Snaith' olden heyday, .Of the country's---commercial- nearer in . time to 'London . than prosperity wbidt made Possible . the eeter anachronism' or the .Risrnarckian' Eni- tavas'Editnburgh a" cenf•ary ago.' An even � .,ra., c '•'niore notable `achievement is ,in 'Pros- Aire, Since the -war their children eci.—:Mail and Empire ('Toronto)'. have suffered for'. it, with a'vengeance' p' Away witk.•the snow shovel and out For the latent feature of the post -War With the rake. :Toronto Globe. regime , in :Germany.' is the:' "Proletail? 'Tis a Mad World ' animation" of the bulk of her Middle chis,. Ecotromic stress would.' in.'any The • l'nfted.States with nearly' ail the. ease have meant for Them, as in Eng- pfd fa,: the World—With fifteen' hon..hi hl Ind sir ializeil million dollars'of free gold above the mum reserae—is so beset, with: anaie%fes, that there is even talk of het' going, of the gold standard,• although; •ofiecialir, it ii.denied as :rI41culous. .Tbe'other' extraordinary thing- is put Ito words `by the New •Statesman.. alt: elation (London) tthen .it says: "At present,: the Bank of.Engiand is hard put to' it to stop the £ soaring back to eontething like parity." .. . ' �,en *one considers the •enormous seal' made b? thhe Bank of . F•rig- load ,and the 'British government ;to bold-t'he. £ Atm; yr and 'cling to the gait etandard'as if the very life,of the - u depemted on it, the average- man Must be puzzled to hear that, the Bain ht' England is deserately seeking tit save the £.' from the disaster' of get- ting back toper. A'siiia.p]szzle presents' itself When one considers the hard. anis ' desperate effortit the United !tater has made• to gasp all.-the:gold she could ley her hands on, only to at present that f; surplus of hundreds of minions of it *An embarrassment,' acid With goid•by the' ton it%may• be deemed :expedient Tor the dollar to eiti below par. . ' . The. r of the: • World .cannot take gold' from the United States, hat it the rest of the world, being de- ficient In :gold, should decide to get ong with'o`ut this detal?'� _ Toronto liar.. THE ,EM?•IRE • Empire Co-operation. • • Rightly or wrongly, the British peo= • • ple feel that they have suffered' from gieir generosity. tooards the rest of • the world.' Imperial sentiment is htiong "in Great 'Britain, ' and it has been kept well in the foreground, but ' the' drivifig force which has 'brought about a radical change of policy. has arisen trete the grave situation of Bri- tisk trade and from jthe,necessity for , • tloing'something tot' Millions of unem- ployed men and women. Far-seeing Men perceive in the promotion of Im- perial trade a great ideal which will incidentally , and , inevitably promote the '.welfare of Great Britain: -Mel- - bourne Argus. . New Zealand Population However unfavorable present condi- tions may appear, it would be absurd to suppose that', in normal conditions, the Dominion is incapable of sustain- ing a tnore r :.pfd growth of population than itis own eattnel iterease. The•ab-' sorption cif • those now unemployed rnrtat prer•e'4e the renewal. off immigra- '•ion. and when that phase: haa.beett ,-nmplpted.. there will be a more rea- trOnahle attitiiite toward new settlers frrni overseas. for the Labour Party iYai abandoned its'cormer hostility and. • tetteriy ]las been proclaititing the ad- vantage's of increasing tale population fo oroviide a larger domes ir. demand ter New'yZeaienr{ tsrndrtets.e-Anti tend ..Tr iurn. ph 'of Econarity I E',•.v star' . t•rarkable %tMenre'nts "a n ever have been trade than Sir tt 'stamp a 'almost sedate .account ha gayer! the greater part of. .,�-r four and a half million p' finds in - 1 .corking 'exjlensea Of the it i evident th:,r -.trite peopie'reearri- '4;Larnbeth Bridge sheen' here. nearing; completion will. be officially opened this . summer. ' low, Putney . and Mortlake: spans are : also well ''under 'way, offering `new, outlets .for London's tlever-increasing. traffic.. 'R M1 is t; tr • Argentine Banksn �News 404dOes To Po aP Beene* AY s —Ar ntiine n ria , aria! Main of, Coats @teak!! •Roof.of CoNeb e � 1 Smyrna houses are .considering the. advisabrlitY House in A shower oR. goalig of launching an edgcattoneal damps Smyrna, Turkey f o, R a woat to deznoi' -trate the advantages of failing through • the roo checking accounts., The aversion here front coffee house here shattered !o*' • to the use of cheques is believed:to be.; •once Rho somnOlenee of 'Turkish back one of the principal reasons Xor„ the gammon, coffee and hubble-bubble ad- Cona p paper.. machinery dict,. a ' 2,p0i for handling comate cash down"the has ( Investigations showed that ons d " goats liad been, parked for the nightby, hi ed to Atn been the invariable rule among the thousands of small'traders throughout the country.. • Most hotels, restatirants and establishments of a similar'Mita- tore have been. insistent on• the rue that all their train'sactio*s be qf'a cash • nature. •Insistent propaganda by the. banks had led :to a more widespread -use of.cheques at least among • the larger firms, and two.years ago it had appeared that the cheque Was grade= ally gaining ground, Os a method of payifient am`ong.'the Argentine peoplell • But the severe. competitions,• 'the rapid drop in' prices 'and the• gradual restriction of credit in' all ;li�nes.of business have once mire led tg. a get* _oral ..refusal to,''receiv e , or • handle' cheques, not only .among the. small 're- tailers and the public but also among the larger firms, which had hitherto given signs' of welcoming this form of currency. Ai¢ril it when 'British Leper .Colony. 'Tis 'April ' Fast" Routing 'Disease land and other ,highly y n tries a very much more modest The forest beeches.. burn with redder London.—The. battle modern science conn existence; the-Innatic--in on' period, R7• • flame, ," ` •'is.wagiflg against leprosy is achieving sista c , . together with•the chronic crisis, has :Before ,, they one their • tips;, ,'and --Hien- the-disease- definitelyresi;lts-which-,arouse•-hope' reduced them' to. the prole-' Burst 'forth in green along the lane! can , be 'exterminated, Sir Leonard tartan ranks.. It is •difficult ' for Eng- ' When Spring's much traveled ' feet, Rogers, authority on tropical'd'iseases, Rah people who have not lived in Ger- Return to rest 'awhile. And in the: reports.'. ' ma during these'years to realize fields Experiments on, the Island Nauru; tlle:demora2izing effect of such expert-As:'carpet from the prfmose sweet~ • in the Pacific Ocean, have shown that es.• At, the beat, the effect must�be• Its pleasa'at fragrance 'yields! -' by segregation and special •treatment enc to destroy any faith ' in the -values When'Spring steps' forth; all," wrapt ' itWillbeipossible• to rid the island of which'we take as a matter of course: . in'silver rain, lepers within ten years, although 50 w, Hors-tall.parter in the Fortnight .Then has April come again' per tent, of the islanders were' afflict ly Review (London). Elsie . A. Koefoed, ed when the work began. It is hoped . g now to carry out the same experiment;, OTHER OPINfONS - on a larger scale, in. Zanzibar.. Laughing Stook. of -Wort I ,' ' nt-•methods-are-•combinedwit Out of a. total of 285 kidnappings 1� ; i modern ones in.treating leprosy. The within the fast three years in. these j • disease in its early stages can be stop-' •United States, .only eeventy are record- � ped with . old Indian chaulmooga oil *di' achieving any convictions what- treatment, • Sir Leonard said. Even as soever. California stands third on the •` —' � � most of the advanced cases respond to list of states with high kidnapping re- \\ treatment now.• cords. in three years California has t.' ' . Another vast stride has been made' had• twenty-eight , kidnapping cases, _a o recently with 'the, discovery that it is Which ... .. - rdder-.But.. _ _ _ _. _ no ton ' `necessary .to'segregate !ep- three of which resulted'in lou � ger there were only four convictions. ` By ers• afilieted with the nerve type of all •nteanni inereate the penalties, but ' J the disease, as distinguished from the not until we have increased the vigil- ance of, the•police, the judges and the juries. We have too many-' impotent penalties now that are a laughipg stock .of . the underworld.—San Fran - the waterfront, tp• b9.8 pp: ens in the morning. One Member of the herd jun ped UP 011 the Ow; roof -or .. the coffee house. Then came a follow: the -leader scramble until the 'root crashed. Coffee cups -were ,•smashed; but nobody was hurt, not even a goat. Didn't' Need Divorce Vancouver, Wash. re •When Walter, • and Pearl Priddy • sought'a divorce. they' discovered that they never *ere -legally/metaled. They inteeidietely•eb- tained.a license, married Merl Ostrich . le .Given '3t1 • Tome Chloroform San •Ontonia;.: Tea. -Kellie, 22 year• •old ostrich' at :Brackenridge 'Park .Zoo here, bas been'ehloroformed to•-e'ndxhe,. -w- paius of.:old..age.. The hen, had lived • .12. years heyend'fi'he average life span' got: officials believe Nellie holds the record among ostriches for length of years in ©aptivity: 'She "was ;barn is the zoo here; and 'narrowly missed tits fate of her mates ' in the flood of • 192*. River waters partied her out of the zoo. ,She was revved and lived: An- other decade. Beaks tie a -''19 With a--Ride-Book. Evanston; Ill, —• After performing 1;•600 `wedding,- ceremonies for ethers, • 7b -year-old 'Samuel Harrison, Evans' ton's marrying justice of the peace, an- , nuances. himself in the market for ar Wife of his own. • He is.. a widower. U. S. Imports of. Scotch Teed During '1931 ' Show Decline Approximately eighty-eight. fit ms are engaged in the various branches of the Scot h tweed nidi nsiry_, (includ= ing spinning and.dyeing) says."U.S.' Commerce Reports." Normally the in- dustry employs about 13,700 workers, but the' number reported about the end of October 1931, was only 10,400; In Anne. 1931, the mills 'were'working at 40, to 45 per cent. of Capacity. .. fill bride,,,he said, must 'subscribe ,.ked The ontgiit of the industry is said to. a set of rules which he has worked to consist principally of :Harris Out in his experience ei a justice. Among theta are: • The husband, mdst -sae eve.ey day to the *Wife; "I Ione ou:`"-She-must-say •,� to•him: "How strong you are,, and how'. clever "" on a pedestal Don't put your wife It's too 'cold up there. Give a lot or praise and get to mean it: Do. not open each others letters. • If the hiusband snores; comes homy • ,. too frequently,. ander' the • weather, talks too much to other women, ,or. it • the wife is untidy, serves much canned , • food or. fish, they should tell eachother about it two times a Year in wriling. 282 of 300 Villagers-ServeJa+l-Term, in Groups of Thirty. Prague.-'-Prectically Llie entire popu lation, of the village of Hidveg iu. fila vakia Were recently condemned.. to serve sentences of three days' impris onment., • • • ' Some time ago an airplane canis down in the village of Dregely'Palan- ka, just across the Hungarian"frontier, • and 282' of •the 300 inhabitants of Hid' veg:' who are Httngarians:by race, be- lieving that it Ras the machine of the: . famous Hungarian pilot Endresz, has- tened across the border regardless.ot ' . •' the,,efforts of the Czech frontier guard. to prevent them; . -On their returu all were stopped. For the Offence •of Crossing the, 'frontier without a permit they were sentenlced cisco Argonaut. Canada's' Fur Business Canada keeps a :sharp eye on its in- dustries. Fifteen ,years ago the muff helped to' sustain its fur industry; it passed out of fashion with long sidrta and high shoes. Now,'in its less. vol- ominous forms, it shows signs of re= gaining favor. The modern muff is limited to about twenty-two inches around, a serious come down from the pillow muffs of a short time ago. In 1930 Canada made 420 muffs valued at $6;938. • Furs must struggle against various other materials nowadays in { • t f f utective skin type. Fattier—`"l got a number of seal - tweeds and similar cloths and the an- nual value of ' production to ' fluctriate' between £4,000;000` -and = X6;000;000.: More than 50. per cent. of the Produc- tion, it is 'estimated, is 'exported .in normal. times.; The United States, the best foreign outlet. for Scotch tweeds, took. only $352,000' worth' in the first three-quarters 'of 1931? compared With $745,000, in the full°year.1930. `'What do the reports from the . Southern training camps indicate?" "That we will have eight cham- pionship teams in all of the, hig ' leagues." Immense pregp els has been made i;, • Women Require Less Food. combatting, leprosy. within the- last Than Adult Males'9 fifteen years Sir Leonard said. The, office today'" ri is Empire Leprosy Relief Asso- London.—Women need less food prof 1 r British ed proposeIs•in my h E Daughter— Oh. pa. were , a' , them `for meV'• - — Cross .Channel Air Travel Set Record, in the Last Year London. There is no .sign of the World' depression .in the cross -Channel air traffic. More passengers were carried between London and Paris ter tht British Imperial Airways during the financial year which ended March' 31st, than ever before. The multi -engined airliners white this company employs carried 20;313 passengers above the Channel, coni - miff making. • Iii 1930 the Canadian pared to 20,104 for tht'previous rec- fur,-goods industry .amounted: to $15,- ad -year, 1928-29. Women were among 733,768, .' Women's coats and jackets, the company's best patrons, and a re - stoles, scarves,. culla and collars ac; markable feature was the groWth if' coutpted for $12,516,2'v.1 of this sum: men's fur -lined' gloves' and fur coats brought -only $243,497. Robes, gloves, hats and coat shells brought the total winter ait travel, passenger figures during the past winter being retort than' double those of the.winter r f 1930-31. up' to the recorded' figures_ •The Bri-. ------4:. -tom'• tfslh Isles took the major share of the The only thing that give= weight to fur exports' of Canada in 1930, the • United States running. second. -- New a fish story is the scales. York Sun. Effect of British Tariff The Port of Balt: ore Bulletin notes that a large chemical company of this city, has leased space in Toronto "and will comtnence production in the Canae. dian factory" .to supply export ,busi- aess. '.especially to British Empire conntries:' No reference is made to the new British tariff, which has, been , brought into being Iatgely as a reply to other nations' policies. ' But it may be safety assumed that if products M the company cid be shipped from Balt:= more .witted t paying burdenso'me-itpt- post duties this would be done;—Balli• more Sun.. Security of eamity..Farm ; • America needs the stability .and se -1 cntitt e)f nn agriculture •'made• tip of • ' fami.lf farms. in a prbperly managed keesestie'se�tam rhrporatinn farming might t,ar'taf" 1,-• u=••f,t1, b;it nntil• society ;earns ir. t'ar hon• ',r direct tts �•1 ''two tnetiroda' at ft+•at with =ome tr• e.=ertt' .r 1"1" '44.'41(.116 ln.tl''itine `...reverent merriment: they here held prthere ,0'1 he little itliii. :u nicking- it t, �l-0 he an Ptanijrte of a'tatt'ttif;s rim tit ).1 ' That 1,, really not so tipsy eC m'''r" rn let. .l[+=toad PI ir:rin°trial• ' tnordi.na.ry-. is .:could not have Oc, izin ib- I",fited States iii.tile -°nuc. of i 5e y G�yr E3d a `�� �t replaetr:+• 'k' 1.311' tf tar m.? n.itu large bred to t1,p average tna'u that the crirpvtiiar ,,n forma lee, naoll to find eupervisinu of -hat Sir- Jaafah Balls =."1. ntr,en s'to.giv2 to the city f.+miid ibe."vast•machine" which we know es ' j -°r" ar t'i ,talrility and' c ii;i tbat .s`ra:.Itray c•o`ntiranc tE'oti'1tI naturally to• -;s It'' parr qga of a=r:r,il,nr -r"rrYr`n r Inde a • keen interest in glass -lined', ' r �. rent a Mf'It" - i T1i • f':ti•i�i .ul ttiilk ranits, in-�tetit iron•, c<k-.i+rs., Irl Ic tiraithie Paper. in in for o5,ce rise• Wa'ttrltg Up f • i. tit vat -ions it,ndA of soaps, and in the • c (%ttinE ie'orce. bit* �'--�{ 44‘4114 1114 of Carriage 1S3.4 -bine. But . • ' Thi. so:r1,i T. not g its This is going t0 ire' a mat., '(t+ t. t "It .'�„)' :. [i 1 Sir Josiah stue'Ytect the minute- u) sompf tae a - ;a•tiug. more sensitive to, visiting male athletes tubo coMpa'e at 'the Olympiad; - piT-Irtyin'.:: al undeniably he has thl I •,vil tr. • fiat; 'Suisse, unapt, i ciation alone sent out supplies last y'.:i for administering 1.000;000 treat- ments. • Feminine Staff to Run Women's Coast Prison Bakersfield, Calif. — Women prison- . ers in San' Quentin and other state in- stitutions wit move to anew industrial farm near 'here this summer. By July •1'four building of old'Engiish and-ltior man architecture will• be ready to re- deive them. The absence of prison ap- pearance ..eharaeterizes the structures • in a small valley near here. i' Alicia Mosgrove, of SanFraacisco. the institution's first superintendent, 'says the program will be rehabilitation Of 'tile inmates through farming. gar- dening, stock and poultry'raising on the 1,628 -acre "farm. ' The prison, to lierun entirely: by women. is known as I the' ' California jnstithte for Women l and will be dedicated May 22 by Gore. 1'ernor James ltolple*Jr, than men. The question is no onge in doubt. • That eight women need the same amount • and quality of food as rather more than: five and a half men, is one; of the discoveries made by the Advisory . Committee on Nutrition to the Ministry of Health, England. They arrive at this.. conclusion as a handy method of determining man- "value'for rationing. purposes. At least one , member of the committee is a woman. The report is which this discovery is announced—a discovery which will bare repercussions at every breakfast table in the land—is a memorandum for the use of medical officers who are asked to criticise and suggest improve- • menti in dieting. - Its findings involve tabulations of the relative values 'qf various foods in terms 0! proteins. calories, mineral and vitamin content. In the natter of calories it it eom- , 11 puted that 'a woman require, ,Si an adult male's needs. . Where Male Athletes Will Live During O lympics G'f ' ro e 'tale fitly 1, ,41„•a ')ss j', `J'-' )'.. all. U, M1 to fines of 50. Czech ,crowns or three days in jail. As the _ local jail is too small they served their sentences in Turnussen prison.in.batches of thirty. at • time Only 1 Comic Magazine Survives Under Soviet Moscow. --Only one humorous mag- i azine remains in Russia, where form- erly:five or six flourished. The chronic shortage of paper „explains,' iia pare this limitation on humor. , The set-ielts• mood of the country. however. also tray have something to do with. it. The., surviving cineic' magazine is '"Crocodile.", issued weekly.; and real comedy is almost the hardest thing to find init. No joke. or cartoon, is pule - t lished for its own sake, but onlM1i fol of the sake of come political moral. The rtibject matter is thus extreaiiely lim- ited. The. joke. are at the expense of foreign capitalists, domestic 'kulake. official bureaucrats, followers of Trot- sky. etc.: in other tcnrd'. the Janie • penile who corse' in for serious attatk•,5. , 1 in the regular nun -e' mie pttper. Writers .and arti•tt, obi inusly find it hard to keep up the satir'iea1 herrnze in the sante direetiee ner1: after e eek, so that the humor is. always neakee'- . Several git<ted artists, however., rnn- trit.ute extremely goodearicaturcc. . - Spain Develops Dev'il's Island • In Torrid Western Africa iiadinu. - Spaln may have i.t.s awn . 'tiles-iis' l�ta•nd" fee political and. other tonvi tr if many urore print hers are -mit to Ftrnando Ye.' Within six months matey()Wenders have bee, sen• tereeeifto ctilt'in that •Spanish pas- . ses..ien r - ses..i•'n on the nest eoast of afrit.l. it ha- ,-r.iy ;hiee •rr'aii villages. 11- t1 ' r'a;•• - .tt,.i. u'r1.,ther' .+ rs '•I,mr, • `R ri c Extracted Froir IneY:1.5 Y1 ISUr,t From 4 t- .41 '.1.' .Ntiti•r:L•x'•n 1 1.r he ex. r•',•t.: oat the rr'ir• by the South 'lktan- .,' an it'a•ivay c7'nl•aut` fntarial ap. ;, hrt1 1-,iu,,•ii„ l'nh,n (rueri•ntneni int • 5 .•1, .i.I.iM1r•tt i,•i. .Rt t.otrtil.lg to the 1 t t.... ,to : i r,t C.,111.111eft e here. 1 •,r. r i -i V,;,,•r •• .. 11; tnt,•lr.e. ;In outlay ,,,, .,•r -tit. i „rN1,fN,,, s• . 1 ity:;:ilrlet:311.• int tiles establish t •r•. .trr,:-'ii,rh.tie :it aittmonit •