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Voice of the Press
Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
CANADA
No Great Men
George Bernard Shaw says there are
no great mea or women In the world.
"I can write. plays and you eaa't. That
is all," he remarked, "If. I couldn't I
should probably be a tramp. As It is,
I am so well off that everybody pre-
tends 1 ant much more respectable
than I really am."—Hamilton Herald.
He`Tanned the Hides
A pr•citninent Pictou County farmer
brought two calf -skins to market, and
could only get twenty-five cents for
them. He also wanted a few yards of
leather belt lacing. He could not get
enough ter the calf -hides to buy the
few laces. He was mad clear through.
Being a long-headed Scot, he threw
the hides back into his wagon and
started homeward. "Hang it," he mut-
tered to himself, erne not going to let
these fellows beat me. In the old days
they tanned hides; why can't 1?" He
did. The process entailed some work.
He used the river for a soaking tank,
He applied the proper solution to soft-
en and toughen the leather. It work-
ed, He cut a lacing from the Bide, and
tried. to break it. IIe couldn't, and
name to town to show tlta result of his
work, He has several dollars worth of
good strong lacing for the belts of his
machines. But what pleased most was
that he beat the machine that was op -
losing him.—New Glasgow Chronicle.
Out of Place in the City
There is little joy for a rollicking
big -framed animal running loose in a
world of crowded streets. The ner-
vous tension of .dodging car wheels
and being chased from pillar to post
because of a succession of wrong -do-
ings innocently arising from the sheer
joy of living, is sufficient to arouse ir-
ritability in the most companionable
beast and eventually bring down coals
of fire on his head and that of his own-
er. There are few things more touch-
ing or more worth while than the loyal
company of a big, good-natured rascal
who, through his very freedom of
though and action can make life seem
a much pleasanter business to the liar-
ried human mind. Like everything
else, however, he has his place and, if
he is not intended for the kennel or
the leash, that place is in the country,
or at least, the less cramped portions
of the city where he may enjoy the
liberty so essential to bringing out the
best that is in him. ---Edmonton Jour
A Fallacious Notion
Motorists wlio clamor for the re-
moval of speed limits claim. that it is
not speed in itself but reckless or in-
competent driving that is responsible
for so many distressing highway ac-
cidents. But a member of the staff 01
the National Safety Council of the
United States, Curtis Billings, argues
in. the Atlantic Magazine for October
that the increase in the death rate due
to motor accidents coincides with in-
creases in the power and speed of
motors in that country. With the
corning of fast cars and broad, paved
roads the notion became fixed in the
minds of motorists that speed in it-
self is not dangerous. "That notion,"
he says, 'is as fallacious as it is allur-
ing Having reviewed the statistics
on the subject, Mr. Billings quotes one
engineer as saying: "The faster a
vehicle is going the more damage it
can do because its energy increases as
the square of its speed. That is to
say, if the speed is doubled the force
of the impact in case of accident is
four times as great. This is a .com-
mon-sense as well as an engineering
view to take of the effects of increased
speed. The significance of the argu-
ment lies in the fact that it comes
from an expert engaged iu Safety
First work.—Toronto Mali and Em-
pire.
3 Too Much Cutting Down
All over tate province the high,
schools and collegiate institutes are
tryng to cut down expenses. In fact
all over the province everybody is try-
Ing to cut down expenses, even those
who have no reason at ail for doing
to. People who have their 1928 in-
come are pinching like the rest, This
reducing of expenses, this refraining
from buying anything that can he done
without, retards the return of business
activity. And yet a force like this
operates inevitably and no argument
can, prevail against it.—Toronto Star,
Hanging
The official hangtnan in Poland gete
•15 per execution, and says he can't
make a living at that rate. Itis ser-
vices are not sufficiently In demand
and most of the time be le just halig'
Ing around.—Stratord Beacon -Herald.
THE EMPIRE
Ottawa and World Trade
A revival Of trade within the Ernirire
Is calculated to increase British pros-
perity everd'where, and nothing can
prevent that from operating beneficial-
ty elsewhere in the world. It rneans
Much that so great a commercial na-
tion should flied, its feet again. Ot-
tawa,, it is Well said, has furnished a
link between Lausanne and the World
Economic Conferettoe, The ultimate
butc'»l a must be the benefit of all, and
to the'ehanged. conditions, Aur•klead
Weekly News.
British Capital in Crown, Colonies
British capital is tremendously need-
ed in all the Crown Colonies, and
there are bitter complaints from time
to time that British investors are shy
of investments in them. Yet when it
conies to a practical effort by a Bri-
tish investor to begin an enterprise in.
these colonies, he is met, as often as
not, with a cold water douche of sus.
picion.—Trinidad Guardian..
.Anglo -Danish Relations
Denmark has been one of the first
foreign countries to show readiness to
adjust itself to the new trade condi-
tions created at Ottawa; and its pe-
culiarly. intimate commercial relations
with Great Britain are illustrated by
the fact that last year this country
took no less than 67 per cent. of all
Danish exports. The Danish people
seem determined to overcome the dif-
ficulties created for them by the new
Ottawa duties; and a new trade treaty
will no doubt be negotiated at the
earliest opportune moment. In the
meantime the British Exhibition will
exemplify the enlightened self -Interest
that draws the two countries erononti-
eatly and cnitnratty u+Lin
Times.
"etas Recovery l3ee:in'
I believe teat the l t i •ess nC r:•rov-
±ry has begun and is well under way.
even though there le little visible evi-
dence.
vi dence. of it as yet. But convalesceuce.
must at the best be slow, owing to the
terrible network of constrictive bonds
in which the world has contrived to
envelop itself in its desperate and fn -
tile efforts to escape from the cones
quences of its own economic folly. I
have little faith in the powers of a
World Economic Conference to pro-
duce a formula for the unravelling of
the tangle. The only real hope lies in
a steady and unrelenting pressure of
business men .for the piecemeal re-
moval ot obstacles to trade, and in the
natural ingenuity of the trader. )very
importer or exporter who can and a
way (preferably legal) through, rouud
or aver a tariff, quota or excbange con-
trol deserves well of humanity at the
present juncture.—O. lea. Hobson in
The Spectator, London. II
The Reds in China
The cure for the Red movement'inllll.
tee . el ee: eeee aerie PF()i-i. rTtr: 1.1ts
is not to say that active and resolute
action is unnecessary, but Communism
grows from the hot -bed of distress
arising from famine, disorder and cor-
rupt government. Aeroplanes and
local volunteers eau disperse a min-
ority of bandits and rogues; hut a
great peril arises when normal and or-
derly people are drawn into such a
Movement 'rhea the revolt grows to
the proportion of civil war, with il-
limitable possibilities for mischief'. —
Hong Kong Press,
—.—
OTHER OPINIONS
Monotony
Most of ne can draw up our belts an-
other hole and cut our lunch allowance
in two for a spell of weeks, but there
comes a time when, if we are blest
with a spark of imagination, we crack
under the strain of monotonous exist-
ence, A brain -storm sweeps away all
our good resolutions, the self-denying
ordinance is overborne, we are almost
ready to play ducks and drakes with
our insurance premixes and payments
to the co-operative bank and like Pip.
pa,' give ourselves a holiday. It is
worth all it costs sometimes, to waste
the price or a plain nourishing meal
on a red necktie or the price of a much
needed pair of shoes on a broiled lob.
ster with all the fixings. — Boston
Transcript.
Obnoxious Billboards
There are two counts against the
billboard on the highway. it not only
mars the landscape and destroys the
natural beauty of roadside scenery,
but its garishness also distracts the
attention of the driver of the ear. Ina
portant traffic directions posted along
the road are often lost in a welter of
commercial signs. In the interests of
safety the most conspicuous signs on
the highway should be talose placed
there by the highway department to
direct traffic'.—St. Pani Pioneer :Press.
B. Cb Salmon Pack
Vancouver.—Canned salmon pack
in British Columbia up to Sept, 29
totalled 949,211 cases, compared. with
645,015 for the corresponding .period.
last year, according to a statement
issued by Major J. A, Motherwell,
chief of the 'Provincial Department
of Fisheries.
England's Star Waikeu y
Miss V,
Floiwani, rleht,'and .hIists 0, Mason, well-ttnowit w.;nian
athleteof England, as they finished the utile walk in *t dead heat
fairing the Duke of York's biter -country ehamlaiouship.
Maple Sugar Industry
Reports Good Year
The maple Sugar industry of Cate
ada has experienced increased activi-
ty this year, Lower priees appear
to have stimulated. salee, and there
was an increase in the prodnetion of
both. sugar and syrup over tate re, -
sults of 1931. lit the Maritime Prov-
inces and Quebec the season was
long and prodntttve., while in On-
tario the flow of sap was much
restricted,
Production or mapie sugar, so far
as reported for the season of 1932,
was 7,217,300 pounds for the whole
Dominion. Last year the sugar out-
put was 5,484,1011 pounds. Syrup
production this year was 1,744,479
gallons compared with 1,314;700 gal-
Ions in 1931. The highest liroduc
tion of sugar during the last five
years was 13,798,109 pounds in 1928,
while the biggest yield of syrup in
the same period was 2,185,379 gal-
lons in 1930. The total value. of
sugar. and. syrup sald this year w_ y
$2,7#6,767 For the Deatandli, a Te
tion of about $500,000 from the previ
ous year, owing, of course, to the de-
cline in prices. The record of pro-
duction value for the five years was
$6,118,656 in 1929. Of the total
value for the current year sugar
yielded. $692,480 -sand syrup $2,054,-
277. The values given for the pres-
ent year should be regarded as pre-
liminary since the full productsn
has not yet been. sat&
New Guinea Home -
of One Hundred Races
Sydney, N.S.W.—More than 100
different races are to be found in
New Guinea, which is Australian
mandated territory, declared Mr. E.
W. P. Chinney, government anthro-
pologist for the •territory, in a recent
address before the .Advancement of
Science Congress here.
Probably many more are not known,
he said, for ,part of the territory has
not yet been explored. Natives num-
bered so far total about 400,000. Mr.
Chiuuey advocates teaching the na-
tives trades and agriculture.
.British Motor Train
Installed in Roumania
:Bucharest, Roumania.—Eight motor
trains from England have been in-
stalled on a number of secondary
lines,
It Is believed that they will be
cheaper than the regular trains and
will help reduce the large railroad de.'
idle immediate result is to simplify the ficit, ,
wider Iirob1!1on, although the first for -i If they prove satisfactory, mor':
eign reactionis to cOropel adjustment will, be i.ntrod.ueed,
Combine Formed in Britain
To Protect Trust Companies
Loudon. --An association of invest-
ment trusts, representing a combina-
tion of 250 be 300 of the. largest Brit-
ish Trust Companies, with a total
capital of abuut 300,000,000 pounds
sterling, has been formed here. The
objects of the organization will be to
protect the interests of the invest-
ment trusts and their shareholders,
especially against default of home and
foreign borrowers. The central or
gatiization, it is also pointed out,
would enable the trust companies to
speak with one voice in any particular
problem of default.
The trusts represented include the
Investment Trust Corporation, Indus-
trial and General Trust, Mercantile
Invesstmcnt and General Trust and
the British Investment Trust.
It is anticipated that the associa-
tion will act in co-operation with
ontinental and American organiza-
• :where firms. with , which they
ive foreign interests
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'Land Plane Flies
300 Miles An Hour
Los Angeles.—A speed. of 300 miles
an hour, the fastest time ever made
by a land plane over a distance course,
has been accomplished itt an official
flight between Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
Colonel Roscoe Turner raced his
monoplane between the two cities, 370
miles apart, in 1 hour, 14 minutes, an
average of a fiat 300 miles an hour.
The flight lowered by 17 minutes the
mark set last year by Jimmie Wed-
ell of New Orleans, pilot -designer
and builder of Colonel Turner's ship.
Colonel Turner, making a non-stop
round trip between the cities, flew the
distance of 740 miles in 2 hours, 41
minutes, averaging 275.77 miles an
hour. The 300 -mile average was
made on the southward trip with the
aid of a tail wind. National Aeronau-
tic Aszociation officials. timed • the
flight.
-Friendly Enemies
Tomorrow they'll battle it out; but today they walk arra in arm.
Mise A. dee Gunsbourg and Tdlss 'Pauline Doran were finalists m the
1>irls' Wien golf' nha.nrlilonsbip-mateh, at Stoke Pogea, Linglttnc'l., recently,
f)xygen Bricks
In Popular Sizes
Berlin,—"Canned oxygen" is the
name given by the Vossische Zeitung
te an invention which, it is claimed,
may save hundreds of lives in peace,
and hundreds of thousands in war. I
This beneficent discovery consists of
the chemical fixation of oxygen in
such a way that the gas May be car.;
ried about in the form of briquettes
and yet be immediately available for'
breathing purposes.
The briquettes are contained in tins
similar to those used for canned
asparagus. They wilt cost from •59
to 00 pfennigs (about 10 cents),
The canned oxygen may be stared
for years and moved about to any ex-
tent •without risk of explosion• or fire.
After an initial warning—set in
action by a blow—the briquettes (it is
explained) give off for hours, without
pressure, an even exhalation of oxy-
gen.
The gas is so highly concentrated
that it could be contained in one of
the usual steel bottles now used for
the purpose only at .i pressure of 350
atmospheres.
If canned oxygen had been available
a little earlier alt the hundreds of lives
lost through the colliery explosions fat
Germany during the past few years
would, it is said, have been saved.
Every collier, every member of a
s bmarine crew, and, during the war,
every inhabitant of a town threatened
by gas attacks will, it is suggested, in
future always have his tinned oxygen
briquette handy to save him from
death from •asphyxiateng fumes.
Discovery to .Effect
More Cures of Cancer
New Haven, Conn,—Professor Wil-
liam P. Graves of •the Harvard School
of Medicine, to the Clinical Congress
being held at Yale University, has an-
nounced the discovery by Dr. Walter
Schiller, of Vienna, of a method of
detecting cancer of the cervix uteri in
its early stages, when cures can be
effected in a high percentage of cases.
At that period of its development,
Professor Graves pointed out, such
cancer was not apparent tc, the eye or
the touch. The cancer, he said, had
its origin iia irritation of an indifferent
cell in the epithelium, which produced
a virus stimulating surrounding cells
to abnormal growth and spreading la-
terally,
Dr. Schiller, he said, discovered that
normal cells of the epithelial .layer
contained an appreciable amount of
glycogen, a forst of sugar, and he de-
vised a method of staining part of the
layer with an iodine solution, which
caused glycogen particles in the nor-
mal cells to appear almost black under
the, microscope. • •
The cancerous cells, containing no
gly.cogen, appeared white or pink.
Professor Graves said that
Schiller's test had been subjected to
it.tensive investigation in the Harvard
laboratories and was believed to he
of "inestimable value," being simple
at d apparently reliable. He advocat-
ed its general use in the campaign
against cervical cancer.
Ontario Ranks Third
in Highway Mileage
Ottawa- — Saskatchewau leads all
the proviuces of the Dominion iu high-
way mileage, with 155,609 miles opeu
for traffic on Dec. 31, 1931, according
to a report issued recently by the Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics. Alberta
came next with 62,426 miles, and On-
tario with 52,119 was in third position.
Other provinces with their mileages
were: Quebec, 35,763; British Colum-
bia, 22,459; .Nova Scotia, 14,719; New
Brunswick, 11,825; Manitoba, 5,230,
and Prince Edward Island, 3,650 utiles,
The total highway mileage in Canada
is 378,094.
•
Birth Rate In Britain
Shows Upward Tendency
London—After 11 years declines
in the birthrate of England and
Wales, the Registrar -General report
announces a slight increase, amount-
ing to 2 per cent., per thousand, for
the June quarter of 1932, the first
such gala in that ;period for the 11
years.
There were 165,456 births, of whom
1,051 were boys to each 1,000 girls.
Iufantile mortality also showed
Some little improvement, deaths
among infants one year old and
under being but 7 per 1,000.
Whole Family
elelbrates W eddings
Budapest.—•T'he peasant family of
Brandhuber in the village of Csobank
indulged in an orgy c matrimony re-
cently. The grandfather, Joseph
Brandhuber, and his wife celebrated
their golden wedding; their son,
George, and his wife their silver wed-
ding, and two grandchildren were
.tarried in the parish church. The
whole v.iilage took part in the four-
fold wedding celebrations.
Brazil Raises More Fruit
Rio De 'Janeiro.—Fruit culture in
Brazil has .rade great strides in the
last few years,, according to a Depart,
ment of Agriculture report, which
states that the 1931:.crop was valued
at $25,000,000 and that the 1932 .crop
will be larger. The largest users of
Brazilian fruite are the British and
the Argentines, Fruit exports during
1913 amounted to $200,000 and soared
to 48,000,000 in 1931. Oranges► ban-
anas and pineapples are the chief pro -
(Mote. for erepertation,
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i Io wr Long 1)o. AnimiN,"Live?
hllepitants are probably the 'i,tugest,
lived members of the animal Irisedom,
thole lives averaging ,betwteu c►iS
hundred and two hundred yaat;%, It
is sant that when .Alexander eonn-
quexed India he took one ot King
'emus' largest elephants, named Max,
turd turned him loose with this im_
serrption on his collar: "Alexander,
the son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax
to the sun," Tttis elephant, tate
story has it, was captured three
luiedred and fifty years later
It has been claimed that as a, gen-.
eral rule there is a direct .rat:al:el
between the duration of life and -the
time required to develop fully; but
to this there are manifest exceptioan,
The canis mature before it Le a year
old; yet it may attain the age of
twenty years.
Size also seems to have a certain
relation to longevity, •the elephant
anti the .whale being generally ;told
to be tate 'longest -lived of mammals;
but here again enters the exception,
since the little beaver lives more
than twice as long as the rhinoceros.
The average age of other animals
is estimated as follows: ass, tbirte
years; bear, twenty years; beaver;
lifty years; camel, seventy-five years;
cat, fifteen years; chamois, twenty-
five years; ox, • twenty-five years;
deer, twenty years; dog, feurteea
years; fox, fourteen years; goat,
twelve years; guinea pig, four years;
hare, eight years; hippopotamus,
twenty years; horse, twenty-five
years; hyena, twenty-five years; leg
car, twenty-five years; leopard,
twenty-five years; lion, forty 'years;
monkey, seventeett years; numea,
arty years; mouse, six years; pigs:,
fifteen years; rabbit, seven years;
rat, seven years; rhinoceros, twenty'
years; sheep, ten years; squirrel,
eight years; stag, five years; tiger,
twenty-five years; wolf, twenty yearn.
While the average age of the whale
is somewhere between one hundred
and 'two hundred years, Calder ea-
serted that it is probable that some
Whales attain the age of one theme
and years.
Mange Dons Snowshoes
An edueated mule that walked on
snowshoes was the latest addition lest
winter to the transportation faciliCree
of Northern Manitoba,
Natives of this northern trapping;
and mining centre were becoming
somewhat bored by the frequent ar-
rivals of roaring airplanes, screaming
locomotives ani barking dog team%
when Bill Klonwick walked in from
his trap lines with his suowshoeing
mule quietly pulling a toboggan to
give. thein a flew thr.ilI...
The mule's mime is Lizzie and her
snowshoes were, about 18 inches in,dia-
meter. Klonwick taught her how to
use them while working on his trap
lines 600 miles north of Shernidon,
Man., and now she refuses eo walk in
the snow without them. She makes
goad speed over the high drifts.
"Extinct" Australian
Aniirnal Revives
One of Australia's rare marsupials,
which had been lost for nearly 100
years, has been rediscovered, follow-
ing the bountiful rains that recently
reawakened plant and animal life in
the centre of the continent. This is
the rat kagaroo (caloprymnus campes••
tris), which was found by Mr. Harry
Finlayson, of the Adelaide University
stair, on a recent trip in Central Aus-
tralia. .
The little aattnal, which stand:'
about a foot high, w••s believed to be
extinct. It is said that the only throe
specimens of it in the world are in the
British Museum.
The Ascent of Man
Robert Briffault. in Scribner's
Magazine (New York) : Human na-
ture is no less capable of good than
of evil. It has at times appeared vile,
that is because vileness has been
thrust upon it by a tocial anarchy
that has made internecine strife its
law and fostered the basest impulses.
The pall of that agelong pessimism as
lifting. A new faith in humanity is
possible. We know that the way to
amend human nature is not to pre -
fess high sentiments, but to amend
the social and cultural factors that
mould and fashion it.
Tyrol May Bar Autos
Vienna.—'.Tyrol: is threatened with a
total prohibition of moisiring, the local
press was informed recently by the
roads department of the Tyrol ,Gov-
ernment, as many areas complain that
they have no funds to pay for the
upkeep of the roads. The local auth-
orities demand the right to levy tolls
on passing cars, as was done up to
two years. ago, in order to be able to
keep the roads in repair,
Britain Mints Yugoslav Coins
London.—New ten dinar silver coins
recently put into circulation by the
Yugoslav Government through the
Tationlal Bank of Yugoslavia were
coined at the British mint in London.
The Yugoslav coins are similar in
y,lioy to the British silver coinage. At
current rates the ten -dinar piece is
the equivalent of approximately one
shrilling
'The Contrast
The optimist seas sunshine, pros-
perity, success and opportunity.
The pessimist sees gleom, panic,
fr„ilr.re and limitation.