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tion is an impossibility and that the at-
tempt to effect it is as damaging to
creditor as to debtor. The United
States is a long way yet from this
conclusion, and nothiog but patient ar-
gument and careful •exposition of the
facts will bring it nearer, --J, A, Spen-
der in The London News -Chronicle.
(Lib,)
CANADA.
The Christmas Spirit.
kiow often have we heard "It is bet-
ter to give than to receive." This
saying has passed down through the
ages unchanged and to -day carries a
signifiea ee greater than ever, before.
Christmas in all Christian. "countries
has always been a time when great
effort is put fortli to make the children
and those who are unfortunate and in
need, happy. This is truly a wonder-
ful spirit, and any organization that
helps to carry out this idea of good-
will deserves support:—Wingham Ad-
vaece-Times,
Sales and Ads.
Modern life is much different today
from what it was a decade ago. Today,
a great deal of buying is clone over
the telephone.'
This, in turn, means that oppertun,
ities for purchases advantageous to
the buyers are now almost completely
centred in newspaper advertising.
The modern housewife knows what
she wants, knows by brand name, and
orders in that manner—because adver-
tising has taught her how she should
do it, and why it s profitable for her
to do so.
Imagine ordering from an unknown
grocer: "Some breakfast food," 'some
bacon," "some coffee," "some bread,"
and so on, as in the olden days before
national advertising became the pow-
erful force it is today.—St. Catharines.
Standard.
Canadian Turkeys for reltain.
Determination of Old Country con-
sumers to "buy British," the advant-
ages .established by the Imperial pre-
ferences, and the favorable publicity
obtained by these poultry shipments,.
have opened up a new field of oppor-
tunty for Western farmers. -.Now that
it has been satisfactorily demonstrat-
ed that an adequate export market is
accessible, even with the disadvantage
of the present disparity between ster-
ling and the Canadian dollar, it may
be taken -for granted that the growth
in poultryproduction will continue un-
checked. —Winnipeg Tribune.
Ottawa and the Producer.
The agreement does not make care
and economy in production less neces-
sary than before; it is just as import-
ant as ever to see that our goods are
of the best possible quality 'and are
produced as economically as possible.
All that the agreement has done is to
give us an opportunity of competing
on more nearly even terms,—Brisbane
Queenslander.
The Causes of War.
Not for a moment in any practicable
scheme of disarmament can we ,sep-
arate the air -weapons, incomparably
sinister as they are, froe. the other fell
instruments of scientific war. I1: the
nations mean peace there 'e.est be sac-
rifice all around. Mammoth battle-
ships must be given up if submarines
are to be suppressed. Tanks must go
as well as the heavier guns, both mil-
itary and naval. - Yet all this by itself
is like proposing to mow down the
tops of weeds without digging"up the
roots. Armaments are symptoms, not
causes. The vital task is to begin to
remove the active reasons for arma-
ments and the potential causes of ul-
timate war. This is as plain as a
pikesieff. But to that end not a finger
has been lifted by responsible states-
manship in Europe since the end of the
World War at "the eleventh hour of
the eleventh,• day,, u� the eleventh
month" fourteen years ago.—J. L. Gar-
vin in The London Observer (Ind,).
Pay As You Ring.
People who are bothered with too
many salesmen at their doors might
be inclined to consider an invention,
now being used in Holland. It is one
of those pay -as -your -ring affairs
attached to the door bell. A coin must
be inserted before the bell will ring.
The more callers there are in the
course of the day, the greater: the re-
venue from the door bell.—Stratford
Beacon -Herald.
Intra -Empire Trade Working.
Proofs continue to pile up that Brit-
ish opinion is solidly behint, the poli-
cies enunciated at the recent Imperial
Conference, and that the British Gov-
ernment intends to do all in its power
to give practical effect to them in
every- possible direction. The Govern-
ment yesterday announced in the
House of Commons that the office of
Public Works will use only Canadian
or other Empire lumber after May 23
next -when present contracts expire—
and the announcement was cheered by
the House—Montreal Daily Star.
Starting Point.
When money. is tight on the farm, it
is tight every place else. Goods refuse
to move off the shelves of city stores,
and this turn causes a slackening in
the pace of the wheels of industry.
And then the city wage-earner be-
comes worse off than his rural cousin.
—he has no money, nor has he any
pigs chickens or turkeys. There was
no truer work spoken than that farm-
ing is the basic industry of this coun-
try. Put money into the pocket of
the farmer and lie will start the mill
wheel turning,—Stratford Beacon -Her-
An Educational Force.
A series of Readers prepared in ac-
cordance with a definite plan in a well-
organized school system can largely
remake the people of a country with-
in a generation or two. The character
of the nation will be the character of
its Readers, and the character of the
Readers will depend upon the charac-
ter of the men who prepare then. Who
the makers of our Readers are be-
comes, therefore, a matter of great na-
tional impdfrtance.—W. Sherwood Fox
in the Queen's Quarterly.
Mrs. Ely Culbertson and Osw
players, are shown as they -partici
test at New York. Judging from
have the mtl kings of a grand slant
a
ald Jacoby, noted contract bridge
pated in the Shepard Barclay con -
the smile, Mrs. Culbertson must
'or something.
Canada's Mines Yield
$5,231,152 In Gold
OttawaeeeCanadian gold production
in October amounted to 253,057 ounces
valued at $5,231,152, as compared with
260,538 ounces at $5,385,798 in Septem-
ber and 239,691 ounces worth $4,954,-
853
4,954,853 in October, 1931. During the first
ten months of 1932 the Canadian out-
put totalled 2,534,899 ounces with a
value of $52,194,293; in the correspon-
ding period of the previous year 2,-
213,805 ounces worth $45,765,270 were
produced, according to the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics.
Ontario's output increased 1.1 per
cent. in October to 191,869 ounces
from the September total of 189,721
ounces. Quebec produced 29,269
ounces, at 14.4 per cent. decline from
the September output of 34,205 ounces,.
but a 4.5 per cent. increase over the.
August total of 28,000 ounces. In
British Columbia, 17,182 ounces were
extracted during the month as com-
pared with 16,023 ounces in Septem-
ber.
Manitoba's output recorded a 22.2
per cent. falling off to 9,819 ounces
from the preceding month's total of
12,617 ounces. Flin Flon, Central
Manitoba and San Antonio were the
October shippers. Placer gold pro-
duction in the Yukon was reported at
4,834 ounces as against 7,554 ounces
in September. Nova Scotia shipments
to the Royal Canadian Mint amount-
ed to 34 ounces; in the previous
month 418 ounces were shipped.
The world production of gold is es-
timated at 2,033,000 ounces in October
and the total for the . ten months
ending October, 1932 at 19,503,000
ounces. Transvaal's output rose to
974,965 ounces in October from the
previous month's total of 961,501
ounces. During the first ten months
of 1932 the. Transvaal produced 9,594,-
230 ounces, or 6.0 per cent. advance
over the output of 9,050,282 ounces
during the corresponding period of
1931. The United States production
(including the Philippines) in Octo-
ber amounted to 255,000 ounces as
compared with 246,000 ounces as.
compared with 246,000 ounces in Sep-
tember. This advance, according to
the American Bureau of Metal Statis-
tics was due largely to increased
shipments of bullion from Alaska.
AMERICAN.
Safety on the Roads.
If. we are ever to progress in our
use of the automobile beyond the point
of manual dexterity in its operation,
there must be developed a mutual tol-
erance between the pedestrian and the
motorist and an habitual observance
of the fundamental rules of safety by
both.—Providence Journal.
Following Canada,
Canadian towns are noted for their
beauty, and tourists passing through
Toronto have noticed especially the
neat streets and perfect rows of trees
that border them. And this is true in
many other Ontario towns.
They have now made another great
forward step in the way of beautifica-
tion in the removal of billboards,
which are being taken down through-
out the province at the rate of 75 to
100 a week.
The Ontario law provides that no
sign of any kind may be erected on
or hang over the highway, barns with-
in view of the road can not be painted
with advertising, and automatic signs
are not allowed along the highway, ex-
cept with special permission, because
they divert the driver's attention, and
thus constitute a traffic menace.
Signs are forbidden at turns in the
road for the same reason, rusty and
neglected signs already in place must
be cleaned or removed, and even signs
erected by a person on his own prop-
erty must be below a certain size, and
are subject to a fee. The roads are
Stupendous Figures. } constantly patrolled by four inspectors
Census figures just made public by to enforce the act, and offenders are
the Chinese Government reveal the brought into court.
fact that that sprawling, distressful I The Ontario regulations are being
country has today more than 470,000,-
000 inhabitants. That figure, start -
ting enough from its sheer size, be -
Gomes deeply significant when you
stop to - think about it .a little. It .stands
for possibly the largest single homo-
genous group of people on earth. No
other nation enrolls such numbers; no
other has snob tremendous, overwhel-
ming man power.—Halifax Herald.
Grey hair, according to a British
scientist, is caused by an unusually
acute and active germ, That is a new
nacre for the monthly 'budget Ottawa
Journal,
EMPIRE.
Radio in Canada.
Canada is Making full use of her
unrivalled wireless facilities. In ad-
dition to adapting them to the normal
needs of entertainment and commer-
1al expediency, she is applying theta
snore extensively than any other coun-
try to educational uses. --,Sir Clement
Kinloch-Ceolre in The Empire Review
,(fonder ).
adapted by other Canadian provinces
and might well be considered by com-
munities in the United States.—Ports-
mouth (N, IL) Herald.
international Debts.
The European nations have been led
by
1514i hard teaching of facts and ev-.
meta• to ;d1to conclusion that the trans.
for 4 vuat snrne from nation to 11a -
"We Believe in Canada"
.*,._.r.,, -W,..,., . ..,. M.,.
(Editorial From eaberti')
Is it possible for anyone not to be-
lieve in Canada?
During these receait beetle years
Canada has been spotlighted in manY
major roles upon the international
stage, In each instance sloe has earn-
ed the respect of the world.
Fourteen years ago a myriad 'bugles
sounded the glad anthem of peace over
Flanders' bloody arena. It marked the
end of war. But ..it also marked the
beginning of Canada's new greatness.
The Canadian Expeditionary Force
had left in its wake a deathless trail
of glory,
The eras of reconstruction and of
depre::::ion which spelled fear and
chaos for other nations of a less rug-
ged morale, merely emphasized the
vale of Canada's great heritage.
Canada is no longer a geographical-
ly vast territory isolated from the rest
of the world, The substantial total of
44,620,736 persons crossed the border
between Canada and the United States
in 1930, according to the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics.
Canada no longer ranks as a minor
manufacturing unit in world markets.
In 1930 she became second in import-
ance as a manufacturing country in
the British Empire. During the past
twenty ye-.rs the gross value of her
manufa^.tured products has increased
by the amazing total of ;2,062,000,000.
There are 24,020 plants in Canada em-
ploying 644,439 persons and represent-
ing a capital investment of ;5,203,316,-
760.
The sophisticated Canadian shopper
need no longer gratify buying whims in
Parva, London, or New York.. Cana-
dian department stores are ranked
U. S. News Dealers Total
$104,055,733 In Year
New York.—The chain newsstands
of the country did $104,055,733 in
business during 1929. There were 123
chain organizations and they operated
3,207 units, census reports disclose,
Newsdealer chains numbered sixty-
one, with 882 units having sales of
324,370,266. Newsdealer -restaurant
chains numbered seven, having 1,802
units with sales of $36;433,958. The
thirty bookstore chains operated 349
stores, with sales of $35,482,077, Five
stationery chains had twenty-nine
units and $3,750,616 in sales. Art and
gift shop chains, of which there were
thirteen, ran 106 stores and had sales
Of $3,270,270. Novelty store chains,
seven in number, accounted for $811,-
537 in sales in their thirty-nine stores.
Of the sixty-one newsdealer chains
fifty are local and eleven sectional or
national. The local chains operate
1,562 locations, with sales of $11,727,-
900. The other chains operate in 320
locations with sales of $12,579,363.
Eight chains in 572 localities do more
than two-thirds of the total business
of all newsdealer chains.
Newsdealer restaurant chains oper-
ate eighty-seven units in section chains
and no units in local chains. Expenses
of these chains run about a third of
sales. Expenses of bookstore chains
amount to $40.56 a $100 or sales and
those of stationery chains are $33.48 a
$100 of sales, while expenses of nov-
elty store chains averaged $40.09 a
1100,
Novel Airport is
Planned in Britain
A novel airport is to be provided
for London if plans go through as
anticipated. The proposal contem-
plates an elevated table over the
yards at Kings Cross and St. Pancras
stations, and a bill to obtain the nec-
essary Parliamentary permission is
expected to • be introduced shortly.
Prizes For Wheat
Given By Mussolini
Rome.—Signor Benito Mussolini, the
Premier, who has undertaken to. make
Italy grow its own bread, gave about
$100,000 in prizes and many words of
high praise last week to those whom
he has led for seven years in his
"battle for wheat"
Farmers from every province as-
sembled in the Decennial Agricultural
Exposition Hall to get their reward for
the increased production, 'which this
year carte within 8 per cent. of the
country's normal consumption of 300,-
000,000 bushels. ,
Titin was the tenth annual contest
initiated with the Dtxce's support, and
unofficially backed by his newspaper,
I1 Popolo (Thalia. It was. in 1925 that
Mussolini took over the job himself
and announced formally in the Cham-
ber that he would lead In the fight,
The intense instinct of love,
rightly disciplined, maintains all the
sanctities of life, --Ruskin:
among the world's greatest, la Toms
to, a city of 631,000 population, the alie
Waal retail -store volume reaches the
astonishing total of $400,000,000.
Canada no longer con11lees her ele
ports to a few commodities in limited
markets. At the end of 1931 she held
fifth position among the countries in
volume of exports, Her products
reach practically every country on tha
face of the globe.
Canada has become the source ol
envy and admiration in her honest
forthright methods of law enforce
ment, Her non-political ,judiciary
metes out justice swiftly and surely,
And in her hall of fame are the glori'
ousannals of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police—the finest tradition
serving any law enforcement agency
in the world.
The foreign investor believes in
Canada—believes in her to the extent
of over six billion dollars invested
capital. The United States investor,
in particular, believes in Canada to
the extent of $3,726,745,000 --almost
two-thirds of the foreign investments
of the Dominion. -
Canada's accolade of complete ac-
ceptance as a ranking world power
was bestowed at the Imperial Econ
omic Conference in Ottawa. Evidence
of world-wide interest in the parley
-was indicated in the fact that over
three million words in press dispatch,
es were telegraphed and cabled to all
parts of the world.
Liberty, believing in Canada's pre
sent and future greatness, has become
more closely identified with its pea
ple. For six months Liberty has been
printed and distributed in Canada by
Canadians. Yes, we believe in Canada,
Fatalities in Ontario 9 Ancient Village
co
Toronto.—Sixty-six
Down in Ten Months Found
Radium Worth $35,000
Bought By Dept. of Health
Toronto.—A half grani of radium,
worth about $35,000, to be used in the
curative and emanation cancer clinics
in the province, has been purchased
through the Ontario Department of
Health, Hon. Dr. J. M. Robb an-
nounces. The radium was produced
in the Belgian Congo, and purchased
through a New York exchange, most-
ly capitalized with British money.
Radium manufactured in Canada is
also to be received by the cancer
clinics, Dr. Robb declared, in speak-
ing to the Local Council of Women.
It is now in process of manufacture
at the Port Hope plant of the Eldor-
ado Gold Mines, Ltd., from ore obtain-
ed in the Great Bear Lake mineral
field, The Government expects to
take delivery of radium from the com-
pany as fast as it can be produced,
Polite Wayfarer—"I am sorry to
trouble you, sir, but do you happen to
have seen a policeman in the neigh-
borhood?" Hiker—"No, I can't say I
have." "Then hand over your watch
and wallet."
•
in Mei
to.—Sixty-six fewer people
were killed in Ontario motor accidents
in the first ten months of 1932 than
were fatally injured in the sante per-
iod of 1931. The percentage of de-
crease is 14 and if continued for the
rest of the year will mean a saving
of over 80 lives.
Motor accident statistics of the On-
tario Department of Highways also
show a drop' in the number of people
injured in the ten-month period of
from 6,988 to 6,875, with a seven per
cent. decrease in property damage.
October and August were the great-
est accident -producing months of this
year. During October, however, the
downward tendency noted throughout
most of the year was maintained and
the total number of ,accidents report-
ed decreased over 6 per cent. from
1,026 to 963, while the number of
fatalities was reduced from 59 to 54.
Almost one-quarter (24 per cent.)
of October's accidents happened on
Saturday. About one-third (33 per
cent.) occurred between 5 and 8 p.m.
"Driving too fast for road and traffic
conditions," "driving on wrong side
of road" and "failure to give right-
of-way" comprised 75 per cent. of
the violations of the motorists involv-
ed during October.
London's Theatres
Feature Children's Plays
London.—This Christmas some of
London's biggest and most famous
theatres will be given over to the en-
tertainment of children. The Lyceum,
the scene of Sir Henry Irving's great
historic triumphs, will house a panto-
mime on the story of "The Sleeping
Beauty."
Daly's Theatre, celebrated at the
beginning of the century for its mu-
sical comedies, will have another pan-
tomime, "Mother Goose." At the Hip-
podrome
ip-
uare,
w
will
be " in Leicester Dick Whittington,' and at the
Little Theatre a compound version of
"Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice
Through the Looking -Glass".
The Wheat King at Home
q14
'When 'Herman Trelle, wheat 'king, of Wembley, Alberta, was asked what he thought of the rule
Iir4vc,nt=ui; him from fumt
- ,her competition at Chicago's show, his reply was coniidenial. Hero we se"
i'rralle "11m to his onra" fin erize wheat.
Pre -Aztec House Uncovered
Found to Contain
Bathroom
Mexico City.—The ancient peoples
who inhabited Mexico immediately be-
fore the Aztecs, had bath rooms in
their dwelling houses, it appears from
a discovery made in Calixtiahuaca,
north of Taluca, in the State of Mex-
ico.
Ancient peoples rarely used durable
materials for building their homes and
for that reason the finding of a resit
deuce is rare. The house was unear-
thed by Senor Jose Garcia Rayon, and
has walls of stone and earth two feel
thick, with floors of plaster.
The roof has gone and the walla
are crumbled, there is evidence that
the house was of two storeys, with
eight rooms. It had a bathroom with
a "tamancal" or steam room, such al
.Aztecs and other Indian tribes are
known to have used.
The house is more than 75 feet long,
and it lies at the foot of hills crown-
ed
rowned with pyramids and other public
buildings. Calixtiahuaca is the most
recent archaeological city to be discov-
ered, but it is one of the largest. It
has the only known round Aztec "pyra-
mid"
pyramid" on the Mexican mainland. This
pyramid was the superstructive of a
temple to the Wind God,
Excavations at Calixthlahuaca are
being sponsored by the State of
Mexico. At the foot of the ancient
city lies the modern Indian village of
tie same name. This village is unique
in being the only Aztec settlement la
a region where all the villages ars
Otomi or Mazalma.
Ancient Calixtlahuaca is superficial-
ly Aztec in structure, but pottery and
other remains indicate that several en-
tirely distinct and probably non -Aztec,
cultures underlie . it. Archaeiologiste
hope to identify the predecessors to
the Aztecs,
Canadians Talk Less
Over Phone During '31
Ottawa.—Telephone conversations
to the number of 2,565,641,000 were
carried on in Canada during 1931;.
but despite their vast number the con-
versations were fewer than they were
in 1930, according to the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics. For the first
time on record the year showed a de-
crease as compared with the previous.
year.
The total number of telephones in
Canada in 1931 was 1,364,200 or 36,-
661 fewer than in 1930. Despite the
decrease, however, Canada still re -
tabled its place as the second most
assiduous telephonists in the world,
with 13.15 instruments on the average
for every 100 of the population. Un-
ited States is the only country in the
world with a greater density of in
strurnents. In Geamany, Great Bri-
tain and France the figures are 5.0
per cert., 4.3 and 2.8, respectively.
The Prairie Provinces were res-
sponsthie for most of the drop in the
figures, Saislcatchewau havima' faller
12 per cent., .Alberta 10 and Manitoba
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Albania's Harbor Completed
1)urazzo, Albania.—The first ata
of Albania's chief harbor is finished,
This means that big Hier% may nares,
land directly at the wharf here. Herat-
tofore steamers have had to unload
onto little boats, and in bad weathee
the waves sometimes have been SO
high the liners could not stop at allj
Now the end of a bay has been in
misted with solid inasorrr°y and tha
part is protected frOrn sterna.