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a= â€" â- â™¦Â» « »l»»* < Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Conference Result! Beyond tlie actual tarltt arraiig*- mciita, three results have coma out of the Imperial Conference of prime and vital Interest to Canadians; 1, The creation ot a tariff Board which, If properljr constituted, can and should tend to keep the tariff out of politics and beyond political manipulation. 2, The putting of an entirely new face on the agenda for the coining World Economic Conference, which will ho the major tes-tins Bfo""*! 'or "»* whole principle ot tariffs. 3, An encourage- ment to the reciprocal tarltt element In United Slates, to come out with proposals for bettering trade relations with Canada.â€" Vancouver Sun. British Justice When Lord Kylsant was sentenced to one year in Jail for publishing a misleading financial startement there â- were those who believed that he •would not serve his time like an ordin- ary prisoner, or that lie would serve any con.sldorable part of It. He had been a member of Parliament, was a member of the House of Lords, con- nected with some of the aristocratic bouses of Kngland and Wales, a per- sonal friend of every member of the cabinet, and he was â€" or had been â€" a millionaire. Hut the noble lord went to Jail, and he lias just boon released after serving ten mouths ot his twelve, which Is the customary remission granted to a prisoner for good conduct. British law is no respector ot i>orsou3. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. Accident Every Forty MInutec According to tiie records of tlie Mo- tor Vehicles Branch of the Ontario Department ot Ughwaya, motor vehicle accidents during August last yoar aver- aged more than 33 per day. hurluded Jn this number there wer.e 77 fatalities and 1,025 persons injured. This re- cord, be it understood, is for tlio Pro- vince of Ontario alone, and not the â- whole country, as one miglit imagine from the size ot the figures.â€" tianan- oque Reporter. Quotations From Shakespeare Kven the most illiterate quote Shake- Bp'^are every day. Indeed most of us do not know we should use quotations for these current sayings from the Bard ot Avon's writings: "Dead as a doornail; eaten out ot hou.se and borne; a,s good luck would liavo it; mad as a March hare; caUo is dough; every dog has his day; fiust biud, fast find; every man to liis trade; familiar- ity breeds contempt; good wine needs no bush; make hay while the sun sliines; past cure, past care; pitchera have ears; poor and proud; sink or Bwim; speak by the card; tlio world on wheels; we burn dayliglit; woo in baste and wed at leisure; givo the devil his due; and what the dickens!" â€" lirandon Sun. . . obligations to American Investors lu American funds. The less we pur- (rhase in the Republic, the greater will be the value of our dollar across the line; our expense of meeting the pre- mium charge on American money will go down proportonately. Inasmuch as coal Is one of our chief Imports from the United Statesâ€" running Into a sum OHtlmated anywhere up to a hundred million dollars annually â€" It Is certainly desirable, from a national point of view, to cut such lmi>orts down to the lowest possible figure. Heavier buying of Welsh coal willl help. The Individual may pay a little more, hut the general effect will be good. â€" Border Cities Star. THE EMPIRE Epidemics of Crime In every country c.vcopt the United States, where the disease seems en- dmlc, epidemics of criminal violence break out with a certain regularity. The automatic pistol and the motor car have made these appeals to force more sensational and more difflcult to (leal with, yet a glan e at the past sug- gests that they are seasonal and al- most a matter of fashion. This coun- try has just passed tlirough one ot these periods, and it is noticeable tliat It coincides with a time of hot weather. Experts In Trance, â- where such waves of violent crime are com- mon, have always connected them with the Dog Day.".â€" Saturday Re- view (London). The New World Society Thero can be no doul)t wliatever tliat Mr. Wells' support of a world- dictatorship based upon complete and centralized financial control will make a strong appeal to the cosmopolitan group of financial "Samurai" now in- triguing for the world's throne; but if. Hi WO boliova In common with ordin- ary humanity, nationality Is as natural a fact as individuality and one of tho essential characteristics ot the .species Man, then not all tho efforts of all tlio would-be dictators of the world will 1)0 able to eradicate it, or even sus- pend its action for more than very brief and bloody periods. Wo are not so diauvinist as to d<.'ny the attraction ot the idea ot a World Society ot Na- tions, even It It bo possible, of a World Commonwealth of Xalions. Tlio emergence, hesitating and amorphous aslt Is of a British Commonwealth from the .shell of a British Knilpre, l.s per- haps a shadow of a possible future. But tho difference between a world of nations In intelligent and voluntary cooperation and a world ot functional groupings Hubsorvient to a super-Stata composed of self-seloctod, all-powerful neurotics. Is exactly the difference be- tween a harmonious .society basod on slavery and sanctioned by force. â€" New English Weekly (London). Small Farms In Ontario It is the very general bollet that Quebec la proemineiitly tho provlnco of the small farms. But It is not so Ontario is. The old idea was tliat tho typical Trench - Canadian farmer divided his lands amongst liia sons to keep them around him, no far as po.s- Bible, In that family contentment and eocial intercourse so typical of the habitant. But the cold flgurSs of the Dominion Buroau of Statistis tells us otherwise. Thero are 46,539 farms In Ontario of less than 50 acros, and In Quebec only l'3,08fi. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. A Flying Tackle The University of Washington should be up among the leader* wltli Tony Burke on tho tackle end. Here we see him giving a demonstration of his fitness. "Made in Germany" During April, May and June of 19.12, Imports from Oormany were valued at $2,576,845, as compared with 13,209,490 In the corresponding period of 1931. The exports to Germany in the last three months totalled |1,210,- 119, as against $4,061,081 la.*t year. The falling off in tho volume oxi>ortod Is large. Imports from Oormany cov- ered a wide range of products, but the chief Items were da.ssed under chemi- cals and chemical products, amounting to $778,020 lu the last three months; Iron and Its products, $352,155, non- inetalllc minerals. Including coal, $211,- 086; fibres, $311,629; miscellaneous, $456,731.â€" Brandon Sun. Worthless Fortunes Tho miser Is a plionomenon as old «s civilization; and from tho very ba- giiinlng ho has been a great puzzle. There died in the middle woet tho other day an aged reclu.se who had ilved In a tiny apartment on a moan Bide street. To all appearances he tvas just one notilt above actual desti- tution. Bit when his effects were ex- amined atter his death, It was found that he owned rash and securities Worth upwards of $800,000. Cases of this kind are continually coming to light, of course, and there Is nothing ^specially unusual In this one. But It floes make one wonder, anew â€" "Why?" Xhe money did the man no earthly ^ood- tt is now being divided among is Cousins, and It Is doubtful If ha »aved It on their account. It did him no good whatever. What ran be the motW* that makes a man treat his monajr that way? -Ouolph Mercury. Buy Empire Coil It Is rcMtIng Canada an enormous cum ot money to meet her interest The New Wetland Canal Tho Wost Indies, wliich regularly bear witness to the elUciency and cour- age ot Canadian National enterprise as interpreted by her magnificent steamship service, will applaud tho Weliand effort as furtlior evidence of what tho Canadian .spirit can contri- liuto, not only to tho growth ot Can- ada, but to the development of tho world. â€" Trinldal Guardian. .J _ Reindeer For Hungry Eskimos Three years ago, tho Loiiien Brolli '.'IS, Alaska's "reindeer kings," con- tracted with the Clauadian Govern- Government to deliver 3,000 reindeer to the mouth of the Maskenzie River in Briti.sh Columbia, 1,000 miles away, to provide food and clothing for starving Eskimos there. The contract calls for the payment of lO.'i.OOO on delivery of the rein- deer. The herd was started in the fall of 1929 in charge of Andrew Bahr, old r.indeer herder, a-tsisted by four Lap- landers and six Kskimos. Bahr has just been heard fix>ni the firiit time in seven nvontlis. The I crd now num- bers n,400, they have never stopped travelling, even during 70 degrees be- low zero temperature. Bahr hopes to reach the Mackenzie River on his strange trek by the tiiiia winter sets in again, then cross tha river on tha ice and deliver his reindeer herd some time next win- ter-Wall Street Journal. Grasshopper Diet Kills TuHceys Dodge City, Kan. Kd. Ilnbbius has a Hock of 9,000 turkeys at his ranch near Belvldere. This Is one of the largest turkey crops in Kansas and, according to Robbins, the most per- plexing. His turkeys have lndige«. tlon. There are so many grasshop- pers this year ">:â- .; mo turkeys have been overeating and many have died. Hnbbins's worries have abated some- what siTce he fenced In the turkeys with a grass-hopper-tlght fence. He said it c-»- ; lot of money but It is the only 'way tv keep tho turkeys from foundering on grasshoppers. Altitude Records In the Empire New Records Set by Two British Aviators in Bri- tain and Australia London, â€" British pilots flying at op- posite end.s of the Empire, have ad- vanced claims to two now aviation alti- tude records. Captr.in Cyril Unwin^ claimed a new record for land planes with a flight to 45,000 feet at Bristol Friday. (The official record is 43,151.9 feet hold by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, United States Navy). At Port Darwin, Australia, an am- phibian attached to tho British navy's ship, Albatross, was reported as claiming a new altitude record for that type of .ship with a flight to 2;i,000 feet. It was also claimed that a balloon released from the Albatross (without passengers) reached a height ot 70,- 000 feet, or more than 13 miles. This was set up as a record. There are no i/fflcial records for passengerless bal- loons. Professor Augu.ste Piccard ro.s'; nearly 11 miles over Italy in his latest stratospheric ascension. Captain Unwins used a specially designed 500 horsepower plane. The cold wa . .so intense he had to resort tv a special oxygen pumping appar- atus. His goggles, gloves and clothinr; were electrically heated. The amphibiar at Port Darwin was a special type named the "Sea (lull," attached to the Albatross, which is a ijaplane carrier. Conditions wore de SLribed as perfect for both the Porl Darwin a.scensior.s. Geyser Spouts in New Zealand Citizens ot Oliinenuitu, country town lu tha thermal district, received a shock when a geyser suddenly spout- ed in the main street. Mud, stone and steam spouted skyward to over 100 feet, aiCd sonio of tho shots resembled the famed Pohuto geyser, greatest ot all New Zealand's blowholes. A .second geyser broke through later. The larger one measured 25 by 20 feet.â€" "San Francisco Chronicle." Canadians Eat Much Butter Canadians are the champion buttor eaters ot the world, says the Canadian National Uailway.-i. Krom 192S to 1931 the por capita butler consumption in Canada Increased from 28.54 to 30.24 pounds. Paralysis Causes 50 P.C. of Deaths Quebec's Infantile Mortality Rate Double that of Ontario Quebec â€" Nearly 60 per cent of In- fantile deaths In the Dominion of Canada last yoar occurred In this province. Quebec's figure being 9,443 and that of the Dominion 20.- 353, preliminary (Igures for the coun- try show. Quoboc's total was double that of Ontario, which had 4,830, and was more than the other seven provinces combined, with diarrhoea r.nd en- teritis accounting for 2,525 deaths, or over 25 per cent of the provincial total. Montreal contributed slightly over one-quarter of the total for the pro- vince, figures for the Metropolis be- ing deaths, Sliawinigan Falls 72, Wostiiiount 39, hachine 44, Outreiuont two. Three Rivers 229, Verdun 95 and Levis 41. Of the children who died during tha year 5,417 were boys, who out- numbered girls by 1.309, the statistics show. Quelioc's figures show that 24 chil- dren under one year of age died from measles, 10 from scarlet fever, 220 from whooping cough, 2S from diphtheria, 320 from influenza, 23 from erysipelas. 86 from tulierculosis, 113 from syphilis, 116 from mening- itis. 62 from convulsions, 40 from bronchitis, 876 from pneumonia. 76 from di.seases of the stomach, 2,525 from diahhroea and enteritis, 13 from hernia or Intestinal obstruc- tion, 405 from congenital malforma- tion, 1.110 from congenital debility, 1,474 from premature birth. 636 from injury at birth, 76S from other dis- eases peculiar to early infancy, 502 from other specified causes, and 17 from unspecified or ill-defined causes. The report also shows that three were 2,450 illegitimate births iu the province last year, out ot a Domin- ion total of 8,342, while though Que- bec led tho province In infantile mortality. It also was the leading pro- vince in births. French Schools Insure Pupils Paris -French educational author- ities now (ifl'er accident insurance for children at 20 cents a year cov- ering Injuries received on the way to school. Payments up to $2,500 are made, even when traffic acci- dents are the fault of tho youngsters. Dominion Exports ; Canada Leads World Maintain Balance In Paper Export > automo- also on compar- August Trade Figures Favor- able to Canada by $5,271,086 I Ottawa.â€" During the month of August Canadian produce was ex- ported to the /alue of M1.31 4.120 and foreign produce $541,002, or a total of 141,855,122. During the same month there was Imported lor consump- tion {36 584,036. This includes foreign goods afttjrward re-exported. This export balance was .-iccordlngly $5,271,086. These figures were re- leased recently by the Department of National Revenue. During August. 193!, th? i.ital ex- ports were $49,894,363 and imports $47,308,079. A marked upswing In the export of several groups of commodities was registered last month, the most sub- stantial being wheat. Canada export- ed $10,642,471 worth of wheat la August, 1932, as against $6,620,677, for August, last year, or an increase of slightly over $4,000,000. Furs, meats, cheese and biles and their parts were the upgrade last month in Ison with the figures a year ago. Fur exports rose from $755,572 to $877,- 835; nieaU increased from $289,996 to $739,439; cheese from $1,528,135 to $1,658,838, and automobiles and their parts from $377,930 to 0752,420. Export of other commodities de- clined as follows â€" Wheat flour, from $1,795,477 to $1,094,460; fish, from $2,133,396 to $1,859,316; planks and boards, from $1,931,175 to $970,571; wood pulp, from $2,502,372 to $1,486,- 689; newsprint, from $8,416,977 to $7,251,752; copper, partially manufac- tjired. from $1,174,944 to $468,447, and nickel, from $910,892 to $252,439. Customs Revenues Drop Canada's customs and e.vcise reven. uo in August decreased by $1,807,- S30 from the figures for .\ugust, 1931. In the first five months ot the cur- rent fiscal year, the drop was $5,- 531. SS6 compared with the same per. lod a yoar ago. During the month of .\»gust last, customs duties declined from $8,219,- S92 to $5,653,381. This drop was not quite offset by the increase in excise taxes, from $5,888,860 ot $7,595,281. Excise duties fell from $4,641,316 to $3,708,290, while there was also a small decline in sundry collections. For the five-month period the de- crease in customs duties amounted to $16,074,803, the figures for 1931 being $47,792,720 as against $31,717,- 917 for this year. Excise taxes, however, rose from $18,105,033 to $32,939,905, an increase of $14,834,872. The decrease in excise duties for the five months was $4,242,313, the figures being $22,238,105 for 1931 and $17,995,883 for the current year. Sundry collections dropped from $435,586 to $385,943. Total revenue for the five months was $83,039,649 as against $88,571,- 536 for 1931. For August the total revenue was $17,009,176, compared with $18,817,- 007 for tho same month last year. Voice From Air Directs Motorists Through Traffic Stratford, Conn. â€" Motnri.-ts pass- ing through this city were surprised recently to hear, from an apparently invisible source, such crisp instruc- tions as "Move over to the right side of the road, Connccticult registration J-01" and "Your left rear tix"e is flat, | No. 35G8." Investigation revealed a booth at the road's edge, occupied by New Heavyweight Threat Swiss to Electrify all Trains nerne.â€" With 8S per cent of the Swiss federal railways already olertrt- 1 fled, it U announced that tha last (ymlhiirnlng locomotive will ba re- tired from service in 1949. I a polioonian who admonished traific through a radio-controlled amplifier. I The booth was constructed in the ' centre of the town on the order of I Chief of Police William B. Nichols.! who hopes by this method to relieve i police motor-cycle service on the con- , gested thoroughfare. Every slip-up j on the part of a motorist was noticed | and corrected by the watchful sen- tinel in the booth. Fix>m time to time he intoned through his loud | .speaker. "This is a crowded city. Be careful." Travel by Plane Gains 100 Per Cent, in Gt. Britain Ijondon. â€" Rapid growth of air travel is shown by the fact that 13 years ago only 20 passengers left Croydon in an average week, now 2,- 000 leave that airport weekly. This 100-fold increase promises to be rapidly cx.-eeded, for in the first .six months of this year Imperial Air- ways carried 30,000 passeng.^rs from Croydon alone, as many as the total carried during the whole of last year. It i.s now po.ssible to book by air fr^m C'niydon for 130 continental, centres apart from Empire services. I .lack Doyle, who recently celebrated his 19th birthday says li.-'s gdiiig to knock the spots oft Pettlfor. He la regarded as promising heavyweight material by Ftrltlsh fight fans. Jack's also an accordion addict. Soviet Peasants | Must Rent Horses Moscow. -The Soviet Government has ordered "individual" peasants to! place their draft horses at the dis- ' posal of the collective farms. j The peasants will rent their horses : when they are needed by the collee- ] tlve farms, which must not only pay ! for the use ot the animals but bear all expenses of feeding them. Tha animals will be used in tha fall sowing ot grain and In trans-' portatlon ot farm produce. First Also in Elxport of Nickel) I and Asbestos Second as I Gold Producer Montreal. â€" Canada In tfa* productloa and export of many .staple products ranks high among the nations ot tk*^ ' world. In the production ot prlntlnc paper, nickel and asbestos she leate the world, she occupies second plac* ' In the production of gold, la the oa(- I put of zinc she occupies third placa^ ! and fourth place in the production ot copper, automobiles, wheat and lead. In export trade the Dominion leads the world In exports of wheat, print* I Ing paper, nickel and asbestos, ah* I occupies third place In exports ot I wheat flour, fourth place In exports of I automobiles and woodpulp, and fifth ' place In exports of rubber tires. Ex- ' ports of these staple products maka I u): 55 per cent, of tha Dominion's . total exports of home products. Caa- I ada also ranks high in the â- world's ex- ports of many other staple products, such as lumber and timber, fish, cop- per, barley, cheese, raw furs, whiskejr, meats, farm implements, pulpwood. cattle, raw gold, silver,, rye. oats, rub- ber footwear, leather and hides. The growth of the automobile in- dustry, in Canada as elsewhere. Is ona of the most remarkable industrial de- velopments ot the twentieth century. Canada's export ot automobiles for tha fiscal year 106, the earliest date for which figures are available, amounted to 07 cars only, with a value of $G3,- 329. Tho*record ot the export trada in automobiles was reached in the calendar year 1929 at 64,863 passenger cars and 36,848 motor trucks; whilQ. under the Influence of world-wide de- pression, exports in the calendar year 1931 fell to 9,282 assenger cars and 4,531 trucks. In the last calendar year the United States led with an ex- port of 82,457 passenger cars and 48,- 248 trucks compared with 339,613 pas- senger cars and 196,758 trucks lu 1929. Other countries which rank above Canada in automobile export are tha United Kingdom and France, the dif« ference being observable chiefly ii passenger cars. ,> . Cultivate Tourist Traffic By Beautifying Highways Beaulification of highways was urged in an address by Mr. S. U. Squire, ot Toronto, past president ot the Canadian Good Roads Association at the convention in Digby, N.S. Well- kept farm residences, buildings and fences, the removal of dead trees and the trimmii-.s ot live foliage, the proper upkeep of municipally-owned public worlcs, attractive parks, lawns and gardens in large and small com- munities were mentioned by Mr. Squire as tending not only to make touring more pleasurable, but as raising property values everywhere. The subject was brought to our at- tention a few days ago by an old sub- scriber who was born and brought" up on a farm near the present City ot Stratford. Ij his boyhood days there wore low railways, no paved highways, no motors, no means ot rapid commuuication. Each com- munity was more self-coutained, and farmers and village residents vied with each other iu beautifying their properties. He said that the com- munity in which he lived was like a long drawn-out garden. But recent- ly he made a tour through Perth and adjoining counties and was greatly disappointed at the change for tha worse. The properties along tha roads did not appear to be as well kept, and there was not the pride of possession which prevailed when he was a youth. He blamed the auto- mobile for two effects. It threw clouds of dust over roadside flowers, and the local owners of cars had no time from joy-riding to beautify their places. It may be that our old subscriber was biased in his recollections. DIs. tance iu time may have made the early scenes more enchanting than they really were. The subject Is worth investigating, for. as Mr. Squires said, incoming motor tour- ists spend some $300,000,000 yearly In Canada, and this profitable trade Is worth cultivating. This, altogethei aside from the importance of culti- vating in our own people a love -ot the beautiful.â€" Toronto Mail and Em. pire. New Process Enables Factorj To Slice Wood Paper-Thin Wood can be sliced in paper-thin sheets ready for printing with type or engravings under a new process. Green softwoods such as spruce, Douglas fir. hemlock and cedar, are cut into blocks and placed on a ma- chine fitted with a very sharp knife A motor revolves a large â- wheel, driv- ing the knife with a piston movrv ment at high speed. The product is a sheet one-hundredth inch thick, shav- ed in "books" by leaving a half-inch portion of the block solid at the edge. The sheets can be torn off as needed, saws "Popular Mechanics Magarine." Hard\.ood3 can bo sliced in thin sheets that include the finely drawn forms of burls and knots In addition to its usefulness for printing, the sheets of wood are practical in the manufacture of lamp .shades, candy bcxes. etc. ' r .?• r- -^â- . â- -v^ U i-"^ Happiness Happiueas has very few wants. â€" Marcus Aurellus. "â- , \3 « J â- â-  â-  „ r I/"