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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA. Well Behaved. Thp oansuB o( 1931 sliuwed that thrre were 10,376,786 people la Can- ada. Of these 8,069, 2o8 were natives of the Dominion. England contrlbutea 723.864, Scotland 279,762, Ireland 107,- (48, and Wales 22,348. Tbe remain- ing 1.122,698, plus 731 born at sea, were foreigners. Last year there •were 4,164 convicts Incarcerated In our jail.s. Of theno 2,S06 were natives of Canada, 309 Kngllsh or Welsh, 113 Scots, 40 Irish, and the remainder foreign, ^rhich lnclud«»d 307 citizens of the United States. The Irish seem to have about the cleanest record in Xtroportlon to population, but taken altogetlicr, the ppopio In this coun- try appear to be a pretty well-behaved lot.â€" Stratford lleacon-Hernld. Frances Perkins as secretary of labor, he has named Kuih Dryan O.ven, daughter of the great commoner, as minister to Denmark. â€" Lunduu Free I'ress. Canadians Receive Trophy Precedent Established. It has been pointed out tliut this Is the flrst time since the United States secured its liulependence that a British Primo MlnlKter was ever a guest In the White House Itself. In the past, as on the visit of Mr. Mac- Donald to President Hoover, the visit- ing Prime Minister has stayed at the British Kmbassy. And It is probably correct to point out that It Is the first timo In history that a Canadian Primo Minister was a house guest In the home of the President. History Is being made of a surety in 1933 and precedent established. â€" St. Cath- arines Standard. No Women Transients. Kveryone knows what a transient means. Some are worthy of help and sym- pathy; others are not. Hoth kind.s are to be seen everywhere. They art on every road and highway; every house- bolder has catered to and fed them, every town hall In every town and village has sheltered them almost every night during the past winter. But they are all men. Why? Are there no women out of work, unable to secure employment of any kind, no women hard up? Undoubtedly there are. Thousands upon thousands of them. How do they live or exist or how do they clothe themselves in these times of depres- sion? Is It pride, or are they more will- ing to work at any kind of work? Are tliey more adaptable than men, more easily satisfied? Are they more grateful tor small mercies Have they more bono and less wishbone than men; more sand or what? Whatever it is, there are no women transients, not in the country â€" Huron Kxpositor. Hurts Their Own Business. Surveys of tho parking problem reveal tbe fact that many business- men drive their own cars to their place of business, park them In spaces which otherwise v.-ould be occupied by visitors, and thus tend to Increase the parking difllculty. This Is particularly Injurious to trade on Saturdays, and otlier busy days of the week, but In sptte of various warnings, the prac- tice seems to continue â€" Chatham News. Standing Timber. Believe it or not â€" a tree that was severed completely through at the hull, after being notched, was so well balanced that It would not fall. So tho woodsmanâ€" a farmer near Ford- wich and an assistant from St. Mary's ^^Icft it overnight, thinking the wind would cause it to topple, but when they returned next morning the tree was still standing. A crowbar was necessary to overbalance It, and ths dangerous task was accomplished without mishap; remember. It was cut right oft. â€" Fordwlch Record. Home Town News. The importance of home town news In tho small town paper has been em- phasized by a large gathering of edi- tors of the smaller American news- papers In New York. Local needs and little personal Items, It was shown, pb.ssessed the strongest appeal for their readers. The dwellers In a email town Is undoubtedly mora in- terested in what Is going oo Immedi- ately around him than be is In plans, •ay, for the development of wheat- griiwlng In Siberia. It is what most immediately con- cerns us that is of tho greatest per- gonal Interest to us. That does not moan that a man In a .small town has no Interest in world affairs. In many Instances, Indeed, it will be found that the editors of small town newspapers are exceptionally well- informed upon world affairs. But they wisely Judge that their readers will find more delectable material for deliate iu the developments and hap- penings of the town In which they live than in what is going on in Tibet or Timbuctoo. There is In this nothing of narrow- ness, nothing of prejudice, nothing of email vision. It Is Just plain horse • ense.â€" Montreal Dailv Star. THE EMPIRE. Britain and the Gold Standard. It has been said that wo shall not return to the gold standard until we are convinced that other nations are ready to work the system so that it .shall fertilize the world, and not be broken down again by semi-corners. Until the World Ecoiiomic Conference has come and gone, it is not possible to judge of the i>ossibilitIes of the requisite conditions being fulfilled. â€" London Financial Times. ^ Mr. CU:VL-rle> (left) leceives from Col. Drew tlic relay trophy won in Cleveland last summer by a Canadian team comprLslng Clever- yy, J. Mullen, Ken Smith and Sydney Nesbitt. It was the first time the trophy was won by a "foreign" team. Fighting the l\^o8quito. The other day, at Edenvale, near Marltzburg, three native members of the anti-malaria staff of the Maritz- l)urg Municipal Health Department, who had been sent out to spray oil Canada Buys British Woollens A bu'lctin of the Canadian Woo.- len an.: Knit (ioods Manufacturers' Association .says: "British official fig- ures just to hand show that in the first three months of 193:i Canada was the best customer of Great Brit- ain for woollen and worsted cloth. The shipments from Great Britai.n vere, for countries purchasing a mil- lion square yards or more: First Three Mouths 1933 Canada 2,417,600 British Africa 2,284,300 Argentine 2,251,800 Denmark 1,348,200 on a stream, were attacked by native , . , „ „, , i o"" -An , , ,,, ,. , 'Irish Free State 1,2(.!,:)00 men and women, armed with sticks ^, „ , , i io.t in.n New Zealand l,lciJ,4l>'J Ji.pan 1,111,500 United States 1,004,.503 Empire Countries Purchased as Fol- lows: Ci.Tiada 2,417,600 British Africa 2.284,300 Irish Free State l,27a,,'5O0 New Zealand 1,132,400 British India 66r,,!)O0 Australia 202,900 and bicycle chains, on the ground that they were "poisoning the water." No doubt this incident seems .start- ling to white pe6ple, among whom there is a tendency to blame tho au- thorities for not keeping malaria un- der better control. It is not even an exceptional occurrence, but It is a timely reminder that. In fighting mal- aria iu tho native areas, tho same old enemies of progress that domin- ated the P. M. O. in India and the contemporaries of Copernicus and Galileo still have to be overcome. â€" Johannesburg Sunday Times. Now for a Hold-Up. A police chief says ha will arrest â- women who appear In trousers. For breeches of the law?â€" Ilegina I.eader- I'ost. The Bonne Entente In India. A century ago the European who had an Indian friends was looked on as not quite normal, a man to beware of, and an Indian who had a P^uro- pean friend may have been similarly looked askance at. But there have been changes. The increasing associ- ation of Europeans and Indians In the professions, business and the Serv- ices, the competence of Indians in ad- justing themselves to the culture and ways of Europe, the amazing discov- ery (It must have been a tremendous shock to the Europeans on whom It flrst dawned) that the Indian intel- lect is capable of great achievement in many spheres, even In those looked upon as especially European, have modified the social life of India by breaking down tho old sectionalism to a marked extent.â€" Calcutta States- man. British and U. S. Navies Watch New Invention New York.â€" Last week representa- tives of the United States navy, the British navy, the bureau of light- houses, and other shipping interests, watched the flrst tests of a "fog-eye," capable of penetrating fog or smoke screens, according to Its inventor, Commander Paul H. ifacNeil. The experiments were conducted from the bridge of the S.S. Queen of Bermuda. The device uses the prin- ciple of infra-red rays, emitted accord- ing to MacNeil's theory, by every ob- ject. The invention is capable o£ working up to a radius of 15 to 20 miles, and can locate exactly the position of an object, whether it is hidden by smoke or fog, or, if a ship, running in the night without lights. Station is Renamed Port Arthur. â€" Far in the mining hinterland, the little Canadian Nation- al Railways station at Long Lac Mine from now on will be known as Gerald- ton, Ont., named after S. J. Fitzgerald, vice-president of the Long Lac Com- pany, and its president, Joseph Erring- ton. The station is about four miles from the mine. British Medical Journal Reports 20,000 Deaths Jyondon. â€" The Brilis!. Medical Jour- nal estimates the deaths directly at- tributed to influenza in the winter out- break as some 20,000, but declares the epidemic was definitely less sev- ere than that of 1928-29. Against 10,G28.deatlis in 118 great towns this winter, there were 13,884 deaths in 107 grrcat towns in 1928-29. The population at risk this year were 4.5 per cent, greater, the deaths nearly 25 per cent, fewer. In Lon- don, the comparison is 2,033 deaths this past winter and 2,899 in 1928-29. Buoy to Mark Akron Crash Higher Hog Prices. Fiirm<»r.'» throughout Ontario are ehiird at the higher prices being paid for hogs and a still further increase Is prophesied owing to the scarcity. 'I'he farmer who continued in the hot l)usincsi will now reap the bene- fit of his good jiidmneiii.-.Clcncoc Tiaiisi ripl. Not Public Property. It luiiiiot be loo strongly i mphnsiz- pii lliaf trees growing In the country arc not publi< property, but belong to the owners of the land uiw)n which Ihcy are giowlng. Two Giielph men r.'.; nlly dlHinvered lo their sorrow wlrii they were convicted in police r(nirt of baviiig cut or damaged no teivor than il5 trees belonging to • nc.'.vby farmer and were «cntenced to Bcrvu flfleen days in jail. The owner of the trees did not want to «e:) iht men imprisoned, l>ut the Crown Atloiiiey said that there was trouble of the name desrrlptlon every year and an example should be miule. - BrOfV.ville Recorder. Fair to Fair Sex. I'M-^iiitut Roosevelt l.i evidently a beltevir In women In public life. Fol- low In;; <ip b\u appointment of Mtaa Foreign Trade. Tliero was once a butcher in a small town who was infuriated by the other butrhers who took away his custom. In order to ruin them, he converted the whole town to vegetarians, and was surprised to find that as a result ho was ruined, too. The folly of this seems incredible, yet It is no greater than that of all the Powers. All have observed that foreign trade en- riches other natiuuH,. and all have erected tariffs, to destroy foreign trade. All have l)een astonished to lltid that thi-y were as much injured as their competitors. Not one has remembered that trade Is reciprocal, and that a foreign nation which sells to one's own nation also buys from it either directly or Indirectly. â€" Her- irHiid UuHsell In Harper's Magazine. The Expansion o( Japan. (Jaintn has made |>roposnls to Hol- land for an extensive migration to Dutch New Guinea.) As Holland has douH HO little to occupy this area, pro-' bably because of the ditllculty of cop- 1 ing with lis wild trilics and tho nb- Htaclcs prusenled by its physical fea- i tures, there may be a readiness to grant Japan a coneesslon. If so. the, future will bn fraught wth altogether! new possibilities, Involving the Inter- ests' of adjacent lands and peoples.--- Auiklund Weekly News. THE UNITED STATES. Give Him Hi* Fun. There is more fun In making money than ill spending it. says a buhinesN man. All right; you make it and let u« spend It.â€" Atlanta Joamikl. Ship "Imogene" Returns | V/ith Record Seal C&tch St. John's, Nfld. â€" Records of lonji standing were broken by the sealers t'.iis ..sca.'ion, and two of th? greatest cargoes ever brought to St. John's iiave just been unloaded. BowTing Brothers announced that their steamship Imogene had dis- charged 53,6.'iB i-eals valued at $60,- 722. The weight was 1,248 tons, thir- teen hundredweight. The Imogene curi'ied more than 200 men, each of whom will receive $93.48 for the trip. The Ungava, outfitted by Crosbie & Co., and marine agencies, dis- charged 49,069 seals. While this num- lier was lower than the Imogcne's, the weight of the Ungava's cargo was greater by more than six tons. The men's share ban not been announced. The previous record was established in 1910, when the Florizel brought in 49,069, exactly the same number as discharged by the Ungava this year. Both the Imogene and the Ungava ex- ceeded the weight of the Florizel's cargo, 1,048 tons. <â-  U.S. Advertisers Forbidden Use of Prince's Picture New York. â€" Opposition by the Brit- ish Embassy has prevented an Ameri- can hat company from advertising its wr.res by use of a picture of the Prince of Wales wearin.j a straw hat. The attempt to capitalize on the p< pularity of the Prince in the United States came to light when an adver- tising agency sued the hat company for funds expended in mailing out pictures. The defendant refused to pay, on the ground the complainant had misrepresented its right to use the picture in this manner. The picture had been procured from a news photograph agency and across its back was written, "Not to be used for advertising purposes." Tho court pointed out it was a mis- demeanor to use the photograph of a living person for advertising pur- poses without written consent and held for the defendant. Two Canadians Win Research Awards New York. â€" Two Canadia. s were ifi'luded in a list of 42 awards for research in tho social sciences an- nounced by the Social Science Re- search council. Candidates -wiere cho- sen from 138 applicants. A total of $19,290 will be distributed among the 42 winners. The Canadians were: Chester W. New of McMaster University, Ham- ilton, Ont., chose prize money will be used to aid in the completion of a biography of ix>rd Brougham, and A. R. M. Lower of Wesley College, Winnipeg, whose award is for use in the completion of a study of the Ca- nadian lumljer trade in the 19th cen tury. ^1 Dog Authority Prescribes Sulphur for Spring Fever These days, which fall in the old- fashioned "sulphur and molasses" per- iod, call for extra attention to dogs Many of them, particularly in the heavy-coated varieties, feel the weight of hea\-y winter fur and it is especially desirable at this time that thought be given to their conifort. A bit of sul phur is an excellent thing to prevent overheating of tho dog's blood. It should not be in the wholly ineffective form of a hard lump of sulphur in the drinking water, but should be given in powdered form, mixed into a paste. Some dogs find a mixture of powdered sulphur with evaporated milk especially palatable and will take it as a dselicacy. It is also wise in the spring, as in the summer, to avoid I too hearty meals. And, as always, the ! dog should have plenty of clean, fresh < water. Movie Film Is Made At Windsor Castle Windsor, Eng.â€" King George and Queen Mary, something of cinema fans themselves, saw tllms in tbe making for the first time last week and seem- ed to enjoy it thoroughly. Tho King had given permission for the filming of the colorful ceremonies of changing the guard on the lawn of Windsor Castle. The cameramen set up their mech- Inery. and the King and Queen Mary, their grandchildren, the little Prln-' cesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and other members of the Royal Fam- ' ily freejuently peered out of windows at the proceedings. Explorers Leave England to Se-Ie Himalayan Peaks Plan to Map Remote Area About Little-Known Glacial Region Liverpool, Eng. â€" Five explorers have left Liverpool on a six-months' expedition to a hitherto unsurveyed region of the Himalayas. â- Ph? scene of their exploration will bo the Gangotri glacier in the Prov- ii.ce of Tehri Garliwal, about 20<1 miles northeast of Delhi. The nutitA object is to climb as many of the peaks in the neighborhood as possible, the highc-st being 23,400 feet, and t« carry out surveying work. They a!ft» hope to explore the little-known Gan- gotri glacier system. Toward the end of June, when the monsoon restricts climbing, the parly will divide, the map-makers remain- ing in the same neighborhood, while tho others hope to wander across • gigh pass into the valley of the Bas- pa, in search of a district possessing a culture Tibetan in character, where they may be able to study Buddhist art and music. AH members of the party are ex- perienced mountaineers, and members of the Wayfarers Club, of which Mr. Marco Pallis is President, or of th« Climbers Club. Mr. C. F. Kirkus, the youngest of the party, is one of tha leading Tock-climbers of Europe. He will be in charge of the map-making and photography of the expedition, Mr. F. E. Hicks is a schoolmaster and an artist. He proposes to exer-' cise his artistic gifts in the Hima- layas. He has climbed and skied in the Alps and is in charga vf the ski- ing side of the expedition. Mr. R. C. Nicholson, whose fathei built Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrockj and other famous yachts, besides be- ing a mountaineer, plays the harpi* chord and violin. Mr. Charles Warren is a distinguished rock climber and Alpinist, and a member of the Al'* pine Club. 500,000 Homeless Men in U.S., St. Louis Bureau Estimate! St. Louis. â€" America's transient popu- lation is increasing at a rapid rata, i surey by G. M. Gwinner, director ol tbe St. Louis Bureau of Homeless Men, indicates. Gwinner estimates that there art more than 500,000 men and boys drift ing about the country. Of these mor« than 200,000 are. boys under twent^ years of age, he believes. Trains com' ing into St. Louis daily bring between 2,000 and 3,200 uninvited guests, th« survey, made in co-operation with rail, road offlcials, showed. Most of thea« move on In a day or two, Gwinnel said. Motor Car Parts Free From United Kingdom Ottawa. â€" Parts of motor cars and motorcycles will be admitted to Can. ada fre« of duiy from the United Kingdotfl under an amendment insert< ed in the customs tariff last week- 'â-  By the trade agreement made at the Imperial Economic ConfereitM free importation of motor cars and motorcycles was provided for, but no mention was made of parts. Hooi E. N. Rhodes, Minister of Finance^ proposed the amendment when ths House of Commons was' coTtsiderin^ the budget resolutions in commit4es of ways and means. With little discussion the Hoiu4 p„ohed through a number of new ta.'iff items making minor changes in the rates of duty on various moto^ and machinery parts. « Banting and Bemier, Saunders Get Grants Ottawa. â€" Three eminent Canadians have been awarded their usual annui- ties for services rendered vhen the House of Commons considered esti- mates of the Department of the In- terior. Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin for diabetes treatment, re- ceives $7,500; Dr. Charles E. Sauu- ders, noted for his research work in production of wheat, $5,000, and C--ipt J. E. Bemicr, famous Arctic exi)lorer, ?2.4iH) per annum. .\ giant sea bnoy Is lnwercd over the nido of the il'^hl:ihii> Tii '. < n.'i nariiegnl l.lghl, N.J., to mark tho spot where the remains of llie dliigibls Akron were located. New Bisley Team Rules Announced Ottawa.â€" Membership on the Cana- dian Bisley team in future will be coiinuod to actual serving members of the militia forces, both permanent :\iid nun-permanent, it was learned last v.eek. The provision for ex-members iif the army who have bad at least nine years' service or ox-members of •he Canadian Kxpeditlonary Force and the British Kxpeditlonary Force has b"en abolished. ♦ â€" â-  Canada Will Not Exhibit At Chicago Fair Ottawa.â€" Canada will not Ik- an ex- i hibitor at the Chicago World's Fair ihis year. At the Department of Trade and ('ommcrce it is stated that no provision has been made for the Dominion to lartiiipate in the pxp;>- silion, and that financial reasons will' operate to keep Canada away, I Argentina Reports Only 3 Per Cent Idle Washington.â€" Unemployment iu the Argentine Is exceptionally low, accor- ding to a dispatch from the Argenlino Department of Labor. Figures show that of a population numbering 12,000,- OUO only ;!33.397 are idle, or less thatt three per cent. Argentine's principle exports ar» meat and dairy products, wheat, corn. linseed, quebracho wood, hides and wool. Its principal customer Is Great Itritatn. Son Must be Accompanied .By Mother When Driving Windsor. â€" Henry Hogan, Sand- wich, must not drive a motor car fai a year unlesis his mother accompaniet him. This .stipulation was made '.lew b.,- a magistrate who convicted Hogai of reck!esT< driving. 4 Radio Puzzle. The puzzling thing about radio ha mor is where they find people fi'.iml enough to .^It In the studio and lausl* â€"Fountain Ina, B.C., TrtbM*. , •