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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Larp;e CANADA Ready For Anything 'Mrtiiii'd Mail Kouml tiiiillv of Burglary.' Well, oufo a ftllow cora- inlls matriraony, there's no telling what he'll doâ€" Border Cllles Star. Praiie From B.C. Ontario hu» complete rontrol over It.s own hlKhways.Il has proved IhlH by action that is most oomnu'iidaI)le. In keepinK its scenery sacred to the tourist. We read they are clean and well kept and the right of the people to the enjoyment of the road In recog- nized as Iniluding also the right to freedom from the Indisrrimimile and ohnoslouH use of advertising signs and billboards. In three years 10,000 ob- jectionable and unauthorized ndvertis- Ing signs have lieen removed from the hiehways. says The Ottawa Journal. We In nritf.sh Columbia boa.st about our .scenery. Wo have a right to, but what a much better rlglit wo would have if we only did what they do in Ontario. We could, too, only, It would geem, despite repeated promises of It. our ministers are too afraid of hurting feelings. â€" Vancouver Provlnco. Why Prices Climb The early promise of a hountoous Uruln crop on the prairies has been bomcwhat blighted by widespread drouth and a serious visitation of grasshoppers in certain areas. It now seems apparent that the west this year will not harvest a very large crop. tn fact, unless more propitious weath- er conies very soon, it appears likely that under an average crop will be pro- duced. â€" Calgary Herald. our laws or Institutions are unjii.sl, there must be ord<>rly and const ruc- tivo ways of changing them. On t>io whole we have reusun for gratitude in Canada as wa think of our social and lK)litici.l Institutions and the respect our citizens possess for law and order. â€" London Free Press. THE EMPIRE Case For the 40-Hour Week The general reduction of industrial working hours to 4l) per week Is an eminently sensible proposal, based un hard economic facts. It is surely fool- ish to have two men working long hours and one man Idle, instead of tlireo men working shorter hours and enjoying more leisure. And, thanks to Iho technical Improvements, this better distribution of work and leisure can bo secured without any lowering of the standard of living. â€" The l/ondon Daily Herald. Britain Has Led World in Disarming While tlio Disarmament Conference »t Geneva bangs fire Canadians should not forget the length to which Great Britain has gone in reducing her weap- ons of defence. The Mother Country keeps no big standing army, and her air force Is maintained at a much low- er numerical strength than the French air force across the Channel. But It Is when wo come to consider what the United Kingdom has done in reducing It.s navy that we realize the length to which the Admiralty has gone In giv- ing a pacific lead to the other nations. Great Britain has cut her naval de- fence to the bone despite the fact that Bho is the heart of a world-wide Em- pire and that her food supplies and very life dei>ond upon open sea lanes to the ends of the earth. â€" Toronto Mail & Empire. Atr-Minded India The new service outlined In the Gov- ernment of India's recent explanatory comminque promises to furnLsh India with a bold start towards the develoi>- merit of one of the beat organized and most convenient air services In the world. It is calculated to give this country a network of internal air .ser- vices and to provide speedy commimi- cation wjth other civilized nations eas and west. This will be achieved main- ly by the u.se of Indian capital; It will 1)6 worked a.s far as possible, and more and more as time goes on, by Indian personnel. â€" The Times of I(idia. Depression's Back Broken That the economic tide has turned. Is now running steadily toward gen- eral improvement, has become abund- antly clear. Since April 1 cash wheat prices have Increased 25 cents a bush- el, this in itself being a tremendous thing not merely for farmers, grain companies and the Government, but for the whole country. But It Is not only wheat that shows improvement. Mr. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, speaks of "Important ex- ivanslon In Industrial activity," Is able to show "the, greatest increase in em- ployment reported In any mouth since June, 1930." During May the payrolls of 8,106 firms showed increases, the gain being larger than the usual sea- sonal advance recorded In the last twelve years. Such facts can't bo Ig- nored. When they are accompanied by greater bank clearings. Increased car-loadings, better railway eaniings, heavier retail sales and a rise In com- modity prices, their story is clear. It Is that the back of the depression has been broken; that confidence has re- turned; that Canada and the whole of this Continent are well on tha road leading back to reasonable jirosperity. â€"Ottawa Journal. An "Unofficial Conference" The coiiference of the delegates of the nations, comprising the British (Commonwealth, which Mr. N. W. Ro- well of Canada has convened for next September in Toronto, is an extension of the Commonwealth idea, which is novel and interesting. A "purely un- offlcial conference," the delegates will not be men hampered by their position as members of the Government of their country. They will be free to ex pre.ss their views. There are, it is no- torious, wide differences of opinion as to the future of the British Common- wealth. Even In the Dominions there are considerable sections of opinion which feel that their membership of the Empire constitute.s a drag on tlieir progress. If the Commonwealth is to cohere, grow stronger and prosper, those who hold this view should bo steadily persuaded otherwise. â€" The Madras Hindu. Gr'' Sweeps Through Illinois Hoots were blown In and windows blown out when a big wind visited Chicago and nearby towns. The damage runs Into millions. Here's what happened to a gas station at Dundee, IIL British Nationality And Status of Aliens t^To Provide That Woman Upon Marriage Shall Ac- quire Husband's Nation- ality and Avoid Be- coming "Woman Without a Country" Loudon.â€" Recently the House of Lords gave second reading to a bill which provides that a woman on marrying shall acquire her husband's nationality, it her own national laws deprive her of her own nationality as a result. The bill, the "British nationality and status of aliens' bill," also pro- vides that naturalization of the hus- band during marriage shall not in- volve any change of nationality of the wife without her consent. Lord Sankoy, the Lord Chancellor, told the peers the main object of the bill was to safeguard women marry- ing citizens of the Un'ted States from losing their own nationality without acquiring that of the United States, and thus becoming a woman without a country. Ihe bill, he added, included pro- Slow-Moving China visions on which it was alone pos- Cliina is changing slowlv, and In her.i ^""'^ '° secure agreement at the pre- own way. There will be no magical 1 ^""^ """' among many parts of the now birth, no sudden awakening of a ♦"â- "•"'"S- sense of unity and a public spirit of i '^1^® House of Commons already personal .self-sacrifice, in place of the ''"^ before It a bill, defeated sis. old dan and family spirit. But China is going forward in her own manner, incomprehensible to the West. She cannot be hurried, and the way Is long. But In the end this great nation will win through to freedom and good or- der, to a prosperity as astonishing to her neighbors as she was in the days of Marco I'olo to the few stray visit- ors from the disturtied and unhappy lands of the West.â€" Hong Kong Week- ly Press. times previously, which would re- store to British women a right they 'ost many years ago â€" that of re^.-'.lB- Uig their own n.TlIonality, it they so decided, on mariiage to a foreigner Learn to Swim Swimming is the most universal ac- complishment In sport. Moreover, it Js an art that, once learned, is never forgotten. Those who learn thereby lay up a long store of future pleasures and Ideal exercise and at the same time provide against one hazard at least that lies In the way of human life. Yet many have never attempted a stroke. Particularly the youngsters should become water-wise and able to lake care of tbem.selves when be- yond their depth. Parents cannot have peace of mind while their children are within reach of deep water, unless they have been taught to swim. Since hu- manity will go near tU« water In spite of the dangers, tlio llrst way to lower the drowning rule Is by making amphi- bians out of mora human beings. â€" Kiiiftston Whig-Standard. Oominron Day Thought Canada Is still a young country. Her Institutions are yet In the making. All her systems of life are not what they might be. Her economi<: system may be far from perfect. We would do well to hold It and correct Its weak- ness, until we are certain we have lomething ready to work out which will function far better. We shall do well to maintain the ancient landmarks of constituted law and order, developing at the same time a deeper sense of Justice, for If we are to have reverence for law, the laws must be Just, and Jus- tice must be even-handed. Justice la • fundamental necessity to a sound and Udble polKical stale. When Jus- tice I« perverted a nation decays. If Former Heavyweight Champion Marries Czech Actress Berlin. â€" .Ma.x Scluneling. former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and Miss Anny Ondra, screen A splendid record of academic and j and musical comedy actress, were other successes by Indian students at j married in a civil ceremony at the lOiglish Universities and Colleges Is Charlottenburg City Hall here. covercMl by the report on the work of| Their honeymoon was spent at the Education Department of the High ^ Helllgandamm. A religious celebra- Commissioner's Office in London for) tlon of the marriage was conduclod The Hindu As Student Greenhorns are Warned To Leave Canoes Alone Comments the Toronto Mail and Empire â€" "The arrival of Leo Lalonde, a Xorlhern Ontario trapper and fish- erman, at Port Colborue in a birch hark canoe, shows how serviceable this craft is when properly handled. Setting out from Deux Rivieres, he travelled down the Ottawa River, through the Rideau Canal, up Lake Ontario to tlie Niagara River. A portage took him around the Falls, and he proceeded by Lake Erie to I'ort Colborne. He intends to fol- low the Canadian shores of the CJreat Lakes to Duluth. But Lalonde has been accustomed to a canoe all his life. Let no greenhorn try to emulate him "Mr. H. B. Dawson, of Port Arthur, writes to the News-Chronicle In de- fence of the canoe. 'To my notion," he say.s, 'the canoe Is the safest of all small craft when properly hand- led. You give sago advice when you tell the novice to kneel on the bottom of the canoe. It this Is al- ways done, there is little or no dan- ger of upsetting, but to sit on the thwart or seat or even the deck, is surely inviting danger.' Mr. Daw- -son's authority for writing thus may bo gathered from his own experiences. 'Personally, I have sailed a canoe over thunder Bay and have puddled it when launclies found ditficulty in navigating and have never felt that I was in danger, nor have I at any time shipped any great quantity of water. The canoe Is safe. Just as an automobile is safe, if it Is handled with care." "The qualilication 'wlen properly handled' in defence of a canoe applies equally to many other things. No one would think of driving an auto- mobile on a crowded street without practice on a vacant lot or elsewhere. .\'() one would enter a steeplechase he- fore learning to ride a horse. Nor would anyone give a skating exhibi- tion before learning to skate. The canoe is condemned because so many greenhorns imagine that all they iiave to do Is to step into it. For their benefit we repeat the advice given by Mr. Blomlield: 'Dou't look like a greenhorn paddling a canoe' by sitting on a thwart or seat.' ' Italy-France To Sign Pact Daladier to Visit Mussolini and Adjust Differences Paris.â€" Premier Edouard Daladier will go to Rome to sign the four- power pact July 24 and to have a private talk with Premier Mussolini in order to lay the baris for a settle- ment of differences which have mar- red relations between France and Italy since the Graat War. As a result of the lUxlian Premier's pact in which Great Britain, Ger- many, France, and Italy will join for peace, France is ready to form a two- rower club with Mussolini to show the Balkans how to keep out of war. Allied with France are the Little Entente nations, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Roumania and Po- land. Italy has strong influence in Aus- tria, Hungary and Bulgaria, and has e;.tablished good relations with Ger- many. Governmental officials say the prob- able course will be to set up a close economic system to unite commercial- ly the three French friends of the Little Entente and Italy's so-called proteges, Austria and Hungary. last year, which has Just been pub- lished. Somewhat surprisingly the economic stress of the timCvM has re- sulted in no decline in the total num- ber of Indian students seeking ad- vanced courses of study in England, and the number of admissions to edu- cational institutions was slightly grcatei'than in the previous year. The number of women students, too, con- tinues the small but steady Increase of the past few years, most of them seeking (lualificatlons in Medicine and Education. The great measure ot suc- cess won by students working In the superior faculties for senior degrees is Indicated by the fact that 12 Indians (|ualilled for the high professional medical distinctions ot F.R.C.S. or M R.C.I'., England, tour obtained the Doctorate of Science, and no less than .ll were awarded the degree of Ph.D. In various branches of learning and re- search.â€" The Calcutta Statesman. 34U.V'ir Name Offered For Rail Station in India Ma, has. The name of a new sta- tion on n branch railway in South In- dia will bo A<iikalapuramcum- Veora- pandiyanpatham if the suggestion of the authorities concerned is adopted. Two villages, Adikalapuram and Veerapandiyanpatnam, are cqui-dis- ti.nt from this station, so each claimed that its name should be used. One was iJiken and the station has been rigor- ou.sly l)oycotted by the disappointed villagers ever since. As a compromise a suggestion has been mack; that the names of both i villages l>e given to the station. "If a man wants to know what his real religion Is, he should ask himself, 'What are the things which I would die rather than do'?" â€" Dean Inge. later at Saarow, where Schmeilng re- sides. .. .... Max, at the wheel ot his own car, was cheered by a large crowd at the City Hall. He wore a blue sack suit. His bride was clad in a rose colored dress. The bridegroom's trainer. Max Machon, was the best man. Schmeilng returned to Germany June 14, after losing a light to Max Baer. A Rayleigh householder, returning from a week's holiday, found a live owl perched on his dining-room mantel- piece. The bird apparently entered by the chimney. Ertzeg Luk, a peasant ot Klutch, Bosnia, was knocked unconscious by a brick thrown in a brawl. When he recovered he walked flft miles to the nearest hospital, where the doctors found that liis skull was severely frac- tured. Canada's Part in War Is Now Being Written Ottawa. â€" With the end of the war now nearly 15 years In the back- fK'ound, the part played in that con- flict by Canada is now being oflicially written. Col. A. Fortescue Duguld, D.S.O., director of the historical sec- tion Department of National Defence, Is engaged in the work ot compiling the first volume ot the war history. While an advance copy of this initial book has been Issued, it Is understood to be devoted to mobili- zation and operations in 1914 and 19 1."; The duty of writing Canada's offi- cial war history was given to the historical section 12 years ago. The gigantic task of assembling and co- ordinating many tons of documents and the drawing ot hundreds ot hundreds ot maps has occupied the attention of the personnel of that de- partment tor some years past. Most ot this work Is completed. It Is expected that the first volume will bo published within the next eight months Air Tour Planned • Through Maritimaa ! â€" . • Goodwill Tour Set For Early • in August â€" Toronto Fly- . * era to Take Part • , Toronto. â€" Toronto will be well rep- ^ resented in the first annual Maritiqji Goodwill Air Tour over a 3,000-miji route, during which the principal cen- tres in Nova Scotia, New BrunswicTi * and Prince EdL^ard Island wiU b* • vi.sited during the latter part of Aus^ • U.st. . . The formation flight of the Toront* , Flying Club, which gained an enviabii , reputation during the last Trana ^ Canada Aid Pageant, will participati in the tour. It is con.prised of threi planes to be flown by Arthur Flaclc * the leader; Charles Le Fevre an^ • Curtis C. Bogart. . Ontario participants in the tour* , which is for the purpose of inculcab. ing the ease and safety of air travel. ' in the minds of Maritime citizena; * will take off at the Toronto Flyinj|' Club airport on Sunday, Aug. 13. Th«. tour will start from Montreal on th« , following day and from there will ' , proceed to Quebec, Woodstock, Monc- â-º ton, St. John, Amherst, Charlottetown, * New Glasgow, Truro, Sydney, Hali- ' v fa ar.<i Annapolis Royal. A new air- -^ port will be officially opened on ar- . rival of the tour fleet at Annapolil * Royal. The return flight will be vii -. the same points. At each point visited an invitaticm ', will be delivered to the mayor and •, citizens on behalf of Mayor Stewart . to attend Toro.ito's centennial celebra- tion net year. A number of Toponta • fliers and others throughout the pro- vince will participate in the tour aa a holiday trip. Among those who will be flying on - the tour are: Ernest C. French, To- ronto Flying Club director, and Mrs, * French; Sydney Cleverley, a d\rectoii of the Toronto Flying Club; Saw Foley of Hamilton Flying Club, ami • George Ross of Ottawa, secretary oi the Canadian Flying Clubs' Associa- tion. Keith Russell, past presidcn/t of â- * the Toronto Flying Club am', president of the Canadian Flying Clubs' Aseo ciation, and Mrs. Russell have als3 * cluirtercd a machine for the tour . George Bennett, noted parachubi JLinper, will also likely accompanj ' the tour. Refuses Undergo Agony Full Dress in Suminei Loudon. â€" London's clubs buzze< recently over the exploit ot the 62. year-old Duke ot Marlborougu, wh« appeared at a Grand Druids' banquet last evening clad in white linen trousers, a soft collar and shirt. In ibe course ot a speech the Duke ninth holder ot the historic title congratulated himself on his -cos tume. He pointed out kindly thai he noticed others present properlj attired in evenlog dress were mop ping themselves aud undergoing th< agony â€" in this heat waveâ€" of hard and brutal collars > ' City is 62 P.C. Illiterate Libson.â€" An oftlcial survey ot Setu- bal. center ot Portugal's sardine trade, .shows that 123.103 ot the city's 197,996 inhabitants can neither read nor write, showing an illiteracy ot more than 62 per cent. British Air Lines Double the Number of Passengeri Loudon. â€" Passenger traffic on Brit ish air lines increased more' than lOd per cent, above that of 1931, pubti^a'â€" tlou ot the 1932 report of the direc- torate of civil aviation in the All Ministry showed. The report noted an Increase ol almost 100 per cent, in passengei trafllc on British cross-channel ser vices, an Increase considerably great er than that ot foreign services fly- ing the same route. Fifty-nine per cent, ot all cross channel passengers were flown oi British aircraft in 1932, compar6< with 48 per cent, in 1931. Debutantes at 1933 Ascot Pleased Conservative Eyi London. â€" The curious thing about Ascot this year was that not onl] the debutantes wore dresses remin iscent of the Edwardian era, but alst their mothers and the old woraei chose full-length dresses of chiffoi and georgette made on long graceful lines with softly feminine trimmings, says a woman society editor. Ai as result, they appeared more graci- ous and charming than they har< for many a year. It would be hard to disapprove ol this season's debutantes, she tliinka They are very different from theii predece.-,sors of last year or th( year before. Hundreds of people wait daily for treatment at Dr. Locke's clinic at Williamsburg, the mecca of thousands who claim miraciilou.< cures and slmlghtened limbs under the powerful, nimble hand.i of the doctor. Here is a typical scene any day of the week. Arrow shows where Dr. I.i0Clce is at work. Winning Beauty Prizes Becoming a Habit of Student Beauty prizes are getting to be a I habit with .MUs Mildred Cobb. Mon ' roe student at Louisiana State Uni- versity at Baton Rouge. She's woa so many of iheni, they are "old stuff" by now In the -Monroe high school. sh< was 'Queen ot Beauty." At a South Carolina Junior college she wa-s e'ect ed "Most Beautiful" two years la I succession. She was recently uam ed the 'Ideal Girl" ot the state unl verslty, and will represent the school In a national moving picture contest to be conducted by a magazine. Miss Cobb is five feet four inches tall, weighs UO pounds, has bla» gray eyes and dark, curly hair. 1 *-â-  I Health is better than- wealth, bat the latter is always an intWMtlng i* valid.