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Voice of the Press Cinada. The Empiie and The World at Large | CANADA Doctor Bill A single germ wllliout dependents can live Indefinitely on a dollar bill, according to science. Tliata one ad- Tantiige th« germ has over of us.â€" North Hay Nugget. the rest Appropriate Penalty Several dental offices In Ontario have been visited by robbers search- ing for gold. If they are caught, the penalty might be a few hours In the dentist's ciialr. â€" Ooderich Signal. Optimism in the West Western canadu, with Its large yield Of farm jiroducts, and Us pos.slbllitles •t vastly greater production, should not be discouraged about Its future. The world managed to consume the production of vast areas of new lands iuring the past sixty years without my apiMirent Indigestion until the pre- lent depression came along. A re- Itoration of good times would im- Bxediately see Improved uemand for farm products. And there are no great new lands similar to Western Canada, Argentine and Australia, still to bo opened for agricultural development. â€" Calgary Herald. Then and Now There is a suggestion to build 500 homes in Hamilton at a cost of $1,500 each. Do you remember when plenty Of folk were ready to pay that much lor a garage? â€" Stratford Beacon-Her- ald. Youth Has Faith In Future Despite all the University graduates ^iho are looking for jobs â€" the universi- ties continue to be filled with students. The youth still have faith In the fu- ture. â€" London Free Press. Hard to Realize Traffic through the Sault Ste Marie Canal in September was the heaviest In any month since 1930, totalled 8,- 45;!. 000 toBS. Wonder how many of U-s realize there Is more traffic through ilie Sault Canal than through the Suez Canal. â€" Ottawa Journal. Greatest Gifts We are at one with Editor Young, of the Port Arthur Newa-Chronicle in bis eulogy of punkla pie. It Is Heav- en's greatest gift to man, it and a good fcet of dependable galluses.â€" Sault Ste. Marie Star. Why Editors Go Mad They are being made by someone every day. Ilecently, a regrettable but rather humorous erro;- crept into ihin column when it said that the an- nual banquet of the Baseball Club was "hell" at Caesaea. Needless to say, this was a typographical slip and the ^ord should have beou "held."â€" Port Hope Guide. Air Traffic Figures presented at the meeting of the International Air Traffic Associa- tion In Ijondou show that the world's air lines cover to-day more than 200,- POu miles as compared with 9,000 miles In 1928. Air transportation has thus IJiade immense strides in the last five years and may be e.xpected to advance ^n an even greater scale In the ne.xt Ave. â€" Kingston Whig-Standard. The Tourist Traffic The tourist trade has become a real eouree of wealth to Canada. Kvery year thousands of foreigners come from all points of the American Con- tinent to visit UB and leave mililons pf dollars in the province. â€" I,a Tri- bune, Slierbrooke. Discovery Vossir, education is a marvelous thiug. Student group at NorthweKtern â- University, after exhaustive investiga- tion, has come to the startling coiiclu- â- ion that girls like to be petted! â€" Border Cities Star. A Motorists' "O. M." Over in Great Ilritain they have an organization among motorists called the British Order of the Koad. It is a very hard Order to get into and an eaihy one to be put out oi. It consists ?inly of those drivers who operate heir cars with the strictest observ- anee not merely of rules and regiila- tfons. but of courtesy and the etiquette of the highways which is so often con- apicii'ius by its abHence. It Is a demo- cratic order, albeit e.xciufllve In the extreme. Members of the royal family belong; go do certain (ruck drivers, fiat so olosely are performancs watch- ed, so rigidly are would-be membors â-  ciullntzcd for the one qualification thiit. countsâ€" driving as neurly perfect as possible â€" that there are only 2,250 m" lubers of the order In the United KIniidom, and the Insignia is the most ^eiiily prized gadget the motorist can display on his car, u sort of motorists' Order of Merit, attainable only be- ^ait.He It has been earned, and display- ed only so long as its Htandards are maintained. There la room for an Or- der of the Roa/i right here In Canada. Wlgr does not somebody or some or- Ktiiizallon start one, make II hard lo Kei into and hard to stay in, and let Uie ;neniber8hlp thereof give the mul- ^liidlnous "nntslders" something io ^<'.)e f*>r? -The Montreal Uall^ Star. Great Britain Electrified With characteristic Kritlsh thor- oughness the problem of providing Kngland, Scotland and Wales with electricity lias been carried to com- pletion. Eight years ago a royal com- mission reported upon a national eli'c- trlclty .supply. Parliament passed the necessary legLslation and last month saw the completion of the entire scheme. Four thousand miles of traiis- mi.sslon line have been built. They rest on 26,2G5 steel towers. This is the so-callei' electrical grid, or pool, which now c()\ 3r8 practically all parts of Great Britain. It is an immense achievement. When the Weir Com- mission reported the per capita con- sumption of electricity in Great Britain was 1X0 kilowatt houri. Today it is 273 k.w.h. The scheme has cost $135,- 000,000, exclusive of $50,000,000 spent on the standardizing of frequency, or In other words, on the scrapping of equipment which could not he harmon- ized with the national network. â€" Win- nipeg Tribune. THE EMPIRE Strongest Horses Liverpool claims the strongest horses hi the world, and that tliey are the. descendants of those that the Britons used in their battle against the Ro- ! mans about the beginning of the Chris- tian era. Two of those horses actual- ly pulled eighteen and a half tons on a slippery road, and two others pulled twenty-nine and a half tons on a dyna- ' niometer built to register only twenty- 1 nine tons. | The Campaign Against Noise Leagues that are formed with an "anti-" something programme usually aim at serving the crochets of minori- ties who think that what they want ! everybody else should be made to ' want. No such qualification attaches ! to the Anti-Noise League. Noise has become one of the major curses of civilization â€" if you can call civilized' an era in which regard for all the old | decencie.s of life has largely gone by j the board â€" and I prophesy widespread public support for tlie League. Us pur- pose Is definite and practical â€" to on- : list such a force of public opinion as ^ will induce the authorities to regulate by law certain forms of noise which are manifestly injurious to the com- : fort, health, and repose of the com- ; munity at large, as well as being dam- aging to efficiency and the amenities ' of numerous urban localities. "Bid every noise be still; pence yet again." â€"-Truth (London). The Post-War World "I am twenty-five. I was seven wlicn , the War broke out. My memories of i tlio pre-war world are perfectly clear, i although, of course, they are the mem- , ories of a child. An undergraduate ot- nineteeu was born in 1914. He can j have little recollection of the War at | all. His earliest memories are of the | first War years. A young man of | seventeen just about to go to the Uni- j versity has the same recollection ofi the General Strike as I have of the j Armistice. Change after shattering, change lias come upon us and the ; varying effect of these impacts upon | our childish minds iias created a gen-, eration without homogeneity â€" a gen- j oration all at sea. The mental chaos of our parents has created great ver- j tical divisions between us of class, of; opinion, of manner of life. The hani-| mer-blows of history have made hori- zontal divisions. We have no common | conclusions, no common background of memory. Our lilgliest common fac- tor is the common experience of re- volutionary change, our one point of ^ agreement the necessity for further' changes in the future. â€" Quiton Hogg, in The < jinililll Magazine (London). , Wise 'Marketing i The woolgrower lias also prepared , the way to gain by the turn In the , tide. He has faced the conditions, met | the market and cleared his stocks. 1 There is no heavy accumulation, no, carry-over of any dimensions to clog the wheels of progress. This point has often been mentioned before, but it deserves all the empliahis It can be given. It Is the dominant factor. â€" Auckland Weekly Ne'ws. Travelling Comfort Probably the most comfortable train in tlie world will start its daily runs between Forth Worth and Texarkana soon. It Is gasoline propelled, runs on rubber tires, carries 76 passengers and has a speed of 75 miles per hour. Employment Is Better in Ontario Improvement is 25 Per Cent. Over Corresponding Per- iod Last Year Toronto. â€" Employment in Ontario has improved by approximately 25 per cent, this Fall over the corresponding period last year, according to Hon. Dr. J. D. Monteith, Ontario Minister of Labor. Many men, it Is .reported, have called at employment offices during the past few weeks to have their names crossed off the list of appli- cants. This is believed to indicate jobs are less scarce Twenty-five lumberjacks have been called to Sudbury to work in the bush there. Those are the first to be sent north since the start of the depression. Reports that employment had showed dellnito improvement were verified by the Ontario government eniployment offices, where, it is stated, conditions are definitely on the mend, improving "definitely and persistently." Kingsford-Smith's Record Lowered by 11 Hours Derby, West Australia.â€" Charles T. P. Lum and three companions arrived here at 4.15 p.m., Greenwich meridian time (11.15 a.m., E.S.T.), Oct. 19. es- tablishing a new record tor a flight from England. The fliers beat the record of Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith by 11 hours. The latters time was seven days, four hours and 44 minutes for the flight by stages. In, a final burst of speed after it had seemed the clianees were gone, the quartt completed the journey from England in six days, 17 hours and 45 minutes. Snow Plows Make Their Winter Debut Letlibridge. â€" Snow plows went to work in Southern Alberta sugar and beet fields Oct. 23r(J as an aid to dig- ging operations. Witii 14 inches of .snow on the ground and 20,000 acres of beets still to be dug_ growers are making every effort to save the l)alance of the crop. Owing to the heavy snow some ranchers have been forced to start winter feeding of their flocks and herds. Child Plays in Court Nearly Hits Official Calgary. â€" What's a courtroom In the life of Mr. and Mrs. Dach's two-year- old boy? Just a place to play. Dur- ing the bearing of his motlier's divorce action against his tatlier, the Dach boy climbed beside his mother in the wit- ness box, munched candy for a while, and then threw a heavy inkwell, nar- rowly missing the court reporter's head. He was taken outside. King Helps Old Actor London.â€" From Buckingham Palace the King has sent a private gift of i;3 to a workless old actor who wrote asking His Majesty to aid him In getting a pension. The actor, A. T. Minton,' p'ayed with Wilson Barrett. Sir Ren Greet, and H. B. Irving under the name of "A. E. Mayne," and, at one time, ran his own company. His first engagement was at Sad- ler's Wellij in 1888 wJiere he played in melodrama as the "ruth'.ess vil- ain" and invariably repented on his deathbed in the last actâ€" for 25 shil- lings a week. Now, at Gl, he has hawked fish, sold Christmas cards, and read newspapers to men more e'deriy than himself for six shillings a'week. Harry Tate used to say Miiiton's Impersonation of Wilson Barrett was more like Wilson Barrett tlian Bar- rett himself but the I.K)ndon .stage of 1933 has no use fof "old-type en- tertainn-ent." The £3 came from the King's pri- vate pocket. The words "Privy Purse" were crossed out on tr.e receipt and "Received as a dtmation from His Majesty" was written over it. The advertisements bring you news of better things to have and easier ways to live. Japan Leads World Th Trade Expansion London.â€" Japan led the world in percentage of foreign trade expan- sion during tlie first six months of 1933, a Board of Trade survey shows. Japan's foreign trade during the period was 55.3 per cent more than in the corresponding period of 1932. The United States showed a de- cline of 19.9 per cent, Germany 40.4. Czechoslovakia 28.8, France 10.9, and Great Britain 6.3. Australia, British Malaya, Den- mark. India and Sweden showed in- creases, ail under 5 per cent. Britons were particularly interest- ed in the Government survey because of the British-Japanese trade war, centering in the Par Kast where Japan is underselling Britain. India is the chief point of complaint. Schools for Adults Started in Georgia Atlanta. Ga.â€" Classes in adult educ. ation something long needed In Georgia, have begun at the Flat Rock School in Clayton County with the approval of the Georgia Relief Com- mission. Sixteen adults are enrolled there. Such schools are free of charge for anyone above the age of 14 who is not otherwise enrolled in a public school. Ontario Favors Pork More Than Mutton Control Machine Gun Sale Wash 'nglon.â€" The United States (iovernment has taken over control of the sale of machine guns in its war ui. rs.iketeering, through the NRA cixic for small arms. Senator Cope- 1 \'', New York Den\o\;r^t, chairman of the Senate racketeering committee, announceii the decision after oonfer- en es with President Roosevelt and / ttorney General Cumniings. Cattle and Sheep Smaller To- day Than Years Ago â€" Public Demand Variety Because the public has become more partciular about its food dur- ing the past 10 or 15 years, beef cat- tie and sheep are smalls in size to- day than they were a decade ago. And another reason is that families are smaller now than they used to be and more of them live in apart- ments. This was one of the things re- vealed in an interview with J. C. Steckley, professor of animal hus- bandry at Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph. For 11 years he has been professor of animal husbandry at O.A.C., and previous in York County. In the â-  old days beet cattle were bulky animals. Those were the times when a cut or a roast would be serv- ed up in the average families for several days. But now. Prof. Steck- ley explained, the housewife and her family want meat that is more ten- der and they want more variety in their meat dishes. They don't want a roast to last two or three or more days. They want a different kind of cut every day, or as often as they have meat served. "In sheep, the same situation has come to pass," Professor Steckley said. "The lamb now in demand weighs SO pounds. Years ago they were bigger and heavier. Less lamb and mutton is consumed in Ontario than in England, allowing for the difference in population, but more pork is eaten here than in the Old Country. Very few farmers special- ixe in sheep raising." In the hog-raising industry the weight of the animals has become stabilized at about 200 pounds. This has been the standard weight for yaars. But 15 years ago farmers fattened their hogs to weigh far be- yond this figure. Just Signed Contract Then Breaks His Elbow Toronto.â€" Eddie Burke, in training with the New York Americans of tlie National Hockey League, is suf- fering from a broken elbow, receiv- ed when he lost his balance and fell while practising. Burke, a Toronto hoy, had just signed a contract be- fore going on the ice. Woman â€" Leader Of Scots' Army Scottish Defence Force Will Fight Only for Peace â€" "First Peace Army in World Scots are "arming" â€" at least to the extent of multiplying nationalistic bodies with mihtaristic descriptioiu and poltical aims. Fascists have been g^rowing in strength in Scotland for some tim« past. They are, of course, unarmed, but they are by no meatts inactive. In addition, Scotland has now a1 least two other milit-ary or semi-mili- tary organizations â€" the "Scoits' Guard," which has originated in the West, and the "Scottish Defenc* Force," which has sprung up in th« East. THEY DISOWN IT. The "Scots Guard," which sweara loyalty to the King and is organized in companies, with company drill and physical training, claims to be formed of members of the National and the Scottish Party, though the National- ist officials deny all association with it. The "Scottish Defence Force" is an off-shoot of the Democratic Scottish Self Government Association, the chairman of which is Miss Wendy Wood. Claiming it as "the first peace army in the world," the founders of the S.D.F. -explain that it has been formed to resist conscription in the event oi Britain declaring^war and involving Scotland in it, and to insist on Scot- tish neutrality. KILTED UNIFORMS. Uniforms, including the kilt, are to be worn by the members of the De- fence Force. With the formation of the "Scots' Guard" and the "Defence Force," Scots are now wondering what will be the next politico-military organiza- tion in their midst. Pushing Stalled Car Cost Women Lives Brewer, Me. â€" Two women were killed instantly as their husbands at- tempted to push their stalled auto- mobile from the path of a Maine Central Railroad pa&Benger train. The dead are Mrs. Isaac Milton, 55, and Mrs. Hartland Bernard, 27. both of Melrose Mass. Englishwoman is Sexton of Elast Barnet One of the few remaining women sextons in England is Mrs. Caroline Stutters, of East Barnet. She has just completed her 30th year of office, and when she retires in the near fu- ture, owing to recent church legisla- tion, the post will never again be held by a woman, Mrs. Stutters succeeded her hus- band, now a Justice of the Peace, it â- 1&03, and between them they hav« been parish clerk and sexton for mon than half-a-century. Although in the past there have been a few instances of women hold- ing the office, since the appointments passed from the incumbents of par- ishes to the Parochial Church Coun- cils they have not recurred. This is partly owing to the fad that, while under the older appoint ments the sexton could legally appoini a deputy to discharge the duties ol the office, under the present system this is not allowed. And a womas sexton cannot dig graves. Although she does not actually rig Mrs. Stutters supervises everything and East Barnet agrees that there is not a more efficient parish clerk is England, Wtiv' ^"nr.- ^- FPfrAsni Warship Libraries and the Unemployed For those who know how to make use of f'uforced leisure, even unem- ployment has Us compensation. That a very large number of workless men and women have resorted to the solace of reading Is shown In .«ome remark- able figures quoted at the annual con- ference of the Library Association. It appears that In the six largest indus- trial rilioR of Krltain the uniiual num- ber of hooks Issued increased from i 18,500.000 in 192r.-27 to 27.500,000 in the Inst completed year. The country , lllinii' show an even greater in- crcii.-^t from 11,891.000 to 34,8,11,000,' Most of this extraordinary development is ofllcially attributed to the more gen- 1 eral use of libraries by persons »n«in- i pl.iM (I Spectator (l.niidoni. i THE UNITED STATES rinanclal FInetie Miin i.i the only truly Intelligent In haliilant of the earth â€" the only crea- ture that has learned how to live in luxury liy running his descendants in- to debt. -- (Krnm the Portland Ore- (onlan>. ; Fell in Apple Butter Vat Child Dies of Scald< Stratford, Ont. â€" Terribly scaldec when she stepped intj a vat of ap- ple butter Betty Carse, seven, is dead. The little girl, with her parents was visiting an aunt, Mrs. Leslie Ratz, in Mitchell. The apple butter had been left on the back porch to cool until It was ready to be taken to the Carse car. Betty stepped out the back door directly into the vat. She jumped, but lost her balance and fell down the steps to the ground, thi hot fluid splashing all over her body She wag rushed to the hospital but efforts to save her life were un availing. Beside.s her parents, she leaves I younger brother. Robert. Husbands Take Court Way to Check Gambling Wivei Philadeli>hia.â€" That proverbial shot was on the other foot here â€" six bus bands, complaining that their paj envelopes were drained while wivei stayed out late nights, had the wot men brought into court, to break uj a card game. Captain John Connor, who led • detail of police in a raid on the home of Mrs. Becky Schaefter, explained tc the court that he acted on the request of the husbands. "Ml let you off as first offenders." Magistrate Oswald told Mrs. Shaef fer and the six wives. "Don't ap- pear here asain or I'll give you live duy.c in jail. The mw a.roplaie can u d, HM.C, ('.uuasooiis. .Ie^.iihe,l as the most efliclent warship in ihp *o i<: Itiiviiig Tort.- mouth bound for fleet mau:>euvrea off the east coast of Scofand. Eat More Bread Cuelph. Ont. â€" !f every person in Canada ate one more slice of bread a day. it would mean more than $18,. OOO.OOO to mll'.ers. bakers, allied trades and farmers, said Miss Mar- garet K. Bateman, addreus'ing students of the Trent Institute and MacDonald Hall. People are eating a great deal less bread today than previously. Mis« Bateman said, and were they to In- crease consMniption It would help to decrease Canada's wheat aurplus. .;.^j^iaXt.Â¥^:j'.:^i