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\l Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA. Employment IncreMlng- One i>£ the eii.ouragiiiif features of Ihf past yt>ar has boon the increade in employment in Canada in general and in the Sault in particular. Wiiile the number on relief here is the low- est sinou Aui?ust, 1U32, it is i>ointed out, for instance, by the Dominion Bureau of .Statistics that despite a de- cline in employnient durinK tlw open- ing months of the year, the index of factory employment on Ueceniber 1 was 13.4 per cent, above that of Janu- ary 1, 1933, in contrast to declines af 8.4, 2.6 and 2.7 per cent, in the years 11*32, 1931 and 1930 respectively. â€" Fix>m the .Sault Star. British Movies. A few years ago British pictures were of inferior quality and doi)endod on the appeal to patriotism for their sales. Today they depend on their awTi Intrin.sic worth, -..hich is considorabls. â€" From the Calgary Albt^rtan. Double Fracture. Dr. Margaret Strang Savage denies the reiHjrt, published in many papers recently, that she set a fracture of her own leg. She says she didn't even have a fractured log. Well, that frac- tures a good newspaper .stoiy. â€" From the Goderich .Signal. Will Need to Be. We have it on the word of a New York scientist that man will be big- ger and brainier 500,000 years from now, and at the rate problems are being piled up for p<j.sterity he will need to be. â€" From the Hamilton Spec- tator. Angels Fear to Tread. Some of our ci)nteiiipor..rios are l)e- coming reckless in their statements, evidently forgetting that an editor is no more immune from pain than any other man when punched on the nose. In the 1-Jelleville Intelligencer, for in.stance, we (ind the bald statement: " 'Girls are no longer dinging vines,' says an authority: No they are wild ramblers." That is a dangerous thing to say. We kn</%v from experience i)ecau»e v^c printed the same thing aljout four years ago. A young lady working in the office took us to task for it and, after saying many things, concluded â- with the .statement that the reason girls are no longer clinging vines is that they have nothing to cling to.â€" From the Lindsay Post. Effervescina. An infant who has consumed cham- pagne for many months is said to be in perfect health. Bubbling over with it, in fact. â€" From the Brockville Rec- order. Would Causa Trouble. We picked up the Sault .Sto. .Marie Star and saw a two-column heading in vei-y black type which said: "Says Women Can't Have Beautiful I/Cgs Be- fore 28." Jim Curran may gel away with that in Algoma, but if we tried it hei-o we know the girl at the switch- board would be calling up to say: "There's a deputation here. Will you SCO them now?" â€" From the Stratford Beacon-Herald. Making Motorists Courteous. Many citizens, we have no doubt, w^ho have been .-prayed by the goo churned up by pa.ssing motor cars have felt that there should bo recourse to the courts in such cases and, the Ham- ilton magistrate making it clear that there i.s, drivers who swish through roadside puddles in the future may find themselves knee-deep in grief and woe. Those who will not he courteous of their own accord must be made so, and a bespattei-ed citixenry will raiae loud cheers the first time one of thaw; ofTenilers in haled to court.â€" -From the Hamilton .Si)ectnt<ir. The Starchless Potato. A few days ago the president of an Knglish potuto marketing organi- zation remarked at a meeting that times had been bad for tho [wtato glower iKvaufte of the craze for slim- ming by the womenfolks, but he saw a ray of hope for the industry in tho belief that tho slimming IumI about run its course and women arc goinjf back to curves. Result â€" they will oat two |)otatoes where they formerly toy- wl with one. There is another hope, however, in •n announcement from MomtreaJ. Two professors there have been experi- nx-ntinir with the lowly potato, and, while they are not yet in a i>o»ition to cry "Kureka," there Is solid ground for liolieving they are on lh« way bo de%eli>ping a !rtar<-hl«>« tul>er. This in done l>y giving tho seed ix>tat» a Hhot of a n<rw hacilltm which is ex- tracted from hay. This baccilus ooo- verti* the xturohy part of the (xitato into <«u|far. That again .sound* bad, but it is not th« cloying tyi>« of siugar found in syrup or homiy. It !• the fnnocuoua kind found in fruit, tuch M appl<>fl or li^rriott. So ladies and (rentlemen, y<ou who like your plat4M piled up with pmla- hMM, there may be a good Uma coming. - Froni the St. Thomas TimwJournHl less than it had been in the like period of 1932, but its landed value showed an increase of over $001,000. Landed value total, oa shown by statistics gatheriHl and compiled by the Doniinr ion l)e| artnient of Fisheries, but not yet revised, was nearly $11,190,600 as compared with $10,589,235 at No- vemU-r 30lh, 1932, although total culch was C,722,755 hundredweights as against 0,736,650. Betterment in the later months of the 1933 period explains the gain in landed value.â€" From the Bran<lon Sun. Smell and Taste. When one has a cold nothing scem« to taste right, Tlie wife may have done her best with the apple pie, the mashed potatoes may be aa fluffy and smooth aa you desire, but it's a task to down it. There's a simple reason for it. A cold obstruct* what scien- tists call the olfactory epithelium, lo- cated in a little niche in the skull just above and behind the nostrils. It'a your smeller. The senses of taste and smell are so closely linked it is almost impossible to say, ."wmetimos, which is which. Sugar and salt are excep- tions. We cannot detect them by smelling, aa a rule. â€" From the Sarnia Canadian-Observer. This Much Is Certain. That fan dancer, marooned for a week on bleak Whisky Jack Island, in Lake Winnipegosis, hasn't told her ex- periences yet, but it can be presumed that she didn't do any rehearsing. â€" From the Brantford Expositor. THE EMPIRE. Secrets Well Guarded. Sir John Simon's tribute to the Foreign Office staff was well deserved. .'Vnd, indeed, ho might have extended it to the whole civil service. "Secret and confidential" documents, supixjsed to be seen only by a few high officials and icsix)nsible ministers, are, in fact and inevitably, seen by typists and .•â-  tenographcrs, clerks and printers. Knowledge that could be .9old profit- ably "in the city" is often in the pos- session of civil service whose pay is certainly not excessive. Yet "leak- ages" hardly ever occur. The tradi- tion of trustworthiness is an incalcu- lably valuable nation asset. â€" From the I/ondon Daily Herald. Facing Realities. May it not even l)c that there is an eternal struggle for survival in which nations, like the rest of Nature, take part, and out of which they cannot contract without peril of destruction? That at least is a working hyjxjthesis which we think it wise to take into account. Our forefathers accepted it cheerfully and c<;)UTageously and con- trived to survive, and for our part wo do not look for any new world which shall superannuate tho loyalties and tho precautions of the old. The (ireek democracies could not persuade Pihilip of Macedon to disarm; their only chance lay in the strength to re-sist his invasions. All democracies, all governments, all .societies, now as then, must be prepared to defend themselves or i)erish. As we look out u|H)n tho world, convulsed in parts with upsurging nationalisms, control- led in other parts by enthroned tyran- nies, we reflect that these are apt to be boUi hostile and rapacious; that wo live â€" as man has always lived â€" in a dangerous world; that life it.self is dangerous; and that nations were probably ortlainwi as the be.vt means of protecting the otherwise naked and helpless individual. Better to take ac- count of these things than to bohave iis if Ihey did not exist. â€" From the Morning Post. Still Jailed for Debt. Although the pathetic story of the debt^)r who was detained in pri.son while his twx) children died is unusual, instances of similar liardship on a less tragic scale must l>e frequent. The total number of debtors imprisoned in England annually exceeds 20,000. The cre<litors have tho doubtful .satis- faction of legal vengeance, but they do not get their money; hardship is C4»u.sed to wives and children, ami the .State is put to considerable expemw. There is hope that tho Speieal Conv- mittee's reportr-which will not be roa<ly for some months yet â€" will simplify the problem of doing justice to debtor and creditor in equal mea- sure. â€" Daily Mail. I Canada's 8sa Harvest. t-Htrh from C(ina<ia's sea fi»luii( - u. Ibe .'^rst eleven month?< of \'Xi'A wii- British Policy and Dominions While it is true that (lujwtion.s which onoe might have raiseil long ami de- laying (li.scuiMiions are now "more and more matters of mere adjuatment," it ia also true that the n«jw closeness between Groat Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth haa led to great- er sensitiverneas r.nd independence. The links of Empire have become shorter and perhaps more tenuous. A policy <rf "British agriculture ftrst," If it U not handled with extraordinary cau- tion, irtay have serious r«aeti<vna on the economic ami, therefore, also on the political future of the Dominion.'. | --From the Manc'lio-'lor Guardian. Two Ways to Same End. In Brilttin we have tried to end the ! i>i» by hulniiiii'tf the Iludgot. The , : to d" the same ly unbalancing the Snowshoe Champ. Russia Second to France In Military Air Stren^^ London. â€" The Soviet air force Ls the second strongest in the world, Prenxier J. kameay MacDon&ld admitted in the House of Commons in reply to a state- ment to that effect by C^pt. Harodd Balfour. France ia first. It has been estimated here t^t the Russians po.sjicSKed approximately 1,400 plaiies of first^line strength, al- though the total military stren^^h is unknoiwn. The United States is estimated to Comfort Crows For Air Crews Less Noise and Plenty Room in New Flying Boats of London, EJiig.â€" Comfort hx, recelT; ed considerable attention in the late^ buHt tig passenger 'planes. StaA accom-modatlon in the new â- Porih". 'class flying boata. In the .Mt;d:terra», i,„ 1 n-A c i V 1 J .. ^ , ^'^ service, lias earned many adralr^ have l,OoO first-lme planes and a total j^^ comments. . military strength of 2,300. The United States hitherto had' been ranked by most military experts as second to France. i .Amidships, for example, is the oA cers' quarter.? or wardroom. This |j equipped with a hinged pneumatlg settee berth on either side whlct Premier MacDonald also admitted torma seats by day, or can be foldej Balfour's contention that the Soviet up to give ample floor tpace. Each air force ia 60 per cent, tronger than' berth ia fitted with llfe-lineg an4 the British Royal Air Force and the cou'd bo used as a raft hi emerijemcy. fact that the Soviet had amwunced its 1 Behind the berths are lockers for Ul Walter Toung, Montreal, winner of the 12-mile International snowshoo race held at Manchester, N.H., during the annual conven- tion of Canadian and United Slates snowshoe clubs. Budget. If you believe in having a deficit, it is only logical to have a big one. All the same, the size of Mr. Roosevelt's deficit is staggering. It would be foolish to apply the ordinary standards of comparison to policies such as these. America, in her war on depression, is spending on the war- time .scale. Let us hope she avoids the financial aftermath of such extrava- gance. â€" l''rom the News Chronicle. Britain's Drought Scare. It is not as if there was an in- herent deficiency of water in this coun- try. Wales could supply the whole nation. A number of cities have a great surplus. The Government must sot up a Central Water .\uthority and take the proper steps to ensure that this authority, through regional or- ganizations, efficiently distributes the available water. â€" From the Daily Herald. The Lesser ot Two Evils. Facto are staring Europe in the face. One of them is that in the ab- sence of a disarmament agi^eement, Germany will re-arm in freedom from any restriction â€" even though the So- cialist party is "irrevocably opposed" to her doing so. The choice before the nation is that between regulated ani unregulated armaments. The Govern- ment is devoting all its energies and all its prestige to rescuing the world from .such a disaster as the .second of those alternatives.â€" From the London Daily Telegraph. THE UNITED STATES. Light-Keepers. They were queer chaps, the.se liglil- hou.se keepers. One at Buzzard's Bay requiretl an inspector to wear felt slippers over his .shoes "to keep the saira clean." At Isle Royal Light- house, on a r<x;k of Lake Superior, a keeper had obtained his post by agree- ing to marry, with the result that his wife brought twelve children into the world. Appointments used to go by political favor, until in 1896, Orover Cleveland put the lighthouse |>eople into the civil service. A light-keeper on the Columbia River had only two days off in twenty-three years, and on one of these days he got married. A hard life, but it developed a sturdy race. â€" From the New York Times. Collision Involves Fifty Autcsnobiles Harwich, England. â€" During a recent fog, 50 cars participated in a colli- sion ou the main Liverpool road. Which car began the jam was not discovered. All eacli driver could see was that there was a car ahead of him and one behind. Visibility was not more tlian five yards. Half tlio cars that came upon the jam hit the car In front. There was pandemonium for half an Jiour. Every horn screeched in a vain effort to gel tho car iu front to move. When at last the ]ara began to break up most ot the cars that had | escaped collision In arriving hit an- other car or was hit in departing. Nearly every car ot the fifty was damaged. intention of attaining first range in the near future. Champions of British air re-arma- ment were heartened by the admis- sions, believing they indicate liberaj air appropriations soon. The military air strength of the lending powers is estimated as fol- lows: First Line Total Strength, France 1,650 3,000 Russia 1,400 United States ... 1,050 Italy 1,050 Britain 850 Japan ... 800 to 1,000 V and canteens for food and crockerjr A detachable banging mahogany tabU with metal tubular supports is slunj from the frames overhead when nee4 ed; when not In uee It can be stor«4 away under the starboard berth. • Watertight Bulkhead The wardroom Is Insulated againaJ exceteire noise. Hinged electric fan* at the elde ports provide vt-utiiatloB when the boat is anchored. There is plenty ot room; when berths an4 table are stowed away the clear spaci measures seven feet In leneth and' breadth end six feet In height, jj, the rear ot the room la the engineer's station, equipped with oil and water thermometers, oil pressure gaue;es, ^ - ^ watch, and radiator shutter 'conirote. Across Country for Blind ; Dividing the wardroom fi'om th«* Toronto.â€" -Captair. E. A. Baker,! ""^""^ Quarters- is a watertiglit bulb' general seci-sta.-y of the Canadian Na^i '''^^^' ""^"^'^ ^'''^ * ewlng dodr. tional Institute for the blind, told the! * annual meeting of the institute's wo-j Now Believe End men's auxiliary that the organization Df WrtrU ic Moas ' would begin soon to circulate "talking ^ „ ^, ,, 1,, ^^ "^ , ^^^*' • - - - *« Gallup, N.M.â€" The end ot the world is near, say the N'avajo medicine men, because two pairs ot twins have been avajo w'omen in two days. 2,300 1,507 1,434 1,939 'Talking Books" to Circulate books" across the country. The "boolcs" he explained are long phonograph reco7-ds, containing about I J!^!!^"!" ''J' 3,600 wvrds on e<tch side which may be foUted. Each may bo played about ItK) times before .-hoft\'ing wear. The institute was launched a little less than 16 j-^ars ago. Girl Completes 1200 Mile Walk Miss Esther James, a Now Zealand girl, has just completed a 1,200 mile walk from MeJbcume to Brisbane in Navajo medicine mon believe a'l chll. dren must be born before the end ol time, explained Dr. R. H. Pousnia, sup erint&ndent ot Rehoboth Navajo Mia sion Hospital. Twins are rare U tribe, only Ave pairs, includin? these two, having beou bom in the hist sij years. Finland Buying British 'Planes _ Helsingfors. â€" Orders for 17 nen 77 days. She stopped at a number ofi ?®''°P'''"®^ '^'"^ shorfy to be placed places on the way to lecture and ad-' ^^ "'® Finnish War OtBce. and new* mire the scenery. I P'^P^''^ ^'^ Helsingfors state that th« With her she carried a pedometer orders will go to Britain. « How to Get Ideas Says the Lindsay Post. â€" "An old de- finition has it that journalists, pre- sumably the WTiters for the bigger papers, come down to work in the morning and if they have no ideas they go out and play a round of golf; the reporter, or worker for a small newspaper, comes to work in the morn- ing and if he hasn't an idea he goes out on the street and interviews some- one who has." Asks Friendship for Foreigners in Canada ''The poorest fed ro.-?ident of this city gets a greater fotvl allowance than' tho 'poor' in Ru;;:-.ia," declared Baron-' ess B. doHuock, who is. of tho Russian' nobility', in an ;uklrc.s.s in Toronto. She| urge<i a grentwr frini.ciship for the .so- cnlle<i "foreign" Canadians within Canadian lH>rdcrs. which showed that she tookfour mil- L J"-! '''^^ °'°'' f "^^'« ^"J f,'"!and', lion steps, and as Miss Janves's ^ho^\[TZTd^r: " S r .C"'-', ^f 'f 1 -«r/'^ Recentl/- the Finnish War Offi« Mted the equivalent of 1,<80 ton^. ! o^aored 13 aerop'anes from the Fok ^'I'^l^.l ^^ J^ r^"^*^. ^'?'??' ker Works in Holland. These w^, ot the Fokker C.V.E. type equipped with Bristol Pegasus engines. Elizabeth Arden Gets Legal Separation . io-™«l ^^'^ York.â€" The Dally News sayi a iarg« I jljjjf Elizabeth Arden. ly known beauty specialist, lias ob A Happy Landing miles through New Zealand in 128 days, •> Honey Production Up in Quebce Quebec.â€" The sUitistical division of the Dopt. of Agriculture notes .^ ^h„. c,,. v, .,. . , increase it. pnxluction of honey during i Lkn^nhtnt '*"""• â-  '^'fT°''^^ the past year. The total amount of I ^P^Tw^r '^ ^P^'^i'^'' If^ isiTirmr. r. ''''r\ " t.?wV;io'r^ir;rr S',: 3 y >o f ; , I o^'^^'n u, ^ ~f^'' «S^^ °f ^^'- ""^i''^^' The decree wa, 400 pounds, against 236,000 pounds a granted iu Manhattan Supreme Court year ago; and thei-e wxn-e 53,700 early this month, the paper sav.. pounds obtain xi for wax, conn>ared "Elizabeth Arden" was orisina'lj with 44,600 in 1932. The average pro- Florence Nightingale Graham, borti duction per hive was 53.2 jwindB for: In England and educated In Canada extracted hone>-; 4.1 pounds for comb | .^ honey, and .76 pounds for wax, ! c„k^...l » i *A i' 1X7 d I against 25.4, 2.49 and .47 pounds re^ â-  ^<^n00« to get AntrWar Bool Toronto. â€" The Ontario DoiKirUuenl ot Education announced recently tiiai it would purchase tor distribution it Ontario public schools, 5.000 copies ol Beverley Nichols' "Cry Havoc." ri do nunoiation ot war. The author wai educated in Hhigland. Premier Henry as Minister ot Eda cation, gave instrucitions to buy th« book. Every inib'ic school iu On tarlo will receive a copy. .V _ pectively in 1932. Blames Williams For Silly Spelling Professor of English Scores the Conqueror and Caxton Washington.â€" Dr. Dewltt C. Crois- sant, head ot the EnglLsh department ot Ceorge Washington University and an advocate ot simplified spe'llng blames William tho Conqueror and another William, Caxton, tho first Must Return Ring If Engagement Ofi Chicago. Young women contem plating matrimony will be Interested in knowing thai a Chicago court hai Ensllsh printer, who imported Dutch 1 held that an engagement rins is not printers, tor what he terms "our silly j a gift, and must be returned if th« spelling. I mnvrlage cerenionv is not ppiforuied Tho Outchmen put the h iu "ghost" , Th's ruling Wds made bv Municipi and (vu-g-h In "through," ho said. I Judge Howard Haves ir a juK Ho saw no reason why "beauty" Is broiKlit bv l^v.h Howell tor re.-jv more beautiful than "duty." and In I general, he felt that as a result of • complexity and confusion English [ spelling is approaching the Chinese ideographic syt teni- in many schools. ' he said, pupl's don't study tho alpha- bet and learn words as pictureis. ery of a ring given his girl friend who allegedly brok© the engagement â€" <.- No Advertising On Australian Radic Sydney. Ausralia. â€" -Austraia's "A' class radio stations do not sell tiini for advertising, but are supporte< entirely by the licence fees paid bj owners of sets. The system is no* well established and neither govern ment nor people wou!d tolerate anj change. With a population of onl; six and a half million, there n^nv an 514.287 Iicenci>s in force, and in No vemher tlie new licences lolal e< 12.380. -« â€" "Brown remlndi me of a donkty •ometimet." "Ye«. he doet m«kc an ats of himssK quite often." .When Iheir aeroplane wa.'? driven Into t hush these fliers. Tlobert Ooylea, I.py Coppage and Vernon MayllMd, cscapcil d.'i!b \\';.-\ Cup- page stalled the arooplane atop a tree. DIFFICULT An ivcaped inmate of a mental home in America !» thought to have Joined a Jazi; band. Tho authorities are faceil with the hopeless lastk of singling him out in a jaiz hand. â€" Pasvslng Show. New Motor Meat Ship London. â€" The motor-vessel. Port Chalmers. the first ship aprcialljr efluipppd to carry fres-h meat from New Zea'and and .\nstralla io the Cnited Kingdom on a commercial s.x>ale. left Kin.s OtHirse V. IK>cks. Caniiiiig Town. E.. on her nnideo vo.vago out recently. She Is the first of nine ships ordertxd for the New Zt»aland food trade which wil' c.irry fnili a« well a.« immense qimiitit:ee of meals and dairy produce.