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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Canada Sprina â€" In Vancouver • It Beema to us that a very appra pilalu subject for editorial comment Upon such a morning aa this morn- ing is our current and local weather. Spring Is here, a month or more a- bead o( its normal season. The weep Ing willow has broken Into leaf, the lovely blossom of the Japa.iose plum is out, the dew la on the new grass In our Vancouver gardens. Spring Is Jicre, beautiful as ever and more wel- come that she Is an early comer, and days are mild and benignant, len- gthening out to opalescent sunsets that seem to renew the ancient coven- ant with beauty of earth and sky and eoa.â€" Vancouver Province. Newspaper Ethics ' Communications made to and ac- cepted by a newspaper In confidence vill always be respected; proverbial "wild torses" being Insufficient to drag the names of those making them from newspapermen. Natural- ly, the paper is legally answerable for what it prints and Is always will- ing to accept responsibility but we doubt whether any Court or any Le- gislature win ever succeed In InJuc- Jng a newspaper man to betray the code of ethics of his profession. â€" Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. Back to the Farm It is good to note that in highly industrialized Ontario the cites are losng some of their population â€" a gradual drift back to the land. This Is an excellent movement which It â- would pay Qovernments to foster In the most practical manner. â€" Victoria Times. A Tribute Because of what it has been, what It is, and what it promises to be. The Globe's ninetieth anniversary Is ail event In Canadian jouralism. Through these ninety years. It has beeu steadfast for the faith of Its great founder, loyal to the best tra- ditions of a fearless, untrammelled press, vigorous for causes that have advanced Canada. For these reasons because The Globe's tra<litions and aims are things precious to a free people and a free press, the Journal, a comparatively youthful contempor- ary of forty-nine years, is proud to lalute It. May it long continue to flourish with the years bringing It new and even greater opportunities for achieve- iments. â€" Ottawa Journal. Dress Up Old Dobbin Five years ago llio Oiggest whole- Bale harness dealers In Saskatoon •old Just $500 wortli of harness In a nhole year. Last srrlng the same company sold ?30,00C worth of har- ness. This Is one of Llie roads back to prosperity. Drees up old Dobbin and (put a blanket over some of those (fancy i)ower machines. Heredity .\mong human beings the proverb bas it that fools will not learn in any oUior school than that of experience. jBut In School and Society, published recently. It Is contended that child- ren benefit by the training which Aheir parents and grandparents bad tluough the third and fourth geera- 'i'liis Tli'-n> Is a brief report of ili' results of the examination of 1,000 irepresentatlve gifted children, with Uic summarizing statement by the Jjsychologist, Professor Terman, that children of so many superiorities rould not have acquired them all through environment Influence alone. Kot only are these children therasel- res superior, but their heredity Ig al- so "demonstrably superior." â€" (From Mie Gait Reporter). Oscision A man tau't spend all his time mak- ing up his mind what to do. Life Is •holt and tho time a man takes to Dial;e up his niiod what to do Is sub- Inicted from the time he has to do It In. It Is no sign of great Intelligence to he forever hesitating and swing. Ing from one foot to the other with, but taking a step forward. Sonietime, and the sooner the better, a man bei.'dn to start for one goal, needs to fcave one purpose big enough to make It fhny to let go all the re.it- From the Ifallfax Chronicle. It Can Be Done Reduction In the accident loll (an be effected if the motorists, realiz lOf; their responsibility, exercise ev â- er> possible precaution to .safeguard l)h<ir lives and the lives of their fel Jow travellers on the highways. This they can do by strlcti observing the fegiilatlons enacted for their safely. i>y refraining from speeding and by jiving thought and care to their dri- ving generally.â€" Frnin tlip r.iielph iM^'rcury. But They'll Try With Htreamlinetl engiiu.- uii well px i-oachcB on tlie railroads. Initk.s, •n<l automobiles will have a harder time than ever trying to stop trains at crossings.â€" From the St Tliomas Timea Journal. Sunday Law Ban* Mualo For some time the Winnipeg Sym- phony Orchestra â€" a very good one to boot â€" has been giving Sunday con- certs, which have no doubt been much appreciated by those who love good music. But the Attorney-Ceneral of Manitoba has prohibited any more on the ground that it Is a violation of the Lord's Day Act to charge for ad- mission. Obviously the concerts could not be given for nothing. So that puts the Ud on thatâ€" From the Stratford Boacon-Herald. Regulating Police Dogs Blyth has joined otlier places in putting a heavier tax on police dogs, the fee there now being JIO. In other places we have noticed it has been put as high as $25. The idea is to discourage people from keeping or breeding these dogs.â€" Stratford Bea- con Herald. Man's Deadly Enemy Most diseases modern medical science has cpnijuerea. Smallpox on- ce swept over the nations. Today it Is a rare disease. A few decades ago tuberculosis was called the white man's plague. The death rate in re- cent years has been rapidly declining. Typhoid and diphtheria are no long- er the dread diseases of formerly. But the death-rate from cancer keeps steadily increasing. Today' next to heart disease In Ontario It stands highest In mortality. It Is estimated that at least one In every ten persons in Ontario dies from cancer. â€" Lon- don Free Press. Keeping It Dark Someone has said that doing busi- ness without advertising is like win- king at a girl In the dark. Tou know you are dong it, but no one else does, â€" Winnipeg Tribune. Conversational Stars A man may be a dub In business, in finance or industry, but it Is very rarely that be cannot partlcli>ate In a discussion as to whether his part- ner bid his hand properly or whether he should or should not have taken a certain finesse. In fact, we can think of nothing so ^^iroductlve of var- ied and animated conversation as a game of bridge. â€" Torfmto Telegram. The Empire , London Goes "Pink" Revolution in London. Probably you did not notice it â€" but is was no- thing else. After twenty-seven years the Conservatives lose control of the L. C. C. The capital is in the hands of the Sociallsds. London takes It quite calmly. No barbed wire is up in the streets. There are no machine guns in the basements of Karl .Marx Houses. In Spain similar municipal elections drove out the monarchy. In America bombs burst In the polling booths, iii London we say "That's that." â€" London Sunday Express. Leopold III Long live Leopold 111 of Belbium. May he be as manly a king and as kindly a man as his father was. He ascends the throue at a critical mo. nient in lOurope's iiistory, with neigh- boring reiiubllcs in turmoil and re- maining kingdoms torn by strife. His country, like ours, stands firm a peace fill island ill an angry fiood. Lioyalty to the tihrono In Belgium, as in Bri- tain, is a personal thing. Albert hold his people's affection because he de- served and won it. His qualities and his example, more needed now tlian over, are Leopold's inlieri lance.â€" Lon- don .Sunday Chronicle. Playing Fields To wiiKe war Is not natural any more than playing football. But foot- ball Is a reasonable means of employ- ing ones lighting Instincts, and kill ing one's fellow men is not.â€" Man Chester Oiianlian, A Good Start An Affectation It gives some sort of morbid pride to confess that the English are not musical iiml canno* paint plc.ures, as though :.vts of that .-.atiire were a'l very well for the cliarminf; but rath- er childisli Continental but must he forgone by grown up bUKy men such as themwelves. ii Is an Inoocent af- fection. The Knglish have painted better sporting pictures than anyone else, and hold their own very ade- quately indeed in painting country scench. Almiit music, tliere may be doubt as lo the quality of It, but no one slogs with more zest than the Knglishman. The village Imll may dis- play a notice, "Singing and Dancing not Allowed." but singing, at least, there will he. There Is never a dinner or a parly wiihonl a nong The Spoc- tator. jerious Flood Losses Twentyeight inches of rainfall tiavc been recorded for the month of January at the gauge in the Botanic Gardens', and of this. 18.07 Inches fell from January 1 to 7 a.m. on January 7. when 7.16 inches fell between 8.10 p.m and 7.15 am, The difeastrous ef- fects of this cTtraordlnar.v rainfall has altered the ininiedinte outlook for our chief agricultural indiislrieH, and it Is unlikely thai later in the year the geiu-ial hiislncs.s and trade of the (ilony will escape llie reper i-u.ssloiis The â- 'xpnrlatlon of ri( e w.is siispeiidfd between January 13 and 27, the liaii lieintj lir.-i partially lift A photograph of the start of the 151 cubic inch hydroplane (unlimited) race at Palm Beach, Fla., March IS, when Dleutcher Brown of Houston, Texas, won this heat. ed on the twenty-third. The prices of food and fuel are still controlled by the CoTernor-In-CouncIl. â€" Commere- lal Review. Arms Smuggling In India A newspaper In Bengal which faith- fully records facts and preserves a careful library of cuttings will now- adays discover that one of the fat- test flies In its library concerns the seizure by police in this Province of hidden stores of arms, ammunition, and explosives; the smuggling of arms and ammunition; trials In con- nection with these offences, and. In general, the ceaseless warfare of the police, aided by the Customs, against the forces of the underworld. In this fact is the Justification and explana- tion of the new Bengal Smuggling of Arms Bill, which the Government of Bengal are introducing in the Legis- lative Council at its next ses-iion. â€" The Calcutta Statesman. knees changing a stone into a statue. A minister passing by watched the worker for a while. "I wish," said the minister, "that I could deal such tell- ing blows upon stony hearts!" "Maybe you could," replied the stone cutter, "if you worked more on your knees." EYES AND VOICE The news pages are the eyes of a paper. They chronicle what it sees the world over. The editorial page Is the paper's voice. It tells what the paper thinks of what it sees. It may he fairly said that the news columns serve particularly our knowledge and the editorial page our intelligence. â€" K)hrlstian Science Monitor. Shorts for Sports May Bring Back Brief Skirt Style All Successful Styles Are In- ter-Related and Eyes Will • Look for Abbreviated Silhouette New York.â€" The growing if not ful- ly grown vogue for shorts may have a far-reaching effect on women's styles. Mr.s. Alice Perkins, Paris fashion edi- tor of Women's Wear Daily, who Is here on a visit, told 300 members of the fashion group at a luncheon meet- ing here. Expressing the belief that all successful fashions are Inter-ro- lated, Mrs. Perins said that if women are going to wear shorts all morning long on the beach, their eyes will be- come accustomed to a shorter silhou- ette, and they will want fairly shprt skirts for the afternoon when they play golf. Mrs. Perins also pointed out that inasmuch as the "very high waistline and the fitted bodies did not look well with shorts, their "popularity may have a good deal of influence on sports clothes generally, and this in turn may reflect itself in evening gowns. If women are going back to looking like children on the beach. I do not know It they will continue to wish to look like stately and romantic ladles in the evening â€" in which case there ii'ay be a big field for youthful evening suits like the navy taffeta ones that LuclUo PaVay showed." It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. â€" Fielding. No Government, any more than an individual, will long be respected with- out being truly respectable. â€" Madison. RICHES What is the worth of all these things; a day Spent In a little town â€" a night of rain, A score of footprints stamped in Sus- sex clay, A word â€" a gesture â€" burnt Into the brain; Cr youth up-leaping to a golden mood Which crushes many lives In one mad hour; Some joy o'ertaken overlong pursued A kiss, a close embrace, a tear, a flower? Grave judges heavy-fingered, these light things Of air, how shall you weigh them? In your scales Heap your sad wealth against a little dust Fallen upon a rose from a moth's wings, .\nd watch your vaunted wisdom how it falls Before delight which thrives upon a crust! â€" Lady Margaret Sackville. percent, of motorists had defective vision in one eye, and 26 percent, in the other. Locomotive drivers were required to have tflielr eyes tested every two years. Children's ees should be watched particularly as remedy of early de- fects might mean much to them in after years. Toll of 2 Deaths OverWeek-End Toronto Man is Killed â€" Young Woman Injured -r. Near Welland ONE BOY DROWNED Welland, April 1st â€" One man was killed and a young woman was injured when an automobile crashed into the ditch near here today. Ar- thur Henry Downs, 26, of 780 Logan Avenue, Toronto, was killed instantly and Miss Isobel Kingston of Port Colborne, suffered serious injuries. The accident occurred on the Wel- land-Port Colborne highway. The car, driven by Downs, apparently skidded on the highway, crashing in- to the ditch and striking a culvert. Passing motorists discovered the wrecked car. The man had l>een kill- ed Instantly and the girl was semi- conscious when found. She was rush- ed to hospital at Welland. Downs' neck was broken in the crash. An inquest has been orderd- Miss Kingston is a nurse in the of- fice of Dr. W. W. Moifat at Port Col- borne. Downs had been secretary of the Socialist party of Toronto for the past year, and was active in the labor section of the C.G-F. 6oy Hit Crossing Street Strathroy, April 1â€" Vinrent Gun nesa. six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gunness of Strathroy, suffered painful injurwa this a'ter noon v;hen he was struck by a cat driven by Alden Cravan. K.R. I Strathroy, at the Intersection of Head Street and Number 22 high- way, The boy was returning from at- tending Sunday school at St. John't Anglican Church and in crossing th< street, he ran in the path of the car. At the Strathroy Hospital, examin- ation showed that Gunness is suffer- ing from a fractured right leg facial injuries and shock. Firm Announces 6-Hour Day, Raises Battle Creek. Mich.â€" W. K. Kellog president of the Kellog Company manufacturing cereals, announced re cently permanent adoption of the six hour working day after three years oi operation, together with what he des cribed as the highest wage scale evei paid to tile company's employees. The minimum hourly rate of SI cents is being Increased to 67 cents he said, along with a proportionati increase in other basic rates. Bon uses, he said, will make it possible foi workers to increase this rate to Si cents hourly. Pupils' Intelligence Higher Than Teachers' Windsor â€" Inspector John E. Bensoi of the Walkerville, Windsor an* Sandwich schools, who believes "then are hundreds of children in our Bordei Cities schools who posses a hlghei Intelligence quotient than teachers,' urges teachers to avoid over-emphasli on vocational education. Mr. Benson, in an address befon tho Men Teachers' Federation of th^ Border Cities, said he preferred mah to female teachers because he bellevet that, generally speaking, men havi a broader outlook on life and are keen er observers of a wider variety of sub jects than women. Six Persons Die In Brutal Murdei Harvested Canada's First Wheat crop of 193 Season is Threshed CHILD 81IOTREKBD IN MASH Murna, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heeney, West Ox- ford, Ont., and their only child, met a tragic death last Monday evening when she fell head foremost Into a barrel of beet mash In her father's stable. The child bad accompanied the parents to the barn and unobserv- ed, had climbed up on a bag on the side of the barrel containing the mash. Losing her balance, she toppled over into the mash head foremost and was suffocated. The child had only been missed a few minutes when the ter- rified parents found her in the barrel. BTmAW AS AN ABBOBBEITT Straw when used as bedding for live wlock will absorb from two to three times its weight of liquid, and it finely cut will Eoak up about three as much liquid as when uncut. Further the absorptive lapacity of dry sawdust and fine shavings Is from two in four lime.s that of ordinary straw. A BOOMBBAMO When a bit of snnshine hits yi , After pas,/ng of a cloud ; When a lit ot laughter gllL ye And your spine is feeling prou !; Don't forget to up and filng it At a soul that's feeling blue, I'or the minute that you sling II, It'K a hoomorang lo you. A SEBMOH IH ,1BBT \ iiiarlile ctutii was working on his Ottawa â€" Canada has harvested her first wheat of the 1934 season. Per- fectly ripe with long straight straws, the national grain of the Dominion was cut and threshed in the cereal division building at the Central Ex- perimental Farm. But it was no ordinary gral.n. Sown on Oct. IB In the cereal greenhouse sample plots, the wheat was treated with care. Bathed during the day In sunlight which filtered through the glass windows and walls. It was the target at night for artificial rays. Bat- teries of high powered electric lamps were switched on every day at sunset and blazed over the slender green stalks until midnight, while outside temperatures ranged down to 40 de- grees below zero. Eyesif?ht Causes Most Accidents Survey Reveals Fifty Percent. Due to Defective Vision Ottawa â€" A survey has shown that 50 percent, of road accidents were due to defective eyes, as compared *lth 25 percent, due to speed and reckless driving, and only eight per- cent, to road conditions. Driving an auto with di'tet-tive eyesight was like having a wind- shield with the wiper out of order. A recent test had shown that ten One Killed, One Injured Colbourg, April 1st â€" James Mac- Donald, Colborne, was killed Sat urday when the car which he was di'vint! left the road a short distance north of the highway at Salem and crashed down a steep bank into a creek. His companion, Patrick Cleary, was badly injured and is in a seriour condition at his home in Colborne Dr. A. McClennon opened an inquest and adjourned h pending Cleary's recovery. According to F. Morrow, who saw the car leave the road, it had sud- denly swerved to the west while ap- proaching a bridge. Marks indicated that the car toppled down a 12-foot embankment, rolling to the bank of a cr^k, swollen by recent floods, where it was carried out in the stream until a bend in its course swept the car up against a tree, front wheels in the air. Rescuers extracted the two men, crouched in the front seat. Jammed against the broken body of the car. MacDonald was half under water, with his neck broken. Cleary was half drowned and unconscious. They were brought to the bank of the stream and rushed to Dr. Pember, who found MacDonald was dead. Cleary, suffering from lacerations of the skull, was taken to his home where he is in a serious condition. MacDonald. who will be burled on Tuesday, is survived by two brothers. Dr. William MacDonald and Alex MacDonald, Detroit, and by his par- ents in Colborne. Bloodstained Suit Sent tc Cleaners May Afford Clue â€" Desperate Fight Bremerton, Wash., April 1.â€" A card dealer accused ot taking a blood stained suit to a tailor for cleaning was questioned today by police seek- ing the slayer of six persons In tha ransacked Frank Flieder home. Tho dealer, described by authoritiei as "Murphy," was taken into custodj after Isadore Leachbin, Bremerton tailor, read of the killings. Laschtot said Murphy brought the suit to bin; last Friday â€" the day after the slaugh ter apparently occurredâ€" with the ex planatlon he had suffered a hemorr- hage. Flieder, 45-year-oId retired Bremer ton grocer, was gagged, shot througl tha base of the skull and beaten al most beyond recognition, together witli his wife, 50; Eugene Chenevert, aS; his wife, Mrs. Peggy Chenevert, 30; Magnus Jordon, retired navy man; and Fred Balsom, a bar tender Sheriff D. Blankenship said thi killer apparently bound and gaggt-d tht six persons and then set about ran- sacking the house In the bellet th« Flleders had valuables concealed. Chenevert evidently worked loose, treed himself and started to battU the murderer. "After killing him the slayer weni mad and slaughtered all In th» house," the sheriff said. One of Chenevert's blood-stained hands clasped the leg of an upiurued stool as If he made one last con- vulsive effort to get to his feet. A hammer and a blackjack, used la the beatings, were near the bodies.' A butcher knife and carving knlfa also used In the murders were In tb€ bedroom. Drawers had been pulled out In al! bureaux and the contents scattered od the Ooor. The house showed evidence ot a terrific struggle. In the kitchen dishes were overturned, bottles broken aud food scattered on the floor. Boy Drowned In Creek Maxville, Ont., April 1â€" Arthur Chenier, 14, was drowned in a small i creek here early tonight. The lad, I with a companion was playing on â-  the ice when it gave way, the current ! carrying him through a culvert and i under the Ice for some distance when ' his clothing caught in a fence, .span- ning the creek. Searchers who had been called by Chenier's companion, cut through the ice and recovered the body. His Income Tax Is $1,593,633.96 CHICAGO â€" An unnamed Chlcagoai: Is scheduled to pay an income tax thli year of 11,593.633.98, Indicating hi made from $4,000000 to $5,000,000 hi 1933. This man fyled an Income tax return off $398,408.49 for the first quarter. His was the largest indlvld ual return to come to the local offlc« of the collector ot internal revenue. Social Evenings Killed ^y Bridge NEW YORKâ€" All the pleasant social life of small towns and cities of the United Stales has been snuffed out 1 / a erase tor contract bridge, Octavus Iloy Cohen, the author, declared r* cently. Cohen said he spoke as ona who plays a pretty good game of con- tract and likes it very much. "But 1 resent having to play it," he added. "The craze for coitract," he asserted, "has done away with the art of con- versation. I know â- v'erj' few couples who can enjoy any more what we used to call 'a pleasant social evening.' You can't have any social contact in a small city unless you are a pretty (ji,od b.iUge player." i-