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Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Up in Perth County When a mau takea big tuble knife and whittles a match down to a point (or a tooth pick it takes away that frigid (ormaiity which kills off a good many dinners. In j. general way we do not approve of too many rules. We like to see folk having a good time.â€" Btratfurd Doacon-IIerald. Easy When Said Rapidly The oasleiit way to write headings Is to decide what should be said In them and then select words to express tho idea In the amount of space avail- able. â€" Lindsay Pott. Life in the Zoo Many people condemn zoological gar- dens for their cruelty in locking up in confined spaces animals which natur- ally roam the woods. And their own food and sleep under starry skies. But it i^n't such a bad life being a zoo ani- mal after all. Naturalists says that most animals only live for food and sleep, and that Jt is the necessity of llnding food that makes them roam. The big carnivorae â- pi «->â-  on the smaller mammals. Captive aninialii, they say, are quite happy so long as they get food and can sleep in peace. They do not pine for exercise. Indeed, anyone who has watched ani- mals in a zood will have noticed that thoy do not run around their enclos- ures very much. They are content to lie and sleep with their full stomachs. If they were in their natural habi tuts they would have to luint for their food, often go hungry, and in Winter go without food for long periods, either meat, leaves or lichen. â€" St. Thomas Times-Jouranal. Nothing's as irritating In a factory town as a smoke nuisance, unle.ss it's not having a smoke nuisance. â€" King- ston Wlilg-Stamlard. THE EMPIRE An Old uttom The Kings interest in typewriting Is hereditary, as Queen Victoria, in 1890, was tho first ruler to admit the mach- ines to a royal household \ hen sho In- troduced one at Windsor castle. London Dally Telegraph. Biggest BoX>k The world's biggest book Is in the British Museum. It Is a i^uzeteer and atlas of th'- world, printed in .\m8ter- dam in 1G56, and is six feet high, four feet wide and six inches thick. It has a wall space to It-seif and students have to consult it as it stands in that position. Tho British Museum also has some of the world's .smallest books. Some are slightly smaller in size than a postage stamp. There was a great vogue for these tiny books a century back, and thoy were carried lu tho waistcoat pocket. â€" London Express. Even Dogs G'oing to the Dogs City life, pampering and laucy breed- ing are ruining dogs, destroying ihelr essential dogginess, and reducing them to mere shadows of their noble ancesters. Look at the wire-haired terrier. Once he had tho heart of a lion and the gamenesa of a bulldog; today, combed, talcunied, and scented, ho is a boudoir c nament. So with man/ other breeds. Dog-breeders now bla:;ic women, who, they say, put looks before tho true doggy vinur-s. A sad thing has happened to the world if man has lost the best in his best friend. â€" London Sunday Chronicle. PRINCESS DANCER The Country Doctor The provincial Minister of Health touched upon a quebtlon that is of growing importance in all provinces when he said moie medical men are needed in the countiy districts. It is easy to understand wliy a physician Bhould prefer the cities or towns to the long drives and other diiricultier in coiintry districts, some of them sparsely settled, but the need of medi- cal care Is obvious, and i is good news that the health department \s trying to do what it can to meet the situa- tion.â€" .Saint John Telpgraph-.Iouriial. He Has To Be Modern man. says a scientist, is much more active than his prehistoric niu-estors. it is, of course, much more diHiciilt to dudge a motor can than a fcronto.tauriis â€" Ottawa Journal. Earth Adopting Daylight Saving Frof. Harlan Shapley, o: Harvard Ob.aervat.)ry, makes the announcement that owing to changes in the moon, the earth is gradually revolving more slowly and the let'gth of our day is be- ing increased one-tliousaiidth of a sj- rond per century. Just think â€" In a little more than 720,000,000 year.s we'll have an extra hour of daylight with- out resorting to Dayllglit .Saving! â€" Border Cities Star. Lord Aberdeen A Scot of the Scots, the gentler qualities of his race were dominant iu his character. It is notoriously easy to underestimate the force of sucli a man. Quiet rather than assertive confldeuce, human kindness, and unfailing humour they do not commonly appear as dyna- coramand esteem and effectlon, but mic (lualities. Yel. they may move mountains, and in a long, happy, and devoted life the Marquis of Al)erdeen was the constant servan*. of good causes; and when his work is meas- ured a nnl)le record will stand against his name.â€" Glasgow Herald. now incurred by the United Kingdom taxpayer in keeping trucb persona in Idleness at home. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Under- Secretary of Slate for Dominion Af- fairs, expressed the greatest sympathy with the objects in view. On the other baud he said that in his per- sonal opinion, infiltration In the fu- ture. Just as much as in the pa»t, wuuld be likely to do more than community settlement to promote those large-scale movement of popu- lation that are so much to be desired. Smoking Allowed On New Zeppelin World's Largest Air Monster Nearing Completion in Germany â€" Hot, Cold Water Friedrlchshafenâ€" Passengers on the Dutch Lines Plan 9000-MUe Flight As Regular Trip Plane Carrsring 1^ Fares Un- der Construction for East Indies Service Amsterdam. â€" The double record Oshawa Reports Brisk Business The Dor inions and the British Market Tills country is not in u position to control Doniinin imports before next June. Tlie wliole agricultural p()^itlon is already under review with the Do- niini'Hi Covernments. There is thus a prospect of a comitieiioiisive settle- ment by mutual consent. The situation at the moment, however, is thorough- ly unsatistaclory. At a .-easou when prices are e.tpected to rise they have have tended to tall, and tarnieis are losing as much as [. pounds a beast. The retrictions on Canadian and Irish imi>orts have prove<l insuflicient. Chil- led and frozen meat from tlie .\iistral- asian DDininions arrived in record quantities last month ... It will be lamentalile if, under liie pressure of tho emergency, this country makes drastic use of f e freedom of actlou which she will enjoy next June. Im- Princcss Maddevi Eukanthor of Cambodia starred recently at Theatre de Paris. She is eight years old. Britain's Plan For Idle Hands Industries are Recalling For- mer Employes and Some Are Already Working Overtime Oshawa, Out.â€" Employment in Osh- awa is rapidly improving with some business establishments working overtime and recalling former employ- ees. Conditions are described as bet- ter than in the last two years. A large number of employees laid oft for some time have been recalled at the General Motors of Canada plant. Some divisions of the factory are working 12 hours a day, and in virtually all production departments employees are working three nights overtime a week. Overtime also is being worked at the Coulter Manufacturing Company^ a plating and assembly unit. This firm has the largest staff working since its Inception here three years ago. Sunday work has been found necessary in some cases to keep up with orders. It Is expected the number of fam- ilies on relief will be greatly reduced by the end of this month if improved conditions continue. new Zeppelin, L.Z. 129, now nearing flight of the Dutch mail plane Pelican completion in a hangar not far from from Amsterdam to Batavla and back the shores of Lake Costance. will have I some time ago has focused attention many comforts that have never been â-  here on a new machine which expected provided hitherto on any Zeppelin. to go far toward turning the record Tho L.Z. 129, is a bigger and better I dash Into a scheduled passenger ser- sister ship of the Graf Zeppelin, the' tJc«. dirigible that has worked services a-j Prospects have been opened up of cross the South Atlantic to South Am- a daily service In the near future ports can then be cut off; prices can then bs forced up; but it was to avoid is recognized, are great Prophecy A Sniitlii<(inian scientist says be can predict weather twenty-three years aheail. And it's a Hate bet that ho is Mill out in the rain without his rub- bers and umbrella.- Brantford L'^x- posltor. ** Divinity Course for Women It is annoiiiiced that Huron tlollege, an .\nglican Institution situated in I^ondon. Ont., and afliliated witli the University of Western Ontario, pur- pose!* admitting women as divinity students and next October will enable them to register for a six-yoar course, presumably with on appropriate de- gree to be conferred at its close.- Brockvlllv Ilecorder. Heavy Increai^e During the period September 1 to March ,l, 1932-S3, a total of tt;:7,891 Uross / lUi of coal was shipped from the Capo Breton mines of the Domin- ion !"tee! and Coal Corporation. During the Home period In l!i:i:! 34 a total of l,677,.';6ti gross tons was ahlpp^'d from the )<Bnii'. mines. Or an liicreai e. this season us against laKt, of 73»,6Tri tons. The nKure>. "peak tor theniHelvca.â€" Halifax Herald. Without Street Accident! Bo unuHual Is It to have a noaccid en I year on streets of largo centres that Belleville's record without a fatality In l!t;n raised < oublH and brought a request for » check-up to Chief Kidd for verlflcatioi. of the re port. Fortunately It was true The chief coui'iRbio was able to notify the re gistrar of the motor vehlcU's In f>nt- ario that there were no motor falali ties In thin rlly dtirtng is:',:!.â€" Belle Tllle lalelllgpncHr. Worst of tht Lot An orator says we must Ret rid of capltHllam, ra(llca!l.>-m, sixlHllHm. I»>l •hevl>ni, coininuiiixni and iinarrhi in Why not Ihrnw In rheiimiiili.ni? Vo (tna Leader Tost. such developments as this that liie Ot tawa c;onference was held. Since then events have moved faster than discus- sions, auu it may be that conditions require some swifter machinery of ac- tion than that provided by consulta- tions between Governments. But in tho end It is by the system of correla- tion, which orderly marketing implies, and can establish, that the require- ments of both consumer and producer can be met.-I.ondon Daily Telegraph. Chains of Villages Founded By Company on Govern- ment Guarantee London.â€" A movement is afoot in Britain to repeat in the empty spaces of the British Kmpire such ma.sg set- lleqjent ventures as those whereby in the pa.»t New England, Virginia, New Brnn.swick and New Zealand received some of the forbear.^ of their present inhabitants. A non political association calling itself the British Empire Develop- ment and Settlement Research Com- mittee has been finined, with Sir Henry Page Croft as chairman to promote I his object. Nearly half of the CIS members of the British House of Commons liave aureed to support its aims. Parliament lia.s pa.-^sed a unanimous resolliliDM declaring that the time has ( ome for the British Govern niont to "get in touch with tho Gnvern- ment.s of the Dominions with a view to putting forward a scheme for the voluntary redistribution of the white peoples of tile l<;nii>iro and the stlmu- lalioti of shiiiiiing and trade under the flag." The iliflhiiities to be overcome, it The world The Problem of Spare Time Given the conversion of unemploy- ment into leisure, how is leisure to be used? Surely tho essence ot it is that the spare time which science and technical improvement.s provide should he used for the things a man wishes, himself, to do. And the tragedy of it Is that ma.i has not yel learned what he really would like to do wllli his spare time. â€" London Daily lleraldi Winns Over the Atlantic While American and British Inter- ests are together amicably conslderiug the North Atlantic crossing by air. it is a different Btory down around the Equator. Just now the South Atlantic Is the scene of intense rivalry between Germany and France to establish the first IransAtlautic airmail linking Kuroiie and South America by way of Africa. Both countries hare already inado successful experimental nights with their newest type flying boats, and both are expecting to launch re- gular services in the near future; it is a race to see which will be the flrst to do JO.â€" Thurston Macauley In the Fortnightly Ueview i I.hikIou >. Popular Calgary Kutbusia- in for the drama- tie festival in the iiroviiices and the Dominion alike by the public and the dramatic clulis i~ fpreading rapidly acrordiii-; ii i;i,| 'ri llai vey, udjudica- 1 tor »i i< - I livi.ie.i throughout' tho wf . . oi I •111 ill!' proves] there orn. i.m- .e ti\uls nrc infinitely m'lie » yi'u , r hU vein- than ever," .Mr. Harvey said, "while «>oinpeting ilianiaiic ciiilis display an even greater keeuesH.' I slum|) lias reversed the tide of emi- gration. This tide â€" so long as times were good â€" (lowed continuously out- ward from overcrowded Britain into tho less completely peopled world at large. Now. so hard has become the lot of the producers of primary com- modities eferywhere tljat for two years past more people have returned to Britain tiian ha-ve gone out from its shores. Canada Need* Farmers. Nevertheless the same urge re- mains to wed idle hands to empty lands. Canada has need of farmers to develop the mighty resources of its great Northwest. Few would dis- pute that the Peace River Country â€"If It were fully peopled â€" would afford a market for Canadian and United States goods comparable with Ontario or New York Stale itself. In Northern Australia are fertile areas as big as France and Germany combined that are still almost empty of people. A British Government report on the question la shortly to appear. Meanwhile a statement by Sir Henry Pago Croft's committee discloaea tha main lines on which big organixatlon proposes to act. The Intention Is lo promote chains of villages of say 60 settlers each In areas that would not otherwise be developed. For thia purpose a com- pany would he formed to raUe £50,- 000,000 on a British Government guar- antee. This company would take up blocks of suitable land for which it would provide communication by road and rail, so as to connect up proposed settlements with eilsting clTlliiation. Form Farming Groups. Farming groups would he then ter- med, each one with centrally placed village provided with stores, achool, meeting hall, cinema and maikel. F^rm land wcwld radiate outwaiVI from this centre. The settlers would be seleiled families. Each village would be nllcil with people from some one neighborhood In Britain. The fSO.OOil.tlOl), It Is osllniated, would provide for tO.OOO settlers who, with their families, would constitute ISO,- 000 people. This, It Is rlalmeri, wouM be a not Impossible proposition for Britain, taking Into aecmint the cost Diet Theory May Mean Longer Life Scientist Would Develop Re- gimens to Conform With Different Sizes of Viscera St. Paulâ€" A new way of stoking the human boiler may keep the body's ma- chinery clicking tor five years beyond the present normal life span, was told recently. The new method envisioned by Prof C. H. McCloy, is based on the size of the "boiler" or viscera â€" man's digest- ive system. By developing diets to fit various sizes of viscera, he forsees a possibility ot increased health and longevity. McCloy, on the faculty of the Uni- versity of Iowa, is a professor of sci- ence of anthropomethy (mau measure- ments.) For purposes ot comparison, he divide*l man into two broad classi- fications, ' long lean" and "short stock- y" types. Obesity Theory "Tlie long lean man can eat more than the short stocky one without getting tat," he said, "because he has a small boiler" and does not absorb so much of his food intake. "On the other hand, the short man with the big trunk has larger viscera and absorbs a great deal more ot what he eats. This absorption contributes to fat in middle age. "In older years, the long lean group tend toward diseases of the digestive and pulmonary systems wjiilf •the short stock group finds its troubles in the kidneys heart and circulatory sys- tem." erica with clockwork regularity. The middle section of the new air- ship consisting of eight main and 24 auxiliary ribs, with a total length of 363 feet, was finisbed as far back as last July. At present only the stern skeleton with its complicated steering appara- tus, remains to be set in position. Without the stern section, the ship measures 3C7 feet but the completed length will be 744 feetâ€" some 40 feet longer than the Graf Zeppelin. Despite the only slighter greater length, however the L.Z. 129, will have almost double the gas capacity of the Graf Zeppelin. Its circumference will be 41.20 met- res (184 feet) and the new iiirship will carry 200,000 cubic metres of gas com- pared with the Graf's 105,000 cubic metres. The new airship will be the largest in the world. Nearly Finished Meanwhile the interior construction is progressing rapidly The passenger cabins are nearly finished. They will contain hot and cold water pipes, which are now being laid. The waste water will not be discharged, but run into a special tank to serve as ballast. Other Innovations to be installed in the airship will be an electric lift to facilitate loading and unloading car- go and huge heels fi.ted to the pilot gondola and the lower fin, to assist landing operations. These wheels can be turned iu any direction. The airship will be the first Ger- man airship on which smoking will 1 - permitted. This has been made pos- sible owing lo the use in the airship ot helium gas, hitherto used only in American airships. The Zeppeline works have specifically barred silk or wool as covering mater- ial. Long experience has shown that silk or artificial silk is not sufficient- ly waterproof, while wool i.- lacking in elasticity. Engineers of the Zeppelin works claim that in varnishing the L.Z. 129, they have greatly improved on the mixture use<l for tlie Graf Zeppelin Movies Safe for For Children Native of Quebec May Inherit Many Millions of Dollars Mrs. Jane Peever, Now Living in Vancouver is Grand- daughter of Late James Hudson Vancouver â€" An 82-year-old Vancou- ver woman Is not the least bit e.xcited about her prospects of inheriting many millions of dollars. She is Mrs. Jane Peever, grandaughter of the late Jas. Hudson, fur-trader, whose vast for- tune iH understood to be In chancery in England. Mrs. Peover. and her brother, Moses Frost, 92, ot Port Arthur, are the lead- ing claimants to the fortune. "I have known of the estate for years and every once in a while there has been some talk of its being dti- buised" Mrs. Peever said today. "If I Inherit tho money that will be fine. If not, it won't worry me. There is no doubt, however, that Mr. I''^ost and myself are the only direct descendants "Forty-seven years ago the estate was said to be worth )30,000.000." she added. "Goodness < uly knows what It would be valued at now. Mrs. Peever was born In Fort Cou- longe, Quebec, and was married there to John Peever, who died 36 years ago. .\ftor his death she came wi»st and now lives with her son here. linking western Eurojw and the East Indies with British and French exten- tlons to China and Australia. The Pelican, or Fokker F. 18, cut by more than 50 per cent the normal flying time for the 18,000-mIIe trip from here to the Dutch East Indies and back. The actual times were 4 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes for the outward Journey and 10 minutes less on the homeward half. A notable aspect of this flight is that it was achieved by a three year- old type of plane which was not in- tended for the record-breakhig at- tempt. It had originally been plan- ned that a new Fokker three-engined machine, F. XX, should make the dash to Batavia with Christmas mails. A disabled motor blocked this plan, but the Pelican carried on. ] And now enters the P XXXVI. the largest aircraft ever built in the Netherlands. It is a very advanced type, having. It Is claimed, the most favorable aerodynamic shape, namely that of a drop of water. This machine has four Wright Cyclone engines of 700 horsepower each, a total weight. of 16.2 tons, a maximum speed of 170 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 130 miles an hour. The machine will have a crew of four, namely two pilots, one mechanic- steward and one wireless operator( while being able to carry 32 passen- gers in Europe. On the India lines it will carry 16 passengers, each hav- ing a sleeping berth. As long dis- tance aviation is more and more de- veloping in the non-stop direction, fly- ing night and day, there are also two sleeping berths for the crew. The machine is ot the cantilever monoplane type. The wings is placed on the fuselage. The plywood cover- ing on the under surface of the wing has been removed from the center section, and the hollow space thus exposed forms the upper part of the cabin. The wing has a width of 110 feet. The cabin Is divided into four compartmenl.s each for eight pas- sengers. In constructing this huge ,ilanp, which carries every possible con- venience for long distance flighti; and the latest automatic piloting device:-, the designers had in view the ex- pected rapid development of longdis- tance flying, reducing the Amsterdam- Batavia flying time gradually frum eight to four or 3^4 days, after which two departure.s each week from each side are contemplated, In which Brit- ish Imperial Airways and the Freuct Air Orient are expected to join. Record Fruit Crop Kentville, N.S. â€" .Nova Scotia's fam- ous fruit belt, the Annapolis Valley, ! has come through with a record out- put for the 1933-34 season. The approx- imate apple crop totals 2,750,000 bar- rels, according lo figures released by the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which closed its "apple nhlpplng books" on March Slst Motion Picture Research Council Seek to Provide Satisfactory Films New York â€" Of the current motion picture productions in the United States about 25 per cent, are a menace to America's youth and a blot on American character in the eyes of the people of other countries, Mrs. August Belmont stated at a luncheon of the Motion Picture Research Council here. The occasion was the public launch- ing of the council program for better- ment of films, with special relation to entertainment for children. The council now starts a nation- wide movement in which all friends of an improvement of social values in films are asked to join. Among those present was Mrs. James Roosevelt }>nd an honorary vice-president of the council. Mrs. Belmont stated that the move- ment was not undertaking anything in the way of censorship. The intent ion was to seek the co-operetion of the film industry in carrying out these three objectives of the council. 1. To decrease the amount of object- ionable material in films. 2. To further the production of films that shall be entertaining to children and where possible educa- tional in value. 3. To promote new types of edu- cational films with the cooperation of the industry and the public school system. Some 38,000,000 minors attend the motion picture theaters every week in the United States, said Mrs. Bel- mont. An element of entertainment that is harmful in its mental and emotional effect should be stopped be- cause of its degrading effects. Dr. Frederick Peterson, former pre- sident of the New York Neurological Society, declared that the sensational, criminal and vulgar suggestion of too many questionable motion pictures tends to produce "nervous disorders and mora! disintegration." Mr. Her bert Houston, former publisher of World's Work; Mr. William H. Short,! well-marked cro.^sings where the safe- director of the council, «nd Dr. Johni ty of pedestrians would be assured. H. Finley, of the New York Timw, Finally, the association recorded Us spoke. strong opinion that much might be done towards increasing the safety I of the roads by a stricter admlnl- A splash of lime-water accidentally I stration of the txl-^ting law, partic- ularly by n wider exercise of the power of di<nni>li Ir.'.tion of drivers, with a view lo elitninatiuc from the ro:uI.< Ihoe who prove themselves British Walkers Seek Footpaths London. En^. â€" Provision of foot- paths alongside all main British high- w^ays was demanded by the British Pedestrians' Association in a memo- randum sent to the Miuiary ot Trans- port. The high speed ot motor trafiic was cited as the most prolific cause of accidents. For the checking of ex- cessive speeds by vehicles subject to statutory limits, It was suggested that all should be compelled to carry a device visible to any passer-by, which either record-s the actual speed at any moment or gives audible or visible notice when the limit is be- ing exceeded. A second suggestion was that the Highway Code be revised and made more widely known. Safety rules which are observed by careful drivers should be enforceable with a penalty for their infringement, It was slated. Representatives of the pedestrians declared it ha I been shown the ma- jority of fatal accidents took place In built-up areas, and the association submitted as a first step in a national policy ot speed control that there should be a speed limit applicable to towns and villages. In the course of Its ca e for u re- vision of the Highway Code and the enforcement of "certain simple rules which make for safety and which are observeil by careful drivers," the as- aociatlon states that the offence of "careless driving" should be abolished. I: had the effect of rendering nuga- tory the severe penalties which can be Imposed for "dangerous driving." In order to enable pedestrians to cross streets in safety there was need in built-up areas, the menioi*ndum stated, tor many more refuges, and the provision at suitable places cf hitting the blind right eye of James Morren. a 30.year-old employ, of an Elgin distillery, restored Hh sight after twelve .'ears ot blindness. A specialist affirms that the lime burnt away an unsuspected film. ! to be iir charge ot a motor vkliicle.