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â-  â- .f-:t Voice of the Press Canada. The Ejiipire and The World at Large Off To The War. â-º-♦ - ••â- â™¦â€¢ ♦ »â- â™¦â- â- < CANADA WARNING THE CHILDREN I'aiiMlH iiiIkIh iio't' ">:»( '>'"' "f "'" thiiiRs It is nocpssary to warn tliclr cliililron of iH ni?ver to try to dig a pirate's or a robbtr'- cave tii a Baiiil- bniik. Scarcely a year passes that tlio death o( a child, and sometimes more than one, Ih reported from the caving In of lAe send. A fine lad of twelve baa Just lost his life In Toronto from this cause. The burrowing instinct Is strong In hoys, but it is too danger. ous to be encouraged. â€" Hamilton Her- ald. IT WORKS. Critics may say what they like about tho Ottawa agreements; the llg- ures are there to speak for them- eelves. What they prove, beyond any question, is that Empire preferences are working, that they are Improving Empire trade steadily, and tJiat for Canada they have meant everything. Because somebody must be getting the benefit of tliese growing exports. Our farmers must be selling more, and neither can sell more without considerable gain. A whole lot of people â€" farmers, working men, busi- ness men, transportation employees â€" must have more money than last year. â€" Ottawa Journal. THE SPEEDSTERS. For some reason Sunday traffic re- minds us that It has taken Niagara Falls 30,000 years to move seven miles. â€" Hamilton Spectator. BETTER TIMES AHEAD. A chart published by the Sanford Evans statistical service, In tJie last Issue of the Weekly Market News, brings home how much the purchas. Ing power of the West has suffered by the decline in the value of farm mar- ketings during the pa-st five years. It also is a reminder of what a large part of the total returns Is derived from wheat. Until tho ground lost iias been recovered in some measure, tlie i)rairie provinces had to lag be- hind the rest of Canada In the im- provement that has been manifested during recent months. Rut, it the present crop promise in these prov- inces is realized and dollar wheat Is reached at Winnipeg, as Is freely pre- dicted, there will be a very marked change In the situation.â€" Edmonton Journal. girl telephoned tiie newspaper and asked for a more speclfls addre.ss, as she wished to apply. It is said that some people read only the hoadlngs of the articles, but this one read tho centro of it without noticing what the bending said at all.â€"Toronto Star. DANGEROUS HATS. "As good to be out of the world as out of tt'ie fashion," said Colley Clbber. But it looks as U some of the lailifs of today are likely to make their exit from the world due to that very thing, the fashion. In this case it is the fashion in hats that will be instrumental. The latest cuto little creations in feminine headgear are designed to be worn with tJie brim tilted sweetly over one eye and, of course, shut out the view on that side. A motorist the other day missed hitting a lady who stei)ped right into his way. She simp- ly did not see him at all. The nicely- tilted little hat shut off all vision on one side. Nobody seems to know just exact- ly w*o designs the fashions, hut whoever it is â€" and it Is said that feminine fashions are designed by men â€" he has a lot to answer for. â€" Calgary Herald. ACHIEVED BY MERIT The Ottawa Journal stands first among 101 Canadian newspapers for tho number of quotes from Its pages, mainly editorial. It is a proud p'asl- tion achieved not by accident but by merit. Incidentally the St. Catharines Standard stands fifteenth in the list. â€" St. Catharines Standard. OUR EXCLUSIVE EARTH Thus all tho indications would seem to prove tiiat only on this earth are there human joys and sorrows; revo- lutions and counter-revolutions; wed- ding bells and christenings; auto horns and jazz; traflic cops and taxes; radios and telephones, and all the other things which go to characterize what Is known as humanityâ€" Brant- ford Expositor. 91 JOO Jobless Return to Work ; During June; Hon. H. H. Stevens Report* Marked Improvement â€" » Exceeds Average Gain Since 1920. *s :fl At present more than half path of the liner Bremen, as she American representative for the way across the A tlantic, T. 0. M. Sopwith's "Endeavour" crosses the leaves Gospoit, England, for the United States to challenge the Americas Cup. QUITE SO. Wihen automobiles travel at speeds In excess of 40 miles an hour more power is required to overcome air re- sistance than road resistance. More power Is also required to overcome accident resistance. â€" Chatham News. A DANGEROUS EXAMPLE It is surprising to read in so usual- ly sound a newspaper as the Border Cities Star a suggestion that in the Dlllinger case the offcers of the law, "disposing of him finally just as they •would shoot a mad dog, have saved the people further outlay for court proceedings,' and tihat "the only dan. ger in this sort of thing is that they might have shot the wrong man." There Is, of course, a basic danger In It which far transcends that possiblU Ityâ€" the danger that trial by police should replace trial by the courts, the presumption In the former case being (hat a man is guilty, whereas In the courts he la presumed innocent un- til his guilt is proved. The shooting down of criminals or supposed crlm. Inals when they can be captured alive and dealt with In a court of Justice has nothing to commend it and every, thing to condemn it. The police are the servants of the law. They must not be allowed to become Its adminis- trators. The procedure In the Dlllin- ger case is not something for Cana- dians to copy, but something for Can- adians to avoid.â€" Toronto Daily Star. YOUTH OF THE WEST. The death occurred recently of a man wJio was the first school teacher in what Is now the province of Al- berta. The fact reminds us how young tho far West is In the matter of set- tlement by the white man, and how remarkable Its progress has been. This man had attained the age of 100 years, but it wag only In 1875 he opened his sciiool in Morley, in what is now Alberta. What stories he could have told of the raw West of GO years ago. â€" Saint .lohn Telegraph- Journal. Lords Commissioners had ordered tihat the correspondence must now cease. Galsworthy, enraged, went on wor- rying the authorities about it for a long time. How was it possible, he said, that the poorer classes should not be unduly burdened when the comparatively wealthy like himself could escape. â€" John O'London's Weekly. IT ALL DEPENDS. A contemporary says It la unhealthy fo suppress a laugh; but that depends upon who you are laughing at. â€" Cha- tani News. ANIMAL LANGUAGE. Cnbriele D'AnnunzIo, the Italian poet, has announced that lie will In- clude a complete glossary of the ca. nine -language In his new book. "Lives of Illustrious Dogs." The book Is to be modelled after Plutarch's "Lives." Other animals whose vocabularies have been reford«>d are the monkey, the horse, and the cat. An American woman. Miss Blanch W. Learned, was responsible for classifying thirty-two terms of the chimpanzee, together with the moaning of each. The horse Is said to speak "six words and three kinds of nelghings." Cats produce fif- teen sounds, according to the experts, each with Its distinct interpretation. There are twelve "words" In the lien's vocabulary. From all this It seems that It is high time that the phrase. "our dumb friends." went into the discard. It was always a libel. -Vic toria Times. NEWSBOYS MAKE GOOD. Politicians who gained their earli- est business experience by selling newspapers are coming Into their ' own. II I When the Hon. David CroU was ap- ( pointed Minister of Public Welfare of, Ontario, it was recalled that as a boy i iie had sold newspapers and polished shoes In the streets of Windsor, mak- i Ing use of the profits of this business . to obtain his education. And now it is revealed that the Hon. J. Russell Love, who has been appointed Provincial Treasurer of Al- berta. In the new Reld Ministry, fin- anced part of Ills expenses while a student at the University of Alberta; by selling newspapers, this being one of his earliest experiences In practi- cal finance. The boy who cries his newspaper wares at the street corners may bei the future Cabinet Minister, just as j many a boy who has travelled deliv- ery routes for thi.s and many other Canadian newspapers has climbed high on the ladder of success In his subsequent business or professional career.â€" RrockviUe Recorder. WHERE WATERLOOS ARE WON. And England needs them, these young men and women strong In mind ad vigorous In body, armed with fixe will to conquest and the self-discipline that alone makes conquest possible. We want them to win lawn tennis championships, and we want them to keep Britain the great nation our fathers made it. Let there be no pre- tense about It. There Is an older gen- eration in i>ower today that preaches softness and deftati-'sm. The proclaim- ed ideals ot the political platform are often far from being t-hose of the sports ground. It is a fine thing to have young men who can win for England at Wimbledon and Sandwich, but we want so many ot them that presently we shall have an older gen- eration that win win for England at Westminster or wherever lies the task of keeping the nation's end up. â€" Lon- don Evening News. Women of Britain Urged to Resist Defeatist Stand Conference Told That Man- Made Problems Can Be Solved By Man England Dedicates Road Constructed by Jobless THE EMPIRE WHICH DO YOU 00? The Trentcm Cnurler. Advocate pub. llshed In the middle of its ' Tlfly Years Ago" column a little ndvertlse- ment for fifty strawberry pickersâ€" an advertisement half a century old. A THE KING IN EDINBURGH. Tho royal visit to Edinburgh has been an unqualified success and there Is simplicity and compactness about tiiie Palace of Holyroodhouse that gives the Impression that the King and Queen are living more than ordin- arily among their people. The Illumi- nations and the flowers made a great display. It is almost worth a Journey to the Scottish capital to see the Castle floodlit. The effect Is to create what seems literally a castle In the air, for with tihe hill Itself dark and Invisible the Illuminated walls and battlements seem floating on a sea of blackness. Hut summer evenings In Scotland are light so lat« that It Is near midiiigh* before the full beauty of the scene develops. â€" The Specta- tor. Stanley, Eng.â€" Reducing by two miles the pnortest route between t.he densely populated area of Stanley and Ncwcastlc-on-Tyne, a flOO.OO-"' road was recently opened by .Alder- man John Jeffrey, Chairman of Dur- ham County Council Works Com- mittee. The scheme had been carried out by direct labor and the provision of 18 weeks' work for llOfl men. he pointed out, had brouRht incalculable temporary happiness into many hom- es in the locality, whilst it had also helped the trades people. Alderman Jeffrey condemned the present economic system "which made it possible in a land of plenty for thousands of people to be doom- ed to an existence of poverty." He looked forward to the day when pros- perity would return and road schem- es would be carried out primarily for j the comfort of the traveling public j and not with the wretched objective, as at pre.sent, of relieving economic distress. On The Job WOULDN'T TAKE HIS MONEY. The late Jidin C.alswortliy, author and playwiiglit, remembered, after paying his income-tax one lime, that â- 'le had left nut a certain large sum receiveil. and wrote to the authorit- ies orrerine the extra amount due. They replied that the accounts were imw doted '.nd rolliiiig could he done ahiuit it. tJalt-wnrtliy relilied by sending a cheque for the amount. They return- ed it with a letter saying that the Rather late on a recent nieht, a ' (jeiitlemnn of undoubted veracity was ' drivincr up Fifth avenue, bound for ' a public Karate on East 102nd street ' to nut up his car writes th« New I Yorker. At 101st street the red ligh* j flashed ajrninst him and he stopped. I Not so a motorist beside him, who ! cheated and went across. Our man drovo into his garape, and there was tho other driver, takinjr some thines out of his car. Almost immediately n"nther car drove into the garage, a'Ml out stepped Mayor T.a Ouardia. He walked richt up to the licht- iiin-'per. took his name and address, and said he would hear about this. Then, without a pause, he wheeled around on the garaRO attendant who had come up, and took his name and address â€" for smokinR. London. â€" Women of the British Commonwealth are, according to some who live in the various parts of it, wherever possible, being relegated to "tho church, the family and the kit- chen" confined to certain prescribed activities, denied freedom ot choice. happenings were discussed during the meeting of the annual confer- ence o' the British Commonwealth League here recently when women from Australia, Canada. Ceylon, In- dia, New Zealand, South Africa and from some 30 British and interna- tional societies met fo examine the common problems which confront each and every one of them during a period of world unrest and change. Mrs. Corbett A.shby. president of the league, uncovered some of the causes of their problems. The fact of the matter is, she said. In address- ing tihe conference, that women are experiencing the effects of general world thinking and are unable to account for it. When political and economic doors opened to women Immediately after the war, they opened not merely be. cause mankind in general hed rec- ognized the value of co-operation be- tween the sexes and wanted to es- tablish it, but because mankind in general was experiencing that wave of co-operative desire which account- ed for the formation of the League ot Nations, for the granting of trhe political franchise to women and for other similar happenings. Since those days, mankind has re- treated from its Immediate post-war position and for reasons, Mrs. Cor- bett Ashby explained, that while sci- entific experiment and economic ad- vances support the general conception of unity between states and between sexes, political understanding still lags behind such a conception and en- tertains fears for the consequences of too sturdy a confidence in the ideal of brotherhood. The duty of women. Mrs. Corbett .\shbv suggested. Ilea at the moment In offering all possible resistance to what she calls "the spirit of defeat- ism" and In offsetting the tendency of the older generation to complain that the complexity of modern prob- lems la beyond human control. "If man made the problems," she said, "man is quite capable of bring- ing order out of the o'laos he has formed." The main necessity, she continued, is to map out a^ political organization which will prove capable of handling changing conditions wisely and of ac- cepting the ideal of unity wMrti Is already In potential existence In re- gard to world relations and class re. latlons, and to relations between the sexes. Drought Hits Dakota Herd One-Third of State's Popula- tion on Relief â€" Move 6.000 Cattle Daily Ottawa.â€" A marked improrement* In employment statistics was shown, ill the report Issued recently by Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and ] Commerce. Employers reporting to • tlie Dominion Bureau of Statistics* had iXl.lfiS p.^rsons at work on July. 1, as compared with 899,751 on June 1. 'The situation generally was bet.* ter than on the same date ot 193J. and 19S2," said Mr. Stevens, In com- . menling on the report. WORK FOR 91,700. "The favorible movement noted In tha past three months has provided * work for nearly 91,700 persons, be- ' sides increasing the working hours , of others previously employed. "This improvement compares satis- factorily with the aggregate gains ot approximately 79,000, 11.000 and 38,. 000 reported In the same three months of 193S, 1932 and 1931, respectively. . "The second quarter of the year > Is normally a period of intensified " industrial activity, but the general ' Increase in the last three months ha« con.siderably exceeded the average In the years since 1920. EXCEEDS AVERAGE GAIN "Employment In manufacturing ' showed further Improvement, contrary • to the usual seasonal trend on July • 1; most ot the gains occurred in the* food, lumber and pulp and paper groups. Mining (except of coal), com- • municatlons, services, trade, transpor- . tation, logging and construction also . Indicated substantial advances. The greatest expansion was in highway construction, in which some 25,000 additional workers were reported, ' partly engaged in unemployment re- . llef undertakings. Excluding such , road workers, however, the general increase in the numbers on the re.« ported payrolls exceeded the average" gain noted la the years since 1920." Bismark, N.D. â€" The drought has hit North Dakota hard. Virtually one-third of the State'* entire population Is on Federal relief rolls. Farms are producing only "minia- ture" crops. Two hundred persons In one sec- tion are to be moved to Federal au- thority from untlllable farms. Drifting top-soil has damaged the highway system by more than $500,- 000. I Addtional thousands of persons are expected to seek relief when winter comes. j Once known as an important grain I state, North Dakota faces a split agriculturally, with the west revert- ing to an area of grazing lands and the east becoming the main farming country. MORE ON RELIEF. The movement Is definite, forced by continuing drought. Helpless, farmers have watched their rich top-soil carried away on the wings of prairie wind, to fall into and choke miles of highway drainage ditches. A steady Increase in the number of persons on relief rolls is noted by K. A. WlUson, State Administrator of Federal Relief. "Fifty thousand families â€" approxi. raately 200.000 persons â€" are on relief, a situation directly traceable to the drought," Willson said. "Some are on part relief, somo total relief, some on only stock relief." Six thousand cattle are being mov- ed out of North Dakota dally. More than 300,0* head of cattle have been shipped In the past two months. Ap- proximately 600,000 head have been purchased in the Government's plan to reduce the cattle population to 1,000.000 head. SHIP CATTLE AWAY. The lack ot water has brought rush orders to move cattle out ot many counties. The animals are shipped to southern and eastern parts ot the country. To relieve parched human throats. Federal agencies are hastening tiie establishment of a new corporation whoso purpose will be to extend funds to dig wells to provide water for farms now nearly arid. Community wells will be dug, perhaps on farms, perhaps on some public property. Blind Woman Writes Poetry * "Sees" Beauties of Nature; Travels With Geologist Husband New York â€" The remarkable clarity, with which blind persons sometimes 'see" the beauties of nature is shown ' in a collection of verse entitled "Fog , Phantoms," the work of Alice Adkina Johnson, partly blind since childhood' and totally blind since she was 18., She is the wife of Professor Douglas Johnson, geoligist and geographer of* Columbia University, with whom she , has traveled extensively, seizing every opportunity to explore the world be- • yond her doors. In a foreward to his wife's book, just published, Professor Johnson ' pays tribute to her happy philosophy of life. He writes: "When as a child - she was deprived of the sense ol • sight, her valiant soul set for • handicapped body the task of doing * all things others do as nearly as pos- sible the way they do them. Without * aid of staff or companion she learn- ed to traverse with awift and certain ' steps the streets of her home town, enjoying the stately elms, the green lawns, tho picturesque houses as • fully as could any other. "In joyous anticipation of making' a new home for one she loved, she conquered enough of the art of cook-' ing to preside alone in her kitchen^ enough of the art of sewing to make much of her own trousseau, enough of the art of music to participate irt public recitals and bring pleasure t» the home she created; enough of typewriting to aid her husband in hii studies, enough of foreign languages to read much in three of them and to converse as needed in two." Mrs. Johnson does most of her writ- ing on the tyi)ewriter, and on cros.» country trips with her husband she takes his geological notes from dicta- tion either by longhand or typing them direct as they drive along. Her travels have taken her into every con,- tinent except South America and the Antarctic. Pillory Is Used Punish Sneeders Riverton N J â€" The pillory has been resurrected by Riverton police to punish speeding automobile driv- ers. If the speeder was going RO miles an hour, he sits In his car before tho lubllc gaze In a specially marked sonare for 50 minutes, tf he Open Space Saved For Children of London TVhe long effort to save the site of the Foundling Hospital for the chil- dren of central London Is now hap- pily terminated. The governors of the Foundling Hospital will concentrate upon infant welfare work as a memorial to their founder. Thomas Coram. They will continue the adm'ni-i'ration of the day niirsory and the nurserv silirHil. which •have been est,Thl!s-h<-d ci the site since 19;{0. The Appeal Coniieirs ob- ject in saving the Fonnllins; site as an open space and securing it for the children of I/ondon for all time has iiren successfully achieved. Deficit in UJS. Is $244,293,998 Washington,- Secretary Henry Mor- geiiihau. returning after a month's va-' cation, will i.nd that the United â-  States deficit Is growing more than twice as fast us at this time a year afio. Between July 1 and 25, Treasury figures show the Government spent $244.29.'; 998 nore than it took In. The (I'-flcit for thi. .same period last year was J101,3G0 234. The Treasury view is that this Is not a ground for worry. The situa- tion Is considered a temporary one, involving em.rgency outlays design- ed t* speed recovery.