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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large V*^^ >â- â™¦â™¦ " ♦â- â™¦â- Â»â- #â- â™¦â™¦-•â- Â»â- â™¦â- â™¦ i CANADA RADIO COMMISSION The radio commission has bei-n the tai'Ki-'t of much criticism, a largo part of it being of the non-constructive type- Much of this criticism has beun unfair. But many Canadian radio i-nthusiasts refuse to admit this. They realize that the couindssion has put Canada on the air. Several ex- cellent features by Canadian artists have been developed, some of these beinK so rooiI that they are broad- ca.st regularly by the United States chains. This means that home talent ts being employed anil encouraged. A large part of the outlay of the com- mission is for program.^, which finan- cially benefits many Canadian.s di- rectly and many olher.s indirectly. Another important aceompli.sh- ment for which the commission should be given credit is the unifica- tion of Canada over the air. The fact that the commission has made It po.ssible to broadcast a Canadian program from coast to coast makes lor a feeling of unity. Nor should it be forgotten that the ;ommis^ion lia.s made radio pleasure {eneral throughout Canada by enab- ling local broadca.sting stations to function by providing them with pro- grams. Were it not for these programs many of the stations would find it Jxtcrernely difficult to carry on, and those who are largely dependent upon these stations for their radio enter- tainment would be deprived of much of the pleasure which they are now receiving. â€" Strafford Hacon-Herald. COURTESY Making reference to the death of a notable public man it was said of him that he will be remembered for his unfailing courtesy. That feature was stressed and that is as it should be. There is ifothing as fine as un- failing courtesy whether it be in man or woman. It smooths the pathway of life and makes contacts with our fellows much more pleasant. No mat- ter what the business may be, court- esy is a great factor in bringing it to success. But courtesy must be some- thing innate, not forced, the outward expression of an inward state of mind â€" Niagara Falls Review. THE OLD FAMILY DOCTOR The old family doctor typo has been given a now lease of life lhoui;li many have feared he was soon to be extinct. Dr. A. B. Dafoe, of Callan- der, who brought the Dionne quin- tuplets into the world is a ease in point. The Journal of the .American Medical As-socialion has paid the highest tribute to the doctor, who serves along the concessions and set- tlements- There is still and will al- ways remain room for the old style family practitioner as well as the other type of physician for both are necessary in this world of births and ills and developments. â€" Ontario In- telligencer. HITLER'S KINDNESS Out of the kindness of his heart, Germany's Mr. Hitler proposes to al- low Germans sentenced to death to choose their own means of exit. Thus, if a man is sentenced to be executed, th»ro will be placed in his cell a vial of poison and a loaded revalver. If, within a reasonable time, the condem- nde man fails to make judicious use of either of these, the executioner will simply come along and relieve hirn of his head in the usual way. â€" Vancouver Sun. SLOGANS NOT ENOUGH In Great Britain they put on a "safety-onthe-highways week." The results was that in that particular week 12G persons were killed and 5,- 695 injured, the second highest cas- ually 'list for Briti.'-li highways on r«cor(f. The experience suggests that carelessness on the highways calls for something sterner than experi- ments in g:jd precepts â€" Ottawa Journal. BICYCLES AND CHILDREN "During the past few weeks there have been a number of close calls of boys and girls in town being either killed outright or at least severly in- jured, as the result of careless riding on bicycles. Just la.5t week a boy, through downright carelessness, ran plum into a motor car, but fortunate- ly neither the bicyclist nor the auto driver was going very fast, and the only result was a bad scare on the part of both. It is useless for the press to warn the children at the dan. ger they run, for t!;at is a duty de- volving upon the parents, and every father and mother should impress upon their sons and daughters the ab- solute necessity of using precaution while riding when crossing streets in the centre of blocks. At cro-ssings pedestrians have some rights, but in the centre of blocks they apparently have none. â€" Perth Expositor. RELIEF FOR BOWED BACKS Those who have become stoop- •houldered from carrying around pocketsful of paper money will hail with glee the Ottawa announcement that the new Bank of Canada notesâ€" shortly to be issued in denominations from $1 to $50,000 or thereabouts â€" will be much smaller than our present greenbacks. Smaller, in fact, than the dwarfed currency of United States. â€" Border Cities Star. USE OF WORDS It Is relaterl of a Frenchman who studied English that he testified: "When I first discovered that if I was quick I was fast; that if I was tied I was fast; if I spent too freely 1 was fast; and that not t» eat was to fast. 1 was discouraged; but when I came across the sentence, 'The first one won one. dollar prize' I gavw ur trying to learn the Engli.-h language." This recalls the conversation reported by "Punch" from a whist drive long ago. One player in a set remarked "we are two to two." At a neighboring table another player called out "Are you two to two? We are two to two, too." What could the Frenchman make of that'.'â€" Hamilton Herald. FLIES ARE SO STUPID Flies become a nuisance this time of year. Until now it seems they have been content to go hopping about elsewhere but in recent days they have taken to coming in here. What they expect to find we have not the .-.lightest idea. And yet they sit on the parliamentary guide, the diction- ary, look over all the papers and sit on the top of one's head. Flies are mean that way. We are sure flies are stupid. Right near to the building there is a restaurant which keeps open long hours each day and night. If they knew anything at all they would not be wasting their time around an editorial office where no victuals enter. They would be snooping around the restaurant next door or departing on an excursion to the grocery store on the street. Even a brindle cow knows more than to pasture on a concrete highway sur- face, and a dog knows enough not to start chasing a cat when dinner dishes arc being cleared. But the flies seem to be such stupid things. â€" Walkerton Time.s-Herald. 'Chute Tangle 3, Pilot Dies THE EMPIRE AN AGED VINE The grapes on the IGG-year-old vine at Hamption Court Palace are now ripe, and cutting was begun on Sunday. The fruit was sohl to visi- tors at fis a pound, including a carry- ing basket made by the blinded in- mates of St. Dunstan's Hostel. The grapes on the vine, which was plant- ed in 1768, are of the black variety and of fine quality, the bunches aver- Knicule to Uhode 1 iand with load of tear ga , tilot Ton Taney of Pittsburg, died as plane crash- ed near Bedford, Pa., his chute becoming entangled in plane. aging from 1 lb. to 1 1-2 lbs. in weight. -The vine is bearing about 500 bunches â€" some years ago the yield was about 2,000 bunches. Dur- ing the Summer the vine has been in- spected by thousands of visitors, who have paid a penny each to enter the vinery.^Inverness Review. BUILDERS OF ENGLAND. Devonshire raises the agricultural laborer's wage. It is the fourteenth county to do so- The laborer is loo often forgeotten when we think of agriculture, but the yeomen of Eng- land built her greatness in the past. â€" London Express. Leather Bows, Flowers, Bracelets and Clips, Fashion's Latest There are frills and thrills for the feet in Paris â€" if seeing is believing. Afternoon dresses of marve.ously colored prints are all a rustle witli frills and riicihings. large and small. Some are of the frock itse'r. while others stand out in crisp white con- trast aiouiid (he neckline and cuffs. And the new shoes are not to be outdone. They, too, repeat thl"- ruffled theme. The just-out blue tnd brown kidskin shoes have nifty little butter, fly bows and odd trimmings lined with white, knotted coils ot stitched and pleater kidskin tabs, Leather Mowers smart duly several places (oo â€" on plain kidskin pumps, either at tho side or in front, and also are to be found tiimniing leather and fabric purses, belts, lials and the gauntlet cuffs of gloves. Leather bracelets and clips are new â€"some trimmed with metal and some even set with stones whila others are content to ornament them, selves witi knots ot leatbnr or bits of bead, glass or straw. Jobless Man "Ends It AlF By Sitting Nude on Hornets' Nest Tampa, Fla. â€" The stings ot scores of hornets killeij Ramon Perez, 34, un. employed cigar maker who leaped nude Into a colony of the insects witij the avowed Intention of killing him- self. Perez died after suffering hours from the stings. He was In the swarm of hornets for about 10 minutes. He went from his home to an adjoining vacant lot, removed his clothing, and sat down in the midst of the Insects. W^hlle someone called the tirf. depart- ment, Perez's mother rushed to the aid of her son. He refused to heed her ippeal to flee. Finally, after firemen had be- gun burning weeds in order to smoke out the hornets, she dragged him from the lot. Every part of his body was distort- ed to more tiian twice noimal size. He refused medical treatm.'at. New Homes Provide Room For Games Heads Two Sets of Five Generations Proud head of two sets of Ave generations, and with 14 children, seven living between 50 and 60 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren, David Noakea of London, Kngland. celebrated his lOOth birthday. He was married twice. Ten out of twelve of the houses being built today provide game rooms, a prominent architect declares. He is not talking solely about luxury hom- es, he insists, but about moderate- l)riced structures to be occupied by families with average incomes. "The game room has come to have Li definite place in the home scheme," he explains. "Especially is it import- ant when there are young people growing up in the house. The game room gives them a place to which they may bring their friends and find are doing their equipment especially designed for the kind of amusement they like best Most important of all, since the ideal game room generally is isolated as much as possible from the rest of the house, the young folks can make all the noise they please and nobody else will be disturbed." The ideal place for the game room, of course, especially when it must be inserted into a house that already has overtime use for every room, is the cellar. The cob-webby, cluttered basement, useful only for holding the furnace and those intricate wind- ing pipes that nobody ever seems to know tho use of anyway, is no longer fashionable. WILLING HELPERS AVAILABLE The clever householder, contem- plating the installation of a game room, will interest not only his young people but the sons and daughters of his neighbors in the project. Then, before he knows it, he will have a Improving Economic Position Shown By Latest Relief Tigures Ottawa.â€" Arresting statistics made available by the Department of Labor ^ow, as one of the moat satisfactory features of the Dominion's Improving economic position, the extent to which Celebrate Hop Harvest Boom Hon lliii- «t ill (Jngnn with record pri es lik.ly is being In fe.tival at Indepenckiice, Ore. Queen celebrated by 20,000 Orcgonians Marjoric P!;int ( right > awards nicking tronhv to Mabel .\llen. expanding Canadian business is af- fording ro.employment to the heads of families. As compared with May, the figures show, the number of heads of fam- ilies drawing direct relief dropped from 265,796 to 226,959 for the month of August Just ended. During the period, accordingly, appiciimately 39.000 Canadian family heads achieved a sufficient measure ot economic re- establishment to do without public aid. Tho number of dependenis wlio wero dropped from the relief rolls a.H a consequence was no fe>ver than 171.934. The drop throughout the summer in the number of direct relief recipi- ents has been steady, as ea*h month has afforded a higdier volume of enu liloyment. Costs to the Federal Treasury are also, accord:''gly, on the down grade. Whereas the May cost was ${6,500,000. In May there were 43.84.i Individual rases of single unemployed men be- ing cared for and in August only :U),432. Single men employed un high, way works, Federal and I'rcvinclal, dropped in the period from '.10,597 to -'1,920. The relief picture, it Is further understood, would be Immeasiurcably bri»iJ.it were it not for the unfortunate lunditions which have :ivcrtaken Sa.Hkatchewiin. That province alone lia.-i lllf.OOO people receiving assist- tiue. This handicap to the general statistics l.s regarded by otlicials as making the improvement which is shown all (he more impressive. volunteer corps of carpenters, fixers and planners whose eager enthusi- asm will make up for minor lacks in technical skill. In some successful cellar play- rooms, the ugly fixtures of which every basement seems to unneces- sarily full, are hidden by false walls. But if they must show. It the young- sters paint them to match the gen- ral color scheme. STAGE IN ONE CELLAR One cellar playroom that has prov ed especially successful in a large family has one corner devoted to a stage where amateur theatricals are performed. Another, belonging to a family of fishermen and hunters, is decorated with the trophies brought home by proud anglers and good shots. If it is not possible, as it sometimes is not, to dedicate an entire room to the game idea, the living room, may be made to serve the pur- pose if one corner is fitted with a table for games and comfortable chairs for the players. The room where Norma Shearer and her husband entertain their friends at cards has walls panelled in dull-finished wood and a floor car- peted in dull blue-green, with furn- ture covered in various shades of beibe and brown and draperies in henna. YOUR DRAPES You can carry out any color scheme with little expense if you are clever with your fingers. Unbleached cotton may be dyed at home to any shade you wish. A ball fringe to match may be bought for a few cents a yard. Checked or plaid gingham or an in- expensive cretonne may be used to cover old furniture and you may buy lovely shades of paint and lacquer and have a p»rfectly lovely time "doing up" your game room to the Queen's 'Taste at an expenditure of a few dollars. Such a room may well provide fun for all the members of the family. Mother could have her bridge club there or Dad his poker party without disturbing the rest of the house. There might be a folding ping-pong table and if there is a small stage, there could be charades, tableaux and all sorts of "stunts" for both youi own children and the neighbors. II would be a good way to keep thi youngsters at home during the long winter evenings. Marine Disasters In Past Century While the loss of life in the Morr« Castle tragedy was appalling, othM marine disasters of the past centurj have taken bigger toll. Following is a list of the more not- able marine disasters in the last 80 years : March, 1851 â€" Steamer City of (;ia=gow left Liverpool for Phil*- dclphia; never heard from; 4.50. Sept. 13, 18.58â€" Steamer Austria, Hamburg to New York, burned in mid-ocean; 471. Oct. 25, 1859 â€" Steamer Royal Charter wrecked; 44fi. April 27, 18G5 â€" Steamboat Sul- tana, with exchanged Union prison- ers, destroyed by boiler explosion on Mississippi, near Memphis; 1,700 (approximately). Oct. 29, 18G7 â€" Steamers Rhone and Wye and about 50 other vessels wrecked at St. Thomas, West Indieg, by hurricane; 1,000. Sept. 7, 19 9 â€" British warship foundered off Finisterre; 472. April 1, 1873 â€" Liner Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; 547. Dec. 6, 1874 â€" Cospatrick burned at sea, 470. Sept. 3, 1877â€" Princess Alice .sunk in collision in the Thames; 700. Sept. 19, 1890 â€" Turki.sh frigat* Ertngrul foundered; 540. March 17, 1891 â€" Utopia sunk by collision off Gibraltar; 574. June 25, 1894 â€" Steamship Norg« wreched in North Atlaiitic; 600. Feb. 15. 1898 â€" Battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor; 2G0. July 4, 1898 â€" La Burgogne in collision with Cromartyshire; 560. June 15, 1904â€" Excursion steamer General Slocum burned in East River; 1,021. June 28 â€" Steamer Norge wrecked off Scotland; 646. â- Sept. 13, 1905 â€" Japanese warship Mikasa sunk by explosion; 599. April 14-15. 1912â€" Titanic sunk by iceberg; 1,513. Sept. 28 â€" Japanese steamer Kic- kermaru sunk off Japan; 1,000. May 29, 1914 â€" Empress of Ire- land sunk in collision with Danish collier Storstadta; 1,024. May 7, 1915â€" Lusitania sunk by German subtr.arine; 1,198. July 24 â€" Excursion steamer East- land capsized in Chicago River; 812. Feb. 26, 1916 â€" Cruiser Provence sunk in Mediterranean; only 870 saved of nearly 4,000 aboard. June 5 â€" Cruiser Hampshire sunk by German mine; Earl Kitchener and several hundred others lost. Aug. 29 â€" Ch'nese steamer Hsin Yu sunk off China; 1,000. July 9, 1917 â€" British warship Vanguard blown up pt her dock; 800. Dec. 30 â€" British transport Ara- gon torpedoed in Mediterranean; 610. April 25, 1918 â€" Chinese steamship Kiang-Kwan sunk in collision off Hankow; 500. May 10 â€" British troopship Santa .\nna torpedoed; 638. June 14â€" U.S.S. Cyclops left Bar- badoes and never heard from; 293. •â-  July 12 â€" Japanese battleship Kawachi blown up; 500. Oct. 6 â€" Otranto, British ship with Us.S. troops, sunk in collision off Scotland; 431. Oct. 10 â€" Steamer Leinster tor- pedoed; 480. Jan. 12, 1920â€" French steamship sunk in Bay of Biscav; 500. March 18, 1921â€" Steamer Hong- kong sunk by rock; 1,000. Jan. 26, 1926 â€" Steamer Antinoff lost in storm in mid- Atlantic; crew rescued by the President Roosevelt, which lost two lifeboat men. Oct. 16 â€" Troop ship blown up in Yangtse River at Kiukiang, China 1.200. Oct. 25, 1927 â€" Principe.s>;j. Maf- alda sunk by explosion off Porto Seguro, Brazil, 314. Nov. 12, 1928 â€" Vestris founder- ed in storm off Virginia Capes, 110. Python Pet |iii!i.u on all your po-' no!',-, ?ir!.i .-. \t'.i;ni and all.- Thi.- young man known as Jo'ianncs, attendant at snake park at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, toy.j with them as a baby does a ratile. Here he's car- â-  :;ssing a python. r *