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r â- ,'-^ "s Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA HOPES DASHED The voire of a crooner has been heard in an Alberta well, due to some freak reception of radio proKrams. The incident may have raised the hopes of a good many people, before the circum.stances were explained. â€" Hamilton Herald. MODEL TAX RATE While New York and other cities »re bo;ft,'ed in a morass of financial dickerinK with bankers and getting a headache trying to devise new taxes to meet relief and routine ex- penditures. Haltimore expects to close the calendar year with a sur- plus of $2,500,000. Mayor Howard W. Jackson is determined to mak» a rut of at least 11 cents in the 1935 tax rate. This would bring the 1935 rate below $2.35 and make it the lowest .since 1919. Members of the Baltimore City Council, even more sanguine than the mayor, are driving for a 1935 tax rate of about 12.15. The pre.sent Baltimore tax rate is $2.15.â€" St. Thomas Times- Journal. wliich the new book is talked about. â€"London AdvertLier. THEIR BROKEN WORD Not until some way can be found of making the bonds of nations as Kood as the words of honourabl« men is the peace of the world likely to be established on a really stable foundation. â€" Quebec Chronicle-Tele- graph. FOOTBALL A London cable tells of England defeating Italy by a score of 3-2 in an "international soccer classic" be- fore a crowd of 70,000 at Highbury. It is a striking example of the strides made by European races in games which, up to a few years ago, were almost exclusively Anglo Saxon. Time was when football, and particulariy Boccer football, was as English as the language Today it is piayed in France and Germany, and even in Soviet Russia.â€" Ottawa Journal. SALAD HOUND A dog in Florida climbs trees for oranges and grapefruit, and also eats ban.ina.s, apples and cabbages. Ah ! A salad hound.â€" Woodstock Sentinel ileview. OLD HOME WEEKS OW Home Weeks are not only great jubilees, they .soar away be- yond fun and frivolity, and yet there are few, very few, members of the human race who do not enjoy a good tome, and they always have it at a function of this nature.â€" Perth Ex positor. STREAMLINING IN ASIA East may be East and West, West, but the di.-;tinction is not very evi- dent in the matter of streamlined trains. In benighted Asia, on the Dairen-Hsinking line of the South Manchuria Railway, a steamline tram known as the "Asia" is now In operation.â€" Moncton Transcri:>t. HIGH OXFORD HONORS It will be of interest everywhere in Canada, particularly in university centres, to learn that a student from one of the Dominions has worked his way to acknowledged icadership among the students at Oxford, and has been raised to the highest elec- tive position in their giftâ€" that of President of the Oxford Debating Union. * This honor ha.s fallen to a Rhodes Scholar from McGill. David Lewis, graduate of the Fa- culty of Arts and Science, and at McGill a former prominent campus orator, is the man who has been ac- corded the outstanding honor of Ox- ford. At McGill, Mr. Lewis wag also • member of the Students' Exccu- tlve Council. Let us hope that Mr. Lewis' suc- ce.ss will be reached by other Cana- dian.?.â€" Halifax Herald. ALL IN THE DAYS WORK Senator Huey P. Long is accused Of having cursed and threatened to Hre the editor of a Louisiana col- lege paper. Let the youthful jour- nalist buck upâ€" older editors than no have come through safely.â€" To- ronto Globe. HOUSING PROBLEMS Most housing: schemes on this con- tinent have failed in their objective of providing homes for the worst housed because the subsequent charges made rents too high. What are needed are dwellings which will rent for |16 a month. , . The fact is, however, that under the present policy of taxing improvements pri- vate enterprise cannot construct such homes as the Federal Adminis- tration visions, and make them pro- fitable. If private enterprise cannot buUd them, and the Government should not, it follows that millions of families must forever live in shacks and decrepit structures. There are no two ways about it, and it would be useful if those now engag ed in surveying housing needs In Ottawa today kept this important point in mind.â€" Ottawa Citizen. Viewing Royal Wedding Present* QUEER CURES AMAZING We in Canada are accu.stomed to regard the "toe-twisting" treatment for arthritic and other diseases, giv- en by our own Dr. Locke, of Wil- liamsburg, Ont., as being miraculous enough. And there are even scep- Swansea Home for ! Highway Fir»t Aid n n 1 Refresher Course Brangwyn Panels puu,. Authorized Wedding presents received by the Duke of Rent and his bride. Princess Marina, on view at St James Palace, where the public rushed to see the magnificent display. at the present time some eight mil- lion cycles in service in Great Bri- tics who are not disposed to take Ws ' **'"• â€" London Daily Mail. methods seriously, although his be lievers are legion and the results ho obtains apparently speak for them- selves. But Coralie Van Passen writing from Paris to a Toronto paper, re- ports alleged cures that arc more remarkable, if not more miraculous still. The healer is Dr. Armand Gil- let who, like Dr. Locke, is said to be averse to publicity. And his method is to tickle the nostrils with a pair of small "stylets," or thin metal staves, about six inches long. By this treatment, claimed to re- present the fruits of years of re- search, an emotional effect is ob- tained that has curative power over neuralgia, rheumatism and so forth. He Is reputed to have many marvel- lous successes to his credit and the people flock to him as they do to Williamsburig. Wonders will never cease ! â€" Quebec Chronicle - Tele graph.. THE ROYAL WEDDING If anyone doubted the attachment of English people to the Royal Fam- ily, or their love of domesticity, they have only to look at the photographs of the crowds that stood to welcome Prince George's fiancee. Princess Marina, on her arrival in England. . . The delight with which the news of the Royal marriage was received gives some pleasure of the respect- ful regret felt by the King's subjects that the Prince of Wales has not married. His Royal Highness is forty. If the news of Prince George's marriage is received with enthus- iasm, that of the Prince of Wales would be acclaimed with an even deeper joy. â€" National Review (Lon- don,. No Divorce For Spanish Prince And His Cuban Wife JUICY BONDS OF EMPIRE nnit'!.'"' ^'^'^ y*^^*"' •'*' imported iOO.OOO c.i.ve.s of oranges from South Africa. There's another juicy text for the advocates of trade within the Empire. -Winnipeg Tribune. TEACHING LITERATURE In literary instruction for the young, it should be borne in mind ttiat the ol)ject is not to train critics but to enlarge and enrich the mind, and to stimulate further reading. It is the foo.l that is important, not the label on the package. No doubt many teachers have this Object steadily in view, but there is no harm in calling attention to the danger of being led into methods of instruction that are likely to fo»- ttr a dlsta.^te rather than a love for literature. Literature is valuable for its in- UrpreUtion of life and its part in developing a philosophy of life. This â-  the test that should bo applied not «nly to classics that have stood the U«t of time, but to new books. Do â- â€¢â€¢y coBfirm or modify your own opinioni, or enlarge your range of WOUIfht? T*./.â€" 1.-_ ^„ " . THE MAGIC CARPET No line of steamships and no line of railway can ever take the place of an international highway as a tourist attraction. The automobile owner is captain of his own ship and conductor of his own trian. Any kind of a vehicle having four wheels, a brake and a gas engine becomes to its owner a Golden Argosy into which he can load his family and start for the Land of Dreams. â€" Ed- monton Bulletin. THE â„¢piRE THE SCOTS NATIONAL DICTIONARY The publication today of the voca- bulary from "beefor" to "bitteraks" sees the completion of Volume L of the Scottish National Dictionary. A work of noble scholarship, of vast dimensions, has thus been success- fully inaugurated, and the editor, Dr. William Grant, and the F.xecu- tive Council of the association re- sponsible for the production are de- serving of congratulations from Scots and scholars the world over.â€" Glasgow Herald. THE FAITH WITHIN US The outward show of welcome to the Duke of Gloucester which finds expression in crowded streets and a decorated city is the superficial clothing of an emotion which is of far deeper significance than the colour of a flag or the waving of a hand. His Royal Highness r ines to Australia in a dual rolo, as an indl vidual and as the personal repre- sentative of His Maje.sty the King. It is the latter role which kindles the imagination and turns one's thougHts to that powerful symbol of Imperial unity which is the Throne. Kingi have had reason in these troubled post-war years to brood, as Shakes- peare did, upon the insecurity of crowns; but the Crown of England has now become the Crown of a Commonwealth of Nations, and the sceptre which English Kings have held for centuries now sways an Em- pire which reaches out from the dark shadow of Europe aero-.-, the whole world. â€" Melbourne Argus. THE POPULAR PUSH-BIKE The wonderful display of bicycles and the big crowds at the opening ' of the Bicycle and Motor Show in I Olympia come as reminders that I the pedal cycle is still the most popu- ! lar Qf vehicles. No one who hu I stood outside a large factory at clos- ing time can have failed to be im- ' pressed by the almost universal u.se "( **•• ^y*^'* *o K«» to ""(l from work. Non-Smoking Councilman Loses Support of Woman Hastings, Neb.â€" Councilman Clar- ence Young's faith in women has been shaken. The Councilman is opposed to smoking. When the Council moved into the recently completed Munici- pal Building he urged that smoking be banned for the sake of visitors and especially on account of the wo- men. "In fact we have one on the Council," said he. Up through the smoke haze bob- bed the smart green hat of Mrs. A. Brooke, fellow-member, "I don't care anything about smoking," said she. "I expect if men like to smoke and have to sit here a long time they really need it. I expect they feel as I do when I want a drink of water. I just go and get it." Dentist: "Which is the bad tooth?" Patient (a cinema attendant) : "Balcony, third on left." New York â€" "It's all a terrible mis- understanding, we've had no quarrel. The facts were misrepresented. There is going to be no divorce." With vigorous shakes of her head, the beautiful Countess Covadonga, daughter of a wealthy Cuban mer- chant, denied when she arrived here reports abroad that she was to separ- ate from the eldest son of ex-king Al- fonso, the former Prince of the Astu- rias, who renounced his rights to suc- cession to the Spanish throne to marry the commoner. , Reticent at first, the Countess fin- ally turned aside the appeals of her sister and travelling companion, Mrs. John Argueles, to be silent and dis- cussed the reports. "Someone spread the report that I went to a dance and my husband told me if I went I needn't come back," she said. "That is not true." "I don't like to dance. We live a quiet life and our entertainment con- sists mostly of the theatre, literature and conversation." Someone else, she said, spread an- other rumor that she and the Prince quarrelled over red dresses â€" tliat she wanted some and the prince did- n't want her to buy them. "Red dresses â€" I hate them," she said. The Countess, the former Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampredo, plans to return to Paris in two months. South Wales has secured especial significance for itself in the eyes of cultivated people throughout the world by the fcnterpri.se and good fortune of Swansea in securing the famous "House of Lords" panels â€" or "British Emi)ire" panels as they are to be known henceforth. Over and alwve its many other attractive features South Wales now possesses one of the world's greatest works of art. ... The panels are housed in the Brangwyn Hall, the largest room in Swansea's new palatial civic centre, that cost 420,000 pounds to build and was opened in October last by the Duke of Kent. A commemorative tablet informs the visitor that: The annual paintings within this Hall are the work of Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Lord Iveagh who commissioned him to exe- cute them died in 1927, and hia Trustees presented the Paint- ings to the Corporation of Swansea in 1934. By giving the panels to Swansea the Iveagh Trustees solved one of the most difficult problems that has ever arisen in the history of Bri- tish Art. There are sixteen of them, measuring in their entirety 3,000 square feet. They cost 20,000 pounds and the artist was for seven years at work on his commission. And when they were at last complet- ed there seemed to be no alternative to rolling them up and stowing them away indefinitely. For the work was commissioned by Lord Iveagh with the intention of making them a memorial to British peers who fell in the War, and they were to hang in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. While the work was still incomplete, however, and after Lord Iveagh had died, some 'of the panels were set up in position, only to be summarily rejected by the House of Lords, on the advice of the Royal Fine Art Commission. Despite this formidable setback, the artist courageously went on with his work, and in 1932 the completed panels were handed over to the Iveagh Trustees. Applications for the privilege of possessing them were received from many parts of the world, but, in view of their great size and the fact that they were designed for a speci- fic wall space, the difficulty of find- ing an entirely suitable building seemed insurmountable. Eventually it became apparent that the only satisfactory way of displaying them was to build a hall for the purpose, and this is virtually what Swansea has done. Ottawa â€" Authorization for a "re- fresher course" at the 21 highway first-aid posts established between between "Toronto and Montreal was given at a meeting of the ambulance committee of St. John Ambulance Association here. Courses will be given at each post, it was decided. The meeting folowed a luncheon gA- thering of the commandery council of St. John Ambulance Association attended by officers of the asociation from Montreal, Toronto; Saint John and Ottawa. Chinese Women Holding Their "^ Own In Biutness Los Angles â€" Women have escap- ed the role of chattels in the Orient in the opinion of Mrs. Besie Ochs, Hong Kong businesswoman. Mrs. Ochs, an official of Califor- nia-Asia, Ltd., here to attend a meet- ing of the western division of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, affirmer in an interview that Chinese women have invaled com- mercial fields once open only to men. "Chinese women are holding their own in business," she said. Mrs. Ochs pointed out that a Chinese woman is president-manager of a Shanghi bank and that others are recognized as lawyers, dentists, doctors and business executives. Movies MeJcing Another Advance Bother Men Enough And You'll Get What You Want Nova Scotia Apples The small province of Nova Scotia remains the greatest apple country in the world, size considered. Ex- ceeding the originial estimate by more than 250,000 "barrels, her com- mercial apple crop this year will be 1,750,000 barrels, according to the latest survey. This is clo.se to 500,- 000 barrels ahead of Hamilton, Bermudaâ€" Dudley Field Malone's advice to the Bermuda Wo- man Suffrage Society is: "Make yourself inconvenient to the man un- til they grant you the vote out of sheer desperation." "Men do not like to be bothered," the New York lawyer said, at a suf- frage tea, "and if you bother them enough for the vote you will get it sooner than you expect. Don't be passive â€" militant inconvenience is your best strategy." Ten members of the society hav« refused to pay taxes on the ground that taxation without representation is tyranny. Their personal property is to be auctioned in tax arrears sales. The first sale, that of property London â€" Work on the ve.xed pro- blem of creating three-dimensional movies is reported to be in full swing under the auspices of the Gaumont British Pictures Corporation and the Imperial Chemical Industries. Acording to the Daily Herald if experiments now going forward suc- ceed stereoscopic films will be shown to the public in about two years. Cinema audiences will receive from the screen the same sense of solid three-dimensional reality that theatre audiences now obtain by watching actors moving on the stage. Gaumont British, the paper said, has equipped special research labor- tories for sterescopic experiments and it expects its work there to yield de- finite results early next year. Golds Cut 37 P.C. Among Students Ithica, N. Y. â€" Reduction of 37 per cent, in the frequency of common colds among male students of Cornell •University in the last five years is announced by Dr. Dean F. Smiley, professor of hygiene and university medical advisor. The program for the cold suscept- ibles is centred around two ultra- violet light solaria, in which students take artificial sun baths twice a week from October to May for 10- minute periods. They also get special instructions concerning diet, alkalinization, ventilization and slep. American Sweet Potatoes Welcomed Into Britain London â€" Britain is now having a chance to become better acquainted with the American sweet potato, for a campaign has been launched here by Mr. Seth Taylor, special repre- sentative of Maryland, to popularize of Mrs. St. George Butterfield, pro- I this product. The first step was ta- ^"^ average sident of the suffrage group and a I ken recently when the S.S. American over a lO-year period.â€" (From the | woallhy society woman, will be held | Merchant unloaded what is claimed shortly. to be the largest individual shipment (100 bushels) of sweet potatoes ever introduced into England. Boston Globe.) Guard of Honor for Halifx Doctor and Bride Jimmy and the Philosopher Somehow or other, the rumor has gone abroad that wrestling is a sport suitable only for Neanderthal men, or, at best, survivors of the Cro- Magnon era of human development. Let it be laid. Champion Jimmy Lon- dos breakfasts on Socrates, has Spinoza with lunch and takes Kant with his after-dinner coffee. Pinning the shoulder blades of other wrestlers to the canvas is merely a lucrative avocation for Jim- my, a kind of breather after a hard day with the philosophers. Wo advise Jimmy, however, to stick to wrestling, because the fan.i will never pay goa,^ money at the box office to see him attempt te place a double-nehon on old Plato.â€" St. Ix)ui3 Post-Dispatch. «.„â-º 1 J**®?* .""""ers are much which has been of such wonderful more important than the extent to {advantage to thousands Ther^lrl n.. Murray tia.ser of Halfhx, N.S., and Miss Aiuliey Roulston, St. John's, \fld.. passing between .„ K / / r"/ "V"''"."P "^ '""""'' »â- "* ''*'''''=' »'*'^'" t'lt-y ^"'fre wed in the first marriage ceremony to be performed in the church of the Routunda Al atemitv HosoiUl in Dublin. Ireland. Ordinary Federal Reven â- ^e Increases by $28,000,000 Ottawa â€" Ordinary revenue of the Dominion Government for the first eight months of the present fiscal year ending Nov. 30 was more than $28,000,000 ahead of the same period last year, and for the month of Nov- ember, 1933. by neariy $1,600,000 ac- cording to a statement just i.^ued by the Comptroller of the "Treasury. For the first eight months of the year the Dominion treasury has a surplus of $1,604,449 on ordinary ac- count, expenditures totalling $243,- 458,091 and receipts $245,062,640. â€" 1- 'bt ?lt !^ i. r>y :i ..^ c I