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"^IMPIp^" ****"' VOICE CANADA, THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS A Flying Finish CANADA VINELAND SCIENTIST MAKES NAME IN AVICULTURE The work ot Jack Miner and other naturalists in the prcservallon of â- wild life l8 almost a household world. Few know, however, of the outstand- ing work done In rearing In captivity birds, strange to our contiiieu;, by such men as Dr. W E. Hurlhurt, na- turalist and ornitholoKi t of V'ineland. By this excellent contribution to avl-- cu'turo, this Vlnoland physician has qualified for recognition by the Avl- cul ural Society of America, which offers medals to members In the United States and Canada, who are the first to breed certain species ot fori'lsn birds. For the past decade or more Dr. Hurlbut has taken an interest in tropical birds until he has slxy In species in captivity. He has also re;'red for the first time anywhere in the world in captivity Uie fox spar- row, native of the far north in North America, and the white throated flnch, native of Brazil, and for the first time piobably on this contln. ent, t'he magpie nianniken, a native of tropical Africa. Other foreign birds somewhat rare in this country are to be seen among his specimens. Dr. Hurlhurt has done real work as a scientist, and is deserving of any re- cognition that may be bestowed up- on him. â€" 'idronto Mail and Empire. TYPE IS NOT ELASTIC The American police commissioner wlio does not like the word "fight" and is trying to get the newspapers to use the mora polite word "dlstur. banre'' won't get anywhere. There are llVi characters in disturbance and only 4Vs In fight (the letter "1'' being only halt as wide as the others). Desk men on newspapers, boiling down stories to save space and writing headlines that have to be compressed In narrow columns, will not use a long word when they can use a short one. That is why diplomatic com- munications are "notes"; the enemy Is the "foe''; Interrogates or cross- examines becomes "quiz'', criticize li "hit", and so on. Something of a modern classic In headline English is a recent exam- ple from Variety, the amusement newspaper. The headline reads: •'STICKS NIX HICK PIX." Each of the four words is a slang word and the headline would be In. admissal)le in any daily newspaper. What the headline lnten<ied to con- vey la simply tills: that the movle- ging iiubllc in the smaller communl- tes have indicated that they dislike and will not pay their good money to see motion pictures depicting rural life. â€" Financial Post. LIVES OF NAPOLEON Ten Vhousand books, or one every 98 liours for 112 years, have been written on Napoleon's life. This should dampen Mussolini's ambition » bit. â€" Winnipeg Tribune. JOURNALESE Strange, how newspaper lingo changes. A couple of generations ago reporters were In Uie habit ot often calling a church a "sacred edifice," and s(jm6 of tliem seemed to prefer "conflagration" to "fire," and "post- prandial" to "^fter- dinner." A gen- eration ago the revered Montreal Star was want to refer to even po- lice court doings as "dramatic." A few of the newer words now af- fected â€" definltoly, "spot" of tea, "considered'' opinion, "blunt" view, and socialite. â€" Sault Ste. Marl« Star. GOOD ROADS Good roads bound the old Roman Empire together, and it is not a vain hope tlial they may be made a bound wihlch shall In tJnie help to bind to- gether the ''United States of Europe." â€" Halifax TIiraM. FINE BABIES EVERYWHERE When we look at the photographs of those babies who won prizes at the North Wentwortii Agricultural Society Fair, we cannot help think- ing that the Dioiuie quintuplets may got more publicity, but their ap- pearance in no more a guarantee of a healthy and good-looking future Canadian generation than that of numerous other children, born and bred without bally.hoo In uur rural districts. â€" Hamilton SpC' i&tor. OLD STAINS The stain of 1896 has been wiped out. Italians are celebrating the fall of Adowa. Fine! Let's all wipe out our sliiitis. The Scotch mlgiit Invade England to reveugo thomaelvea for Flodden Feld; the British wallop the Rus.<-Iana for cutting up the Light Brigade; France might Invade Uer- many to clear up that old trouble of 1870 and Germany might Invade France to avenge the defeat ot 1918; Italy might walk Into France to wipe out the stain o^ the Napoleonic con- quest; Austria might . . . but |why go on? â€" Hamilton Herald. STREET CAR SERVICE So It would seem that there Is still a demand for street railway trans, portatlon, but it la significant that modernization ot the system Is given much of the credit for the Increased busiiiu.-.s. 'Ihe aiityur of ludiuiiapulia says that an 8 per cent increase has noted since the new cars â€" "fast, silent, handsome and contorlable" â€" were put Into service, "enhancing the prestige of the city.'' If the cars are l>he opposite to fast or silent or handsome. It Is not reasonable to ex- pect any groat improvement In the traffic. â€" Hamilton Spectator. A BIT TOO MUCH Young man from SUrling appeared in court at BeTleville and the charge was that he fired a shot-gun at a charivari party. Tin pans, old tioll- ei's, wash tuba and cow bells used to be commonly used, but this resile s generation seeking for greater ef. fects witii weapons will have to be checked. â€" Stratford Beacon-Herald. A NOBLE RETREAT Recent news from Italy might lead an old-time reader of nursery rhymes to wonder If the world Is not about to witness a repetition ot the perfor- mance made famous by the noble Duke of York. Tlie noble Duke, as you may re- member, had a t'.iousand men; and after marching them boldly uphill one day, he 'bout-faced and march- ed them gallantly down again. Since the British navy began con- centrating In the Mediterranean, It Jias been possible to notice a water- ing.down In the warlike speeches at Rome. Mussolini has declared over and over again that Italy could not withdraw on any account; now, how. ever, there is a faint trace of a more moderate attitude to be heard, just as a suggestion tliat if it could be done with the right flourish, II Duce might be willing to modify his belli- cose plans. Strange, the change that can come over a statesman when he takes a good look down the business end of the guns of a Brlti.^h dreadnaught! â€" Guelph Mercury. THE EMPIRE BRITAIN AND THE DOMINION They stand, as we in this country stand, for peace and justice and the plighted world. They will not lightly be committed â€" and never committed In advance or without the full assent of their free peoples â€" to warlike measures. But they are becoming more and more conscious by the dan- gers of the present world, even to their own remote Dominions, so long as It contains great nations which have no such voice as theirs In the choice between war and peace. It Is sate to say that the recent debates In the Dominion Parliaments, and the line taken at Geneva by their repre- sentatives, have revealed an array of unanimity which would have been Incredible not long ago. Lord Tweeds, mulr's prediction the other day that what he called the "Fourth Empire" would possess a new cohesion, fol- lowing upon the achievement of na- tional independence, was something more than the dream ot an Imaglna. tlve and patriotic mind. Nor is It conceivable that the Dominions, or any class In this country, will dissent from the view that these dangers of the present world, so conspicuously revealed ,demand some revision of our Imperial defences. â€" Ixindon Times. [THE BRITISH WHEAT BOUNTY] Ask any farmers' leader In either Scotland or England today which scheme of assistance to the Industry has yielded the most satisfactory re- sults to producers and he will un- hesitatingly reply, "The wheat quota.'' Under this plan, no matter what the world price ot wheat may be, home growers are guaranteed (subject to a production limit) a standard price for all mlllable wheat of 453. per qr. of 504 lb., or 4V4 cwt. Since the scheme began In the season ot 1932-33 ex- perience has shown that the standard price for this home-wheat has been about double that which our growers could have hoped to reap from the open market. â€" Glasgow Herald. A MIRACLE Man has sought out many Inven- tions and afterwards has mostly re- gretted his pains. But now a device has appeared at which not even the most anti-mechanical of Erewhonians could grumble. The machine for glv- ing women the Illusion of wearing new CiDthes, which is to be shown at the forthcoming Exhibition of Inven- tions in London, Bounds so utterly beneficial and flattering that It should obviously be the "starred" Item of the whole affair. The effect la pro- duced by magic mirrors and strong lights. Henceforth, apparently a wo. man choosing a new frock need only stand In front of the machine's ar. rangement of mirrors with a sample piece of dress material in her hand; she will then see In the mirror a vis- Ion of herself wearing the dress pro. poaed. â€" Manchester Guardian. St. IjouIs. â€" Vanilla lee cream still Is a tarorlte. But chocolat* Is a close second, say representatives Qf th« Interna- tional Association ot Ice Oream Man- ufacturers bera tor their &nnual oon. vcntlon. -Ml eight lioot's off the sTound, Count Arthur and Judy O'Grady pictured in flying finish in the mile and one-half Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park, L.I. Reigh Count's son won race by 'half a length. < Reviewing Three Centuries Of Journalism in Ensfland Delegates from all parts of the country to the annual conference of the Institute ot Journalists in Lon- don enjoyed the opportunity to in- spect a panorama of the evolution of the English newsbaper from its be- ginning more than three hundred years ago to the present day. In the forefront of this fascinating record of tliree centuries of English Journalism stood a page from Wil- liam Caxton's press at Westminiter dated 1480 as an example of the earliest printing In England. An Interval of a century and a quarter led up to a copy of "Mercurlus Ual- lobelgicus,'' dated 1606, a six-monthly compilation of European news done in Latin at Frankfurt and containing the report of a speech delivered in Parliament by James I denouncing the atrocity of the Guy Fawkes Plot. This forerunner of newspapers with letters frfom Continental corre- spondents and the Dutch and Ger- man corantoj â€" the earliest form of ne<w8-sheets â€" provided the 'material from which the pioneers of English Journalism compiled the first news- pap*(rs In this country. Their origin dates from May. 1622, and In the ex- hibition was shown a finely pre- served specimen of a year la'.er â€" "The Continuation of our Weekly Newes" â€" with Its decorative head- piece, table of contwits, and enter- taining account of recent happen- ings In the Thirty YearV War. The Journalism of the Civil War and Commonwealth period, when news pamphlets on the opposing aides poured from the London pre.ss- es, was represented oy numerous ex- amples. "A Perfect Relation of Su- muarte" Is a particularly stylish specimen of front-page lay-out, and the ''Faithful Scout" Is singled out for a graphic account ot the "great and bludy engagement" between the English and Dutch fleets off Dunge- ness in November, 1652. From these beginnings the page- ant of the Press was shown in evo- lution through the Journalistic ec- centricities of the Restoration and Revolution to the advent of the tri- weekly morning paper at the close of the seventeenth century and of the daily at the opening of Anne's reign, when literature allied itself with journalism In the brilliant Steele and Addl-on group ot essay sheets, and Defoe's "Robinson Cruso" was running as a serial through the columns ot the "Dally Post." The second half of the eighteenth century was the period when the newspaper reached maturity, and here were shown amidst their con- temporaries the flrst Issue of the "Morning Post" (the only copy known) dated November 2, 1772; 'The Times" in its first year (1785), under its original title. "The Dally Universal Register"; and the Ob- server, the oldest existing ot the Sun- day papers of today. Journalism in its more modern phases was represented by the first Issues of many of the morning, eve- ning, and Sunday papers of Victorian and Edwardian times, and a large sec- tion of the exhibition was devoted to a display of the oldest provincial, Scottish, and Irish newspapers, which emphasized the Interesting fact that while journalism In London had a long start compared with the country towns, many of the old towns and cities are still producing with un- broken records ot longevity Journals that have flourished since long before the birth ot the oldest existing Lon- don newspapers. Milk Kept Fresh For Months Now TWEEDSMVIRS SHOULD BE AT HOME IN CANADA OF SCOTTISH NAMES (From Canada's Weekly (London) Lord Tweeds muir has told us that he looks forward with deep interest to his residence in Canada. We can well believe it. For us ordinary mortals, Canada never fails to pro- vide mental gymanastics In a high degree. Something new is always arising to stir us to fresh effort. It is a land of illimitable possibilities whether we think of the resources of Nature, of the Mind or of Spirit. That is our common experience. How great, then, must be the exhilaration which Canada brings to leaders of thought such as our new Governor General. As they come into touch with Canadian life they may aay with the poet: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken." More than that. Kingship has in these latter days gained a new mean- ing for British peoples everywhere. Above all our differences of parties and creeds it implies leadership in the higher art of living. More than ever, then, may the representative of the Sovereign in Canada find joy in leadership in realms where his leadership can be most helpful and stimulating. It has been said in Canada that Lord Tweedsmuir has been chosen for his high office by the express wish of those who can speak for the two main political sections of the Canadian people. His Majesty, we are told, has fulfilled what we may call a national Canadian desire. In any case, we know that he will be heartily welcomed by the whole Canadian community in every corner of tha Dominion. We lay stress on the words "every corner", for it is tha way with Governors to under- take the arduous but also happy task of getting into personal touch with Canadians of everv race and lONMid )iv «v«ry a*nti« from Ballfax to Victoria aTt4 from the 49th par- allel up to the sub-Arctic itself. To large numbers of them John Buchan will come as a familiar friend, for his writings have opened the window of history and romance in many a Canadian home. Every- where he and Lady Tweedsmuir will, by their presence and person- ality, quicken Scottish memories and affections in a land which owes so much to the qualities of the Scottish race. They will, by the way, find a Buchan in Manitoba, and a Tweed in Ontario, and Lady Tweedsmuir will be glad, no doubt, to make the acquaintance of Grosvenor in Nova Scotia. Readers of John Buchan's novels will hope that the founder of the hamlet of McNab in Ontario had the Christian name of John. One has heard something of a lament that John Buchan the writer should be for a period submerged in Lord Tweedsmuir the King's repi-e- sentative. As Governor General, it has been suggested, he cannot hope to have many moments to himself, and few opportunities of continuing a literary career. But may it not be that new and stimulating experi- ences will provide a Canadian back- ground for the further writings that will yet come from the pen of our new Governor General? That, at any rate, is our hope. Notable Increase In Rail Freights Fort Williamâ€" The Can^ian Na- tional Railways reported here laat week that east-to-west package freight handled over the company's docks here averages more than 1,000 tons • month increase this year compared with 1985. 81 Duisberg, Germany â€" An invention which is expected to revolutionize the dairying industry has been re- vealed by Theodor Hofius, a Duisberg engineer, who states that it has been entered for patent rights in all countries. He claims that he has invented a vessel in which milk and cream can be kept fresh for several months by using an oxygen apparatus. Milk remained fresh in a new vessel for at least two month* and its quality was improved, it is claimed. The invention, if successful, will permit milk to be transported for any distance, thus opening new pros- pects for milk-exporting countries, it is claimed. Reading Is Praised As Relaxation Aid Toronto â€" Doctors and nurses were warned against l>ecoming too absorl)- ed in the technical side of their pro- fession, and reading was suggested as physical and mental relaxation by C. R. Sanderson of the Toronto Public Libraries. "If you want something funny, read something funny," he said. "If you want to read novels, read them rather than nothing at all. I don't care what you read so long ai you read along general lines. I believe that reading gives one fun, stimulus and something that will stay long after one has forgotten the book It- self." The futility of trying to live by rules without relaxation was stressed by the speaker. He had no sympathy with those who pleaded that they had no time for reading. It was only the first bite that was difficult. Dr. D. M. Robertson, of ths Ot- tawa Civic Hospital, who presided, urged the establishment of more sanatoria in Ontario. In the mean- time, he said, separate wards could be maintained In hospitals for caaea of tuberculosis. Grants ought to be made to them by the Government for full term of residence just aa war done In regard to sanatoria, he thought. Woman Plans Lamp* For Coal Miners London â€" Among the women who came to London for the 13th annual conference of women engineers waa a Sheffield girl of 26 who is an ex- pert on mine illumination. She k Miss Monica Maurice. As manager of a large lan^ making company she has for toor years been responsible for the plan- ning and operation of lamps at eaU lieriet In every large coalfield in tha country. She does much of bar work in the mines. One of her aims is to bring about an international standard for mine lighting. To this end she has read many papers at international meet- ings of mining and illuminating en- gineers in France and Germany, her first when she was 21. She spoka the native tongue in each case, and took part in the highly technieal discussions. She plays as hard as she works, and is an expert rider, swimmer and dancer. Her favorite recreation is what she calls "week- end aerobatics". Then there was the time when H. G. Wells, bringing George Bernard Shaw, arrived at the Conrad home for luncheon. Joseph Conrad lored good food and, being a most hoapl- table man, you may be sure the meal was worthy of the occasion. Butt â€" Wells arrived with a terrible head- ache and would eat nothing but a slice of dry bread wasljed down by a glass of quinine and water, while Shaw made a meal off cocoa and a dry biscuit. "That exasperated my husband very much," says Mrs. Conrad â€" and no wonder! Shaw, of course, has always been a vegetariuu WHERE NOTHING SEEMS TO GROW Mr. Ion L, Idriess. the AustraUa*' author, has returned to Sydney wltk a graphic story of a journey of men' than 8,000 miles which he recently undertook through the heart d Australia, in search of material for a biography of Sir Sidney- Kidman. His journey tok him through the north of South Australia; as far as the Northern Territory and Queensland borders into central Queensland; through southwest Queensland to the northwest comer of New South Wales; back to Ade- laide, and thence through central Australia and round the Lake Eyre country. His main aim was to get into touch with every type of elder- ly bushman in that vast tract of country, and to obtain from drovers, station hands, and others intimate memories of Sir Sidney Kidman back in the days when he worked for a few shillings a week. Mr. Idriess says that Sir Sidna^ Kidman today either owns or controls, or has a large interest in, more than 100 stations; and owns and leases more land in the British Empire than any other man within its borders. Mr. Idriess draws a drub picture of much of the country through which he passed, consequent upon the then lack of rain and as a result also ot duststorms and drifting sand. He says that over a large area going to- wards the Lake Eyre basin there had been about an inch of rain, but, with the ravages of duststorms, the young blades of grass which had sprung up had disappeared. "One journeyed for hundreds of miles," he adds, "practically with- out a sign of any living thing. Where there had been young graaa there was a desolate picture ot sand. For hundreds of miles there is this creeping, very fine sand, drifting all the time towards the good lands â€" towards the northwest corner of New South Wales; down south towards the coastal landa border, and between the South Aui- tralian and New South Wales bord- ers, even across to Victoria. The Oust from central Australia has even colored the snow on ao ie of the Victorian alps a dirty pink in placea. Mr. Idriess says that, in the south- west of Queensland, along the ter- ritory border, and north of South Australia, one sees the merest rem- nants of native tribes at a distance of about every 40 miles, where there used to be tribes of from 300 to 400 many years ago. "Some tribes." he adds, "have entirely disappeared. This is duo in a large measure ta colds which the natives contract, and which rapidly develop into penn> monia. It is well known that germa, which the white breathes in every day, are fatal to natives, who cannok fight against them. 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