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day ‘Visceunt_lshii, head of the Japanese delegation’atthe peace conferenge, said.* it was the‘poignant regret of the Japa- nese Governmept-and people, that the f.“*‘"&(s*?f‘. the icovenant _were \Unable-to 1 acedpt the Japapese proposal that equati- '+ ty before the law should be assured to all men, irrespective of their natiomality, race or religion. The Japanese delegates - g declared they would continue their insis- tence for the adoption of their just-de- :mapd by ‘the league. « In view, however, Jf Present circumstances, Japanisstrong- ly.pérsuaded that.the- League is as yet in ‘a.stage when the consolidation of its or- gapization should be accorded greater attention than questions that might in- vofgea revision of the covenant. = . - .Ottawa, Nov. 30th.—Action- by~ the Government to restrict immigration of- --certain classes, in order to alleviate the - ~condition of .unemployment now:, prevail- ‘ing invarious parts of the dominion, was taken by the passage of anorder in coun- eil-today raising the money test of im- | ‘migration ofthe mechanice, artisan or ia- | "podrer classes from SSO to $250. The new order. provides for the suspension of pa- zagraphs 1 to3 of the former order in | eouneil applicable to these classes of im- | migrants and the substitution of 4 other ‘paragraphs. The first provides that “‘no immigrant of the’' mechanic, artisan, or | labourer classes, whether skilled or un- - skil.ed, shall be alloxed to land in Cana | da unless he possess, -in his own right i money to the amouut of$2560 and in ad- dition transportation to his destination, in Canada.’’ The second paragraph provides that ifan immigrant belonging to the class: ™ es named and is accompanied by hisfamily he must possess 1n addition to transporta- - tion. for the members of the family.to | their. destination a further sum ‘equiva- lent to $125 for every member aged 18 ; years and upward and SSO for each child * | of b years @and under 18years. - The new | regilations come into: effect along the international boundary onthe 16th De- cember next -and at ocean points on January Ist. They do not'apply toother . | élasses of immigrants than those -peci-. firgllyset forth, nor tourists, travellers. of/ ‘returning-Canadians. The. order | stgtes in opening ‘that -a considerable amount of unemployment prevails in parts of Oanada and that the prospects - for employment are not likely to improve during the next few mongns. T §L e S 1800 RED CRQSS MEMBERS IN SAN @o g i 10 CRRTANN £ Aii sy Campaign for Membership and’ 1 Funds Continuing Lhrough- £ S out the Island- ‘ 1 Upwards of- I‘,lo@‘.:—'msmbershigjs‘ bad been ‘registered in San Juan at'the Red = Cross ' headguartérs up to yesterday as-a result ‘of the drive, :which started- throughout the i'laad this week. P ROGEL A VIS {.. Jp te yesterday there had been Do. | frétyrns from the garious ‘towns. of“the ~ “isla’ d, where intepsive efforts dre being made to -enroll as “nany people as possi- ‘,‘;g‘,e\as members. for “the coming Red =¥ Cross year,. for which 'ambitious plans . for charitable and ge<ial work are being ; ‘San Juan has béen considerably bright-- ‘ened throughout che?veek by,the pres- . ence of a numberof young ladies, dress- ed in Red Cross unifornf;Bnd who have combed the town forsubscriptions -and .nembers hips. ' - ; At the entrance tc the Post Office ~ building there was established a receiv-- | ing table, presided over by various ladies | - from San Juan, and scarcely a man ob- -taned his ‘mail this week without being { ~reminded ofhis'obligation to renew his { <membership in~the Red Cross —and no man:became exempt from this teminder’ 7. unti¥fe could—and 'did~wear the little bottons which released him from further: impertanjties; : : , The office and stores throughout the city were - gimilarly invaded by the bright eyed workers tor the Red Cross | and it is expected that by the time | the drive is through .and all the returns . made to Headquarters that San Juan ~ 'will haveat least filled ' its quota. ‘ _ Similar drives have been prcceeding | throughout the island and it is safe | to say that thousands of new member- | ships have been recorded in every- dis- ;, “trict. Porto Rico Progress, Nov. 19th. I 8 USE. OF. ELECTRICITY IN DYE- Bn ING CLOTH. ‘ Among the tasks imposed ‘upon that ! " busy servant of man, electricity, is the | aeting as an assistanf-in the operation of | dyeing. When. cloth soaked in -aniline | “sujphaté is placed between two metal ' “’plates connected with the opposite ends. ' of a dynamo and an electric current. is . -passed through it the sulphate .1s con- . .verted into aniline black. By altering | *the strength of the solution and the cur f' rent shades varying from green to pure | black can be obtained. . In the case of in- " digo the cloth is impregnated with paste f .of indigo blue and caustic alkali. The 1 electric current converts the . insoluble . ' indigo blue, by reduction of-oxygen, into 1' indigo white, which is soluble, and ogf be~ | ingexposel to the “air becomes oxi ized f onee more and turns blue, thus thor- i~ “oughly dyeing the cloth with that color, . —lbid. X b ! ‘RADIO CONTROLS WAR ENGINES | ~-C. 8. Price, a British engineer, has | produced an aeriai torpe © which it s | - claimed, canbe controlled and maneu- | - vered thousands of miles away by wire- | less Impulses. it was intended primari- ly ior war purposes and was hused 1o ' some extent for bombing the Germans in the late war, being known to them as the ‘‘devil’s airship.”” The torpedo can travei from 175 to 200 miles per hour. It is.also capable of taking aerial photo- graphs. when desired in time of war. A recent improvement, the inventor de- clares, will instantly record the effects of the bombs dropped even when the machine is thousandsof miles distant from the operating base. = The torpedo, it is said,. can be put to a number of peace-time uses, includ.ng carrying mail, exploration, observation ete. No crew is carried ‘and none is needed as the craft can be guided and controlled for thousanas of miles from any properly equipped wireless station. The U. S. navy a short time ago com pleced experiments which showed that big battleships can be successfully oper- ated by wireless from land stations four or five miles distant. The apparatus used is so desigred that the radio im- pulses act directly on the ship’s steering gear. Naval authorities prediet; that the invention will .revolutionize sea fighting. The recent tests, they declare, prove that crewless ships, loaded with. high explosives or burning materials, can be directed unerringly against enemy fleets. (Gl Working along similar lines the Ger- man navy developed apparatus for the control of fire shirs and ships carrying explosives. In ‘the world war they- suc- ceeded on one occasion'in. steering a crewless 300-tor ship loaded with dynra- mite against a British squadron off Zeebrugge. The radio contral apparatus’ developed by the American navy, how-?* ever, is considerably more effective -than theirs. —The Pathfinder, Nov. 20th. - SILICATES TO DE: OPULATE : EARTH? ' A- scientist has flgured that all or- ganic life wili disappear from the earth some 200,000 years ‘hence. The prin-’ cipal cause of this catastrophe, bhe ex- plains, will be inhe absorption of car- bonic acid gas from the atmosphere by ° the silicates,. (ther scientists pooh- pooh ' the idea; let us hope -they are right. Anyway, 200,000 years is a long, ° long time.—lbid. THE TOMATO -OR ‘' LOVE APPLE.’] For a long.times after Shi&gmmu was introduced. to Ahé “werldby explorers from Peru it was regaraed as poison- ous. it was cultivated in- gardens on ly for ornamental purposes and was - known as the “‘love apple’’ or ‘‘Jerusa- lem apple.”” A réddder of the Pathfinder at Griswoid, iowa, writes that his father used tomaives as food as early as 1856. In a few instances ‘the fruit was eaten prior to that date but it did not '‘eome Into general use until about 1870. —lhd. ;