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te ~i |Be Coimtry Without Prison» EpNDON -- it the tread of the past .tMfty years Is maintained, Britain In Wdlher fifteen years may boast of ideal state Of being a country ('wlihout- prisons» ijàace introduction of the Probation .OfenAers Act in 1907 by Sir Herbert Bamueî, then Parliamentary Under- (Beptotary for the Home Office the imMibot* of committals to prison in Britain has fallen from more than !13$$09 to fewer than 60,000. gMismissmg the probation system^ jjSfr Herbert declared more than half :•? the country's prisons had been tor lack Of tenants, saving of cost to the nation been immense, but more impor- ant has been the saving of souls," he New Spray iVIMNl PEG -- The Manitoba Horti- cdlMnii Association were informed of » 10D per cent satisfactory method. ! dt killing dandelions developed by Dr. ;Ùk- P. McEostie, now of the Ontario lAgtitettlturai College Guelph, a solu- ItiOtt of copper nitrate and wafer is «prayed. William H. Silversides, University ef ffitftnitoba student, told of the dis* |pïflBty i He collaborated with Dr, Mc- jftïïpe». who recently left the Mani- tojp University. Mk years' experiments were be- Mttg the discovery^ Silversides said. The ablution is made of 1% pounds ;<w|. mltrate to 7% gallons ot water, m Wiamtity sufficient for 1,009 square- fe$| of lawn space, lie said, T@rtt sprays during the sumnler, one abfljjj; mid-July the other in mid-Aug- uet, were recommended. Both need W be done oil a warm bright after* kohno when there Is no wind, he said. •flip two applications, the agronomy alMftnt continued, end the operation, both turn the grass to sickly, yellowish yellowish green within 48 hours, but after «(ioni, two weeks tiie grass will re- hirn to its natural Colour. The next yeay,, tests showed, it jvilJJ come back, green ox- and heavier than before and 1 frost of dandelions. Th« spray must hit leaves Of the weêfl,'. Winners ! HEW YORK -- Canadian dog fin* cierd carried off three blue ribbons and a. "reserve award in the competffvn «utiiong the Scottish terriers and, cocker cocker spaniels at the Westminster Dog - Show 'in Madison. Square, Garden. ; ÉL. B. and W. Batt, <$f' Guelph, won the majority of the prizes xvlth their (Scotfg puppy, Haldr,fl Emblem, Jtt'dg- M the best ot A'àe- .puppies between SeittO.aiid, twelve months ot age. He 'yteÀ. dogs and then ranked second only ' td': the more experienced Gold Fâ'nâsr'B Starman, owned by William Qtlikto, of Gardner, Mass., in the class for best of the dogs. Among the cockers William H. Bar- rotC# Gardens Desirable Lady, of OOofcSvDle, Ont., was judged the best »f" thp novice bitches of solid color. Idéal Weather, undefeated four-year old owned by Leonard Collins, of .Toronto, paraded, to the top of the efedSi dogs for his 10th straight vic- t«ry. To Serve Another Year gïSta 1 ERIE -- A,. B. Damude, M.P., 'tot Welland County, announced here 'the, Federal Government had -granted to Fort Erie's Collector of Customs '.and Excise, Frank T. Pettison, an additional additional year's extension of. service. M>. Pattison is approaching retirement retirement age but has expressed a desire It», remain in Ms position until 1938, itr,:Damude said. i $20,000.000 Loans WASHINGTON -- The Senate has paatfp and sent to the House a bill | crCHtUig a $20,000,000 disaster loan Avilltrix cor# Or at ion for flood, area rehabilita- 'tibtx loans. 'Êbé bill would permit loans--to Jn- iiiiiguW on liberal terms. Security < wWW. not necessarily be required, but Avants could not be made. Society Girl Bride of Italian Diplomat Sarah Jane Sanford of New York, and Signor Mario Pansa, Italian diplomat, pictured after their brilliant wedding at the home of the bride's father, John Sanford (left), at Palm Beach, «Fla. Mrs. Stephen Sanford is at the right. 44-Day "Sit-Down" Ends Bargaining Begins Tues. 1,300 Strikers Quit General Motors Plants After Pact Signed ~ " Sympathizers Shout Themselves Hoarse. ) FLINT. MICH.--Three General Motors Motors plants held by approximately 1,300 sit-downers, were 1 Returned to company police as workers quit them on the urging of United Automobile' Workers of America officials. Last barrier to the resumption of negotiations to end the General Motors Motors strike was broken down when strikers., .in no •-?]<...succession, ■" marched out, of Fisher Body Corporation Plants 1 and 2 and Chevrolet No. 4. Several thousand sympathizers who marched two miles from the main Fisher plant, to the .two located in the, zone guarded by State militia, found the National Guardsmen had been recalled recalled from patrol duty a few moments moments before. Homer Martin, International President President of, U.À.W. A., drove from Detroit with members of his "Board of Strategy" Strategy" to lead the evacuations. Whistles blew, horns were sounded, strikers and sympathizers shouted themselves hoarse. Begin Bargaining Tuesday • DETROIT.--General Motors Corpor ation and the Uiiited Automobile Workers have signed a three-page peace treaty under which they will begin bargaining Tuesday on wages, hours and working conditions. Just before the formal ending of the across the country, General Motors billion-doiiav corporation's plant aeros sthe country. General Motors granted a voluntary wage increase. All workers will receive a raise of five cents an hour, effective Feb. 15. On the issues raised by the strike there was a, compromise. For six months John L. Lewis's union--the United Automobile Workers --- will have sole bargaining, rights in twenty plants where strikes Occurred. In return, return, it will remove all sit-clown strikers, and allow General Motors to resume the production of automobiles as soon as possible. Shutdown Believed Avoided OSIIAVyA. News of the signing of the agreement between General Motors Motors and the strike organization in the United States was received with delight delight at Oshawa. and, according to Harry J. Carmichael, Vice-President and General Manager of General Motors Motors of Canada, probably means that the Canadian plant will avoid a shutdown. shutdown. I-Ie believes that the flow of material can be resumed before present present supplies hove are exhaustd. Amelia Earhart Plans Flight Around World Fix March.,22 To Vote OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mac- • iratafe King announced a writ for the 1 liy-efecllon. in Bohaventufe, Quebec !»4 been issued, fixing March 22 as day. The seat was vacated by -thé detih of Hon. Charles Mardi, M- jbéral who represented it for 37 yrs. <A by election in Hamilton West, oc- .faflBihâfiâ by the death of H, E. Wiliam Wiliam ççinservativê, will be held the ' stone",flay. Nearer 1 Home O.bi.ei'Ves the Hamilton Spectator :--Katharine Mayo now has the cjutpee to write a sequel to Mother Ittfliit, and call it Mother America, in view of that nine-year-old Ten- W;ss€|: babe being married to a 22- yfWt?M hill-billy, with parents' coifècht.;. to Make East-to- West Trip Next Month to Learn How Humans React Under Strain. Pitlipdox Jews must wear a hat wli.en taking the oath in the witness-! bi$K, But so many Jews attending ; Marylebonc Police Court, London, do not wear hats that an official felt % now provided. . B--i NEW YORK.- -- Amelia Earhart Putman said that she is tired of flying flying the Atlantic and will try a westerly westerly flight around the world next month "to study human reactions." The bobbed-haired aviatrix, who flew the Atlantic twice, the Pacific- from Hawaii to California once and held the transcontinental women's speed record for years, declares she will take off from Oakland, Calif., as soon as weather permits in March and fly 27,000 miles around the Equator in the first world flight a woman ever tried. Not only that, she laughed, pointing pointing at a huge globe in her hotel where she and her husband, George Palmer Putman, 'received the press,' she would fly east to west around the world, which no male pilot has ever done. "I've been over the North Atlantic Atlantic twice," she said, "I know what it's like. I' m tired of flying the Atlantic. Atlantic. As soon as the ship is ready and weather permits, I'm. going to take-off on a long flight to determine determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." "Alone?" "No, Captain Harry Manning will be my navigator." ■ Duke Planning To Buy Estate Baby Princess Receives Name Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel Christened LONDON.---The Duke and Duchess of Kent's , infant daughter lias been christened Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Ckristabel. The ceremony was held in the private private chapel of Buckingham Palace, with the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating. officiating. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family were there. Brought especially from Windsor Castle was the gold font, which always always is used for royal christenings. Water from the River Jordan was sprinkled on the little girl, born on, Christmas day. She wore an ancient robe of Brussels Brussels lace ànd cream satin, made from Queen Victoria's christening. Afterwards a big cake, surmounted by a stork and both the British and Greek flags, was cut with a golden knife at a private r'ec-ptjon in another room of the palace. The baby's mother is the former Princess Marina of Greece,. Her father father is the King's youngest brother. Move to Hungary--Edward Seeks Place With Hunting, Golf Facilities VIENNA.---The Duke of Windsor has indicated a desire to purchase an estate- in Hungary into which he can move during May, a Vienna real estate estate agent said last week, (Authoritative reports recently said the former British monarch was considering considering marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson Simpson in Hungary because the Hungarian Hungarian attitude toward divorce and remarriage remarriage is more liberal than in Austria. Austria. Mrs. Simpson has been divorced twice. (Previous reports said the marriage date likely would be Aprif 27--the exact exact day Mrs. Simpson's divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson probably will become final.) The Duke, seeking a permanent home, showed interest in estates near the Austrian border, the agent de dared. lie said Edward wanted a place with, hunting and golfing facilities. Newsprint Takes Forest Wealth At Great Rate Charles Vining Asserts Industry- Not Obtaining Adequate Return TORONTO--The newsprint industry industry is using tip Canada's wealth of forests "at a prodigious rate" arid getting getting little for it bèybnîi wages for the industry's workers, Charles Viniiig, president 'of the Newsprint Association Association of Canada, told the Canadian Club here recently. "We are consuming our forests at a prodigious rate," said Mr, Vining, "A single Sunday issue of the New York Times means some 225 acres of our forest. The tabloid New York News, with its huge circulation, is using 6b square miles a year. The Canadian mills, during the last five years of selling newsprint at a, loss, have consumed at least 4,000 square miles of forest, equivalent to a strip 12 miles wide stretching from Montreal Montreal to Toronto. Lack Minimum Return "If w® sold our gold as we have been selling our forests, one: can almost almost say that we would mine the gold, pay the miners and then give the gold away," said Mr. Vining as ho quoted figures to show that newsprint newsprint Companies were not .securing a "minimum economic return." The newsprint industry in 1938 "had an all-time high in tonnage production,, production,, but an all-time lo.w. in price," Mr. Vining said. "Last month's returns returns of shipments show a gain over last January of 25 per cent., and It seems safe to predict that 1937 means a new high record, in tonnage production, production, although this rate of gain Is higher than will be maintained for the full year. "In dollars the 1837 performance is absurdly sad. Overseas prices are substantially improved, but in the North American continent, which consumes SO per cent, of production, the 1937 contract price is up only $1.50, nearly $6 a ton lower than the 1926 price. It is no advance at all because of rising production costs." Mr. Vining said the newsprint industry industry "is our largest single industrial'investment, industrial'investment, with the exception of investment in Hydro-Electric power, and accounts for at least two-fifths of Canada's total power development. There are single mills which use more electrical energy each year than -is used to light the cities of Toronto and Montreal combined." Benefit to Canada The industry brought to Canada between between 1930 and 1935 "in spite of its disrupted condition, $563,000,000 from foreign sources, compared with $475,- 000,000 of gold production and $139,- 000,000 ot nickel exports. Newsprint income is spent in Canada, for nearly all materials of newsprint production are of Canadian origin," he said. 193frSaw Pick Up- In Shipbuilding 2,117,624 Tons of New Ships Built, Lloyd's Report NEW YORK.--The recovery of world shipbuilding during 1936 was revealed by figures published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping. The returns, returns, which covered all vessels of 100 gross tons and upwards and all countries except Russia, showed that 2,117,924 gross tons of new shipping slid down the ways--ai gain of 60 per cent, over 1935, Last year, the busiest for the industry industry since 1929, saw 87 steamships and motor vessels, ranging in sise from 6,000 to 9,000 gross toils, take the water, Lloyd's states, as compared compared with 48 in 1935. New "vessels of 10,000 gross tons and upward numbered numbered 26 as against 23 the preceding year. Great Britain and Ireland with a year's production of new tonnage of 856,257 nearly doubled the output of. their nearest, .competitor, Germany, who launched 379,931 gross tons. Japan Japan ranked third with a production of 294,861 grrtss tons. The British launchings showed, a gain of 357,000 gross tons over 1935. The largest vessel launched in any shipyard during the year was the British liner Orcadea, of 2.3,400 gross tons. New motor vessel tonnage, incret»'- ed nearly 50 per cent, over 1935 and the year's production of 1,202,476 gross tons was the highest ever reached except except for the years 1929 and 1930. Output of steam and motor tankers, of 1,000 gross tons and upward, nearly nearly doubled 1935 launchings at. 667.794 gross tons, and of these 559,690 tons were motor vessels. An Office Cat A notice oil the bulletin board from William Allen White introduced introduced Copy, a black tom-cat, to the staff of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette, Gazette, "Mice are overrunning the . basement. basement. I have, therefore, decided to add to our already extensive equipment equipment one double-cylinder, T-mcdei, repossessed eat. Be good to the cat! Don't let him feed in the melting-pot melting-pot and don't throw slugs at him for walking on the keyboards of the liontypes. The girls in the front office office will fetid him," The parish of Monk's Ris.bridge, Suffolk, has no inhabitants. It coy ere one . hundred arid twenty-nine acres of arable .-land---but there are no houses or buldings of any kind. Thé land is farmed, but all the farm buildings are in the next parish. It's A Fact By KEN EDWARDS The Venus flytrqp plant will go to sleep under the influence of chloroform, arid an. overdose will kill the plant. Silk underwear is now compulsory for both sexes in Germany; this aims at releasing the imported cotton cotton for other purposes. Prior to invention of the practical Bauer-Koenig rotary press, all printing printing presses were operated on the "screw" system by man-power, A North African variety of mushroom mushroom stands two feet high. Some, other mushrooms are so large that one of them would be more than a meal for a man. Eight hundred eighty-eight operations operations are required to make a shot- ' gun shell which retails for , four cents. Down in the pad- dock we came across the famed famed Chas, "Horses" "Horses" Ayers who has many a."believe a."believe it or not" up his sleeve. He tells Us that Wilson Woodward, Woodward, owner of Gallant Fox, O hi a h. a and Granville has yet to bet on a horse race, although his stable has won over $3,000,000 in purses. They say that in India wrestlers go three and four hours in one bout and receive money in four and five figures. The Lion of Punjab makes $10,000 for each match. A gentleman by the name of Ctamo is the champion "bone buster" buster" of India and has been for the past 27 years. Ctamo is now 50 and weighs 250 lbs. This talk of India brings to. my mind an incident that happened in Jack Corcoran's office one day. There happened to be an Indian manager and his wrestler there (turban and all) who were telling of wrestling in India. It happened that the man who was so interested was that Hungarian shiek, Sahdor Zabo. After he struted around before before everyone with his chest out and muscles knotted for the benefit of the man with the turban, he asked would the beautiful women like him in India. The dapper little chocolàte-faccd manager, with a flashing smile, quickly admitted the women would accept him. Zabo, in broken English, English, said "I go India" "I go India". But after he was told that the bouts lasted three and four hours in the smeltering heat, he was crushed, hence lie turned his head toward* Australia. It's • a well known fact .that, .Kan Mountain Dean, the 350-odd pounds of smashing "dynamite, has made $500,000 wrestling in the Pest to- years.