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1 Tbç Papers EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND - EVERYWHERE. CANADA An excellent illustration is found in Manchester, England. Not only has the Education--Under Fire Incidental to the major news of the battle for Madrid comes an Item to the effect that children in Spanish government territory are going to start to school again. In Madrid alone, about 100,000 youngsters of school age who remained remained In' the city because their parents would not consent to their evacuation, Were not able to attend classes because because their schools were within range of Rebel guns. Since Madrid is still a target for Rebel missiles, it is interesting to see just how the minister of education solved the problem of re-opening the schools. Here's just how simple it was: "Madrid children will have their schools even if we have to open them under fire from 1 enemy batteries," he said. Thus, despite great obstacles, the nobility and dignity of learning is reestablished. reestablished. Spanish children may proceed in their: quest of a higher existence, existence, studying history while it's made, with daily object lessons in the latest, most destructive methods of "perpetuating" civilization, --• Kitchener Kitchener Record, •Long Lived Canadians There are 163 persons in Canada today, says "Canada's Weekly", published published in London, who are aged 100 years and over. "They had begun 'heir young lives when young Queen toria ascended the throne, just one century ago this Coronation year. "The population of Canada 100 years ago was about 1,250,000. There were 200,000 in Nova Scotia, 600,000 In Lower Canada and 397,000 in Up- per" Canada. There are 3,666,000 persons persons in Canada today Who were alive at the accession of Edward VII in 1901. In that year the population of the Dominion had risen to 5,371,000. "There are 4,355,000 persons living in Canada today who were alive when George V became King in 1911, 26 years ago, and the population in that year was 7,207,000. It is now 11,000,- ,000."--Niagara Falls Review. Highway Laws Stricter An English court refused a man permission permission to appeal his conviction for 'angerous driving, whereby he was .nprisoned for 12 months and disqualified disqualified as a driver for 15 years. He was driving very fast along a straight road late at night, when his car knocked down a woman, who died as a result of the accident. It was described described by one, of the judges as the worst case of dangerous driving that could be conceived. English courts certainly do look at such accidents differently than do Canadian courts. Imagine a Canadian going to jail for B. year and losing his driver's license for 15 years because he ran down and killed a pedestrian. -- Amherstburg Echo. The Probation System There has been much discussion in.. Canada of the merits or demerits of the probation system for both juvenile juvenile and adult offenders against the law. The success of the system depends depends largely upon the thoroughness and tact with which it is administered. B--4 work of the probation officer produced good results, but it has been done at very small cost to the city. The cost is only one shilling per case, compared compared with £2 5s. per week for sending sending a boy to a remand home or thirty- two to thirty-five shillings per week for life in prison or thirty-eight shillings shillings per week in a Home Office school. Records kept for a period of five years show that eighty per cent of the offenders offenders who began their probationary probationary term in 1932 have not appeared again before tl^e magistrates although they have been free from supervision for three years.--St. John Telegraph- Journal. Hitch-Hike Racketeers If all the young, well-dressed, able- bodied men who solicit rides along the highway were really penniless and unable to furnish themselves with recognized recognized transportation, there might be some reason for allowing them to pester passing traffic and for meeting their wishes, although it is often a decidedly decidedly risky business to take strangers strangers into a car and many a man has found himself slugged and robbed as reward for his kindness. But in all too many cases, these people who prey upon motorists are not only neat and well-dressed, carrying carrying their belongings with them in grips or suit-cases, but have ample funds in their pockets to pay for transportation by means of train or motor coach. The average young hitch-hiker is simply a petty racketeer who moves from place to place by his nerve and at someone else's expense and who boasts of his free travel at the end of his journey while he has plenty of money to move without such assistance. assistance. -- Brockville Recorder and Times Irrigation Plan's Weakness The $400,000,000 irrigation scheme proposed by R. O. Sweezey for the arid West has two weaknesses. There is no guarantee that fertility would be secured, nor that the amount of money would be suffîciént or secur- able. Moving the people to better pasture pasture would be quicker and cheaper, -T--St. Catharines Standard. THE EMPIRE Canadian Policy of Shirking When Canada takes stock of - her vulnerability in considering her share in Empire defense, she cannot be blamed for including the protection that she can reasonably expect from her powerful neighborhood, the'United States, as an important item on the credit side, it would be another matter matter entirely if she held her place in the Empire merely for what she could get out of it in the way of benefits. The time might come when those benefits would be in danger of being destroyed by an enemy. Take Australia Australia alone, We buy from Canada more than we sell to her. Would Canada Canada stand idly by and see that market lost to her through some cause which she could have helped to prevent? Her market openings in Great Britain are vastly greater, and there are the other Dominions and - also the. colonies and dependents to ' be added.--The Australasian. Australasian. McArthur Warns Our Schools Toronto, -- warming against the possible use of the schools of this continent for political propaganda was sounded by Dr. Duncan McArthur, the Ontario Deputy Minister of Education, speaking-at a dinner of the Canadian Teachers' federation. "It is not the function of the school to indoctrinate any theory or 'ism' whatsoever however one might agree." he said, "it is improtant, it seems to me, that we should keep our eyes steadily on the fundamental principles of education. "The school will have discharged its responsibility when it trains boys and girls to think clearly, accurately and consistently and sends them out with an unquenchable thirst for truth and stimulates their curiosity in regard to the life about them." j News Ip Brief I Drowns Her Four Children MUNICH. -- 'A demented German mother threw four of her small children children into the Isar River this week and was about to throw in the fifth when police reached the scene. The four children, all under 7 years of age, were drowned. Heads Canadian Delegation OTTAWA.---Senator Raoul Dandur- and, Canada's veteran international statesman, has been chosen to head the Canadian delegation at the meeting meeting next month of the League of Nations Nations Assembly. Other Canadian delegates delegates will he Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Minister Minister of National Revenues, and Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner Commissioner in London. Saskatchewan Premier Wed NEW YORK.--Miss Florence Donnelly, Donnelly, of La Plaza Hotel, 592 Jarvis St., Toronto, was married t.o Premier W. J. Patterson of Saskatchewan, here this week. Mrs. Patterson lived in the West before going to Toronto two years ago. Chairman of Financial Probe OTTAWA. -- Hon. N. W. Rowell, Chief Justice of Ontario, has been named . Chairman of the Royal Commission Commission on Dominion-Provincial Financial Financial Relations, The economic and financial financial basis of Confederation is to be thoroughly probed by the commission, other members of which include Hon. Thibaudeau Rinfret, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, J. W. Dafoe, Dafoe, Editor-in-chief of the Winnipeg Free Press, Professor R, A. Mackay of Halifax, and Professor Henry Forbes Angus, of Vancouver. Government Revenue Up OTTAWA, -- Figures released this week by the Comptroller of the Treasury Treasury show an increase of 36 million in the Dominion of Canada government revenue during the. present fiscal year. Total ordinary revenue of the Dominion Dominion for July was $37,881,966, and special special receipts brought the grand total to $37,893,945, compared with $34,- 275,531 in July, 1936. U. S. Grain Tirade Booms CHICAGO.--Grain pits in the United United States bubble with a big volume of orders. The United States' grain trade is enjoying its best business in seven years. Customers' house along the streets are crowded. The white chalked figures on the big board again have captured public interest, Small investors are back with hopes of sharing sharing in current prosperity. In the last three months the turnover turnover on the hoard of trade, world's focal point in the grain business, has been running 77 per cent, greater than in the corresponding 1936 period. >- By ELIZABETH EEOY A commentary on the highlights of- the week's news . 1 r'A : Program For Canadian Youth A gigantic plan for the rehabilitation rehabilitation of-Canadian young people caught in the maelstrom of hard times and unemployment is before the Federal Department of Labor and the Unemployment Unemployment Commission. $1,000,000 has been voted to the scheme by the Dominion Dominion Government, a sum which will be used to promote apprenticeship in many trades and industries so Canadian Canadian boys and girls may be properly trained for work. All groups of youth Will be taken into consideration and absorption made into as many branches of industry as possible. Ontario hopes to receive $240,000 of the total allotment, and an agreement will probably be drawn up to that effect and submitted to both governments governments for ratification. Much preparatory preparatory work is already going on in Ontario. Ontario. Government employment offices offices are being asked to keep a list of all unemployed young people and maintain close touch with the situation situation in each locality. Will Stay Out of Politics It is inevitable that reports will never cease to he current during the rest of his natural life that the Duke of Windsor is about to return to England England and enter politics. Already rumors rumors are circulating that the ex-King is going back to England inside of the next six months to become Prime Minister. Londoners say that it is only in the United States that such ideas are given credence. In England, they declare, there is no apparent body of opinion that would lift a finger to facilitate facilitate a political career for the former former king, and it is more probable that public opinion would strongly resist, on impersonal grounds, any attempt of a member of the Royal family to enlarge his influence with the public. An authoritativee London source says there Is not a scrap of evidence to indicate that any substantial number number of' Englishmen regret their decision decision of December. They would make it again and in like circumstances with equal emphasis. Vanish In Arctic A four-motored Russian plane piloted piloted by the famed Sigismund Levanevsky Levanevsky and hound to the United States from Moscow, is long overdue at the Fairbanks, Alaska, landing field. It was the third Russian flight over the North Pole in the past two months. A Russian plane flew from Moscow and landed at Vancouver, Wash., June 20, and another flew from Moscow; Moscow; to San Jacinto, Cal., on July 14 after a 6,700-mile trip. Both flights were non-stop. While the search goes on for the missing flyers, theories accounting for the disappearance of the plane piloted by Levanevsky hold that he may have run out of gasoline and come down in the tundra, or that he may have crashed in a 100-mile-an-hour gale. Only the Arctic wastes know the secret secret of wliat happened to the plane. Meanwhile the - Soviet Government is going ahead: with plans for further experimental experimental flights -ové" the Pole. Clash With Aberhart The Dominion-Alberta impasse over the banking laws enacted at the re- cent special session at Edmonton waif dramatically terminated this weeU when Premier Mackenzie King announced announced that the three objectionabh statutes had been disallowed. In < wire to Premier Aberhart, the heat of the Dominion Government says in part : "If it is felt that changes should be made in the banking or currency laws of the Dominion it is open to any citizens citizens of the Dominion residing in Alberta, Alberta, or in any other province, to seek to have those changes made by the only body which has the due authority. authority. The issue in the present instance instance is that a direct attempt is being being made to infringe upon a field of jurisdiction universally recognized as falling to the Dominion, and to buttress buttress this action by denying any questioning questioning of the constitutionality of this section in the courts." It is thirteen years since the powet of disallowance has been exercised by the Dominion. The Federal Government Government claims that by passing the three pieces of legislation (licensing hank- ers, introducing measures to control banking, closing the courts to actions testing Alberta statutes), the Province of Alberta has over-stepped its powers. powers. The fight is on. Sino-Japanese War A conflagration that appeared to have died down somewhat last week has flared up again with the Japanese attack on Shanghai, and the Chino- Jap disagreement has been brought within the category, of a major conflict, conflict, a deadly war of the first class. The greatest aerial bombings the Orient has ever known, are going on. Sections of Shanghai have been destroyed destroyed by incendiary flames, ships belonging belonging to both belligerents sunk, and innocent bystanders done to death. Hundreds of soldiers on both sides have been killed. The war in China is looked on with great disfavor by the Japanese at home who are already overburdened with taxes, yet a mobilization mobilization of all resources of that country country has been proclaimed, and Japanese troops by the thousands continue to pour into Chinese war zones. The Chinese meantime are stemming the Jap advance and using blockades to keep enemy ships from penetrating inland. inland. Reprisals on whites are feared and the foreign population of Shanghai Shanghai are right in believing themselves to be in grave danger, it is expected that in order to spare the city. Great Britain may propose that she, the United States and France assume responsibility responsibility for safeguarding Chinese and Japanese interests there. Normandie Makes New Record HAVRE.--Averaging 31.2 knots, the French Line's "Normandie" last week sped across the Atlantic (Ambrose Light to Bishop's Rock) in 3 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, fastest crossing in history. Since she had just made westbound trip in 3 days, 23 hours, minute, she acquired, all in ten days, 3th east-hound and west-bound rec- •d's. Her increased speed is attribut- i to new propellers with , a deeper itch, and four blades instead of iree. t. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ % L - Frank Baum or o gybe-- ffwfWsvr ^ . -f ? : » -ni: i:■■■•;■; ■&, : ' CA m il /A-A-ÀA-V'- Y mm "But you are treating them cruelly," said Ozma, distressed by the King's refusal to release his prisoners. "Cruelty," remarked the Monarch, "is a thing I cannot abide. So, as slaves must .work, I transformed the Queen of Ev and her children into ornaments and now they decorate my apartments and I have treated them with great kindness." • "But wha,t a dreadful fate is theirs!" exclaimed Ozma. "And the Kingdom of EV is in great deed of its royal family ,to govern it. If you will restore them to tjieir proper forms, I will give you ten ornaments to replace replace each of them." The Gnome King' looked grave. "Suppose I refuse?" he asked. "Then," said Ozma, firmly, "I will have my brave army capture your own kingdom and force you to obey me." The Gnome King laughed till he choked, choked, choked , until he coughed and then coughed until his face 'turned from a greyish brown to bright red. Then he wiped his eyes with a rock-colored handkerchief and grew grave again. . "You are as brave as you are pretty, pretty, my dear," he said to Ozma. "But you have little idea of the extent of the task you have undertaken. Come with me for a moment."' He rose and took Ozma's hand, leading her to a little door beside the throne. This he opened and together they passed through it.