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The ers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND everywhere. 1 CANADA Fussy Hitch-Hikers The discriminating hitch-hiker has developed to the point where he stands at ease until he sees approaching approaching a radio-equipped car. -- Peterborough Examiner. Expenses of Peace Britain is spending more on her five-year rearmament plan than she spent during the four years and eight months of the Great War. If it costs that much to keep peace what would war cost under present- day conditions.--London Free Press. Ex-Prisoner's Problem The problem of the recidivist is largely a problem of the after-treatment after-treatment of the prisoner. It is not enough to give a man convicted of crime a prison term and turn him loose again. The paroled or discharged discharged convict is at a decided disadvantage disadvantage when he emerges from the shadow of the prison's walls. He has been sheltered while in prison; now he is thrown on his own resources. resources. It is not easy for a man who has once gone wrong to go straight. The world seems against him. He is regarded as a jailbird jailbird and doors are closed to him. The easy thing is to drift to his old haunts and back into crime again.-- Vancouver Province, ly revenue therefrom, that. has bounteous fisheries, that is apparently apparently in the forefront in social legislation, legislation, yet is deserted by thousands who seek a livelihood in other lands. . . . There is, however, a certain amount of confusion between the past and present in Mr, Hale's attitude. attitude. The thriving production, for instance, that he mentions belongs to the present, while the exodus was largely in the past.--Moncton Transcript. Transcript. Shot In "Mistake" The shooting of the British Ambassador Ambassador to China by Japanese airmen airmen is characterized as a mistake. The killing of hundreds of people in the International Settlements of Shanghai by Chinese airmen has been explained as an "unfortunate mistake." In recent days it is reported reported that quite a number of persons persons executed in Russia by order oi the ruling class in the last five or six years were shot in mistake. All these things indicate the seriousness of shooting to kill. There seems to be too much shooting and 'killing before before a situation has been clarified. The dead are not brought to life by explanation that the shooting was a "mistake." We prefer the Canadian system of doing a good deal of thinking before shooting. -- Regina Leader-Post. What Is Wrong? E. V. Hale has written a letter to the Boston Herald asking what is wrong with Canada, this neighbor to the north about which he has read so much lately. It leads the world in wheat and is the chief source of pulpwood. It has almost a monopoly of nickel. Cold' production is exceedingly exceedingly high. All records are being being broken in nickel, lead, zinc, platinum, platinum, asbestos and salt production ' and there ar,e yet great untapped resources. resources. Then there are fruit, cattle, dairying and coal. What is wrong, he asks Canadians to tell him, with this fertile land that is' a tourists' paradise, with, a very practical earth Canada's Growth Most Canadians do not pause often enough to consider the amazing amazing growth of their country since Confederation--70 astounding years. With the lifetime of many living citizens, citizens, the enterprise and resourcefulness resourcefulness of men and women have made the first skimpy, returns of trade and commerce into an annual flood of commodities and goods of every kind. Study the record of development. The, output of manufacturing has grown from less than $250,000,000 to more than $2,800,000,000. In the same period, agricultural production has increased in value from $125,- 000,000 to more than $1,000,000,000 per year; mining has soared from an annual income of less than $25,000,- 000 to $350,000,000. These are the big three in Canadian production. And if any further evidence of growth were needed, look at the export export i figures : in 1867 .Canada's export export trade was less than $100,000,- 000, today it stands at nearly 11 times that figure. These, in round numbers, tell an amazing story, a story of which every Canadian may be proud. Small in numbers we may be, but great in performance. Fifth among the trading trading nations of the world, our record of growth is first. And the future is bright.--Winnipeg Free Press. News In Brief Roosevelt and Lewis Confer WASHINGTON. -- President Roosevelt Roosevelt and his generous political ally In 1936, C.I.O. Chieftain John L. Lewis, conferred for the first time In months this week, but neither would say whether they had composed their recent recent differences. Both the White House and Lewis made non-committal statements after the fifteen-minute conference, but it was indicated that the. split which occurred occurred when Mr, Roosevelt wished a "plague on both your houses" during the C.I.O. strike in "Little Steel" was discussed. Demand Radium, Nickel Control OTTAWA.--Demand that the Government Government assume monopolistic control of radium and nickel was made this week in two resolutions adopted by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada as that workers' Parliament reached the half-way mark in its fifty- third annual convention. Championship Golf Tournament The all-Canadian part of the twentieth twentieth annual championship tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association Association wound up this week with R. M, Gray, Toronto Rosedale Club star, who will be 59 years old in December, December, successfully defending his title in downright easy manner. It was almost almost a case of Gray first, the rest nowhere, nowhere, as Bob carded a 36-hold gross of 148, a 16-stroke edge over his closest rival. Japan Threatens GENEVA. -- Japan will withdraw from all League of Nations collaboration collaboration and will strengthen her ties with Italy and Germany if the League -takes any "positive action" on China's appeal for intervention in the Far East conflict, a Japanese spokesman said this week. THE EMPIRE Wanted: Lovers of Men Animal lovers are starting a crusade crusade to abolish the use of the horse in warfare. So now all we need is that lovers of men shall start a crusade, crusade, too.--London Punch. The Roar In The Air Many people will approve of the action taken by the Blackpool Council Council in forbidding "joy riding" from its aerodrome. It is the first sign of a revolt against • the growing nuisance nuisance of noise .from 6 the air, superimposed superimposed upon all the rattling and braying and roaring that come from our medern surface traffic. The noise of a low-flying airplane can be not only distressing but terrifying. Too much of this is already imposed upon our ears and nerves by commercial airplanes and Air Force machines. If the private airplane Becomes popular popular the racket and clouding overhead will reach tile limit of human endurance.--Manchester endurance.--Manchester Guardian, The onion and asparagus are not vegetables, according to a botanist. German Plane Lands PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- The German seaplane Nordwind, with which the Reich is blazing a commercial commercial aviation trail across the Atlantic, alighted at this Long Island airport this week after a flight from Horta in the Azores. Captain Walter Diele was in command of the ship and its crew, of three. Plead fos Innocents SHANGHAI--Naval commanders of the United States and four other western western powers demanded this week that both Chinese and Japanese anti-aircraft anti-aircraft gunners take immediate steps to spare the lives of "innocent non-combatants." non-combatants." The urgent request of American Admiral Admiral Harry E. Yarnell and the other neutral naval commanders went forward forward while Chinese, facing wave after wave of Japanese attackers, stood fast on their new inland positions positions stretching 20 miles from Chapei to Liuho, north and west of international international Shanghai. Strike Ended CORNWALL.--Settled as suddenly as it started, the strike at Cornwall Pants and Prince Clothing Company, involving 285 workers, ended this week when representatives of the men find Mayor Aaron Horovitz, president of the company, reached a satisfactory agreement. ? , Mediterranean Patrol Starts PARIS.--France and Great Britain have mobilized nearly 200 warships in the Mediterranean in their hunt for mariae marauders. Organized on a fjnll war time footing, the combined fleet is to reach its maximum strength By ELIZABETH EEDY PARADE A commentary on the highlights of the week's news Eyes on Czechoslovakia One of the last, strongholds of democracy democracy in Europe, Czechoslovakia, occupies a doubly strategic position. Nazi Germany would be blad any moment moment to swallow this little country whoso geographical outlines cut a neat slice out of the south-eastern German States. (More than two-thirds of Czechoslovakia's present population population of 15,000,000 is concentrated in this western half in the highly industrialized industrialized provinces of Bohemia, Mor„ avia and Silesia, right on the doorstep of Germany. ) The Czechs live in mor_ tal fear of the Hitler regime but feel temporarily secure under the military protection of Soviet Russia. At this moment in Europe's history, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia is very important. Front Page News The Spanish Civil War had the front pages of our daily newspapers all to itself for a good many months of this year and last, sharing honors occasionally with a particularly horrible horrible murder, car accident or earthquake earthquake fatality. With the advent of the Sino.Japanese conflict, however, it was transferred to page 3 or even page 5. In August, 1937, the front page headlines screamed Jap bombings bombings at us, and talked in bold type of the grave international crisis in the Far East. The Sino-Jap situation is just now possibly as grave as it ever was, but as a front page story it has given place to the Mediterranean embroglio and the danger of war in Europe. There is a war going on in Spain, and a war going on in China, just the same. de Valera refused to transfer thi Irish land annuities to the Britisl Government. The United Kingdom as guarantor of the loans, had to mee the interest charges. To recoup he; self, she clapped special duties oi imports from the Irish Free Stata The Irish Free State retaliated. Bid now de Valera has gone to Switzer, land where he is meeting Dommi&ai Secretary Malcolm MacDonald at Ce, neva to discuss differences between the two countries and bring about an economic reconciliation. Want Uniform Administration Amendments to Workmen's Compensation Compensation Acts throughout Canada that would give 100 per cent, compensation compensation were recommended by the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in session at Ottawa. It was voted also that the full cost of administration administration be placed on industry. The administration administration of the Ontario Compensation Compensation Act as it affected those engaged engaged in the mining and lumbering industry industry was termed a "disgrace," since it has become a practice, it was said, for operators to minimize the number of reported accidents, lower their contribution to the Compensation Compensation Board and increase their profits at the expense of the Workers. The Congress is pressing to make the Acts more efficient and to have them uniform throughout the country. Need Bigger Population With one-sixteenth of the cultiva- table land in the world and more than that fraction of the world's natural resources, Canada has only one half of one percent, of the earth's population. population. It is the contention of Dr. W. J. Black, who addressed the annual convention of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Vancouver, that Canada Canada must have more population if.it is to fulfill the destiny that nature intended intended for it. More people must be brought in from outside through immigration, immigration, he said, if the country is to keep going ahead. An influx of farming farming families would aid development, he believes. To Make Peace With Ireland The economic "war" between the United Kingdo mand the Irish Free State is believed to be nearing its end. ' Of several years' duration the conflict began when President Eamon Italy Backs Out Demanding full equality with the other European powers in patrolling the Mediterranean, Italy has rejected the Anglo-French invitation to join with the nine countries in a war against submarine piracy. Mussolini's Mussolini's ministers had previously accepted, accepted, so that y hen his consent was suddenly suddenly withdrawn, it was thought that Germany had -influenced him. to a reversal reversal of decision. Nevertheless the agreement; entered into at Nypti; Switzerland, against "piracy" will Be* put into operation immediately, with- or without Italian participation. "We Are Not Involved" Prime Minister Mackenzie King- assured assured the country this week that "Canada has no ships in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Canadian commerce is not involved in the policies being adopted by the nine-power conference," conference," He also observed that Canada Canada had not taker) any part in ac. tivities of the non-intervention committee committee nor had there been any invitation invitation to take part in the war on "piracy." Another Insurgent Drive MADRID.;--The thunder of a fresh insurgent attempt to smash into Madrid, Madrid, this time through the south-western south-western suburbs, rolled over this war-tired, war-bored metropolis this week. • Defense, Defense, commanders shrugged and commented commented : "No substantial gains." Trees for Prairies OTTAWA,--During the present year 2,000,000 trees will be planted in the trees will be distributed through the ordinary channels. This afforestation is part of the large, long-range plan for checking the ravages of soil drifting drifting and helping to conserve moisture. Aherhart Sworn In EDMONTON. -- Premier Aherhart was sworn in as Alberta attorney-general attorney-general this week. The premier has been acting attorney-general since early in August when Hon. ,T. W. 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"Then the rest of you may attempt it," continued the girl ruler, "and soon „ we shall free all of the slaves." "What if we fail.?" asked the Scarecrow, uneasily. uneasily. ' We must not fail," cried Oz- ma, courageously. "It would be weak end cowardly of us to abandon the adventure. adventure. Therefore, I accept the Gnome King's offer." "Come along then, my, dear," said the King. "I'll* show you the way." He, approached a wall of the cave and waved his hand. Instantly an opening appeared through which Ozma, after ' a smiling farewell to her friends, blindly passed. She found herself in a splendid room that was more beautiful beautiful and grand than anything she',had ever beheld. The lovely palace had no other oc- ' cupant, and Ozma passed 'from one room to another greatly 'delighted by all she saw. There * were so manly things that Ozma* wondered which ornaments ornaments were the royal family of Ev. 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