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' 5 ig a8 | 3 PRR 7 oe INH - Aad To FI DS si ea EAR TES : i] b * pr SAARI dcp on wa he bil 4 RT wana iy on gL RN EEE -- ny 2 -- ERE Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's HIDE AND SEEK: His Holiness Pope Pius XI hasn't much liking for Adolf Hitler in view of the persecu- tion that priests of' the Catholic Church have undergone in Germany. But when der Fuehrer refused to seek an audience with the Pope on his 'recent visit to Rome, the dis- pleasure of the Vatican { upped to.a new low. To show Adolf Hitler that his latest discourtesy had not gone unnoticed, His Holiness closed the Vatican museums during the whole period of Hitler's stay, The instant Hitler said good-bye to Rome, the museums were thrown upen again to the public. * La MEDALS OF MERIT: This week at Toronto the Royal Society of Canada is presenting medals of merit to _three distinguished Canadians. The awards this year go to Colonel William Wood, of Quebec City, auth- or of many historical volumes, for outstanding work in connection with the history of Canada; Mazo de la Roche, Toronto-born author of the "Jalna" novels, 'for accomplishing in imaginative or critical literature some achievement of significance or conspicuous merit"; Dr. W, Lash Miller, Professor of Physical Chem- istry at the University of Toronto, for his pioneer work in several new fields of scientific interest. ' * L * LJ "WE'RE SELFISH UP HERE': The former Australian Trade Minis- ter, Sir Henry Gullett, is criticising Canada's "grave injustice to Aus- tralian manufacturers and British exporters." Under the present Aus- tralian-Canada tariff agreement, he says, movement of goods between the two Dominions "is amazingly one- sided" and the Australian market and the Australian secondary indus- tries are being thrown open to pref- erential competition from Canadian manufacturers as well as from the United Kingdom. The Australian Trade Minister re- signed last year because preferential treatment extended to Canada under the Australian - Canada agreement was a "very bad one-sided bargain". * * * * FORGOTTEN MEN: Names not in the news these days are legion. The daily papers are too busy tell- ing us about the latest war develop- ments, too crowded with stories of munitions contracts being let, to fea- ture Mahatma Ghandi (for instance); the Duke of Windsor (except to mention that his bathtub isn't of 20- carat gold); the Queen of Egypt; Kemal Ataturk (who is doing so much to make a modern country out of Turkey); the Pankhursts; Rev. News . . . By Elizabeth Eedy Israel Noe (who starved himself within an inch of the grave); Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton, And there are many, many others. About some of them, however, we might cheerfully say, "Good riddance!" . L * . TWENTY MONI!t5 TOO LATE: "People who ta'% of preventing an- other great war," says Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, one of the world's three of four greatest military ex- perts, "are already twenty months out of date. The second Great War of the twentieth century began in July, 1936, in Spain, following the encouragement and experience which had been gained by Japan in Man- churia ~nd Italy in Abyssinia in defy- ing the League of Nations and de- veloping the new technique of camou- flaged war." Grave words, those, yet they ap- pear to be the truth, nevertheless. It is too late for us to stop what has already been set in motion. We have only the power to check the progress of events which are now in the offing Continuing, Liddell Hart declares: "that we have failed to see this war in progress is due to the fact that we are still thinking politically, whereas the dictator states are think- ing militarily." * * * LJ FARMS IN THE NORTH: Thous- ands of fertile acres in Northern Al- berta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are lying idle, according to Mr. Rene Pelletier, M.P. for Peace River, while thousands of farmers are living in the drought areas of the West atf heavy government expense. Following this statement, Mr. Pelletier makes the sensible sugges- tion that a scientific survey of the northern sections of the Prairie Provinces be made with a view to settling people from the dried-out areas on suitable farming land far- 1 ther north, . ' | There are also vast portions of Northern Ontario that could be util- ized for a similar purpose, sections where there is rich, fertile agricul- tural soil not now in production, * * * * WHY -THE DELAY: Trans-Can- ada Airlines are having difficulty get- ting acted on its first year, a com- plete air service across the coun- try® They are encountering trouble particularly in establishing the Win- nipeg-Montreal run. Reason for the delay: Planes which the company hoped soon to secure from the manu- facturers are reportedly being sold to the Japanese Government who are offering a higher price for the ma- chines. Seven Climbing Mount Everest Expedition Arrives at Base Camp On Tallest Mountain in the - 'World -- Pray For Late Mon- soon ~The leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition' has reported its arriyal at the base camp, 12 miles away from the tallest mountain in the world. There have been two jour- neys of reconnaissance. This will be the fifth British attempt to scale, says the New York Times. The seven members of the party have been trained In one of the hardest schools. They know the mountain sickness, "the altitude" sore throat, and the double vision, the sudden temporrary blindness, the wastage of muscle, the fainting fits, the breathlessness, the dilated heart, the lassitude and the physical decline at heights of 21,000 feet or so. Used To Great Heights These men are * acclimatized", They are used to great heights, roar- ing blizzards, avalanches; but with what oxygen apparatus can they be sure of being able to move save at a snail's pace, even to breathe, to see, in the last 1,000 fect, if they reach it? The North Col is more than terrible enough. The top of Everest is a mile higher, The .Seven against Thebes seem like mere crazy braggarts compared with the Seven against Everest. - They are prepared for all the dangers in. store for them. They know that the monsoon and its enormous snows,that will end the short timein which alone their adventure has an opportunity, are capricious: visitors. In 1921 the monsoon broke on Ev- erest on July 7; in 1922 in the first week 'of June; in 1924 on June 16; in 1983 on May 80; in 1936 on June 6; in 1936 on May 26. Let us hope for ® late monsoon. It is with hope and not gloomy forebodings that we think of the Seven. Among well-remem- bered names in their number we note Odell, who at the height of 26,000 feet was thelast man to see Mallory and irvine, Y 4 : »> England has a movement for ppclishing dog licenses and taxing cycles instead. AC To Fight Leprosy On World Scale Plan Includes Drastic Measures-- Half the Patients Can Do Normal Day's, Work A plan for eradication of leprosy throughout the world "in a very few. generations" by means of segregation and sterilization was outlined recent- ly by Percy Burgess, president of the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Era- dication of Leprosy, who has complet- ed a tour of leprosaria in all parts of the world. The plan, approved by the World Conference on Leprosy, calls for the segregation of lepers in colonies that would be self-supporting by an in- terchange of goods on a world-wide basis. The lepers would lead a normal life except that those married would be sterilized. Mr. Burgess estimated that 50 per cent of lepers could do a normal day's work, Of the world's 3,000,000 lepers, two- thirds, he said, were in Indfa and in China. Firemen Arrive Six Months Late LAHORE, India.--A house caught alight in a Punjab State, The owner sent an urgent letter to the State fire brigade, as there was no telephone, The chief fire brigade officer "acknowledged" the letter and left it over for-his successor, as he was shortly going on leave. The successor arrived five months later, found it was a case for '"im- mediate" attention and forwarded it to the Dewan (minister) "for favor of nedessary action". The Dewan in turn submitted the request to the Ruler for 'favor of immediate sanction." The Ruler ordered that the State fire brigade "proceed forthwith. to the 'scene of the occurrence to avoid further damage to the building." "When the fire brigade arrived at the scene of the fire a new building had sprung "up in place of the one destroyed six months earlier. About 60 per cent of the fatal highway accidents in England and Canada's Grain Acreage Down Decline of Over 1,000,000 Sown Bushels Is Indicated A decrease of nearly 1,400,000 acres in the areg s wn to Spring grains in Canada in 1938 was indicated by far- pre' intentions as of May 1, the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics first crop report of the present season states. The intended area of spring. wheat is 24,105,900 acres, compared with 24, 851,400 acres sown in 1937 and 26,646, 100 acres in the peak year, 1932. The indicated decrease in the spring wheat area from that of last year is 745,000 acres, or three per cent. The priael pal decrease will ¢2cur in Saskatche- wan, while inereases are indicated in Manitoba and' Alkerta: Less Wheat In Manitoba Durum wheat acreage will be de- creased considerably from 2,322,000 acres sown in 1937 to 1,698,000 acres intended for 1938. This decrease will take place mainly in Manitoba where it will be more than offset by an in- crease in the sowing of rust-resistant bread wheats. Oats and barley are also expected to show decreases of thrée and five per cent. respectively, with the principal reductions occur- ring in Saskatchewan, Barley acreage in Ontario will be moderately reduced. Spring rye will show a decrease of 16,600 acres, or nine per cent. and flax-seed a reduc- tion of 48,600 acres or 20 per cent; The area sown to mixed grains will remain normal in Eastern Canada, while showing a moderate reduction in the Western Provinces. Potato acreage will be reduced in nearly every province i~ a total level 20,200 acres or four per cent. less than that of a year ago, if farmers' present intentions are realized. Italy's Propaganda Expense § $6,522,400 Teaching Youth in Fascist Culture Costs That Much Annually 4 Italy spends 124,000,000 lire ($6,622, 400) annually on propaganda of vari: ous kinds in: foreign countries in an effort to rmaake new comverts for fas- cism and to keep Italians:living aboard in closer contact with their homeland, a study of the current financial bud- get reveals. Cb Almost half of this money, most of which comes from the budget of the Ministry of 'Foreign Affairs, is spent on Italian schools aboard, The Italian Government maintains 138 schools in foreign lands: and gives financial as- sistance to an additional 654. Schools On This Continent This alone costs the government $3,- 000,000 yearly. These schools, which are chiefly established in the United States, South America and France, have a total attendance of 65,000. The pupils are almost exclusively sons and daughters of Italians living abroad and the main aim of these schools is to teach them Italian-and get them in- terested in the new Fascist Italy. The Fascist party boasts that more than 80,000 Italian boys and girls liv- ing in foreigu countries are now regu- larly inscribed in the Bililla organiza- tion, recently renamed the '"Gioventu del Littorio." "The deepest need of our gener- ation is a redefinition of success. We are obsessed by the economic as- pect of life. It is good to have the things money will buy, but the most important things are those that money will not buy."--Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. "THE WORLD' AT LARGE CANADA [HE EMPIRE CANADA Expedient: The Primitive tribes of 'Africa are reported to be scaring their children with stories of civilization,--Hamilton Spectator, : In. Time for the Next The first volume of Canada's official war history has at last appeared. When the final volume reaches the public, most of the survivors of the war will probably be in their graves.-- Brockville Recor" »r anu Ti...es. Plenty of Old Crocks Of 359 cars tested by expert mech- anics Jn Port Hope this week only 49 were found in-proper mechanical con- dition, Either the cars in Port Hope are exceptionally bad or there's a lot of old '"crocks" in the province.-- Owen Sound Sun-Times, Radium in Canada The discovery of radium in a remote region of Canada was a veritable god- send since this rarest of minerals was previously found in only one part of the world, the Belgian Congo mines in Africa. Up to a few years ago radium cost $70,000 a gram before the Belgian monopoly was broken by Canadian competition. Thus radium was made - 53 related, precede the wedding party. following their wedding. Pipers of the Viscount Fincastle and his bride, the former Pamela Hermon-Hodge, leave St. Margaret's Church, London, private army of the Duke of Atholl, to which family the Viscount is Wedding Part Substitute For Radium Found Boy of 16 Discovers It--New Product Believed Better Since It Is Less Dangerous Dr. E. A. Smith, of New York, who said he was associated with the late Mme, Curie in her isolation of radi- um, declared lagt week 16-year-old Wallace L. Minto of Jersey City "has gomething"_ in his claim of a safer, more economical artificial radium, Dr. Smith, who has laboratories at North Bergen and Newark, N.J., wit. nessed a demonstration of the youth's finding at the annual meeting of the Eastern El2ct: onic Research Associa- tion. . . Minto, a high school student, show- ed, with the aid of a Geiger tube, what he described as the greater strength of his product as compared with the genuine radium, A "Young. Minto definitely has made great strides," Dr. Smith said. 'I pre- dict a great future for him." Made For $250 A Gram Minto said his artificial radium was less dangerous than the genuine ar- ticle due to fewb- alpha rays and more beta and gamma rays. It also is more economical, he said, because it was made from ore found near his home town, whereas genuine radium comes fro.n the Canadian north and several other distant points. Minto, who also claims to have found and named four new elements in the last two years--since he was 14 years old--said his artificial radium could be manufactured for about $260 a gram in small quantities, more econo- mically in increased output, Genuine radium sells for about $25,000 a gram. The high school scientist has named his newly discovered elements, Nos. 93 to 96, inclusive, ekarhenium, ekair- fdium, ponderosmium and ekaplatin- um, 76 per cent of the non-fatal occur on roads having a speed limit of 30 miles an hour, ad "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."--Thor- eau, 'of cattle a year to Great Britain and News. In Review | Two Missionaries Shot PEIPING. -- Death of two British missionaries because Chinese guerilla bands failed to recognize the British flag and took them for Japanese spies occurred here last week, oot The victims were Dr. H. G. Wyatt, a physician, and Miss Beulah Glasby. The story was brought back by a fel- low missionary who was 4ravelling with them north of Taiyuanfu, Shansi Province Capital, where the incident occurred. . . --_0-- . Won't Sell Anticosti OTTAWA.--The Island of Anticosti, situated on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which from a military point of view is of strategic importance, will not be sold to any foreign nation, according to an intimation made in the House of Commons last week by Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King. --0-- Germany Speeds Danube Project BERLIN,--The Government decreed this week that the Rhine-Danube Can- al via the River Main be completed by 1945. Simultaneously the Danube will be developed as a "Reich waterway" up to the new German border below Vienna. The deéree represents considerable speeding up of one of Europe's most important waterway projects because the original plan envisaged 1950 as the |" completion date. But the decree says: "Austria's reunion with the German Reich and the execution of the four: year plan demand speedier completion of the project." ---- New Beef Marketirig Policy OTTAWA.--A new marketing policy for Canadian beef, through which it is hoped ultimately to send 200,000 head 200,000-to the United 'States was out- lined to the House of Commons this week by Hon. James @, Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, The policy is only in its experiment: al stage, the Minister admitted, and only twenty-five carcases per week are being shipped. : --0-- Half A City Sold CARDIFF, WALES, -- Practically halt a city changed hands this week when the immensely wealthy Mar- quess of Bute sold part of this world port of 200,000 population for a price understood to be about £20,000,000 ($100,000,000). ; : The real estate deal was believed to be the largest ever recorded in Great Britain,? --(-- RIO DE JANEIRO. -- The death penalty for crimes against the nation aiming at its disintegration or against the regime was decreed last week by President Getulio Vargas in a law amending Article 122 of the Nov, 10 Constitution, The law is not retro- active, thus it will not reach those implicated in the May 11 Putsch, F wre : > i Refugees Face Desperate Plight SHANGHAIL--The International Red Cross' issued an urgent appeal this week 'for financial aid, declaring its funds were exhausted and 170,000 Chi- nese refugees here faced a "desperate plight." Officials' said food reserves were adequate for only one more month. : Claims Birds Learn Faster Than Dogs An intelligent canary is casier to train and learns faster than a dog, Teressa Switzer asserted last week at Buffalo, Miss Switzer has trained niore than 200 canaries to sing the scale, recognize colors, shake hands and wink, If you want to train: your canary she advised: (1) start when the canary is young; (2) teach the bird to eat from: your hand instead of letting its mother faed it; (3) teach it in the evening after an af- ternoon of rest. ------ "Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper."--Plato. Death Penalty for Treason more available to combat the dread scourge of ~a: 7e'.--Kitchener Record, A Costly Privilege Comparison of the income tax sched- ules of Canada and Britain show the latter to be enormously more drastic, and so is the gas tax over there, three times as much as it is in Ontario. It costs the people a lot to live close to ®Murope.--St. Catharines Standard, What A Picture! The picture of nine provincial sweepstakes each occurring several times a year is not one to contemplate with easy complacency. Once each province was well get up in the sweep- stake business, the element of compe- tition would, no doubt, come into play and if Prince Edward Island gave more in prizes than any other, as it could well afford to do, it would prob- ably get the largest share of the na- tion's sweepstake -dollars.--Financial Times, Montreal. Mounties on Display People away from the U.S, border do not understand the American de- sire to see a Mountie. It would pay Windsor and the Soo to stand the ex: pense of getting members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stationed at each place. As both cities already have members of the force stationed on their horders, and as tourists want 'to see them. why can't a sensible ar: rangement be made? U. 8; fathers have told this column that the reason they came to town was to let their children see our famous R.C.M.P.'s. Can't the force recruit a few more men, or use those whose age justifies a soft job?--Sault Ste. Marie Star, He Can't Get Away With'It Walter Winchell gets away with his keyhole reporting in a big city, and is well paid for it. The same stuff in a small town would bring him to fist fights very quickly. We nick-named an ardent fisherman "The grasshopper king", and he came around and gave us his opinion, which wasn't compli mentary. Other little references of a humorous nature have caused a near '| fight at times, simply because we are so convenient to be got at that almost before the ink on the paper is dry someone comes around with revenge gleaming in his eye and threatens to clean up the whole gang in the print shop. We usually keep the type mal- let within range so that if the callers become too threatening we can take up arms in defence of the liberty of the press.--Coleman, Alta., Journal. THE EMPIRE Where the Japanese Erred Had (the Japanese militarists') am- bitions been less grandiose, had they attempted to make Nationalist China an equal ally instead of an anti-Com- munist pawn, they might without serl- ous sacrifices have enormously strengthened the political and econ: omic position of their {sland empire,\ and established a powerful barrier against the further advance of Rus: sian bayonets and ideas in Eastern Asia. So far from effecting this, they have first spurred the Soviet Union to improve' its own military position in the Far East and they have now given it The chance of playing the role of tertius gaudens. They have made China their enemy for many a year; they have alarmed their German as- sociates in the anti:Comintern Pact, whose efforts at mediation wer» dash. ed by the Japanese Government's manifesto refusing to. deal with the Chinese Central Governmant; and their conduct of the military campaign --including above all the undisciplined excesses that followed tho capture of Nanking and have been.reported in detail by trust orthy eye-witnesses-- t28 not contributed to improve their country's reputation. in the English- epeaking world, In fact, they appear to have achieved the opposite of what they set out to do.--The Times, Lon: don. Falls Is Assuming Shape of Horseshoe Officials reported this week that Niagara Falls once more changed its shape slightly during the past win- ter, and the United States falls is taking on = horseshoe shape similar to that of the famous Canadian Horseshoe falls. : The Niagara Falls, N.Y., publicity department announced that a survey had revealed that the crest of the United States falls, had developed a more decided saw-tooth appearance than in former years. Two V-shaped indentations have appeared in the crest, each about 20 to 80 feet deep. "It is clearly evident that erosion is: progressing at a rapid rate and that the heretofore fairly even and straight American falls is taking on a horseshoe shape, similar to that on the Conadian side of the river," the bureau reported. 7 'once every second. Plans A Descent ~ To Ocean Bottom Chicago Man, Who Deals in Sunk- en Treasure, Wall Dive. or the Mexican Cr Jewels. 4 ------ Capt. Join Craig, of Chicago, who deals in sunken treasure and pirate booty on a strictly lawlabiding basis, said he would descend to the ocean floor off the Virginia Capes next month in.a quest which may yleld a portion of the Mexican crown jewels and the rubles of the Empress Car lotta. ) ' The treasure which included 862 tons of silver bars, was lost when the liner Merida carrying refugees of the Mexican revolution, went down 66 miles off the Virginia coast. Craig said the hulk, object of sever- al previous treasure hunts, was lying upside down in the sand and was par- ticularly hazardous to divers. Breathe Oxygen and Helium: "We hope to overcome part of that," he sald, "by the new equipment we will carry, doing away with trailing airlines which might be fouled." The new diving equipment was test. ed this spring, when Max Nohl left a coast guard cutter oft Milwaukee and went down to a new world record of 420 feet in Lake Michigan, The divers breathe a mixture of he- lium and oxygen fed from tanks car- ried on their backs, eliminating the hydrogen mixture which left divers susceptible to the "bends" and to the danger of becoming stupified it they remained down too long. : Sank With Treasure Francisco Madero had geized con- trol from the dictator, Diaz, and for- bidden exportation of wealth. Penalty tor disobedience was death, The Meri- da almost had reached its haven when it was rammed by the Admiral Farra- gut looming suddenly out of the dark. - The Merida went down and with all its treasure, New Light Switch Made of Mercury Instead of the Old Snap Kind Now In Use--Is Being Subjected To Harsh Test Operated by a motor, a new type of switch for controlling lights and other electrical circuits, has been on test: for three and a half years. Its me- chanism has been rocked back and forth, opening and closing its circuit By June 2 the switch will have been operated 140, 000,000 miles. The test is under way in the labora- tories of the General Electric Com- pany at Schenectady. If the normal use of such a switch in the home would cause it to be operated three times a day, the test would be equiva- lent to about 140,000 years of actual usage. Runs Through Tube: The new switch is designed to re- place the familiar snap switch, Its essential part is a tube containing mercury. This tube is tilted up. or down to an on or oft position. When in the on position the mercury is in the end of the tube through which el- ectrodes project and forms a circuit. between them. When it runs to the other end of the -tube the circuit is opened. The tube is filled withr hydrogen, which keeps the mercury from oxidiz- ing and. cools the arc formed. It is made of a special alloy impervious to hydrogen, as most common metals per- mit hydrogen to leak through the" pores of what appears to be their solid structure. | 2 Last Free Indians May Take Reserve Propose to Offer Land and Treaty Money To Tribe 2 Roaming bands of Indians in the Alberta: district of Rocky 'Mountain House, among the last: of the redmen to move to the West without benefit of reserves or treaty money, may get a grant' of land for a reserve of their own: ; In a pow-wow with Henry Stel- fox, Rocky Mountain house represen- tative of the Federal Department of Indian Affairs, the proposal was ad- vanced to the Nomad' Indians that they accept' treaty money and set up a reserve in the foothills coun- try west of the north Saskatchewan River. ; In: Roving Bands The proposed reserve would ex- tend from the Baptiste River north of the Brazeau River and west of the boundary of the Clearwater for- est reserve. ~ Some years ago these Indians, remnant of a tribe which sought refuge in Canada from the United States years ago, were found to be in great - need and arrangements had to be dropped, however, when the Indians refused to give their names as required by the govern- ment. The Indians have not reached any decision and 'it is not known if any deadline for acceptance of the plan was set. The roving bands, mainly composed of Cree and Chipe: wyan Indians, gain a living by hunt- ing, cutting' brush for farmers and } | selling beadwork and buckskin work : 3 9, | » * a 4 eK aE J x « N» >> NH" Pll Be 4 a" RS