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Fw tl ged, SFA : * Copan : ; Zo Zh CRE lh A nN EA ws DIE 5) Sr ES Re aR Ca === Will Spend More To Train Youth Ottawa To Increase Vote For 1939 -- 50,000 Canadians Benefitted Last Year With particular emphasis on placement features, the Dominion- Provincial youth training program for the pregent fiscal year is mak- ing excellent progress, the Fed- eral Labor Department said this week. "While it is naturally too early to determine with accuracy the number of young Canadians who will benefit by the plan this year, it is probable that last year's fig- ures will be equalled if not ex- ceeded," the department's state- ment said. Provinces Contribute 'Approximately 50,000 Cana- dians between the ages laid down in agreements with the provinces have profited by the program. The exact figures are: Men, 32,301; women, 23,156; or a total of 5b,- 457. Last year the amount voted by Parliament was $1,000,000, This year the Dominion contribute ed in the neighborhood of 31,600,- 000. Provinces contribute on a 50-50 basis. Blackleg Kills Lambton Cattle Many Are Dying Off As Result Of Infection Lambton County cattle are threatened by a spread of "black- leg", a virulent disease not un- common at this time of the year. It is estimated that twenty-five cattle have died in the county in recent weeks as a result of the disease, but veterinarians and others do not believe the situa- tion is yet one for alarm. Caused By Bacillus Prevalent among cattle in that area for the past forty vears, the disease has chiefly affected herds along the sixth and eighth con- cessions of Enniskillen township. Cattle between the ages of six months and two years are most - susceptible to the disease, which occasionally attacks sheep and goats also. The disease is not peculiar to any particular climate, soil or al- titude. Tt is caused by a bacillus which forms a sore within itself and lodges in the soil. A sore is usually the means by which an ani- mal" contracts the disease. Duce Was Once A Burly Waiter Former Fruit Salesman Remem- bers Mussoliri Working In ' A Soho Restaurant LONDON, Eng.--A gray-haired old fruit-seller in Soho, who once told Mussolini to be quiet, laughs when he thinks "where old Ben is now" and a showman who once told the Italian waiter "his play "Napoleon" was lousy still thinks he was right. Old Jack Smith, fruit salesman and radio star, is 80 but he can still remember the night he sat in a cafe and told a friend one Eng- lishman was worth ten Italians. A young Italian, 22, powerfully-built and stumpy, dashed to his table with clenched fists, shouting in broken English for a retraction. Tub-Thumper Jack recalls he slapped Musso- lini on the back said: "Oh, chuck it, Ben, you and your politia make me sick." "In those days," he says, Musso- lini "was just a cocky little Italian waiter who was always throwing out his chest and tub-thumping -- like the street-corner politicians do in Hyde Park." Mussolini, says Jack, "worked at nights in a big restaurant where King Edward VII used to go some- times." - Brantford Woman Shows Livestock Mrs. Clara Kendall Also Looks After Exhibits Mrs. Clara Kendall, R. R. No. 5, Brantford, wag probably the only woman 'at the Western Fair, Lon. don, showing live stock--not just owning live stock but taking care of it, 'and grooming it for the show- ing. Mrs. Kendall, a widow, had to step actively into the running of tha farm when her husband died thrée.years ago. "I help my sons all I can," she said, : A new-born Jersey calf from the Kendall herd was the only addition to the Jersey herds during the Fair, An hour or two after it was born the ealt had a motor ride. Inocu- lated against disease, it was placed in a warm corner of a truck, and brought to the William Kendall & Mong' stock farm near Brantford. "VOICE OF THE PRESS La > CANADA TRULY DEMOCRATIC With the C. N, E. over, rich and poor won't rub shoulders again until the Christmas shopping stampede.,--Toronto Telegram. WHITHER "SOCIABLES"? The Brockville Recorder and Times thinks church socials are going out of fashion. Fact is, they've never been the same since they ceased to be know as socia- bles.--Toronto Star, THOSE GLARING HEADLIGHTS A Sunday drive is the enjoy- ment of thousands of motorists until it is time to Zo home. As darkness approaches and head- lights on cars are turned on then it is a nightmare for the driver, Of all the vast improvements made in cars in recent years, glar- ing headlights still exist and re- lief is not in sight.-- Elmira Sig- net. OFF THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE Apart from sentimental and strategic reasons, there is another factor why both Great Britain and the United States are interested in Canada. There is $6,800,000,000 of out- side capital invested in the Domin- ion. Of this amount, Great Britain has supplied 40 per cent. ond the United States has put up 58 per cent., leaving only two per cent, supplied by other countries, -- Windsor Daily Star. WHAT IT TAKES A good editor is one who has never made a mistake; who is al- ways right; who can ride two horses at the same time he is straddling a fence with both ears to the ground; who always says the right thing at the right time; who always picks the right horse as well as the right politician to win; who never has to apologize, who has no enemies, and who has worlds of prestige with all classes, creeds and races. That is all an editor has to do to be rated a good editor. There has never been a good editor.--North Hastings Re- view, The EMPIRE CANADA AND WHEAT PRICES Under the 1932 treaty Canada and Australin are bound to sell wheat to the Motherland at the world price, which is tho price on the Liverpool Exchange. This price is fixed by competition be- tween the buyers of the world, not the buyers of the United Kingdom alone. The British mar- ket is not large enough to absorb all the Canadian export surplus of wheat. The balance of this sur- plus is sold in competition with the exports from the United States, Argentina, Russia, the Dan- ubian countries, 'and every other wheat-exporting country. It is this competition with foreign wheat which fixes the Liverpool price and therefore the price which British importers pay for Canadian wheat. For this reason the prefernce is not thought to be of much value. If the preference is repealed, Canada may sell less wheat to Britain, but, in that event, other countries will sell more and there will be less com- petition in selling to foreign coun- tries. It is, in the Canadian view, a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.--Manchester Guardian. Amateur safe-crackers who broke into the office of Grimsby Stove and Furnace Limited last week used the company's own ace- tylene torch and electric drill to cut a {wo-and-a-half-foot hole in the door of the office safe. Then they used a company chisel to cut off some rivets and gain access to the cash compart- ment, Commander Eric Glynne Robin- son, pilot of the airplane which flew Prime Minister Chamberlain to Germany for his second confer- ence with Chancellor Hitler, is shown ABOVE. He received his first flying instructions at Hamil- ton, Ont. | By Elizabeth Eed WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: In the Great War of 1914-18, it was the uniformed men in the front line trenches who bore the brunt of enemy punish- ment. Today, things are different, as we know from watching dress rehearsals (for another war) in Abyssinia, in-Spain and China. Tt is the civilian population, the women and children, who are the first victims of war, meeting swift death from the air, or a horrible mangling, or slow starvation, They call it "totalitarian war". * * * &® WHAT PRICE DISTRACTION? They tell us that whenever war appears on the world's horizon, women's fashions" automatically become more elaborate, more or- need recular washing in nery than ever--as a distraction, don't you know, from the grim. ness of reality, This present season, judging from the spécimens one has glimpsed on the streets of Ontario towns and cities, women's hats and hair-dos are providing a No, 1 diversion. European embroglios are forgotten when the latest "doll hat" sails by atop a nest of high-piled curls. Women become interested only in going their fel- lowwoman's hats one better; men are interested in watching the women, LINE-UP: Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined strength of 15,400 planes. Com, pare that with Germany plus Italy, 11,500. Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined naval strength of 2% million tons. Com- pdre that with Germany plus Italy, 1 million tons. Measured in men, Britain plus France plus Russia have a total army strengt of 26,000,000. Compare that with' Germany plus Italy, 10,600,000. Consider then, that the United States is morally behind Britain, France and Russia. Aren't Germany and Italy brave to stand up against such an align- ment? * * * * We complained loudly in this column at Easter-time when the first spring millinery atrocities ap- peared. But since then, as the European situation has grown worse, things have been getting more and more impossible in the hat world. And now, words fail us. We cannot bring ourselves to describe the latest creations in feather and felt. Those terrible chin-strap models we howled about in the spring were infinitely pre- ferable, don't you think? * * * * THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: How many hours distant by air- plane is Moscow from Berlin? An- swer: 43 hours. * When buying brooms, soak them well before using. Never let the bristles stand on the floor. A new floor-mop for wet use lasts longer if tightly tied round with cord as near the swivel part as possible. All brooms and brushes warm suds. Hang in the air to dry. T | THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson WEAKFISHES ARE ANYTHING BUT WEAK / THEY CAN GIVE BLOW-FLIES WiLL DROP THEIR. EOMB-LIKE EGGS THROUGH THE AlR ONTO FOOD j HHMALAYAN y LOWERS THE SURFACE! v RANGE. > OF THE MID INDIAN CL OCEAN" GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE MOUNTAINS PILES Fo THE WATER. NEAR. \ TE SHORES. & COPR 19128 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. THAT THEY CANNOT REACH Y RE oh ee ---- THE name '"weakfish" ¢omes from no lack of gameness or stamina, but because the bony processes of the mouth are soft and tender, thereby causing them to tear out when a fisherman's hook is jerked too suddenly. | NEXT: How do heat waves and cold waves diftor in fhe way they approach and depart? SATISFIE HHI YOU guaranlee 6) | ~ 4 io 4 Greater Aealing Value i a The satisfied acclaim of over a hundred thousand Canadian home- The sl is your lai of Suazantse & the greatest heating value money can buy. Give your pend guarantees the quality. Order from today. Ask Heat Regulator which heat wit TAE MODERN ome the thr ling comfort and de- ility of "the world's finest anthracite". -- The colour our nearest 'blue coal' dealer im also about the 'blue coal' provides automatic your present equipment, FUEL FOR SOLID, COMFORT Tune in "The Shadow" every Sat, 7 p.m.,, CBL, Toronto, or 6.30 p.m., CBO, Ottawa. Tourist Total Remains High Extensive Revenue--Slight De- cline Seen From 1937 For Canada Tourist traflic will bring between $265,000,000 and $275,000,000 to Canada this year, Leo Dolan, chiet of the Canadian Travel Bureau, De- partment of Transport, estimates. Last year's estimated tourist traf- fic revenue was $295,000,000. "The tourist industry has shown less decline than any other normal business activity in Canada this year," said Mr. Dolan. Millions of Visitors Canada up to July 31 received 9, 012,177 visitors, a drop of 6.8 per ceht. from the 9,676,734 who came in the seven months ending July 31, 1937, but a general upswing was reported in August with improved business conditions. in the United States, the great source of Can- ada's tourist trade. The tourist business drop has been most pronounced In Ontario and Quebec because they are con- tiguous to the United States indus- trial areas that felt most keenly the recession. But in these two provinces there was an {improve- ment in August over July. B.C. Does Better British Columbia has done well with her tourist trade this year. Vancouver Island reports a record number of visitors. 'Through the customs at Victoria in the eight months ending August 31 there were cleared 26,000 United States motor cars, bringing 72,000 people to the island, a record high. New Brunswick reports tourist trade as good as ever. Nova Sco- tia reported a slight decrease with Prince Kdward Island about un- changed. ' The Prairie Provinces report a better tourist trade than in 1936 but slightly below that of 1937. Value Of Contests For Farm Children Ontario's Minister of Agricul- ture Favors Special Grants To Agricultural Societies Featuring Such Competitions Hon. P. M. Dewan {s so convine- ed of the value of competitions for farm boys and girls that he favors a system of special grants from the Department of Agriculture to those agricultural societies which feature such programs. Commending Wilmot Agricultural Society upon its activities along this line, the minister in opening West . . . the soclety's fall fair at New Ham. burg said: "I am rather of the opinion that we ought to go so far {n the department--though we have not yet considered it definitely--as to give probably a special grant to those fairs which feature junior programs." Train For Future "After all," said Mr, Dewan, "I do not know of any 'place where the boys and. girls can get an education which can be a greater inspiration to them for their future work on the farm than by learning to ex- hibit their products at the fall fairs, If there is one thing which it is our duty to do more than another at the present time, it is to train the young men and women who are go- ing to be the future farm men and women of the province. "They are going to have the priv- ilege nd advantage of living in ru- ral communities, with the privileg- es increasing as the years pass, and it will not be very long until rural life will be probably superior, even in respect of general conveni- ence, to that of town or city life." Insects in green vegetables will make an immediate exit if you add salt to their washing wat- er. . T he BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "MY SISTER EILEEN" By Ruth McKenney It's a natural! It's a howl! this story of the adventures of a rogu- ish Irish lass and her sister Eileen, now 256 and 24 years old respec- tively. It will have you rolling in the aisles, because you have ex- perienced things just like that, 'yourself, perhaps. . . . The book starts off in the days of peanuts and the silent movies, debating teams and bird hunts, girls' camps and Easter eggs. By easy stages it progresses through first lessons in being a waitress, the care and feeding of a Georgian Prince, the blushful experiences of a girl reporter (Ruth McKen- ney writes for the "New Yorker") interviewing Randolph Churchill. Later Ruth and her sister Eileen migrate to New York, where they hire an apartment from Mr. Spit- zer,.a sad fellow who couldn't tell a fungus from an elm tree. The final staggering climax is reached the night Eileen and Ruth enter- tain the Brazilian Navy, "My Sister Eileen," by Ruth McKenney . . . . Toronto, George J. McLeod, Limited, 266 King St. .. $2.25. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ feated. to be yur slaves." ~~ "We want your help in this con- quest," sald Guph, "for we need the ald of the Growleywogs In order to make sure that we shall not be de- You hate good creatures as much as we gnome do. I asm ure It will be a real pleasure to you to tear down the Emerald City, and in return for your assistance we will allow you 'to bring back to your country ten thousand people of Os "Twenty thousand!" growled the Grand Gallipoot, "All right, twenty poot made a signal and at once his attendants picked up General Guph and carried him away to a deep, dark prison, where the jailer amus- round, fat body of the old gnome to seo him jump and hear him yell, one counselor, And while this was going on the Grand Gallipoot was talking with his counselors, who were the most he sald: "My advice is t help them, then when we have conquered the Land of Oz w will take not only our twenty thousand prisoners, but ev- ed himself by sticking pins in the erything else . wo want." take the magic belt, too," suggested make him our thousand slaves it shall bel" agreed ' important officials of the Growley- the General, who by this time was wogs. When he had told them of "I'd like King very frightened. The Grand Galli- . 'the proposition of the Gnome King, slave, bring me my "Let us "I'n ing while 1 am ih bed." a famous Scarecrow in Oz. hini for my slave," sald a counselor. take Tik-Tok, the man," sald another, "And rob the Gnome King and slave." "That's a good \ Idea," declared the Grand Gallipoot. Ruggedo for my own He could black my boots and porridge every morn- "There is I'll take machine "Give me the : Tin Woodman," sal da third. Cattle Rustlers Harrass Ontario Thieves Are Being Sought By Night Riders in Four Counties Reminiscent of the old-time West when cattle rustling was the bane of respectable ranchers, an epidem- Ic of this crime has broken out in four Ontario counties and night rid- ers are roaming the land in search of the thieves, just as was done in the days of long ago. The Guelph, Dundalk and Pus- linch districts have been the centre of the rustlers' attention. The farm of John Hoohenadel in Puslinch district was raided twice recently and cattle were removed from pasture fields under cover of darkness. The fine beef cattle were believed to have been removed from the scene in a truck, - Removed By Truck Farmers in the Dundalk area were taking precautions against the raiders following the disappearance of five head of cattle from the farm of Clayton Sprott, of Badjeros. Mar- shall Armour, of the same place, lost six head of cattle and William Corbett, Shelburne drover, is look- ing for four head which disappear- ed from a pasture in the Melanc- thon district, ii Charles Robb, Penetanguishene farmer, is the poorer by twenty head of cattle, including three -hei- fers and a calf, Eight head of cat- tle disappeared from the estate of Percy Semple near Beeton. Completing his first flight in an airplane, Lord Runciman, British mediator on the Snel Garman crisis, is shown as he arrived at Croydon airport after a flight from Czechoslovakia to confer with the British cabinet which, at that time was considering the question of a plebiscite in the Sudeten area. Runciman told the cabinet that a plebiscite would mean certain war, Single Men More Prone To Crime Report On Ontario Pe:al In- stitutions Shows -- Single men are apparently more prone to crime than married men, according to figures of Ontario Re- formatory population contained in the annual report of Ontario penal institutions. Of the total number of men con- fined, 709 were single men, and 186 were married. Seven hundred and eighty-one of the total had only ele- mentary school education, 74 were illiterate, and there were 40 who had college or university training. With Little Education More than half the total were ab- stainers from intoxicants; 238 were described as temperate, and 100 as intemperate. None were admitted. ly drug addicts. The great majority were first of- fenders, the report shows. Out of the total, 6565 were serving their first term; 147 their second; 70 their third, and 123 were serving more than their third term, Commercial and laboring occupa. tions were the most heavily repre. sented. Over 300 of the total came from commercial jobs and 251 were laborers. There were onl, eight professional men, and 16 engaged in domestic service. One hundred and forty-nine came from agricultural work, and 105 were described as mechanics, Emergency dress hangers may be made by rolling a newspaper tightly, wrapping in tissue paper, and tyihg round the middle with a piece of string, leaving a large loop by which to hang it, if -