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s fommentary on the D CI* L iL C J WghlighU of the Week'. New. . . . Dy tlliabCth tCdy MOMENTOUS DAYS: So much Ib happening in the world today, events are moving so quickly on all Ironts, that situations of momentous importance in IhLi quarter or that BO practically unnoticed. Our atten- pon can Jjc focussed only on so many ttoints-at once. Watching what Hitler u doing in Central Europe, what Mussolini is planning in the Mediter- ranean, it is physically impossible also to keep our eyes on what is Happening in India, in Palestine, in Iraq, in Syria, in Morocco, in South America and Mexico (for world- .lirring events are brewing in each one of these corners of the earth). lye do well if we are able to watch the progress of the war in China and In Spain. And in our own dear Canada, there's plenty going on. Whether we read the newspapers or not, to find out. 1)1 •• • TEN-POWER PACT: Urged by Winston Churchill last week in Lon- don is a wide European alliance of ten powers calculated to encircle Uie German Reich and block further Aggression on the part of the Nazis. If such a front were formed of the smaller nations of Europe and Rus- sia behind France and Great Britain, using League of Nations machinery, Mr. Churchill declared, the United States would undoubtedly "signal her encouragement and ojmpathy." Said Mr. Churchill: "If we can rally even ten well-armed States in Europe, all banded together to attack an aggressor, we would be so strong tWt immediate danger might be warded off and a breathing space would be gained for building later still a broader structure of peace." « * • • MIXED BLESSING: With the soil of the Prairies moistened by the best rainfall in 17 years, and crop pros- pects the most favorable since 1938, Western farmers of the drought- stricken areas are nevertheless rot half as happy as we imagine them to be. For two reasons: a good crop means a much lower price will be offered for wheat.; a good crop means also that the mortgage companies, who for so long have neglected to foreclose on farms that were seem- ingly worth nothing, now are likely to clamp down on the debt-ridden farmers. 'Twixt the devil and the deep, our Western neighbors are. Ontario Has Most Accredited Herds Lekd. In Cattle Free of T.B., say. Agricultural Minister Gardmer AN ELECTION IN 1938?: Ot tawa insists that there is no valid reason for an appeal to the country in 1938, no excuse for a Dominion election this fall. Ifis talking plaus ibly, because a trip to the polls is not really due for another two years, sought by Harry Leader (Lib., Portage Agriculture Minister Gradluer last week Informed Uio House of Commons 939 herriB of pure-bred beef cattle lu Canada aro accrdlted for tuberculosis â€" 'Tted ami found free ot the disease â€"and 112 herds aro I process of ac- creditation. The luforniatlon was Just the same the opinion is pre- valent in some quarters that Parlia- ment will be dissolved next year â€" the fourth year since the election â€" but not this fall, or anywhere near it. Should, however, ructions occur between the provinces and the Fed- oral Government that can't be patched up in the usual way, or should a national "emergency" arise, the government might decide to call an election this year. * • • * CHINESE CHANCES: A special cable to the Toronto Telegram from John Gunther, internationally known journalist, now in Hankow, outlines the main advantages weighing on the Chinese side in favor of their ulti- mate victory over the Japanese in- vaders: First, the country is united politically aa never before, drawr together by a genuine will to resisc Japan and to fight to the finish; sec- ond, the facility of the Japanese in guerrilla warfare; third, help from German technical advisers and Rus- sian pilots; fourth, the stupendously difficult job the Japanese have set themselves; fifth, the fact that Ja- pan's standard of living ia bound to fall as the war goes on. Mr. Gunther points to the reverse side of the canvas, citing China's disadvantages: first, the Japanese have virtual command of the air; second, the Chinese army is woeful- ly deficient in artillery; third, the Japanese are better provisioned, bet- ter armed; fourth, provincial feeling is still strong among the Chinese, and unification of the armies is yet far from perfect. Id • • • EARLIER VEGETABLES: The spring season in Ontario, advancing apace, is now two weeks ahead of previous years. Vegetables are com- ing on the market away ahead of schedule, and one dealer predicts that we'll "have strawberries by the first of June." All very lovely, unless frosts come along and nip our Ontario fruits in the bud. la Prairie) Seven '"rovlnces have tuberculosis- free areasâ€" I'rliicp Edward Island, Niw Brunswic!-, Quebec, Ontario, Ma- nitoba, Saskatchewan an I Urltlsh Co- lumbia. Totalling 518 Ontario, with 518, '• s thj most ac- credited herds. Manitoba has 183, Saskatchewan 96, Quebec 82, Alberta 48, Prince i!.dward Island and Nova Scotia, 4 each; New Brunswick 3 and British Columbia 1. There were 8,840,500 cattle in Can- ada In 1937 and 9,610 were exported to Great Britain. Irish exports to Great Britain last year totalled 850,- 032. Bulk ot the beef cattle exported to the United Kingdom recently has been feeders or storts. |j News In Review } Approve Irish Agreentent LONDON.â€" The House of Commons last week approved Prime Minister Cliambcrlaiu's "peace with Eire" agr<.'ement on third and final reading without u vote. It now goes to the House of Lords. â€" o â€" Conqueror Welcomed Home IIKULIN (Mianc(-llor Adolf Hitler was received in liis capital this week, on his return from Italy, with a turbu- lence of almost liysterlcal enthusiasm and a splendour surpassing his recep- tion after his bloodless conquest ot Austria. --0 â€" â-  Fierce Bombardment HONG KONG.â€" A Japanese landing party of probably at least 1,000 men occupied the eastern part ot Amoy Island, in Fuklen Province, in South- eastern China over the week-end, af- ter day-long flghting resulting In nu- merous casualties, particularly among the Chincae defenders. Reports from witnesses In the treaty port tell of a concentrated attack, commencing at daylight, by twelve Japanese warships and twenty planes, raining shells and bombs that started flres which are still raging tonight. â€" o â€" 79 Killed In Mine Explosion DUCKMANTON, Derbyshire, Eng- land. â€" An ofllcial death list of seventy- nine was counted last week after twr explosions rocked the Markham Col- liery hero. More than fifty miners were Injured. Grief-stricken villagers said almost every home lost at least one worker. Desperate day-long efforts of rescu- ers to reach forty-five miners trapped nearly halt a mile below the surface tailed. More Air Craahe. LONDON.â€" Four airplane craithes, in which eight fliers died this week, raised the total ot deaths In the Royal Air Force's preparedness program to 76 In 45 accidents since last Jan. 1. Two R.A.F. accidents Involved fliers at Wyton Field, Huntingdonshire, â- where three were killed In one acci- dent and two In another. â€" o â€" Income Tax Act Invalid CALGARY.- The Alberta Income Tax Act, passed by the Provincial Legislature In 1932, was declared ul- tra vires, in part. In a Judgment ot Mr. Justice A. F. Ewing this wnek. He held that income derived from outside Alberta when not used in the Province ii not taxable. Empire Flying In Two Years OTTAWA. â€" Within eighteen months or two years Empire flying boats will span the world In regular passenger and mail flights, using Trans-Canada Airlines as the .ain link between Europe and Asia, according to infor- mation rolca.sod here. Negotiation tor the transatlantic liights hava been completed, and the huge flying 'loats are now under con- struction, tour In Great Britain ^nd tour in the United States. Test flights v.ill start In July or August this year about the time the Trans-Canada Air- lines will link Halifax with Vancouver In regular service. â€" o â€" Spanish War Deadlocked- HENDAYH, France.â€" Spanish insur- gents and Government iirmies liatlled to a deadlock this week on the vital central fronts. Along the coast road to Alcala de rMypv' where Insurgents have been attem. Xng to widen their wedge to- wards ValencU and Castellon de la '^lana, ^^vcrnment troops blocked the advuf from 1 Mltop entrenchments. The flghting centred on that ap- proach t" the sea where Insurgents attempted to widen their seaboard strip by toldlPT the Government right flank back to the -est. Stronsf Biceps For Drivers ISTANBUL. â€" Applicants for driv- ers' licenses in Turkey's capital must have more than mere skill. The mu- nicipality has tightened its require- ments for candidates, who must have "strong biceps, physical endurance, good height and weight." Gigantic Loss | Through Weeds $150,000^000 Every Year in Can- ada, Inspector. Are Told PETROLIA, Ont. â€" "The annual loss in the Province of Ontario due to the infestation of weeds amount- ed to between $15,200,000 and $22,- .'iOO.OOO, and the loss throughout the Dominion is approximately $150,- 000.000," stated J. D. McLeod of the Department of Agriculture, To- ronto, when addressing the annual meeting of the Lambton County week inspectors here last week. "The cause of the present weed problem is due VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LAE^GE o\ the PRESS CANADA Not To Be Sneezed At Ontario is planning a drive against to the neglect in 'hay fever and that Is a movement sovving seeds in the past," he con- that la not to be sneezed at. â€" Peter- tinued. He said this year consider- j borough Examiner, able effort will be made to clean up i ^o â€" cemeteries. | Qr Go To Grandma's Funeral The speaker also advocated clean- 1 ^be provincial comptroller ot fin- ing of threshing machines and all gn^e reveals that every citizen ot On- equipment before moving as provided (ario works 54 days a year to support for in the -Weed Control Act and stated this will assist greatly in controlling the spread of weed seeds onto the roadsides and on the neigh- boring farms. It was pointed out threshers should be vitally interested in weed control as their business and revenue is governed by the condition of the crop. W. P. MacDonald, agricultural representative for Lambton County, said that because of the untiring en- ergy of the 30 county weed inspec- tors, Lambton is not considered a "weedy" county. the government. If we knew which days of the year they were, we might be tempted to stay home on some of them.â€" E. J. P., in Stratford Beacon- Herald. â€" o â€" The Good Old Day. Someone suggests that when we be- gin pining for the "good old days" we should run the automobile into the lake, throw the radio into the garbage can, tear the telephone oS the wall and throw the electric light switch out ot the window. Yes, and take the airplane down out ot the sky while we hitch up the ox team. â€" Lethbridge Herald. â€" o â€" Canadian. Ate Leu Meat * The Canadian people consumed luure pork in 1937 than beef and veal. Our Small Town Editors Have Ink In Their Blood !S- Writes R. C. Reade In Toronto Star Weekly â€" Canadian News- paperman Is Often Editor, Re- porter, Pressman, Typesetter, Delivery Boy Rolled Into One. Milk May Make New Car Finish Dairymen Hear of New Byproduct Which Can Give Auto Bodies A Glouy Surface Possibility of converting surplus milk into • finishing material for automobile bodies was envisioned by dairymen meeting at Utica, N.Y., last week, as the result of a process patented by William S. Murray, re- search chemist and Republican State chairman. Henry H. Rathbun, of New Hart- ford, local director of the Dairy- men's League Co-operative Associa- tion, said Murray had obtained a patent for a method of converting milk solids into a plastic and had • isigned rights of use to the Co-op- erative. Mixtur* of Milk Solid. The process, Rathbun said, would permit the use of milk solids as a finish on automobiles and for other purposes for which a hard, glossy surface ia desired. The process, he said, involves the mixture of milk solids, including casein and lactose, with a weak acid, a tanning agent and an alkaline ma- terial. The mixture i. treated with water at a temperature of 100 to 120 degree, cantiffrada, and than i. dried. The thrill and the skill of news- paper work are no monopoly of the large centres. A survey of Canada's small weeklies from coast to coast shows that they do not need roto- gravure to give them color. They have it in the editorial chair. "What A Man!" Looking them over from coa.st to coa.st, from James Edward Patrick Butler, editor of the Newcastle Un- ion Advocate in New Brunswick, who was not afraid to tell his town that it was "a sink-hole of vice, drunkenness and poverty," to Hugh Savage, who calls himself "govern- ing director" of the Cowichan Leader in Duncan, a small town 40 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Is- land, and has lived a score of lives as soldier and sailor, farmer, gold miner, storekeeper, Shakespearean researcher, flour miller and M.P.P. as well as editor, I am forced to ex- claim again and again, "What a man!" Veterans of the Game The real veterans of the weekly game are in Ontario. The dean of them all is W. H. Thurston, editor of the Flcsherton Advance, now in his 79th year but still reporting the news of the Plesheiton district in which he was born. He ia one of the many who are printers as well as editors. He began newspaper life 60 years ago as a compositor. His brother edits the Bobcaygeon Inde- pendent. Arthur H. Wright, editor of the Mount Forest Confederate, is older in years though younger in weekly service. He is 83, but did not enter journalism until 1901, when he re- tired from the teaching profession. He was for 15 years English master in Gait collegiate. His paper, he is confident, is the only one in the world that is called "Confederate". Its first issue appeared one week af- ter the British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada. Helped Mould Politics Another colorful old-timer is Jas. A. Evoy, editor o» the Carp Review, Carp, Ont., one of those universal men for whom weekly journalism is famous. He is linotype operator, pressman and reporter as well as editor and publisher. And he atill finds time to catch more large bass than any other fisherman in the dis- trict. It is half a century since he got his first job with a weekly newspa- per and, unlike the majority of his confreres in the weekly field, he has never tried his hand at anythii.g else. He has played an important part in the political history of the province. He established the Kempt- ville Telegram to launch G. Howard Ferguson into public life. He sold the paper to Mr. Ferguson but con tinued to manage it until, a few years ago, he founded the Carp Re view. "Whei. I began us a printer's devil," he says, "the principal piece of machinery was a hand press on which tha four pages were printed! Twenty years ago somebody in- vented a make of car in a story. It had a dashboard device which flash- ed a white light at 15 m.p.h., a green light at 25 m.p.h., a red light at 40 . , „„, , , m.p.h., and played "Nearer, My God, This was the experience in 1936, but to Thee," at CO miles an hour. *° 1935 and 1934 they consumed more beet than pork. In 1937 the consump- tion ot pork was 62.35 pounds per cap- ita as against 58.89 pounds of beet and veal. The consumption of pork in 1936 was 67.08 pounds per capita and ot beef and veal 60.48 pounds. On the whole, therefore, the Canadian people ate less meat last year than they did in the previous year. â€" St. Catharines Standard. â€" â€" The Hitch-Hiking Nuisance As Spring opens up and motoring for pleasure or business becomes ^^lore intensive, the hitch-hiking nuisance increases. Few people object to giv- ing a "lift" to some needy person, but the galling part (with emphasis on the gall) Is that most ot the would-be riders are peopl^vho can well afford to pay their way. They use simply this means ot transportation that they may be spared the purchase of a ticket on recognized carriers.â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. â€" o â€" Arms and the Nations lu Washington, where there is more talk than usual about armaments, they have been compiling data on the naval after the paper had been dampened and left weighted down for several hours. The type was all set by hand. , We used to adjust it in the forms , with a piece of paper here and there or a wliittled-down match." That Printer's Error Ed. Stacey, editor of the weekly Teeswater News, gives as his most amusing case of printer's "pi", a (•ombiiiation of sport and society news. He wrote about a former Kin- cardine hockey player who was going to England. Startled subscribers kept ringing: the phone for days in order to tell him that the joke was on him. His article read "Murray Munro is starting on the forward lino in a black coat with Persian lamb tiimniings and black hat with matching accessories." Say Greenland Was Linked With Norway Polar Elxpedition Suspects Land Exists In Arctic That Once Linked the Two Continents COPENHAGEN.â€" Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish explorer, departed by sea- plane last week for the Spitzbergen group of Norwegian Arctic islands, to start a polar expedition to ascer- tain whether firm land exists be- tween Spitzbergen and North Green- land.. Dr. Koch, who has observed the area from the air, contends that, from a geographical viewpoint, there probably is land there, because the northern and eastern Alp-chains would intersect between Spitzbergen and North Greenland. Saw It Once Far Off Dr. Koch's ancle. Captain J. P. Koch, reported in 1907 he had sighted land. Members of another expedition in 1912 said they had seen it but only at a distance. Last winter, Soviet explorers drifting down from the North Pole on an ice floe thought they sighted land through the Arctic darkness. The Danish government has placed the vessel Gustav Holm at Dr. Kock's dispo.sal to make sure. The vessel will serve as a base of operations which Dr. Koch flies from Spitzber- gen to Peary Land and back, passing over the area where the existence of land is suspected. Photographic Survey If Dr. Koch sights no land from the air a complete photographic sur- vey will be undertaken from Peary Land. The Spitzbergen group lies about 400 miles off the extreme northern coast of Norway and about the same strengths of various nations. The re- sult is Interesting. Soviet Huasia, it appears, has the most submarines, with something like 150 ot them. Italy comes second, with 84 ships built and 14 building. France has 92, Britain 70, Germany 61 and Japan 60. Altogether there are more under-sea craft in the world today than during the height ot submarine warfare In 1917. â€" Ottawa Journal. â€" o â€" Pidl for the Prairie. Faith in the prairies is not confined to those who dwell on these once fer- tile grain lands, for Senator Iva 0. Fallis, who knows the prairies from former residence until 1920 in the West, voices the opinion that, given rain in June and July, the prairie, can raise the finest wheat In the world. In that opinion she is simply ex- pressing the general view held by far- mers in the West. They know that, given reasonable weather conditions during the growing season, the land will yield an abundant crop, but they also are aware, froE bitter experi- ence, that under drought conditions little or nothing can be expected from the land.â€" Moose Jaw Tlmes-JournaL THE EMPIRE Australia'. Warning In every democracy the public must now address itselt to the realities ot the menace thus disclosed. Whether another great war may yet be averted is problematical; but this much may be proclaimed as certain, that unless the opponents â€" wherever they may be found â€" of brijrp" '-'se in internit'r-'il danger, the chances ot averting ulti- mate war must be counted negligible. We must face the vital fact that Ger- many, Italy, and Japan are today mo- bilized for war. In the Mediterranean (Spain), in China, in Austria, without declaration of hostilities, defying trea- ties and careless in excuses, they are simply ravaging def;'nceless neighbors for their j)wn gatn. In each of these ventures no limit Is set to the objec- tives; and no spectator can propoiuid a formula for diplomatic bargaining, in cherk to this process, which will not leave the marauder ..ith at least a part ot his loot. This we regard as the gravest aspect ot the world situ- ation in its challenge â€" now uumistali- ablo â€" to every people that pos.-; 'sses anything worth coveting. The moral tT us here in Australia is inescapable. â€"Sydney Herald. Selling Our Wheat In Many Countries Canada Is Again Worrying About the Problem of World Mrrkets With prospects tor the best Cana- dian wheat crop In many years, eyes of the growers turn again to the prob- lem ot world markets. So quickly does the picture shift that nations once re- garded as formidable competitors in export may be forced by a bad season to look for imports. And some of the competitors which the Dominion fear ed most not long ago, notably itussia, have been forced by internal conditi- ons to slacken pressure in selling "broad. • "s the Hamilton Syoctator United I' ngdom Best Customer In this connection the figures issued ly the Canadian Board of Grain Com- missioners covering exports for the crop year 1936-37 are revealing. It Is shown that the United I'lngdom is still our best wheat customer, a fact which is fiequeutly overlooked. The "self-sulllclency" drive which has led France and Gerrv-iny to grow â€" even at great cost â€" the wheat they need, has cut down these once substantial rustomera of the Dominion's grain to relatively small buyers. For our total exports of H5,SSG,I72 b...-ihel3 chief destinations were as fol- lows: United Kinginra 81.9oi.064 Belgium 15.994,766 Holland 6,900,035 France 6,:'oo,301 l-ily 4.SS7,132 Irish Free State 4,507,684 Denmark 4.491,;iS9 .Norway 3,80C,fill IJiirmany y.i'64.610 Switzerland 2,355,092 C.'.>cce 2.1,':7,226 .Morocco 1,813.870 .lapan 1,702.100 Finland 1.117,132 Canada shipped her wheat direct to ii:iv' " >untrles In all. a cniiincntary The i BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "LITTLE LAMB" By Dahris Martin [listance west of Peary Land, which is the northernmost tip of North "" "'s extent and variety r' our for Greenland, 450 miles from the North Pole. commerce. Sued For Biting Dog A man who bit his neighbor's vlim "Take care of the pence," goes the old saying. One young Anverican undergraduate h«« fist taken a European holiday on the savimzc of has been used by the owner for ib'O 12 yearsâ€" all in coppers and nickles. damages against probably loss of the "I saved for a sunny dayâ€" not a fn''"^*!. *it Garsh, India. Oof .â- idani rainy one." was her comment. i <'et :«red that the dog attav-l:ed him, â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" ^â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" . so he seized it by the scrul'i of the aâ€" neck and bit it, to teach K a ic.ison In large and winsome pictures and with one of those chiming little stories that repeat, the plight of a small lamb whose woolly coat I'ame off in patches is unfolded here for very small people. Baba did not like the idea at all; he had been all white, all over. He was now begin- ning to show pink spots wheie the skin had no wool at all. It did not look right to him, and he dul not think it looked right to anybody. So he went to the merchant for a new coat, and this worthy sent him to the tailor, and he to the weaver, until at last the shepherd, melted by the tears of Baba â€" and anything more moving than this picture of Ha^ta in, tears it would be hard for a naby ij fin.lâ€" sent him to Black Sheep. That wise animal laughed and laugh- ed. Baba's new coat was coming in; this was why the old one was cummg out in spots, and the story ends with a skipping lainb singing about his bran;l-new coat white as milk, soft as silk and warm as a quilt. .Mthough the story is for very lit- tle listeners, the pictures will be ap- pealing to almost any child up to and including the age when first teeth begin to work loose. "Little Lamb," by Dahris Martin. Pictures in color by Lilly So'uppi. 36 pp. Toronto: Musson Book Co. $1.75. Spanish Siher Paves Old Mexican Streets streets of several Mexican min- ing towns literally are paveti with silver, the National Geographic So- ciety reports. "Early Spanish processes of sep- arating silver from the ore were crude and left much silver m the tajling.s," the society said. "The tailings often were used for road sur- fa'ing. When the silver content ia p:irti('ularly high, the tailings art (lug up and re-worked." *, 4