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^ksws 9d^^e |pemm«i«taiy sn Uia HhUM* W Ik* WmIi** Nmi â-  DOMESTIC TROUBLES: A via- itor from Ireland who set foot on our (hores last week for the first time received a series of shocks on talking with people here after his srrival. All his life he had h»ard about the land of peace and plenty which is ours, never bad imi.^ined that we have trouble.^ of our < wn over here. He knew about the "sorrows of Ireland" but not alx ut our railways problem, our wht-ht problem, our unemployment aituation, the isolationist leanmgs of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta. So it was that his eyes were opened.... Rut with midsummer here, we have forgotten for the lime being thf- railways problem, the section- alism of Quebec, etc. (It would be well to watch these.) We are ir.cre concerned with fighting the "cusscdness" of nature â€" grasshop- pers on the prairie, cutworms in Ontario, black flies in the north, fruit-flies in the orchard, house- flics in the parlor, bats in the belfry Can't a fellow have a tittle peace and comfort sometime? • • • TIGHTENING THE SCREWS: Over in Europe the heat doesn't setm to be stopping Germany and Italy any The second anniver- sary of the Spanish war rolls around, Mussolini throws more men and munitions into Spain Facing a wheat shortage at home 11 Duce wishes the AnKlo-ltalian agreement would come into force fo he could borrow a sizeable amount from Great Britain Hit!tr puLs the screws on Czecho- slovakia, screaming propaganda about Czech "aggrcssron" from every publicity organ at his dis- pf.sr.! at home the German stock market suffers the worst collnjjse of the Nazi era, secur- ities go into a tailspin The Sino-Jap conflict in the Far East (war is still undeclared) en- ters its second year Japan is dri.wn further and further into the interior of Asia while Chinese re- flftr.nce gains strength daily Japanese uncmployniont soars and the domestic economy of the na- • on fincLs itself in a had way But in spite of their troubles at home, the Koine, Berlin, Tokio governments work well together towards their common objective â€" a place for each in the sun. If Hitler is planning a coup on Czeehoslovakia, Mussolini stages an extra-big ruckus in Spain, Jap- an creates a tense situation in the east liy accusing Russia of invad- ing Japaiiesc-hekl Manchukuo By setting up counter-attractions they seek to draw public attention away from the main event. The machinery tightens, lightens. • • • AID FOR THE DROWNED: Since the method of artificial res- piration was first introduced, it has been the custom for those practising It in cases of near- drowning to give up after the fir.-^t hour or shortly thereafter. The Health League of Canada by P«lcr Randal Albino Colts All Succumb It's Still a Mystery to Breeder* As Sixth Pink-Skinned Ani- mal Dies on Prairie Farm The death of an albino colt three day.i after its birth on the ranch of Don Galarneau, near Mortlach, 25 miles west of Moose Jaw, ha.s once more proved how difficult it is to rear these strange little animals. No fewer than six albino colts, known to the Indians as "snow hoi tee," have been born on the • • • now issues • bulletin sayint; that artifleial respiration should be continued for as long as four hours. At the end of that time natural breathing may be restor- ed. Dr. Frederick Banting:, eminent scientist who discovered insulin, is adding further to our knowledge of how to treat victims of near- drowning. He says that sometimes when the heart-beat is no longer audible to the human ear and the patient is pronounced dead, an electro-cardiograph can pick up the sounds of the organ, still beat- ing. It is believed, also, that Sir Frederick has found a serum, which, when injected into a drowned animal, will restore it to life. Whether or not the same serum will work in the case of human beings is a problem for further research. • • • WAR ON RELIGION: There are many in this country, not seriously worried by the Nazi menace, who believe that the Hit- ler regime in Germany will be wrecked on the rock of the Chtirch, that the Reichsfuehrer's war against the Vatican will re- sult in the turning against him of a vast number of the German peo- ple. There's something in that. How long are the people of Ger- many likely to sit down under an autocracy which persecutes priests and nuns, attack.s young children coming from mass, consigns a Protestant minister to a concen- tration camp? A systematic war on all aspects of religious life is being carried on which cannot help but strike at the roots of all that the people hold dear. • • • , CHANGE OF LOCATION: â€" Yielding to the pressure of the war barons who are behind the Government's every move, Japan has sadly relinquished her invita- tion for the 1940 Olympic Games to be held in the Land of the Ris- ing Sun. She needs the cash bad- ly to carry on the war in China and can't afford to use materials, particularly steel and concrete, in Olympic plant construction which are necessary to the war machine. The Japanese public is bitterly disappointed, observers say, as they feel that Japan has not only lost face abroad, but even very much more within Japan. When the Olympiad was awarded to Tokyo in 1936, there was the greatest rejoicing through the na- tion, because it was considered a foreign admission of Japan's ath- letic equality with other nations. Helsingfors, Finland, will be the scene of the 1910 Olympiad, in- stead. • » • THE WEEK'S QUESTION: â€" What other leaders of a Canadian political party, besides Dr. R. J. Manion (Conservative), were Ro- man Catholics? Answer: Sir Wil- fred Laurier (Liberal), Sir John Thompson (Conservative). best veterinary care. Pink-Eyed, Tink-Skinned Why these pink eyed, pink skinned little horses die is a mys- tery to breeders and scientists. Indiana recall that in the past some were raised to maturity on rare occasions. The albinos are born of pinto parents. An interesting and suc- cessful experiment in breeding of pinto horses has been under way for several years on the ranch. With a nucleus of four marei ano a stud Galarneau .started a pinlo herd that now numbers 25 bead. His Head Was A Radio Set Bicycles are being sold in Tok- yo, Japan, at $3 each. Every Nicht Ha Tried To Go To Sleep He He«-d Muakâ€" Found Bed-FranM Acted As Awrisil. "Are you crasy or am I?" the chief radio engineer of Station won. New York, asked his wor- ried-looking visitor. "Honest, it's just as I tell you," said the visitor miserably. "I don't have a radio, my neighboM don't have a radio, yet every night when I go to sleep I hear radio music. It's getting me down. I can't sleep." Hi* Teeth Partly Responsible The chief engineer was a pa- tient man and curious. And his visitor didn't look crazy. So he started asking questions. He learned that the worried one was employed grinding paper knives, that he lived near WOR's trans- mitter, that he read in bed, and that he had gold fillings in bis teeth. And a great light dawned. The facts, apparently so unrelat- ed, fitted together perfectly. Carborundum dust from the knife grinding wheels had settled in the man's gold fillings. When he went to bed and switched off his reading-lamp, attached to the top of the bed, the bed-frame be- came an aerial. ' As his jaw re- laxed when he fell asleep the car- borundum in his gold teeth acted as a crystal detector and inter- cepted programmes from the near- by station. When the music wak- ened him, he switched on his bed lamp, partially short-circuiting the bed frame aerial and cutting off the programme. He could switch himself on and off! The chief engineer explained. He did more. He presented the worried one with a toothbrush. Now everything is O.K. Keeps Tobacco Mixture Moist Method of Regulating Moisture In Box Is Discovered Dr. Ralph H. McKee, of the chemical engineering department of Columbia University, made pub- lic last week patented formulas of salt compounds to regulate auto- matically the moisture in a box of tobacco, preventing spoilage and retaining indefinitely the flavor of the leaf. Dr. McKee said that the formu- las made possible the preservation of motion picture films and also of foods. Compound of Two Salts He found that two salts, ordin- ary bora.x and Glauber salt. Would absorb moisture in exactly the correct amounts. He said that the compound made possible a constant figure of 70 per cent, saturated atmosphere for the tobacco. In the case of foods. Dr. McKee illustrated with a box of crackers which he had kept on the shelf of his office for five months, with the compound at the bottom of the box. The moisture was maintained at the level of 45 per cent, saturated atmosphere and the crackers, when removed, tasted fresh and crisp. He said that the formulas would make possible the preserva- tion of motion picture films with- out their gelatinous surfaces dry- ing and cracking, by keeping them sufficiently damp in tin boxes. A Perfect Game For Lazy Sports Throwing the javelin and the discus are .sports of the ancients which still enjoy great popularity with modern athletes. Now Aus- tralia has gone one better. Boom- erang throwing is becoming one of the leading sports in the Com- monwealth «s a result of the ad- vice of Dr. Harvey Sutton, direc- tor of the Shool of Public Health and Tropica? Medicine. The boomerang has the advant- age over the ja .-"lin and the dis- cus, as well as other retrievinc sports, in that it comes back to the thrower instead of the throw- er being oblized to go after it. Roadside ''Courto'' Satisfy Tourists Attomey-Genend Con«nt Saya Systenn Is Working Out Weil TORONTO. â€" United SUtes tourists are saving time and trou- ble these days with Ontario's roadside traffic "courts". When they do the wrong thing on the highway â€" and are caught at it â€" the provincial traffic officer becomes both prosecutor and judge. He determines the fine and collects it on the spot. If the tourist disagrees, he can go into court in the usual way and get a refund if he proves himself riicht. Attorney-General G. D. Conant said the scheme was again work- ing out satisfactorily this year. No complaints have been received by tha department. On the con- trary, any move to abolish the plan would be a direct move against the tourist business, in Mr. Conant's view. The amounts assessed by traiBc officers are usually accepted as reasonable by the offending tour- ists, for few appear in courts throughout the province to con- test the charges read against them â€" on which the officer is waiting to pay in the fine already collected. Sawdust Heats Western Homes New Type of Domestic Fuel Is Used by 20,000 Homes In And Around Vancouver Nearly 20,000 homes in and around Vancouver are heated by sawdust which a few years ago was sent to refuse burners, says T. A. McElhanuey, superintendent of tha forest products laboratories. Domi- nion Forest Service, Ottatwa. "Research Is constantly unfold- ing new uses tor wood and new methods of curtailing waste," Mr. McElhanney said. "Sawdust is. now being used for domestic fuel on the Pacific coast. In Europe many au- tomobiles, trucks and buses are op- erated on producer gas from char- coal. Ethyl alcohol from wood Is being mixed with gasoline for mo- tor fuel. Since 35 to GO per cent, of the forest stand In Canada now is wasted in logging or milling, the possibilities of corresponding de- velopments in Canada offer attrac- tive fields for the research engi- neer." The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "MADAME CURIE" By Eve Curie Mme. Curie's daughter prefaces to her biography a brief passage on the almost mythical life of her mother. The little Polish girl had to surmount poverty and preju- dice. She did so by dint of almost incredible effort and with no ran- cor. She rearranged her life to admit a great love and a comrade- ship which would seem almost unique in its breadth and depth of understanding. Then, devastated by the sudden death of her be- loved husband, she closed that door to life, and took up alone the work they had started and carried forward together. She was honored by kings and queens, .scientists and common people. She rejected wealth and tried in vain to turn aside fame. She out- witted blindness, and more than once she seemed to outwit death itself to carry on her work until, nearing the end of her sixties. The glowing element, radium, the glowing element, radium, which she herself had discovered was a factor in her own end. Love and Work Blended In another age the tempera- ment of Marie Curie would have made her a saint. Kve Curie's biography of her mother is fascinating as a record of scientific research. Though written by one who lived from babyhood in the atmosphere of a laboratory, it makes clear and vivid and concrete to non-techni- cal readers the story of the dis- covery of radium and the devel- opment of that knowledge which Mnie. Curio carried on so bril- liantly until the end of her life. Its real import, however, is the story of the woman whose life waA all but synonymous with that I hi.story. "Madame Curie," by Kve Curie. Traii.slato.l by Vincent Sheean. 3!);i pp. Toronto: Doubleday, Dor- an nnd Company, 215 Victoria litico'. VOICE CANADA STHE EMP1R8 THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA SLING A MEAN CAN-OPENER Perhaps modern wives don't make bread like their grand- mothers did, but they ceitainly can make good sandwiches. â€" Que- bec Chronicle-Telegraph. WHEN YOUR TROUBLES BEGIN If the Dionnes all live together in one house they'll have to instal a telephone switchboard with day and night operators later on. â€" Brandon Sun. INGENUITY TEST Man's vaunted claim to ingen- uity is now undergoing two su- preme tests: how to creat a peace- ful world society and how to de- vise an original radio program. â€" Toronto Saturday Night. ONE WHO COUNTS Mrs. Black should not be al- lowed to resign her seat in the Yukon, not even to make way for the new leader. She utters more good common sense than most of the other members of Parliament. We could name a couple of dozen members who could be dropped out without making any difference to Parliament, but Mrs. Black is not one of them. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. THE IDEAL PARLIAMENT Parliament should be an assem- bly of patriotic representative^ whose supreme ideal is the wel- fare of the country, and not par- tisan advantage. Useless debate and strife undoubtedly serve to keep many men out of Parliament who would be willing to give their time and ability to the service of the country, but who cannot pos- sibly tolerate months of idle talk and partisan recriminations. The pity of it is that too frequently the outstanding leaders of the party set the example, whereas they should endeavor to raise de- bate to a higher level. â€" Brantford Expositor. GET DOWN TO EARTH The public is so used by now to the dire warnings about "mill- ions and billions" in Canada, for example, that they lose significance • â€" the national debt is almost an abstraction to the majority Nor have some of the revelations r; ade of outrageous extravagance caused more than a tempararj political stir. Governments naturally like to maintain this condition. They like to use the "millions and bill- ions" in loose talk about what they are going to do to balance the budget, and in denunciations of the financial orgies of their op- ponents. It was a good game at one timeâ€" like othei. effectiva bromides of the hustings â€" but what is needed now is more of tha searchlight in analysis.â€" Hamilton Spectator. WE TRAVEL TOO FAST It is being said increasingly often of late that we have permit- ted the wonders of science to out- strip the impulses of our heait*. In other words, we have developed the mechanics of civilization fast- er than we have acquired real knowledge of how to use tbeni properly. "The modern tempo is too fast, and we should cultivate the art of being able to relax." So advises Dr. A. C. Routley, General Secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. And it U a thought worthy of consideration. It may be true that we need to give our souls a chance to ratch up with our bodies. Perhaps wa should pause and get a new seu.se of values. We have traveled far in a ma- terial way in the last half-century. We have gone far mechanically. But vthat progress have we iiia le spiritually? The doctor is rightâ€" we travel too fast. â€" St. Catharines Stan- dard. The EMPIRE THE IMPORTANCE OF CANADA Groat Britain, as Mr. MacDon- ald pointed out at the Imperial press conference recently, is the one indisputably first-class power within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Other Domin;on3, however, are on their way to. be- coming first-class Powers. Can- ada, for instance, could support a population larger than the present population of the British I^Ies, â- where some of the experts predict a sharp decline in numbers. The emergence of a first-class British Power in the New World is bound to have far-reaching effects upot the destinies of the world. Can ada's large frontier marches vitb the frontier of the United Stati-.s, whose capita! in more prosp'-ioa* days flows readily into Cana:la Geographically, Canada looks southwards. Statesmanship for hit consists in a wise adjustment ba- tween the pull of geography fi ora the I'nited States and the pull of sentiment from the Mother Coun- try. So long as Canada is stronj, there can be no fundamental cleavage between Great Brifaiii and the United States. â€" Yorkshire Post. John Schafft, of West Sauger- ties, N.Y., decided that his radio needed a new aerial. Mrs. Ella Simon said that she would help him. Eleven year old Jacqueline Kra- ble watched. Schafft coiled the wire and tossed it over the roof of a sum- mer cottage. Mrs. Simon caught it â€" and foil dead. Schafft rushed to her side, stooped to lift her â€" jerked con- vulsively, and died. NAMES Z NEWS I DOUGLAS CORRIGAN Tlie biggest ne.vs story of tha month broke in Dublin, Ireland, when down out of the clouds above the BaUlonnel .Airport came an antiiiuated plane â€" a nine-year-old "crate", in fact â€" flown from no one knew where. Landing, it was immediately surrounded by s un- ned airport officials and a crowd of astonished Irishmen who want- ed to know the whence and the wherefore. "I'm Douglas Corrigan," de- clarcil a smiling pilot as he step- ped down from the cockpit, ".,'ust got in from New York. Where am I? I intended to fly to t ali- fornia but 1 guess my coi)!pa.sa went wrong." No Radio Aboard It came out in the course of the next few minutes that pilot Cor- rigan (31. of Santa Monica, C'al) had flown his battered $900 sin- gle-engined i.irplane across the -Atlantic in 28 hours, 13 minutes without benefit of radio, maps or fancy instruments. "He flew by the seat of his trousers," a friend back in the States remarked. When he left the airport in .New York Corrigan was carrying 320 gallons of gasoline, half a gallon of water and some chocolate bi»- tuits. Thirty gallons of gasoline remained when he landed. By his unique flight Corrigaa has joined the long list of noted solo tran.satlantic fliers, which in- cluded Col. Charles A. Linbargh, the late .\melia Karhart and th* late Wiley PosL