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Ne^ws Parade By Elizabeth Eedy HOLLOW VICTORIESâ€" The Jap- anese aimtes appear to have con- quered approximately a third ot China (the provinces of Shanal, Hopel, Shantung and Sulyuan) and are getting ready to take even lar- ger bites of Chinese territory. But what Is actually happening in the bitten-off areas? Are the Jap- anese entirely the victors? Cap- tain E. F. Carlson of the United States Marine Corps who has trav- elled with Chinese soldiers 2.000 miles through "conquered terri- tory," supplies the answer. Kstl- ni.it:ng that at least 600,000 Chi- nese soldiers operate in the occu- pied areas, he declares the Japs control only garrisoned towns, rall- w.iy lines and main highways. Cap- tain Carlson tells how Chinese bands cross Japanese lines with ease, raid Japanese bases to get •upplles. Chinese guerrillas have «et up T.cU-functioning administra- tions, he says, wliich do everything from harrying the Japanese to keeping schools open. Able-bodied nun arc being constantly trained for the guerill.i armies, whose mor- ale is high I'ndnr such circumstances it would seem that the Chinese are not i^a;)able of beini; defeated. ANOTHER DEPRPESSION? â€"The recession which struck the United States in the fall of 1937 soon had its effect on Canadian business, produced here .what amounted al- most to a major depression. Slight upswings, however, were felt in the *Hc spring of this year and during Ihe summer. Hopes rose. Now the sad prediction comes •>o!ri ICngland (made by Sir Willi- j.Ti lieverldge, prominent lawyer, tC'inomist and head of the London fichool of Economics) that another depression will soon be smother- lt>: business in the United King- dom. Says Sir William: "The his- tory of the first stages ot the last depression (192!)) is being repeat- ed today. In figures for 94 indus- tries a comparison between the on- set of the last depression and the beginning of the present slump shows a striking measure of agree- ment, subject to minor differences arising from armament expendi- ture and other special causes." Can our bumper wheat crop save Canada from following In the Old Country's wake? But cheer up â€" predictions don't always come true! TWO ASSURANCESâ€" Canadians were thrilled, the rest of the world >8t up and took notice last week «fhen President Roosevelt, in his Jiistoric address at Queen's Univor- llty, Kingston, gave to Canada the Insurance that ''the people of the United States w'iil not stand idly Ipy if domination of Canadian soil is threatened" by any foreign power. "We are good neighbors M)d good friends ..." I!y way ot reciprocating the Pre- lldent's Good Neighbor policy. Prime Minister Mackenzie King proclaimed Canada's acceptance ot responsibility for her own protec- tion. Canada intends, he declared, to "keep on going forward" in pre- parations for her national defense, and will see to It that enemy forces never cross this country by land, sea or air to attack the United Slates. Something concrete, there. THE WEEK'S QUESTION â€" What part of Canada gets longer (ind shorter successively, as the jrears go on? Answer â€" Point Polee â€" Lake Krie tJ continually building up and tear- tig down this southernmost tip of Panada as the water level rises < fIBd falls. Canada's Navy Grows Larger Four Dettroyert And Aa Many Mine Sweep«n Being Added Launching at Quebec la August of H.M.C.S. Oaape saw the third ot Canada's four mlne-aweeperi, built to replace the ancient trawl- era which had served in that ca- pacity since the war, take the wa- ter. The fourth, H.M.C.S. Nootka, will be launched at North Vancou- ver later this month. The Pundy and the Comoz have been sent down the ways and all four will likely be in commission before the end of the year. Soon In Commission About the last week iii August the Hoyal Canadian Navy was strengthened further when the two destroyers, Restigouche and Otta- wa, arrived from England. They will be stationed at Rsqulmalt. The new destroyerH are of the ''C" class and were on the Royal Navy establishment as H.M.S. Cru- sader and H.M.S. Comet. The Comet which has been serving on the Mediterranean anti-piracy pa- trol, was returned to Chatham, England, three months ago, for re- fltting. At that base she Joined the Crusader. Both were taken over by the Canadian Naval Depart- ment In June. Dictators Play Waiting Game Professor of Social Research Says They're Bi'ding Their Time â€" Attitude Is That Brit- ain Holds Losing Cards The I''ascist dictatorship.s^Italy and Germany â€" are playing a wait- ing same, believing the British iimpire holds losing cards, accord- ing to Dr. Hans Simons, New York professor of social research, who spoke to the political and busirtess leaders gathered for the Canadian Institute of Economics and politics at Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching. Hitler and Mussolini have niis- intei-pretccl the transformation of the British Empire into the Brit- ish Commonwealth of Nation.s, Dr. Simons i.sserted. Convinced as they are that a .strong political organization cannot be ba.sed on a system of free co-operation and association, the dictators see signs of decay and weakness in the British attitude. Want British Possessions This view has led Hitler to withhold his demand.s for the re- turn of Germany's war-lost colon- ies, Dr. Simons believed. Hitler is willing to wait while Mussolini builds up his IVIeditcrranean forti- fications near Britain's strong- holds. When the time is ripe, he said, the Fascist powers believe they will be well prepared to an- nex former British possessions with a maximum of efiiciency and a minimum of effort. During his recent tour of Eur- ope Ids only positive observations was an alignment of defensive forces against Germany, said Dr. Simons. "France " is concerned primarily with maintaining the sta- tus quo while England wants peace at almost any price," ho added. He found a "prevalent fatalism, lack of productive thinking and implications on the part of Euro- pean citizens and statesmen alike." LIFE'S UKE THAT By Fred Neher Western Polio Cases Increase 113 in Prairie Provinces â€" Sit- uation Serious in Alberta Infantlli! paralysis liiis a greater hold In Alberta this year than at the same tlino In 10.37. Spread of "Henry bought this car just to use from here, home. poliomyelitis has been slightly more severe In British Columbia but the disease has not reached the same proportions In Saskatche- wan and Manitoba as In mid-Aug- ust last year. Unofficial and approximate fig- ures indicate a total of 113 cases with nine deaths In the four West- ern Provinces this year compared with approximately 135 cases and five deaths last year. Use Iron Lungs The Alberta situation, however, is more serious. Since July 28, 39 cases have been reported and there have been seven deaths. Last year there were 15 cases and two deaths in Alberta up to August 19, al- though a serious outbreak in Sep- tember and October increased the number of cases to 109. Three iron lungs are in use la Alberta and a telegraphic order for a fourth was sent to Toronto last week. Many on Prairies Never Held Jobs McGiil Investigator Finds Ser- ious Situation in Canadian West Twenty thousand young men and women in the Prairie Provinces have never been employed at steady work, Albert S. Duncan, a member ot the Social Research De- partment of McGill University, Montreal, found during a two-year survey of the West's niiemploy- ment situation. The West's greatest prol)lem, he found. Was the need of permanent Jobs for 100,000 employable but un- employed wage earners. Most Are Young People Forty thousand of them are un- employed but employable wage earners who are at present receiv- ing relief, he said in an interview. Another 40,000 are unemployed but employable persons not receiving relief. They live by part time earnings, savings and other means. The remaining 20,000 unemployed are young men and women. Mr. Duncan, en route east after spending a holiday In llanff, said that the total of 100,000 does not include 45,000 farmers who have been on relief In the Prairie Pro- vinces. Mr. Duncan urged a long-range planning program for the care of the Jobless, Ihe Dominion Covern- raent to assume rosponslbilily for relief and introduce a system of unemployment insurance. NAMES ill the NEWS 'â- ^»^^i SAM SNEAD In a thrilling exhibition of sub- par golf the battle for the Cana- dian Open Golf Championship came to a close at Jlississauga course last week with Sam Snead, super-slug^'er of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., victor over Harry Cooper, of Chicago, defending titleholder. Climaxing what was undoubted- ly the greatest open tournament ever staged by the Royal Cana- dian Golf Assoi-iation, Snead and Cooper went twenty-seven holes before a winner and new champion was declared. Originally sched- fiied as an eighteen-hole playoff, it had to be lengthened nine more because the two starry shotmakers lini.shed the first eighteen holes tied with scores of C7, five under par. On the extra nine holes, Snead snared four birdies for a .-core of 34, two below par, defeat- ing Cooper by a five-stroke mar- gin. Snead, a 2()-year-old profes- sional, said to be the longest-bit- ting golfer on this continent, re- ceived the $1,000 f.rst-prize cheque and the Seagran-. gold cup. The crowd, Ina, got their mon- ej's worth watching the brilliant playoff Italy will spend $1,300,000 to encourage cotton growing in Ethi- opia. VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA WOMEN AND HATS Women without hats were bar- rejl from a Quebec court, Women wo don't take tliem oif should be barred from theatres. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. WAR NOT YET OVER For tiiousands of Canadians the war is not yet over. A Stratford ex-service-man has just diea from injuries leceived in France twen- ty years ago. â€" Peterborough Ex- aminer. NICE T/ME FOR A RIDE It is nice to go riding in the e\enings, if it is not too hot, or too dusty, or the road is not torn up or not too crowded, or you have no flat tires or motor trou- ble. â€" Brandon Sun. THE ANSWER An eastern newspaper asks why it is that with a 300,000,000 bushel wheat crop in the west there is no call for eastern farm help. The answer lies in the tractor and com- bine. â€" Calgary Herald. FIND WORK FOR OUR OWN Fitting our own people into the available employment of all kinds â€" helping them to fit in must be a part of the policy of preventing unemployment. It comes before the encouragement of immigra- tion. But after it is done, it should be possible to welcome a considerable number of people of the right type from the preferred countries, including as many as will come from Great Britain. â€" Winnipeg Free Press. MARRIED TOO NOISILY It was an old-fashioned custom for wedding parties to rush up and down streets in cabs with tin cans and old shoes flying. But present- day traffic conditions have made that sort of thing ridiculou.s as well as highly dangerous. The .spectacle of four or five cars rac- ing through traffic at 40 to 50 miles an hour, as wo have seen it a. few times lately, is one that calls for police intervention. â€" St. Marys Journal-.-\rgus. OUR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS An Englishman in town or busi- ness recently was impressed with the profusion of beautiful girls in Toronto ... so many more and more beautiful than the girls in England. He did hint that the beauties in Toronto were a bit uniform, adapting the same hair- dress and make-up, but nevcrthe- les.s attractive. All this has been said before, but here is something new. The hectic lives of Canadian men, engrossed in business, made it necessary, he thought, for the women to concentrate on their ap- jiearance in order to "get" their man. This didn't hold in the leis- urely lives of the English. â€" To- ronto Star. The EMPIRE THEY HAVE THEM IN INDIA It is painfully clear that no amount of advice and propaganda will influence traffic hogs in Bom- bay. The only way to bring them to their senses is to impress on them the knowledge that every time they err they are liable to be severely punished; at present they have no such fear. The mat- ter, in view of the number of ac- cidents in the city, is one which intimately affects the safety and lives of the citizens, and deserves the attention of the Bombay Gov- ernment.â€" Times of India, Bom- bay. THE WONDERLAND OF 02 When .'Vunt Em and Uncle Henry were all dressed, Dorothy took them through the beautiful rooms of the palace. She also showed them her own pretty rooms. Then they went into the back yard and after walking along • winding path for some distance through the beautiful garden, they came to an attractive little house where a Yellow Hen sat on the front porch sunning herself. "(ii)od morning, Dorothy," call- ed Billina, from her perch on the railing around the front porch. I was expecting you to call on me for I heard you had come bock and brought your uncle and aunt with you." "We are here for good and all this time, Billina," cried Dorothy, happy to see the hen once more. "And Uncle Hen- ry and Aunt Km belong in Oz m much now as I do." "Then they aio very luchy peo- ple," declared Billina. "But come, dear, I mu.st show you all my Dor- otliys. Nine are living and have grown up to be very rcspci-table •hens, hut one took cold and died of the pip and the other two tuined out to he horrid roosters in.^'tead of hens, so I had to change their names to D.;nicl. They a!! have gold lockets with your picture inside " Dorothy wa.Uo.l to suiy and play with tbe little chickens for a while, but Uncle Henry and -Aunt Em had not seen the palace grounds and were eager to get better acquainted with the mai vel- ous land in whi.h they were to live. So they left for a walk. Dor- othy set her foot on the steps of the hen's cottage and immediately became small enough to entc- the little door. Road To Pacific i From Peace River RMMJents of That Far Northern DU)rict Have Started Owb Dighway Expected to be the Shortest Rout« to Vancouver It looked like the only way to get a road to the Pacific Coast, so residents of the Peace River dis- frfct took up their picks and shov- els â€" and started to build their own highway across the Rocky Moua- taiijs. They call It the Monkman Pass Highway. Backing it are 150-odd bi'anches of the Monkman Pass Highway Association In British Co- lumbia and Alberta. Members hops they can drive the first truck across the summit by early au- tumn. Then there will be plenty of work smoothing oft the rough spots and making a permanent roadbet before general traffic can travel the route with ease. Through Monkman Pass Alex. Monkman, Wembley, Alta., farmer and formerly a fur trader, discovered the pass in 1922. The ground rises on the east to an al- titude of 3,500 feetâ€" just about the same height above sea level as Cal- gary â€" and drops off easily on the Pacific side. On both sides of the pass mountains rise 8,000 and 9,000 feet. The roadbuilders â€" mostly volun- teers, but with a few men paid $1 a day and boardâ€" have the backin? of railway surveyors in their selec- tion of a route. In 1929 the Cana- dian Pacific and Canadian National Railways made a Joint survey when they considered building a railroad into the wheat-producing Peace River district to provide an outlet to the coast. The highway follows almost ex- actly the lines of that survey. Last year a civil engineer retraced it and mapped out the highway trail. Australia Called Fishing Paradise The Industry Has Never Been Exploited in Home Waters There â€" Teertiing Wealth of Finny Prey Zaue Grey, famous novelist and big game fisherman, once said: "Australia is not only an ideal fish- ing centre â€" it is the home of fish." But the fishing industry has never been exploited in Australian witters, so the Fisheries Investiga- tion Branch of the Scientific and Industrial Researcli Council is go- ing to do something about it. It is commissioning a research ship to chart fishing grounds. Huge Catches of Pilchards It is known that from May to September there is one stretch of water 30 miles long off New South Wales which is literally teeming with pilchards. These fish are also common in other parts and in one bay they have been found up to 11 ins. long. Samples of water taken near Syd- ney show that huge catches of pil- chards can be expected. It this pil- chard industry is developed Aus- tralia may become a serious rival to the great sardine fisheries of California. Other surface . swimming fish which are abundant in Australi.in waters include herring, sprats, an- chovies and mackerel. Monster Leave*. Child^s Tracks Footprints in the San<b of Ec- uador Strike Panic Into The Hearts of Indians While the Nogapotsane, with Its goat-like head and python's body, is terrifying the natives of Bechu- analand, another fearsome crea- ture, Ihe Tin-Tin, Is striking panic into the hearts of the Indians ot Ecuador. Like the Nogapotsane, the Tin- Tin is no mythical mnster. It looks like a cross between a don- key and a giant lizard-<-and the most uncanny thing about this dra- gon-like monster Is that It leaves footprints In the sand exactly like those of a child of .about 15. That it really does exist la vouched for by an Englishman In Ecuador who recently followed the creature's spoor through desolate sand-dunes until he lost them In the pampas. A week later he actu- ally saw the Tin-Tin. It was grey with black stripes, and had a long tail and a small head. Seeing it was being watch- ed, it reared up on its hind legs, grunting weirdly, made oft for the woods at a great speed. The "child's" footprints where it had been standing were identical with the footprints that natives in the district have come to regard with terror. Our language is changing, savs a London expert who declares he has found that in the last twenty years 170,000 words were added while 50,000 "passed out". l.^