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Country Without Prisons IiONDON -- tt the trend of the past thirty years is maintained, Britain in •another fifteen years may boast of the ideal state of being a country (Without prisons. Since introduction of the Probation Offenders Act in 1907 by Sir Herbert Samuel, then Parliamentary Undersecretary Undersecretary for the Home Office the number of committals to prison in Britain has fallen from more than 180,000 to fewer than 60,080. piacufising the probation system,,. Sir Herbert declared more than half off the country's prisons had been closed for lack of tenants. ; The saving of cost to the nation has been immense, but more important important has been the saving of souls," he said, New Spray WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba Horticultural Horticultural Association were informed of « 100 per cent satisfactory method Of tilling dandelions developed by Dr. 0, P. McRostie, now Of the Ontario ASNohltural College Guelph, a solution solution Of copper nitrate and water is sprayed. William H. Silversides, University ■of Manitoba student, told of the dis- oovery. He collaborated with Dr. Mtr- Rostlc, who recently left the Manitoba Manitoba University. Six years' experiments were behind behind the discovery, Silversides Said. The solution is made of 1% pounds of nitrate to 7 ta gallons of water, a quantity sufficient for i,000 square felt ..of lawn space, he-said. Two sprays during the Bummer, one about mid-July the other in mid-August, mid-August, were recommended. Both need to bo done on a warm bright afternoon, afternoon, when there is no wind, he said. The two applications, the agronomy student continued, end the operation. Both turn the grass to sickly, yellowish yellowish green within 48 hours, but after about two weeks the grass Will return return to its natural colour. The next year, tests showed, it .wllll come hack greener and heavier than before anil free of dandelions. The spray must hit leaves of the weed. Winners ! NEW YORK -- Canadian dog fan-, tiers carried off three blue ribbons and a reserve award in the compétition among the Scottish terriers and cocker cocker spaniels at the Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden. Hi, B, and W, Baty, of Guelph, won the majority of the prizes with their Scotty puppy, H&'don Emblem, judged judged the best f>ï- the puppies between nine und twelve months of age. He went to Hie front in the class' for novice novice (logs and then ranked second only to the more experienced Gold Finder's Starman, owned by William Quade, of Gardner, Mass., In the class for best of the dogs. Among the cockers William H. Barrett's Barrett's Gardens Desirable Lady, of . COoksvflle, Ont, was judged the best of the novice bitches of solid color. Ideal Weather, undefeated four-year old owned by Leonard Collins, of Toronto, paraded to the top of the sheep dogs for his 10th straight victory, victory, To Serve Another Year FORT ERIE -- A. B, Damude, M.P., tor Welland County, announced here the Federal Government had granted to Fort Erie's Collector of Customs i and Excise, Frank T. Pattison, an additional additional year's extension of service. ! Mr. Pattison is approaching retirement retirement ago but has expressed a desire to remain In Ms position until 1938, Mr, Damude said. $20,000,000 Loans WASHINGTON -- The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill creating a $20,009,000 disaster loan corporation for flood area rehabilitation rehabilitation loans. The bill would permit loans to individuals individuals on liberal terms. Security * would not necessarily , be required, but .grants could not be made. Fix March 22 To Vote OTTAWA --- Prime Minister, Mackenzie Mackenzie King announced a writ for the by-election in Bonaventufe, Quebec has been issued, fixing March 22 as polling day. The seat, was vacated by the death of Hon. Charles Mardi, Liberal Liberal who represented it for 37 yrs. A by-election In Hamilton West, occasioned occasioned by the death of H. E. Wilton, Wilton, Conservative, will be held the 'satmo day. Society Girl Bride of Italian Diplomat m&M; mm §«gpf ■W-" ' mwmm Sarah Jane Sanford of New York, and Signor Mario Pansa, Italian diplomat, pictured after their brilliant wedding at the home of the bride's father, John Sanford (left), at Palm Beach, *Fla* Mrs, Stephen Sanford is at the right, 44-Day "Sit-Down" Ends Bargaining Begins Tues. ,300 Strikers Quit General Motors Plants After Pact Signed'"-- Sympathizers Shout Themselves Hoarse. FLINT, MICH.--Three General Mo-, tors plants" held by approximately 1,300 eit-downers, were returned to company police as workers quit them on the urging of United Automobile Workers of America officials. Last barrier 'to' the resumption of negotiations to end the General Motors Motors strike was broken down when strikers, in quick succession, marched out of Fisher Body Corporation Plants i and 2 and Chevrolet No. 4. Several thousand sympathizers who marched two miles from the main Fisher plant to the two located in thh zone guarded by State militia, found the National Guardsmen had been recalled recalled from patrol duty a few moments moments before. Homer Martin, International President President of U.A.W.A., drove from Detroit with members of his "Board of Strategy" Strategy" to lead the evacuations. Whistles blew, horns were sounded, strikers and sympathizers shouted themselves hoarse. Begin Bargaining Tuesday DETROIT.---General Motors Corpor ation and the United Automobile Workers have signed a three-page peace treaty under which they will begin bargaining Tuesday on wages, hours and working conditions. Just before the formal ending of the across the country, General Motors billion-dollar corporation's plant aero» sthe country. General Motors granted a voluntary wage increase. All workers will receive a raise of five cents an hour, effective Feb, 15. On the issues raised by the strike there was a, compromise. For six months John L. Lewis's union--the United Automobile Workers -- will have sole bargaining rights in twenty plants where strikes occurred. In return, return, it will remove all sit-down strikers, and allow General Motors to resume the production of automobiles as soon as possible. Shutdown Believed Avoided OSHAWA.--News of the signing of the agreement between Genera] Motors Motors and the strike organization in the United States was received with delight delight at Oshawa and, according to Harry J. Carmichael, Vice-President and General Manager of General Motors Motors of Canada, probably means that the Canadian plant will avoid a shutdown. shutdown. He believes that the flow of material can be resumed before present present supplies here are exhaustd. Baby Princess Receives Name Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Chrietabel Christened LONDON.---The: Duke and Duchess of Kent's'., infant daughter has been christened Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga : Christabel. The ceremony was held in the private private chapel of Buckingham Palace, with the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating. officiating. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family were there. Brought especially from Windsor Castle was the gold font which always always is used for royal christenings. Water from the River Jordan was sprinkled on the little girl, born on. Christmas day. She wore an ancient robe of Brussels Brussels lace and cream satin, made from Queen Victoria's christening. Afterwards a big cake, surmounted by a stork and both the British and Greek flags, was cut . with a golden knife at a private r. 'tion in another room of the palace. The baby's mother is the former Princess Marina of Greece. Her father father is the King's youngest brother. Amelia Earhart Plans Flight Around World Aviatrix to Make East-to- West Trip Next Month to Learn How Humans React Under Strain, Nearer Home Observes the Hamilton Spectator :--Katharine Mayo now has the chance .-to write a sequel to Mother India, and call it Mother America, in view of that nine-year-old Tennessee Tennessee babe being married to a 22- y ear-old hill-billy, with parents' consent. Orthodox Jews must wear a hat when taking the oath in thé witness- box. But so many Jews attending Marylebone Police Court, London, do not wear hats that an official felt is now provided. B -4 NEW YORK. -- Amelia Earhart Putman said that she is tired of flying flying the Atlantic and will try a westerly westerly flight around the world next, month "to study human reactions." The bobbed-haired aviatrix, who flew the Atlantic twice, the Pacific from Hawaii to California once and held the transcontinental women's speed record for years, declares she will take off from Oakland, Calif., as soon as weather permits in March and fly 27,000 miles around the Equator in the first world flight a woman ever tried. Not only that, she laughed, pointing pointing at a huge globe in her hotel where she and her husband, George Palmer Putman, 'received the press,' she would fly east to west around the world, which no male pilot has ever done. "I've been over the North Atlantic Atlantic twice," she said. "I know what it's like. I'm tired of flying the Atlantic. Atlantic. As soon as the ship is ready and weather permits, I'm going to take-off on a long flight to determine determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." "Alone?" "No, Captain Harry Manning will be my navigator." Duke Planning To Buy Estate Move to Hungary---Edward Seeks Place With Hunting, Golf Facilities VIENNA.--The Duke of Windsor has indicated a desire to purchase an estate In Hungary into which ho can move during May, a Vienna real estate estate agent said last week, (Authoritative reports recently said the former British monarch was considering considering marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson Simpson in Hungary because the Hungar ian attitude toward divorce and remarriage remarriage is more liberal than In Austria. Austria. Mrs. Simpson has been divorced twice. (Previous reports said the marriage date likely would hé April 27--the exact. exact. day Mrs. Simpson's divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson probably will become final.) The Duke, seekiiig a permanent home, showed interest in estates near the Austrian border, the agent de- dared, He said Edward wanted a place with hunting and golfing facilities. Newsprint Takes Forest Wealth At Great Rate Charles Visaing Asserts Industry Not ..Obtaining' Adequate Retenu ; TORONTO--The newsprint industry industry is using up Canada's wealth of forests "at a prodigious rate" and getting getting little for It bêyônît wages for the Industry's workers, Charles Vining, president of the Newsprint Association Association of Canada, told the Canadian Club here recently. "We are consuming our forests at a prodigious rate," said Mr. Vining. "A single Sunday issue of the New York Times means some 225 acres of our forest. The tabloid New York News, with its huge circulation, is using GO square miles a year. The Canadian mills, daring the last five years of selling newsprint at a loss, have consumed at least 4,000 square miles of forest, equivalent to a strip 12 miles wide stretching from Montreal Montreal to Toronto. Lack Minimum Return "If we sold our gold as we have been selling our forests, one can almost almost say that we would mine the gold, pay the miners and then give the gold away," said Mr. Vining as he quoted figures to show that newsprint newsprint companies were not securing a "minimum, economic return." The newsprint industry in 193G "had an all-time high in tonnage production, production, but an all-time low in price," Mr. Vining said. "Last month's returns returns of shipments show a gain over last January of 25 per cent, and it seems safe to predict that 1937 means a new high record in tonnage production, production, although this rate of gain- is higher than will be maintained for the full year. "In dollars the 1937 performance is absurdly sad. Overseas prices are substantially improved, bnt in the North American continent, which consumes 80 per cent, of production, the 1937 contract price is up only .50, nearly $6 a ton lower than the 1926 price. It is no advance at all because of rising production costs." Mr. Vining said the newsprint industry industry "is our largest single industrial industrial investment with the,exception of investment in Hydro-Electric power, and accounts for at least two-fifths of Canada's total power development; There are single mills which use more electrical energy each year than is used to light the cities of Toronto and Montreal combined." Benefit to Canada The industry brought to Canada between between 1930 and 1935 "in spite of its disrupted condition, $563,090,000 from foreign sources, compared with $475,- 000,000 of gold production and $130,- 000,000 of nickel exports. Newsprint income is spent in Canada, for nearly all materials of newsprint production are of Canadian origin," he said. 1936 Saw Pick Up In Shipbuilding 2,117,924 Tons of New Ships Boil!, Lloyd's Report NEW YORK.---The recovery of world shipbuilding during 1936 was revealed by figures published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping. , The returns, returns, which covered all vessels of 100 gross .tons: .and upwards and all countries except Russia, showed that 2,117,924 gross tons of new shipping slid down the ways--a gain of 60 per cent, over 1935. Last year, the busiest for the industry industry since 1929, saw 87 steamships and motor vessels, ranging in size from 6,000 to 9.000 gross tons, take the water, Lloyd's states, w comnar- ed with 48 in 1935. New vessels of 10,000 gross tons and upward numbered numbered 26 as against 23 thb preceding year. Great Britain and Ireland with a year's production of new tonnage of 856,257 nearly doubled the output of their nearest competitor, Germany, who launched 379,931 gross tons. Japan Japan ranked third with a production of 294,861 gross tons. The British launchings showed a gain of 357,000 gross tons over 1935. The largest vessel launched in any shipyard during the year was the British liner Orcades, of 23,400 gross tons. New motor vessel tonnage ine; ed nearly 50 per cent., over 1935 'and the year's production of 1.202.476 gross tons was the highest ever reached except except for the years 1929 and 1930. Output of steam and motor tankers, of 1,000 gross tons and upward, nearly nearly doubled 1935 launchings at 657,794 gross tons, and of these 559,690 tons were motor vessels. An Office Cat A notice on the bulletin board from William Allen White introduced introduced Copy, a black tom-cat, to the staff of the Emporia. Kansas, Gazette. Gazette. "Mice are overrunning the basement. basement. I have, therefore, derided to add to ow already extensive equipment equipment one double-cylinder, T-mr del, repossessed eat. Be good to the eat! Don't let him feed in the melt ing-pot and don't throw slugs at h'X for walking on the keyboards of the lioritypes. Ine girls in the front of flee will feen him," The parish of Monk's Risbridgt, Suffolk, has no inhabitants. It covers covers one hundred and twenty nine acres of arable land biit there are no houses or bidding.-, of any kind. The land is farmed, but all the I arm buildings are. in the next parish. It's A By KEN I Fact EDWARDS s»a. has Down in the pad- dock we came across the famed famed Chas. "Horses" "Horses" Ayers who has many a "believe "believe it or not" up his sleeve. He tells us that Wilson Woodward, Woodward, owner of Gallant Fox, Omaha and Granville has yet to bet on a horse race, although won over $3,000,000 Silk underwear is now compulsory for both sexes in Germany; this aims at releasing the imported cotton cotton for other purposes. Prior to invention of 1 the practical Bauer-Koenig rotary press, all printing printing presses were operated on the "screw" system by man-power. The Venus flytrap plant will go to sleep under the Influence of chloroform, and an overdose will kill the plant. A North African variety of mushroom mushroom stands two feet high. Some other mushrooms are so large that one of them would be more than a meal for a man. Eight hundred eighty-eight operations operations are required to make a shotgun shotgun shell which retails for, four cents. his stable in purses. They say that in India wrestlers go three and four hours in one bout and receive money in four and five figures. The Lion of Punjab makes $10,000 for each match. A gentleman by the name of Ctamo is the champion "bone buster" buster" of India and has been for the past 27 years. Ctamo is now 50 and weighs 250 lbs. This talk of India brings to my mind an incident that happened in Jack Corcoran's office one day. There happened to be an Indian manager and his wrestler there (turban and all) who were telling of wrestling in India. It happened that the man who was so interested was that Hungarian shiek, Sandor Zabo. Aftçr he struted around before before everyone with his chest out and muscles knotted for the benefit of the man with the turban, he asked would the beautiful women like him in India. The dapper little chocolate-faced manager, with a flashing smile, i quickly admitted the women would ! accept him. Zabo, in broken English, English, said "1 go India' "1 go India". | But after he was told that the bouts lasted three and four hours in the smeltering heat, he was crushed, I hence he turned his head towards j Australia. I It's- a well known fart ti.ai Mountain .Dean, the 350-odd po of smashing dynamite- lies - 1 $500,000 wrestling- in the ; years.