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The Papers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA Saving Useless Time Extremely few motorists are engaged engaged on business of such urgent Importance that a minute or two. or five minutes, is a matter of first consideration. consideration. Every day in Ottawa we See drivers trying desperately to save that minute or two and we cannot believe that life or death depends on catching a light, on passing another another car on the wrong side, or on 'flashing through a party of youngsters youngsters at play. The driver so bent on saving a couple of minutes that he has no time to think of other people people and their safety probably spends those minutes, having arrived at his destination, in filling his pipe, chatting chatting about the weather or being very indignant about traffic conditions.--- Ottawa Journal. The Farmer's Task The tendency to place at a discount discount the inherent ability needed for successful farming. is at least deplorable. Such work demands more of the stronger qualities of Character than almost any other. Its taskmaster, nature, is the most adamant adamant of them all. It is sheer casuistry casuistry to place it anywhere but in the higher scale of occupations. Ironically enough, it is the so called advantages of the cities, the things which so often surfeit us, that maintain a certain hold on the country dweller of today. But it is a good thing. Modern entertainments entertainments and transportation have helped helped farming communities everywhere. And perhaps after all there is still a deep-rooted love of the land, among the larger portion of our people people which, if not eloquent, is at least the sanest and the safest patriotism to be found.--Hamilton Spectator. Our New Goins To Master of the Mint J. H, Campbell Campbell our hearty congratulations on his series of George Vi coins. In design and in all other respects these are the most distinguished and handsome handsome coins that Canada has ever had. Particularly should all be grateful for the improvement over the current five-cent piece, undoubtedly undoubtedly the ugliest coin issued anywhere anywhere by any country in the world's history. A word, while we are in a congratulatory congratulatory mood, for the Post Office's Office's Coronation stamp. It is a beautiful stamp, much more so than the ordinary series, and compares favorably favorably with the new British stamps. ---Ottawa Journal. Quality Poultry There are still producers and others others who question the wisdom of the increased emphasis placed upon the quality of the articles which Canada sends to export markets and who think that the greater amount of inspection inspection to which they are subjected constitutes unwarranted interference on the part of Government officials. And yet if can scarcely be denied that if we wish to hold the export markets that we already possess in the face of the keen competition which appears .in most of them and if we wish to expand our foreign sales, especially of foodstuffs, we must be careful to exercise close scrutiny of the commodities that are shipped and do our utmost to keep their quality to a high peak.--The Brockville Recorder. Rehash An authority informs us that in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, books were not valued so much for new ideas they contained as for the old, time-worn lore they preserved. The authors in those days were, at least, honest about it. Much of so-called originality in current literature is merely rehash.---Stratford Beacon- •Beacon-Herald. Growing List Women used to talk about pin money, but now they want shin money for silk stockings, skin money for cosmetics, spin money for gasoline, gasoline, and tin money for the family meals.--Galt Reporter, Fighting Drought At this particular time, when aviation aviation is so much to the fore in Canada, Canada, it is worthy of note that Saskatchewan Saskatchewan aeroplanes are to be used to make a survey of some 11,000 square miles of semi-arid land. Experience Experience " has shown the Saskatchewan Saskatchewan authorities that settlers acting independently have not been able to make use of the slim water supplies of this district, and it is thought that, if they were assisted by the government, migration to the northern northern part of the province, a costly and generally disruptive operation, would be rendered unnecessary. Instead Instead some slight shift in the location location of their farms might bring the desired effect.---Hamilton Spectator. : THE EMPIRE Baldwin the Beloved Of the eight statesmen who have been at the helm in British politics during this century--Salisbury, Balfour, Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Ramsay MacDonald, Baldwin--it may be that the last was not the most distinguished; distinguished; but would it be an exaggeration exaggeration to say that he has been the most beloved? The allegiance of his party party he was bound to command, for he had saved it from possible disintegration disintegration in 1922, when he led the revolt against continued support of the Lloyd George Government. But the Englishman, whatever his political political leanings, likes his leading public men to display other qualities than incidental to political office. Mr. Baldwin revealed himself on many occasions as capable of charming public audiences when he spoke about books, faming, pigs, locomotives, locomotives, classical studies, and the English English countryside, for in these speeches he displayed the simplicity, sincerity, and humanity which go to the heart of mankind.--Melbourne Areus. News In Brief | To» onto Gets Airport OTTAWA. -- Toronto will have Its airport and the Dominion Government will assist with a lump gum which is to be fixed. An agreement to that end between the city and the government was discussed discussed for between Hon. G. D. Howe, minister of transport, and Acting-Mayor Acting-Mayor Day, Controller Conboy, and E. E. Consens, engineer of the Harbour Board. Two sites are proposed, both to be used. One would be alternative to the other. The Island would be the port ordinarily used and another west of the city when flying conditions were bad and there might he a risk in landing landing at the Island. By the terms of an order-in-councll passed last fall the government is understood to pay a quarter of the cost of municipal airports. Salmon Pack Probably Light for Two Years TORONTO, -- A guarded prediction the Maritime Provinces might see a scarcity of salmon this year and next was made before the Royal Society of Canada by A. G. Huntsman, professor of marine biology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Huntsman told the biological biological .sciences section of the society recent dry summers in the Maritimes made it probable that there would he a scarcity of salmon during the next two seasons, particularly in view of the fact scarcities had been found in rcmghly every 9.6 years in conjunction with decreased rainfall in corresponding corresponding circles. Study Fish Exports OTTAWA, -- Representative of the fresh fish export trade of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta opened a conference with officials of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Commerce, looking toward better marketing marketing arrangements in the United States. Because of lack of organization, exporters exporters to 'the United States have suffered suffered loss through failure of consignees consignees to meet their obligations. Delays, in handling at the delivery end are also a cause of loss. The conference will discuss a proposal proposal to set up a credit investigation bureau, probably in New York, and to establish an office in that city, or a marketing agent. Britain Plans Aid For Farm Areas LONDON, : -- Legislation involving an expenditure of $17,060,000 will he brought down in connection with the Government's agricultural policy, W. S. Morison, Minister of Agriculture, announced in the House cf Cornons this week, He said that under the scheme the Government; hoped to improve the general general prosperity and efficiency of the home agriculture and make it sound in times of peace as well as in any emergency. It would not be practicable, Morrison Morrison added, to put agrciulture on a war time footing at the present time, as that would involve regulation and regimentation regimentation of the farming community community as well as heavy cost. The Government felt, however, the Minister went on, that it was desirable desirable to be prepared in a way consistent consistent with a policy designed to ensure maximum supplies for the consumer and reasonable remuneration for the producer. B--4 NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - By Peter Randal This Year's Crop of Graduates The annual job hunt is on as hundreds hundreds of nervous young men and young women come rushing out of colleges everywhere in a wild dash to make their impression on the business world. For some years past, the happy hunting grounds of industry industry have been anything but kind to these would-be hopefuls and there is many a graduate wondering if the time and effort were worth the price. For these and their younger fellow collegians, the Investor's Syndicate, of Minneapolis offers a ray of hope. According to a recent .survey conducted conducted by- the Syndicate, "employment "employment prospects of this year's college graduating classes are only a little less favorable than those of the 1929 graduates, and substantially better than the June 1936 classes. . . Engineering, Engineering, business administration, teaching and general business classifications classifications are offering employment in greatest volume." Curiosity prompted a test of this statement in a Canadian college. A class of twenty men expecting to graduate next month were interviewed interviewed on their chances of securing employment employment hnd the results were very surprising. Of the twenty, seventeen had offers of jobs as early as April, while a number had even been placed in the awkward position of turning down opportunities that last year's graduates would have considered golden. It is interesting to compare the' qualifications of the 1937 graduate graduate with those of the ideal model in other years. The 1937 model is a pretty good all-round man with a general background not only of classics, classics, but of the more practical subjects subjects like economics, political practice, practice, accounting and finance. His four years at college have not represented four years of life in another world, but four years of familiarization with the problems both past and current of the world he must learn to live in after the parents on the home farm have ceased to foot the bills. He has no illusions about the. world ho is going into. He knows there must be a period of apprenticeship in which he may even have to sweep the floors and dust the office desks, but in place' of the "world owes me a living" attitude of a few years ago, there is a quiet confidence in his own abilities to succeed on the merits of his own demonstration. He is, in most cases technically trained for his job and business men say that given an opportunity to try his training out on practical problems, he will go ahead fast enough to justify his years of education. Golfmaniac The summer sportsmen are beginning beginning to come out of their winter shells in the wake of the optimists who have been haunting the nation's golf courses of many weeks now. A well-known Toronto business man told us the other day that he thought ho might have to give up business if it didn't stop raining every Satur- day : --he barely recovered from one cold before the next Saturday's drenching came round again. Endeavour Ï And gales remind us that the old fighting spirit has not departed from "the men who go down to the sea." Unreported for nine days, Endeavour I, T. O. M. Sopwith's big challenger to the American Cup, was sighted off Nantucket. Left to her own resources resources when her tow line parted from the tender 1,000 miles from nowhere, nowhere, the Endeavour carried on ii a fifty-mile gale. It may be slow in comparison to modern means of power but there is many a sail man will tell you that he would sooner be on her in rough weather than --the greatest steamboat ever built. A Hazardous Quest A Russian airplane landed at the North Pole last week with eleven men who form the advance guard of a group of scientists engaged in studying polar weather conditions. After preparing the ground for heavier planes, seven men will return to the base of the expedition on Rudolf Island. Four men plan to stay at the polar observation station for a year. Since their position ia on a floating ice field, subject to constant constant cracking, the post is looked upon as a hazardous one. It is expected expected that the data collected will be of invaluable service in predicting weather conditions in the northern hemisphere. The Old Order Chan.geth Almost in sight of his century mark goal, the nonagenarian American American dime magnate has "gone the wnay of all flesh." John D. Rockefeller died peacefully at his Florida estate after ninety-seven years of a life in which he is said to have amassed the greatest fortune ever known. Through companies which controlled substantial portions of the nation's income he administered a fortune of five billion dollars, while his gifts to public institutions are said to be past the five hundred million mark. Those who knew him in the early days of his struggle have called his tactics ruthless but the use to which his great fortune may be pul in advancing advancing the general good of civilization civilization may well outbalance his untold sins. Atlantic Crossing Of such use is the airplane. Though accidents have been frequent with this mode of travel, it is difficult difficult to imagine what progress would have been made in many out-of-the- way parts of the world without this means of transportation. The last remaining ocean to be 'spanned by regular service, preparation of ships for the Atlantic run is in progress both in England and in America. At the Boeing Aircraft Plant in Seattle, Wash., a giant 72-passenger ship is being built for Pan American. The super liners will be powered with new secret engines developing 6,000 horsepower and will have a speed of around 200 miles per . hour. Test flights are scheduled for the early fall with regular service before the end of the year. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum WALT M§| msm IpFi V JjS Y X '-'"N jl V '*' J ; Copyrighted 1982, Reilly & Lea Co.' ISSfS 7f f "• JÈÜï : ■ ■■ : SSiSSI . : The road led for a time through a pretty farm .country, and then past a picnic grove that looked very inviting. inviting. But the procession continued to advance steadily until Billina cried out in an abrupt and commanding commanding manner; "Wait--wait!" Ozroa stopped her chariot so suddenly that the Scarecrow's Saw-Horse nearly ran into it, and the ranks of the army tumbled over one another before before they could come to a halt. Immediately the yellow hen struggled struggled from Dorothy's arms and flew into a clump of bushes by the roadside. roadside. "What's the matter?" called the Tin Woodman, anxiously. "Why, Billina wants to lay her egg, that's all," said Dorothy. "Lay her egg!" repeated the Tin Woodman, nearly dropping his axe in his astonishment. "Why yes," replied Dorothy, laughing laughing merrily. "She lays one every morning about this time ; and it's quite fresh, too !" "But does your foolish hen sup- , pose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stop while she lays her egg?" inquired the Woodman, earnestly. earnestly. "What else can we do?" asked Dorothy. "It'S a habit, and she can't break herself of it." "Then she must hurry," said the Tin man, impatiently. impatiently. "No, No!'-' cried the Scarecrow. "If she hurries she may lay scrambled scrambled eggs!" Just then Billina came out of the Bushes. "Kut-kut-ka-daw. Kut!" she cackled. cackled. "What is she doing -- singing her lay?" asked the Scarecrow. "Forward "Forward -- March!" shouted the Tin Woodman, ' and the procession started started just as Billina fluttered back into into Dorothy's arms. "Who's going to get my egg?" cried Billina. "I will," said the Scarecrow, and the Saw- Horse pranced, over to the bushes. The straw man 'soon found the egg which he placed in his jacket pocket. And it was a very lucky thing that he ,did.