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«««"W -- ; 'ii . run The Papers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Canada NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - By Peter Randal At Its Best These are no. longer the horse and buggy days. The average motorist can knock off work around three o'clock or later in the afternoon and make a survey of the countryside Well before supper time. It is well worth doing in the Niagara Peninsula Peninsula right now. One of the oldest residents informed this writer this week that he had never seen the district district look better. There are favorite favorite drives for everyone. Some of us like to get off the beaten track. The beautification job at Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, will prove one of the finest assets of this province when completed. And from the Falls to Queenston Heights, to Niagara- on-the-Lake, to Port Weller, with its beautiful horticultural garden is a dream now and for months to come. Is there anything better on the continent of America ?--St. Catharines Catharines Standard. More Discipline A new cell block at Guelph Reformatory Reformatory is to contain 312 single cells which will replace the dormitory system. This change follows the recommendation recommendation made by Judge Madden, Madden, who investigated the recent riot in the institution. There is to be greater discipline in the future, and discipline is the first essential in any prison.--Ottawa Journal. Army Life The British Army is going to start serving four meals a day instead of three ; barracks are to be modernized modernized and equipped with bathrooms and reading rooms. Butter will replace replace margarine in the army kitchens. kitchens. Fresh milk will be served daily. Domestic help will be hired to scrub out canteens, thereby relieving Tom- W of one of the most disliked jobs. ■--Vancouver Sun. - Convalescent Hospitals Formally opening the new St, John's Convalescent Hospital at Ncw- tonbrook, just north of Toronto, Lord Twecdsmuir took time off to utter words of commendation for the high standard of Canadian hospitals. hospitals. He mentioned their equipment, equipment, research facilities and work, find general effectiveness. He brought home what too many persons persons are prone to forget, the high state of development in this country for the treatment of those who are fli At the .same time, His Excellency commended the inauguration of the convalescent type of institution. "A patient at this point needs a change, a change of atmosphere," he told the gathering. In his statement, the Governor General is undoubtedly right. When a patient has reached a convalescent Stage, keeping him in an institution ivhere people are seriously ill, many fiven dying, must be a retarding factor factor in his recovery. By placing him Ml a building where all are getting well, and anticipating being able to resume normal health at an early date, a patient is given a psychological psychological benefit.--Windsor Star. New Canadians Formation of a practical policy with regard to immigration is a task that will devolve on the government one of these fine days. Adequate development of the widespread resources of this great Dominion calls for a much larger population than we have- today. The time is not far distant when settlement settlement of our vacant lands will become imperative if Canada is to progress and become a greater nation. And when that time arrives with an influx of newcomers to settle in this country country we will have to do something about it. It is interesting to know what Canadians Canadians do with their new citizens arid how they cultivate the raw material into something better than mere labor labor to till the soil and garner the harvests into the barns.----Chatham News. The Tourist Business Time was when the average citizen citizen regarded tourists as objects of typical Canadian hospitality who, incidentally incidentally spent some money in the country. But the casual regard has been replaced by the realization that the tourist trade is one of the leading leading industries of the province. Thus, without forgetting friendliness and hospitality the people of Ontario are rapidly learning to appreciate the annual throng of visitors as definitely definitely meaning dollars and cents. Last year, for instance, about $101,678,000 was spent by motor tourists in this province, and this was supplemented by the amounts spent by the thousands who came in by train and boat. Basing their estimate on the number number of inquiries received, particularly particularly from the United States, transportation transportation experts predict that the present season will set an all-time record, so the "industry" Is not only large but growing. Another point of interest is that while Quebec has always claimed first place in tourist totals, Dominion Dominion statistics set aside the boast in favor of Ontario, by indicating that tourists spend about three times as much money in this province as in French Canada.--Brantford Expositor. Expositor. A Lot of Honey When we think of Canada's exports exports we are liable to think mainly of wheat and newsprint .and minerals. minerals. Well, last year Canada sold Britain 2,295,000 pounds of honey. --Ottawa Journal. Problems In Pickle Professor Madigan, Ü. S. A., was so disgusted with his students' examination examination papers that he placed them in a jar impregnated with the rotten-egg odour of hydrogen sulphide. sulphide. Students had to retrieve them from the jar. | New? fa Brief Meyiiest Thief The Pas Han.---This Northern Manitoba minifig centre, 250 miles northwest of Winnipeg, hag found a new type of "meanest thief." One of the collection boxes, dsitributed to collect funds to aid in the batfle against cancer, was missing from the postoffico lobby. Drill for Oil Calgary,--Several oil. companies have announced plans to drill in search of oil near the ranch owned by the Duke of Windsor in the foothills foothills of High River, 40 miles south of here. Drilling is already underway at one well, four miles northwest of the ranch property, and the rotary drill is down 2,000 feet. The new tests will be made north, east, south and west of the Duke's property, known as the E.P. ranch. No one may seek oil on the Royal ranch. The Duke holds a 99-year lease or. the oil and gas rights and only with his permission coiild drilling drilling be started. A strike at the boundary wells, oil men said, might mean permission would be sought , frqm his Royal Highness to drill on the ranch property. property. . One of the companies which will drill on the ranch boundary is controlled by Chinese. It was organized organized by the Chinese communities of Calgary and Vancouver. Charges Patronage Exists In Canadian Postal Service Quebec.-- S. J. Thomas of Montreal, Montreal, editor of the Postmasters' Association Association of Qunebec Province year book, told the opening, meeting of the annual convention that "although the presence of patronage in Canada's postal service is denied, it is actually actually present." More than 200 delegates delegates were in session for three days. Dies While Cashing Pension Cheque Edmonton.---More than six decades decades after arriving at Fort Saskatchewan Saskatchewan as a bold young bugler with the old, original Northwest Mounted Police, 84-year-old Philias Brunette dropped dead here recently--on a bench in a crowded bank. Overcome by a heart attack immediately immediately after cashing an old-age pension cheque, he suddenly collapsed. collapsed. Born July 26, 1852, in St. Mar- tinne, Quebec, he enlisted with the Mounted Police in 1874, original year •of the storied force. He was a bugler at Port Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, Edmonton, the same year. Few living men could look back on so early a connection connection with the "Mounties." Little is known of him. He was a life member of the Northern Alberta Alberta Pioneers' and Old-Timers' Association, Association, His wife died many years ago. He had one daughter, but old- age pension officials said he did not know himself where she was living. Ontario Dogs Win Awards At New Jersey Show Toronto.---At the recent Morris and Essex Dog Show at New Jersey, Waterloo Happy Warrior, a bull terrier terrier owned by W. B. Milner of Toronto Toronto took first prize in the open class under thirty-five pounds, Trafalgar Trafalgar Queen Bess took first limit class, first open class. and reserve winners, and Trafalgar Greatheart took first limit class. Both these bull terriers belong to Captain H. R. Wilks, Bronte, Ont. Events in the international arena are moving with all the swiftness of a championship prize tight. At a meeting meeting of the League of Nations Assembly Assembly at Geneva last week, fifty nations recognized the Valencia government of the Spanish Loyalists while completely completely ignoring General Francisco Franco of the military opposition. It. looked as though the Loyalists might eventually win on points. The League was for them. Mussolini and Hitler were both reported to be very tired and the Loyalist forces in the field were holding on very well in spite of determined rebel attacks. The Sins of the Fathers But tho loyalists made a tactical error when a squadron of their fighting fighting planes attacked the German battle cruiser Deutschland. One of the devilish devilish eggs landed on her decks and she limped into Gibraltar with twenty- four dead officers and men. It did not matter that the Deutschland was in forbidden waters when the bombing occurred. Twenty four Germans were dead and Nazi authority challenged. Germany and Italy withdrew from the non-intervention committee and a German German fleet destroyed the Spanish harbor harbor of Almeria. Three hundred have been reported dead as the sins of the Spanish fathers are visited upon their defenseless children. Imperial Politics Italy and Germany are in dangerous dangerous mood and there are many worried heads in England at the present time. Collective security as represented by the League of Nations failed to protect protect China. Collective security failed to help Ethiopia and now, collective security appears to have failed in a situation that may well threaten the whole peace of the world. One of the chief pillars of the League has been Great Britain but after the failure of sanctions and the possible effect if they should again be invoked by an offended nation, it is said that Great Britain is wavering in its attitude toward toward the League as a body to punish aggressor nations. As the most powerful powerful of the Dominions, Canada is said to have the deciding voice in Britain's decision. Shall Prime Minister Minister Mackenzie King attempt to use his influence for the abandonment of sanctions? Few think he will but the possibility has interesting aspects when Canada's well known reluctance to being drawn into European affairs is known. '■Chamberlain Is What He Was" The late Lord Birkenhead once described described Neville Chamberlain, the new prime minister, in his characteristic sneer as "a man who is what he was --a very good Lord Mayor of Birmingham--in Birmingham--in a lean .year. "For honesty, he is said to be Baldwin's counterpart. counterpart. In matters of policy, it's thought that he will follow in the steps of his former leader. Where new innovations innovations are to be sought, some think he will look for a hint from President Roosevelt. Should some daring experimenter experimenter arrive at some feasible plan for world economic and political stabilization Neville Chamberlain is expected to give his whole hearted support. That such a scheme is already already on foot cannot be gainsaid in view of the attempts of American statesmen to gain influence in the Imperial conference discussions through the voices of certain of the Dominions. Last of the "Old Gang" The past few months have witnessed witnessed many changes in high places. This week, the last of England's "Old Gang" statesmen takes over the direction direction of affairs on the retirement of two contemporaries. Stanley Baldwin Baldwin has become an earl and retired to the comparative peace of the House of Lords. Ramsay Macdonald, true to his idealistic streak, has declined. declined. a similar honour as a gesture toward.the political career of his son who retains cabinet rank in the new government as Minister for the Dominions, Dominions, An Angry Paper Hanger Chicago has always had a reputation reputation for very free "free speech". A few years ago, Wild Bill Thompson used the municipal rostrum to hurl imprecation at the head of George V. Today he visits tho Dominion of the late king as only one of thousands of enthusiastic American fishermen. Back in Chicago, an oratorical successor successor has arisen In the past few weeks in the person of an ecclesiastical ecclesiastical prince, Cardinal Mundelein who has had the misfortune to call Chancellor Chancellor Hitler an "Austrian paper hanger". Now Chancellor Hitler was a paper hanger not such a very long time ago but he and the German people people like to forget about it. Whether as a direct result of - Chicago's Cardinal's Cardinal's remarks or as a part of a concerted concerted campaign against the Church, ! the Nazi Government last week banned banned publication of 200 Catholic newspapers newspapers and pushed forward the trials of German clergy held on wholesale immorality charges. And the Church preparedto fight back as clergy used their pulpits to denounce the Chancellor Chancellor and all his works. Aviation. Merry-Go-Round When we started out, this week's news looked like a prize fight gone mad with the fighters not caring particularly particularly whether they hit the othei mah, the referee or someone in tin audience. After going the circle from Germany to Germany, it begins to take some of the aspects of a merry- go-round.Thàt is just what aviation is about to do with the world as the last remaining link in globe circling is finally prepared on both both sides of the Atlantic ocean. Experimental flights are already being put on ached, ule basis between New York and Bermuda while in the wilds of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, not far from the take off point of the first Transatlantic flight in 1919, 400 men are hacking out the runways which the first one hop planes will use in June. The great airports. airports. will take at least two years to complete.. And up at the North Pole, arrangements arrangements for the top of the world weather weather observation post are almost completed completed as base planes landed on the drifting ice floes with cargoes of supplies. And so another week's adventures adventures march into history. Some boys will whistle while they work. Others only whistle.----Brandon whistle.----Brandon Sun. B--4 THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum - - 1 They soon reached that part of the valley that lay between two high mountains which Dorothy had seen from her tower window. At the far end was the third great mountain, which blocked the valley and was the northern edge of the Land of Ev. It was underneath this mountain that the Gnome King's palace was located; but it would be some time before they reached that place. Copyrighted 1932, Reilly & Lee Co. Æ The path was becoming rocky and difficult for the wheels of the chariot chariot to pass over, and presently a deep gulf appeared at their feet which was too wide for them to leap. So Oznaa took a small square of green cloth from her pocket and threw it upon the ground. At once it became the magic carpet, and unrolled itself far enough for all to walk upon without c-rowding. The chariot now advanced and the green carpet unrolled before it, crossing the gulf on a level with its batiks, so that all passed over in safety. safety. "That's easy enough," said the Scarecrow. "I wonder what will happen next." He was not long in making the discovery, for the sides of the mountain came closer and closer together until the wheels of Ozina's golden chariot bumped along the rocky sides. \ ' Jrtî Ml k_M ! srous Next they heard a deep "thump, ---thump !--thump--" which seemed to grow louder as they advanced. Then, turning a corner of rock, they saw before them a huge man, built of iron, who towered above them more than a hundred feet. He stood Mth one foot on. either side of the narrow path and swung over, his right, shoulder an immense iron mallet mallet 'with which he constantly pounded pounded the road over which they must travel !