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I The Papers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA Canada's Romantic North When Lord Tweedsmuir again "takes pen in hand" what a fund of information he will have for either ,„a history or a romance of Canada's farthest north, which he has covered so thoroughly, -- Toronto Globe and Mail. Forecasts Black 1939 „ At a recent credit conference the president of Armour & Company, Robert Robert Hervey Cabell, said, "We are entering entering into a new era, encompassing such things as old age pensions, unemployment unemployment insurance and higher wages. The lower income groups will have more to spend, and this will require require a credit technique different from that followed by credi': men accustomed accustomed to the methods of big business. The mail-order houses and the chain stores have tapped this field, but from now on we all want to share in it." A Canadian prophet--a very famous famous industrialist--says that Canada is going to have a black 1939. Credit men certainly do have their problems and anxieties.-- J. C. K„ in Marketing. An Unnecessary Evil Outbreaks' of para-typhoid fever in recent years at a number of towns where the milk supply is not pasteurized, pasteurized, shows the need for greater care in the handling of milk. Owners of dairy herds ought to realize that the future of their business business is dependent on a safe product. If they permit uncleanliness in any process associated with the handling of milk, the penalty will be disappearance disappearance of customers. The indifference of farmers and dairymen to the customers' customers' demands for strict cleanliness and sanitation has already resulted in widespread campaigns in the interests interests of pasteurization and it is likely that the provincial health department will insist on that process with regard to all marketed milk.--Galt Reporter. English On The Air The radio, like the movies, is now one of the influences which form the : \ common speech. Movie producers have been blamed, especially in England, England, for making people talk slang. The broadcasters, if they are not careful, are going to be charged with a really serious offence--making people people use five-dollar words when ten- cent words would do. A Winnipeg announcer, winding up, a program, was heard to say: "It has* been your pleasure and privilege to audition a group of selections, including"--he including"--he then* named the pieces. Later in the same day another broadcaster got off this gem: "You will now hear à program of piano classics. Your expressionists expressionists will be"--and he mentioned mentioned the players. Of course there ought to be free speech on the radio, but saying "audition" "audition" for "hear" and calling a pianist ân expressionist seems to be carrying i| a bit too far. The verb "contact," tp which objection has been taken, at least has the excuse that no other one word says just the same thing. There is no excuse at all for the verb "audition". As for "expressionist," it's enough to make any self-respecting piano player toss out a whole handful of wrong notes. -- Winnipeg Free Press. Good-bye Depression What has happened to the depression? depression? No one is talking about it these days. Not only has the depression disappeared, disappeared, though a few traces' of it still remain, but all the talk about it has gone. The fact that no one speaks of it, except in retrospect, is proof that it no longer exists. So gradually has the change in the psychology of people come about this past 12 months, that it slipped in almost almost without notice. One recalls the frequent phrase of a couple of years or more ago: "Isn't the depression awful?" awful?" One also remembers the question. question. "How long do you think the depression depression is going to last?" Everyone was, so sick of the word, let alone the results of the economic bad times, that it got one down. The word depression depression had a most depressing effect, and its constant repetition no doubt did much to prolong the period itself. Now people are talking of other things. They are talking of better times, higher prices, crops, more employment, employment, industrial disputes, of almost almost everything under the sun except the depression. They are glad to forget forget about it. Even the fact that there are industrial disputes and strikes proves that there is industrial activity. activity. Industrial, activity denotes that the depression is ended. -- Windsor Star. B--4 THE EMPIRE Stock Market Slumps It is high time the people of South Africa pulled themselves together and realized that Stock Exchange booms and slumps do not necessarily constitute constitute an infallible--or, in some cases, even a moderately reliable--indication reliable--indication of actual prosperity or depression. depression. A Stock Exchange serves two primary purposes, one beneficial, the other pernicious. It secures capital for investment; and it provides an open and, under present conditions, almost unrestricted medium for gambling in shares to an extent that may, and often does, give the shares a fictitious value either higher or lower lower than is warranted by the dividendpaying dividendpaying prospects of the commodity or business they represent. -- Johannesburg Johannesburg Times. The Comradeship of Democracy In free countries, where people govern govern themselves, there are many things about which there is no unity. There is no unity of view about political programmes programmes or economic creeds or foreign foreign policy or religion. On all these things there are wide differences of opinion. ' These differences we do not regard as bad or weak, as is the custom custom of dictators. Rather, we regard the flourishing of variety as a good thing, and indispensable if all men and women are to have an equal chance of living the kind of lift that seems to them most worthwhile. And we regard regard the free discussion which such differences provoke? not as *' disease to be eradicated lit 1 * as Die foundation foundation of a healthy society and of wise progress. What is ü> ™ case, which holds a free people together in such solidarity? W llat ' makes possible, possible, in a community of such differences, differences, so moving a unity and so harmonious harmonious a comradeship as was manifest manifest recently? It is democracy itself. It is the underlying unity of a community community in agreement, not about everything, everything, , but about the political method by which everything shall be decided. --London Daily Herald. News In Brief Valencia Bombed. MADRID,-- Rebel bombers and pursuit planes raided Valencia this week bombing the loyalist seat of Government and its suburbs, reports reaching here said. It was estimated that a score of persons were killed or wounded during during the raid. Recall Early Days of Telephone BRANTFORD--Six pioneers in oral communication, associated with Alexander Graham Bell in this district district in 1876 when he made improvements improvements on the newly-invented telephone, telephone, visited the district this week and recalled experiments of half a century ago. The visit was part of Brantford's old home week celebration. celebration. The men met at the Bell Memorial and toured scenes of the first telephone telephone business office m Canada, the Bell homestead where Bell conducted conducted his experiments and the site of the world's first telephone factory, factory, then the workshop of J. H. and Thomas Cowherd. Zionists Split on Palestine Cut ZURICH, Switzerland--A minor- icy resolution expressing firm opposition opposition to Great Britain's plan to partition partition Palestine was introduced at a special session of the World Zionist Zionist Congress. The congress earlier split into two factions, over the partitioning scheme and it was only after hours of negotiation that opposition delegates/ delegates/ were induced to meet with the others. A majority resolution was being drawn up to embody the opinions of Chaim Weizman, Zionist President President and many others that the British plan should be considered as a basis for negotiations with a view to achieving a larger Jewish State in Palestine than that contemplated in the Royal Commision's report. . Two of Quadruplets Die THETFORD, England -- After 24 hours of celebration over the birth here of male quadruplets to Mrs. Oliver Oliver Lingwocd of nearby Brandon, two of the infants died. Hundreds of visitors poured into Thetford to gather before the nursing nursing home where the children were born. The father, a Brandon furrier and pride of the local rugby team, opened telegrams congratulating tha Lingwoods on the birth of the quadruplets--named Adrien, Bernard, Bernard, Conrad and David- The Thetford town crier mounted the steps of the town square to read the following proclamation : "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Whereas in this ancient and honorable town, one-time Saxon capital, the good wif of Oliver Lingwood of Brandon has been happily delivered of four goodly children, I, John Clark, town crier, call upon this town to rejoice at these fourfold blessings. God F Tfir.n.t'1 THE AND OF OZ NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - IS y Peter Randal «KraæroencœemKBZi Reindeer Trek Ends The famous reindeer drive across the northern tundras from Alaska to the Mackenzie Delta is now nearing an end. Andy Bahr and his gallant band of herders expect to complete the 2,000-mile journey this fall and hand over to, the Eskimos in the delta region a permanent meat supply. In one of tile four years since the trek got under way the herd advanced only 90 miles, since in winter progress was delayed by wolves, blizzards and treacherous ice conditions ; in summer summer by maddening insects. At the final round-up the reindeer will be driven into a huge corral and counted. counted. It is expected the total will reach 5,000. In the annals of Canadian history, history, the reindeer trek provides a romantic romantic and enthralling page. New Trends In Education In an address before the Canadian Institute of Economics and Politics Convention meeting on Lake Couch- iching, Dr. Duncan McArthur, Ontario Ontario Deputy Minister of Education, said that the development of the Ontario Ontario system of education had been like building the middle storey of a house before the foundation. In pioneer pioneer days the first schools to be established established had as their purpose the preparation preparation of the children of the wealthy for law and the church. Later common common schools were introduced, he said, for the benefit of farmers and frontiersmen, frontiersmen, followed by the "public schools." But nene of these schools functioned with a view to preparing their students for later life. The aim of the new education now is, Dr. McArthur McArthur declared, to fit pupils for life, and towards that end, changes are being being made in the present Ontario system. system. For example, in the teaching of the French language, less stress will be laid on learning the dry structure of the grammar. Instead pupils will be taught a conversational use of French, so that they may learn to speak it as an actual, living language. Crisis In Alberta Premier Aberhart rode into the headship of the Government ot Alberta Alberta on the crest of a strong wave of Popular feeling. He was the great hope of the people who hailed him as deliverer from the sad state into which provincial affairs had slipped. But a few hours later two of the tots died, David and Adrien. The mother was reported recovering. Mrs. Lingwood is a daughter of Charles Carter, home steward of Dorothy Paget, famous woman horse-trainer and daughter of Lord Queensborougli. Mrs. Lingwood is 26, her husband 35. One of the two living children was reported lively but the other not quite so well. Jumper Breaks. Record STOCKHOLM--• Melvin Walker, United States high jumper, broke the' world record with a leap of 2.08 metres (six feet 9.29-82 inches.) Walker missed his first two tries for the new record height then skimmed over on the third attempt, barely touching the bar. Walker's jump surpassed the ac- The eyes of the world, too, were on him and the Social Credit gospel. But opposition 'came from many quarters, so that to accomplish what he set out to do, he had practically to declare a dictatorship. Now a constitutional struggle of the first magnitude is going on in Alberta following the introduction of the Government's Government's bill to license bankers operating operating in the province and control some of their activities. A Provincial Credit Commission is being named to undertake the control measures. The control issue may go to the courts, authoritative, sources say, and the Dominion Government may step in "to protect the citizens of Alberta from losing rights they possess. in common with citizens of other provinces." provinces." Another piece of legislation introduced introduced this week proposes to close the courts of Alberta to any action involving involving a constitutional test of Alberta Alberta statutes. Then only by a license granted by the Aberhart Government could the courts of the province pass oil the constitutionality of a provin-. cial law. Such legislation is looked upon by some as clashing " with the British North America Act. France Recovering Following the fall of Blum's "Popular "Popular Front" government in France this summer, a great many things could have happened -- a gory revolution might have occurred with the country swinging over to Fascism. Violence, however, was avoided, and, according to the new premier, Camille Chau- temps a profound social transformation transformation carried out quietly, Chautemps, less of a real "socialist" than Blum, declares that France has now overcome overcome the initial obstacles on the road to economic recovery, and is able to embark on a program designed to increase increase production. Drought In England In some sections of England, Dartmoor, Dartmoor, for instance, if it doesn't pain for three days, local farmers begin worrying over the drought. But this year when no rain fell on the entire island for two weeks, it was a matter of general concern. The British Department Department of Agriculture ran up "official "official drought" signals in many parts of the country and newspapers this week featured drought news as front page stories. feet 9 3-4 inches) held jointly by his Ohio State University teammate, teammate, Dave Albritton and Cornelius Johnson of Compton, Calif. Paralysis News Censored TORONTO--Censorship was this week clamped down on further infantile infantile paralysis figures by Dr. Gordon Gordon Jackson, medical health officer- The action was taken, it was believed believed in order that Toronto citizens and prospective visitors to the city might not become alarmed over the outbreak which has taken six lives. Hopes Were Doomed SYDNEY, Australia. -- Seventy- year-old Peter Johnson, old-age pensioner, pensioner, built himself a one-roomed cottage and remarked "It should see me out." He died the first day he "Hello, my dears," said the Gnome King, in a pleasant voice which made Ozma and Dorothy feel very much relieved. "Sit down and tell me why you have come all this distance to see me, and what I can do for you." He then waved his right hand and in an instant a cushioned stool appeared appeared behind each of the two girls While they seated them:- Gnome King picked up a j behind his throne, and takin 1 ing red coal, from his pi placed it in the bowl of the; began puffing out clouds i that curled in rings about Then Ozma' began to sp everyone listened intently words.