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. sit'j îhe Papers zz^WfflWSZBfmistxmBn ■MBmiqgasiBaaMEHBfflS *«*BWirpmira^]ets».se2*K?wtoK® EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERY WHERE. CANADA When Prices Soar When prices soar too high consumer resistance begins to assert itself, and the increase is brought to an end by what might be called natural means. Cattle sold, as high as $17.90 per cwt. in Chicago, and that makes beef-steak available only to millionaires and those who never pay their bills. Farmer's Advocate. An, Eye to Future An English journalist predicts that Toronto will be the future capital of the British Empire. Torontonians with an eye to the future will begin now to make the most of every little fog that comes their way--Windsor Star. Press Is Not Bought Once every so often, maybe a couple couple of times a year, somebody wants to get a police court item left out of the paper and Offers payment for the accommodation. The city editor gets red in the face, takes a grip on himself himself and as civilly as possible informs the visitor that sort of tiling isn't done; the news columns are not for sale. Perhaps he tells it later to the staff, as a sort of embarrassing joke that people should imagine a newspaper newspaper could be muzzled for a dollar or two.--Woodstock Sentinel-Review. News CMS--"< 7iew t To Fofl Aberiiart OTTAWA, -- Dr. J. F. Kenney, Acting Acting Dominion Archivist, will send to London, England, for. a certified manuscript manuscript copy of Canada's Constitution, the British North America Act. His action is in reply to Premier Aberhart's statement that "nowhere can there be found the original copy of the British Noth Ameica ETAO OA of the British North America Act," Raps Beauty Contests It is to be hoped that before long public opinion will have so definitely expressed itself that these imbecile exhibitions (beauty contests) will be as extinct as the dodo. They are a menace to morals and a disgrace to the community in which they are held. --Kitchener Record. The Mayor Cuts Down A recent mayor of Philadelphia found that during his first two years of office he attended an average of .640 dinners and banquets a year, not including less formal luncheons. No busy man could stand that strain indefinitely. In self-defence the mayor of Philadelphia adopted tlie practice of refusing to eat at banquets. He merely attended for sufficient time to extend the official glad hand and do the usual honors expected of him. In cases where his official presence might fairly be expected, this would seem to have been a reasonable compromise, --Winnipeg Tribune "No News" To Be Feared Anything in the nature of a major or a prolonged war affects deeply every part of civilization and the eagerness eagerness with which news is sought is largely activated by fear, it is the fear that at some point, a point quite unpredictable, there will leap into he- ii>g some eivcunistance of the war, however bizarre or unthinkable, that will affect or even destroy something in which the reader is deeply concerned, concerned, something that will affect his own life, his own family, his own country. This becomes evident when we consider the effect upon humanity of "no news". The literature of the Napoleonic period abounds in evidences evidences of this fear being carried to the point of frenzy. Thus we may see that war news, so far from inflaming primordial ferocities among people not involved must, have a reassuring value.--Victoria value.--Victoria Times. National Transport Control So long as nine provinces make the regulations that gerern motor vehicles in the publie trsnewu't business we cannot hope for raw® progress towards towards uniformity--a®6 the provinces show little inclination towards any surrender of their rights in this connection. connection. It is apparent, we think, that the national interest would best be served if road transport as well as rail were in the hands of the Dominion Railway Board, but that condition seems far from attainment.--Ottawa 1 Journal. THE EMPIRE The Only Cure There is considerable criticism of the slow automobile driver, but there is this to be said for him, he never kills anybody. It wasn't slow driving that caused the tragedy that snuffed out the life of a Detroit nurse near Talbotville on Saturday. It was outrageously outrageously fast driving, the only adequate adequate punishment for which is a jail term and life-time withdrawal of license to drive.--St. Thomas Times- Journal. I New Chapters In Human Achieve" ment It is a far cry indeed from those days, so near and yet eo remote, when the Pole was the objective of infinitely infinitely laborious and painful exertions, when many months had to be spent in transporting men and material by ship and sleigh across lonely inhospitable inhospitable wastes, and when the expedition expedition once launched might become lost for years, if not for ever, to human ken. Those were days which called forth the highest qualities of heroism and endurance and devotion, for which those who displayed them--the Frank- lins and the Scotts and the Shackle- tons--will be remembered as long as the tale of human achievement is told. It is of the same stuff that these Russian airmen are made, but thanks to the machine, they are enabled with incomparably less privations to attain incomparably greater results. Applied science is at their disposal to a degree degree undreamed of fey their predecessors. predecessors. They inherit the cumulative results results of the collaboration of innumerable innumerable minds, and their achievement is an epitome rather of co-operative than of individual endeavour. Yet they, too, are pioneers within the conditions conditions of initiative which their age permits, permits, and ft is feats such as theirs which serve to keep alive our faculty of wonder.--London Morning Post Japanese Have Weak Spots As Imperialists the Japanese lack two qualities -- imagination, and the capacity to make those whom they conquer trust them; this deficiency represents perhaps their greatest difficulty difficulty on the Asiatic mainland. Already Already Peking is being administered by Chinese puppets with Japanese advisers, advisers, and things may go smoothly for a while. But it is not so long since the Japanese supposed General Sung Cheh-Yuan to be their complaisant tool; nor is it without significance that the massacre of Japanese and Koreans at Tungchow was carried out Russian Army Ready MOSCOW, -- Izvestia, the Soviet Government's official mouthpiece, has warned that war threatens Europe, but that Russia will be able to "defend herself against the Italian piratés and aggressors." The warlike announcement was backed up by a statement from the Red Army--1,300,000 men forming the largest standing army in the world-- that it was ready "to meet with a decisive, decisive, merciless blow any attempt to hinder our peaceful pursuits." Canadians Lose Jobs WINDSOR, -- Almost 20 Canadians have lost their jobs and 60 more face unemployment because a law passed by United States Congress, requiring 75 per cent of U. S. boat crews must be American citizens, has been applied applied to ferries plying the Detroit River. River. Will Fight Extortionists LOS ANGELES, Cal., -- Wallace Beery, film actor, has obtained a special special Deputy Sherriff's commission and a pistol-carrying permit, so he will be prepared, he said, to deal with extortionists. extortionists. Beery and his 8-year-old adopted daughter, Carol Ann Beery, appeared at the Sheriff's office and were fingerprinted. fingerprinted. The actor received a letter two weeks ago, threatening death for Carol Ann unless $10,000 was paid. m ■ m By ELIZABETH EEDY PÂRÂD A commentary on the highlights of the week's news Textile Probe Begins TORONTO. -- The Ontario Labor and Industry Board this week opened at Queen's Park an inquiry into the wages and working conditions in the textile industry. Both employers and employees were represented by counsel. counsel. Hot Tea Fatal DUNGANNON, -- Funeral Services have been held here for 18-months-old Cora Neil Anderson, of Detroit, who died as a result of drinking hot. tea. The tot, daughter of Lindfield Anderson, Anderson, a native of Dungannon, and Mrs. Anderson, reached over and took the teapot while her mother was absent from the room. Death resulted when the hot liquid entered her lungs. Jap Air Raids TOKJO, -- Japanese aeroplanes carried carried their message of death to several Chinese fronts, while artillery and infantry infantry units clashed with Chinese forces forces around Shanghai. Japanese bombed and destroyed a military arsenal at Hangchow southwest southwest of Shanghai, an airfield at Kash- ing. and a Chinese military barracks at Kwangteh. Over Soochow, they shot down five Chinese Curtiss Hawk aeroplanes. aeroplanes. Some 300 Chinese were killed and 400 wounded this week when the Japanese Japanese aeroplanes bombed a crowded refugee train as it was entering the Sungkiang station, 30 miles from Shanghai, Central Bureau of Education Suggested at the opening meeting of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Commerce at Vancouver was the establishment establishment of a central bureau of educational educational research for Canada. The speaker, Hon. R. C, Matthews, advocated advocated following the example of Australia and South Africa in setting setting up a Chamber of Education, whose duties would be to gather information information about education in every province, conduct educational surveys, surveys, hold yearly conferences . on general problems. He recommended that "each individual member of this Chamber should make it his concern, so far as his sphere of influence extends, extends, to study how far school and college today are giving the future citizen of Canada the elementary intellectual intellectual and moral equipment which he must have if he. is to act justly and intelligently on all the manifold issues which will be presented for his decision at the polls." fight," so he declared at the Nazi Party congress, "against Bolshevism." Bolshevism." International Incidents Increase These are days that see international international crises precipitated hourly. In the Far East the situation is gravely dangerous, not only in the case of the Sino-Japanese conflict, hut a break between Japan and Britain has been narrowly missed, following, on the shooting of the British Ambassador; in the Mediterranean, Russian and British ships are being menaced by the "pirate" ships of other nations. À snarling Italian answer has come to Russia's formal protest, accusing Mussolini's submarines of waging Mediterranean terrorism, after two Soviet ships were sunk. Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany, backs Italy in the Mediterranean and Japan in the East, "in a defensive Youth Training Has Begun With the transference of 350 young Ontario men, ranging in age from 18 to 25, to training camps in Northern Ontario, the new National Youth Program Program has been inaugurated under the leadership of the Dept, of Mines and Forests. Ten or more boys are appointed appointed to each of the 31 camps where they will be taught use of the compass, timber ■ cruising and scaling, telephone line construction and maintenance, activities connected with the pulp and paper industry. In the mining district, a maximum of 50 young men will be given a technical course sufficient to qualify as assistants to mine surveyors, as- sayors, and mineralogists. The Provincial Provincial Department of Mines expects to have positions for these young men when fully trained. Canada's Arms Contracts The Minister of Defence, Hon. Ian j Mackenzie, has announced that over $9,000,000 worth of national defense contracts have been placed in Canada, Canada, with construction now in progress. progress. Ninety per cent of the program program will be taken care of inside the country. Over 100 airplanes are included included and four mine-sweepers. The militia is being reorganized and it is expected that the entire program will be completed within a year. I'TS A FACT By KEN EDWARDS eqi jo pred perajoj oijav sdoox) Xq bogus East Hopei regime and were almost certainly in Japanese pay. Japan's real difficulties in North China will begin when the "Cease Fire" is sounded.--London Times. Sir Malcolm Campbell seems determined determined to be "tops" in the speed world on water as well as on land. In the speedboat, "Bluebird," "Bluebird," which he is now trying out on Lago Maggiore in the Alps to break Gar Wood's world record of 124.91 miles an hour. Life is like that Isn't it? Bill Terry of the New York Giants is their brand new manager and receives $40,- 000 a year under his new contract while Tommy Farr, the sensational English battler who just recently set the boxing world agog in his bout with Joe Louis, has had a row with his manager, "Ted Broadribb, and refuses to fight under him in the future. A new one-mile Canadian swim record record has just been set by Ralph Flanagan Flanagan of Florida. He was clocked at 21.34. The former, record wag 21.57. Japan Finds Credit American and British banks are extending credit to help finance Japan's undeclared war on China, even as the American and British Governments are bending every effort effort to halt or minimize the conflict, a reliably informed source disclosed 1 this week. Search Continues Sir Hubert Wilkins' party which set off by plane in search of the six Soviet Polar fliers have as yet found no trace of the men, missing on their flight from Moscow to Fairbanks, Alaska, August 13. The search over the Arctic ice fields will continue until until the freeze-up. The rescue party are located on Baillie Island in the Mackenzie River Delta. Seaway Negotiations Prime Minister ' Mackenzie King has announced that unless the Provinces Provinces of Ontario and Quebec give their approval, the Federal Government Government will not go ahead with negotiations negotiations for the construction of the St. Lawrence seaway. The power development development scheme embraced in the waterway plan would cost Ontario more than $100,000,000. There have been no recent developments in the waterways discussion, the Prime Minister Minister assures. In any case, the treaty has yet to be ratified by the United States Senate which has several times rejected it. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L, Frank Baum Copyrighted 1982, Reilly & Lee Co C '■isSfe* "'J "Then," said the Gnome King, "I will make this offer: You shall go alone into my palace and examine carefully, all that the rooms contain. Yeu shall have permission to touch eleven different objects, pronouncing at the same time tlmword, 'Ev.' If any of them proves to be the transformation transformation of the slaves, they will instantly instantly be restored to their true forms," "In th.'s way," continued the Gnome King, "it is possible for you to 'free the entire eleven; but if you- do not guess all the objects correctly correctly and some of the slaves remain transformed, then each one of. your friends and followers may, in turn, enter the palace and have the same privileges I grant you." "Oh, thank you for this kind offer!" said Orna, eagerly. . "I make but one condition,," added the Gnome King, his eyes sparkling. "Whit is it.?" ' Ozma inquired,, turning turning to him. "If one of the eleven objects you touch p'rove to be the transformation of the Queen of Ev, or one of her ten children, then, instead instead of freeing them, you will yourself yourself become enchanted, and transformed transformed into an article of bric-a- brac or an ornament,." "That is only fair and just," said the Gnome King, puffing his pipe. "And it is the risk that you declar- .cd you were willing to take." Ozma hesitated, wondering what to do. Then she spoke: "How do I know you will let us go frfee if I do release the prisoners?" she askèd. , "You must take my word for that," answered the Gnome. "Do you accept?"