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The Papers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA Those Stripe-Drivers Maybe it would help if the highways highways department would try painting a stripe near the edge of the road, for the benefit of those who insist on driving on a stripe.--Guelph Mercury, Mercury, Buying Trouble Italy spent 600 million dollars to buy a lot of trouble in Ethiopia. sNow Japan is borrowing 580 millions in her search for trouble in China, When will the nations grow up?--Toronto up?--Toronto Star. The Hecklers Help After all, what would a general election be without the persistent hecklers? These liven up an audience audience and give a clever speaker a better better chance to bring out his points.-- Toronto Globe & Mail. Plague Menace Diminished It is a far cry from these times back through the generations to the old night of scourge and plague. Think of that record--not a single case of smallpox amid London, England's England's teeming millions in the past, three years!--Halifax Herald. Broken Relations But if Portugal is breaking off diplomatic diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia without fighting, it must be remem, bered that China and Japan are staging staging a fair-sized war without having broken off relations. One is driven to speculate on what Czechoslovakia can have done to Portugal which does more to justify breaking diplomatic relations than an armed invasion.-- London Free Press. Down With "Canned" Music The average radio listener, sitting contemplatively before a loud-speaker, loud-speaker, is only barely conscious, if he notices it at all, of those frequently repeated words, "We will now listen to an electrical transcription . . . " Every time those words come over "the air, the listener is getting not only music by a phonograph rtcord, but also, right along with it, a concrete concrete example of technological unemployment, unemployment, The American Federation of Musicians considers the playing over the air of recordings so serious a threat to the employment of its members that it has threatened a strike.--Vancouver Sun. Expect Better Times There are good grounds for optimism optimism regarding 1988. As a matter of fact, the total rainfall this Summer throughout practically the whole drought district has been greater than it was in 1936. The trouble was that it did not come in time. This fact, taken together with the rising level of the Lake of the Woods, the fact that Manitoba this year had enough rain and grew a better-than. average crop, and, the fact that the drought broke this year south of the international border, are the best possible possible indications that a period of normal normal rainfall is beginning,--Winnipeg Tribune. Helping the Helpless The late Ge.orge A. Quance of Middleton Township set a very fine Ixample in making a bequest of $5,000 to the North General Hospital. This institution depends to a large extent on public support for its financial financial welfare and contributions are particularly welcome at this time when a big expansion program is in progress. It is sincerely hoped that other citizens will follow Mr. Quanee's example and make provision in their wills for the care of the sick and injured people. The hospital takes care of a large number of indigent indigent patients every year, on whom a very substantial loss is sustained. Only through generous donations and bequests on the part of citizens in comfortable circumstances can this be offset.--Simcoe Reformer. Canada In The Air Lord Tweedsmuir hands out the dictum--and far be it from us to contradict contradict him!--that the future of the Northwest Territories is vested in the aeroplane. Recently he drew a picture picture of the Canadian northland as a region' of comparatively small industrial industrial centres, of stretches of land which are seasonally highly fertile, of small communities, unconnected by roads or railway with the , outside world, yet by no means isolated. He predicted, as others. have done, of course, that in a short time aerial transportation would become cheaper, and no less efficient. Lord Tweeds, muir, most modern of His Majesty's representatives to Canada, can see more clearly than most the straws in the wind.--Hamilton Spectator. THE EMPIRE Dote On Dancing Undoubtedly for the younger generation generation dancing is the best form of sociability, and Scottish societies who have realized this are finding that their membership is well sustained by recruits from the rising generation. generation. Young Scots down in London, like all young' people everywhere want dancing more than any other form of entertainment and the Societies are finding that where a dinner or whist drive almo'st invariably ends in a small loss a dance almost as invariably invariably comes out on the right financial side. Scottish reels are popular features features of all dance programs and there is an increasing vogue for dance bands composed of violins and melo- deons.--Edinburgh Scotsman. Colonization Is Costly Italy has won her empire. The League cannot take it from her, nor can the Abyssinians. But winning an empire and enjoying, it are two different different things--as Italy is finding. So far, the Italians have no more than scratched the surface of Abyssinia. Beyond the parts they occupy lie vast tracts of hills and forests which have still to be penetrated against hostile tribes. Military penetration or conciliation' conciliation' will take years ; commercial exploitation may take generations. To make Abyssinia a home for Italy's surplus millions, a source of. raw materials materials for Italian industry, and à market for Italian manufactures is a task that must absorb Italian energy and wealth for a long time to come. If Italy is to do it she would be wise to still the Mediterranean storm and to . stabilize, by the "Rome.Berl-in axis" or otherwise, the peace of her part of Europe.--Glasgow Herald. News in Brief Air Raid Practice BERLIN.-- Beï'lin was cloaked in gloom one night tKs week While millions fought the spectre of war in the greatest of the Third Reich's war games. Little lights and great shadows played over the darkened Capital, Secrecy guarded movements of the combined army, navy and air forces in the northern Provinces of Mecklenburg Mecklenburg and 'Pomerania where other cities were "Macked-Otit" in air defense defense practice. Sells Most Wheat WINNIPEG. -- Canada dominated world wheat trade this week with export sales estimated at more than 3,500,800 bushels but wheat prices on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange failed to reflect this substantial volume. Values sagged slightly. Refuse Moose Jaw Aid MOOSE JAW.--The Federal Government Government this week refused. Moose Jaw's request for aid to end the present city water shortage, ruling that the proposed project to pump water seventy miles from the South Saskatchewan. River must be included included in a public works program submitted submitted to the Federal Government by the Saskatchewan Governments Kitchener's New Post Office OTTAWA.---Kitchener, Ont,, is to have a new public building to house its post office,, customs, national revenue revenue and other federal government offices, it was learned this week. Contract has been awarded to Ball Brothers, Kitchener, whose tender was $229,000. Provision for the building was contained in the parliamentary parliamentary estimates for- the current., fiscal year. Saskatchewan Forest Fires Worst In History REGINA.--Forest fires in Northe- ern Saskatchewan are beyond control, control, Hon. T. G. Davis, Acting Minister Minister of Natural Resources, said this week. "The whole north is ablaze," the Minister said. "The fires are the worst in the Province's history and there is little hope for thousands of acres of timber unless rain comes immediately." Philippine Women Enfranchised MANILA.--Philipine women were enfranchised this week when the National National Assembly in special session approved approved a new election law. The Assembly provided men and women may be identified at imlling booths by birth or baptismal certificates certificates or a sworn statement of identity. identity. Under the new law each person will thumb-mark his ballot when he votes. This is for identification of contested ballots. Canton Bombed HONG KONG.--Japanese bombers soared over Canton, dumping tons of explosives on the city this week in the worst air raid the South China metropolis has experienced since the Chinese war started. Despatches said the Cantonese were panic-stricken, with hundreds of homes and buildings afire. Nine grey bombing planes appeared appeared over Canton shortly after dawn, convoyed by a .fleet of pursuit planes. planes. Chinese fliers immediately took the air to ' give battle, but the pursuit pursuit planes engaged them in dogfights dogfights while the bombers unloaded their explosives. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By ELIZABETH EEDY PARADE A commentary on the highlights of the week's news Poland Strikes at Jews The world was startled not long ago to learn that a letter written by the great Polish pianist and patriot, I. J. Paderewski, to Ills people, had been suppressed. The message he wished to convey was that Poland should not give way to civil strife and lose all that tile country has gained of democracy democracy in the years since the war. The Nazi hold on Poland seems to be increasing increasing and the freedom of its private private citizens in jeopardy. A campaign campaign of discrimination against Jews is in progress and scenes of violence are hourly occurrences in., the streets of Polish towns. Canada May Balance Budget Coming from unexpectedly increased revenues a balance may be achieved next year of the Canadian budget. For the first five months of the current fiscal fiscal year, every kind of revenue lias shown an expansion with the income tax and the sales tax being the leaders. leaders. Customs and excise duties, post office receipts follow close behind. To nullify some of the prospective increases increases will be. a considerable rise in expenditures before the, end of 1937, chiefly because of relief works and the completion of the National Defense Defense program, but this is not expected expected to hold back to any great extent our steady progress towards a balanced balanced budget. Says British Aim Is Peace Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden this week advised the world that Great Britain is committed irrevocably to a policy of rearmament unless other nations cease competing for supremacy supremacy at arms. Speaking before a hushed League of Nations assembly, Mr. Eden struck a note of mingled hope and pessimism. Despite the dark picture he painted and his implied rebukes of Germany and Italy, he emphasized Britain's determination determination still to strive for peace. "One pledge I can give unequivocally unequivocally to this assembly," he said, "is that the Government I represent will spare no endeavor to prevent war from engulfing Europe." His pledge of Britain's peaceful, purposes purposes was coupled with his statement of willingness to agree to reduction and limitation of armaments. Drought Farmers Move Out Into a small Ontario town last week poured three truck-loads of families from the drought areas of Saskatehe* wan who had come east, financed by their government, to found neW homes. The Provincial Government oi Saskatchewan allotted to each family family two freight cars for transportation transportation to Ontario of their livestock, implements and household goods; and into the bargain has agreed to pay art entire year's rent wherever they might happen to locate. Censorship In Japan Although we are three or four thousand miles from the scene of the Sino-Jap conflict, we hear of its progress progress every hour of the day, over the air, in the newspapers. But the people people of Japan are not so fortunate. They see their sons, brothers, lovers go off towards China, into the unknown. News of the war percolates back to Japan through very uncertain chan-j neis, as the government is a rigid censor. censor. We hear one story of a lady mis- , sionary to China who stopped off in the Land of the Rising Sun on her , way home to Canada. The war began while she was there. The only way sho could find out what was going on in China was to get in touch with her people here and ask them • to «end 1 news of the war back over the Pacific, Women Voters In Quebec Quebec women have the right to vote in Dominion, but not, in Provincial Provincial elections. The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada meeting last week passed a resolution asking that the Quebec executive demand from the "provincial government the right for women to exercise the franchise in provincial campaigns as well Drama For Rural Ontario Steps are being taken in response - to demands from rural amateur actors j to establish a series of drama instl- i tutes this fall and winter in rural Ontario. Ontario. Arts and crafts of the theatre ; will be studied at the institutes which j will be held for five-day periods at I many centres. The work will bo done ! under the auspices of the Community . Welfare Council of Ontario. Scores of incendiary bombs were dropped, creating terrific havoc in the area around the Canton-Hankow Railway Station, one of the principal Japanese objectives. "A Closed Incident" LONDON.--Great Britain has in- „ formed Japan she considers the airplane airplane machine-gunning of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Hugessen a closed incident. The British announcement, which followed' twenty-four. hours of new. consultations and communications between between Tokio and London, was regarded" regarded" as ending what might have developed developed into a serious -international situation. Japan admitted guilt, voiced voiced regret. Inquest Adjourned LONDON, Ont. --After a brief few minutes' session the inquest into the. mysterious death of Miss Mary Wilkinson, 37-year-old public school teacher, was adjourned sine die. Fw basically the reason that the inquest did riot proceed is that two men are charged with murder in the case. They, are the widely known, 70-yc-ar-old Dr. Charles A. Cline Sr. and 50-year-old Lauchlin J. Robertson. Robertson. Scurvy In Drought Belt OTTAWA.--Scurvy, t-he dread dis ease which, re'sults from malnutr tion, has appeared in the prairi drought belt, Agriculture Miniate Gardiner safd this week, and the Got ernment will combat it by shippin, carloads of fresh fruits, vegetable and other commodities to, the suffei ing areas. B--4 By L. Frank Baum Copyrighted 43ok, ReUiy & Lee (. But Oznia would not' abandon the venture. She looked at a silver candelabra candelabra that had ten brackets and .she Eôiight: . "This may be the Queen of t and her children." She touched it Uttered aloud the word "Ev," as p Gnome King had instructed her o when she^guessed, but the can- |fft rimained as before. Then she wandered into another room and touched a China'lamb,, thinking thinking jt might be olio of the children. But again 'she was 'unsuccessful. Just three guesses; four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten she made and still not one of them was right. The girl shivered a little and grew pale, eve» under the rosy light, • : Now not one guess remained and her own fate depended upon the result and with, an effort she calmed herself. She resolved riot to be hasty, and strolled through ail the rooms once more,, gazing' earnestly upon ,the various various orna'ments and trying to decide which she would touch. It was of no use, she could net make up her mind. Finally, in despair, Qzfria "decided to leave it entirely to chance. She faced the doorway of a room, shut her eyes ■ tight and then advanced blindly,, her right arm outstretched before her. Slowly she moved' forward until her hand touched something. She did not know what it was, but in a low voice she pronounced the, word