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t- The Papers Say CANADA ■ ' Comparing Casualty Lists One hundred and five British flyers have been killed in accidents tills Sear. That record sounds bad until ffc is compared with the highway ifasualty list during the same period. '^-Peterborough Examiner. Where St AH Goes : How much Canadian nickel has -gone, and is going, into the manufacture manufacture of the ' world's instruments of War in these years since 1918? That, ft seems to us, is a question the Canadian Canadian people should put to themselves themselves soberly,; earnestly. Because it 'does involve a most serious responsibility.--Halifax responsibility.--Halifax Herald. EDITORIAL COMMENT B'ROM S herb, there and ! everywhere. ard of living. r fii6 ■ nEitionnl policy of Canada must surely be designed: first to maintain this standard at home by productive labor applied to home resources. resources. Canadian enterprise in world markets could follow, under conditions of greater Security for Canadian workers, when national prosperity is no longer dependent upon competition with workers abroad - under a lower standard of living. It will call for more light on -Parliament Hill. -- Ottawa C.iti- News In Brief Those Radio Licenses The government department issuing issuing radio licenses might save "itself a great deal of work ' and householders householders a lot of inconvenience if collect- prs were supplied with adequate and reliable information las to those who have remitted their fee. Only a government government could afford to offend the public by demanding that householders householders .produce, evidence! that license fees have been paid.---Financial Times, Where Dîssenti-îs Treason It becomes the ! people of /the democracies to take note of what is going on in the nations of the other persuasion. We have a right to say 'and believe, on th /evidence that is available, that human life is better to live in the democracies than in the dictatorships. That is a very simple way of putting it, but that is the apt expression of what, matters. There is a terror abroad in those countries. Men are not free to speak their minds. What we call opposition to the government, those countries know only as treason. -- Vancouver Province. The Bicycle Craze There has been as astounding increase increase in the patronage of bicycles. in Ontario. Especially in the cities, towns and villages lias the bicycle attained attained the popularity that was characteristic characteristic of 40 years ago. In the last nineties there was a bicycle craze in Canada and the United States. Even the most inferior roads were swarming with male and female bicyclists. Touring clubs were formed formed and there was much organization to promote rides to various parts of the country. Special. trucks were built for racing' and circuits were formed for the holding of races at night at electrically lighted speedways.--Sarnia speedways.--Sarnia Observer. A National Trade Policy Without suggesting that Canada should turn away from the policy of exporting to markets abroad,, it is becoming becoming more than ever apparent that the Government's reliance on the capture of world markets' is devoid of any promise of sustained prosperity prosperity at home, The productive resources resources of this Dominion are more than sufficient to assure every Canadian Canadian worker of an abundant stand- Kemove License Plates Ifc is generally admitted that one of the most effective means of remedying? violations of the traffic laws is the removal of license p.ates for a definite period from the cars involved in the offences. . . .. . A driver may treat a fine lightly but, as The Ottawa Journal suggests, "an offending driver then would come under .the force of domestic or business business displeasure and resentment. That is perfectly true, and if the penalty of removing the license plates from the curs were carried out, their. owners would be exceedingly exceedingly careful as to who was permitted permitted to drive. Certainly the only remedy for the carelessness and recklessness that is abroad today on the part of a small percentage of drivers is' :#y the imposition of drastic drastic penalties, hence the sooner the Highways Department decides Upon the' removal of license plates in addition addition to the other penalties impeded the sooner will the highways become safer for law-abiding motorists. -- Brantford Expositor. They. Are'Not Exhibits Dr. A. E. Dafoe, physician of the Dionne quintuplets, has spoken out against treating the babies experimentally experimentally as "guinea pigs." He referred referred to the statement of Dr.. Lee E. Rigid 1 , before the International Congress of Radiology, at Chicago, that the quints might help the science of heredity materially by being subjected subjected to complete X-ray examinations. examinations. The story of the five babies is a dramatic one. But any tendency to regard them as exhibits or as material material for laboratory probing is a regrettable regrettable one. There are human lives involved in Callander, and the supreme right to develop as normal children. Otherwise they drop into the classification of freaks, adding another sorry chapter to the exploitation exploitation of physically unique people whose birthright is their greatest handicap. To overcome that handicap handicap should be the main goal of those who have the interests of the babies at heart. Anything that would aggravate aggravate it should be. checked at the start.--Hamilton Spectator. Fire Bern 8 Great Damage CHICAGO A terrific explosion and fire damaged the main building of the Swift and Company plant in the stockyards this week- The blast followed an outbreak of fire on the third- or fourth floor and officials estimate the damage might run as high as $200,000. ' 4 Injured in Explosion BASLE, Switzerland -- Four men were killed and 11 injured when an air compressor producing pressure oi 0,000 pounds per square inch exploded. exploded. in the Burckardt machine factory while undergoing final tests. . Several Several of the injured may die. Test Flights To Start' WINNIPEG--Test flights over the western section of the Trans-Canada Airlines should be under way in about two weeks, says Philip Johnson, Johnson, Vice-President in charge of operations operations of the airline. Officials expect to adhere to original original plans, beginning operations from Winnipeg westward, with eastern eastern lines opening later, Johnson indicated. indicated. He said he believed regular operations on the western section would begin next spring. By ELIZABETH EEOY mm <ese> A commentary on the highlights of the week's news KK.wtiffl/trar.u», THE EMPIRE Sign of Social Progress In the small groups of English folk found all over the Empire, every one knows every one else, hence the bank clerk's wife will be entertained by (and must in her turn entertain) the British Consul's lady. There is con- Russia Helping China TOKIO--A "certain quarter" (presumably (presumably the War Office) has been informed that Soviet Russia is furnishing furnishing men and munitions to China in her war with - Japan, the Dornei Agency reports. Ten Russian officers are assisting in the defense of China's national Capital, Nanking, according to the report, and Marshal Vassili Bluecii- er, commander of the Soviet Far- Eastern army, is in daily radio-telephone radio-telephone conversation with the Soviet military attache in Nanking, General General Lepin. $50,000 Building Addition ORILLIA--Word of a new $50,000 building to be; started immediately at the Ontario Hospital near here,. sequently a leveling of classes, and the leveling is upwards. Every one .uses- finger bowls.---London Queen. Problems of Eastern Europe "The problem of Eastern and Central Europe is the one which, if mishandled, is most likely to lead to a general war. And it is the one in which British policy finds it most difficult difficult to follow a clear line. On the one hand the electorates of Great Britain, and still more of the oversea oversea Dominions, view Eastern Europe as the field in which their own interests interests are least directly engaged, in which they can exercise the least direct direct military force, and in which they are least willing to commit .themselves .themselves beforehand. "Indeed, with a navy which cannot reach Eastern Europe at all, an army which has practically no European expeditionary force, and a home air force which is unlikely, to reach parity parity in numbers with Germany, the only way in which Great Britain could exert direct force would be by turning what might be a local conflict conflict into a world war. On the other- hand, neither Great Britain nor any Dominion can be indifferent to alterations alterations in the status quo in Eastern Eastern Europe, especially if they are brought about by power politics or war, because of the far-reaching effect effect they may have upon the balance of power in the world as a whole.-- Round Table Magazine,  New Civilization In North Just back from" a tour by airplane of the Central Manitoba mining area, Northern Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories as far north as the Arctic Circle on Great Bear Lake, the Dominion Minister of Mines, Hon. T. A. Crerar sects in the Canadian North with its slower tempo, a more contemplative people arising, a people people with more time and aptitude for thought, not beset by city excitement and quite content to do without it. The Minister declared that a prosperous prosperous future lies ahead of the newer mining Helds up there and there is room for tremendous development. With water transportation available everywhere, in the summertime, and 'almost year-round air service, it is believed believed facilities will be ideal for establishment establishment of a comfortable civilization. Qsiirals Have Complete- Set This week Yvonne Dionne cut her twentieth tooth, the last of the Quintuplets Quintuplets to acquire the full score of baby grinders,. The Five now have 100 teeth amongst them. , Rome-Berlin Axis Ever since the autumn of 1935 when Germany refused to join with the other European nations in imposing sanctions on Italy for her aggression in Abyssinia, v.e have . been hearing the phrase, "Rome-Berlin axis." Especially Especially of late, in the Mediterranean crisis when Italy was; accused of piracy piracy and nations rallied to one side or another. Last week the "axis" was. made doubly solid by the visit of Mussolini to Adolf Hitler. The speeches of both men on that occasiop while reaffirming their united front against Bolshevism, declared also tha| Naziism and Fascism are joined in q common desire for world peace. Wii.ll the cementing of such a bond, entereq also by Britain, and later France, wj may see a better day dawn for Euf ope and thé world. Terminal Market Proposed. "A terminal market in Torontj would do a great deal towards rectify ing sorry conditions in Ontario where by farmers, in the Holland Marsh fini themselves possessed of bountiful crops and no markets," declared thi Deputy Minister of Agriculture, J. B Fairbairn. "All produce would com! to the one market," he sugg "thus permitting control of supply demand, better prices to producers.' 1 Many parts of Ontario ! are similarlj hit each year, the fruit-growing dis tricts included, and the crops rot oi farms because of poor markets. Rljyht Jcbs" For Jobless Surveys being made under the head-, ship of the National Employment Commission Commission are attempting classification of all unemployed persons in Canada! to discover forms of work to which they are best suited. Eventually it is hoped to have every relief recipient: ..classified according- to hist fitness fori some form of employment. Special, mention will be made also if the job- ' less man is permanently unemployable: as a result of some physical, tm-nlui or social handicap. j was received this week. The three- storey building will accommodate additional dining facilities in the basement and day rooms on all other other floors. Says Bombing Was Necessary TOKIO T- The Japanese Government Government has defended as strategically necessary the aerial bombing of Nanking-, Nanking-, which drew protests from world Governments, including Great Britain Britain and the United States. The Japanese point of view was contained in a reply, to the formal United 'States protest of Sept. 22, transmitted after oral representations representations against Japan's announced intentions intentions of subjecting the Chinese Capital to a mass aerial bombardment bombardment . Shanghai Lines Hold SHANGHAI --• Chinese defenders of Shanghai held their lines intact after weathering a terrific offensive into which Japan hurled every weapon weapon she could muster. • After some of the fiercest close- range fighting on the Shanghai front since the outbreak of the conflict, the front was silent. of the defenseless " Chinese civilian population," the National Council of Labor urged the Government to ban war material sales or monetary loans to Japan. 70-00 Ask Aherhart 'Resign } EDMONTON--Resolutions approv- ! ed at a meeting- sponsored by the People's League of Alberta. dcmaV 3 ed resignation of Premier AbevlnvL ! and his government and urged unity of opposition parties in an effort to i "free the people from the tyranny of the Social Credit Government." 700 ; were present at the meeting. Urge Japanese Boycott LONDON--Great Britain's resentment resentment against Japanese aerial activity activity in China was voiced this week by industrialists and labor leaders in separate meetings • Expressing deep horror at the "barbarous and systematic massacre by Japanese aircraft and submarines Wants International Crime Commission , WASHINGTON--Establishment of an International Crime Commission ! linking Canadian, United States and ' Mexican police, was. proposed this week by Colonel S. T. Wood of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. At a fete at Burbage, near Marlborough, Marlborough, Eng., Lord Finlay was awarded by two women judges the first prize in a competition for men's ; ankles. Mrs. M. Leg-g, aged 93, has completed completed her 81st year as teacher in the Methodist Church in Winton, Eng., and she plans to continue teaching. Miss Florence Loft, aged 36, of Swanscombe, Kent, Eng., an English field worker died from burns after preventing some children from, going near a fire she had lit in a field. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum teVALT SPOUSE/ Copyrighted 1933. Keiily 4 Uo Co. & w/iiml/ll m. iv sLi % I SUÉS mmmoi Grasping the object, Ozma.^in a low voice, pronounced the word "Eyv" The rooms were quite empty of life after that. That Gnome King had gained a new ornament, for upon the edge of the table rested a pretty grasshopper which seemed to have been formed from a single emerald- It was all that remained of Ozma of 0a. ' In the throne room, just beyond the palace, the Gnome King suddenly suddenly looked up and smiled. "Next," lie sMd, in .his pleasant voice. Dorothy, the Scare-.row and the Tin Woodman who had been sitting in anxious silence silence eaoh 'cave; a start of dr,may and stare 1 into one another's eyes. "Has she fails asked Tiktok. "So it seems," answered the little Monarch, cheerfully. But that is no reason why one of you should not succeed. The next may have twelve guesses Instead of eleven, for there are now twelve: persons transformed into ornâmes is.. Well, well, which of you ' gees jw, t. 'w <■ go," said Dorothy,; .stepping for oui d. "Not so," replied the Tin Woodman. Woodman. "As' commander of OznWs army, it. is my privilege to" follow her and attempt her rescue." "Away you go then," said the scarecrow. "But be careful old friend." "I will," promised' the Woodman, and .then he followed the Gnome King to the 1 entrance of tne palace -and the rock portal closed behind him.