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üiivirOBIAL GOMM^.mT FROM r " SS, THEBE AND EVERYWHERE. highlights of the ♦ a commentary on outstanding events jane fortune CANADA A •*rari l V© Knsrhways The old method, of clearing out every Vastly ? of natural growth and leaving a bare, ugly scar across the face of nature is giving way to new ideas .of conserving highway beauty. It took ' a long time for the highway builders to come; to this better point of view, hi the past, considerations of natural 'Beauty too often have been disregarded as unimportant and impractical. impractical. They are neither, Increased use of the automobile in leisure time and recreational activities, as well as for purely business purposes, makes it important that highways, while being being made safe and durable, convenient convenient and time-saving, should be attractive, attractive, restful and enjoyable. -- Lis- towel Banner. Stfeçess et Farming The idea that; "any fool can farm" --successfully--is in some minds, but it is ' a tragic myth. The man or woman who hopes to make a success of life in the: country districts and on the land must have a. greater diversity diversity of knowledge than the person who makes a success of his or her affairs affairs in urban communities. Indeed, the person who 'knows little or nothing nothing abort land activities is astonished to discover liow resourceful even farm children are and the multitude of things they can do before they are well Into their 'teens. Certainly, if we are to have an expansion of suc- . cessful farming in this province, the old idea that, "any fool can farm" must bo driven from the minds of some in official circles.--Halifax Herald. Unending Round It's just one hang thing after the other. The ice wagon no sooner gets off the horizon than the coal cart pulls up at the cellar window.---Guelph Mercury. Advice ( t$> Parants It is perhaps too much to expect the sons and daughters of today to find ' as much interest and entertainment entertainment in family tasks as members of earlier generations did. There are too many competing interests. But the girl who learns t» cook and keep house and the boy who masters the intricacies intricacies of the family furnace or learns to. shovel walks or mow lawns with speed and completeness have learned lessons which are as valuable as any on their school curriculum. Perhaps parents have overlooked the possibilities possibilities of such homework. Children do not have to be drudges but they might actually learn to like work. -- London Free Press. World Economic Unit There is a frost in thé Argentine and Canadian wheat jumps five cents in price. In almost everything except; government, the world is a unit today, today, events in one part being reflected reflected by their effects in all parts.--Edmonton parts.--Edmonton Journal. Love Thy Neighbor Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English Speaking Union, pronounced a profound truth in Toronto when he declared: "After 25 years of travelling about the world, I have come to realize realize that the only way to save humanity humanity is. to put. Into effect the simple doctrine of the Founder of Christianity--love Christianity--love thy neighbor." -- Stratford Beacon-Herald, B--4 T K m EMPIRE The OTi.es To Decide The war in China, like all wars, is a terrible thing, and, peace is the natural natural ambition. But It- should be remembered remembered that it is China and not the Brussels Conference who is fighting, fighting, united and determined, against aggression, and so long as the Japanese Japanese continue this aggression only China can say when she lias had enough. It is not a boxing match in which diplomats have the right to throw a towel into the ring. If Japan refuses to offer reasonable terms, or if china refuses to accept those that are offered, a new situation will arise. In that case it will be the duty of the Conference not to conceal it. -- Manchester Guardian. Britain Broadcasts In tiie present century a series of foreign agencies has come Into being whose manipulation of news items, we regret to say, has shown a distinct anti-British bias. The same applies to the radio medium. The microphone has been prostituted to ulterior motives motives by other countries in scandalous fashion. The air is poisoned daily and nightly with mendacious messages and with what is worse--garbled versions ami half-truths. The nationals ,of several several countries read and hear only what dictators and government controllers desire them to receive and digest. The minds of these people are filled with distorted "intelligence" Concerning Great Britain and the Empire. We would be slow to advocate that Brit- - ain in turn should use the radio as an agency for propaganda. The broadcasting broadcasting of news, however, should achieve its own end,--Belfast Telegraph. Telegraph. Fraying Insect Is Increasing More of Strange Bugs, Natives of Europe, Are Found in Ontario The praying bug is increasing in Ontario. Take that literally. Its name is the European praying mantis. Charles E. Corfe of the Royal Ontario' Ontario' Museum suspects that these insects insects crossed from New York State, where they are believed to have been introduced on nursery stock from Europe Europe . The attitude in which they hold their front legs has given rise to the name "-praying." The word "preying" would have done just as well for they eat other insects. The female even devours her own mate. Mr. Corfe told the annual meeting 6f the Entomological Entomological Society of Ontario that their numbers have been increasing in Southern Ontario for several years. First Seen In 1914 The first one in Ontario so far as known was seen near Cooksville in 1914 by Richard Garrett of Deseron- to. Mr. Corfe also told the society that the moths--which many people mistook mistook for young humming birds last summer -- flew here from states to the south and. west of Ontario. Drought is believed to have driven them from -their homelands. F. A. Urquhart stated that the insect insect collection of the Royal Ontario Museum contained a quarter of a million specimens . Study T o .P® Made Of '"Human Clock'* Charles : Hester, Shawnee, Oklahoma's Oklahoma's human alarm clock, may soon learn what has caused the audible ' • " • ■ ; g in his head for the past 19 years, ■fjSii'r Jewell Adams, Red Cross executive, raid last week the Veterans Veterans Bureau bad arranged, for Hester-to Hester-to enter a Sh'eago hospital for d"agnosis. Hesters head has ticked Jflte à clock since *, shell exploded at his feet in the Great War. The ticking can be heard three feet away. Sporting Comment ! By KEN EDWARDS ilW jT ij i i -- J This week as promised, promised, we continue with the "official Mixing rules": 1. A cent estant shall be deemed "down" when: (a) Any part of his body other than his feet is on the ring floor; (b) He is hanging helplessly over the ropes; (c) Rising from "down" position. * * * * NOTE: A boxer hanging over the ropes is not officially "down until so pronounced by the referee, who can count the boxer out either on the ropes or on the floor. * * » * No match shall, be of more than 10 rounds in length without . special permission of the Commission and. such rounds shall be of not more than three minutes duration, with one minute minute intermission between rounds. * * * * In the event of a foul, intentional or otherwise, which prevents a man from continuing, the Commission may, in its discretion, impound the entire purse of the perpetrator of said foul, or any part of said purse for disposal. * * * * And so, my friends till next week, --Good-bye --Good luck. "Clarissn" Office Raided MONTREAL. -- Quebec Provincial Police raided the Montreal office of the Toronto newspaper, "The Daily Clarion" this week-end and seized 700 copiés of the paper along with other publications and documents. In the Park Avenue office, police said, they found also, a few copies of the Montreal French weekly, Clarté (light), whose office and printing plant were locked up a fortnight ago ynder Quebec's "padlock" law aimed at stamping out Communistic propaganda. propaganda. Disastrous Jamaican Floods KINGSTON, Jamaica.-- Fears that death toll in disastrous floods sweeping sweeping Jamaica would reach 100 or more were held this week-end after receipt of a message stating that a raging river torrent had swept through the village of Portland, taking seventy lives. Strikers Refuse WALKERTON, Ont.-- The 100 striking striking employees of the Canadian Spool and Bobbin Company this week turned down the proposal of settlement made by Company President William Shaw, and pickets continued to patrol around both plants of the factory, while production production remained at. a standstill. VïiiüAT INSTITUTE: Deploring the fact that Canada has never had a definite wheat policy, has ■ left the marketing abroad of Canadian wheat almost entirely to chance, Henry L. Griffin, Director of the Research Department Department of United Grain Growers Limited, is urging upon the Royal Grain Inquiry Commission, the formation formation of a Wheat Institute to conduct research in uses of Canadian wheat. The immediate purpose of the institute institute would be to increase Canada's export trade in wheat- Trade relations relations would have to be studied, research research made concerning markets, direct direct advertising done. Sooner or later later a market plan for wheat would lead to planned marketing of alt other other farm products. * * , * TENSION EASED: Since Britain's commercial recognition last month of Ges. Franco's ascendancy in Spain, tension has gradually been easing off in the civil war crisis there. Three other factors have in the meantime operated to reduce the situation to Hitler's . Demands LONDON.--Chancellor Hitler was reported tills week by diplomatic sources to have asked Viscount Halifax Halifax during their conversations in Germany Germany for three definite commitments, an regarded as Inacceptable to Great Britain, These sources said Hitler asked for ; 1-- British recognition that Germany has "special interests" in Central Europe. 2-- Abandonment of Britain's attempt attempt to obtain a general European settlement. 3-- Agreement that the question of colonies and all other questions concerning concerning Germany be settled bilaterally and without connection with the League of Nations. Air Force In Plot PARIS. -- The terroristic plot of "Les Cagoulards" (Hooded Men) to overthrow the Government by revolution, revolution, set rip a Fascist dictatorship and ultimately restore the monarchy, led investigators this week to the high command of the French air force. Within eighteen hours after Minister Minister of interior Marx Dormoy announced announced that the sensational expose involved involved leaders of the defense forces' agents of the Surete Nationale seized General Edouard Buseigneur, retired Commander of the air force. Territorials Re-organized LONDON,--Fundamental changés in the organization of Great Britain's territorial army to bring it up to the level of a regular force which can be used'in the front line immediately on the outbreak of war were announced 'this week by Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary for War. Says Recession Temporary DETROIT.--Henry Ford, in an interview interview here, said that the present business business recession is "temporary and artificial." artificial." "No one," he said, "need look at next year with any uncertainty. The present slow-down is not a set-back; it's the pause before another climb. Two things helped to bring it on just now and one" of them was the uncertainty uncertainty of business regarding political interference, but Congress is taking care of that. The other was the stock market fluctuation. its quietest since July 1936:--Franco's 1936:--Franco's willingness to establish, if he wins the war, a pro-British monarchy in Spain; withdrawal of Russian participation participation in the conflict; departure of 20,000 Italian troops from Spain and from the Balearics, a bad danger-spot. danger-spot. It is expected that other powers will shortly rush to recognize Franco, with Japan, Portugal, Austria, Austria, Hungary and Poland in the lead. It's all just dandy, except that the poor Spanish Government (Loyalist) is left out in the cold. * * * STATION NEAR POLE: Interest in the potentialities of Canada's Arc-. tic areas was given a big lift this summer by Baron Tweedsmuir's tour of the Northwest Territories, and by the penetration into those distant regions regions of ten separate scientific expeditions. expeditions. The secrets of the North have a greater drawing power than ever. Now a proposal comes that the Dominion Government build and maintain a scientific station somewhere somewhere near the centre of the Arctic Archipelago, a headquarters from which expeditions could operate. The Department of Mines and Resources have the matter under consideration and. will probably discuss it with leading scientists interested in Arctic Arctic exploration. The site proposed for the station is on the northern end of Boothia Peninsula, the most northerly northerly mainland on the Continent. 'Twill come in handy a few years hence when we begin spending our week-ends - at thé Pole. * * * $1500 INCOME: A survey undertaken undertaken in the smaller cities of the United United States reveals that the annual income of the typical American family family is close to $1,500. From $156 to $288 of this goes for rent, the greater greater part of the remainder buys food and clothing for the family. The average size of families on relief in nineteen cities ranges, from_ 3-4 to 5.1, while for non-relief families the average is 3.2 to 4.5. Interesting figures, those, from which a numoer of far-reaching conclusions may be drawn. Colorful sidelight on the story comes from another report, made by a commission of economists and statisticians statisticians financed by the U.S. Government,. Government,. which shows that the potential potential income of every family in ^the country amounts to $4,400. There's a leakage, somewhere, of $2,900, which certain authorities attribute to economic economic waste. i * * * FASCISM IN AMERICA: Brazil's fifth Constitution was proclaimed last week by President Vargas, naming naming himself as Supreme Head of the State with dictatorial powers. The democratic world was startled and a little apprehensive at this manifestation manifestation of growing Fascism, the establishment establishment of America's first totalitarian totalitarian state. The new decree abolishes Parliament, replacing it with two impotent, impotent, hand-picked bodies which can be jailed or dismissed at will; puts industry, agriculture, commerce, transport and banking under a new corporative "Council of National Economy", Economy", also dismissable. The ma n hope of democratic countries is that the new Brazilian set-up will prove just another dictatorship of the La- tin-American pattern with none of the rampant imperialism of the tru< Fascist state, (such as Italy an# Germany.) i THE WONDERLAND OF OZ 1 tiÊMÊ xmmm The lady's eyes were round with astonishment tor she could not Imagine Imagine where she was. "Good morning, ma'am," said Billina, "you're looking quite well, Considering your age." "Who speaks?" demanded the Queen of Ev. "Why, my name is Bill," answered answered the hen, "although Dorothy calls me Billina. I've saved you from the Gtwme King." "Then I thank you for the favour," said the Queen, "but my children, where are my children?" she entreated. entreated. "Don't worry about them," advised advised Billina. "Just at present they are out of mischief and perfectly safe, as a matter of fact, they can't even wiggle." wiggle." "What, do you mean?" demanded demanded the Queen, looking at Billina anxiously. anxiously. âSiSlw, SfOOSy y I» / SSI Eittiiy & i*sa Co. "They are enchanted," returned the hen, calmly. "Oh, my poor darlings!" cried the Queen with a sob of anguish "Don't let that worry you, ma'am," said Billina, "I'll set tjiem free in- a minute. Come with me and "I'll show you how pretty they look." She flew down from her perch and walked into the next room. As they passed a low table, a small green grasshopper caught Billina's eye, and instantly she pounced upon it, snapping it up in her sharp till, for grasshoppers are a favorite food with hens and they usually must be caught quickly ^before they hop away. The grasshopper Was the object Into which Qzma had been transformed.