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 L - BSSd : NEWS INTERPRETED 1 A Commentary 1 0» the More Important Events I of the Week, §4 By ELIZABETH. EEDY ' _â€"„ , â€" HIDE AND SEEK: His Holiness Pope Pius XI hasn’t much liking for LBolf Hitler in view of the persecu- tion that priests of the Catholic Church have undergone in Germany. But when der Fuehrer refused to iÿ|èk an audience with the Pope on Ms recent visit to Rome, the dis- pleasure of the Vatican dropped to a new low. To show Adolf Hitler that his latest discourtesy had not gone upnoticed, His Holiness closed the .Vatican museums during the whole period of Hitler’s stay. The instant Hitler said good-hye to Rome, the museums were thrown upen again to the public. * * * #: MEDALS OF MERIT: This week at Toronto the Royal Society of Canada is presenting medals of merit to three distinguished Canadians. The awards this year go to Colonel William Wood, of Quebec City, auth- or of many historical volumes, for outstanding work in connection with the history of Canada; Mazo de la Roche, Toronto-born author of the "Jalna” novels, “for accomplishing in imaginative or critical literature some achievement of significance or conspicuous merit”; Dr. W. Lash Miller, Professor of Physical Chem- istry at the. University of Toronto, for his pioneer work in. several new fields of scientific interest, * * * * “WE’RE SELFISH UP HERE”: The former Australian Trade Minis- ter, Sir Henry Gullett, is criticising Canada’s “grave injustice to Aus- tralian manufacturers and British exporters.” Under the present Aus- tralian-Canada tariff agreement, he says, movement of goods between the two Dominions “is amazingly one- sided” and the Australian market and the Australian secondary indus- tries are being thrown open to pref- erential competition from Canadian manufacturers as well as from the United Kingdom. The Australian Trade Minister re- signed last year because preferential treatment extended to Canada under the Australian - Canada agreement was a “very bad one-sided bargain”, * * * * FORGOTTEN MEN: Names not in the news these days are legion. The daily papers are too busy tell- ing us about the latest war develop- ments, too crowded with stories of munitions contracts being let, to fea- ture Mahatma Ghandi (for instance) ; the Duke of Windsor (except to mention that his bathtub isn’t of 20- carat gold); the Queen of Egypt; Kemal Ataturk (who is doing so much to make a modern country out of Turkey); the Pankhursts; Itev. Israel Noe (who starved himself within an inch of the grave) ; Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton. And there are many, many others. About some of them, however, we might cheerfully say, “Good riddance!” * * * * TWENTY MONTHS TOO LATE: “People who talk of preventing an- other great war,” says Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, one of the world’s three of four greatest military ex- perts, “are already twenty months out of date. The second Great War Bâ€"D of- the twentieth century began in July, 1936, in Spain, following the encouragement and experience which had been gained by Japan in Man- churia and Italy in Abyssinia in defy- ing the League of Nations and de- veloping the new technique of camou- flaged war.” Grave words, those, yet they ap- pear to be the truth, nevertheless. It is too late for us to stop what has already been set in motion. We have only the power to check the progress of events which are now in the offing Continuing, Liddell Hart declares: “that we have failed to see this war in progress is due to the fact that we are still thinking politically, whereas the dictator states are think- ing militarily.” * * * ' * FARMS IN THE NORTH: Thous- ands of fertile acres ih Northern Al- berta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are lying idle, according to Mr. Rene Pelletier, M.P. for Peace River, while thousands of farmers are living in the drought areas of the West at heavy government expense. Following this statement, Mr. Pelletier makes the sensible sugges- tion that a scientific survey of the northern sections of the Prairie Provinces be made with a view to settling people from the dried-out areas on suitable farming land far- ther north. There are also vast portions of Northern Ontario that could be util- ized for a similar purpose, sections where there is rich, fertile agricul- tural soil not now in production, * « * * WHY THE DELAY: Trans-Can- ada Airlines are having difficulty get- ting started'on its first year, a com- plete air service across the coun- try. They are encountering trouble particularly in establishing the Win- nipeg-Mpntreal run. Reason for the delay: Planes which the company hoped soon to secure.from the manu- facturers are reportedly being sold to the Japanese Government who are offering a higher price for the ma- chines. 1,000,000 Volt Cancer Killer Latest weapon in the world war against cancer hails from Boston, Mass., where scientists have produc- ed a mammoth X-ray machine of one million voltage. Doctors are chary of premature boasting. “Time alone can tell,” they say. So far, amazing successes have been recorded during a six- months’ trial test. Of a hundred cases treated, every sufferer from a certain type of cancer is today in perfect health. It is emphasized that the machine is not a wonder-worker. It .merely helps to eradicate a given number of cancer types. A two-million volt X- ray is said to be on the way. This would, it is claimed, give better and cheaper results. "When their plane crashed near Durban, South Africa, two flyers fell on telephone wires and escaped death. Filtered Water Harbors Fauna- Microscopic Creatures Are Found in Filter Beds, First Cousins To The Shrimp A complaint of “insects” in the fil- tered water of a near-London, Eng- land, water supply led to the discovery of some strange microscopic intrud- ers. One species is first cousin to the freshwater shrimp, hut differs from it in certain fundamentals: its subter- ranean existence bleaching it white, and being responsible for the absence of any eyes. Niphargus aquilex is the name of this gate-crasher in the fam- ily water supply. In addition to Ni- phavgus, two other minute species had made their way through the filter beds. At another water supply yet a fur- ther cousin of the freshwater shrimp was discovered, Eucrangonyx gracilis, which hitherto had been found only in Canada and the United States. How these various specimens came to be in the sand of the filter beds in England is a matter of mystery, and their elim- ination not easy once they have estab- lished themselves below the sand and in the culverts. These shrimp-like creatures are harmless, but an unne- cessary nuisance. Hews In Brief Two Missionaries Shot PEIPING. -- Death of two British missionaries because Chinese guerilla hands failed to recognize the British flag and took them for Japanese spies occurred here last week. The victims were Dr. H. G. Wyatt, a physician, and Miss Beulah Glasby. The story was brought back by a fel- low missionary who was travelling with them north of Taiyuanfu, Shansi Province Capital, where the incident occurred. â€"oâ€" Half  City Sold CARDIFF, WALES. -- Practically half a city changed hands this week when the immensely wealthy Mar- quess of Bute sold part of this world port of 200,000 population for a price understood to be about £20,000,000 ($1.00,000,000). The real estate deal was believed to be the largest ever recorded in Great Britain. â€"oâ€" Germany Speeds Danube Project BERLIN.â€"The Government decreed this week that the Rhine-Danube Can- al via the River Main be completed by 1945. Simultaneously the Danube will be developed as a “Reich waterway” up to the new Gorman border below Vienna. The decree represents considerable speeding up of one of Europe’s most important waterway projects because the original plan envisaged 1950 as the completion date. But the decree says: “Austria’s reunion with the German Reich and the execution of the four- year plan demand speedier completion of the project.” : j> -â€"oâ€" .Mew Beef Marketing Policy OTTAWA.â€"A new marketing policy for Canadian beef, through which it is hoped ultimately to send 200,000 head of cattle a year to Great Britain and 200,000 to the United States was out- lined to the House of Commons this week by Hon. James G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture. The policy is only in its experiment- al stage, the Minister admitted, and only twenty-five fcarcases per week are being shipped. CANADA Drastic Expedient The Primitive tribes of Africa are reported to be scaring their children with stories of civilization.â€"Hamilton Spectator. In Time for the Next The first volume of Canada’s official war history has at last appeared. When the final volume reaches the public, most of the survivors of the war will probably be in their graves.â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. Plenty of Old Crocks Of 359 cars tested by 'expert mech- anics in Port Hope this week only 49 were found in proper mechanical con- dition. Either the cars in Port Hope are exceptionally bad or there's a lot of old “crocks” in the province.â€" Owen Sound Sun-Times. Radium in Canada The discovery of radium in a remote region of Canada was a veritable god- send since this rarest of minerals was previously 'found in only one part of the world, the Belgian Congo mines in Africa. Up to a few years ago radium cost $70,000 a gram before the Belgian monopoly was broken by Canadian competition. Thus radium was made more available to combat the dread scourge of -- m ,â€"Kitchener Record. What A Picture! The picture of nine provincial sweepstakes each occurring several times a year is not one to contemplate with easy complacency. Once each province was well set up in the sweep- stake business, the element f compe- tition would, no doubt, come into play and Prince Edward Island gave more in prizes than any other, as it could well afford to do, it would prob- ably get the largest share of the na- tion’s sweepstake dollars.â€"Financial Times, Montreal. Mounties on Display People away from the U.S. border do not understand the American de- sire to see a Mountie. It would pay Windsor and the Soo to stand the ex- pense of getting members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stationed at. each place. As both cities already have members of the force stationed on their borders, and as tourists want to see them why can’t a sensible ar- rangement be made? U. S. fathers have told this column that the reason they came to town was to let their children see our famous R.C.M.P.’s. Can’t the force recruit a few more men, or use those whose age justifies a sôft job?â€"Sault Ste. Marie Star. He Can’t Get Away With It Walter Wincheli gets away with his keyhole reporting in a big city, and is well paid for it. The same stuff in a small town would bring him to fist fights very quickly. We nick-named an ardent fisherman “The grasshopper king”, and he came around and gave us his opinion, which wasn’t compli- mentary. Other little references of a humorous nature have caused a near fight at times, simply because we are so convenient to be got at that almost before the ink on the paper is dry someone comes around with revenge gleaming in his eye and threatens to clean up the whole gang in the print shop. We usually keep the type mal- let within range so that if the callers become too threatening we can take up arms in defence of the liberty of the press.â€"Coleman, Alta., Journal. THE EMPIRE Where the Japanese Erred Had (the Japanese militarists’) am- bitions been less grandiose, had they attempted to make Nationalist China an equal ally instead of an anti-Com- muhist pawn, they might without seri- ous sacrifices have enormously strengthened the political and econ- omic position of their island empire, and established a powerful barrier against the further advance of Rus- sian bayonets and ideas in Eastern Asia. So far from effecting this, they have first spurred the Soviet Union to improve its own military position in the Far Blast and they have now given it the chance of playing the role of tertius gaudens. They have made China their enemy for many a year; they have alarmed their German as- sociates in the anti-Comintern Pact, whose efforts at mediation wer^ dash- ed by the Japanese Government’s manifesto refusing to deal with the Chinese Central Government; and their conduct, of the military campaign â€"including above all the undisciplined excesses that followed the capture of Nanking and have been reported in bétail by trust- orthy eye-witnessesâ€" 1 -.s not contributed to improve their country’s reputation in the English- speaking world. In fact, they appear to have achieved the opposite of what they set out to do.â€"The Times, Lon- don, Canadians May Submit Designs Architects, Sculptors and Contrac- tors to Consider Plans For Cuban Memorial An opportunity for Canadian archi- tects, sculptors, engineers and contrac- tors to compete in the designing and construction of a monument to the memory of Jose Marti, Cuban patriot and writer, was announced last week at Ottawa by G. de la Campa, consul- general of Cuba. Joint plans for the monument to be erected on the crest of a hill in Ha- vana’s newly planned civic centre must be submitted by an architect and a sculptor. The competition, open to qualified sculptors and architects in the 22 countries of North, South and Central America will close on October 8. First Prize $10,000 Cost of the Cuban monument has been set by the Cuban government at from $500,001: to $600,000. Provision is to be made for space in the base a library and museum to house the lit- erary works " ° Cuban patriot. First prize will be $10,000; second prize, $5,000 ; third prize, $2,000 and five prizes of $1>000 each. Announcement.:: of prize-winners ill be made on November 9, the pro- ject to ber'- ”),lr *nber 1, and be com- pletel by January 22, 1940, to enable the inauguration ceremonies to take place on January 28, 1940, the 87th an- niversary of Marti’s birth. During general knowledge con- tests in Dublin, Ireland, the judges were surprised to learn that Irish history was little known to Irish- men. Iceland is now shipping mutton regularly to Britain. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ “A Princess!” exclaimed her uncle and aunt in surprise. “Yes! .Ozma made me a Princess some time ago and She has asked me to come and live in the Emerald City,” said the girl. Her uncle and aunt looked at each other in astonishment, then the man said: “Do you suppose you could return to your fairyland, my dear?" “Oh, yes,” replied Dorothy, “I could do that easily," “How?” asked Aunt Em, “Ozma sees me every Saturday morning in her magic picture,” ex- plained Dorothy. “She can see me wherever I am, and at that time, it T make a certain secret sign, she will send for me by means of the magic belt which I captured from the Gnome King. Then immediately I shall be with Ozma in her palace.” The elder people remained silent for some time after Dorothy had spoken. Copyrighted 1DS2, Reilly A Lee C*. “If that is the case, Dorothy," said Aunt Em, “perhaps you had better go and live in Oz with her, it will break our hearts to lose you, but you will be so much better off that it seems wisest and best for you to go.” “I’m net so sure,’’ remarked Uncle Henry, doubt- fully. “I’m afraid our little girl won't find her fairyland just what she had dreamed it to be.” V o 1° Dorothy laughed merrily at this, and then became very sober, for she could see how worried her aunt and uncle were and that unless she found a way to help them, tlieir lives would be very unhappy. She knew that she could help. She had thought of a way. She did not tell them at once what it was, because she must first ask Oznia’s con- sent before she could carry out her plans.