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%ea)$ Çkteds Commentary on the Highlights of the Week’s News THE NEXT SESSION: The House of Commons at Ottawa cannot afford to remain up for long. There’s a new Canada-Unit- ed States trade agreement in the offing, the pressure of world events is more concentrated than ever before. So Parliament will likely reconvene in October. If it doesn’t, it should .... The next session cannot help but be interesting. In the mean- time the Quebec and Ontario pro- vincial governments will have shot off a few fireworks, most em- barrassing' to Ottawa, and rumors of an early general election will have become increasingly persist- ent throughout the land. Who knows but that it; may be a momentous session, too, capable of reshaping the destiny of Can- ada? Maybe so, but we very much doubt it. » * * OUT TO BEAT NATURE: The West is facing the best crop prospects in eight years, but while looking forward with much joy to a bountiful harvest,- prairie far- mers nevertheless are mindful that there is no guarantee that the blight of drought will not strike again next season. They are grateful, then, for the work that is being done by the Dominion Government to produce a grain that will stand up against a lack of moisture. The first Canadian experiments in search of such a wheat are being carried on at Swift Current, Saskatchewan. The scientists at work on the job haven’t progressed very far yet, but they believe they are on the right track. Should they suc- ceed in finding- a drought-resist- ant wheat, they will receive as much recognition as came to " Sir Charles Saunders for discovering Marquis wheat. This famous grain overcame the menace of early frosts, but could not withstand the onslaughts of rust and drought. Now, fust-resistant wheat has sup- erseded Marquis on the prairies. Thus only one of the three ma- 4lw ies remains to be this objective is Canadian West .conquerable. - * * * _____â€"APING THE HEAT: Down here in Ontario we have plenty of reason to complain of the heat these summer days. We pant, puff, perspire from dawn to dark. We would feel less sorry for our- selves, however, if wo paused to . . . By Elizabeth Eedy think of what it would be like to live in the Arctic regions, where the sun shine 24 hours a day and night-time brings no blessed cool- ness. Be thankful for small mercies. * * ' * LIFE - LINE THREATENED: The London, England, News Chronicle this week makes start- ling disclosure of a plan allegedly cooked up by the two partners of the Rome-Berlin axis which aims at the closing of the Mediterran- ean to Great Britain and a cutting off of the Empire Cape route to the Ear East. This double objec- tive would be achieved by the seizure of Gibraltar (already dominated by German long-range guns); by having General Franco (should he win the Spanish war) turn and seize Portugal (Gibral- tar cannot be held without Portu- gal). The purpose behind the plan is said to be the crippling of both Britain and France, the latter being cut off from her important army reserve in North America, HOLY LAND’S UNHOLY ROW: The worst troubles in recent Pales- tine history broke out there the beginning of this month with the hanging of a 19-year-old Jew who had ambushed an Arab bus. Riots have been continuing ever since while casualty lists mount daily. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded. In the midst of this reign of terror British troops are attempt- ing to restore some kind of order. Soldiers are stationed in every village in the zone of violence, but bombings, stabbings keep on happening. For hundreds of years the Arabs and the Jews have been hostile to one another. They each want the Holy Land to them- selves for religious as well as economic reasons. The partition- ing of Palestine among Jews, Arabs and British as recommended last summer by a British Com- mission has therefore not been found popular. In fact the pres- entation of the report was a sig- nal for the outbreak of new vio- lence. It is difficult to see where it is all going to end. * # * THE WEEK’S QUESTION: Who is frequently said to be the most unpopular diplomat in Eur- ope? Answer: Colonel Josef Beck, Poland’s Foreign Minister. Educate Indians To Housekeeping Saskatchewan Seeks to Aid In- dian Families in Raising .. Standard of Livingâ€"-Women Taught Housecraft. Education of Indian women in household arts, with a view to promoting a higher standard of living among the tribes, has been undertaken by the Saskatchewan Department of Indian Affairs with the co-operation of women’s dubs, states a recent despatch from Winnipeg. “The Indian woman has more influence over her husband than the white woman has over hers,” claimed Dr. Thomas Robertson, Inspector of Indian Agencies in Saskatchewan: “In the past not enoûgh attention has been paid them. Money has been spent on men for farming equipment and improvements, but the depart- ment now aims at a higher stand- ard of living through women’s education. Eager to Learn “Requests of Indian women that meetings sponsored by the department be devoted to work shows the interest they are tak- ing in their work,” Dr. Robertson said. “Indian women, young and old, are eager to learn.” At the meetings they are be- ing instructed in sewing, knitting, canning, cooking' and other household arts. Dr. Robertson be- lieves craft work has improved 50 per cent, in many Indian homes in the past two years. Children are learning to spin in schools and are teaching others in h'-me.-i. \ "many is issuing better tor- es'for soldiers marching at ht so they may be worn on •-ck and thus be visible for nger distances. Radium Must Be - Coaxed From Ore OTTAWA, â€" The method by which Canada’s sub-Arctic deposits of life-saving radium are ‘‘coaxed" out of the pitch-blende ore mined oil the shore of Great Bear Lake near the Arctic Circle have been revealed for fie first time. Marcel Pochon, chief chemist, of the Eldorado Gold Mines, Limited, an! E. J. Wall!, mine engineer, des- cribed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its summer meeting the methods used in mining, transporting and refining radium. Radium might be called a “coy” element, the Eldorado company spe- cialists declared, since it is very difficult to e tract from the other valuable minerals which occur in combination with it. In early refin- ing operations, silver was consid- ered a nuisance in efforts to pull the radium out of the pitchblende ore. Today, however, these and other difficulties have been largely over- come by new chemical methods em- ployed in a recently completed re- finery at Port Hope, Ont,, and both the radium and silver can be ex- tracted without waste. The ore is first roasted in fur- naces and washed with large quan- tities of acid to remove the silver and uranium. The ore which re- mains is then treated with tremen- dous quantities of barium and che- mical which physicians introduce into the stomach and intestines as a contrast material in making X- ray photographs. Radium Salt Is Left The barium is the “coaxing’’ mat- erial which pulls radium into af- finity with.itself, Pochon explained, but 7,500 grams of barium mi" • be used to pull one gram of radium out of hiding in the ore. A total of six tons of chemicals must be used to treat one ton of .icentrated ore. Cache of Millions Found In Walls Latest Hoard of Golden Coin Was Sealed Away in Paris Flat by Servant of Louis XV. It’s so long since people have s-en the color of gold that Paris workmen didn’t recognize it when they came upon a “buried trea- sure." They were pulling down old buildings in the rue Mouffetard, a" condemned section of the “Latin quarter,” which is disappearing be- fore the onslaughts of the better housing squads. The workman who put his pick through a sausage-shaped bag in the stone w “ picked up a few of the greenish-yellow coins which streamed out. ' hinking they were religious medals of no intrinsic val- use he gave them to a group of the children to play with. Value Recognized It â€" .s only when the workman showed seve 1 of the coins to a friend that their value was recog- nized. Now a flock of blue-capped policemen guard the old house day and night and watch the curious crowds with suspicious eyes. Numerous Claimants Treasure has already been found in three places and its value reach- es about 3,000,000 francs ($34,300), without counting its value as a col- lection. Claude Nivelle (who buried it) was the classic miser. He was Louis XV's riding master some time between 1730 and 1750, and it seems to have been-a lucrative posi- tion. With the gold three parch- ment wills have been discovered all Indicating the fortune to be left to his daughter. She died about the year 1310. Several families of des- cendants have been discovered, however, and all appear only too willing to claim the fortune. Beaver May Have Litter of Nine American Scientist Takes issue With Canadian Government Over Design for Peace Arch At Parliament Buildings, OTTAWA, â€" An American scien- tist has taken issue with the Can- adian Government over the fecund- ity of the heaver and renewed the controversy concerning the biolog- ical ability of the animal to bear nine kittens in one litter. In a letter to the Government of- ficials, Prof. Thomas EJ. Winecoft, former scientist In charge of re- search for the Game Commission of Pennsylvania, frowned upon the Government’s recent decision to \/f*X g Z*: C CANADA V Xw/ I \M £ THE EMPIF ------of the ====== THE WORLD ' « AT LARGE CANADA They Know the Sounds Some women who hear* a man prowling around the house at four a.m. are frightened; others are married to men who fish.â€"Victoria Times. Doing Double Duty When the haying season is on the eight-hour day gets sadly neglect- ed. It looks more like one eight- hour day before noon and then an- other in the afternoon.â€"Peterbor- ough Examiner. Sommer Brings its Problems Europe may have its worries over bomb-proof shelters and gas masks but we’ve our problems too. Once more 10,000,000 Canadians face Summer and no one has invented a true mosquito-proof pair of pyja- mas.â€"-Ottawa Journal. Breeders of Dictatorship Where dictatorship has come, it has come by reason of the failure of men to govern themselves. It is likely to comeâ€"because there.is no other probable alternativeâ€"wher- ever nations show themselves too tired, careless or uncourageous for the disciplines and exertions of freedom.â€"Vancouver Province. Rural Viewpoint Wanted Modern transport, press and film are creating in England what Earl Baldwin describes as a “standardiz- ed suburban mechanized mind.” We already have too much of that here. Rural people accept all too placidly the urban viewpoint, and whole- some rural independence is becom- ing inarticulate.â€"Farmer’s Advo- cate. World-wide Soil Erosion Great Britain is making an inves- tigation of soil erosion in all parts of the world and will issue a" bulle- tin being prepared by the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science and of Herb- age Plants. In it will be disclosed how much damage is being caused the world’s food supplies by soil erosion, and different attempts to fight the menace will be discussed. Reports so far received in London show that the problem affects Af- rica,- China, India, Australia, Rus- sia, all round the Mediterranean, the Dutch East Indies and the Brit- ish West Indies as well as the mid- western states of America and the prairie provinces of Canada. In Af- rica it has been .caused by over- grazing, in Australia by over-graz- ing and rabbits, and, in China, and Italy by deforestation.â€"St, Thomas Times-,Tournai, Bring It Into' The Open Ontario and Quebec are the rich- est of the provinces. They have many natural advantages. As the West sees the situation, they are also the chief beneficiaries of the PRESS national fiscal policy. Their pros- perity,-as it looks to the rest of Canada, perfectly exemplifies the scriptural saying that “to him that hath shall be given." It was to be expected that, of all the provinces, they would be the least interested in a study of the federal system which might lead to changes. They are naturally for the status quo. The Prairie and Maritime Provin- ces are just as naturally reformist and, therefore, eager to present ar- ****â-â-• I NAMES «5 • **« •*» *2* »*» «J» «•*» «2* *5* *j* «J» *2* *#* *2* «2* *2* *2 KONRAD HENLE1N North America has its Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; Europe at the present moment is being treated to a similar exhibi- tion of ventriloquism by two no less prominent figures than Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein. Hitler speaks but the words appear to come from the mouth of Henlein, who as leader of the Sudeten Ger- man party in Czechoslovakia, is calling for union with Germany. Henlein is only 40 years old. Nevertheless he fought in the Aus- trian army (like Hitler) during the Great War, -was wounded on the Trentino front, captured by the Italians and sent to a little island in the Mediterranean where he mastered the Czech language, became an adept at gymnastics. After the peace treaties, he found his native town was now part of the newly-created Czechoslovakia, and he himself, born, of German stock, was one of the minority. Organized Athletic Unions Henlein worked as a bank clerk for a while, became dissatisfied ami took up the teaching of gym- nastics at Aseh, near, the German discard a marble figure of a mother beaver surrounded by nine small ones, designed for the peak of the Peace Arch of the Parliament Buildings. The group was to repre- sent the Dominion and the" nine Provinces. It was decided to discard the marble figure after authorities here challenged the ability of a beaver to have such a large litter. Professor WineCoff, however, con- tended in his letter that nine kit- tens in one litter is not a prolific phenomenon. He claimed that one litter of nine was preserved for the Pennsylvania Commission, and he believed it Was still existent. London now has 2,000,000 cats, Italy faces a serious crop short- age. guments and statistical statements tending to show a need for change. It has been suggested that the in- quiry has produced or encouraged sectional feeling in Canada. That is clearly not so. The cleavage ex- isted before the Rowell Commission was thought of. And the national interest is obviously better served by an open debate on this differ- ence of opinion than by efforts to hush it up by singing “O Canada!" â€"Winnipeg Free Press. The EMPIRE On Retiring Today- If a man enjoys his work, and he is physically and mentally equal to doing it efficiently, there are very good reasons why he should go on working. And these reasons are re- inforced in the case of men who are so single-minded that their vvork is also their hobby. But for the most part, and particularly today when the means of recreation and amuse- ment are so readily available in so many different forms, the average man, one imagines, would be happy to retire at 60 if he were able to continue living in modest comfort. The old conception of the dignity of labor has been weakened by the in- troduction into offices and factories of machines that can do as much work in a day as a man can do in three. Work has become in many ways less satisfying to the individ- ual than it used to be. Craftsman- ship has decayed, and one cannot expect a workman to take so much pride and pleasure in operating a machine that manufactures a sin- gle unit as his grandfather did in making the whole job himself by hand.â€"Glasgow Herald. ;> <2* *2* ♦ J* *J* <2* *2* *â- Â»* *******5* •î* *2**2* *5* *i IN THE *â-«•â-***•;•*♦? I NEWS * *1* *1* *5* *2* «2* *2* *2* *2» *2* *2* *2* *** *2* *»* *5* *** * * ; v* border. His rise from obscurity was swift. Henlein went from town to town in his capacity of gym- nastics teacher, organizing unions of German-speaking athletes â€" (.Turnvereins) in opposition to the Czech-speaking “sokols,” From 1925 on Henlein incorporated a great many of Hitler’s ideas in the new organizations and mould- ed his men into veritable “storm troopers.” In October of 1933 Henlein formed the Sudeten Deutsche Par- te! when the Czech Gov. dissolved the German Nazi and Nationalist parties. Two years later, his party met with tremendous success in the elections, formed the second largest bloc in the Czech parlia- ment. The Man Unmasked At that time, Henlein still pre- tended to support democracy but the mask began slipping. He made innumerable visits to Berlin, con- sulting with General Goering and other Nazi officials. In October, 1937, he openly asked for auton- omy for the German minority in Czechoslovakia. Secure in the knowledge that he i.: backed by Hitler, the once unknown gymnastics teacher has gone on from threat to threat. The two demands he now makes are: autonomy for the German minority in Czechoslovakia; a change in the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia which would in- clude abandonment of its alliances with France and Soviet Russia, No Martyr, He In June, 1938, Henlein was charged with treason, but the ac- cusation was almost immediately withdrawn since the Czech govern- ment has no desire to make a martyr of him.' The picture at the head of the column shows Henlein, medium- sized, short-sighted, athletic, leav- ing his hotel in London, England in May when he called on certain British diplomats seeking their sympathy, and support. Telescope Fish Aiding Science In Gall Stones ~;uJyâ€"Doctor .Sees Possibility of Ending waiio-ns OTTAWA.â€"Possibility of elim- inating surgical operations for the removal of gallstones was fore- cast; in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr. Arno Vic hoo- ver of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. The Chinese telescope fish, which has no secrets because it is almost completely transparent, may make such an advancement in medical treatment possible, he declared, because for the first time it is possible to study direct- , ly in a living organism the action of chemicals in cleaning out the gall bladder. Occurrence of gallstones is most frequent during the middle and later life, Dr. Viehoever said, and the disturbance is six times more prevalent in North America than in such Oriental countries as Japan. At present surgical re- moval is the only known method of treatment. By use of the telescope fish it is possible to study directly the action of chemicals on the gall bladder, which is visible without the aid of a magnifying lens, he said. Certain chemicals, known as “cholagogues,” stimulate the removal of bile from the bladder and in some cases dissolve the stones which obstruct the outlet of the bladder. Grass Is Best Asset To Farm With the awakened appreciation of the value of grass, pasture im- provement studies have become ma- jor projects at experimental farms and stations in every province of the Dominion. Exceedingly profit- able results from the application of chemical fertilizers have been de- monstrated and the economy of the practice confirmed on many a farm where the stock carrying capacity of the pasture has been more than doubled. Some farmers with light soils, low in nitrogen, have shown a pre- ference for the Spring application of complete fertilizers of 2-12-6 or 4.-12-6 analysis,. but in the better pasture areas, and especially where clover is present in the herbage. . Fall applications of high phosphate- potash fertilizer of the type 0-16-6 is the more approved practice. The addition of th°se minerals promotes vigorous rooting, thus fortifying thp herbage against drought and Win- ter-killing and definitely encourag- ing the growth of wild white clover. Grazing pastures to the point of depletion of plant food in the soil, is an unsound practice, dating back to the days of unlimited areas of virgin land, and has no place in the production of our modern high quality farm products and main- tenance of our improved live stock. Lives In Darkness To Prolong Life Do you want to prolong your life? . Then you might try the treat- ment that 77-year-old Pandit Madaq Molian Malaviya, Vice-Chancellor of the famous university at Ben- ares one of the holiest and most revered men in India, is just'com- pleting. It consists of simply a regime of living in the dark, drinking water buffalo’s milk and partaking of cer- tain herbs with a little honey and butter. Pandit Malaviya declares forty days of tills rejuvenation treatment increased his weight by nine pounds, improved his eyesight, and darkened his hair, restored his old voice, improved his complexion, en- abled him to walk erect and restor- ed his memory. “It was a hard ordeal,” said the venerable Hindu sage. “I did not see the sun for forty days. I was all alone in a cottage and lived tins most of the day and night in the pitch dark, Bath, exercise and mas- sage were forbidden, nor was I per- mitted to even have a shave. And throughout the period of my treat- ment, I was allowed to drink hot water. My diet consisted of black cow's milk. The Pandit, who is one of the best-known educationists in India, disclosed his doctor was Tapsl Ba- ba, reputed to be .172 years old, a herb practitioner and said to pos- sess the real “secret of youth.”