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%sw$ Gktede Commentary on the Highlights of the Week’s News « by Peter Randal DOMESTIC TROUBLES; A vis- itor from Ireland who set foot on our shores last week for the first time received a series of shocks on talking with people here after his arrival. All his life he had heard about the land of peace and plenty which is ours, never had imagined that we have troubles of our own over here. He knew about the “sorrows of Ireland’’ but not about our railways problem, our wheat problem, our unemployment situation, the isolationist leanings of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta. So it was that his eyes wère opened.... But with midsummer here, we have forgotten for the time being the railways problem, thé section- alism of Quebec, etc. (It would be well to watch these.) We are more concerned with lighting the “cussedness” of natureâ€"grasshop- pers on the prairie, cutworms in Ontario, black flies in the north, fruit-flies in the orchard, house- flies in the parlor, bats in the belfry.... Can’t a fellow have a little peace and comfort sometime? * * * TIGHTENING THE SCREWS: Over in Europe the heat doesn't seem to be stopping Germany and Italy anyâ€"-â€"The second anniver- sary of the Spanish war rolls around, Mussolini throws more men and munitions into Spain- Facing a wheat shortage at home II Duce wishes the Anglo-ItaJian agreement would come into force so he could borrow a sizeable amount from Great Britain......... Hitler puts the screws on Czecho- slovakia, screaming propaganda about Czech “aggression” from every publicity organ at his dis- posal-----at home the German stock market suffers the worst collapse of the Nazi era, secur- ities go into a . tailspin.. The Sino-Jap conflict in the Far East (war is still undeclared ) en- ters its second year......Japan is drawn further and further into the interior of Asia while Chinese re- sistance gains strength daily----- Japanese unemployment soars and the domestic economy of "tho na- tion finds itself in a bad way.... But in spite of their troubles at home, the Borne, Berlin, Tokio governments work well together towards their common objectiveâ€"- a place for each in the sun. If Hitler is planning a coup on Czechoslovakia, Mussolini stages an extra-big ruckus in Spain, Jap- an creates a tense situation in the east by accusing Bussia of invad- ing Japanese-held Manchukuo....... By setting up counter-attractions they seek to draw public attention away from the main event. The machinery tightens, tightens. AID FOR THE DROWNED: Since the method of artificial res- piration was first introduced, it has been the custom for those practising it in cases of near- drowning- to give up after the first hour or shortly thereafter. The Health League of Canada now issues a bulletin saying that artificial respiration should be continued for as long as four hours. At the end of that time natural breathing may be restor- ed. Dr. Frederick Banting, eminent scientist who discovered insulin, is adding further to our knowledge of how to treat victims of near- drowning. He says that sometimes when the heart-beat is no longer audible to the human ear and the patient is pronounced dead, an electro-cardiograph can pick up the sounds of the organ, still beat- ing. It is believed, also, that Sir Frederick has found a serum, which, when injected into a drowned animal, will restore it to life. Whether or not the same serum will work in the case of human beings is a problem for further research. * * * WAR ON RELIGION: There are many in this country, not seriously worried by the Nazi menace, who believe that the Hit- ler regime in Germany will be wrecked on the .rock of the Church, that the Reichsfuehrer’s war against the Vatican will re- sult in the turning against him of a vast number of the German peo- ple. There’s something in that. How long are the people of Ger- many likely to sit down under an autocracy which persecutes priests and nuns, attacks young children coming from mass, consigns a Protestant minister to a concen- tration camp ? A systematic war on all aspects of religious life is being carried on which cannot help but strike at the roots of all that the people hold dear. CHANGE OF LOCATION: â€" Yielding to the pressure of the war barons who are behind the Government’s every move, Japan has sadly relinquished her invita- tion for the 1940 Olympic Games to be held in the Land of the Ris- ing Sun. She heeds the cash bad- ly to carry on the war in China and can’t afford to use materials, particularly steel and concrete, in Olympic plant construction which are necessary to the war machine. The Japanese public is bitterly disappointed, observers say, as they feel that Japan has not only lost face abroad, but even very much more within Japan. When the Olympiad was awarded to Tokyo in 1936, there was the greatest rejoicing through the na- tion, because it was considered a foreign admission of Japan’s ath- letic equality with other nations. Helsingfors, Finland, will be the scene of the 1940 Olympiad, in- stead. * * * THE WEEK’S QUESTION: What other leaders of a Canadian political party, besides Dr. R. J. Manion (Conservative), were Ro- man Catholics? Answfer: Sir Wil- fred Laurier (Liberal), Sir John Thompson (Conservative). Alaskan Peak Is Conquered VALDEZ, Alaska.~--Brief notes jotted down during a twenty-fcur- day battle against storms and frigid weather disclosed that four young explorers had conquered 13,250-foot Mr, St. Agnes, queen of the hitherto unclimbed peaks of the Chugach Mountains. The notes were made by Brad- ford Washburn, Jr., leader of the party, which reached the summit June 19. Although the range is only 60 miles distant, it took sev- eral days for the notes to reach Valdez. The expedition was spon- sored by the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration. À Perfect Game For Lazy Sports .Throwing the â-  javelin and the discus are sports of the ancients which still enjoy great popularity with modern athletes. Now Aus- tralia has gone one better. Boom- erang throwing is becoming one of the leading sports in the Com- monwealth as a result of the ad- vice of Dr. Harvey Sutton, direc- tor of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The boomerang has the advant- age over the javelin and the dis- cus, as well as other retrieving sports, in that it comes back to the thrower instead of the throw- er being oblized to go after it. Nearly 90 per cent, of Ireland’s agricultural exports are going to Britain. The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY “MADAME CURIE” By Eve Curie Mme. Curie’s daughter prefaces to her biography a brief passage on the almost mythical life of her mother. The little Polish girl had to surmount poverty and preju- dice. She did so by dint of almost incredible effort and with no ran- cor. i She rearranged her life to admit a great love and a comradely ship which would seem almost unique in its breadth and depth of understanding. Then, devastated by the sudden death of her be- loved husband, she closed that door to life, and took up alone the work they had started and carried forward together. She was honored by kings and queens, scientists and common people. She rejected wealth and tried in vain to turn aside fame. She out- witted blindness, and more than once she seemed to outwit death itself to carry on her work until, nearing the end of her sixties. The glowing element, radium, the glowing element, radium, which she herself had discovered was a factor in her own end, Love and Work Blended In another age the tempera- ment of Marie Curie would have made her a saint. Eve Curie’s biography of her mother is fascinating as a record of scientific research. Though written by one who lived from babyhood in the atmosphere of a laboratory, it makes clear and vivid and concrete to non-techni~ cal readers the story of the dis- covery of radium and the devel- opment of that knowledge which Mme. Curie carried on so bril- liantly until the end of her life. Its real import, however, is the story of the woman whose life was all but synonymous with that history. “Madame Curie,” by Eve Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 393 pp. Toronto : Doubleday, Dor- an and Company, 215 Victoria Street. VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the ======= PRESS . â€" ' ' â€"* CANADA SLING A MEAN CAN-OPENER Perhaps modern wives don’t make bread like their grand- mothers did, but they certainly can make good sandwiches.â€"Que- bec Chronicle-Telegraph. WHEN YOUR TROUBLES BEGIN If the Dionnes all live together in one house they’ll have to instal a telephone switchboard with day and night operators later on. â€" Brandon Sun. INGENUITY TEST Man’s vaunted claim to ingen- uity is now undergoing two su- preme tests: how to créai a peace- ful world society and how to de- vise an original radio program.â€" Toronto Saturday Night. THE IDEAL PARLIAMENT Parliament should be1 an assem- bly of patriotic representatives whose supreme ideal is the wel- fare of the country, and not par- tisan advantage. Useless debate and strife undoubtedly serve to keep many men out of Parliament who would be willing to give their time and ability to the service of the country, but who cannot pos- sibly tolerate months of idle talk and partisan recriminations. The pity of it is that too frequently the outstanding leaders of the party set the example, whereas they should endeavor to raise, de- bate to a higher level.â€"-Brantford Expositor. GET DOWN TO EARTH The public is so used by now to the dire warnings about “mill- ions and billions” in Canada, for example, that they lose significance -â€"-the national debt is almost an abstraction to the majority Nor have sortie of the revelations r; ade of outrageous extravagance caused more than a temporary political stir. Governments naturally like to maintain this condition. They like to use the “millions and bill- ions” in loose talk about what they are going to do to balance the budget, and in denunciations of the financial orgies of their op- ponents. It was a good game at one timeâ€"like other effective bromides of tho hustings â€" but what is needed now is more of the ‘.searchlight in analysis.â€"Hamilton Spectator. WE TRAVEL TOO FAST It is being said increasingly often of late that we have permit- ted the wonders of science to out- strip the Impulses of our hearts. In other words, we have developed the mechanics of civilization fast- er than we have acquired real knowledge of how to use them properly. “The modern tempo is too fast, and we should’ cultivate the art of being able to relax." So advises Dr. A. C. Routley, General Secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. And it .is a thought worthy of consideration. It may be true that we need to give our souls a chance to catch up with our bodies. Perhaps we should pause and get a new sense of values. We have traveled far in a ma- terial way in the last half-century. We have gone far mechanically. But what progress have we made spiritually? The doctor is rightâ€"we travel too fast. â€" St. Catharines . Stan- dard. The EMPIRE THE IMPORTANCE 'OF CANADA Great Britain, as Mr. MacDon- ald pointed out at the Imperial press conference recently, is the one indisputably first-class power within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Other Dominions, however, are on their way to be- coming first-class Powers. Can- ada, for instance, could support a population larger than the present population of the British Isles, where some of the experts predict a sharp decline in numbers. The emergence of a first-class British Power in the New World is bound to have far-reaching effects upon the destinies of the world. Can- ada’s large frontier marches with the frontier of the United States, whose capital in-more prosperous days flows readily into Canada. Geographically, Canada looks southwards. Statesmanship for her consists in a wise adjustment be- tween the pull of geography from the United States and the pull of sentiment from the Mother Coun- try. So long as Canada is strong, there can be no fundamental cleavage between Great Britain and the United States.â€"Yorkshire Post. Bicycles are being sold in Tok- yo, Japan, at $3 each. *1* »*♦ ♦** «•*« »’< **• >*• »*$ »*« e •$> * NAMES il NEWS DOUGLAS CORRIGAN The biggest news story of the month broke in Dublin, Ireland, when down out of the clouds above the Baldonnel Airport came an antiquated planeâ€"a nine-year-old “crate”, in factâ€"flown from no one knew where. Landing, it was immediately surrounded by stun- ned airport officials and a crowd of astonished Irishmen who want- ed to know the whence and the wherefore. “I’m Douglas Corrigan,” de- clared a smiling pilot as he step- ped down from the cockpit. “Just got in from New' York. Where am I? I intended to fly to Cali- fornia but I guess my compass went wrong.” . , No Radio Aboard It came out in the course of the next few minutes that pilot Cor- rigan (31, of Santa Monica, Cal) had flown his battered $900 sin- gle-engined t.irplane across the Atlantic in 28 hours, 13 minutes without benefit of radio, maps or fancy instruments. “He flew by the seat of his trousers,” a friend6' back in the States remarked. When he left the airport in New York Corrigan was carrying 320 gallons of gasoline, half a gallon of water and some chocolate bis- cuits. Thirty gallons of gasoline remained when he landed. By his unique flight Corrigan has joined the long list of noted solo transatlantic fliers, which in- cluded Col, Charles A. Linbergh, the late Amelia Earhart and the late Wiley Post. British Papers Ignore Canada This is the Contention of Sen Life Presidentâ€"Says Little Space Given and Events Mia- liït de r stood. ‘‘Canadian companies are losing business constantly in Great Brit- ain because of criticism of condi- tions in Canada based on lack of knowledge,” declared A. B. Wood, president of the Sun Life Assur- ance. Co., of Canada, who returned to our shores last week, after a. six weeks visit to the Old Country. “It is really surprising to find such little space given in the Eng- lish newspapers to Canadian af- fairs, and it is through lack of in- formation that the wrong impres- sion is created,” he added. “The Al- berta situation was magnified in the public mind as if it were a Can- adian rather than a local situation and the fact that the Social Credit, legislation had been disallowed by the .Dominion Government and the Supreme Court was dismissed in a few lines. If the public could only be better informed and brought to realise what Canada is, the vast- ness of the country and its financ- ial ability it would help Canadian business considerably.” Egyptian Temple Is Reconstructed CAIRO, -- A gigantic jigsaw puz- zle of bits of sbone has been put together by two French Egyptolog- ists . to recreate a twelfth dynasty temple at Amon, relic of the art which flourished by the Nile 3,590 years ago. Experts say it is the fin- est monument of ancient Egypt in existence.. Digging in the dust at Karriak, 400 miles south of Cairo, the scien- tists found broken blocks and frag- ments â€" some no bigger than a man’s hand â€" which they used to rebuild the ancient temple. Tim workers were Pierre Lac.au, former director general of the Egyptian State Annuities Department, and Henry Chevrier, Director of Works at Karrlak. They stumbled upon the jigsaw puzzle when they were working on the pylon of Amenophis 111 in 1924 and found its foundations largely were decorated blocks from older monuments, which later rulers pul- led down and used again. Blocks could be collected only a few months each year, when infiltration of the Nile was low. By last winter 951 blocks from eleven different monuments had been assembled and blocks for two monuments vir- tually wêre complete. Originally built to mark the first jubilee of King Senusret I, the re- constructed monument is mounted, on a raised base approached from opposites by stairways which < are flanked by [ low balustrades. In the centre of each stairway is a sloping passage for carrying the tent and statue of Amon â€" human- headed god of Thebes, Backward Farm Practices Seen CAPE TOWN.â€"T. A. Russell, To- ronto industrialist visiting South Aprica on a business trip, told Caps Town newspapermen he believed mechanical farming would Increase rapidly in the Union. In the northern provinces he had been surprised to See the extent to which farm work is done by oxen, donkeys and mules instead of by tractors. He visited one fairly large farm where 1,000 mules, requiring a large pasturage area, were used. Mr. Russell believed cheap labor was largely responsible for the fact that less machinery is used in South Africa than in other farming countries. In Canada, for example, labor is expensive and most smaller farmers do their own work with the help of their families. They naturally use machinery in order to get through it. He found farming in South Africa less intensive than it is. in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. That, Mr. Russell thought, was due to. the fact good agricultural soil and bad are found closer together. Whereas in Canada there are large stretches of good land and large stretches of bad, in South Africa good and bad soil are usually found on the same farm. Under the terms of the new Anglo-Eirean agreement, 400 Brit- ish soldiers in the treaty parts of Berehaven and Queenstown, will be moved from Ireland in August.