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%ew$ tpàfade Commentary on the Highlights of the Week’s News . . « by Feler Hands! ELIMINATION CONTEST: â€" Directors of the Kent County Mo- tor Club, with headquarters at Chatham, are contemplating for- warding a recommendation to the Ontario Department of» Highways urging a change in the Highway Traffic Act by which motor car drivers will be required to submit to periodical tests for ability in handling a car and also for phy- sical fitness. Such a course of ac- tion would result in the elimin- ation of a great many incompetent drivers who make our roads un- safe to venture upon by day or by night. It would withdraw from circulation not only hare-brained youths and epileptics but men well up in their seventies now found behind the wheel of -a car. And ' speaking of constructive suggestions, the same Motor Club urges that the city of Chatham- establish a school for drivers. TO BRIDGE OR NOT TO BRIDGE: Whether the Senate gives permission or no, Ontario and New York State are going to go ahead and build a new inter- national bridge at Niagara Falls, and that right speedily, according to the Province’s Minister of Highways, Hon. T. B. McQuesten. The fact that the International Railway Company already has a charter to construct a similar bridge will have no bearing on the matter. To take the place of the famed “Honeymoon Bridge” swept away in January last by ice break-ups, the new structure, longer arid higher, will be started before spring, it is announced, as soon as plans and engineering details can be completed. The attitude of the Ontario Government is that the Dominion Government has no right to interfere with the busi- ness of the province and cannot keep Ontario and New York state authorities from carrying through their project. Who knows but that we may yet end up with two bridges on the same spot. BREAK WITH THE POPE: Mussolini, being a cleverer man than his fellow-dictator, Hitler, has during his sixteen years in office scrupulously avoided any trouble with Pope Pius XI or with the Catholic Church. That is, up until this summer. Now, the lid is off. The new racist theories (anti-Jewish, anti- Catholic) of the Italian Fascist re- gime are the point of contention. Declaring first that Italy is sim- ply imitating Germany, the Pope has lashed out at Mussolini, re- pudiating all racist theories, in- cluding the Italian ones. He con- demns them as contrary to the very essence of the Catholic faith. Italian authorities have threaten- ed to declare membership in the Catholic Action Associations in- compatible with membership in the Fascist Party. And the fight is on. Mussolini, stung to the quick by the assertion that he is merely imitating Hitler, •is ready for a battle royal with the Pope. “We’ll go straight ahead!” he shouts.. The signifi- cance here is that Mussolini used that sajtne phrase, “We’ll go straight ahead;’’ when the League of Nations tried to stop the Ital- ian invasion of Abyssinia. He went straight ahead then, has con- tinued to do so ever since. CANADA REPRESENTED: â€" Tucked away at the bottom of a dispatch from Breslau, Germany, last week was the unobtrusive mention that Germans from Can- ada paraded before Herr Hitler at the National German Gymnas-» tic Festival. Together with 200,- 000 other German-speaking repre- sentatives from the four corners of the globe, these people from our Dominion, -marched past the Fuehrer, performed an act of homage and proclaimed . undying constancy in their German origin. How long has this been going on? AXES TO GRIND: In our col- umn two weeks ago we stated that when the Kome-Berlin-Tokio axis is working well, Japan is able by creating a -ruckus on, the Russ- ian-Manchoukuoan border to draw attention away from what Italy and Germany are up to in Eur- ope. But Russia has an axe to grind too, perhaps. By allowing the Manchoukouan border inci- dent to appear more serious than it really is, she succeeds in draw- ing several Japanese army divi- sions to the scene, so far off that were they needed in the conflict in China, they would not be avail- able. Also if the Japanese camt. paign in China is at the stage where it must have every rein- forcement, a conflict with Russia will prolong the Sino-Jap war, weaken Japan immeasurably from both the economic and military standpoints. (How it all started : On July 29 a small Japanese force occu- pied the northern heights of Changkufeng which Russia claims are in Soviet territory ; Japan in- sists that they are in Jap-controlled Manchoukuo. Soviet frontier guards ejected the. Japanese. Early on the morning of July 31 the Jap- anese attacked in strength, seized the whole line of the heights to a depth of two arid a half miles. Then Russian divisions regained the po- sition. And so it went. Nobody really knows who owns those heights, the border is so ill-defin- ed). THE WEEK’S QUESTION: What European Country null likely be next to join the Rome-Berlin axis? Answerâ€"Hungary, who is Ger- many’s next-door neighbor and a leader among the Balkan States. Portugal is claiming it is the birthplace of the ukulele. LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher “You win, Doc, I’m walking within a month... . . ... When your, hill came I had "to sell the car !” • 1 HT®* iorrid lips i I I I NAMES m£ NEWS Summer is more fun for the woman who â€" â€"-Decides on a coiffure that won’t keep her neck too warm for comfort and one which is so simple that she can tidy it up herself after a swim or a game of golf. â€"Finds a really efficacious anti-perspirant that suits her own type of skin, then uses it regular- ly.' â€"Buys washable white'gloves. â-  -â€"Appreciates the fact that an extra jacket or two can make a skimpy wardrobe seem larger and infinitely more interesting. -â€"Plans her own holiday well in advance, budgeting her allow- ance and choosing her summer clothes with it firmly in mind. â€"Begins to think about details of the children’s months at camp or at grandmother’s right now in- stead: of waiting until a week be- fore they are to leave. All prison officers of England have just had their pay raised to $1.75 a week. LESLIE MORE BELISHA Descendant of Spanish Jews who fled from the terror of the Inquisi- tion to the shores -of England, Les- lie Hore-Belisha (pronounced. “Bel- eesha”) because of his meteoric career in British politics is looked upon by many to have the makings of a “second Disraeli.” He is still a young man, around 42 (lie won’t tell his exact age), in a position as Minister of War where a leap up to the Prime Minister’s chair is not long; nor a crash downwards al- together unlikely. His future is a big question mark. A Brilliant Showman Following the war this smooth- faced, thick-lipped young man con- tinued his interrupted education, was President of the Oxford Union for a term, practised law in London and rode into Parliament as an M. P. for Devonport. While sitting in the House he came under the in- fluence of that, famed ex-Canadian, Lord Beaverbrook, wrote political articles for his “Daily Express,” and learned for him the art of pub- licity. Hore-Belisha first featured large- ly in the public eye following his appointment in 1934 as Minister of Transport. He inaugurated a trem- endous publicity campaign, using radio, billboards, newspaper car- wirid Voice of CaTnjda La,ge the Press Empire CANADA Canada Needs Defence Four British bombers flew 4,300 miles non-stop. That is more than across the Atlantic, and back. And what British bombers did others may do also. â€" St. Thomas Times Journal. Back to the Country So many people are moving out from London, Ontario, to new districts outside the corporation limits that the city shows a drop in population for the first time in 55 years. The same exodus is not- ed in Toronto and many other larger cities with an urban zone surrounding them, but in Toron- to the population continues to show a minor increase neverthe- less. Toronto Star. The Editor Restrains Himself There are some obituaries that it might be a pleasure to write, were circumstances rather differ- ent. Some funerals bring an im- provement to the community, and the editor of the paper would just love to let himself go and say just what he believes to be the truth. But even that pleasure is deniéd him. There are relatives to think about, and after all, there are times when silence is golden. â€"-, Fergus News-Record The EMPIRE Who Are The Happy People? Who, then, are the happy peo- ple? Some say they are the Com- munists, some say they are the Nazis, some say they are the Bu- chmanites. It is a fine thing to have such reports of widespread happiness from all over Europe. How happy Herr Hitler and Sig- nor Mussolini looked in the photo- graph of the march-past during the Roman celebrations ! I almost wished I were a dictator as 1 was was watching the news-reel. FJow happy, too, a thousand or two Bu- chmanites look in a photograph, all laughing together like bathing belles in the popular press! I sin- cerely hope all these people are as happy as they look, and that their happiness is infectious. Some people say the followers of Gen- eral Franco are happy, but I wish they could express their happiness in some other way than dropping bombs on children. Happiness takes many forms, however, and it is probably lack of imagination that prevents me from entering into the happiness either of a bomb-thrower or of a Prime Min- ister. The truth is,. 1 do no know what constitutes happiness for anybody except myself, and I am not sure about myself. A shower of rain on the garden, per- toons to reduce accidents on the highways, which actually cut down the slaughter figures. He has got action. He became a famous man. In 1937 Prime Minister Chamber- lain moved Hore-Belisha to the War Office and got more action. A purge of the British Army High Command occurred immediately, sweeping a lot of the elder men out of the war office. In The Balance At the present moment, Mr. Hore- Belisha’s career is. at stake. It has been whispered persistently of late that he is likely to resign from the War Office. The truth is that his career is at stake. The trouble may come to a head following the publi- cation of a report by a special com- mittee of all parliamentary powers which is investigating the arrest of Duncan Sandys, M.P. (Winston Churchill’s son-in-law) for the al- leged violation of the Official Sec- rets Act. “Who summoned San- dys?” is the question. Mr. Hore- Belisha may be charged with mis- leading evidence. haps, and, after that, white clouds in a blue sky. Or a peacock but- terfly. Or a cinnabar moth. Or a bullfinch in an apple tree. Or work when it is over. “Y. Y.” in The New Statesman and Nation (London). Why Accidents Happen “I was thinking about some- thing else.” Half the motorcar drivers stopped by traffic officers in the U.S. for violations of the rules of the road give the excuse quoted. But surely any respons- ible adult realizes that in driving a fast-travelling car, under pre- sent conditions of traffic, he or she has plenty to think about without letting his or her own thoughts wander outside the auto- mobile. â€" '-’‘-"-’-'â- "-â- â- f Re-mon-Her- ald. That Was Thirty Years.Ago Thirty years ago this week the edtior of the Walkerton Telescope sharpened his quill and gave his readers this hot-shot": “In Kincar- dine one day last week an automo- bile frightened a horse, the horse ran away, the driver was thrown out of the rig and his leg was bro- ken. It is becoming apparent from incidents like this that something will have to be done about these automobiles. For several years past the farmers in the vicinity of Toronto have been agitating for a Jaw to restrain automobiles from using the public highways, but so far have not been able to accomp- lish anythin".” â€" Kincardine Nor*;': . i-jot Since Beck’s Day Hydro has not had a strong hand on it since the days of Sir Adam Beck, the man whose child Hydro was. Sir Adam in his day may have been somewhat of an autocrat, but his hand was firm. He knew exactly what should be done and he refused to do any- thing else. He took the advice of competent engineers and acted on . it. This province cannot hope to produce another Adam Beck, and if it did we doubt whether the members of our Legislature would be inclined to leave him alone and allow him to work. â€" Peterbor- ough Examiner. â- Travel Sickness: How To Avoid It Patient Is Best Placed Beside Driver When Motoring Perhaps one of the commonest, problems with which parents are faced when the family is going away is travel sickness. Here is some advice that has stood up well to the tost of time: 1. Two days before the day of departure the child who is prone to suffer from travel sickness should be given a dose of some mild, aperient. After that avoid fatty or fried foods and keep to a sweet, dry diet, thirst being quenched with fresh fruit juice. 2. At four-hourly intervals dur- ing the day give a teaspoon of glucose or a lump of glucose bar- ley sugar; repeat this before set- ting off on the day. 3. Give nothing but dry biscuits and fruit and raisins on the way, and a piece of the barley sugar if there is any sign of unrest. 4. Wrap up warmly, especially as regards the feet and legs. 5. Sit facing the direction in which the train is going. When travelling by coach sit well for- ward in the coach; in a car the “patient" is best placed beside the driver. 6. Discourage “looking out of the window.” An adult can look out at the further distance, and. avoid nearer objects which ap- pear to flash by and give rise to a giddiness, but children do not find it so easy to concentrate on far away scenes. 7. Some sufferers find it help- ful to have small balls of cotton wool in the ears, and there is a scientific explanation for this: you’ll find it worth trying in any case. Country Beckons Women Workers Farmers and Gardeners of The Gentler Sex on Increase in England as New Avenues Open Feeding the cows and raking the hay is becoming women’s lab- our in England. Women farmers are on the increase according to officials of the Royal Agricultural^." Society. Usual modern method is for two women in partnership to run the farm. They are not. new at thé job, however. Many- receive their training on large estates and work their apprenticeship in ex- change for food and lodging. And others attend agricultural colleges. Countrÿ jobs that have particu- lar feminine appeal are dairy work, butter-making, cheese-mak- ing, stock work and milking. The women gardeners are wanted for private gardens of large institu- tions. To be head gardener at a girls’ school or women’s college is considered quite a woman’s job and many trained women are employed to assist in horticultur- al nursery work. According to the Women’s Farm and Garden Asso- ciation, the demand for experienc- ed women in various branches of outdoor work far exceeds the sup- ply. Will Commemorate Prairie’s Discovery Western Canada To Celebrate Second Centenary of La Ver- endrye’s Historic Journey Western Canada will observe the second centenary of the dis- covery of the great plains by de la Verendrye by means of an ex- tensive programme" of events that will include the unveiling, of a monument to that gallant explor- er. The celebrations will take place early in September and will -include special pageants, proces- sions, an exhibition of appropriate material and’ religious ceremonies. It is anticipated that the gather- ing will be greatly augment- ed by groups from other parts of Canada. Plans have now been completed for the operation of a special excursion from Montreal over the Canadian National Rail- ways under the direction of O. A, Trudeau, District Passenger Ag- ent, at that point. Those travel- lers from the Metropolis will es- tablish their temporary headquar- ters at the Fort Garry Hotel, in Winnipeg. Angola is increasing its ship- ments of diamonds to other coun- tries. ' •