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Tobacco Crop Is Best In. History Average Is Tripled â€" Ontario Crop .“Tops'”; 60,000,000 Pounds Being Harvested In Dominion A preliminary estimate of the volume of production of flue-cured tobacco places the total yield at ap- proximately 60,000,000 pounds from 65.000 acres, according to a tobacco crop report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Quality Better This estimate which will be re- vised at a liter date, indicates à larger crop of better quality than in 193,7 when production of flue- cured tobacco totalled 54,700,000 pounds from 53,000 acres-. This, re- presents a volume triple the 10-yr. (1927-1936) average production of 19.800.000 pounds from 23,000 acres. Weather Favorable Weather conditions during Aug- ust were particularly favorable for harvesting tobacco, with the result the greater proportion of the crop was harvested by the end of the month, except in British Columbia, where harvesting has been delayed in the hope that rain would im- prove the crop which has suffered materially from the- prolonged drought. In Ontario, the flue-cured crop matured very well, with the result that the present crop was probably the best in history as it went to the curing kilns. Says Calgary Has The Worst Drivers The World’s “Wackiest” Are To Be Found in the Alberta City, Traffic Observer De- clares The world’s ‘‘wackiest” drivers are in Calgary and they’ve any- thing skinned that I’ve seen in my trip across Canada,” said Julius R. Klippering, of New York City.- The. man with the world's most peculiar hobby, Mr. Klippering made this statement as he sat in his corner and watched traffic pass the intersection of Seventeenth av- enue and Fourth street west, Cal- gary. À retired pants manufacturer, Mr. Klippering spends his summer months motoring through Canada and tile United States, -observing the antics of automobile drivers and pedestrians. Disregard “Stop" Signs Sometimes lie takes miniature movies of traffic scenes. At, other times he takes candid camera shots and he makes notes and every win- ter he spends several months sort- ing out his material. He then enter- tains his friends by showing mov- ies of "how not to drive.” Mr. Klippering said that in no other city in Canada do drivers show such a fine disregard for the “Stop” signs as they do in Calgary. He expressed the belief that only three out of ten drivers come to a full stop as the regulations demand and only two out of 10 gives sig- nals when turning out from the -curb, turning corners or heading into or out of traffic. Poor Judgment Is Blamed For Most Accidents Vast Majority of People Involv- ed In Smash-ups Are Honest, Law-Abiding Citizens, Police Chief Says. Reduction of the automobile ac- cident rate depended mostly on im- proved driving practices and atti- tude and law enforcement must be directed primarily to that end, said Howard M. Baker, traffic engineer of the Montreal police department, in a s-peech at th-e annual conven- tion of the Canadian Good Roads’ Association, at Bigwin Inn, Ontario. Although reckless, inefficient or drunken driving was a factor in -causing accidents, Mr. Baker said the vast majority of persons involv- ed in accidents were honest, law- abiding citizens, driving competent- ly and with reasonable caution. They were chargeable at the worst with bad judgment rather than a fixed intent to peopardize them- selves. Enforcement inflicted in a spirit of revenge defeated its own end and wronged the community. It should seek to correct and educate. Suspensions and revocations of li- censes had a greater deterrent ef- fect oh erring drivers than almost any other punitive measure. News By Elizabeth Eedy GOODBYE SUMMER: As we look back upon the past three months, we realize that it has been a lovely, summer, not too hot, not too rainy, not too cool. So that autumn’s approach with its pro- mise of pumpkin, pies and Thanks- giving- and ducking for apples and colored leaves and beechnuts and fowl suppers finds us in a satis- fied, peaceful frame of mind to- wards life as lived in our Ontario, If only the thought of v/ars and rumors of wars did not hâve to be faced! And the conviction that this peace of ours which lies over the land is only a temporary armis- tice. . . » . . $ > ' * * DAYLIGHT TIME: While we are on the subject of summer ending and such, a few words about daylight saving. Some of our Ontario cities and towns have found it a boon, that extra hour of sunlight a gift from the gods. Too bad all the cities and towns of Canada don’t adopt it auto- matically, in their own interest. Or all of the Dominion go ^ on Summer Time each yearâ€"-as Eur- ope has been doing ever since the Great War. And here it is that we would ask a question. Why is it that farmers don’t like daylight saving time? The domestic animals of Europe seem to get along’ all right ; the cows and horses don’t appear to suffer from dislocation of "the time sense. Are our Cana- dian animals any different? Or is it that farm wdrlc under daylight saving could not get under way at an early enough hour each day? We wish someone would write in and shed a little more light on the problem. LOST OPPORTUNITY: We have been kicking ourselves ever since. Last week we wrote a paragraph for this column on the European war scare; then just as the paper went to press we yanked the paragraph out because it look- ed at the moment as if we might be wrong. Later events support our original viewpoint. Here is part of the paragraph, under the heading, “Supercolos- sal Bluff”: “An illuminating comment on the situation in Cen- tral Europe was made this week by Public School Inspector D, M. Eagle, of Windsor, just; returned from his nineteenth trip across the Atlantic. He should know whereof he speaks. Says Mr. Eagle: ‘I don’t think the Germans want war. X believe they’re trying to see what they can get by bluf- fing- and by a show of force’.’’ Mr. Eagle could have gone fur- ther and said a few words about * “blackmail” â€" of the democratic powers by a desperate state, Ger- many. Bluff it all was (though a very risky one) because Germany was not really ready for war nor capable of waging it successfully. Confronted by the democratic powers acting in concert, she would have been blocked from the outset. Now, Hitler is top-dog in all Europe. With Czechoslovakia under his belt (it is rich in min- erals, munitions plants), he will have the wherewithal to defeat the world. Plus the key to the Balkan regions and a route to the Black Sea. There will be no stopping him. Ready to ‘‘Liberate” Czechoslovakia’s Germans This picture was taken at Hitler’s mountain retreat at Bcrchtes- gaden, when the Reichfuehrer conferred with Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten Germans. Shortly afterwards, Hitler, in a speech l't’om Nuremberg, served notice on a world bristling with arms that his Nazi empire stood ready to “liberate” the Sudeten Germans regardless of any opposition from other European countries. VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA EXCRUCIATING All the troubles of the world are as nothing to the man with a couple of raspberry seeds under the upper plate.â€"Brandon Sun. THE CREDIT SYSTEM This country would be in better condition if there were not so many mortgaged motor cars park- ed by rented houses on paved highways built on credit,â€"Forest "Standard. WHY FAVOR TORONTO Toronto, so we see, is to get higher relief grants from the Pro- vincial Government. And why an exception in favor of Toronto? Any revision for the benefit of the municipalities should apply gen- erally.â€"Ottawa Journal. FORCE TRIUMPHANT: From an editorial in the New York Times which deals with the Czech- oslovak crisis and the Anglo- French proposals: “This is the end of the whole system of collective security built up in the post-war treaties. It is the end of that s/stem because a demonstration will have been giv- en, in the very heart of Europe, before the eyes of all the world and in a manner which leaves no possible room for doubt, that force or the threat of force is the determining factor in the relation- ship of nations.” How to build it up again . . . ."? * * * * THE WEEK’S QUESTION: What is the burden each person in Canada carries, as his share 'of the public debt? Answer: $638 for every man, woman and child in the country. A NEEDED “WEEK” What with Fish Week, Furni- ture Week, Cheese Week, Dog Week and all the others, it is said that everything has been com- mandeered up to the second week of June, 1947, and someone has designated that as “Mind Your Own Damned Business Week. â€" Woodstock Sentinel-Review. FOOD SUBSTITUTES Surely mankind around the world is getting tired of diplo- mats, and statesmen, and dicta- tors, and leaders who have no time, nor inclination to worry about underfed people. “Spheres of influence,” “corridors” and “new alignments’’ â€" newer and quicker ways of bombing, gassing and killing each other occupy their time, talents and energies. Marie Antoinette’s famous re- mark, “Let the people eat cake,” has, says one, been changed today to “Let them eat battleships.”â€" Halifax Herald. TOO MANY CABINS? Is it possible that we are over- building for the attraction of the tourist dollar? Even in the best of tourist seasons, it is doubtful if sufficient visitors cross the border to make profitable the operation of all the cabins, lunch stands and other establishments that have been created along the highways to fill their needsâ€"and yet there is a constant increase in the num- ber of these places. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. HIGH COST OF DYING The cost of dying is not thought of so often as the cost of living. But it looms as a: major problem for most people. To low-wage earners the cost of burial services constitutes an "increasing worry, because they are haunted by the fear of a “pauper’s grave.” The most common form of industrial insurance is nothing more than burial insurance. Of every insur- ance policy under 51,000 it is found that over half is used for funeral expenses. There are cases Reindeer Herd Numbers 4,500 So Annual Round-up of Domi- nion Government Animals Reveals -â€" Imported From Asia Originally More than 4,500 reindeer were counted by herders in the annual round-up of the Dominion Govern- ment reindeer herd on Richards Is- land at the mouth of the Macken- zie River, according to wireless re- ports received by the Department of Mines and Resources. The round-up has just been com- pleted and showed the animals in a healthy condition and increasing in numbers. They were imported from Asia in 1935 to provide the basis for a reindeer population all along the Arctic Coast which might provide food , and employment for Canadian Eskimos. A total of 4,181 deer, consisting of 1,206 fawns, 1,963 yearlings and adult females, 631 yearling and ad- ult bulls and 381 steers, were put through the corrals while an esti- mated 350 deer escaped the herd- ers hy swimming across a shallow bay. Surplus Stock Slaughtered Despite annual losses incidental to the life of a herd and the slaugh- ter of surplus stock to provide food and clothing for local needs the herd has shown a steady growth since the original 2,370 reindeer were delivered to the Mackenzie delta area in 1935. Richards Island, on which the round-up takes place is, the summer grazing ground for the herd. After the freeze-up it will be moved to winter pasture on the mainland. Laplanders Herd Them Herding is done by Laplanders, imported from Norway, assisted by Eskimo apprentices who have been selected as part of the Government scheme for developing a Canadian reindeer industry. Gaspe Peninsula Sneezers* Haven Ragweed Eliminated There Ex- cept for Small Area; Victory In Sight. Ragweed, plague of hay fever victims, has been practically elim- inated from the Gaspe Peninsula, Georges Maheux of the Quebec De- partment of Agriculture, told a meeting of the eastern section of the association committee on weeds of the Dominion Department of Ag- riculture and the National Research Council at Ottawa last week. Co-Operation Effective Setting out to make the Gaspe area a refuge for hay fever suffer- ers thé Quebec Government had se- cured the co-operation of farmers, teachers and school children and the south shore of the . St. Law- rence had been practically freed from the weed. One limited area of infestation remained on the north shore but in two or three years it was expected ragweed would dis- appear from the whole area. Recruiting for Britain’s Terri- torial Army is breaking post-War records. where funeral directors assume the payments on premiums of policies which are in danger of lapsing. Indeed, the struggle among- thousands of people to provide for a decent exit from this life makes their later period of living- a harried, unenviable one. â€"Toronto Star. NAMES in the NEWS EDOUARD BENE'S President of Czechoslovakia. He helped to found the republic. For the past twenty years he has prov- ed to be one of the “smartest little” statesmen in Europe. ! The | \book shelf I By ELIZABETH EEDY ! “EARLY BUILDINGS OF ONTARIO” By Prof, Eric D. Arthur University of Toronto Press has just released a new publication entitled “The Early Buildings of Ontario,” which describes and il- lustrates many of the province’s historic buildings which have out- standing architectural features. Eric D. Arthur, Professor of Architectural Design, University of Toronto, is the author of the booklet. John Alford, Professor of Fine Art, of the same univer- sity, has written a foreword in which he states that “the quality of architecture is the quality of the material environment we make for ourselves in the process of our relations with raw Nature and with each other. From Lancaster to Hamilton The largest groups of good early houses are to be found in the earliest settled portions of On- tario. The Kingston Road from Lancaster to Hamilton provided hundreds of examples of particu- larly good home- in the neighbor- hood of Kingston, Brockville, Preston and Cobourg, the book points out. The Niagara Penin- sula and the country around Ham- ilton also contain some of the best old houses in the province. In the western part of the province an- other group is to be found on the shores of Lake Erie and along the Detroit River. The book provides an instruc- tive study and Is recommended for teachers and any others interest- ed in Ontario’s architectural heri- tage. All cats in Staveley, Alberta, ; have to wear bells “to give the birds a chance.” The bird popu- lation is now increasing so much that other towns in Alberta intend to enact similar laws. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ These Growleywogs were remark- able creatures. They were of gigan- tic size yet were all bone, skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all. Their pow- erful muscles lay just under the skin like bunches of rope and the weak- est Growleywog was so strong, he could pick, up an elephant and toss it seven miles away. Guph knew that they hated all. people. He also know that if he succeeded they would afford him very powerful assistance, “The Land of Oz is ruled by a namby-pamby girl who is disgustingly good and kind,” : he said. "Her people are all happy•and contented and have no cares or worries whatever." “Go on!” growled the Grand Gallipoot, still scowling. "Once the Gnome King enslaved the Royal Family of Ev,” said the General, “but Qzma interfered, al- though it was none of her business', and marched her army against us. With Her was a Kansas girl named Dorothy and yellow hen, and they marched directly into the Gnome King’s cavern. There : they liberat- ed our slaves froto Ev and stole King Kuggedo's magic belt." “So now our King is making a, tunnel under the deadly desert so we can march through it to the Em- erald City. When we get there we mean to conquer and destroy all the land and recapture the magic belt.” Again.he paused and again the Grand Gallipoot growled, “Go on!” Guph tried to think of what to say next, for he was quite nervous, and a hap- py thought soon occurred to him.