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Will Spend More To Train Youth Ottawa To increase Vote For 1939 â€" 50,000 Canadians Benefited Last Year With particular emphasis on placement features, the Dominion- Provincial youth training program for the present fiscal year is mak- ing excellent progress, the Fed- eral Labor Department said this week. “While it is naturally too early to determine with accuracy the number of young Canadians who will benefit by the plan this year, it is probable that last year’s fig- ures will be equalled if not ex- ceeded,” the department’s state- ment said. Provinces Contribute “Approximately 50,000 Cana- dians between the ages laid down in agreements with the provinces have profited by the program. The exact figures are: Men, 32,801; women, 23,156; or a total of 55,- 457. Last year the amount voted by Parliament was $1,000,000. This year the Dominion contribut- ed in the neighborhood of $1,500,- 000. Provinces contribute on a 50-50 basis. Blackleg Kills Lambton Cattle Many Are Dying Off As Result Of Infection Lambton County cattle are threatened by a spread of “black- leg”, a virulent disease not un- common at this time of the year. It is estimated that twenty-five cattle have died in the county in recent weeks as a result of the disease, but veterinarians and others do not believe the situa- tion is yet one. for alarm. Caused By Bacillus Prevalent among cattle in that area for the past forty years, the disease has chiefly affected herds along the sixth and eighth con- cessions of Enniskillen township. Cattle between the ages of six months and two years are most susceptible to the disease, which occasionally attacks sheep and goats also. The disease is not peculiar to any particular climate, soil or al- titude. It is caused by a bacillus which forms a sore within itself and lodges in the soil. A sore is usually the means by which,an ani- mal contracts the disease. Duee Was Once A Burly Waiter Former Fruit Salesman Remem- bers Mussolini Working In A Soho Restaurant LONDON, Eng.â€"A gray-haired old fruit-seller in. Soho, who once told Mussolini to be quiet, laughs when he thinks “where old Ben is now” and a showman who once told the Italian waiter his play “Napoleon” was lousy still thinks he was right. Old Jack Smith, fruit salesman and radio star, is 80 but he can still remember the night he sat in a cafe and told a friend one Eng- lishman was worth ten Italians. A young Italian, 22, powerfully-built and stumpy, dashed to his table with clenched fists, shouting in broken English for a retraction. T ub-Thumper Jack recalls he slapped Musso- lini on the back said: “Oh, chuck it, Ben, you and your poliAkv make me Sick.” “In those days,” he says, Musso- lini “was just a cocky little Italian waiter who was always throwing out his chest and tub-thumping â€" like the street-corner politicians do in Hyde Park.” Mussolini, says Jack, “worked at nights in a big restaurant where King Edward VII used to go some- times.” Ontario Village Is Up For Sale ORANGE VILLE,â€"Want to buy. a village? The six vacant build- ings constituting Bowling Green, 12 miles from here, are up for sale. The village was formerly owned by the late Robert Henry Edgar and had one of the few re- maining- privately - owned tele- phone systems in the province. Edgar built the system in 1906. His parents founded the village and ran a general store there for many years. The satisfied acclaim of over a hundred thousand Canadian home- owners is your positive guarantee of the greatest heating value money can buy. Give your home the thrilling comfort and de- pendability of “the world’s finest anthracite”. -â€" The colour guarantees the quality. Order from your nearest ‘blue coal’ dealer today. Ask him also about the ‘blue coal' Heat Regulator which provides automatic heat with your present equipment. 368 Tuns in “The Shadow” every Sat., 7 p.m., CBL, Toronto, or 6.39 p.ro., CBO, Ottawa. He Flew Chamberlain Commander Eric Glynne Robin- son, pilot of the airplane which flew Prime Minister Chamberlain to Germany for his second confer- ence with Chancellor Hitler, is shown ABOVE. He received his first flying instructions at Hamil- ton, Ont. News Parade By Elizabeth Eedy WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: In the Great War of 1914-18, it was the uniformed men in the front line trenches who bore- the brunt of enemy punish- ment. Today, things are different, as we know from watching- dress rehearsals (for another war) in" Abyssinia, in Spain and China. It is the civilian population, the women and children, who are the first victims of war, meeting swift death from the air, or a horrible mangling, or slow starvation. They call it “totalitarian war”. WHAT PRICE DISTRACTION? They tell us that whenever war appears on the world’s horizon, women’s fashions automatically become more elaborate, more or- nery than ever-â€"as a distraction, don’t you know, from the grim- ness of reality. This present season, judging from the specimens one has glimpsed on the streets of Ontario towns: and cities, women’s hats and hair-dos are providing a No. 1 diversion. European embroglios are forgotten when the latest “doll hat” sails by atop a nest of high-piled curls. Women become interested only in going their fel- lowwoman’s hats one better; men are interested in watching the women. LINE-UP: Britain plus France plus. Russia have a combined strength of 15,400 planes. Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 11,500. Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined naval strength of 2% million tons. Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 1 million tons. Measured in men, Britain plus France pips Russia have a total army strength of 26,000,000. Compare that with Germany plus Italy, 10,600,'000. Consider then, that the United States is morally behind Britain, France and Russia, Aren’t Germany and Italy brave to stand up against such an align- ment ? * * * * We complained loudly in this column at Easter-time when the first spring millinery atrocities ap- VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA TRULY DEMOCRATIC With the C. N. E. over, rich and poor won’t rub shoulders again until the Christmas shopping- stamped e.-â€" Toronto Telegram. ..WHITHER “SOCIABLES”? The Brockville Recorder and Times thinks church socials are going out of fashion. Fact is, they’ve never been the same since they ceased to be know as socia- bles.â€"Toronto Star. THOSE GLARING HEADLIGHTS A Sunday drive is the enjoy- ment of thousands of motorists until it is time to go home. As darkness approaches and head- lights on cars are turned on then it is a nightmare for the driver. Of all the vast improvements amade in cars in recent years, glar- ing headlights still exist and re- lief is not in sight.â€"Elmira Sig- net. OFF THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE Apart from sentimental and Strategic reasons, there is another factor why both Great Britain and the United States are interested in Canada. There is $6,800,000,000 of out- side capital invested in the Domin- ion. Of this amount, Great Britain has supplied 40 per cent, ond the United States has put up 58 per cent., leaving only two per cent, supplied, by other countries. Windsor Daily Star, WHAT IT TAKES A good editor is one who has never made a mistake; who is al- ways right; who can ride two horses at the same time he is straddling a fence with both ears to the ground; who always says the right thing at the right time; who always picks the right horse as well as the right politician to win; who never has to apologize, who has no enemies, and who has worlds of prestige with all classes, creeds and races. That is all an editor has to do to be rated a good editor. There has. never been a good editor.â€"North Hastings Re- view. The EMPIRE CANADA AND WHEAT PRICES Under the 1932 treaty Canada and Australia are bound to sell wheat to the Motherland at the world price, which is the price on the Liverpool Exchange. This price is fixed by competition be- tween the buyers of the world, not the buyers of the United Kingdom alone. The British mar- ket is not large enough to absorb all the Canadian export surplus of wheat. The balance of this sur- plus is sold in competition with peared. But since then, as the European situation has grown worse, things have been getting- more and more impossible in the hat world. And now, words fail us. We cannot bring ourselves to describe the latest creations m feather and felt. Those terrible chin-strap models we howled about in the spring were infinitely pre- ferable, don’t you think? * * * * THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: How many hours distant by air- plane is Moscow from Berlin? An- swer: 4%* hours. the exports from the United States, Argentina, Russia, the Dan- ubian countries, and every other wheat-exporting country. It is this competition with foreign wheat which fixes the Liverpool price and therefore the price which British importers" pay for Canadian wheat. For this reason the prefernce is not thought to be of much value. If the preference is repealed, Canada may sell less wheat to Britain, but, in that event, other countries will sell more and there will be less com- petition in selling to foreign coun- tries. It is, in the Canadian view, a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.â€"Manchester Guardian. Tourist Total Remains High Extensive Revenueâ€"Slight De- cline Seen From 1937 For Canada Tourist traffic will bring between $265,000,000 and $275,000,000 to Canada this year, Leo Dolan, chief of the Canadian Travel Bureau, De- partment of Transport, estimates. Last year’s estimated tourist traf- fic revenue was $295,000,000. “The tourist industry has shown less decline than any other normal business activity in Canada this year,” said Mr, Dolan. Millions of Visitors Canada up to July 31 received 9,- 012,177 visitors, a drop of 6,8 per cent, from the 9,676,734 who came in the seven months ending July 31, 1£)37, but a general upswing was reported in August with improved business conditions in the United States, the great source of Can- ada’s tourist trade. The tourist business drop has been most pronounced in Ontario and Quebec because they are con- tiguous to the United States indus- trial areas that felt most keenly the recession. But in these two provinces there was an improve- ment in August over July. B.C. Does Better British Columbia has done well with her tourist trade this year. Vancouver Island reports a record number of visitors. Through the customs at Victoria in the eight months ending August 3,1 there were cleared 26,000 United States motor cars, bringing 72,000 people to the island, a record high. New Brunswick reports tourist trade as good as evèr. Nova Sco- tia reported' a slight decrease with Prince Edward Island about un- changed. The Prairie Provinces report a better tourist, trade than in 1936 but slightly below that of 1937. Insects in green vegetables will make an immediate exit if you add salt to their washing- wat- er. A hen in Bourgas, in the Black Sea, has laid three eggs a day for the last three months, | The [BOOK SHELF ! By ELIZABETH EEDY 2 \2ij g c ; ; , .......... 1 “MY SISTER EILEEN” By Ruth MeKenney It’s a natural! It’s a howl! this story of the adventures of a rogu- ish Irish lass and her sister Eileen, now 25 and 24 years old respec- tively. It will have you rolling in the aisles, because you have ex- perienced things just like that, yourself, perhaps. . . . The book starts off in the days of peanuts and the silent movies,- debating teams and bird hunts, girls’ camps and Easter, eggs. By' easy stages it progresses through first lessons in being a waitress, the care and feeding of a Georgian Prince, the blushful experiences of a girl reporter (Ruth McKen- ney writes for the “New Yorker”) interviewing- Randolph Churchill. Later Ruth and her sister Eileen migrate to New York, where they hire an apartment from Mr. Spit- zer, a sad fellow who couldn’t tell a fungus from an elm tree. The final staggering climax, is reached the night Eileen and Ruth enter- tain the Brazilian Navy. “My Sister Eileen,” by Ruth MeKenney . . . . Toronto, George J. McLeod, Limited, 266 King St. West .... $2.25. Cattle Rustlers Harrass Ontario Thieves Are Being . Sought By, Might Riders in Four Counties Reminiscent of the old-time West. When cattle rustling was the bane of respectable ranchers, an epidem- ic of this crime lias broken out in four Ontario counties and night rid- ers are roaming the land in search of the thieves, just as was done in the days of long ago. The Guelph, Dundalk and Pus- linch districts have been the centre of the rustlers’ attention. The farm of John Hoohenadel in Puslinch district was raided twice recently and cattle were removed from pasture fields under cover o£ darkness. The fine beef cattle were believed to have been removed from the scene in a truck. Removed By Truck Farmers in the Dundalk- 'area were taking precautions against the raiders following the disappearance of five head of cattle from the farm of Clayton Sprott, of Badjeros. Mar- shall Armour, of the same place, lost six head of cattle and William Corbett, Shelburne drover, is look- ing for tour head which disappear- ed from a pasture in the Melanc- thon district. Charles Robb, PenetangUishene farmer, is the poorer by twenty head of cattle, including three hei- fers and a calf. Eight head of cat- tle disappeared from the estate of Percy Semple near Beeton. Emergency dress hangers may be made by rolling a newspaper tightly, wrapping in tissue paper, and tying round the middle with a piece of string', leaving a large loop by which to hang it. As Mediator Relumed Completing his first flight in an airplane, Lord Runciman, British mediator on the Czech-German crisis, is shown as he arrived at Croydon airport after a flight from Czechoslovakia to confer with the British cabinet which, at that time was considering the question of a plebiscite in the Sudeten area. Runciman told the cabinet that a plebiscite would mean certain war. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ "We want your help in this con- quest/' said Guph, "for we need the aid of the Orowleywogs in order to make sure that we shall not be de- feated. You hate good creatures as much as we gnome do, I asm ure it will be a real pleasure to you to tear down the Emerald City, and in return for your assistance we will allow you to bring back to your country ten thousand people of Qz to be yur slaves." “Twenty thousand!” growled the Grand Gallipoot. “All right, twenty thousand slaves it shall be!" agreed the General, who by this time was Very frightened.- The Grand Galli- poot made a signal and at once his attendants picked up General Guph and carried him away to ,a deep, dark prison, where the jailer amus- ed himself by sticking pins in the. round, fat body of the old irnome to see him jump and hear him yell. And while this was going on the Grand Gallipoot w%s talking with his counselors, who were the most important officials of the Growley--. wogs. When he had told them of the proposition of the Gnome King, he said: “My advice is t help them, then when we have conquered the Land of Oz w will take not only <yur twenty thousand prisoners, blit ev- erything else we want." “Let us take the magic belt, too,” suggested one counselor.6 "And rob the Gnome King and make him our slave." “That’s a good idea," declared the Grand Gallipoot. “I’d like King I’tuggedo for my own slave. Be could black my boots and bring me my porridge every moiff- ing while l am in bed." -"There is a famous Scarecrow in Oz. I'll take him for my slave," said a counselor. “I’ll take Tik-Tok, the machine man," said another. “Give me - the Tin Woodmansai da third.