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To Slaughter 2,000 Buffalo Killing Off Of Surplus Animals From Canada’s Herdsâ€"Buf- falo Steak Said Very Tooth- some More than a million pounds of buffalo meat will be provided this yea. by the slaughter of 2,000 surplus animals from Canada’s great buffalo herds in Buffalo National Park and Elk Island Na- tional Park, in Alberta. Once in danger of extinction, the buffalo, thanks to steps taken for their conservation by the Canadian Gov- ernment, have so increased in numbers that periodic slaughters are necessary to reduce the herds in keeping with the grazing ca- pacity of the parks. The slaugh- ter of the buffalo is carried out under the supervision of a gov- ernment inspector and strictly hu- mane and up-to-date methods are e'mployed. The carcasses are prepared for market in modern abbatoirs, maintained by the government at the respective parks, and the meat is handled under stringent sanitary conditions and graded ac- cording to quality and age. Only the choicest quality may be of- fered to the fresh meat trade, while the balance is marketed in processed form. Buffalo meat is considered dietetically to bo equal1 to the best of domestic cattle, and the steaks can be as tender and "succulent as the finest morselâ of beef. ' It has little, if any, of the game-taste associated with other wild animals, and when buffalo steaks or joints are selected with discretion they provide fare fit for the meal of any man. Canadian-Born Star May Irwin, Broadway’s toast of the 90’s and one of the brightest stars of the stage at the turn of the century, died recently after a short illness. Miss Irwin, 76, first won fame as a “coon” singer, then turning to comedy roles, she ap- peared year after year in starring vehicles. She retired from the stage in 1922 and since then her palatial home has been a mecea for former comrades of the stage. She was a native of Whitby, Ont. Canada Is First In U.S. Interests American Investments In Can- ada Total $3,630,000,000 Report Shows Move than SO per cent o£ the United States’ $11,000,000,000 stake in world investments is invested in Europe, the U. S. Department of Commerce disclosed at Washington in its survey of international pay- ments for 1937. Canada ranked first in American investments with $3,- 630,000,000. The complete statistics for 1937 of the Department, of Commerce, show that American investors had invested $3,030,000,000 in Canada, $2,562,000,000 in South America, $2,- 372,000,000 in Europe and more than $880,000,000 in the West In- dies. The expenditure of United States travellers in Canada comprise very nearly one-half of total outlays for foreign travel by the residents of this country, y and the expenditure of Canadian travellers in the Unit- ed States accounts for two-thirds of the total travel outlays by foreign- ers in the United States. J. W. Gillespie, of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind told a service club in Amherst, N.S., there were 9,400 people reg- istered with the institute. The in- stitute was doing its utmost to make all these people self-sup- porting. VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA â€"oâ€" VICTIMS OF PEACE The trouble with modern inter- national agreements is that they create such terrific refugee^ prob- lems among the hapless victims of peace.â€"Stratford Beacon-Herald. DON’T LOOK NOW! A magazine editor told a ser- vice club in Ottawa that the aver- age wife spends 85 cents out of every dollar, leaving a dime and a nickel for hubby. Many hus- bands, however, claim to bo still looking for the fifteen cents.â€"St. Thomas Times-Journal. â€"oâ€" PLOWING MATCHES Probably none but the country boy or girl would call plowing a sport, but there are thousands in this banner province of Ontario who consider it one of the finest, and discover in it a thrill not to be found in any other competi- tion.â€"Guelph Mercury. â€"oâ€"â€" DEADLY CROSSINGS Level crossings are taking a terrible toll of fives and the peo- ple are beginning to ask where and when it is going to stop. The abolition of grade crossings is the1 only positive cure of the evil. Gates, bells, wig-wags and other devices may be considered mere makeshifts of a temporary char- acter,â€"Chatham News. â- â€"oâ€" FARM BUYING POWER It is obvious to any thinking person that even the present standard of living cannot be maintained in rural Canada if some readjustment is not made to establish parity and equalize the buying power of all social and in- dustrial groups. A. pre-war rev- enue will not sustain the farm family when they buy oil a mar- ket that has been forced skyward by debt, ever growing taxation, increasing wage scales, extrava- gance and waste.â€"Farmer’s Ad- vocate. The EMPIRE MAKE IT THREE-SIDED In a world that has suffered a good deal from the operation of the policy of self-sufficiency much is hoped from the proposed trade agreement between Britain, Can- ada, and the United States, which,. now that America is : recovering her spending power, promises bet- ter things for British exporters. But it will need more than an An- glo-American trade agreement to recompense Britain for markets lost elsewhere, and there is a strong case to be developed for a better distribution of trade be- tween the Mother Country and the Dominions.-â€"Glasgow Herald. Didn’t â-  Like the â-  Sophs. The “Perfect” Onion The United States Bureau of Plant Industry has developed the “perfect” onion. Henry A. Jones, bureau plant breeded, developed, .the onion from the Australian brown onion, which grows in California. After painstakingly inbreeding the Aus- tralian Brown, Jones produced an onion that had long-sought “per- fect” characteristics; a tendency not to sprout in storage, a slight- ly flattened globe shape; a lemon yellow color, and a covering of several layers of uniformly buck- skin brown scales. James Bell, ABOVE, and an- other Toronto youth, Edward Mil- ton, have given up their studies at the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege and returned home because of the hazing which they said they and other freshmen were forced to undergo. Both lads al- leged that their health had been impaired by the hazing. Says Dutchman Invented Golf Scotland is due for a severe shock when they learn over there that the grand and bonnie. game of golf is not Scotch at all, but Dutch. The discovery lias just been made, strangely enough, by a group of Harvard Professors of Government. Conducting a research into inter- national law, they turned to the life of Hugo Grotius, or Huig van Groot, as lie was known in his own country, the great Renaissance au- thority on jurisprudence. In one volume they found an engraving from a painting of Grotius as a youth, allowing him holding a golf club quite'1 similar to those now in use. As Grotius was born in 1583 the game must have been well established in. Hollar,d by the time he reached manhood. Further research revealed that golf was played on the ice in the Netherlands as early as 1600, Holes were chipped in the frozen surface of the inland waterways which must have presented a smooth if chilly surface. Sailors Introduced It The game is believed to have been introduced "into ‘otland by two Scottish sailors who learned it while their boat was frozen in Dutch waters. It is said on strict- ly unreliable authority that their families have been using the same ball ever since. \rr WONDERLAND OF OZ Hews P&rasle By Elizabeth Hedy THE TABLE GROANED: We feel very strongly on the subject of fowl suppers. Conjure u.p a picture: frosty clear night with November stars in the sky; jolly crowds com- ing together laughing and talking; mingled odors of roast chicken and pies and coffee and cakes ris- ing from the church shed, then the great moment when the “first table” is called in to sit before â€" a feast for the gods! Conjure up such a picture and we swoon with excess of something â€" can you tell us what? After having made more than 350 parachute descents, James Williams, described as the world’s champion parachutist, jumped from the height of 3,300 feet and fell like a stone to his death, at an aviation meet in Lonele Sauin- ier, France. “The crown of the tree which is our homeland has been cut off, but the roots of the nation stand fast in the soil.” -â€"Eduard Benes. heMemIi to got your copy ci this week’s Toronto S i a i ,,.v Weeit’y â-  while in town. OUR REAL FRONTIER: Sir Al- fred Morine, K.C., former Minister of Justice in the Newfoundland Government, told an audience in Toronto last week that Canada’s first line of defence against air invasion is Newfoundland. Should a German or Italian navy escape to sea and capture Newfoundland, the island would be provided with a base from which planes could con- trol the .St. Lawrence, Halifax, Can- ada’s export and import trade â€" perfect headquarters for bombing Montreal and cities, further inland, he said. In conclusion he advocated doing something Concrete to pro- tect ourselves against any such ev- entuality. GUN CONTRACT: The Bren.. Gun Probe hag caused more than a mild flurry in Canadian political circles. Wondering what it was all about, we were grateful when the Ottawa Journal pointed out in black and white just what it is that the Royal Commission investigating the case was appointed to discover. Five points: 1, Is the Bren gun contract a'good contract from the stand- point of the national treasury and the national interest? 2, Was it ne- cessary to place this contract with- out tenders with the John Inglis ” «-• X>ifl f-hA -i:-> t'i \4 - h ftrvy- VyOîll jztllL „! } • lU t-laU 01 eminent insist . on the Canadian Government working with Major Hahn of the John Inglis Company? 4, Were the financial operations of the Inglis Company in line with the Government policy in connection with contracts for national arma- ment? 5, Did the Minister of Na- tional Defence present the facts of the gun contract to the House of Commons accurately and complete- ly? The purpose of the contract was ostensibly to provide a weapon of national armament at a reasonable, non-profiteering cost in the quick- est possible time. CHEST COLDS Here's Quick Belief from Tfeir DISTRESS! Rub soothing, warming Musterole well into your chest and throat. Musterole is NOT just a salve. It’s a “counter-irritant*? containing old-fashioned cold remedies, oil of mustard, and other valuable ingredi- ents, in a clean white ointment. That’s why it gets such fine résulta â€"better than the old-fashioned mus- tard plaster. Musterole penetrates, stimulates, warms and soothes, help- ful in quickly relieving local conges- tion and pain. Used by millions for 30 years. Recommended by many doc- tors and nurses. Made in Canada, in three strengths: Regular Strength, Children’s (mild), and Extra Strong. All druggists, 40)6 each. Ml THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What six Danubian-Balkan nations of Europe have, during the past couple of years, been tied more and more closely into the economic or- bit of Nazi Germany? Answer: Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece , and Turkey, -who have been reducing their purchases from Western Europe and the United States to buy more goods from Germany. Film projectors have been plac- ed in 9,400 schools in France. 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Let your nearest- Firestone Dealer show you how you can adapt these tires for your present equipment. Specify Firestone Ground Grip Tires when buying new farm ma- chinery. Ground Grip Tires are also made for cars and trucks* Put a set on your rear .wheels fot safe winter driving. Made for CARS ® TRUCKS TRACTORS By L. Frank Baum /â- '"cppyriRhted 1932, R.illy & Lee Co. 30 A Later Ozma. called Dorothy atid naid: "i have marked out a plan of the trip that you and your aunt and uncle will take. Everything will be ready for you to start tomorrow morning. Take your time, dear, and be gone as long as you wish. By the time you return 1 shall have found some occupation for your Uncle Henry and Aunt Em that will keep them from being restless and dis- satisfied. Dorothy thanked her good friend and kissed her gratefully, then she ran to fell the joyful news to Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. They were both excited and pleased at the pros- pect of seeing more of this delight- ful land in which they now lived. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em spent the rest of the day in preparing for .the Journey, while Dorothy arranged for the other Oz people who were to ac- company them. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz w«as the first person she asked to join the party for Dorothy felt that his magic powder might home in handÿ on the journey. Ozma had told her to fake Omb.v Amby, who VaS the Captain General of her army. Once Omby Amby had. been a private sol- dier, the only private in the army, hut as there never was any fighting to do, Ozma say no need of a pri- vate, so she-made him the highest officer of them fill. Next morning after breakfast ev- erything, was ready for their depart- Lire. There wasan open wagon with three seats for, the passengers and the wagon was drawn by the famous Wooden Saw-Horse which Ozma had brought to life With a magic powder. In the front seat of the wagon sat Dorothy and the Wizard. Uncle Hen- ry and Aunt liim sat on the next seat and the. Captain ,< ieiieva! of the ar- ray in the bank. Doth ;Toto and Uil- lina were also wJt.h the party.