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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., MAR. 24, 193S Commentary on the D CI- L iL C J Highlights of the Week's News ... Dy Elizabeth Ledy THE FINAL GOAL: An editorial In The Yorkshire Post, influential British newspaper which is owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, we believe is well worth quoting from: "Germany's final goal in the drive Inaugurated by the Austrian coup, the newspaper declared, is the total destruction of France, "not to gain French territory, but, as 'Mein Kampi' (Adolf Hitler's autobiography and political testament) sets out, to remove 6ermany's last serious Continental military rival and thus free her hands for the seizure of as much territory eastward as she may desire." "The military occupation of Austria will be followed by an attack on Czechoslovakia in order to clear that eastern route.. Assurances to the contrary are worth just as little as have been all the rest of Germany's assurances." NO MORE HAZING: Those hair-raising days of the annual freshman-baiting season are gone forever from the University of Western Ontario. The Student Government there voted last week to abolish initiation altogether, the general opinion being that for the past couple of years the legendary hazing has been getting pretty anaemic anyway. All very well to do away with the crueler aspects of the sophomore-freshman conflict, but we do not wish to see the color and glamor depart from college life entirely, nor the students become a bunch of stuffy crepe-hangers, old before their time. 94,000 UP: In the five months since October last, Ontario's relief rolls have increased from 166,000 to 260,-000, up 56 per cent. Npw, the fight is on between the Provincial Government and the Federal Government over the relief grant policy. Ottawa has been making steady reductions in relief appropriations to Ontario while unemployment figures have been rising. Premier Hepburn's cry is that the Federal Government went in on the promise of making relief a national problem. Ontario municipalities, too, claim to be overburdened by relief costs. HEAD WITHOUT A BODY: On November 12, 1918, the Austro-Hungar-ian Empire officially came to an end. Hungary was made into a separate country. Austria was proclaimed a Republic, and the constitution later adopted provided for union with Qfir-antly Germanic, but the subsequent peace treaties prohibited such a union, took steps to see that Germany and Austria were kept apart with not even a customs union allowed. In the light of these facts, it is not hard to understand the attitude of the Austrian people, who, although temperamentally different from their German cousins, appeared last week to welcome Adolf Hitler as their new head of state. For the past twenty years the great city of Vienna with its 2,000,000 inhabitants has been like a huge head on a tiny body. All the industries, commercial institutions, etc., of the country have been concentrated within its confines while the rest of Austria (population 4,000,000 more) has contributed little but scenery. Vienna stood ready to service a much larger countryside, with plenty of natural resources. Toronto would be in the same position if it were cut off from all the rest of Canada except for what lies with a 75-mile radius. The tourist' industry alone could not keep Austria going forever. BEHIND THE VICTORY: Simultaneously with news of Hitler's Austrian coup came reports of a big insurgent drive in Spain meeting with such successes that the Government armies were being driven eastward toward the sea and that the civil war was rapidly drawing to a tragic close. Genevieve Tabouis, the noted French Red Cedar Finds Favor In Britain Pre-Fabricated Walls In Houses; Highly Resistant to Weather HULL, Eng. -- A selling point of two "show" houses constructed here in 11 working days is that the British Columbia red cedar used is dry-rot proof and highly weather-resist- The method of construction is based npon the use of pre-fahricated cedar wall sections. The first-floor walls of both houses were in position within eight hours of starting work. The wall is of three-inch plank finished externally with weather-boarding, with under-felting and an interior finish of a three quarter Inch airspace and three-quarter-inch plaster board. A wall of this type has greater insulating qualities than a nine-inch brick wall, it is contended, and as there is no need to wait for it to dry out. the house is habitable as soon as it is erected. political observer, commenting on the Franco victories declared that by them she could see that Hitler had already begun to repay Mussolini for Italy's acquiescence in his seizure of Austria. The repayment, she < consisted, in part, of shipment from Germany to Spain of heavy artillery, aeroplanes and munitions, giving Franco enough equipment to guarantee success of his drive against the Government. CONSULTANTS ONLY: What President Roosevelt said off-the-ord at a press conference in 1933 throws a light on the policy the United States is likely to pursue in the present world crisis. At that time Mr. Roosevelt declared: "If all the nations agreed to set up some kind of machinery for consultation in the event of an act of aggression, we will be very glad to have somebody there to consult with. I consider that to be a step forward. "Do not get the idea that it means that we bind ourselves in the first instance to agree with the verdict. . . . We agree to consult. Therefore, it does not tie the hands of the United States in any shape, manner or form and leaves our final action entirely up to us." Polio Caused By Lack Of Vitamin B Is Latest Theory--Compares Infantile Paralysis With Beri Beri A new theory of the cause of infantile paralysis, rblished in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, attributes the child scourge to lack of Vitamin B. Vitamin B, (usually called B-l) the nerve vitamin. Only in the 1 three years has it been available for medical experiments. It has already been found to prevent the nerve dis orders and forms of partial paralysi: caused by too much alcohol with too little food. Similar Symptoms Dr. W. J. McCormick, of Toronto, who offers the vitamin theory for infantile paralysis, finds his justification in a comparison of this disease and beri beri. The latter is the Oriental tom*&. l'MS\M^try*?CT oT* this vitamin. Infantile paralysis, writes Dr. McCormick, shows much the same symptoms as beri beri, such as flaccid leg paralysis, digestive disturbances, and muscle pains and tenderness. He finds that the suceptibility of children to infantile paralysis can be explained by the fact that they do need more vitamin B than adults. He explains the summer-time occurrence of the infantile outbreaks by asserting that the summer vacation Increase in children's physical activity depletes their vitamin B. Eggs and Spinach Have It He says the average American diet is lacking in this vitamin. His theory also harmonizes, he points out, with recent discoveries about virus diseases. Infantile paralysis is one of the diseases caused by viruses. The latter have been identified in some cases as non-living protein substances, which could dome from deranged metabolism. Vitamin B is found in tomatoes, unpolished rice, spinach, legumes, eggs, yeast, kidney and other glandular tis- Why Music Soothes The Savage Breast It's a Wonderful Release From The Cares of the Day During the first two months of this year, a slender, white-haired Italian has been the subject of more newspaper columns of ecstatic praise than has been bestowed on almost any American in recent years. Arturo Toscanini, brought back to this continent by NBC to conduct ten concerts over the radio, became almost an object of worship to American music Music is a wonderful release from the cares of the day. That is one reason why it has won such a commanding position here during the past ten-years. Other reasons are the availability of the victrola and radio. Its Healing Value Even the ancients realized the healing value of music. The Romans be-lieced that sciatica could be relieved by the tones of a flute. Today music is used to quiet excited mental patients, and as a stimulant and tonic to brace up those suffering from melancholia. The waves of music, the vibrations of applause, affect the nerve centres and influence the heart and the circulation. This produces a reaction In the brain which gives the spirit new strength and courage. Music thus becomes an emotion-food, and a concert a banquet for the starved and sick at heart. Style Forecasters Say People Will Wear Less Latest Predictions Have -fcJThat The Sports Girl Will Be Fashion Leader -- Men Becoming Less Self-Conscious. NEW YORK.--Fashion experts who are not afraid to go out on a limb to forecast the future clothing styles are predicting that 1. Wor i will clothing, the simplicity and the comfort of sports apparel becoming more and more popular. 2. Men, too, will be wearing far fewer clothes 25 years hence. (The hot weather town suit of 1963 may well be washable shorts, shirt and jacket like the Tyrolean mountaineer's costume.) 3. The familiar collar and tie may be supplanted by a less-binding, modernized tunic, with perhaps a soft, soft neckerchief for prominent Adam's apple concealment. 4. Fabrics which resist rain, perspiration or spilled drinks, will be in 5. Glass raincoats may serve also as protectors from lightning. Streamlined Clothes Style observers say Empress Eu-genies may pop up here and there to put their fleeting stamp on the fashion world but it is the sports girl of the future who will set the pace for the long pull. Garments are becoming more streamlined. The slim silhouette dress is in vogue from bungalow boudoir to Biarritz ballroom. Baby rompers are going more Hollywood-ish. As the flair for sports and play clothes becomes stronger among girls, an increase in the percentage of more natural, healthy figures is expected. Abbreviated Sportswear Man, however, is becoming less self-conscious in abbreviated sportswear and is appearing in shorts on the tennis courts, at the beach and at the lawn mower. Accustomed to showing off his shanks at summer colonies he may become emboldened to expose more or less knobby knees in office and shop. Further improvements are expected in water-repellent fabrics. Materials made from glass, glass and milk are here. Crownless-hats are made of cellophane. In the future we may be wearing glass raincoats to shield us from lightning. New casual clql tailored or snectat be important in spring fasl 1938. Popularity is forecast for suits and jacket costumes. Designers predict new versions of the fitted waistline, modliied so that it is easier to wear. CANADA'S PEANUT IMPORTS From 1929 to 1936, Canadians ate 106,000 tons of peanuts. The amount of peanuts imported in 1936 was 15,-000 tons; in 1935 practically a similar amount, and 17,000 tons in 1934. Also known as ground nuts and earth nuts, peanuts are used for human food, for feeding live stock, and as an oilseed, yielding oil for culinary and industrial purposes, and oilcake for stockfeeding and fertilizers. The bulk of peanuts in world trade is made into oil. Canada imports a small amount of peanut oil for soap-making and canning flsh. India and China are the chief peanut growing countries. PINK 8ANDWICHES A Manchester (England) catering firm has started baking brown, white, pink and green loaves -- mainly for cocktail parties. You can have a sandwich to match your drink, or even your dress--for there is hardly any limit to the colours obtainable. Magnetic Storms Are Predictable Usually Accompanied by Large Sunspots Scientists are trying their hand at making predictions concerning the coming of magnetic storms, the disturbances that blank out communication on certain wave lengths of radio channels, make the magnetic needle erratic and are accompanied by the aurora borealis. They are usually accompanied by a large sun spot, but this is not necessarily so because the disturbance on the sun may exist below the atmosphere, or surface level, and not be visible to astronomical observers. Magnetic and radio observations may, therefore, furnish astronomers a means of tracing sun spots before they have reached the visible-state and after they have disappeared from Aurora Borealis A strong magnetic storm is usually accompanied by a display of aurora borealis. This happened a month ago, when these northern lights were seen as far south at Florida. [ News In Review^] Ask Czechs Be "Reasonable" BERLIN--News commentators this week-end posed Germany's absorption of Austria before Czechoslovakia as a warning of the need of "an early and satisfactory solution" of her minority issue. The German press, apparently on instruction, told the neighboring war-created republic with 3,500,000 Germans to be reasonable about meeting German demands. New PuId Industry TORONTO--Establishment of a $7,-000,000 pulp industry in Northern Ontario within the next few weeks was forecast this week in the Legislature by Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and Forests. Bodv Is Recovered RENFREW, Ont.--Body of Mrs. R. A. Hoffman, 42, mother of three children, was found in the Bonnechere River a few hours after an employee of a nearby powerhouse reported he saw her drop from the powerhouse Advance On Suchow SHANGHAI.--Reinforced Japanese troops fighting southward along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway advanced this week on the strategic Lunghai rail junction at Suchow. Three bodies of troops strongly supported by aircraft, mechanized equipment and artillery started the new offensive from Liang-hsiatien, where desperate Chinese resistance halted the initial drive in this sector early in January. Russia Will Aid MOSCOW--Soviet Russia, fearing that Germany's annexation of Austria has brought the danger of war close, is ready to fight with France as an ally if Fuehrer Adolf Hitler attempts any invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was stated authoritatively here last week. SPAIN LOSES OLIVE OIL MARKET Spain, before the civil war, used to supply Canada with olive oil. Now the Dominion gets its supplies principally from France (12,000 cwt. in 1936) and Italy (4,000 cwt.) World trade in olive oil has declined in recent years. VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Within One's Debts A survey of municipalities shows that many cities, now in need, have borrowed to their limit. It is sure tough when you can't live within your debts.--Winnipeg Tribune. Forgotten Provinces Sir Evelyn Wrench speaks of the Maritimes as "Canada's forgotten provinces." It is evident that he has never been in Ottawa when the House was in session.--Peterborough Examiner. Speed Is Expensive If an automobile is driven at a speed of thirty miles an hour, its life will be three times the life of the average car. Economically as well as every other way, speed is expensive. --Chatham News. Canada Should Take Heed The decision of the British Broadcasting Corporation to deny Right Hon. Josiah Wedgwood the radio air to comment, on Hitler's or Mussolini's policies is a sign of which the Parliament of Canada should take due notice. We may as well admit now that there is in certain parts of this free Dominion a sinister growth which unless curbed may, sooner than most people think, become malignant. Much has been said about the Government-controlled radio commission in this country of late. Objection to an increase of the annual fee by fifty cents is, comparatively speaking, an insignificant matter. The fact is the Canadian people distrust control that may result in suppression of views of public men whose sole interest in their country's future is her welfare and the preservation of her free institutions--Victoria Daily Times. No Help to Villages The Montreal Star says that "country towns with good highway connections tend to develop and prosper." Experience in the case of Ontario villages is probably the reverse. When good roads arrive, the trade that formerly went to the village stores more often passes their doors and Is received by establishments in the larger centres. Dozens of Ontario villages are actually poorer, in point of business done, for the better road communications that they now possess, while larger towns and cities are enriched by the same development. -- Brockville Recorder and Times. Deadly Houses This housing problem is a matter that is financial, social, humanitarian, moral. For six months, in a good or a bad year, it makes our courts resound with quarrels between tenant and landlord or simply between tenants-- a fact which brings out another aspect of the situation. It takes, in our Province of big families, an added importance and an appearance that is often dramatic. In Montreal it creates an endemic evil in given zones that contaminate the human capital of the nation. If the State votes millions for the hypothetical defense of our coasts it should be able to find money to save lives, which are not vague ideas, but which wither and fade, like poor forgotten flowers, from lack of space, or air, or sun--Montreal La Patrie. Huge Cypress Garden in South Carolina Thrown Open To Public The 250-acre cypress garden owned by R. B. Kittredge, Jr., of Charleston, S.C., is again the source of much satisfaction to nature lovers, who have been invited to spend leisurely hours paddling through the immense park. Forty tons of bulbs have also been planted to add to a floral display. THE EMPIRE Youth and Politics An interesting point remarked by Earl de la Warr is that, for a country which still t links of itself in terms of youth, Australia is curiously prone to prefer government by older men. The age of Parliamentary representatives in Australia is well above the average. Why should a relatively young country distrust youth in its political councils? Why do not our young men choose politics as a vocation? Or is it that the existing party machinery discourages the enlistment of youth and bars the way to preferment to all except the mature in years? These questions aie well worth asking and better worth answering. The youth of the Fascist countries is being fired with ideals and enthusiasms which we do not share, but democracy ought equally to inspire its young men with the ambition to serve and excel in the political spiere. Otherwise, tlie restless and ambitious among them may be attracted by other ideologies, to the detriment of the democracy whose spirit is being extinguished in so many lands. No more than in the days of the Pitts is it today an "atrocious crime" to be young. The poll-"" ---j tical education of youth, and the search for talent in leadership in its ranks, is surely an appropriate task for a country which is young in traditions and outlook, even if it must now be reckoned mature in years.-- Sydney (Australia) Herald. Canadian Eggs Winning Favor Complete With Danish Project On British Market LONDON.--Again Canadian exporters have launched a successful challenge to Denmark's long-standing domination of the United Kingdom's egg market. Experimental shipments of Canadian eggs, sponsored by the Dominion Department of Agriculture and co-operative organizations, have met with such success that steps have been taken to establish the scheme on a per- Direct negotiations for a regular and increased supply have already been opened between a leading firm of London importers and the Quebec authorities. Supply Quickly Exhausted It was originally intended to carry on the experimental shipments for a period of eight weeks only, each shipment consisting of 50 cases of 180 eggs. The demand was so keen for the Canadian product that the supply was quickly exhausted. A member of the importing firm of John Loudon declared there was no doubt Canadian eggs were fresher than most other countries, were better packed and handled, thus commanding higher prices. "Although there is little possibility Canada will capture the market outright from Denmark," the importer declared "it is certain if negotiations are successful Canadian eggs will demand a good place on the London market." Indian Remains Are Identified Toronto University Professor Interested In Theory of Plague-- Studies Bones Found Near Brantford. BRANTFORD. -Grant, head of the department of anatomy at the University of Toronto, said last week that examination of the skulls and bones found near His Majesty's chapel of the Mohawks, on the borders of this city, last week, were "definitely" those of Indians and were characteristic of those found all over the country. He expressed interest in the theory advanced here that the remains are those of members of the Tutelo Indian tribe--incorporated with the Six Nations. Nearly 200 of the Indians, or virtually the whole tribe, were wiped out in a cholera or ship fever epidemic which swept this part of the country less than 100 years ago. The mode of burial appeared to preclude possibility of them being the remains of the older Attiwandaron or neutral Indians whom the warlike Iroquois exterminated nearly 300 years ago. IMPROVING DRESSED POULTRY "It is apparent that ail the Canadian exporters of dressed poultry are responding to the representations of the Poultry Services, Dominion Department of Agriculture, to improve their export packs of chickens and a continuance of this policy will eventually land us at the objective we are all trying to attain," states W. A. Wilson, Animal Products Trade Commissioner for Canada in Londan, England, in a recent letter to the Department.