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w THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., APRIL 7, 1938 VOICE CANADA^ THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Curl In the Pig's Tail Last year Canada sold to Great Britain 193 million pounds of bacon, equivalent to 1,600,000 hogs. The curl Jn the pig's tail appears to be assuming the shape of the ? sign.--Kitchener Record. A Stream of Talk The average man talks two hours out of every twenty-four at the rate of 100 words a minute. He utters some 4,500,000 words a year. The authority doesn't say so, but we presume he is talking of single men. -- Chatham What Chance Has It? The latest scientific aid to safe driving is a red light on the dashboard which warns motorists when they approach grade crossings. But if they won't heed tooting whistles, ringing bells and wig-wagging signals, what chance has a little red light?--Windsor Daily Star. Help to Farmers Agriculture is at last to receive greater recognition. The prosperity of the province depends so much upon the well-being of the farmer that it would be nothing short of criminal, now that the money is available, not to recognize the demands of the farming community for greater assistance in placing agriculture in a better position to play its full part in the development and progress of the country.--St. Thomas Times-Journal. Wants Less Provincial Power We may not always agree with Denton Massey, M.P., but we can see some validity in his claim that Canada is in danger of becoming "Balkan-ized." He, like most of us, sees provinces seeking to assert too much authority with a consequent danger to federalism. There is such a danger. There is far too much emphasis laid on "provincial rights," which usually means a reaching out for federal powers. Probably what is needed is less provincial power. There is a growing body of public opinion, which even believes it might not be a bad idea to abolish the provincial governments al-•together. with consequent saving" in taxes and trouble.--Niagara Falls Review. A Changing Ontario In Middlesex and Lambton counties rapid changes are taking place. The sons of the old pioneer families are not staying on the farms. They are selling out in many cases to the New Canadians of alien origins. In Lambton County, particularly near Alvinston, there is a large settlement Of Czechoslovakians who have bought out old farms. They are making excellent settlers. They are happy just now that they are living in Canada and not in Czechoslovakia. The majority of new settlers are anxious to take out citizenship papers and to become good Canadians. They are ready to adopt our ways and our customs. Possibly in the end it is not such a bad thing to have an infusion of new ' blood. In any case, whether we like it or not, the Western Ontario of a , few decades from now may be an entirely different Western Ontario from that of our day and generation.--London Free Press. New Process Makes Pictures On Metal Photographs Produced In This Way Are Much More Accurate The Aluminum Company of America disclosed last week at Pittsburg that it has perfected a method of inaking pictures on metal which was expected to be more enduring and more accurate than those taken on It presented the first portrait made by the new process to Dr. Paul D. Merica, whose research work on the precipitation hardening of alloys led to a more diversified use of metals. Do Not React To Changes The pictures are made on a patented metal about one-sixteenth of an inch thick, which contains an oxide coating, with the sensitive silver salts that react to light. When exposed jp light sent through a negative an image is produced on the metal. A spokesman said the metal pictures have proved more valuable for aerial surveys, where a surface, absolutely accurate, was needed. He explained that a slight change in temperature causes contraction or expansion of paper pictures, and that such slight distortion would bring about a grave miscalculation of distances. The metal pictures do not react to such changes, he said. A-C THE EMPIRE Rising (?) Sun The core of the Chinese armies is still intact; the Central Government, with the whole-hearted support of a united nation, has never been stronger; and Japan has been forced to enlist the good offices of a European Power in order to make peace overtures which have been rejected with the contempt they deserved. Turn back the calendar, may be the wish of most Japanese. Too late, their awakening. Japan is caught in the toils of a war, the outcome of which is perfectly clear--all too clear to the Japanese. She has antagonized the Powers of the world by h brutality. Her troubles at home are increasing daily. News of insurrections In the territories she has torn from the mainland in previous "raids" leaks out to the world. The Land of the "Rising" Sun. We wonder!--Hong Kong Press. Irish Living Costs For a time Ministers were disposed to deny that there was any increase in the cost of living, but when they could no longer persist in that attitude they proceeded to make the case that the increase in the cost of living was a sign of greater prosperity. The housekeeper in town and country has to pay higher prices for all her requirements. The citizens, as taxpayers, are, for the same reason, called upon to provide the funds needed by the Exchequer to defray the additional cost of living bonus. The citizens, as ratepayers, are similarly affected .... While the costs and charges to which we have referred have been mounting, the income <~t the chief producing class in the country--the agricultural community--has been relatively diminishing. For everything he has to purchase the farmer has to pay more, and as his income is much less than it had been, obviously he is compelled to limit his purchases to a bare minimum. This decline in his purchasing power is detrimental to the manufacturer and trader.--Irish Independent, Dublin. Indented Road Reflects Light New Type Surface -- Engineer Offers Scheme to Aid Night Drivers A new type of road surface that will "increase visibility very greatly" was reported at the 17th annual Massachusetts Safety Conference at Boston last week. Need fox some such surface was emphasized by a group of engineers discussing "highway lighting In relation to night accidents." They pointed to mounting automobile fatalities after dark, restrictions on headlights, and experience "proving" the impracticability of enforcing speeds within the limits set by headlight visibility. The Only Safe Speed L. A. S. Wood, lighting engineer, said that "10 to 15 miles an hour is the only speed safe with present lighting equipment." The problem, therefore, these engineers agreed, was one of getting enough light of the right kind in the right place on the highway. C. A. B. Halvorson, of Lynn, Mass., announced that the new type of road surface was developed during an attempt by the research experts to design a surface that would allow drivers to see farther without glare. Crux of the problem, he said, was to get hold of a design that would do its job as well in wet weather as in dry. Pitted At Intervals The design he finally settled on makes his miniature test road look like one of those pans you put in the oven for hot biscuits. Little "cups" pit the road at intervals of an inch in diameter. Mixed with this indented surface is a substance, such as quartz-He, which gives a high reflectivity. Spaghetti Shooting "I went crazy because I was offered spaghetti instead of steak for my supper." A man offered this explanation recently to Chicago police after shooting his 17-year-old daughter and wounding his 21-year-old son. He missed his wife. Walking For Ten Years The most energetic man in the world has been walking for 10 years. He started in 1927 to walk round the world. Now he has completed 80,000 miles--more than three times the earth's circumference. Whales have been known to break their jaws on the ocean bottom, after a mile deep dive. Tissues Outlive Organism Growth Animal And Plant Tissues Can Live On, C« Botanist Announces Living tissues have the pAwer to survive long beyond the life of the growing organism. This wasV" strated in the case of animal' tissues by Dr. Alexis Carrel, who kfept tissues from an embryo chicken heart alive longer than the greatest life span of a chicken. The culjture is still alive at the Rockefeller Institute after more than a quarter of a century. Blossoms Alive For Months Dr. Carl L. LaRue, of the (department of botany, University of Michigan, has demonstrated that it,is possible to keep plant tissues alive 36o times as long as they would survive in the plant. He took portions of the blossoms of plants which have but a short span of existence under natural conditions and placed them in a nutrient culture medium, similar to that in which germs and other micro-organisms are cultivated. After a given structure has. fulfilled its function in the plant, its nourishment is withdrawn and it disintegrates. The nourishment available is then diverted to the newly developing structures. When the blossom has finished its task it makes way for the fruit. Scenes Recall Klondike Days Yellowknife, N.W.T., Now Packed With Seekers After Gold EDMONTON. -- Scenes reminiscent of Dawson City during the Klondike rush, are being enacted at Yellow-knife, N.W.T., centre of the gold field on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, Leonard E. Drummond, secretary and manager of the Alberta and Northwest Chamber of Mines, said. He just returned from a 10-day aerial inspection trip of far north mineral Airplanes Bring Men In "Airplanes are bringing men in daily who are seeking work and the work hasn't started yet," he said. "The result is there is no hotel accommodation for the new arrivals. Men are forced to undress and dress almost in public. It's almost like the Dawson Mine managers in Yellowknife, Gordon Lake and Goldfields, whom he visited during his tour, asked him to issue a public warning to work-seekers not to consider going into these areas yet as it will only add to the difficulties and work will not start until the summer, Mr. Drummond said. Commenting on the activity in the north, Mr. Drummond said 'there's no question it will be a big year." Longevity Of Canadians Is Steadily Increasing Life Expectation In the Dominion Is Shown By Latest Figures To Be Higher Than In Either The United States Or Great Britain. Investigations into longevity tend to reinforce the Biblical dictum that the span of life is three score and 10, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics announced this month as official life tables for the general population of Canada were issued for the first tipi. "It seems that today, in Canada particularly, there are far more people attaining the allotted span than ever before in history but theije are not appreciably more centenarians than there were 100 years agoJ" the bureau said. "The decreasing mortality at younger ages is a token <>f the vastly smaller amount of illness among young people today." hft More Years Based on tl tlre-Jtrsfto ing population in abilities of dying the survey showed that the Canadian boy of five can look forward to 62.30 years of life. An English boy has only 60.00 years, a'nd the American boy 59,38 years. As a person grows older the expectation of life steadily decreases. When a Canadian youth reaches his majority he has in prospect 48 years to live on the average. When he gets to 40 he may anticipate living 32 years more. When he retired at about 65, he may expect to have a comfortable 13 years of retirement and die at 78. If he reaches 80 he should live six years Prospectld mid be t the century mark his expectation of life Study of mortality in 15 countries, show that only two have a lower male mortality from ages 25 to 45 than Canada, these being Denmark and Holland. Chance of an Italian boy of five dying is 39 per cent, greater than that for a Canadian, of a Japanese boy 169 per cent., and an East Indian Healthy and Vigorous Elements "In addition to our healthy climate, advanced facilities in medicine and public health and our standard of living, all of which undoubtedly contribute to our remarkably superior longevity, there is the factor of selection through immigration," the report continued. "When large movements of population take place there is a tendency for the more healthy and energetic elements to move while the less healthy stay at home. Hence it is that.West-ern Canada has the lightest mortality as the three province., have received much of their population very recently." ( News' in' Review ' j To Control High^^£r_SjkOip?is_K, OTTAWA. -- It xaT»*the ultimate] w policy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to take control of all high-power broadcasting in Canada, L. W. Brockington, chairman of the Board of Governors, told the Parliamentary Committee on Radio. Some permits had been granted for private stations with power up to a maximum of 1,000 watts, but no increases would be permitted above that maximum, to private stations, Mr. Brockington said. Eventually it was the intention to restrict private stations to "purely local functions." The Heart of Europe VIENNA.--"The political heart of Europe no longer beats in Paris, but In Berlin," Propaganda Minister Goeb-bels of Germany declared this week in an Anschluss plebiscite campaign "In ten years' time, it will be understood what that signifies," he said. Appealing for a 100 per cent, vote by s in favoi the April 10 plebis Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . INSIDE PRESSURE--By taking over Austria, Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's chief gain has been the increase*of his own prestige with the German people at a time when their faith in him badly needed bolstering. His Austrian coup has served for the moment to distract German minds from the army purge, mounting unemployment, shortage of food essentials, loss of personal freedom. Observers say that the move is accomplishing little in the way of bettering the desperate economic conditions of the Reich. Austria, too, is deficient in foodstuffs and raw materials, has to import between 700,-000 and 900,000 tons of grain a year to feed her people. Sole resources present there in any sort of abundance are iron ore and timber, wljich Hitler and his financial advisers plan immediately to exploit. By selling the iron ore and timber outside the country, they will be able to hoard more foreign capital and stave off economic collapse for the present. The seizure of Austria is then only a stop-gap, a temporary measure, to be followed by moves much more drastic, infinitely more brutal. Inside pressure drives Germany outside herself, forcing the country on and on to further and still further aggression. There is no foundation for the hope that Hitler will stop where By Elizabeth Eedy he i: DOG EAT DOG--It won't be long now before Poland, having won the first round of a bloodless fight with Lithuania, by forcing that country to accept Polish terms in settlement of a border dispute, will be making new demands of her neighbor. The truth is that Poland would like to annex Lithuania, thereby gaining more outlets on the Baltic. It is pretty generally agreed that Poland, supposedly an ally of France, has been backed up in the Lithuanian dispute by Germany in return lor a promise of Polish support for some other moves Hitler has in mind . . . one of which might be a boycott of Czechoslovakia. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, dean of American historians, however, is of the belief that Germany is actually planning to annex Poland. Case of dog eat dog, HOLDING IT UP--It was admitted by Prime Minister Mackenzie King the House last week that the rea-n the, present sessions has not dealt th the proposed amendments to the British North America Act (empowering the Federal Government to enact unemployment insurance legislation) is that three of the nine Pro- vinces have failed to communicate with him, giving their views on the matter. The draft of the proposed amendment was submitted to all Provincial Governments, January 20. New Brunswick and Quebec had not up to this week acknowledged receipt of the draft.. NORMAL CROP--From the drought areas of southwestern Saskatchewan are cominjr reports of water flowing in creek beds, rivulets and lakes, storing uf greatly-needed water. At Regina it is said the country has received the largest amount of moisture in many years. Further, it has been an open spring with a rapid thaw of heavy snow in many parts. A "normal" crop is looked for by the farmers of Saskatchewan. Prospects long seen hopeless are brightening again. It will be a wonderful thing for "anada if the West really is beginning to "come back." SCAPEGOAT--In primitive times, high priests of religion were wont to place all tie blame for plagues, defeats in war, sins of the people, on some innocent animal, for instance a goat, which they put to death with great ceremony. When the goat had been killed, the cause of the evil was supposed to have been removed and expiation made. Hence the origin of "scapegoat." Though v,e are far from primitive times todgy, we still have our scapegoats. It looks as though Ex-Chancellor, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria is going to be one of them. Branded now as a traitor by Adolf Hitler, he will be tried for treason against the German Reieh, in Leipzig this summer. The court proceedings, it is reported, will be public and widely publicized on purpose to prove to the world that all the blame for Austria's plight rests on Schusch-nigg's shoulders. Germany hopes that the death of Schuschnigg on the chopping block will silence all criticism of the Nazi annexation. CHINESE HIT BACK -- Counter-thrusts by Chinese armies are resulting in victories over the Japanese throughout the entire Central China front. Reports last week had it that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek himself was at the central battle front in personal charge of the drive. Certainly it is definite that the Chinese have mot with striking military sirr-" cess in Shantung, Shansi and Anhwei Provinces. It is still too early, however, to predict that the tide is turning against Japan. Goebbels said that grave decisions taken by Chancellor Hitler -- leaving the League of Nations, remilitarizing the Rhineland and absorbing Austria --were all full of risks. Warns of Depression OTTAWA.--Right Hon. R. B. Bennett sounded a warning in the House of Commons this week that Canada was on the verge of a depression similar to that of 1930. The Opposition. Leader charged that "the danger signals are already flying," and that the upward trend of the past three years had suddenly stopped. The signals to which he referred, he said, were that exports had fallen off drastically, that unemployment was "growing by leaps and .bounds, 25,000 in one month,"^ that money because they lacked confidence. Trafalgar Square Sees Another Demonstration The Arctic Tern Flies Very Far Long-Distance Champion -- In Three Months One Glote-Trot-ting Bird Flew From Labrador to Nigeria. Now that the northern bird migration is getting under way, the vast distances which these travellers cover in flying to and from their nesting grounds is a topic of current interest. The powers of endurance displayed by large numbers of North American birds on their lengthy migratory journeys is amazing, but there is one species that out-rivals them all. This is the Arctic tern, aptly referred to as "the champion globe trotter and longdistance flyer of the bird world." Circumpolar Range The species is well named, as its range is circumpolar and it nests over the Arctic land as far north as suitable conditions can be found. When the young are well-grown the Canadian and Grsenland terns disappear from their breeding grounds and a few months later may be found even as far away as Africa. In fact the longest flight on record for an individual bird was achieved by an Arctic tern that in three months flew from the coast of Labrador to the Niger River in Southeast Africa. Traverses Atlantic The journey of the terms is believed to follow a route touching upon the west coasts of Spain and Africa, and on the return trip northwards individuals are known to fly along the east coast of South America. The route indicated for this bird is altogether unique, as no other species is known to breed abundantly in North America and to traverse the Atlantic Ocean to or from the Old World. These globe-trotting birds travel many thousands of miles and touch on four i the Twenty thousand jammed Lon Ion's ' Austria. Here are mounted and foot man Embassy. Eventually a few re: off Czechoslovakia!" Don't Skate On Ice When ice skaters .skim along ovei a smooth stretch they are not actually sliding on ice but on water. Th« ice melts under the skates, due to th« friction, and the skates move along on a thin film of water. Increased 'pressure, as all physicists know, als< melts ice, and the weight of the per son on skates provides pressure whicl ro:".b'nes with the friction to chang.