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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., JUNE 2, 1938 Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News , NOT QUITE READY--Despite repeated war "scares" in Europe the past few weeks it is declared by political observers who should know, and by newspaper foreign correspondents who can tell the inside story, that Germany, the country presenting the biggest threat to, international peace, is not yet ready to engage in a large-scale war. The rearmament program of the Reich is far from being completed, they point out; the general staff of the army are against precipitating a conflict at this time. Then, too, Germany's domestic economy has not been satisfactorily organized--it cannot be until the country is able to produce or import enough food to supply its people in time of war, until it can procure enough raw materials to satisfy the needs of industry. The drought this spring has reduced Germany's crop output to a figure away below average. Under such circumstances it is highly improbable that Hitler will deliberately set a match to the European powder-keg within the next short while. Later, who can can tell . . . CRISES WILL RECUR --Diplomatic quarters in every democratic country of Europe are convinced that even though Germany did not march on Czechoslovakia 'ast week-end or the one before, she will continue to pursue her aims (which include the carving of a thoroughfare east to the grain fields of the Ukraine) by a continuous series of diplomatic and propagandists "shock attacks" until both France and Czechoslovakia are ripe for settlement along German lines. For that reason, it is held, the world must expect a periodic return of the same crisis through which it is passing now--always provided the situation in north-western Czechoslovakia does not get out of. hand and precipitate a war after -II, From now on, it is predicted, we'll be lucky if we have breathing-spacer SASKATCHEWAN'S ELECTION--On June 8, the people of Saskatchewan go to the polls in one of the most important elections in the history of that province. All the major forces of integration and disintegration at work in Canada at this time are converging upon Saskatchewan, can be seen attempting to shape it to a new destiny. Will Saskatchewan go Social Credit? Premier Aberhart of Alberta, Socred chief, has jumped into the thick of the . . By Elizabeth Eedy fight and declares he will carry the sister province. Though not willing to come out with the dire prediction that Saskatchewan is going to be another Alberta, we shall not be at all surprised to see the election result in a big win for Social Credit, or perhaps the C.C.F. party. The people of Saskatchewan to a great extent feel that they have been left in the lurch by Eastern Canada. The past six or seven years have been -a unceasing nightmare for vast numbers of peop'-i in the dried-oi.t areas. They cannot face a repetition of the same experience which would be sure to come with the very next year of poor crops. In their desperation, they turn to something entirely new for hope and help. WHERE WOMEN CAN'T VOTE--Did you know that women of Quebec have no vote in Provincial elections? In other words, half the people of that province have no say in matters political, no representation in the Legislative Assembly. But throughout the rest of Canada where women are endowed with greater privilege, the facts of the Quebec situation are frequently f-i gotten. Why haven't the women of Quebec a vote, we inquire? For the reason that up to now they have not asked for it hard enough. When the Canadian Alliance for Women's Vote in Quebec ap. eai-d last month before the Rowell Commission, the Counsel for the Commission expressed his view thus:' "I suggest when you persuade a majority of the women of Quebec that they should have the vote, and they ask for it, they will get it." KIDNAPPING NO. 1--England, that little country whither Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh fled as to a refuge from the kidnap threats and publicity horrors of the United States, has experienced its first "snatch" In modern times. And whom should the miscreants choose to make off with but Lord Nuffield, the "Ford of England," mrltimillionaire motor manufacturer and philanthropist. The plot, however, was nipped in the bud last week, when a friend in the next room of Lord Nuffield's office at Oxford, heard a scuffle, phoned for the police, had the two kidnappers ! Jbed in two minutes. It is thought that some time is like-1; to elapse before another kidnapping i attempted in England. The British War Minister On a Visit to France Ghandi's Efforts Reconcile India's Rival Communities His Power Is Becoming Greatly Enhanced--Better Understanding Between the British and Gandhi Has Recently Been Felt Mahatma K. Gandhi today is ger figure in India than ever. After a long period of self-imposed silenc and inactivity, he has staged a dri matic comeback which places hit once more in the world's limelight. The little Hindu who has led India' millions toward nationalism, recently scored a series of notable successes. They have culminated in a virtual agreement between Hindu and Mohammedan communities of India on most of their outstanding differences. Removes Barrier To Unity Thus one of the last barriers tc political unity of India's 360,000,000 people has been removed and Gandh: position has been strengthened. Fresh from a tour of the Northwe Frontier province wherea year ago he would have been arrested, the aposth of peace and passive resistance nov over the Congress Party. Once an implacable opponent o Britons, who jailed him seven times Gandhi now is their champion. This is due largely to Great Britain's recent conciliatory policy. The bettei understanding between the British and Gandhi has introduced a new rit of mutual confidence and 1 throughout India. Peace Prevails The country never has been peaceful. Police who in the past pressed nationalists agitators, and ed prisons wit stand idle at street cd Because of British Eire, many influential Indians belie-that India will have an autonomoi government within a few years. Gandhi now is concentrating on o taining modifications of India's cons tution to permit Indians to control d fence, finance and foreign affairs--tl vital Ministries which the British thus far have retained. Despite reports that he was suffering from a breakdown in health, Gandhi looked better and more cheerful and vigorous than at any time in recent years. He showed his old time wit, energy and good humor. "They've had me dying several times, but I've fooled them," Gandhi said. He declared that he hoped to live long enough to see India a Dominion. A^C Find Early Men Dined on Sloths Californians 15,000 Years Ago Knew How to Cook Them First --Archaeological Discovery of Importance Science is on the trail of the early Californians who feasted on Pleistocene ground sloths fifteen or twenty thousand years ago. It probably wasn't called Sunny California then, because glaciers sti" tehee! as far south as the higher San Bar-nardino Mountains. "That's south of Los Angeles. The newly discovered ancient camp L round of the Pleistocene man found by C. C. Post of Berkley, Calif., has a. "diaeologists agog. Curator M. R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, is making ready for a second visit, to do some extensive digging in this ancient camp site in Clear Lake Park, Lake County, Northern California. He fingered an Obsidian hand axe and some Obsidian scrapers. "We can't say just when these crude tools were used. It must ha.e been quite a spell before the time of the Folsom man, and that was 15,000 years ago," explained Harrington, an authority on southwest exploration. The crude scrapers ana hand axe were found at a depth of eight feet in excavating at the ancient camp-site. The early Pleistocene man knew how to make fire. This was evidenced by discovery of ash-blackened earth. Just what he ate is something for the zoologists and paleontologists to fig-ire about. It seems quite certain that he giant sloth was on his bill of fare. Elsewhere evidences have been found that the later Folsom man about 13,000 B.C., shot bison and mammoth with arrows and roasted meat er fires. Mount Lassen was an active vol- | no, very much so, in the time of the : Pleistocene man. The Sierra Nevada e was still growing and there j numerous great earthquakes. | -- a driver is stung by a wasp and lets go his steering wheel as i result of the pain, he will be held •esponsible for any damage caused by accident, according to a decision of the Cour de Cassation in France. Geneva Bureau Says War Is Sapping Social Edifice Progress in Main Avenues of Advance Already Blocked, States Director Harold Butler, of International Labour Bureau, and Edifice Built by Present Generation Undermined by International Conflict. GENEVA.--Harold Butler. Director of the International Labor Office, las; week warned that war is blocking world social progress and threatens to precipitate a "total collapse. In his annual report the British chief of the labor bureau, a League of Nations organization, reported favorably on basic economic conditions, but declared: "War is already invad-in the social field." "It has already blocked some of the main avenues of advance," Mr. Butlei reported, "and may soon begin to sap the social edifice which this generation has raised. Should another general war break out, a total collapse is practically certain." The report, released by the Labor Office, will be submitted to the International Labor Conference here this month. "Boom" at Crest in 1937 "I Mr. Butler found the "boom oj the 30's" had reached its "'summit"! las1 summer despite world politicjl4~iru rest, international warfare over tariffs and quotas, exchange control, cy fluctuations, unbalanced budgets and the world arms r "In spite of all things," he said, "the world somehow succeeded in getting back to the level of 1929, whose fabulous prosperity had become a distant mirage." "Banish Spirit of Warfare" His report showed 1937 world industrial production rose above the 1929 level, unemployment declined steadily from 1933 to 1937 and world trade volume approached the 1929 level-partly stimulated by re-armament. But in the latter half of 1937, Mr. Butler said, the economic tide turned with stock market declines and breaks in raw material prices. He said the major disturbance centred in the United States. Mr. Butler added that the "outlook would be by no means discouraging if the spirit of international warfare could be banished from economic and political relations." Marked Decline in 1937 Discussing production the report "In 1937 world industrial production, excluding the U.S.S.R., rose clear above the 1929 level, and although in the later months a marked decline set in, the total for the year stood at 101.9--100 equalling the 1929 level. Canada was listed among the countries replying favourably to an invitation to participate in a preliminary meeting of an international public works in accordance with a uniform plan to be drawn up by the co in it tee. Fur Coat Industry Grows In Canada Dressed and dyed, or s undyed, skins of furbeaiing animals are fashioned into wearing apparel of various kinds by the fur goods industry of Canada. Coats, capes, scarves, collars, cuffs and muffs are some of the items manufactured bet the principal of all is the fur coat. According to statistics now made available, the fur coats made in Canada for women in 1936 totalled 90,602. This is the largest number ever recorded by the industry. Practically the whole demand for fur goods in Canada is met by the home industry, and likewise nearly all of the goods manufactured in the Dominion are made for home use, the import and export trades in manufactured fur goods being of relatively small importance. ( News In Review' j Ontario's Birth Rate Falls TORONTO.--Ontario Medical Association spokesmen admit that Ontario's falling birth rate is being viewed with some misgiving, t If the last eight years' steady decline in the percentage figures is not halted in the next year or two, they admit that the situation will be one which may well occasion alarm. General economic conditions and high cost of living are the main factors, they say, contributing to Ontario's steady decline in birth rate from 21.5 per 1,000 population in 1930 to 16.9 in 1936. Missing Airliner Found Wrecked LOS ANGELES, CAL. -- Thirty miles away from its starting point at Union Air Terminal, Burbank, a big airliner crashed into a mountainside last week, exploded and burned to death is nine occupants. Shrouded by fog for sixty hours, the wreckage was later discovered and the charred bodies carried out of the mountains by stretcher bearers. They're Looking Ahead LONDON.--Fearing a slump when the rearmament program ends, the Government already is mapping a £500,000,000 ($2,500,000,000) housing and road-building program to keep workers busy and trade moving. The Ministry of Health, which must wants local authorities throughout the ( 5 Of c prepar five-ye£ mplated work, a Path to Coast Blocked BARCELONA.--The Spanish rebels for several days have been attacking on a wide but somewhat intermittent front westward of Teruel in an evident attempt to reach the road bet.veen Teruel and Sagunto in a roundabout way. The situation has dangerous possibilities, for should the rebels reach the road to Sagunto, they would have taken the first stride toward cutting a pathway to the sea by another route, that would place them about thirteen miles from Valencia, provid-el they ever reached Sagunto, whi'h Senate Passes Divorce Bill OTTAWA.--By a bare ma jo "ity of four the Senate last week carried third reading cf the bill sponsored by Hon. Lsndrum McMean (Con., Winnipeg) to broaden the grounds for divorce in Canada. The vote -as 33 to 2 The n v goes to the Hoi 'ith Sir Kin; shy Wood •■eplacing Vii ount " - 'nton at the Air Ministry, an [alcolm Macdorald --3 Lord Ha e,Hct Dog" Listed As Big Bizs'nyss The "hot dog" comes un:!er lh? heading of big business where Can-ada and New Zealand are concerned. J. W. Collins, retiring New Zea land trade commissioner to Canada, said last week at Toronto at a complimentary !un»heon thaP Canada is K'ew Zealand's best customer for hot c'o.T casings, purchasing more than 31,000,000 worth last year. Insulin Helps Insanity Cure Shock Treatment Is Found Successful in Many Cases of Dementia Praecox Dementia praecox, a form of insanity which claims no less than a quarter of a million victims in the United States alone, has been treated with success, doctors at Pittsburg, Pa., report after many months' work with insulin shock treatment. At the St. Francis Hospital 52 cases of 'living death" have been treated since last June, and 19 of these treatments-resulted in discharge from the hospital for the one-time 'incurable" Twenty-three of these 52 cases have been completed, according to Dr. R. S. Staley, chief resident physician, 28 are at present undergoing treatment, and one patient was removed from the hospital before completion of the treatments. The patients, chosen at random, represent a fairly accurate cross-section of those admitted to a mr-ntal institu- Fifty doses of insulin over a two-months' p sriod are administered to the patients. It is administered every morning days a week, beginning with sinal doses and increasing until the point of tolerance is reached. At this point restless reaction, dizzi- reached. Some p;.tients go into deep comas, and tug and writhe at ankle and wrist restraints, breaking out into profuse perspira:i:n. Only a desperate attempt to rscue a patient from a fate worse tha'i death could justify the se- They Must Know All The Answers Household Helpers Taught In Government Schools Have To Reply Satisfactorily to Ques- Do you know how to clean piano keys? ilnw to make a good pastry.? The nflferent methods of coffeemalf-ing? Th silverware, cutlery, disb/is and crystal necessary to set a table for brealfast, formal luncheon and dinner? These are just a few of the qualifications tar.gh: young women at the Ottawa Home Service Training Centre, when; :1.< Dominion-Provincial Youth Training program has shown remarkable achievements in turning out capable hoi-uhoM assistants since its orgaiii;::i .ion in January. Determine Girls' Ability Five v,Iritten examinations are given the iris during their 12-weeks training. Two questions on deportment, tw> on laundry and household duties anl two on cooking are set by the members of the household staff for eaci examination. "Trainees" failing to obtain tiie required pass mark of '") are given oral reviews by the girls passing with highest marks before secondary trials. These ests de:ermine the abiiiiy ot the girl cr.d ratings are registered on her preliminary graduate certificate for information of her future employ-Placed in Good Homes The cf litre is responsible for the care ami training of the girls during their sojourn there. They are placed in good homes at the end of the training and aft-sr three months' actual service out.'ide the centre a report is made ant, if satisfactory, each gin is presented with a graduation pin. It's Where Our Interest Lies Most public problems should be solved when we come to know as much about methods of government as we know about the movies.--Brandon And the Rest of the Week "Why not have all holidays on Mondays?" asks the Owen Sound Sun-Times. We can think of a better one than that. Why not have all Mondays holidays?--Chatham News. Pledges Come Cheap Hitler affirms that Germany will march with Italy to the end and that the Italian frontier will always be inviolate. A similar frontier pledge was also once made from Berlin with regard to Belgium and by Mussolini in relation to Ethiopia.--Brantford Expositor. Drink More Milk Dr. K. C. Hopper, of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, says Canadians as • a whole drink too little milk. He has presented to the Canadian Council on Nutrition statistics showing that if all drank as much milk as families with comfortable incomes the increased demand would equal the production of more than 200.000 dairy cows. Dairy farmers will applaud his plea for the use of more milk.--Kingston Whig-Standard. What Makes An Accident A study of newspaper reports of death, injury and destruction on the highways will convince any reader that very, very few of them were un- munity work they can get into that will help the town, while others just sit back, find fault and growl. To which class de you expect to. belong once you retire from your regular occupation or profession?--Kitchener Record. Why Not Finish the Job? With the Dominion Government at work on the last 30 miles of British Columbia's gap in the trans-Canada highway, there remains only something over 200 miles to be completed in Ontario before we can travel the 4,000 miles across Canada by motorcar. And the fact that the latter route lies through the extremely difficult territory around Lake Superior should not deter us from getting on with the job, when you consider what can be led b siul a!" e When They Retir Thousands of single men who would enefit from healthy outdoor construc-ion work must still accept relief. Does his fact not suggest an opportunity or earnest co-operation between the rovide that work rather than direct elief?--Canadian Business. THE EMPIRE Non-Voting Voters In the House of Lords recently an la.-m was sounded concerning the in- "to piil.lh 1 th< What else of its traditional rigbi measures could the Government take? To make voting compulsory would be a negation of the freedom which the vote is intended to safeguard; and to strike off the electoral roll absentee voters would simply hand over power to possibly a minority of the discontented--an effect indeed, which apathy in the general body of the electorate may itself produce, if only for a time. There is not a little irony, it is true, in the reflection that the valuation of 3 dia- ribution is extended--ve:y much like n inflated currency. But, while every igu of electoral indifference conveys