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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., OCT. 6, 1938 i The satisfied acclaim of over a hundred thousand Canadian homeowners is your positive guarantee of the greatest heating value money can buy. Give your home the thrilling comfort and dependability of "the world's finest anthracite". -- 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. lue coaJ the modern fuel for solid comfort 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 stampede.--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 sociables.--Toronto Star. THOSE GLARING HEADLIGHTS A Sunday drive is the enjoyment of thousands of motorists until it is time to go home. As darkness approaches and headlights on cars are turned on then it is a nightmare for the driver. Of all the vast improvements made in cars in recent years, glaring headlights still exist and relief is not in sight.--Elmira Signet. 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 outside capital invested in the Dominion. 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 always 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.--North Hastings Re- 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 between the buyers of the world, not the buyers of the United Kingdom alone. The British market is not large enough to absorb all the Canadian export surplus of wheat. The balance of this surplus is sold in competition with 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 whieh 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 competition in selling to foreign countries. It is, in the Canadian view, a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.---Manchester Amateur safe-crackers who broke into the office of Grimsby Stove and Furnace Limited last week used the .company's own acetylene torch and electric drill to cut a two-and-a-half-foot hole in the door of the office safe. Then they used a company chisel to cut off some rivets and gain access to the cash compart- He Flew Chamberlain Commander Eric Glynn e Robinson, pilot of the airplane y which flew Prime Minister Chamberlain to Germany for his second conference with Chancellor Hitler, is shown ABOVE. He received his first flying instructions at Hamilton, 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 punishment. 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--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 LINE-UP: Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined strength of 15,400 planes. Compare that with Germany plus Italy, 11,500. Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined naval strength of 2% million tons. Compare that with Germany plus Italy, 1 million tons. Measured in men, Britain plus France plu.s 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- We complained loudly in this column at Easter-time when the first spring millinery atrocities appeared. 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 preferable, don't you think? THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: How many hours distant by airplane is Moscow from Berlin? Answer: 4% hours. When buying brooms, soak them well before using. Never let the bristles stand on the floor. A new floor-mop for wet use lasts longer if tightly tied round with cord as near the swivel part as possible. All brooms and brushes need recular washing in warm suds. Hang in the air to dry. Tourist Total Remains High Extensive Revenue--Slight Decline 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, Department of Transport, estimates. Last year's estimated tourist traffic 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, 1937, but a general upswing was reported in August with improved business conditions in the United States, the great source of Canada's tourist trade. The tourist business drop has been most pronounced in Ontario and Quebec because they are contiguous to the United States industrial areas that felt most. keenly the recession. But in these two provinces there was an improvement in August over July. B.C. Does Better 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 31 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 ever. Nova Scotia reported a slight decrease with Prince Edward Island about unchanged. The Prairie Provinces report a better tourist trade than in 1936 but slightly below that of 1937. Value Of Contests For Farm Children Ontario's Minister of Agriculture Favors Special Grants To Agricultural Societies Featuring Such Competitions Hon. P. M. Dewan is so convinced of the value of competitions for farm boys and girls that he favors a system of special grants from the Department of Agriculture to those agricultural societies which feature such programs. Commending Wilmot Agricultural Society upon its activities along this line, the minister in opening the society's fall fair at New Hamburg said: "I am rather of the opinion that we ought to go so far in the department--though we have not yet considered it definitely--as to give probably a special grant to those fairs which feature junior programs." Train For Future "After all," said Mr. Dewan, "'I do not know of any place where the boys and girls can get an education which can be a greater inspiration to them for their future work on the farm than by learning to exhibit their products at the fall fairs. If there is one thing which it is our duty to do more than another at the present time, it is to train the young men and women who are going to be the future farm men and women of the province. "They are going to have the privilege and advantage of living in rural communities, with the privileges increasing as the years pass, and it will not be very long until rural life will be probably superior, even in respect of general convenience, to that of town or city life." Insects in green vegetables will make an immediate exit if you add salt to their washing wat- The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "MY SISTER EILEEN" By Ruth McKenney It's a natural! It's a howl! this story of the adventures of a roguish Irish lass and her sister Eileen, now 25 and 24 years old respectively. It will have you rolling in the aisles, because you have experienced 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 McKenney 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 entertain the Brazilian Navy. "My Sister Eileen," by Ruth McKenney .... Toronto, George J. McLeod, Limited, 266 King St. West .... $2.25. Cattle Rustlers Harrass Ontario Thieves Are Being Sought By Night Riders it Four CoKni'c: Reminiscent of the i ld-:inie West when cattle rustling MM the rar.e of respectable rancher ;, an epidemic of this crime has broken out in four Ontario counties r.nd night riders are roaming the .1 in search of the thieves, jus! was done in the days of lout: 11 The Guelph. Dundalk and Pus-linch districts have te: ir he centre of the rustlers' a"cr ion. The farm of John 1: ohenadel in Puslinch district w*a 'a dec! twice recently and cattle n me removed from pasture fields us ler cover of darkness. 'The fine b'( . at'ue weie believed to have boei :• moved from the scene in a truck. Removed By T jck Farmers in the Di adalk area were taking precautioi against the raiders following the ill uppcarance of five head of cattle f->n tii-: farm of Clayton Sprott. of t'sc;eros. Marshall Armour, of the rrme place, lost six head of cattle md William Corbett, Shelburue Ara er, is looking for four head whit; i disappeared from a pasture in ie Melanc-thon district. Charles Robb, Pen<; ..inguishene farmer, is the poorer ),y twenty head of cattle, includ n; three heifers and a calf. Eight ead of cattle disappeared from t •'. estare of Percy Semple near Bf - m As Mediator Returned 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 Single Men More Prone To Crime Report On Ontario Penal Institutions Shows Single men are apparently more prone to crime than married men, according to figures of Ontario Reformatory population contained in the annual report of Ontario penal institutions. Of the total number of men confined, 709 were single men, and 186 were married. Seven hundred and eighty-one of the total had only elementary school education, 74 were illiterate, and there were 40 who had college or university training. With Little Education More than half the total were abstainers from intoxicants; 238 were described as temperate, and 100 as intemperate. None were admittedly drug addicts. The great majority were first offenders, the report shows. Out cf the total, 555 were serving their first term; 147 their second; 70 their third, and 123 were serving more than their third term. Commercial and laboring occupations were the most heavily represented. Over 300 of the total came from commercial jobs and 251 were laborers. There were onl. eight professional men, and 15 engaged in domestic service. One hundred and forty-nine came from agricultural work, and 105 were described as Emergency drers har-gers maj be made by rolling a newspaper tightly, wrapping in tissue paper, and tying round the middle with a pie~e of string, leaving a large loop by which to hang it. BCjOW-PUES WILL. DROP THEIR. BOMS-LIKE. EGSS THfSOLKSM 7"/-/£T ONTO POOD THAT THEV CANNOT REACH THE name "weakfish" comes from no lack of gameness or Stamina, but because the bony processes of the mouth are soft and tender, thereby causing them to tear out when a fisherman's hook is jerked too suddenly. s and cold waves differ in the way THE WONDERLAND OF 02 eed the quest," said Guph, "for w aid of the Growleywogs' i make sure that we shall feated. You hate good 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 county ten thousand people of Oz to be yur slaves." the General, who by this very frightened. The (Jra poot made a signal and at e d r h i mse1°f" b s^s t round, fat body o officials of the Growlc 'And rob th lake him our slave." "That's i the Grand Ga r Ruggedo for n