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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., APRIL 22nd, 1937 J BORNE, VO.CE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA News from Niagara Some of the fruit growers have the tiabit of clipping a branch from their peach trees, putting it in water, to watch for the extent of the blossoms. In one case, the result was magnificent which indicates that the peach crop is safe for 1937, except for the usual hazard of Spring frosts. -- St. Catharines Standard. One Way Out of It "It might be dangerous to kiss one's wife in public on Sunday in Toronto the Good," chortles Hamilton Spectator. Obviously, then, the thing to do is kiss someone's else's. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. The Quick Stop First Inventor: "I'm going to in-rent an auto brake that will bring i car going 40 miles an hour to a lead stop within 20 feet." Second Inventor; "Fine, Then I'll avent a gadget to keep the driver I'dm j oing through the windshield i' w*s." Ottaywa Journal. Quints' Popularity Or a of the requests of Princess ~:hH: ;' ii of Japan during the short ifey • hei.seif and her husband in =is for a photograph of the tlioif: • quintuplets. These little la-tie» i i. certainly advertised the Do-ainion more than any other agency. -Br. ntsford Fxoositor. On the Wall wal paper show in Boston one inc'uded a kitchen towel and r ped across a curved piano d. In the background a plant inches of bathroom glasses, a reading lamp, an ice cream buge flower with an alarm ntre, a closed tulip and strings ips Just why the can opener a«l can should nave been left t is a bit of a puzzle.--Brant- wtay Under fifty may have been some excuse e thinking the 35-mile limit id behaving accordingly. But limit jam&4,' an excuse "anishes. Rare, indeed, is the hjdividual who finds it really ne- speed even in the course of business, allots. ,,i we are well awaro of the fast that higher speeds are maintained i the reople who do not care for oth s on the road any aiore than they do for their on hides. A speed of 50 milo ! an hour is high enough for all ordinary legitimate travel. In view of :Ms. the provincial authorities will be remiss in their duty if they do not proceed to keep close watch upon trafuc. -- Brockville Recorder and Tim?s Hope He's Right Dean Inge has produced another book in which he discusses many things. One of his prophecies is that there will not be a devastating European war because of the lack of lands. He depicts Germany in such bad financial shape that he doubts whether the Hitler regime can last ve»y much longer, and Italy he avers is not in much better case. The Rev. gentleman has frequently proved himself a good forecaster. It is to be hoped that he is also one in this instance. --Brantford Expositor. Radium Costs Discovery of radium in Canada (in the Great Bear area) is said ta have broken the Congo trust, which previously kept the precious substance at $75 a gram. If this be true, it is no'/the least of Canada's contributions to the good of mankind. -- Ottawa Endorses De Luxe Titled ladies have endorsed the products of industry for a consideration --notably cosmetics and cigarettes. But they, and all other endorsers, are amateurs compared with the priceless Dionne quintuplets. Annette, Emilie, Ceicle, Yvonne and Marie are, appropriately enough, five figure endorsers. They swear by a certain brand of breakfast food and are paid $15,000 --with no obligation to eat the product, at least not every morning. They endorse a famous make of soap, and, behold, their bank account is given a $27,500 boost. Easy money, girls, but honestly earned. As surprising as the prices paid for their endorsements is the variety of things they approve. Cod liver oil, "tiny town togs," lollypops, tooth paste, jewelry, corn syrup, children's purses and bags, shoes, dolls and ribbons--all are grist for the Callander mill which, it is revealed, has now ground out $765,000. -- Ottawa Citizen. Safer Glass Shatter-proof glass, familiar to everyone who looks through a modern windshield, is made like a sandwich --a couple of layers of silicate glass stuck together by a thin filling of celluloid film, cellulose acetate film, or polymerized film. The glass will break but the pieces stick to the binder. Now a German firm is making something different. Its product has an organic base (polymerized methy- ester) instead of silicate, is lighter than regular shatter-proof glass, and according to tests will stand 8 to 10 times the blow. When it cracks, the edges aren't sharp.-- Brandon Sun. Domestic Science Many a man who longs for things like his mother used to make forgets that his wife may long for cheques like her father used to make.--Guelph Mercury. Building and Taxation Some means of encouraging the entry of capital into building is obviously necessary if an increase in building activity is considered desirable -- and it is generally agreed that a recovery in building would do more than anything else to bring prosperity back. Increased taxation will not encourage building.! It will, as the Real Estate Exchange suggests, do just the reverse, because it will make it less likely that capital invested in building wil learn a reasonable return. -- Vancouver Province. Cost of Monarchy The fact to remember is that what the King and the Royal Family receive from the British nation is very considerably less than the revenue the King hands over to the nation. Under the circumstances, Great Britain is not likely to request contributions from the Dominions. -- Saint John Telegraph-Journal. Mankind and ledical Science Many centuries ago, Leopold, Duke of Austria, and stern captor of Richard the Lion-Hearted, lay groaning and helpless on the battlefield. His horse had fallen on him, smashing his leg to bits. All the attending pg/^icians agreed that the royal patient had to Jiave his limb amputated. But in that dark and illiterate age not one of the Duke's doctors, the best in Europe, knew how to perform such a hazardous operation. In desperation Leopold seized a mallet and sword and slashed off his leg in order to abate the pain. He died from the loss of blood that gushed from the wound. To-day the meanest resident of the worst slum on this continent can secure medical treatment denied a few hundred years ago to barons and kings. The contrast points the moral and enobles the meaning of the great story of medicine.--the tale of a man's glorious humanity to man. -- Edmonton Bulletin. THE EMPIRE South Africa Drying Up For 60 years men who have taken an intelligent Interest in the soil of the Union have known that it has grown steadily worse. Even in the most fruitful parts its quality now often falls below the standard usually accepted for agricultural purposes iu such progressive countries as the United States of America. And this fact is more intimately connected with the question of moisture than with any other factor. South Africa, people say, is drying up. The rainfall is the same, but the water is not distributed and stored in the way which Nature originally arranged for itself. There used to be a balance between the rainfall and the amount and character of the vegetation. That balance has been disturbed by man. He brought his flocks and herds and seed. And with the destruction of trees and bushes, with the grass-burning and over-grazing and with the trampling of animals, the havoc was gradually worked and the country now stands in the presence of a grave national danger. -- Cape Argus. Cause and Effect? We are as sincere in our desire for world peace as the most ardent pacifist, "but we believe that pacifist agitation has increased and is still increasing the danger of war. Before Britain embarked on her re-armament programme, practically every major world power was barking "War!" Today they are even more articulate for--Peace. Is it merely a coincidence that their attitude has changed since Britaijj announced Ijet vigorous defence policy? -- Hong Kong Press. "Now that the rulers can speak to millions of people over the radio they don/jf IjgaD Jgijings a secret any imore." Province Hard Hit By Strikes Plants in Many Cities Are Closed By Oshawa Walkout TORONTO, -- As the General Motors strike at Oshawa enters its second week, reports from Ontario towns and cities indicate the effect the walkout is beginning to exert on the industry of the Province. From JVindsor comes word that curtailed production in the General Motors plant there may affect 1,000 workers. Five hundred were forced to also leave when the main plant at Oshawa closed down, as there was no outlet for motors manufactured at the Windsor branch. With the further curtailed production cf parts, 400 more men may lose their jobs. Some 300 may also be laid off at the Walker Metal Product? plant, where iron castings are made for General Motors cars, and eighteen have already been l?'d off at the Kelsey Wheel factory. Woodstock Plant Work on General Motors parts stopped Wednesday at the Woodstock plant on the Eureka Planter Company. Sufficient orders from other sources have so far kept the full staff busy. At St. Catharines, McKinnon Industries, subsidiary of General Motors, reported advice from the parent company at Oshawa, "to hold up work on material supplies for their use except on special service parts." Manager W. A. Wecker said a cur- tailment of hours affecting 600 employees would have to me made. The hours would not be cut drastically, however, because a number of unfilled orders for other plants would help in maintaining employment. John Conroy, of the Conroy Manufacturing Company, at St. Catharines, said between 35 and 45 men would be laid off at his plant because production had been lowered 70 per cent as a result of the General Motors strike. At Hamilton Officials of the Thompson Products and Hayes Steel at Hamilton said that efforts were being made to rearrange production to keep men at work. Hamilton industrial concerns which received more than $1,000,000 worth of business from General Motors last year, have suspended work on large orders from General Motors, because of present labor trouble at Oshawa, but local workmen are not expected to lose their jobs as a result. Orders from other sources will enable the forms to continue peak production, it was reported today. Steel Company, Union Drawn Steel, Burlington Steel, Canadian Drawn Steel, Fieestone Tire, Westinghouse, United-Carr Fastener and other companies have been given orders from Oshawa. Car dealers report they will be without new machines if the strike is prolonged, and this might result in reduction in sales staff. A check: at Chatham revealed that no factory there was affected by the Oshawa strike. The Ontario Steel Products and Chatham Malleable and Steel Works are carrying on production on a normal scale. Children With Pneumonia Get Cold Air Treatment LONDON, ENG., -- Lives of hundreds of children suffering from acute primary pneumonia are reported to have been saved by a novel cold air treatment introduced by Dr. H. L. Wallace of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children. Writing in the current issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Wallace "During recent years it has been the practise in one of the wards of the hospital to submit every case of pneu-moni" on admission to an intensive open-air regime. "This is carried out irrespective of the season of the year or of the weather conditions, with one exception of fog, each child being placed on the windward side of the ward beside a widely opened window so that the cold air without plays directly on the face of the child." An essential precaution it ed out, is that the patient should b^ warmly clad to prevent chilling, the face being the only part of the body exposed to the air. All cases of pneumonia are thus treated, both day and night, until the temperature falls and remains at a normal level. Dr. Wallace says this rigorous method of treatment has been thoroughly tested in more than 300 cases. The impression of physicians and nurses attached to the ward, he writes, is that exposure'to a moving current of cold air is the means of saving lives of the children of all ages afflicted with an acute, primary form of the disease. It brings comfort to the patient, aids appetite and helps to render unnec-cessary other forms of treatments which might prove exhausting to a young child. Sees New High In Tourist Trade Transport Minister Hour Asks Courtesy and Fair Dealing For Visitors. OTTAWA, -- An all-time tourist traffic for Canada in 1937 was forecast this week by Transport Minister Mr. Howe. He based his expectation on the number of Inquiries received by the Canadian Travel Bureau and the generally improved business conditions in United States. Coupled with the Minister's forecast was a reiteration of his advice £iven a year ago to all agencies associated with or catering to tourist travel to exercise courtesy and fair dealing in their treatment of the visitors. The Canadian Travel Bureau has iv»& -iJB.hsFb" 'l-jwrirr-. res smce-- the" first of the years," said Mr. Howe, "an increase of 93 per cent over the number received in the corresponding period of a year ago. These inquiries give every indication that our tourist inv dustry in 1937 is to be much larger than a year ago. "The Government's tourist adver-ing and publicity campaign in the U.S. is bringing most favourable -results and the daily average of inquiries at the present time is more than 600. We have now developed a splendid co-operative tourist effort with the Provinces and the large transportation companies while the Customs and Immigration regulations have been adapted to meet the modern demands of the traveller, and reciprocal shopping privileges have been extended. il-ii^Th. y^i i-ensfiivi Blind Pickets Aid Sightless Sitdowners Coming to the aid of blind men and women who began sit-in sfril;? against philanthropic organization's weaving shop in New York Citv, these two blind men picketed in front of the building with the help of girl sympahtizer. 50,000 Cattle Shipped to U. S. A. Profits Up to $30 Per Head Seen for Canadian Stockmen --• the Winter Loss Slight OTTAWA, -- Canadian cattlemen, with several hundred million dollars invested in the beef-raising industry, are now more jubiliant abort prospects for a profitable year than they were a couple of months ago when a million head of range cattle in the Prairie Provinces were said to be threatened with starvation by reason of the severity of the winter and the serious shortage of feed. No Excessive Loss Senator Daniel Riley, President of the Western Stockmen's Association and regarded as an authority in the cattle industry, has now been advised that the losses, sustained by Western ranchers, due to pastures having been "mried for weeks under several feet of snow, have not been excessive. And some time ago it was feared thousands of head of cattle out on the ranges would perish because the customary chinooks had not been as frequent as usual. But what particularly pleases cattle-. men in Ontario and Western Canada is the steady demand for Canadian cattle in the markets of the United States. Already this year more than 50,000 head have been marketed all across the line at profitable prices. Thanks to the Canadian-United States trade agreement, efficient Canadian stock feeders have made as much as $25 and $30 a head profit on choice beef cattle, sold for consumption in the United States. The trade agreement which went into effect a year ago last January provided for a reduction in the American Customs tariff on Canadian cattle from three to two cents per pound and for a quota of 155,000. As a matter of fact, however, Canada actually sold 191,000 head of cattle and 50,541 calves in the United States last year, or about '38,(160 cattle in excess of the Bigger Profit Made Some of these animals were pure bred stock and beef cattle of weights not covered by the quota. It is estimated that for every good steer the Canadian farmer got $10 more in the United States than he would have gotten but for the reciprocity pact. It is interesting to note that in the year 1934, before the trade agreement was in operation, Canada sold only 6,341 head of cattle in the United States and only 226 calves. Those in close touch with market conditions will not be surprised if well onto 200,-000 head are exported to the United States this year, as 50,000 head were shipped across the border during the fiut quarter. These were chiefly animals which had been stall-fed in Ontario or fattenedjgjpOn feed lots in the "mmt.' Ontario supplied" some io.trtro-head of the shipments to the United States thus far this year. News in Review Sporting Comment By KEN EDWARDS Hi folks! Here we are back with you again with a few facts and figures from the sport area. The other night while the writer was out with an old boy from Upper Canada College, Wally Sy-rett, by name, a golfer of honorable mention and a man of statistics like his father, the topic of speed arose. A topic on which Mr. Syrett is quite fluent. Our informer was saying "we all know that Sir Malcolm Campbell has driven his beloved Bluebird hundreds of miles an hour and that Gar Wood broke the world's speed record on the water, but does the ordinary sport fan know that the golf ball has been also known to travel at the rate of 190 m.p.h?" m.p.h. "Does the fan know, too, that big Willie Tilden once socked a tennis ball which was reputed to have travelled 150 miles an hour?" "Then comes a cricket ball, says Wally, at a maximum speed of 90 m.p.h. Then a football at 50, followed by a billiard ball at 22 m.p.h." And for these facts, Wally, old kid, I know our followers say "many thanks." Flash! Flash! -- Did you know that nine of the eleven pitchers on the Phillies' roster are 6 or more than 6 feet tall? Yes! the gals are at it now. Way down in Richmond, Va., a few weeks ago a championship wrestling bout was staged between champion. Miss Clara Mortensen, of California, and Miss Clarice Davis, of Iowa. The gents that take these two gals "forever and a day" will just be bears for punishment, that's all. Nevertheless at this little scramble the lassies packed in 4,000 fans. Well, guess we better rattle along -- say, didja' hear about the Scotchman that took his boy out of school' because he had to pay attention! -- Please excuse it gang. So long till next week. KEN. More Jobs, Less Relief WINNIPEG, -- More jobs and less relief featured the first quarter of the year 1937 in Winnipeg. Figures from the single men's relief office showed a decrease of nearly 1,000 in those obtaining assistance. At the end of March, 7,547 jobs had been found for unemployed men compared with 6,680 in the first quarter of 1936. Taken By Death BRAMPTON, -- Frederick James Peaker, one of Brampton's best-known residents, and one time member of the famous Brampton Excelsior lacrosse team, died this week in his 69th year. He was the son of William Peaker, who emigrated from England. For many years the late Mr. Peaker was attached to the Brampton Fire Brigade. He was also a prominent curler. He is survived by four brothers: Dr. E. A. Peaker, Toronto; Dr. Kenneth Peaker, Toronto; Dr. O. A. Peaker, Brampton, and George Peaker of Toronto; and two sisters, Mrs. D. E. Baynon, Toronto, and Mrs. Frank Hillock, Brampton. Regina First in Canada to Go On Daylight Saving REGINA, -- Regina citizens are going about their business on Daylight Saving time. The only Western city to adopt "fast" time, the clocks were moved ahead one hour last Sunday. All towns of the district are on the Mountain Standard time. Riel Rebellion Veteran Dead SAVARY ISLAND, B.C., -- Captain George Johnston Ashworth, 74, newspaperman, barrister and veteran of the Riel Rebellion died here this week -- Captain Ashworth pioneer Vancouver resident, had been employed by the Vancouver World, the News-Advertiser and the Vancouver Sun, retiring from active work a few years ago. Edward and J. J. Ashorth of Toronto are brothers. Prosperity Returning BRAMPTON, -- Prosperity is re-' turning to the Brampton district slowly but surely, it was indicated by the customs returns for 1936-37, as compiled by the chief of the Brampton Customs port, Col. R. V. Conover„ Last year, receipts of the port amounted to $57,248.92 in duty. $154,992.29 in sales tax and $38.04 in sundries. Duty paid in the preceding fiscal year of the port was $77,304.47, but sales tax was only $122,520, giving a net increase in collections of $12,416.56. Advertise For A Wife WATERFORD, -- It pays to advertise. George Losgi'ng; "Of Port- R tired of living alone, and advertised for a wife. So far he has received 100 letters from omen anxious to join him in the wedded bliss. One woman in PIcton stipulates that the happy date must be set at some distant date. His chief problem now is which one to choose. Drove At 80 M.P.H. To Sick Daughter WINDSOR, -- pecause he was rushing to the side of his daughter, critically ill in Alabama, Charles D. Carson of Toronto, who sped through Tilbury at 80 miles an hour was let off with a $5 fine. Carson did not appear, but in a letter to Magistrate Smith said he made the trip from Toronto to Birmingham in one jump. Against Recruiting Women For Ministry TORONTO, -- No special effort should be undertaken at this time to recruit women as candidates for the ministry was the recommendation that was brought before the Board of Christian Education of the United Church of Canada at the annual meeting held at Emmanuel College. "It would be well if wamen applicants should not be received as candidates, at an earlier age than 22 to 25 years, when their character and their adjustments to life would have become relatively stable," read the endation. Nurses Avert Panic PENTANG, -- Fire caused by a defective chimney in the Penetanguish-ene General and Marine Hospital caused a minor flurry of panic among the dozen patients in the institution when smoke started eddying through the ( A few patients became terrified, but their fears were set at rest by courageous nurses. No material damages resulted from the blaze and rtmoke damage was largely confined to the' nurses' quarters on the top floor. $4,700,00 Public Works VICTORIA, -- Premier T. D. Pat-j tullo has announced a works program,! for British Columbia involving expert* diture of $4,700,000. The Premier said negotiations b«K tween the Province and the Federal Government over a joint works pro* gram had been completed with th* decision to spend $1,700,000 mainly on road construction. In addition, he said a $3,000,000 loan obtained by the Province In the East would be spent to improve roads wherever r