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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., MAY 20tH, r1937. V CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Toronto's Chance With the Duke of Windsor and his bride-to-be looking for a place to live, Toronto still has a chance to dispose of Casa Loma. -- St. Thomas Times-Journal. Stars Of Ola The halycon days of lacrosse are recalled in the following Ottawa Journal item from 25 years ago: On the sport page were pictures of Newsy Lalonde and Billy Fitzgerald, called' "two of the high-priced lacrosse players in the game," who were to play with Toronto. A Cornwall story, however, said Lalonde was going to Vancouver, would get something more than $5,000 for the Players like Lalonde of Cornwall and the great Fitzgerald of St. Catharines shed a lustre on the national pastime, which today seems "gone with the wind." The great game is overdue for a big revival. -- St. Ca- ll;:: Looking Backward practically limitless. A counterpart to the well-known "prison whisper" -- talking under the breath from the corner of the mouth -- has been invented in Nazi Germany. It is spoken of as the "spy monocle." It is described as looking lihe an ordinary monocle, but containing a mirror which enables the wearer to'see for hims.elf if he is being too closely watched from the Such an invention must be a great convenience to the garrulous individual who, in the midst of his choicest bit of political gossip, is forced to glance over his shoulder to see if a Brown Shirt is listening. Of course, it will probably result in an order prohibiting altogether the wearing of the monocle in Germany, or at the very least, an order that all wearers must carry a permit for inspection on de-maud by the Nazi police. In the meantime, however, the "spy monocle" has given temporary relief to much dammed-up conversation In Germany, and at the same time reminded the rest of us of the trend of life under dictatorship. -- Winni- Tabloids . Tokyo lias a daily newspaper .ior children. New York has a whole bunch of them. -- Toronto Star. The West's Hundred Davs The next hundred days will tell the tale whether Western Canada is to have a good, average or poor crop in nd the percipitation during the trolling factor, well all in the period will be The se( ground, ind there the farmer can do about it but t Nature take her course. The West should be near the end ! a seven-year dry cycle which began i 1930, following a period of better ia^ average years during which we iled up a huge wheat surplus in the rairies of more nan 200,000,000 bu-iei.-;. Whether the drought will break lis year or not is the question agitat-ig the minds of the men on the land. - Lethbrid-e Herald. - gger Form ot suppresr. a feeling of for the mastermind, or rap of master minds, that rat model of much-within-ss, the income tax form, today. But one could wish :, that slightly more space at the command ■ the that In Yarmouth, Victor, aged twelve, son cf Mr. and Mrs. Ale;: LeBlanc, saved the life of Barbara McKenna, six years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i Lorimer McKenna. When Barbara's dress caught on fire from flaming grass, Victor beat out the blaze with his bare hands enduring a painful At Amherst, Lloyd Leadbetter, 13, son cf Mr. and Mrs. Howard Leadbetter, a Boy Sccut, rescued two babes from death on the railway tracks. He pushed one from the path of an on-rushing freight train and carried the other to safety. A momenf after he'd stepped from between the rails the locomotive crushed the toy the children had been hauling. -- Halifax Herald. Customs Change Tims war, when a man was thinking pf buying a house ho aeked how close ■were the church and the schoolhouse. Now he wants to know how far it is to the golf course. -- Toronto Saturday Night. Easy Money "Easy money," says Henry Ford, "is never honest money."*He was speaking with regard to boys and the need oi doing something to better their condition in life. Ford's idea is that "the average boy is just mischievous and may do something the law will regard as crime, and if once convicted the lad is done for." There is more truth than poetry in the statement. The boy after his first mistake is generally hounded hither and thither -- and if he turns out good, it's often in spite of the activities of those who want to reform him. -- Guelph Mer- THE EMPIRE British Film in Trouble The reasons for American supremacy in films are not difficult to find. The American film industry was the first in the field. The American producer has c. continent of varied scenery and favourable climate to play in; the American distributor has a market of 120,000,000 people on his doorstep. With these advantages, the American industry can and does afford to sell its products in Britain at prices which the native producer finds it difficult to meet. What is needed is a market for British films comparable to the market enjoyed by the Americans. The suggesteted reciprocal agreement for the exhibition of the British films in Britain would probably meet the case: and the British Government would no doubt be willing to give all assistance in securing such an agreement. It cannot, however, be reasonably asked to do so until the British film industry has taken recent official hints and put its financial house in order. -- London Morning Post. British Foreign Finance The fertilizing flow of British capital has been for centuries one of the prime factors in world progress, and so far as the Empire is concerned it has played a predominant part. Bri-tain should be approaching the stage when she will be able to resume her overseas lending without d ;ui b -Mi. nment desires to continue. And when that day arrives, it will probably be found that Britain will seek to make loans serve her export trade, a department of her economy that is flagging and that she is anxious to stimulate. -- The Auckland News. Here's A Lady Who Wants to Be E a t! Success and Fame Won't Change Mode of Living of Young Writer ATLANTA. -- Margaret Mitchell says she is "going to keep right on living as I always have lived," despite the fame and wealth won with her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, "Gone With the Wind." Her creed for the future: "I want to keep on being happy, doing the things I have always enjoyed doing. And I want to be fat "You see, I got down to 97 pounds last fall and I'm back to 110 now and I want to weigh 117 or so." Miss Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, young advertising executive, live in the same apartment they occupied last summer before the Civil War novel was published. The wealth that has come through sale of 1,300,000 < has made no appa their mode of livirg. 'Some fan letters suggest that I ought to buy a 20-rbom mansion, take round-the-world cruises, and visit fashionable places," said the former Atlanta Journal reporter. "I couldn't possibly use a 20-room house. A boat ride on a millpond makes me seasick, and I don't like re for spending money l Indian, or for jewelry We did swap in our automobile, a 1928 model bought second-hand in 1929, for an inexpensive new car. "And I could do with some new clothes. But I like to take time to buy my clothes, and I have little time." She A monsoon blows toward the sea when the land is colder than the water, and in the opposite direction when the reverse condition of temperature prevaiis. Lonely Future For Windsor Is Seen Biographer Bolitho Pessimistic About Duke's Fate -- Says He's Going Out Into Wilderness NEW YORK.--Hector Bolitho, one time 'narrator" to the Prince of Wales, who now is the Duke of Wind-or, makes pessimistic prophecy for his future. Bolitho writes of Edward's "going out into a wilderness in which he will never know what it is to be other than alone," in the biography to be published soon as "King Edward VIII; an intimate biography." "For his busy mind and his interest in life," continues Bolitho, "his sympathy and his training as a prince will never fit into the little space of desire." Bolitho is known in England as an authority on the history of the present Royal Family, and a large share of his current book had been written before the affair of Mrs. Simpson became public property. The only important departures from the standard history of the duke come in Mr. Bolitho's estimate of the value of the then Prince of Wales' long tours in the interest of British trade, and his charge that Edward's retrenchment on his -personal estates amounted to parsimony, and made him "a piteous figure as he estranged himself from those who served him." Bolitho describes the perturbation of Queen Mary and King George as tour followed tour, and how Edward was prevented by them from settling into the routine of a solid Briton. "The prince ceased roaming the earth when he returned from South America," says Bolitho, "but more than ever he was a stranger to England, and it was not easy for him to change the tempo of his life. 'It was observed by those who traveled with him that there were hours of contemplation, touching on moroseness, when he was not facing a cheering crowd ... the gap between father and son had widened, for they thought in different worlds. "Rumor said that the prince's wish for freedom and the right to choose his own staff was so fierce that he wrote of his decision to renounce his rights and settle in one of the dominions if he was not allowed to follow his own way. "His scattered experience of men had not taught him the value of quiet conference, and his restlessness and superficial view of human nature still debarred him from realizing the difference between popularity and respect." They're Telling Us ! "Some people forget that, besides the noble art of getting things done, there r» a nobler art of leaving most things undone." --Dr. Lin Yutang. "There is nothing in the way of organizing life that the will of man, guided by the mind of man, cannot do." --Salvador de Madariaga. "Woman's World" Complains Prof. Success Based Only On Rate of Wife's Spending, He Groans UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Man was credited with little economic standing by Prof. R. L. Sackett here in a lecture treatise on "It's a Woman's World." "A successful man," he said, "is one who can earn more than his wife can spend and a successful woman is one who can spend more than her husband can make." "Women reputedly know the price of everything but -the value of nothing. Most important of all,' however, is the rapidly increasing control of wealth by women," he added. Prof. Sackett, of University, is married. News In Review J Scheme To Hatch Millions of Ducks MOOSE JAW -- Duck hunters will never be without their full bag if recently announced plans of "Ducks Unlimited," an organization that proposes to spend $3,000,000 on duck conservation and hatching, do not go astray. A system of artificial incubator-hatching in Delta, Man., on Lake Manitoba, has met with much success that W. G. Ross one of the organization's four directors, announced that "there is no reason why each of the prairie provinces cannot hatch $1,040-000 ducks a year." Installation of three large incubators, each with a capacity of 1,000,000 in the three Prairie Provinces, has been proposed. The incubators would be.filled with the first setting of the eggs "stolen" from the nests.The ducks would be allowed to hatch her second famy, thus doubling the size of the brood. Drug Stores To Pay For Sideline Sales VANCOUVER, -- The drug store thait 'sells everything except lawn mokvers" long been a problem for the ith early closing ed (by the city Council. Acting on representations of the Retail Merchants' Association, council Jhas. decide that in granting business licenses, drug stores will be required to obtain, in addition to the neejessary permit to sell drugs, "side-linel" licenses if they are to sell other articles that are sold by stores not In thet drug business. 'jThese "secondary lines of business wiljf cost $10 a year. Good at Bank lNNISTON ALA., -- Those who hand out advice against letting somebody give you a wooden nickel aren't so smart after all. They probably would have accepted the cheque that Jeff McCord sawmill operator took from a customer last week. It was written on a wooden shingle. McCord was attempting to collect a bill. The billpayer was short of the regular cheques, so he picked up a small shingle and wrote on it. McCord endorsed the cheque and ANN] NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - By Peter Randal CORONATION COMMENTARY Before you read this paragraph, the ink will have dried on thousands of other similar paragraphs in every country and every language in the world. Never, within the history of recorded time, has a pageant such as the crowning of George and Elizabeth been marked with such significance. Standing as his fathers did before him within the walls of the nation's shrine, a young man pledged his life as a priest might concentrate himself to a sacred service. His witnesses were not only the brilliant assembly of the world's great within Westminster Abbey, not only his subjects in the far corners of the world, but all peoples. With pomp and circumstance, George VI became one of the few survivors of the kingly ideal. Yet, the true significance was not in survival but in the new interpretation of a king's consecration as the living symbol of the nation's unity. Here is no autocrat of old. Here is a priest-king dedicated beyond his own hopes and desires to the preservation of democracy. Power without honour means fear and not freedom. That is why, in the other lands, where a house painter or a retired army sergeant hold sway, there is no democracy. These lands have deserted the ancient form of kingship without substituting something better in its place. We who do hold to the old forms have learned from our forefathers that freedom comes, not from the letter but from the spirit. Deep within these ancient rites, we have implanted a new conception of our destiny as a nation. "God Save the King," is more than a wish for the man, it is our prayer for the preservation and advancement of an ideal in government. Economic Co-operation Canada's great moment is to come after the Coronation at the forthcoming Imperial Conference. Prime Minister Mackenzie King will propose a three way economic treaty between Canada, the United States and Great' Britain. Should the proposed agreement be favourably received, there is a possibility that it will be extended to include all Empire countries, thus' cementing in common economic, bonds, the interests of the entire En-, glish speaking world. The plan is: said to have originated with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While its implications are economic, students of world affairs feel that it may be the real key to continued world peace. Death of a Nation's Pride While one nation rejoices at ths1 crowning of a new sovereign, another mourns a great disaster. Pamphlets and posters, still on display in travel J agency windows carry the magic' words, "Cross the Atlantic by Air". At Lakehjrrst, NjJ^ a j)}ajkened,^ twisted mass of "girders marks the wreck of Germany's pride. The Hin-denburg, queen of the Atlantic seaway has gone to join so many of her. forbears in the Valhalla of ill fated' ships. Thirty five people lost their, lives, among them one of the great-' est authorities on lighter than air craft, Captain Ernest Lehmann. Others lie in hospitals, still unaware of the terrible fate that may have come to their families. In spite of disaster, German faith remains true co the great zepplins. General Goering has announced that construction will be rushed on four great ships and this time, with the co-operation of the American Government, they will be filled with non inflammable helium. paid his electric bill with it. The power company presented it to the bank, and it was cashed and cancelled. position is the Bureau's forecast about conditions in Western Canada, where many thousands of farmers in the drought area are in a serious plight owing to successive crop failures. A decrease of half a million acres in the ::rea sown to grain in Canada in 1937 is to be expected if the intentions of farmers are carried out, the report states. The intended area of spring _wheaL upon \vhich. the fortune 24,367,800 acres, compared with ~ 24,-779,700 acres sown in 1936, and more than two million acres less than in the peak year of 1932. The principal decrease will occur in Saskatchewan. Ontario Increases Employees' Pay TORONTO, -- Salary increases ranging from five to ten per cent will be ordered for the majority of the 6,000 employees of the Ontario Civil Service, Premier Hepburn announc- ed this week. Increases were approved for several departments at the Cabinet meeting. Other departments will be surveyed and increases decided upon will be retroactive to May 1. Revision concern particularly emplo-ees in the lower salary brackets, the Premier said. Memorial to Late Viscount Grey Storage of Water Help to Farmer REGINA. -- Saskatchewan's water storage capacity as a result of conservation propects under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation scheme, during the past two years is now placed at _ ~,_^.!.l,'At:v ■ just nicely under way, Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, said, and from 20 to 25 years of tteady unremitting work would be required to properly rehabilitate all prairie lands in the three western provinces. Small projects such as farm dugouts, stock-watering dams and private irrigation schemes, accounted for 2,250,000,000 gallons, and larger storage dams made up the remaining 8,-350,000,000 gallons. While water conservation has been the major activity, reclamation projects, regrassing, tree-plr.nting, soil surveys and land utilization problems have not been overlooked, three land surveys being made in Saskatchewan this Fly Flags Properly Says Scout Officer TORONTO, -- "I don't believe any boy scout groups in Toronto have undertaken to advise citizens who are flying coronation Union Jacks upside down that they are unwittingly indicating that help is needed,.' Norman H. Saunders secretary of the Toronto Boy Scout association remarked recently when informed that scout patrols in Halifax were responding to the signals of distress. "Most people take the trouble to see that the broad white stripe is uppermost," he said. Grain Acreage Is Less OTTAWA, -- Of the 702,000 acres of fall wheat sown in Ontario last autumn, 56,000 acres or 8 per cent are estimated to have been winter-killed leaving 646,000 acres for harvest in 1937, as compared with a harvested area of 509,300 acres in 1936. This is one of the features of the first crop report of the present season issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. More important perhaps, from the point of view of Canad; !al:lwin, the British Prime Minister, is shown as he unveiled a mem ey of Fallodon, who was British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of i ssadors' Entrance" to the Foreign Office, in London. "The body has been divided into blood, cells and organs; the soul has been neglected in the analytical pro- --Dr. Alexis Carrel. l half ton of coal is required t | start a freight train and br'ng it ( running speed. Pleasure that isn't shared with a other loses half its power to pleas --Ottawa Journal.