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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1937 VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE , THE WORLD AT LARGE of the • PRESS CANADA Fussy Hitch-Hikers / The discriminating hitch-hiker has developed to the point where he stands at ease until he sees approaching a radio-equipped car. -- Peterborough Examiner. Expenses of Peace Britain is spending more on her five-year rearmament plan than she spent during the four years and eight months of the Great War. If it costs that much to keep peace what would war cost under present-day conditions.--London Free Press. Ex-Prisoner's Problem The problem of the recidivist is largely a problem of the after-treatment of the prisoner. It is not enough to give a man convicted of crime a prison term and turn him loose again. The paroled or discharged convict is at a decided disadvantage when he emerges from the shadow of the prison's walls. He has been sheltered while in prison; he thro sources. It is not easy for a man who has once gc>ne wrong to go straight. The world seems against him. He is regarded as a jailbird and doors are closed to him. The easy thing is to drift to his old haunts and back into crime again.-- Vancouver Province Shot In "Mistake" The shooting of the British Ambassador to China by Japanese airmen is characterized as a mistake. The killing of hundreds of people in the International Settlements of Shanghai by Chinese airmen has been explained as an "unfortunate mistake." In recent days it is reported that quite a number of persons executed in Russia by order of the ruling class in the last five or six years were shot in mistake. All these things indicate the seriousness of shooting to kill. There seems to rore*a "situation^ arts "bet -1- i! 11't. . tf. The dead are not brought to life by explanation that the shooting was a "mistake." We prefer the Canadian system of doing a good deal of thinking before shooting. -- Regina Leader-Post. What Is Wrong? E. V. Hale has written a letter the Boston Herald asking what is wrong with Canada, this neighbor to the north about which he has read so much lately. It leads the world in wheat and is the chief source of pulpwood. It has almost a monopoly of nickel. Gold production is exceedingly high. All records are being broken in nickel, lead, zinc, platinum, asbestos and salt production and there are yet great untapped resources. Then there are fruit, cattle, dairying and coal. What is wrong, he asks Canadians to tell him, with this fertile land that is a tourists' paradise, with a'very practical .earthly revenue therefrom, that has bounteous* fisheries, that is apparently in the forefront in social legislation, yet is deserted by thousand who seek a livelihood in "other lands. . . . There is, however, a ce amount of confusion between past and present in Mr. Hale's tude. The thriving production, for instance, that he mentions belongs to the present, while the exodus was largely in the past.--Moncton Transcript. Canada's Growth Most Canadians do not pause often enough to consider the# amazing growth of their country since #onfederatio.n--70 astounding years. With the lifetime of many living citizens, "the enterprise and resourcefulness of men and women have made the first skimpy returns of trade and commerce into an annual flood of Commodities and goods of every kind. Study the record of development. The output of manufacturing has grown from less than $250,000,000 to* niore than $2,800,000,000. In the same period, agricultural production has increased in value from $125,-000,009 to more than $1,000,000,000 per year; mining has soared from an annual income of less than $25,000,-,,tf00 to $350,000,000. These are the in numbers we may be, but great in performance. Fifth among the trading nations of the world, our record of growth is first. And the future is bright.--Winnipeg Free Press. THE EMPIRE Wanted: Lovers of Men Animal lovers are starting a crusade to abolish the use of the horse in warfare. So now all we need is that lovers of men shall start a crusade, too.--London Punch. The Roar In The Air Many people will approve of the action taken by the Blackpool Council in forbidding "joy riding" from its aerodrome. It is the first sign of a revolt against the growing nuisance of noise from the air, superimposed upon all the rattling and braying and roaring that come from our modern surface traffic. The noise of a low-flying airplane can be not only distressing but terrifying. Too much of this is already imposed upon our ears and nerves by commercial airplanes and Air Force machines. If the private airplane becomes popular the racket and clouding overhead will reach the limit of human endurance.--Manchester Guardian Brothers Under the Skin Hitler is a siliy man to maintain his Nazi Party organization in London and encourage it to do its little bits of spying and badgering and-in-triguing. It irritates the whole British people. And it makes it difficult to meet the most innocent German tourist and visitor without wondering what he may be up to. This is a pity, because there is much to be said for an exchange of non-propaganda visits between individuals of different countries. It performs the immense service of demonstrating one simple fact which is always in danger of being clouded over in times of international suspicion and fear; the fact that the average Frenchman, the average Russ Hge German more people there are in every try who know that to be true, more difficult it is to whip up fever and war-like 'hatreds. Canada's Three Best Customers More Canadian Goods Bought by United States, United Kingdom and Australia For three years Canada's best customers have been the United States, United Kingdom and Australia in that order. Four years ago the United Kingdom bought more of our goods than the States did, and the Netherlands were in third place inth). , far The two leading countries outdo all others in their purchases from Canada that they are in a class by themselves. In the fiscal year 1937 which ended last March, for example, the United States bought 435 million dollars worth, the United Kingdom nearly 408 million dollars worth, and Australia, next on the list, less than $27,000,000 worth. Among Canada's chief exports to the United States are: Newsprint, 89 millions; wood pulp, over 28% millions; wheat, over 21% millions; whiskey, nearly 21% millions; nickel (fine), 21 millions. The Dominion sells the United Kingdom wheat to the extent of 153 millions; bacon and hams, over 27% millions; copper and products, 25% millions; planks and boards, 20% millions. Including all markets, Canada's greatest export is wheat, nearly 223% millions; then newsprint, over 110 millions; non-monetary gold bullion, over 76% millions; nickel, over 45% millions. Thus a farm product leads a manufactured forest product, second, and mine products third and fourth. There is no marine product until ninth place is reached: fish, 25 millions. In the last fiscal year Canada sold more whiskey than automobiles abroad: 21% compared with 19% millions. Soviet Hollywood Is Under Attack MOSCOW--Russia's movie makers were attacked this week in Izvestia, official government newspaper, both for the quality and quantity of their work. As it did earlier this month, most of Izvestia's anger fell oni Boris Shumiatsky, head of the industry, who has been blamed for extravagance, misleading reports on) production and mediocre films. ( The film industry's plan for a Russian Hollywood also drew fire. Izvestia declared it would be a waste beftause there are iiiad^(|i:;;U- i^ici^t^^and ■ tion Schedules that such SfTnvesk-ment's success would demandf Mounties Get Crime Bweau Scientific Gadgets Re->Ja::-2 Hgzzsz Ar.d Gns In Tfcei Wcrk The grand old days of tho Royal Canadian Mounted Police when a scarlet coated Mountie kept law and order in a few thousand square mile3 of territory with a six-shooter and a horse, are about over. Most of the horses are gone and now the Mounties are investing S10,-000 in scientific gadgets to help them catch their man. They are building a crime-detection laboratory, complete with microscopes, ballistic guages and cameras and the time may come when Mounties will carry magnifying glasses instead of guns. Assistant Commissioner S. T. Wood, when he was in Europe with the Coronation troop of Mounties, studied the scientific methods of Scotland Yard and the French Surete and the laboratory is being patterned after them. News In Review | big three f And if any Canadian production, further evidence of :eded, look at the ex-in 1867 Canada's ex-less than $10.0,000,-stands at nearly 11 port figures: port trade wa 000, today it times that figt These, in round number! .Amazing story, a story of which j integrati H&y Canadian may be psoud. Small 1 h#fc M More Males Die Violent Deaths Women Appear To Be the Tougher of the Species Violent deaths remove twice as many males as females from the population in the course of a year, Prof. F. A. Crew, president of the zoology section, told the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Nottingham, Eng. The result is a distortion of the sex ratio among certain age groups, the professor said. Prof. Crew presented a surprising picture of the alteration of the ratio of males and females in a population over a period of 80 years. Actually, he said, more baby boys are born alive than girls. For instance, in England and Wales in 1935 the ratio was 105.6 boys to every 100 girl babies born alive. But by the time a year's crop of children attain the ages from 15 to Bell Keeps Ringing For 97 Y<^ars Ringing away merrily to itself, tucked away beneath a glass case in an Oxford museum, is the strangest belt in the world. It has no battery, is connected with no outside mains, and is never wound up--yet ;t has been ringing for just on 97 years. Made as an experiment in 1840, and set in motion, it rang for 20 years before anyone really took any notice of it; then it was installed at Oxford, where it is to be seen today. Some thousands of copper and paper discs store its motive power, and a steady chemical reaction rations out what little electrical current it nee'ds to keep it going. No one can tell how much energy remains in its cells. It may stop tomorrow, or it may ring out another century, even as it has rung out the life of its maker--and who he was nobody knows. Mediterranean Patrol Starts PARIS.--France and Great Britain have mobilized nearly 200 warships in the Mediterranean in their hunt for marine marauders. Organized on a full war time footing, the combined fleet is to reach its maximum strength within a week when all additions ordered for patrol duty arrive. Aberhart Sworn In EDMONTON. -- Premier Aberhart was sworn in as Alberta attorney-general this week. The premier has been acting attorney-general since early in August when Hon. J. W. Hugill was asked to quit office and tendered his resignation. Another Insurgent Drive MADRID--The thunder of a fresh insurgent attempt to smash into Madrid, this time through the south-western suburbs, rolled over this war-tired, war-bored metropolis this week. Defense commanders shrugged and commented: "No substantial gains." Strike Ended CORNWALL.--Settled as suddenly as it started, the strike at Cornwall Pants and Prince Clothing Company, involving 2S5 workers, ended this week when representatives of the men and Mayor Aaron Horovitz, president of the company, reached a satisfactory A Commentary By ELIZABETH EEDY On Outstanding Events of the Week Plead foi Innocents SHANGHAI.--Naval commander the United States and four other w -*»••> *0W9r^de"w"jdfid-this we#k tUai.L both Chinese^ and Japanese anti-aircraft gunners take immediate steps spare the lives of 'innocent non-co batants." The urgent request of American J miral Harry E. Yarnell and the other neutral naval commanders went forward while. Chinese, facing wave-after wave of Japanese attackers, stood fast on their new inland positions stretching 20 miles from Chapei to Liuho, north and west of international Shanghai. Trees for Prairies OTTAWA.--During the present year 2,000,000 trees will be planted in the three Prairie Provinces under the farm rehabilitation program, and 4,000,000 trees will be distributed through the ordinary channels. This afforestation is part of the large, long-range plan for checking the ravages of soil drifting and helping to conserve moisture. Championship Golf Tournament The all-Canadian part of the twentieth annual championship tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association wound up this week with R. M. Gray, Toronto Rosedale Club star, who will be 59 years old in Decem-ifully defending his title Eyes on Czechoslovakia One of the last strongholds of democracy in Europe, Czechoslovakia, occupies a doubly strategic position. Nazi Germany would be blad any moment to swallow this little country whose geographical outlines cut a neat slice out of the south-eastern German States. (More than two-thirds of Czechoslovakia's present population of 15,000,000 is concentrated in this western half in the highly industrialized provinces of Bohemia, Mor. avia and Silesia, right on the doorstep of Germany.) The Czechs live in mor_ tal fear of the Hitler regime but feel temporarily secure under the military protection of Soviet Russia. At this moment in Europe's history, Czechoslovakia is very important. Front Page News The Spanish Civil War had the front pages of our daily newspapers all to itself for a good many months of this year and last, sharing honors occasionally with a particularly horrible murder, car accident or earthquake fatality. With the advent of the Sino.Japanese conflict, however, it was transferred to page 3 or even page 5. In August, 1937, the front page headlines screamed Jap bombings at us, and talked in bold type of the grave international crisis in the Far East. The Sino-Jap situation is just now possibly as grave as it ever was, but as a front page story it has given place to the Mediterranean embroglio and the danger of war in Europe. There is a war going on in Spain, and a war going on in China, just the same. Need Bigger Population With one-sixteenth of the cultiva-table land in the world and more than that fraction of the world's natural resources, Canada has only one half of one percent, of the earth's population. It is the contention of Dr. W. J. Black, who addressed the annual convention of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Vancouver, that Canada must have more population if it is to fulfill the destiny that nature intended for it. More people must be brougr.t in from outside through immigration, he said, if the country is to keep going ahead. An influx of farm, ing families would aid development, end. Of several years' di Irish Free earing its ration the conflict began when President Eamon; de Valera refused to transfer thej Irish land annuities to the Britishj Government. The United Kingdom,! as guarantor of the loans, had to meet] the interest charges. To recoup her-; self, she clapped special duties onj imports from the Irish Free State.; The Irish Free Stacc retaliated. But! now de Valera has gone to Switzerland where he is meeting Dominions j Secretary Malcolm MacDonaid at Geneva to discuss differences between the two countries and bring about an reconciliation. Want Uniform Administration Amendments to Workmen's Compensation Acts throughout Canada that would give 100 per cent, compensation were recommended by the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in session at Ottawa. It was voted also that the full cost of administration be placed on industry. The ad-i ministration of the Ontario Compensation Act as it affected those engag_ ed in the mining and lumbering industry was termed a "disgrace," since it has become a practice, it was said, for operators to minimize the number of reported accidents, lower their contribution to the Compensation Board and increase their profits at the expense of the workers. The Congress is pressing to make the Acts more efficient and to have them uniform throughout the country. Italy Backs Out Demanding full equality with the other European powers in patrolling the Mediterranean, Italy has rejected the Anglo-French invitation to join with the nine countries in a war against submarine piracy. Mussolini's ministers had previously accented, so that "hen his consent was suddenly withdrawn, it was thought that Germany had influenced him to a reversal of decision. Nevertheless the agreement entered into at Nyon, Switzerland, against "piracy" will be put into operation immediately, with or without Italian participation. "We Are Not Involved" Prime Minister Mackenzie King assured the country this week that "Canada has no hips in the Mediterranean, and Canadian commerce is not involved in the policies being adopted by the nine-power conference." He also observed that Canada had not taken any part in ac_ tivities of the non-intervention committee nor had there been any invitation to take part in the war on "piracy." in downright easy manner. It was almost a case of Gray first, the rest nowhere, as Bob carded a 3G-hold gross of 148, a 16-stroke edge over his closest rival. Japan Threatens GENEVA. -- Japan will withdraw from all League of Nations collaboration and will strengthen her ties with Italy and Germany if the League takes' any "positive action" on China's appeal for intervention in the Far East conflict, a Japanese spokesman said this week. German Plane Lands PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- The German seaplane Nordwind, with which the Reich is blazing a commercial aviation trail across the Atlantic, alighted at this Long Island airport this week after a flight from Horta in the Azores. Captain Walter Diele was in command of the ship and its crew of three. Roosevelt and Lewis Confer WASHINGTON. -- President Roosevelt and his generous political ally in 1936, CIO. Chieftain John L. Lewis, conferred for the first time in months this week, but neither would say whether they had composed their recent differences. Both the White Hov.se and Le made non-committal statements i the fifteen-minute conference, but was indicated that the split which occurred when Mr. Roosevelt wished a "plague on both your houses" during the C.I.O. strike in "Little Steel" was Demand Radium, Nickel Control OTTAWA.--Demand that the Government assume monopolistic control cf radium and nickel was made this week in two resolutions adopted by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada as that workers' Parliament reached the half-way mark in its fifty-third annual convention. How Composite Aircraft Will Appear 19 years the prepond( gives way to equality in boys and girls. Among the 20 to 24-y females actually be; s of r the r ties. to ( umbel "Thereafter," the professor said, "as age group succeeds age group, this female numerical ascendency progressively increases until, among the 85's and over, there are more than twice as many women as men." More Dangerous Adventure Mortality tables make it clear that at all ages relatively more males are removed from the populat'on by death. Among these 75 and over, actually more women than men-die,' for the simple reason that there are more females who reach those ages. "It would appear from these figures alone that to be born is a more dangerous adventure for the male :an for the female, and that there a sexually selective mortality hieh not only operates at all ages after birth to the disadvantage of the le, but which acts possibly equally i strong pre-natally as well," :ed Prof. Crew. y money often dis exposed to the The two components of the Mayo composite aircraft (designed to overcome the difficulty in launching a heavy-laden transatlantic plane) have made individual flights over Messrs. Short'svard' in" Koriiegtei" England, where they were built, and preparations are now nearly complete for the" crucial combined test flight, when the \ital release mechanism freeing the upper monoplane from the big parent hull will be put to th? test. Our picture shows a composite picture, made from two original photographs taken daring tne individual tests, showing the co.mposite aircraft as it will appear when assembled for tho combined test.