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+ J 4 3 "g's ~~ CX 4 . « EE | "4 --- 4 a >» Li Sy, J 4 t 4 x A 4 4 AN" Jal a a -- OICE 'THE WORLD AT LARGE. RA sm -- of the ===. | CANADA THE EMPIRE PRESS = | © CANADA Baseball in England . 16 ,is only three years since the first English baseball league was formed in Liverpool, but the game has won such favor that this season, --according to press-reports, will see over 400. teams turning out in Lan- cashite, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Bir- mingham and London. Thousands of airmen and soldiers play the game at-aerodromes 'and army camps, and it has also become popular in schools _ all over the country. One British sports writer observes that baseball "is not an 'American 1avention, but is thoroughly English, being found- ed on the good old-fashioned game of rounders, and all that America ~has done is to put 'pep' Into it."-- From the Halifax Herald. Tourists and Flags It must be refreshing for visitors from the United States to view On. tdrio service stations, tourist camps, tourist homes and hotels decorated exclusively with British colors, in- stead of with a mixture of Union Jacks and Stars and Stripes.-- (St. Thomas Times-Journal) ~Why Pat Burns Wore Out Senator Pat Burns left an estate of over four million dollars. In these 'times there is more criticism of ac- ~¢amulated wealth than in any other 'age. ' _ Pat Burns' career novertheless is an example. If we had more of his type in Western Canada today, we - 'wouldn't be floundering around as. we are. From the moment this un- schooled youth left an Ontario farm for Western Canada he depended upon himself to get aneaa. He did not look to the State to provide him with relief if things did not go well with him. He took the jobs that came to his hand and wnen he found one that suited himbest, he plugged along at it until he rose to eminence as the greatest rancher of the west- ern: country. NC Whatever help came to Pat Burns was due to the confidence he had in- _spired in others." If banks loaned him money to enlarge his ventures, it was because he had proven his worth. - He had come up from the bottom because of the self-reliance >and the determination that charas- terized his life. -- (Lethbridge . Herald) Erelling Lesson Last week a man dropped into the office to say we had misspelt "obbligato." One "b" would suf- fice, he said. We handed him the - Columbia Encyclopedia which spells ~it'as we did and defines "obligato" as "the common misspelling of ob- bligato." Most dictionaries give al- ternative spelling with preference for _the double "b".--(Tinancial Post) Highway Problem Trailers are somewhat of a prob- - lem when they are on the highways. They are bulky, they make it impos- - sible for the driver to see what is behind him, and they are not al- ways easy to handle. Standing still, they are still a. problem. no place for them on city streets, and the ordinary auto camps do not want them. Down south they have exclusive trailer camps, The health problem is also a seri- ous one. Many of the trailers have only the sketchiest sanitary equip- ment, and it is feared that if they come in numbers they may pollute sources of water supply and become a menace to the communities which they visit: Moving from place to place, the trailer people may be tempted to be careless themselves about the water and milk they use, and so may become carriers of dis- ease, The Health League of Canada suggests a general policy of tourist régulation with a view to safe-guard- ing public health. -- Vancouver Province. E " A Deadly Enemy - If diphtheria' is given the chance it "will strike with just as: fatal re- sults as. before. For that reason we can never allow the security .which has been given to our children by L" serum treatment to drop into disuse >@ or be regarded as something op« tional: We have 'the weapon now with which to fight, but the fight must be continuous.-----Peterboro_ Ex- aminer, : For Larger Puarnpkins The giant gooseberry and prize pumpkin will 'soon hide their heads in shame, if the new fertilizer just perfected by Dr. Joseph Seltei, chief medical offive¢. of the Hungarian State Railways, does all that is claimed, ¥ Noticing that certain dyes helped wounds to heal quickly, Dr. Seltei There is" growing to five times their normal quickly than usual, The name given to" this giant. producing fertilizer is "Photosenin," It is' put up in powder form and Is very cheap to produce, so we may soon see it in gencral use by far- mers and market gardeners, 'Pho- tosensin'"' might have come out of "Alice-in-Wonderland," for while a normal dose mukes a vegetable grow into a giant, an overdose reduces it to a midget!--Montreal 'Star. Helping Them. Away - Last year the Review published a simple method of keeping cats and dogs away from shrubs and flowers and we have been asked to reprint it. All that is necessary is to spray flowers and shrubs with a diluted solution of nicotine sulphate and dogs and cats will give all places so sprayed a wide berth, "The smell is offensive to animals, but not noticed by humans, and must be renewed every two weeks or after a heavy rain. The solution is made by mix- sulphate with a gallon of. water and using an ordinary spray. -- Niagara Falls Review. Different Now Last year only 12,023 immigrants reached Canadian shores. This is typical of the figures for the last two or three years when immigra- tion reached the lowest point since 1867. The paucity of newcomers doesn't mean that people in foreign lands no longer desire to take up abode in this country. They would no doubt have continued flocking in if federal authorities hadn't raised 'the barriers when the economic up- heaval brought on an acute unem- ployment problem in the Dominion. It would have been the height of folly to aggravate the situation by not stemming the flow of _ immi- grants, Ea During the decade preceding the Great War, immigrants came to Can- ada in large numbers. The hignest point 'was reached in '1913 when opportunities. Remember how large posters in railway depots used to an- nounce in screaming letters<-- FIFTY THOUSAND HARVESTERS WANT- ED.--Kitchener Record. THE EMPIRE Television in England No one knows just how many television sets are in operatlon in London now--about 2,000 is the usual estimate. The number will re- main small while there are only two short programs in the day and whiie television sets remain so expensive. But IT have not the slightest doubt that in ten years television will have "made ordinary wireless as out of date as talkies have made silent films.--New Statesman. and Nation, Handing Over at "No. 10" The transition from the Premier- ship of Mr. Baldwin to the Prem- iership of Mr. Neville Chamoerlain will be extraordinarily smooth and easy. oy - [Fe head of the Government must be in touch with the work of all de- partments, constantly maxing a broad survey of the activities of the Administration generally, The Chan- cellor of the Exchequer nas financial connections - with the departments which enable him to know something of their work, so that a Chancellor who succeeds to the Pramiership is able to undertake the broader con- tacts and the moce general survey which falls to the head of the ov. ernment with a miximum ot smooth- ness and a minimam of .udden in- tensive effort. Men who have gone fo 10, Downing-strest, from the Op- vosition, or fron: anywhere else without immediate previous connec- tion with. No. 10, have been alinost ¢verwhelmed with the mass of polit- ical and. administrative ends and e- taile that confront t¥e new occupant there. Mr. Chamberlain is already en- gaged in sliding, almost impercep- tibly, "into the supreme political post, He is working in the closest contact with Mr, Baldwin. When the change is made in the closing days of this month, all the Ministerial adjust- ments will. be prompt, and the whole political and administrative machine will continue without jerk or pause, ~--Overseas Daily Mail, Most bacteria reproduce by the simple mothod of splitting apart, One individual hecomes two, two be- come four and so on, This can hap- pen every half hour, under favorable conditions, At this rate one bacter- ium' fn 24 hours could give rise to 281,600,000,000,000 descendants, - experimented upon plants. The re- sults were astonishink, many species size and reaching maturity far more | _ing half a teaspoonful of nicotine 382,841 arrived. Those were the days when the West offered great" News In Review Prices Soar NEW. YORK, --Wheat and stock priced boomed this week.' in Chicago "reports of Canadian dust storms drove brisk buying in and wheat rushed up 3% to 4% cents a bush. CA On the New York Stock Exchange \ tors and rails and copper, netted gains of around $1 to $4. Transac- tions totalled 1,996,020 shares for one day. Démand for shares. followed news the United States Senate Judiciary Committee had decided to report ad- versely on the Administrat'on's Su- preme Court Bill. Earlier in the session there had been some selling following word Justice Van Devan- ter would retire from the Supreme Court. ' High-jumpers were U.S .Steel at $96.62 and Chrysler at $111.12, both up abaut $4. Issues about $1 to $3 higher | wete General Motors at $66.12," Anaconda $50, Santa Fe $89, Douglas Aircraft $50.50, New York Central $45.87, Westinghouse Elec- tric $136.75 and * Bethlehem Steel $79.87. The Associated Press average of sixty stocks was up .80 at $66.30, Canadian 'Stink' Bugs y Shippea to Europe OTTAWA.--Canadian stink bugs are being given new homes in. France and other European countries. °° humble insects are being given the benefit of foreign trave' in fast trains 'and luxurious ocean liners. They are welcome across the At- lantic because they eat the beetles that feed on potato fields. Dr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion En- tomologist, said the stink bugs are bought by European Governments in the same way Canada is buying Hun- garian parasites to attack the sawfly that is ravaging Canadian spruce stands. A shipment 1s now on the way to France, The potato beetle is something of a commonplace in Canada, but in Europe it is feared like a plague. In 'Germany the Government has turn- ed out the army to combat it. Dr. Gibson showed pictures of men in- dustriously spraying potato plants in German fields. Favors Jan. 1 as Election Day "TORONTO. -- Pate of the next civic election will be Jan. 1, provid- ed the City Council, at its next meet- to this effect submitted by the Board of Control. } eclares Com ion Law Mariage 'Is Valid SUDBURY. -- When two people have lived together for four years and "have a €amily of two children, and are known as man and wife, can they be placed in jail for falsely reg- istering as\man and wife? This qiies- tion was brought up before the Sud- bury courts this week. Gi M. M:llery defence counsel, in- sisted that common law marriages might make a pair legal man and wife. . "To all intents and purposes she is his wife if he died leaving money to his wife, she would get it," he said. "The children are registered under his name." Magistrate Me- Kessock granted a dismissal. a selective rally, led by steels, mo- | -to "figures announced by Packed snugly in cigar boxes, the ing approves of a recommendation On a "Dime Tour" SAN PEDRO, CAL, -- Sir Hany Lauder, 67-year-old Scottish enter- tainer, disembarked from a Pacific cruise here chortling about his "dime tour' of 'the world.. . He explained that ten cont pieces he saved during his career have fin- .anced the trip, Housing Loans . Now Stand at $7,000,000 OTTAWA.--Since the inception of the Dominion Housing Act of 1935 a total of $7,064,237 in loans has been taken out for the construc- tion of mew homes, of which $2,096,- 414 was borrowed beiween Jan. 1 and April 80 of this year, according Revenue Minister J. L. Ilsley, Acting Minister of Finance. It is estimated that since the loans became availahle, some 1,683 famil- les have been provided with new homes, The average loan per family unit has been '$4,463 and the total of individual loans has been 994. Every Province except Alberta has taken advantage of the scheme, On- tario leading with 468 loans and others coming in the following order: Quebec, 298; Nova Scotia. 159; British Columbia, 27; New Bruns- wick, 19; Manitoba, 16; Prince Ed- ward Island, 6 and Saskatchewan, 1, Flats and apartments, as well as pri- vate dwellings, may be financed un- der the plan. Unbreakable Glasses LOS ANGELES. -- E. G. Lloyd ended a 12-year-old job last.week when he casually fished a pair of pinc-nez glasses from his pocket, slammed them against a wall, and picked them up--intact. Lloyd, a long-jawed optician with a pair of bushlike eyebrows, explain- ed the impromptu demonstration cli- maxed research he personally has been conducting since 1925, and ended a hunt carried on by others for 2,600 years. His new product is unbreakable glass for spectacles, and he has developed a process to turn it out like hard-sugar candy. "Ever since the Chinese first be- gan using glasses," he said, "people have been breaking them. We have someth'ng here that will put a stop to such annoyancé.. These glasses will resist anything but a hammer, or perhaps = abrick. And we can make them by the dozens." The basis of Lloyd's unbreakable glass is a new, synthetic resin called acryloid. The 'substance weighs 40 per cent. less than glass, admits 25 per cent. more light, and, as a fin- ished product, costs approximately the same. Acryloid is pressed out between dies, eclim'nating the tedious grind- ing process that is 'necessary to fash- ion spectacles of glass. E.P. Ranch Sells Bull to The Alberta Government EDMONTON.. -- Purchase of Princeton Questor, fine two-year-old Shorthorn bull, by the Alberta gov- 'ernment from the Duke of Windsor's I.P. ranch at Pekisko to lead the herd at the Olds agricultural school was announced by Hon. W. N. Chant, minister of agriculture. He and his deputy, H. A. Craig, negotiated the purchase at Pekisko on a visit to Southern Alberta, he said. The bull will not be handed over until Aug- ust, after it has appeared in Western Canada exhibitions, It may also be shown at. Toronto, he said. - in London, Eng., recently, Canadian Prime Minister Opens New Bridge Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, ple- tures as he cut the tape to open the newly constructed Chelsea Bridge NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS -.- By Peter Randal __-- Rr a] "The tumult and the shouting dies,--the captains and the kings des part"--the world is settling back af- ter one of the greatest shows in mod- ern history. But over in Great Britain where the spotlight of inter est is still focussed, they are saying that it isn't the same old world. A new age has begun and nothing is more significant of the change than the passing of an old man, worn and spent from too much conflict. A Great Man of Our Age Phillip Snowden, the weaver's son is dead, He lived to become twice Chancellor of the British Exchequer, to become Viscount Ickhornshaw and to be branded "traitor" by his for- mer friends and followers, He will be remembered as the man who took Great Britain off the gold standard in 1931 and, in the words of another lonely and deserted man, Ramsay Macdonald, he will be mourned as "a great man of our age." 25 Years of Peace? Adolf Hitler is said to be making proposals of a twenty-five year mu- tual peace and protection pact with France, Belgium and Great Britain as potential signatories. Present at the delicate negotiations being car- ried out in London are Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win and Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Neville Chamberlain. The presence of Mr. Chamberlain is but another indication of the changing times as Stanley Baldwin prepares to hand over the duties of office to his successor. Should the conter- ences being conducted at the present time prove successful, there will Le a great many sighs of relief, not only hin Europe but in almost every part of the world. Here are just a few of the things such u treaty would nc- complish. It would obviate the pos- sibilities of a close German-Italian agreement with a threat to demo- cratic countries within their spheres of influence. It would bring about an arrangement between I'rance and Germany whereby the enormous for- tifications being carried out along their respective borders would be left unchanged thus preventing fur- thc + causes for friction in a very dangerous zone. "And finally, Ger- many, while not ahandoning her de- sires for colonies would. practically agree to a hands off policy where British colonies formerly belonging to Germany were concerned. Spanish Repercussions An interesting conjecture, should the treaty be accomplished will be the effect on the Spanish civil war. Canada Imports Apples From Far New Zealand Announcement of heavy ship- ments of New Zealand apples to both eastern and western Canadian ports in the next few weeks emphasizes again the world-wide transformation in apple growing in the last decade or two. Not so long ago there was prac- tically mo exportable surplus of ap- ples from southern hemisphere countries. Canada and United States with late winter varieties practically March until June. Shinments of this type of fruit were in addition to heavy carlier exports of better var- icties such as McIntosh, Spys and Kings. Shortly before the war, how- ever, New Zealand tions of Australia and South Amer- ica started to develop apple grow- ing. They used the best Canadian and United States varieties, mostly Jonathan, McIntosh and Delicious. Commercial results of this introduc- tion are now apparent. Maturing during what are carly spring months in this country, Brit- ain is .supplied with high quality fresh fruit in place of former infer- ior, long-stored North American var- ieties. As a result, Canadian grow- ers of the "long-keeping" apples have been switching to more popular types and in recent years Canadian consumers, too, have been getting fresh apples from the southern hem- -isphere in the spring. - Six months from now the trade will be reversed with considerable exports to the An- tipodes from British Columbia. Thrifty Co-eds Attend Dance In Nightgowns > ROCHESTER, N.C.--The sccret's out--someé of the stunning evening gowns worn by University of Roch- ester co-eds at last week's inter-fra- ternity ball were just remodeled nightgowns, It was simply a matter of economizing. Co-ed Phyllis Probst explained, "You can get a very chic model in a nightgown for about $5," said Miss Probst. "Add a buckle here and a flower there, and a mere male wouldn't know the difference." AR) " Hitler, is sald tobe disgusted with { monopolized the British market from. and. some sec-. event, _vent the same wild Irish from open- events as they have been taking place in that country 'and there is every possibility that he may attempt to persuade his fellow dictator of Italy to pull up their mutual stakes. And when the Spanish war is men- tioned, there are many still wonder- ing just what, if anything, Great Britain intends tg do about the dam- aging of a British destroyer on pat- rol duty with a loss oZ. eight lives. The destroyer had a huge hole torn from her bow, outside the three mile limit and while first examination at- tributed the mishap to a mine, closer examination opens the interesting possibility that the ship was deliber- ately torpedoed. If so, by whom and for what? Either side in the unhap- py war. might be responsible in the hope that by blaming the other they might obtain the aid of the most powerful nation in Europe. True to her policy all through the present crisis, Britain is holding her own council and refusing to be stamped- ed into anything. Happily Ever After Over in France there is another change and the possibility of a hap- py ending to a royal romance. Mrs. Simpson is no more. Her name was changed the other day by permission of the court to Mrs. Wallace War- field and it is said that the King will announce her engagement to Edward Duke of Windsor. Such action would amount to a family forgiveness and a recognition for the first time of: Mrs. Warfield by the Roya! Family in ils official capacity. Security Jitters And business at home is not the only thing the Danes have to think about. Denmark is torn between her market connections with Great Brit. ain and the land hungry tendencies of Chancellor Hitler, to whom Great Britain seems willing to give a more or less free hand in the Baltic Sea. Thinking seriously along the same lines are tle other Scandinavian countries who form what is" known as the Oslo group--neutral during the war but said to be considering defense at the present time. Statement to Shareholders Of interest to students of social and economic problems everywhere is the record of his country during the years of his reign. Denmark is the champion of the co-operative system. 76 per cent. of her total area is devoted to agriculture and of this land, 92 per cent. is owned by half a million farmers. Through the co-operatives which regulate quality and attend to the function of mar- keting, Denmark supplies 30 per cent. of _the world's export butter and 60 per cent. of its bacon. Great Britain is her biggest customer, tak- ing nearly 60 per cent, of her total exporte. * CCLLaLe pao : It is to Norway, one of the coun- tries represented in the Oslo group, that the United States is sending one of her few feminine Ministers. The new Minister, Mrs. J. Borden Harri- man of New York and Washington is already in headlines as the diplomat who cannot keep a secret, a very feminine characteristic after all but one which is likely to cause embar- rassment to Unele Sam." Mrs. Harri- man has unconsciously revealed the state of negotiations being conduct- ed between the United States and Norway on the subject of a trade treaty. Lopoiraion in: ac. The job of being a king is much the same as being head of a large corporation according to Christian X of Denmark. The tallest monarch in Ilurope is celebrating the twenty- fifth anniversary of his accession to the thrones of Denmark and Iceland. Typical of his businesslike attitude towards his job was the modest state banquet and celebration of the urce Way Trada The United States seems to be in the market for advantageous treats ies these days. -Though not in evi-. dence at the Imperial Conference be- ing conducted behind closed doors in Lon'on, it is known that Ameri- can iniluence has coupled with Cana- dian interest to sound out the possi- bilities 'of three way trade agree- ments between Great Britain, Can- ada and the United States. Irish Temperanct And just so the IEmerald Isle shall not pass unnoti in the excitement surrounding the crowning 'of a king, the wild Irish have blown up the statue of. one of his ancestors. in Dublin. The act, intended as a pro- test against coronations, Kings and the English in general did not pre- ing up a three hour air service be- tween London and Dublin with other lines scheduled to be opened to the Continent in the near future. 'Are Forecast May Set Aside Areas for Over- seas Production iid Hon. James OTTAWA, -- Export. production areas are contémplated in the reor- ganization of certain services of the Department of Agriculture, accord- ing to an Siuyation gion by Hon. James Gardir the purposes beh'nd the proposal for recasting the production. and the marketing services performed by his department, ; "Our opinion is," said the Minis- ter, "that the portion of our farm products. which goes into the British . or any fore'gn marict should be so standardized as to equal the best gold in that market. Investigations will be made and experiments con- ducted to determine whether or not we can confine the production of commodities for export to more lime ited arcas and thus specialize within those areas in produc'ng the quality for which the market served pays the top price." Farmers Share Recovery The recovery enjoyed by Canadian business is being shared by the Cana- dian farmer. Proof of this is found in the fact that the index for whole- sale prices of farm March this year was 90 as against 85.5 for all products, the bas'c figure being 100 for the year 1926. In 1935 the index for farm produce prices was 63.4 and for all products 72.1, while in 1936 the former was 70.1 and the latter 74.6. "Three or four years azo," said 'Hon. James Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, "when the prices of farm products were low and the ex- ports small, we were anxious to sce higher prices for farm products in relation to the cost of the commao- dit'es the farmers had to purchase. In the past fifteen months the prices of farm products . have advanced much more rapidly than the prices of other commodities, and this tends to increase the purchasing power of the farmer who has a crop. "There is a growing desire on the part of British consumers," said Mr. Gardiner, "to exchange their manu- factured goods for Canad an pri- mary products. To meet this desire I sent Dr. J .H. Grisdale, former Deputy Minister, to Britain last sum- mer to encourage marketing of farm products and to report upon future possibilities. The exchanges which have 'taken place since have strength- ened the desire of these two coun- tries to trade with one another. We ave hopeful that 1937 will show re- sults even more favorable than the high level reached in 1936." "Not a Selling Agency" Making it plain that the ageitul- tural. marketing division now being organized was not to become a mer- chandising or selling agency, Mr. Gardiner recalled that advert'sing in Britain was now being successfully handled by the Department of Ex- ternal Affairs through Hon. Vincent Massey in the "Canada Calling" campaign, while general trade infor- mation was being compiled, trade contacts made, and trade treaties ne- gotiated by the Department of Trade and Commerce." "Our endeavour," sa'd Mr. Gar- "diner, "will be to continue the work started last summer of gathering in- formation as to the desires of our customers and distributing that in- formation to Canadian producers. We will follow this up with a com- pletely organized grading and direct- ing service in Chnada which will be part of our marketing set-up." "We are reorganizing our produc- tion service to make its efforts con- form to the requirements of our customers at home 'and abroad. Can- ada's greatest market for food pro- ducts is naturally Canada. The greater proportion of all farm pro- ducts, excepting wheat, cheese and apples, is consumed 'n Canade. I believe the consumption of the last two can be greatly increased in Can- ada. "There are certain farm products, such as butter, bacon, beef, eggs and poultry, only a comparatively small proportion of which 1s sold outside Canada, yet the price obtained for the exports has a considerable effect upon the price paid at home." A Little Boy Prays For His Dog '(Pictorial Review) Dear God, . They say my dog is dead; He had the softgst little head; He was so good, he'd always do Most anything I told him to. Kind God, Sometimes he'd chase a cat, (He wasn't often bad like that, And if T called him back, he came The minute that I said his name. Please God, If he feels scared up there, Won't You please lét him sleep soinewhere Near You? Oh please take care of him, : I love him so! His name is Tim. Fresh water is found 200 miles at sea off the mouth of the Amazon river; the force of the current car- ries 'the fresh water that distance.. er, the Minister, as to products in. be LP (Les git og oe a Ip Tg AAA on Bet. TA nnn