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It is a far ery indeed from those days, so near and yet so remote, when the Pole was the objective of infinâ€" itely laborious and paiaful exertions, when many months had to be spent in transporting men and material by ship and sleigh across lonely inhosâ€" pitable wastes, and when the expediâ€" New Chapters In Human Achieveâ€" Raps Beauty Contests It is to be hoped that before long public opinion will have so definitely exprossed itself that these tmbecile exhibitions (beauty contests) will be as extinct as the dodo Thev ara a An English journalist predicts that Toronto will be the future capital of the British Empire. Torontonians with an eye to the future will begin now to make the most of every little fog that comes their way.â€"Windsor Star. in tUmce every so often, maybe a p‘o of times a year, somebody w to got a police court item left ot the panor and offers payment for accommodation. The city editor red in the face, takes a grip on #s~lf and as civilly as possib‘e inf« th* visitor that sort of thing cone; the news columns are not sa!>. Porhaps he tells it later to stail, as a sort of embarrassing th:â€"t people should imagine a n papor cowd be muzzled for a d °CS ATROLNJâ€"â€"and the provinces how little inclination towards any urrender of their rights in this conâ€" ection. It is apparent, we think, that ie national interest would best be »rved if road transport as well as ill were in the hands of the Wominion ailway Board, but that condition coms far from attainment. â€"Ottawa ournal. The Only Cure There is considerable criticism of the slow automobile driver, but there is this to be said for him, he never kills anybody. It wasn‘t slow driving that caused the tragedy that snuffed out the life of a Detroit nurse near Talbotville on Saturday. It was outâ€" raseously fast driving, the only adeâ€" quate punishment for which is a jail torm and lifeâ€"time withdrawal of liconse to dri.e.â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€" Anything in the nature of a major or a prolonged war affects deeply every part of civilization and the eagâ€" erness with which news is sought is largely activated by fenr.. It is the foar that at some point, a point quite unpredictable, there will leap into beâ€" ing some circumstance of the war, however bizarre or unthinkable, that will affect or even destroy something in which the reader is deeply conâ€" cerned, something that will affect his own life, his own family, his own country. This becomes evident when we consider the effect upon humanity of "no news". The literature of the Napoleoni¢ period abounds in eviâ€" denees of this fear being carried to the point of frenzy. Thus we may see that war news, so far from inflaming primordial ferocities among people not involved must have a reassuring val ue.~â€"Victoria Times. Kit W Natioral Transport Conir o long as nine provinces mak When Prices Scar Whon prices soar too high constmer iistance begins to assert itself, and + increase is brought to an end by at might be called nataral means. (tle sold as high as $17.90 per cwt. Chicago, and that makes beefâ€"steak table only to millionaires and me who never pay their bills. â€" rmer‘s Advocate. ofi tinct as the dodo. They are a ce to morals and a disgrace to »mnmunity in which they are held. chener Record. The Mayor Cuts Down "No News" To Be Feared {» NJ V OICE THE EMPIRE ecent mayor of Philadelphia that during his first two years ce be attended an averase of mers and banquets a year, not ng less formal luncheons. usy man could stand that strain itely. In seltâ€"defence the mayor Press Is Nct Boug!‘.’l cVery so olten, maybe a couâ€" imes a year, somebody wants 1 police court item left out of or and offers payment for the odation. The city editor gets the face, takes a grip on himâ€" | as civilly as possib‘e informs itor that sort of thing isn‘t he news columns are not for erhaps he tells it later to the i a sort of embarrassing joke ople should imagine a news ou‘d be muzzled for a dollar â€"Woodstock Sentinelâ€"Reviow. An Eye to Future ph THE WCOCRLD AT LARGE CANADA so often, mayl could st selfâ€"defe adopte ind it rol s We th of the "Such activity, such speed, but such noisy trams," complained the city‘s guest. "Your motor cars are so quiet and smooth that it seems funny to hear the noise of the trams downâ€" town." The _ "magnificence" _ of _ Detroit amazed Sir Samuel who said that he expected only to find industries on a large scale. But he had one comâ€" plaint. to us we will figh:." Sir Samuel served during the war with the Royal Irish Regiment and is a past president of the British Legion. At present, he sits as an alderman for the city of London and eventually will move up to the Lord Mayor‘s chair. ‘"The public is solidly behind our huge rearmament program," said Sir Samuel. "With the proper armaments there is a feeling of security, every Englishman thinks. As a nation we are opposed to fighting for fighting‘s sake, but if the fighting is pushed on to us we will figl." Prime Minister Neville Chamberâ€" lain‘s government can pacify the world, but in the event of war Great Britain is ready to fight, Sir Samuel Joseph, director of a large English construction firm, assured American newspapermen this week. As Imperialists the Japanese lack two qualities â€" imagination. and the capacity to make those whom they conquer trust them; this deficiency represents perhaps their greatest diffiâ€" culty on the Asiatic mainland. Al ready Peking is being administered by Chinese puppets with Japanese advisâ€" ers, and things may go smoothly for a while. But it is not so long since the Japanese supposed General Sung Chehâ€"Yuan to be their complaisant too!; nor is it without significance that the massacre of Japanese and Koreans at Tungchow was carried out by troops who formed part of the bogus East Hopei regime apd were almost certainly in Japanese pay. Japan‘s real difficulties in North China will begin when the "Cease Fire" is sounded.â€"London Times. Sir Samuel Joseph Visiting Here Says Britain Ready To Fight Englard Can sors. They inherit the cumulative reâ€" sults of the collaboration of innumerâ€" able minds, and their achievement is an epitome rather of coâ€"operative than of individual endeavour. Yet they, too, are pioneers within the condiâ€" tions of initiative which their age perâ€" mits, and it is feats such as theirs which serve to keep alive our faculty of wonder.â€"London Morning Post. tion once launched might become lost for years, if not for ever, to human ken. Those were days which called forth the highest qualities of heroism and endurance and devotion, for which those who displayed themâ€"the Frankâ€" lins and the Scotts and the Shackle tonsâ€"will be remembered as long as the tale of human achievement is told. It is of the same stuff that these Russian airmen are made, but thanks to the machine, they are enabled with incomparably less privations to attain incomparably greater results. Applied science is at their disposal to a deâ€" gree undreamed of by their predecesâ€" AJapanes_e Have Weak Spois PRESS Delirious with war fever, bombing planes unleashed carge of death and ing death on nonâ€"combatants in streets below, in first &JID war out CANADA THE EMPIRE Pacify World TORONTO The warlike announcement _ was backed up by a statement from the Red Armyâ€"1,300,000 men forming the largest standing army in the worldâ€" Russian Army Ready MOSCOW, â€" Izvestia, the Soviet Government‘s official mouthpiece, has warned that war threatens Europe, but that Russia will be able to "defend herself against the Italian pirates and aggressors." His action is in reply to Premier Aberhart‘s statement that "nowhere can there be found the original copy of the British Noth Ameica ETAO OA of the British North America Act." To Foil Aberhart OTTAWA, â€" Dr. J. F. Kenney, Actâ€" ing Dominion Archivist, will send to London, England, for a certified manuâ€" script copy of Canada‘s Constitution, the British North America Act. Some 300 Chinese were killed and 400 wounded this week when the Japâ€" anese acroplanes bombed a crowded refugee train as it was entering the Sungkiang station, 30 miles from Shanghai. Japanese bombed and destroyed a military arsenal at Hangchow southâ€" west of Shanghai, an airfield at Kashâ€" ing and a Chinese military barracks at Kwangteh. Over Soochow, they shot down five Chinese Curtiss Hawk aeroâ€" planes. Jap Air Raids TOKIO, â€" Japanese aeroplanes carâ€" ried their message of death to several Chinese fronts, while artillery and inâ€" fantry units clashed with Chinese forâ€" ces around Shanghai. DUNGANNON, â€"â€" Funeral services have been he‘d here for 18â€"monthsâ€"old Cora Neil Anderson, of Detroit, who died as a result of drinking hot tea. The tot, daughter of Lindfield Anderâ€" son, a native of Dungannon, and Mrs. Anderson, reached over and took the teapot while her mother was absent from the room. Death resulted when the hot liquid entered her lungs. TORONTO. â€" The Ontario Labor and Industry Board this week opened at Qveen‘s Park an inquiry into the wagos and working conditions in the textile industry. Both employers and employees were represented by counâ€" sel. Girls in Rio enjoy a great deal of freedom, and in this Latin country one will see them on the fine beaches each morning, quite as anxious for a swim and exorcise as American girls are. In many ways, however, family life varies much from that of the United States. For one thing the famâ€" ily is a much Closer unit. Family getâ€" togethers are the usual thirgs and are even carried so far that there are often set days in each month for them. Members of Brazilian families also feel a great personal responsibilâ€" ity for one another. When someone is in trouble the head of the family comes to his aid at once, for not to do so would be disgraceful. Brazilian Family Life Is Simple NEW YORK.â€"A curious blending of the simple and the formal characterâ€" izes the life of Brazil in general, and that of Rio de Janeiro 4n particular. In their homes the residents of Rio are a charming people because they believe in simplicity. They like visâ€" itors in the home, and pay them the honor of being natural and unpreâ€" tentious. Hosts are likely as not to ask one to take potluck, and many Brazilians â€" keep practically â€" open house. . Members Exhikit Senzzs of Responâ€" Scenes Like This Common During Skanghai Air Raids News In Brief Textils Prote Hot Tea Fatal death and destruction in form of ap war outrage to shock entire w The entire student body was marchâ€" ed to the city hall to receive nasal spray. Clinics were opened to give the having now vndergone treatment. Beery and his 8â€"yearâ€"old adopted davghter, Carol Aun RBeery, appeared at the Sheriff‘s office and were fingerâ€" printed. The actor received a letter two weeks ago, threatening death for Carol Ann unless $10,000 was paid. GUELPH, â€" All pupils of Victory School are under strict quarantine and the school itself has been closed for ten days. A sixâ€"yearâ€"old boy attending the school contracted infantile paralyâ€" sis, Guelph‘s first case, and authorities immediately instituted sweeping meaâ€" sures to prevent its spread. All wards of the Children‘s Shelter attend the school and are being kept under close observation. Will Fight Extortionists LOS ANGELES, Cal., â€" Wallace Beery, film actor, has obtained a speâ€" cial Doputy Sherriff‘s commission and a pistolâ€"carrying permit, so he will be prepared, he said, to deal with extorâ€" tionists. that it was ready "to meet with a deâ€" cisive, merciless blow any attempt to hinder our peaceful pursuits." brard new managzor and receives $40, 000 a year undor his new contract whilse Tommy Farr, the sensational English battler who just recently set the boxing world agog in his bout with Joe Louis, has had a row with his manager, Ted Broadribb, and refuses to fight under him in the future. A new oneâ€"mile Canadian swim reâ€" cord has just been set by Ralph Flanâ€" agan cf Florida. He was clocked at 21.34. The former record was 21.57. Sir Malcolm Campbell seems deterâ€" mined to be "tops" in the spoed world on water as well as on land. _ In the If the villagers of Hattersley want to travel thoy must first walk three miles to a bus route or hire a car. Anyway they are used to walking. After they reach the age of four, Hattorsley children walk three miles to school every morning and three milas back again at night. Mr. Robort Poultney, a Scot and a newcomer to Hattersiey, is now aziâ€" tating for botter conditions in the villâ€" ago. Already ho has protested to the Ministry of Health. ‘This village is still in the dark ages," he said to me. "On every side of us there is light and water in abundance. All that the council do for the rates we pay is to umpty the ashâ€"bins." Hattersley has no water, &as Or electricity. It is also without such inâ€" stitutions as school!s, | churches, . or telephones. MANCHESTER. â€" Straggling in a rural valley within ten miles of Manâ€" chester lies one of the most unsoâ€" phisticated villages in Eng!:and. It "l; called Hattersley and has population of little more than 200. Pesple of English Villege Have A‘so to Travel on Fost No ‘Phone No Sctool No Water ruction in form of aerial bombs while flying over Shanghai, rain to shock entire world. Here‘s wreckage outside Cathay Hotel. 2000 Undergo Treatment Sporting Comment By KEN EDWARDS Life is like that isn‘t it? Bill Terry â€" of the New _ York Ciants is their speedboat, "Blueâ€" bird," which he is now trying out on Lago Maggiore in the Alps to break Gar Wood‘s world record of 124.91 miles an hour. TORONTO, â€"â€" The flying boat Camâ€" bria and her crew will be guests of Toâ€" ronto for a fow more days, as parts necessary to repair the big transâ€"atâ€" lantic ship will have to be sont from England. The machine was damaged while landing off the Exhibition waterâ€" front. FOREST HILLS, L1., â€" While the gallery sat in awed silence, Miss Alice Marble, blonde queen of lawn tennis, was driven out of her own championâ€" ship in a dramatic quarterâ€"final round match by Dorothy May Bundy, herself the daughter of tennis royalty. WINDSOR, â€" Almost 20 Canadians have lost their jobs and €0 more face unemployment because a law passed by United States Congress, requiring 75 per cent of U. S. bnat crews must be American citizens, has been apâ€" plied to ferriecs plying the Detroit Riâ€" ver. With the transference of 350 young Ontar‘o men, ranging in age from 18 to 25, to training camps in Northern Ontario, the new National Youth Proâ€" gram has been inaugurated under the leadership of the Dept. of Mines and Forcsts. Ten or more boys are apâ€" pointed to each of the 31 camps where they will be taught use of the compass, timber cruising and scaling, telephone _ line construction â€" and A snarling Italian answer has come to Russia‘s formal protest, accusing Mussolini‘s submarines of waging Mediterrancan terrorism, after two Soviect ships were sunk. Reichsâ€" fuchrer Adolf Hitlee of Germany, backs Italy in the Mediterranean and Japan in the East, "in a defensive fight," so ke declared at the Nazi Party congross, "against Bolshevâ€" ism." International Incidents Ihacrease These are days that see internar tional erises procipitated hourly. In the Far East the situation is gravely Cangerous, not only in the case of the SinoJapanese conflict, but a break between Japan and Britain has been narrowly missed, following on the shooting of the British Ambassador; in the Mediterrancan, Russian and Brit‘sh ships are being menaced by the "pirate" ships of other nations. Suggested at the opening meeting of the Canadian Chamber of Com morce at Vancouver was the estabâ€" lishment of a central bureau of eduâ€" cational research for Canada. The speaer, Hon. R. C. Matthews, advoâ€" cated following the example of Australia and South Africa in setâ€" t‘ng up a Chamber of Education, whose duties would be to gather inâ€" formation about education in every province, conduct educational surâ€" veys, ho!ld ycarly conferences on genoral problems. He recommended that "cach ‘¢dividcal member of this Chamber should make it his concern, so far as his sphere of influence exâ€" tends, to study how far school and college today are giving the future citizen of Canada the e‘ementary inâ€" tollectcal and moral equipment which he must have if he is to act justly and intelligently on all the manifold issues which will be presonted for h‘s decision at the polls." Youth Training Has Eegun Central Bureau of Education Alice Markle DeSeated Flying Boat Damaged On Outstanding Events of the Week amsem apbimemeyy P44 common to the Firth of Cl;'lvo Genâ€" erally considered harmless, they are rarely known to attack humans. Basking sharks, so calle habit of lying in surface Captain Ansus B Robert, and his so lives. boat, holding her father‘s rescuers reached her an member of the party, Dor ald. KINTYRE, Argyloshire mon drowned and two pel resered this week when shark leaped from waters o Bay and upsot their small & _ Captain Brown‘s 12â€"ye; ter, Jesgig. clung to the Lean From Wator Ussets S Sallboct; Two Arc Raâ€"â€"â€" LEAMINGTON â€" "There‘s been an adcident on No. 3 highway, about three miles west of town. Two cars are badly damaged and two men are lying in a field. They look as if they‘re cither hurt or dead," a moâ€" torist reported to Provinc‘al Traffic Officer J. D. Bonnett here. Shark Drowns Three Person Al:sm Raised as Passinzg Mctorict Takes a Look at Their The scores wore 16, 75. 64. Miss Bundy rallying beautifully from a disâ€" astrous first set and from being down at match point in the second to come on, carry the fight into the champion‘s court and finally to pull the match out. Death Drivers Snore In Pezrcz2 Seawsy Ncgotisticns: Prime Ministor Mackâ€"ntie King kas announced that vales the Provâ€" inces of Ontario and Quebec give their approval. the Foderal Governâ€" ment will not go ahead with negotiaâ€" t‘ons for the construct‘on of the St. Lawrence scaway. The power de velopment scheme embraced in the waterway plan would cost Ontario more than $100,000,000. There have been no recent developments in the waterways discussion, the Prime Minâ€" ister assures. In any case, the treaty has yet to be ratified by the United States Senate which has soveral times rejected it. Sir Hubort Wilkins‘ party which set off by plane in search of the six Sovict Polar fliers have as yet found no trace of the men, missing on their flight from Moscow to Fairbanks, Alaska, Augest 13. The search over the Arct‘c ice fic‘lds wi‘l continue unâ€" til the freezeâ€"up. The rescuse party are located on Palliie Islard in the Mackenzic River Delta. American and British banks are extending credit to help finance Japar‘s undeclared war on China, even as the Americaa and British Governments are bending every efâ€" fort to halt or minim‘ze the conflict, a reliably informed source disclosed this weel:. Canada‘s Arms Contracts The Minister of Defence, Hon. Ian Mackenzie, has announced that over $9,000,000 worth of national defense contracts have been placed in Canâ€" ada, with construction now in proâ€" gress. Ninety per cent of the proâ€" gram will be taken care of inside the country. Over 100 airplanes are in cluded and four minesweepers. The militia is being reorganized and it is expected that the entire program will be completed with‘n a year. In thre ;i;lihg- district, a maximum of 50 young men will be given a technical course sufficient to qualify as assistants to mine surveyors, AS sayors, and mineralogists. The Proâ€" vinc‘al Department of Mincs expects tor have ;;osit.ions for these young men when fully trained. maintenance, activities CcOnne! the pulp and paper industry. troupe, Iknown as Capt. F. F. s‘ *"Death Fighters," were on way through to Buffalo, whoere are scheduled to stage a disâ€" roupe is week when a basking 4 from waters of Carradale activities connected with d her and the rmh party, Donald McDonâ€" ‘ir small sailboat. Brown, his brother, son, Noil, lost their so called from their 12â€"yearâ€"old daughâ€" persors were side of the body, untif waters, are t Small mered ns been rss.sUing wita the ©ut of the children for the past two : half yoars, and Dr., William Dai{ Toronto, brother of the family sician, have been alding in the 2 blaze of refontific d«ta jnto eo ever, D: in laym He will picture mon‘, The pap« and reports iculously i; tended the . world, con tion conceor Under the auspices School for Child Study will study the growt! ment of the quintuplet of their birth, May 2 closed in six highly t prepared by Dr. Allan I personal physician, an After hearing t scientists will cor hand examination They will, howover thoir distance." a 1 thoir di has roi: more . | watche« nursery from th public CALLANDER.â€"More perts in child psycholo iour from the United 8 ada will gather in Toron from now to discuss ar world‘s most famous *la mens"â€"the Dionne qui Employment increased City, Hamilton, and while in Montreal, Toro: Windsor and Winnipeg, was indicated. The situa of these centres was mo than at August 1 in any five years. 2CO Experts to Meet In Torsst> Ia Two Montis Time Baby Specialists To Study Quiats In Ontario 4,559 coâ€" had 475,754 employe than at July 1. Thore in m‘n‘ng, communic and building and hig tion. On the othor turing as a whole, trade and railway co slacker. boe, _ Saskatchewan thore wore reduction in Nova Scotia and the situation in Ont Columbia showed no from July 1. Emp! of the economic greater volume tha» date in any of the 1 Heightened activity the date under review mining, communication highway â€" construction restaurants and whole the other hand, retail construction and ma‘n railway operation, co: manufacturin« wore s The beginning of Au ly a time of increased and this year‘s advanc mately the normal on number, adjusted for f@uences, showed no « July and stood at 114 level than at any date g‘nning of 1930, Reviewing the year t notes a general employ 156 per cent from J August 1, an avorage cent in the years 1921 tween the same dates. : 1926, 1928 and 1929 was age from New Year‘s i greater than this yoa! The improvement d been widely d‘stribut graphically and indus The bureau‘s index : year 1926 at 100 rose July to 120.0 at th: August. It was thon points above the same Moderate improvement |, cmploy ment throughout Canacoa was ro corded by the Dominion Bureay of Statistics during the month of July This was a continuation of s forwgy, movement which has prova e en erally since the first of the yoy Payrolls of 10,320 repostng fip, showed 1,143,109 person ployed on August 1, against "yhs July 1. Records Revealed by Dominion Bureau of Statistics List Activity lax is admitted 1 Unpublisiâ€"ad 1 papers, prepi ports which D Laan 1 th An il » % C Gain of 156 Poer: Ii rerea mn.0 vn t In th it () ureay of \ Of July, a Torwarg iled genâ€" the year, Oz firms ©imployed >4,460 on ud ‘Onl her be» the er to 14 nt t SCARPETS REâ€"WOVI 1y % tory Aud, V ive fa $50.00 \ ©oRrl land M\ Or PRO $59.00 lis lo w fur rOJ©, and 1 sprin new $21.50 $19.59 and $89.00 gi0n whai fot, twir china cal in genuin and look finished . $47.00 / Queen Ann tengion tabl in genuine ] ished . 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