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ANCEL SEED POBR SALf vertising L i ntey Pous & ¢ t NRer snn x PA Y vix 1% PHEO D OC. $ Biéw l8 POR s qq 'n.”s YERy MIN DoYou Feel The new oxygen device is A small face mask which covers the nose but leaves the mouth free. Oxygen is breathed through the is forced into a rubber buib below the mask. A fullâ€"course chicken dinner gerved nearly four miles in the mir, was eaten by the fliersâ€"still wearing their oxygen masksâ€"with almost as much comfort as though they were in their own homes. The Northwest Airlimes transâ€" port, carrying one woman and five Mayo Clinic doctors among its passengers, landed at Boston Airâ€" port last week. It had completed In four hours and 50 minutes an 1,100â€"mile nonâ€"stop flight from Minneapolis at altitudes ranging from 15,500 to 23,000 feet. The twinâ€"motored craft‘s average speed was 250 miles an hour. A flying laboratory with eleven auman guinea pigs aboard descendâ€" »d from the substratosphere last week to report complete success In a test of newly developed oxyâ€" ten equipment for airline passengâ€" arg. Enjoy Banquet In Stratosphere Fay Johnson said women with triangleâ€"shaped nails can‘t keep secrets; men with long slender nails are gifted in artistic lines but "they just don‘t bring home the bacon." Dou‘t expect a man with long, slim fingernails to be a "good proâ€" vider". Don‘t marry a fingernailâ€"chewer. The fingernailâ€"chewer, declared Clea Warr, is "high strung, neryâ€" ous and irritable and generally speaking it‘s easier to zet along with a buzz saw." salt Lake City manicurists came forth this week with the results of their study of the fingernailâ€"chewâ€" ing male and concluded that marâ€" rliage with himâ€"well, jast wasn‘t worth the risk. The study. as published in a Sait Lake City newspayer, concluded: Manicurists Contend They Are Ne:vous and Irritable Dou‘t trust a woman with rlangleâ€"shaped fingernail. Warn Against Submit to Tests Aboard A Flying Laboratoryâ€"Oxygen beige intertwined, it is topped b{ a brlluantly*)lumaflod bird in elecâ€" tric blue. Worn with the new short brushedâ€"up bob, the tiny hat is a forecast of the season‘s millinery trend. Miss Claire is renewing her screen career in "I Take This Woâ€" man‘", coâ€"starring Hody Lamarr and Spencer ina Claige‘s choice of a hat to ; worn with a tailored suit is a handâ€" woven turban of triâ€"colored velvet and crepe. Of twoâ€"toned blue with Professor Hibbert said that the production of synthetic fibres had jumped from 26,000,000 pounds in 1913 to 1,100,000,000 pounds in 1938, so that more than a million tons of wood was used for raw maâ€" terial. Canada was fortunate in having suitable timber resources for conversion into sulphite pulp ‘o be shipped to yarn manufacturâ€" ers all over the world, and progress was being made to make the proâ€" ‘!uction more efficient. try should take, Professor il:-l-!lb- bert, of McGill University, declared last week. Tho fact that fifty per cent, of the wood that is used for the proâ€" duction of sulphite pulp goes to waste indicates the direction which research work in the textile indusâ€" Fifty Per Cent is Said to go to Waste Is Cited Waste â€" Textile Research Urged to Offset This Loss HANDâ€"WOVEN Nailâ€"Chewers Howe‘er unhappy I may be There is some beauty left to me: A bird‘s wild song, the smell of rain, And then my neart leaps up again. From wooded hills 1 hear the call To quiet streams or waterfall. Through winding paths they beckâ€" on me And so much beauty do I see That 1 forget unhappy things, And heart and feet alike have wings. â€"Jessie Martin Graham, in the Christian Century. We‘ll talk about the now Budget next week. An important amendment to Onâ€" tario‘s Mining Act provides for anâ€" nual medical inspections to be givâ€" en to miners engaged in dust occuâ€" pations . . . . it also hits at highâ€" grading (bootâ€"legging of gold). Which way the wind blows: pubâ€" lic reaction to the suggested raisâ€" ing of the tax on gasoline is uniâ€" versally unfavorable, rural disâ€" tricts being particularly opposed ... . individual farmers could not expect to gain to the same extent as urban residents through a sharâ€" ing of the increase with municipalâ€" ities. The Liquor Control Board of Onâ€" tario paid over to the province at the end of March $10,500,000 on acâ€" count of profits and permits . . . . total legal sales in Ontario of beer, wine and spirits soared to $51,â€" 005,688 during the year ending Mar. 31, an increase of 10.6% over the previous year . ... the ten and oneâ€"half million dollars is being used to help balance Ontario‘s budâ€" get. . . . . Time to catch people is beâ€" fore they go insane . .. . Negativeâ€" ly, build more hospitals; positively, sterilize the unfit and make it posâ€" sible for people to live wellâ€"roundâ€" ed out. saner lives. Hospitalization of mentally ill persons, the Premier claims, is one of the greatest problems in Onâ€" tario at the present time . . . . only one out of five persons comâ€" mitted to an institution has a chance to recover, he says . . . . After Ontario‘s three new hospitals are completed, we find, they will serve to relieve only the pressure existing in the other institutions, as the average increase in resident "‘mental" patients in Ontario every year is 500 . . . . insane asylum population increased in the provâ€" ince 16.2 per cent. between 1932 and 1936. or 4 per cent. per year . . . . until now there are over 15,â€" 000 in mental institutions . . . . building more hospitals for the mentally ill is like locking the staâ€" ble door after the horse is gone of "a fishing expendition" out of each inquest, designed to injure the good name of deceased perâ€" sons . . . . the Attorneyâ€"General would reduce the number of apâ€" parently needless inquests, declarâ€" ing that the average inquest costs about $60, and that an autopsy adds $15 to $20 to the costs . . . . Mr. Croll of Windsor on the other hand considers inquests "a safety valve", helping to ally the fears of familâ€" ies of deceased people. ® Criticism of the Bill by the Opâ€" position centred around the making Speaking of deaths and burials and such, brings us to a serious piece of legislation just introducâ€" ed, a Bil in amend the Coroner‘s Act which would give the Attorâ€" neyâ€"General power to order an inâ€" quest in cases where a body has been removed from Ontario . . . % This provision is to be retroactive, with the result that Mr. Conant would have power to order an inâ€" quest in the sensational Sidiey will ingsulting words were f the floor of the Hous Speaker had all but to heads of the two party gether to restore order What started these graveâ€"digging operations was a speech by the Liberal Member for Cochrane North, J. A. Habel (Frenchâ€"speakâ€" ing), who rose to the defence of his own people and accused cerâ€" tain "gang" members of trying to promote disunity in this country « + . . In the melee which ensued, insulting words were flung across the floor of the House, and the Drew during the most heated inâ€" terchange of the session hk * something about Colonel Drew‘s having referred to (so they said) the Frenchâ€"Canadians as "a defeatâ€" ed race", The Ontario Legislature was a haunted House last week when the ghosts of that East Hastings byâ€" election (December, 1936) walked again . . . . things thought long deâ€" cently dead were aired by Premier Hepburn and Opposition Leader m._ s P 1 all but to knock the two party leaders toâ€" While the use of full throttle would not have given him 40 per cent. more speedâ€"speed does not increase in direct ratio to the amount of power usedâ€"his pace for the entire distance indicated a probably top for the ship in exâ€" Kelsey‘s actual flying time for the 2454 miles from Southern Caliâ€" fornia to New York was just a shade more than seven hours. At Wright Field, the United States Army‘s test laboratory for new types of warplanes, officers said that Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, the pilot who crashed on February 11 in a new twinâ€"motor pursuit plant after a nearâ€"record transconâ€" tinental flight, had "cruised" at 60 per cent. of power on his jaunt. Speed of 500 miles an hour in the air, it developed this week. appar ently will be achieved soon, $2.50. Planes To Fly At 500 M.P.H. But we‘re not telling you if the murder came off. . . . "Danger Signal" . ... by Phyllis Bottome . . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 215 Victoria Street â€" It‘s a fascinating story of tanâ€" gled human emotionsâ€"a drama in which life and love and death are all mixed up. The author (who wrote "Private Worlds", "Mortal Storm") does a smooth job of un ravelling. The death of Archer clarifies it all for the distraught heroine. "DANGER SIGNAL® By Phyllis Bottome How to prevent a murder . . . . which she feels sure is bound to happen . . . . is the problem conâ€" fronting Dr. Silla, Czech psycholoâ€" gist. When the redâ€"haired girl raises her eyes, and lowers them again, sbhamefacedly, Dr. Silla knows she will have to act fast. . S. Army Officials Forese: Early Achievement Folâ€" lowing Tests Ereci in his sclowly moving automobile this radiophoto shows Adolf Hitler making his triumphant entry into conquered Bruenn, formerly Brno, capital of the "protectorate" of Moravia. "Enthusiastic‘ inhabitants jJam a Swastikaâ€"decorated balcon to snap into the Nazi salute as the Fuehrer passes on his way to tf‘;o city hall from the railroad station. The second armored division of the German army which had preceded him into Germany‘s new domain was reviewed by Hitler here,. P b# 40â€" 0â€"0â€"4â€"9â€"0â€"4â€"40â€"9â€"0â€"02â€"0â€"0â€"00â€"0â€"0â€"0 BOOK sHELF By ELIZABETH EEOY WONDERLAND OF O2Z T he Leaving his dog locked in the car one day last Wweek, Bob Keith, of Disney, Okla., went about his business. The dog brushed against the emergency brake and released it; the car coasted down an inâ€" cline, finally smashing into a store. Customers broke down the store door in their rush for freeâ€" domâ€"and the dog bit the workâ€" man who released him. Conservative _ Leader _ Manion drew the Government‘s attention to the question when he reported Ontario farmers finding it imposâ€" sible to sell their wheat through usual channels ~because 600,000 bushels of "subsidized American wheat" had been brought into Onâ€" tario for use by certain Ontario flour mills. "I may admit, however, that the situation is giving some concern to the Government, but at the moâ€" ment 1 can only say that it is re ceiving consideration," the Minisâ€" ter said. There was no doubt some wheat was coming in from the United States and being milled in Onâ€" tario, and possibly some was being exported, he said, These importaâ€" tions were coming in under the law as it stands at present. Trade Minister Euler told the House of Coramons at Ottawa last week that the Gosernment was givâ€" ing consideration to the situation created by the inflow of American wheat into Eastern Canada,. disâ€" placing Ontarioâ€"grown wheat. Ctiawa Giving Consideration to Matter; Makes it Hard for Farmers of This Province Engines almost twice as powerâ€" ful, which would provide a treâ€" mendous increase in speed, are now under test. U.S. Wheat Being Milled In Ontario The lowâ€"wing, allâ€"metal experiâ€" mental Lockheed was fitted with 1,000 horsepower engines. At cruisâ€" ing power they delivered an aver age of some 350 miles an hour. cess of 450 miles an hour, enginâ€" eers said. Dog Days set up complete. Fears are felt for the safety of Gordon Skilling, Torontoâ€"born raâ€" dio commentator for the Czech government in Prague. Mr. Skilâ€" ling presented the case for the Czech government over the air during the Munich crisis and has not been heard from since Hitler‘s forces moved into Prague. Anxâ€" iety has also been expressed for the safety of his wife. One flaw in a dembcrâ€"a;-y is that right after a governiment is electâ€" FLAW IN DEMOCRACY A speaker on traflic safety urgâ€" es motorists to pledge themselves not to exceed 50 miles per hour. It is good advice. A mile in 72 seconds, even under perfect conâ€" ditions, ought to be fast enough for anybody using the public roads.â€"â€"Ottawa Journai. PLENTY FAST ENOUGH it would be pretty ha;dviév;fi;_l;b any interest in one of those sea monsters.â€"Hamilton Spectator. TRY BATHING BEAUTIES What with the reputation our politicians are gett_ingrthese days The 17â€"yearâ€"old Middlesex farâ€" mer who was the leading winner at the Middlesex Seed Fair is a pretty good answer to those who deplore the decadence of Canadiâ€" an youth.â€"London Free Press. ONE FOR CANADIAN YOUTH THE MAP OF EUROPE Publishing an upâ€"toâ€"date atlas is as tricky as getting out a Holâ€" lywood fan magazine with all the stars married to the right people. â€"â€"Winnipeg Tribune. oronto Boy Missing From Prague Prof. Tukey told of the progress in fruit growing in his state where he said two Canadian originations, the Mcintosh Red and the Mcâ€" Cowen, the latter coming from the Ottawa experimental station, were the most favored varieties. * Prof. Tukey was the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the H. C. Downham Nurseries of Strathroy attended by 100 firm representatives and agricultural authorities of the district. For Closer Planting The New York expert told that because of the closer planting in small orchards the dwarf varieties were now favored by the smaller grower. They are no longer a novâ€" elty but must be considered an adâ€" vance in fruit growing. ; VOICE OF i THE PRESS Dwarf varieties of fruit trees are claiming an important place in the smaller orchards of New York state, Prof. H. B. Tukey, Ph.D., head of the Geneva, N.Y., experiâ€" mental station, told a gathering of fruit men in the armories, Strathâ€" roy, Ont., last week. Claiming Important Places In Smaller Orchards of Dwarf Fruit Trees Growing In Favor breeches. As he is the chief persc in this town of Fuddlecumjig, he w able to assist you with the othere." in a blue coat, a pink vest and brown breeches. As he is the chief personaze (r d Gu@â€"@â€"m o9 LIFE‘S LIKE THAT The purchase and possecsion of motor cars is an important indicaâ€" Next to Ontario‘s 45,575 new car purchases came Quebec‘s 18,â€" 156. Next to Ontario‘s registraâ€" tion of 582,212 came Quebec‘s 169,808. Just over half the entire pasâ€" senger car registration in Canada was in Ontario: 582,212 out of 1,â€" 160,978, or 50.1 per cent. ber of passenger automobiles sold to customers in Canada in 1938 were sold in Ontario: 47,575 out of the dominion total of 95,972, or 49.6 per cent. OUR PURCHASING POWER Practically half the total numâ€" ber of passenger anutommbilas eald in mt s ie seR then shortly before it is time to go to the country the government is afraid to introduce progressive legislation for fear of offending some voters.â€"Kitchener Record. THE English sparrow is tne only true sparrow in this country, all others being finches. Some of the more common of the great list of names among our soâ€"called sparrows include the vesper, song, chipping, tree, field, fox, whiteâ€"throated, lark, savannah, swamp and white crowned. Lâ€"P? IMTATION ; AMBEBE® Can BE maADE Fg*w CELLULOID AND CANADIAN BALSAn., BguUT NEITHEr f oF THESE s SsuUBSsTaNces wl QBE\?DME ELECTRIF/IED FRRIETHON AS WiLL AMBER i ;\ | a %”3â€"‘:‘_’ ":,’â€"éi{;f:‘ég‘&? 1Ԥ }‘tt’f;:;\v " \ e zs o en o oatnm,,~â€" 4 â€"A} | X\Ne e e o stiacan & _ ie _ *\ e :n in Lo4. e '\i_ se e ie n e m ts erniia i onrees Necantone in ze on 4 NEXT: What animal h2z the most valuable fur? ONTARIO V,_ vari AMA AMND MOUNT RAIMER zm EXCHANGED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICES OF yAPAN AND THE LNiITECO STATES, AS A GOOD WiLL CEStupEe BETWEEN THE Two CounTREe By . Frank Baum COPR. 1937 By NCA SERVICE, inc. \bLW/SP tion of the purchasing power Ontario‘s people.â€"Toronto Star Weekly. These early harbingers of Spring‘s Snug by the biating l:::tlh,ll plan ug A flowerâ€"bed woven of a dream Of larkspur and valerian And lilies bending by a stream. Though these frail seedlings may I IwkI:t"t f: what 1 n profusion, what | see Prefigured in this lampâ€"lit room Is none the less realitg. Nor frost nor winter storms shall pale This pledge of April‘s counterpart, Nor all the winds of heaven assail A garden planted in the heart‘ OF ALL THE Bierps OF NORTH AMERICA By Fred Neher //