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Believed 'Caesar's
ter•.
Swies Archaeologi6ts Have
Unearthed A • Golden Bust,
Thought to be That of Em-
pero rAntonius Pius
Many • valuable arche9logigal dis-
tcoveries have been Made recently
by the, Swiss voluntary labor ser-
vice at Avencl-Yes, the Aven'ticum of
the ancient Romans, whieh lies. be-' •
'ween. Lake Morat and Payerne; in
western Switzerland. While micas- •
sting, a'Roman conduit the workers.
discovered•wa bust'- believed to be
of the Emperor Antonius Pias .4;6-
161 A.D.). —. made of pure gold.
The' bust; which. weighed almost
dour .pounds, has been added .to the .
.,'collections of the local museum.
• I1`i WESTERN SWITZER1rAM9
•Avenches was. the ancient eapl- '
eel . of. the . Helvetii, one .of' the..
(leltIe tribes which invaded' Switz -
Ii erland from the w.est,about400B.C..
They built. up .the, cite . MALI ,it in
said to .have "contained More than
• 50,000 persons •within • walls three '
and three-quarter miles 'long..,EV-
. entually, however, the Ideivetil be-
came restless and invaded Gaul.
They were ciefea:ted by Julius
Caesar and returned to their
mountain home.
OCCUPIED BY ROMANS
Asenticum' then became the seat
et Roman 'administration in, Hel-
vetia, and as a Roman city, it grew
until it, is said to hate had. 200,000
inhabitants. Fine' villas end. baths,.
' temple , a theatre and an ,amphi-
•theatre; were built.
Aventicum was destroyed. by the •
.(llemanni in 54 A.D,.and for cen
turies was virtually. forgottep. The
present town occupies only the
,crest of a, hill on which the Roman
camp stood.
"Aryan" Claim
Simply Myth
Germans Are Mixed Race
With Little' Nordic Blood
"There 'aren't .any pure types'
anywhere. The Nordic race is just
a .myth and the Aryan race which
has kept free from the ,Semitic..
touch is a •joke," Rev. Dr. Hugh'
.Black declared in an address 'at
Ottawa before •the Montreal and •
Ottawa Conference of the United
Chuheh of Canada. '
ALL . BLOODS MIXED
The virtues ' of the blood, he
said, had, been believed in fro,in
time immemeriai, ` Jew and '
tile; Greek and Barbarian, British
and others, but science , and his-
tory had backed the statement of
St. Paul that "God has made of
..one 'blood, all nations :, . ." For
the Christian 'Church for one mir-
nte to adopt thistheory of race
superiority would be denouncing
Paul and Paul's master, Christ,
he said, "There does not. exist
in 'the World any pure .race, and
the Germans' are a mixture of
races with very little Nordic in
them," he repeated. Hitler had
taken over for his own' people the
nationalism .and exclusiveness, and.
all the other things fair which he
and others had condemned the
Jew. .
Briton Scores
"Chatter -bugs"
•
Ministry of Information Asks
Public to Squelch Rumor -
Mongers '
Ii:Fold Nicholson, Parliamentary
Seciretary to the British Ministry .of
Information, is credited 'by the Lon-
don press with having coined a new
epithet — "chattel• -bag, a syno-
nym for rumormonger. In a recent
broadcast he suggested the• forma-
tion of "anti-ohatter-bug clubs,"`say. -
ing: • •
"We are now suffering from a
virulent form orthe rumor epidem-
ic. There are then who say that
Minters are as inevitable . in war
time as spots with Measlesand that
they do not really do much harm.
This Is not the view of that deng
erous man, Adolf Hitler: He well
knows that if he can sow the seed
of rumor in this country it will im- •
mediaely be propagated far and
`trade hy perfectly innocent rumor-
mongers,
umormongers, or, as I prefer to call them
''Chatter -bugs.'
COMBAT ,RUMOR. EPIDEMIC
"If yea see something suspicious
'do not rush abont chattering, but'
tell the police exactly and quietly
what you saw. You might oven start
anti -rumor clubs in your own circle.
Treat both the news and the ab-•
sense of news with sense and with ,
pluck. If- you do that you will he
helping your own countrymen; if
you fail to do that you. will be help-
ing Adolf Hitler."
Bottled Ghost
The haunted bridal chamber of r
be Dixcai't, (Honeymoon) Hotel,
Birk,' has been famous for lib
scare'I c tl. "*h en deeeidd to,
paper were peeled off, and built
in one wall was found a cupboard.
Insishs Wells AS laskina e{ aid next -
L.ltghtning Bolts
Debunk : Adage
Struck Twice In Sams Place
Near Campbellford, Ont., All
Within Five Minutes
Michael Moran is not so ' suis
now about that adage which says
that lightning never strikes twice
in the same plaice;
During •a violent electrical storm
in June, 'Illotanelt. home on the
Brighton „road, near Campbell'ford,
Ontario, was struck twice
within, five minutes. One bolt fol-
lowed anaerial .wire ' and ruined a
radio set and the other took the
Hydro wires and blew a fuse in the
house. lyofire resulted however,'
The: storm wae,so severe that 12
telephone poles . were blown down
In the district; disrupting service in
general.
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.Shell.
MINE INH.ERiTANCE
-By Frederick Niven
"Frederick Niven,. In ,.the front
rank of contemporary. writers, tells
'in his new novel,, "Mine Inhere
tance", the 'story • of the first' Im•
-
portant British settlement . in the
Canadian West _ an . epic .in the
history•of Canada. .•
Froin the -first days of this ven-•: .
ture; when the settlers put Out from
Scotland' under the leadership of
their governor, Miles 'Macdonell; to j
the -final achievement, ., after un -
Speakable hardship, of their great,
ambition' — "to . establish them-
^selves in a .part of the world where
they could' own • their ,land, from
which they could never be evicted,
that would be •an inheritance 'for
their children" the story is told
of David, Baxter, ;a, young clerk in ;
the service of '• Miles - Nfacdoneil.
Through his eyes we •see the 'ter-
''rible struggle for' existence that
confronted the Settlers: •
"Mine Inheritance" ... by Fred
erick Niven . Toronto: .Collins
Publishers, 70' Bond St., , . $2.75.
Character First,
Then Education
Windsor Magistrate Says Ad-
vantages of University Edu-
cation Are Secondary Re
quirement in young Citizens`
Character comes `first, eda-
caticn' second, Magistrate David
M. , Bro,lie, of Windsor, told
members of the .graduating class
'of the extension department of
the . Univetsity , of Western On-
tario of Windsor.
"The young man or ,woman
who would fill a leading place
in, life needs• more than the ad-
vantages of a university .edu-
cetion,"• declared the Windsor
Magistrate: "I :suggest to you
that character is the foundation
of any career you may choose
to follow if.you would be sues
cessful." • '
Guest speaker at the banquet
Which was attended , by nearly
200• including many alumni' of
the extension department, Mag-
:strate Brodie declared 'his , ex-
perience on the bench has taught
.him. that the young . person ' who
can. take • the -'hard knocks and
not succumb. "to the blandish'-
ments of those who point the
easy way" is most likely to'make
a 'success of life.. •
"I have Yearned that the
things "'which. come. ,: easy to
young people' are 'not always
good for them," he warned; re-
calling that many of those horn,
to good fortune and ready fac-
ilities for a high education
often fail.
A: weak character„ he said,' is,
a, greater handicap than a lack .
of education..
Vancouver Air
Traffic Grows
Airport, There Has Become
One of the Business Com-
mercial Terminals in Canada
As western anchor lit Trans -Can -
adz; Airlines, the Vancouver airport
experienced a rapid rise from an
out-of-the-way landing field to one'
of the busiest commercial tertnin
ala in the Dominion. •In the first •
three months of this year, airplanes
carried 69,00$ pounds of mail, 14,-
227. pounds of freight, and 4,607.
passengers into the airport, . a cote -
blued land and water base net far
from the City's center. This was an
increase, of 54 ,per cent. in mail,
179 per cent in freight, end 1411 per
cent. in passengers; •
Inauguration last y eer':of 'Trans-
Caeada Airlines national service
bad much to do with the growth.
'Only a few barnstorming pilots
were the customers when the City
went in for airport developmenta/
few years ago. United Airlines pet'
it on the niap'by Makin$ a tide trip
front its transerntlnent 01 terminal •
at Seattle.: :_Nowadays, an ,airliner
-+to gfef peon ipat*sa e r reit , -,:
the continent, or lands from one,
every 81 minutes between early
dawn and r-eal Into the night.
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V ,cation Delights In the Canadian 'Rockies
•
,Mr. and Mrs. Robert, L. .Stanfield, •of. Truro, N '5:, 'sac tioriin. in
'the Canadian Rockies, "are" 'seen • in the.corral at Banff ,S pp rein
• „SpringsHotel
just after their return ' on horse -back froth a visit to Sunshine • Ledge.
Guide who accompanied them is on the left of 'picture. •
--Canadian Pacific photo.•
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T H R WAR -WEE K --Commentary on Current Events
Latest Soviet :Move Blocks
Hitler's • Pathway: To East
The centre of crisis in Europe
last week shiftedovernight from
west to east. The imminent invas-
ion'of Britain, by Hitler's hordes
was' p�elegated to the background of
the world's attention by ,the swift -
moving events in the Balkans that
changed the.shape of the .conflict
between Britain an.d.Germhny, en
dowing it withan entirei'y new set
of possibilities. 'To many; the Sov-
ietstiecess in Rumania ,meant that
It would' lee in 'the east. that 'Hitler
might:. meet his final•defeet..
THE. .VITAL STRAIT'S
• The 'sni.all` agricultural province
of. Bessarabia was seenas of. Iittle
importance to the iinrense Soviet.
Union.' Rather.. the significance of
••its *seizure lay in, the'strategic ne'w.
position.Russia was enabled to ac-
quire thereby -'the. Reds were pow
encamped along the vital Danube,
right in line far cutting .off Ger-
inany's Rumanian oil supply; they.
had stolen amarch`on Hitler in the
direction' Or the Dardanelles, and
could easily , gain•' control of those
straits which are, the' key to the
east. • ,
MIGHT' BEAT HITLER TO IT'
From a certain. well-informed ,
quarter,. in '.Washington' cane the
prediction that the war would'shift,•
eastward in Sdptember with a heat -
en clash 'between Germany and •
Russia, Wou4d Britain . first . be
blftzkrieged$ Or would Hitler spare
the' Brinell Isles: -In view of the
new threat in the east? Did Stalin...
expect to be the`next Axis victim!?
If so, might he not be getting ready
now 'to atta k first, catching Ger
many at a' unprepared moment,
exhausted from battle in. the west?
Fear of the conflict spreading All
throughout the -entire, Balkan area'
was largely .discounted last week. •
Russia had Bulgariaeand i ugoslav-
Ia pretty well in hand. Greece was
frightened. Hungary was being held '
back '•by German desire to keep .
that country at peace and in a pos-
ition to supply ail the agricultural
products likely to• be 'needed • thia.
fall and winter fn the Reich. •
, GIBRALTAR MENACED
' On the other hand, an Axis•push
in the Spanish peninsula was'.not
altogether nnlooked-fpr.. . London
diplomatic'commeptators suggested
that Hitler might send troops' 'to
Spain to attack Gibraltar, in an at-
tempt to cut British communica-
tione into the Mediterranean. They
expressed the belief that ,the fall
of France and the German' occupa-
tion of the French side of the Span -
fah frontier had completely swung
General. Franco over to the side of
Germany and .Italy. The (Madrid
newspaper .Alcazer hinted at a pos-
sible Spanish attempt to"seize Gib-
raltar.' "The rock has lost almost
all its strategic value," the paper
contended. "From the Moroccan
coast or from the nearby mount-
ains, Gibraltar could be, shelled
mercilessly and effectively."
OUST "MUNICH MEN"! . .
During the week wild rumors
win the.0
t rounds of peace negotia-
tions. between Britain and Ger
many. These were all categorically
denied, former' Prime Minister
Chamberlain even going to the
trouble; of making a radio speech
to refute them. Nevertheless there'
were powerful forces at.work in Bile.
fain .anxious to remove all the "men
of Munich"•from. public: fife,' at' any'
'rate from the Government: A move, '
was under way to make sure that
there. are no "appeasers" -in the
Cabinet `waitin to 'seize power, .as
Petain did ince. and conclude
an ignominious, peace With: the
enemy, • Peter Lyne, Christian Sci-
ence'Monitor correspondent in Lon-
• don, , quoted' Lord •Strabolgi, prom-'
anent debater• in the House of
Loi•ds: :"Unfortunately the past of •
these two. statesmen (Chamberlain
and Halifax) 4s so, identified •with
the appeasement policy, •that, so
long asthey are in ,the Inner War .
Cabinet, the. German propagand-
' ists will • find .credeece for thein'•
• fairytales about Britain suing for
an armfstice," •
Alternating with talk • of peace
with Britain, came Nazi press re-
, ports' thatthe'tefee age nst • Eng
land ' was :almost ready. - "The joint
forces of • Germany.. and Italy are
.unitine, for the . final -..attacks," ' de-
clared -the' Boersen Zeitung.. "The '
Atlantic coast from 'Brittany • to,
Norway is being organized into an
aggressive front against England.,
Every category of arms is• ready.
The Reich's military resources are
being' reinforced daily and, army,
navy and air force are being con-
centrated to an extent never before;'
witnessed."
R.A.F. TAKES INITIATIVE
Britain seized the initiative dur-
ing the week with sea and air raids
on German, continental coastal bas-
es, and German-occupied industrial
areas in France, Belgium and Hol-
land. Information leaking•. out of e
Germany . indicated the R.A,F • at-
tacks were taking their toll of, in-'
. dustriai production, with many fat-
tories.being forced -to abandon the
night shifts. At the same time,
'German planes flew daily over the,
' British dales.•dropping a deadly
lead ot bombs.:
Watch Ireland. warned the Lan.;
don News -Chronicle. This widely -
read Liberal 'paper demanded . that
the Governorent forestall possible
• German plans for invasion of tree '
'land (hence Striking. at • Britain
through the back door) by petty*
ink "sufficient". forces in i\ orthern
Ireland. ,
Great Britain was worried about
the Far Eastern situation, as the
.Japanese Iand blockade tightened
'around Hong Kong. The Japanese
Army Was reported Moving troops,
down from the Yangtze area, with
100,000 already billeted 'on' Hainan
Island. Tlte"1!rench rndo•Chinese de -
tense, 50,000 Mostly native troops
almost entirely unsupported by air-
planee, would. • probably not last
long against the Japs without help
frdm British Singapore. ,
WHITE 'MAN ON SPOT
'io Japanese, militarists, occu-
pation ot French Indo-China wag a
•
REG!LAR FELIX'
R$—SeIf�I9re�erv>ticrn ,
YOUrt PRESCRIPTION WILLL, EtE.
READY IN A FEW Mi{VUl'Es
`!"Ake ST EASfl ti
e. delightful prospect. xt weuld shor-
ten both the ]ting„ faces of discour-
aged civilians at home 'and the
' China campaign • by. *cutting
Chiang -Kai -reek's .chief supply
•lines. If and when the United States
fleet were shifted from the Pacific
to the Atlantic, Japan could begin
her long -planned campaign,to drive
the white man from all Asia."
("Time", July 1st..•'
INDIA: Mohandas K. Gandhi eon;
erged from silence last week with
au 'appeal to ail Britons . to cease
hostilities with Germany,- urging.
that they • settle their differences
with" "non-violent ,methods," ' The
leader of the millions of India urg-
ed Britain not to enter "undigaitied
competition with the• Nazis in des-
•tructive :power." Gandhi said he
was placing his services at the com-
mand of His Majesty's Government
to "advance the -object", of •hi's etp-
peal.' The -day previous, Gandhi's
Leftist, rival,'Subhas'Chandra •Boge;•
had; been arrested ,, under, Defence '
of India . Regulations. • •
M
JEALOUSY?`4'
ITALY: a
Y.. rebel
L'
Rodc�'lfo Graz -
chief .of s bill., of'. the Henan'
army,- took -command last week of
all Italian ' forces in. Libya, which:.
fortis y had been- ,commanded by'
the late. Italo Balbo. Balite three
days 'prevlously had met his death
le an air •crash under peeuliar'cite.
cumstanees, The , British Foreign
Office news department suggested •
that Balbo wasdeliberately killed:1
-.because he clashed with. Mussolini.,
personally, as welt as over the die,•
tator's. policy of tying to Germany.
Might not. Graziani also have been
jealous of Balbo? • .
• teS._ PLACES NEW EMBARGO
UNITED STATES: Two very Im-
portant moves were made: by Frees- •
• dent Roosevelt last week. •Firat'he
invoked the power to seite foreign-
• owned shipping, Second, (serious
for' pritain), he: placed a virtual ,
-em'bargo on the • sale to, •foreign
countries of any'.munitions,' mater-
ials or machinery needed in the •
U. IS. national ,defense program.
• Fear of a"Nazi revolution in Mei-
leo immediately following "thin.
week's election. continued to 'per-
rade the 'IL S. Fear of German ec=
onomic domination ,of South Amer-
' ica through ,barter',Prom•pted the
' loan of $20,000,0Q0 to Argentina for.
purchases to be made.' in the United
States. •
. In the field of domestic ;politics, •
the nomination of Wendell L. Will-
kie • as Republican Presidential can-
didate overshadowed alVelse; con-.'
firination of the . appointment of
Henry Stimson,' Republican, to
the viler 'past' of U. S. 'War ,Secre-
tary, took place with. little or no
fuss,
CANADA:, Succeed„tng boats dur-
ing the week- landed' very differ-,
ent' cargoes, an our shores. The
'first Nazt war prisoners arrived in
Canada for .internment here; "sal-
ky, swaggering louts" 1. Frau
Dollfass and• her two' children de-
barked.from•the next ship amid a
crowd ofwealthy refugees from •the•
United Kingdom i . Two • people
the boats did not bring were
the 'Princesses Elizabeth and Mar..
garet Rose "who' wf1I share the fate .
of other British' children remain-
ing at home . - the full Influx of
evacuee children from the United '
leingdomwas reported 'delayed sev-
eral weeks due toa mixup in, red
tape .... which gave Canadian
homes and foster -parents' longer to-
pre-pare
toprepare for the jreception' of new
members into the family ... ,
The We(tern wheat problem mov-
ed into the limelight again as thea,
prairie farmers began .to wonder
what Would become of .the good
crops they expect this year. Elena
tors were still full of fast year's
wheat , and nowhere ,to dispose
of • it, unless we, should, suddenly
find ourseivea trading again with
Hitler;. who. needs The grain badly
In Ontario a serious 'shortage,.
of farm labor was beginning to be
felt, since so many ,forme; "hired
men" had joined the army ...
The Federal, Cabinet changes'
forecast for the 'week did not mat-
erialize, although a Wartime Indus.
tries Control Board was establish-
ed; with sweeping powers to mobil-
ize the industries of this country
for war purposes - •.. announce
ment was made that Britain would
build ,3'5 . plants' herd, at a cost of
$50,000,000, to turn out explosives,
guns, shells and small arm's ani-.•
inanition -- total output to reach
a quarter of a billion dollars an-
nually Conservative M. P.'s ,and
C.C.F. leaders in the House assail
ed Henry Ford for refusing to man
ufaeture plane motors for Britain(
during the week a new trade
reaty was signed with Paraguay; a
"it DOES taste good iia pipe!"
HANDY SEAI..TIGHT POUCH 13¢
W1:6. "LC K -TOP" TIN u 60¢
also packed in Pocket Tins.
GROWN IN SUNNY, SOUTHERN ONTARIO
step which was taken. in view of the.
increased trade opportunities to the
south .of us since the otubreak ;of,
war in Europe....
F9 tragic event , of the week' •was
the ,sinking of, the Canadian des-
troyer Fraser .,xtllowi'ng a 'collision
off -the west 'coast of France; forty'.
five Were dead or Missing, 115' res,
cued
. remi t c�bF
Mitchell F. Hep-
burn, in Perg Ali
in bad shape, rested' in; Battle-
C,reek 'Saaitarinte across the 'bor-
der.- ,
*Word from Ottawa• came that de-
tails of a flew *fled, press service`
for radio stations in Canada were
being 'worked out,- the :sye:tem to be
on, a co-operative .basis- with the'
CI3C. and the .recognised news ag.
'elides" working together: For the
preeent, the .existing news ser*!'
vices are permitted to carry. on
their broadcasts as in' the past,' but -
.the "day .'sponsored •newscasts ;14 .
almost°otver.
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290 "peed and en- •
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no .longer can there be any
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Firestone dealer put Firestone
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now. Specify . Firestone when
buying your new car.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
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By :Fred Neher
"1 know, his sort—always drops in et meal time!!"
YOUNG; I►tAN1 PL 4L' 8a
PATIENT,/ DON'T :PLAY WITH
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