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CANADA
• Walnuts From Meach Lake
Interesting news to this district and
to all of the Canadian West is the in-
formation that the Provincial Gov-
ernment's horticultural experiment
farm at Brooks has received Some
small black walnut trees from the
plantation of H. H. Blanchet at IVIeach
Lake, Quebec.
The Brooks experimental farm,
which has played such an important
role in the development of fruits on
the prairies, will carry forward ea
forts to cultivate that type of walnut
in Alberta, The efforts will be watch-
ed with interest, for their success
would provide western farmers with
a useful and decorative teen. And it
would provide a welcome addition to
.Alberta's products,
Similar efforts, with young trees
from the same Quebec plantation, are
being made at the same time in Eng-
land, Germany, Italy and Syria.—Cal-
gary Albertan.
Unpardonable Sin
A New York Times dispatch, tell-
ing of the arrival in England of some
3,800 children from war -wracked Bil-
bao, contains some fearfully tragic
paragraphs. As, for instance, this one:
"It was not the children's physical
condition, however, that caused most
concern. . . The saddest by-product
of the Spanish civil war is their over-
wrought mental condition, brought
about by the terror of the air raids,
The war has left many of them ab-
normally nervous, perhaps for the rest
of their live. They have spent hour
after hour huddled in "refugios" with
their frightened mothers, while rebel
airplanes droned overhead, dropping
bombs.... Scores have seen brothers,
sisters or little friends killed or
maimed near their homes."
Can any sensitive person read that
without feeling that the bombing of
an inhabited town—by anyone, in any
land—is one of the most shocking
crimes of all the ages? ---Guelph Mer-
cury.
Flood Damage
Every drop of Thames Water was
carrying some mud with it. Where
did it come from. The answer is ob-
vious. It came from some farmer's
field. It was the soil he needed this
year and for generations to come, to
grow his crops. He hasn't a very large
supply of it—a few inches at most
—and it takes years to add an inch
on impoverished grounds. That is the.
loss that hasn't been counted in the
newspapers, but it is the worst loss
of all.—Fergus News -Record.
The Live 'd the }tea
Spring is here and summer is , ap-
proaching. The man of the house is
lboking over the old car and figuring
Whether it will do for another year.
Some of them will keep on figuring
so long that the season may be over
before any decision is reached, then
the car will again be housed for the
winter and Its owner will conclude
that he has saved a lot of money just
because he has not taken into con-
gideration the cost of upkeep on the
old family automobile.
But what we want to say is that the
lure of the road is urging the long
-drive for the week end and the even-
ings. It's a good idea to give a little
thought to the new conditions this
year. To apply a little time and
thought to the safeguarding ot the
car and those it cortains. To make
it a year free from acciaene—Peter-
bore Examiner,
There Are Teo Many Guns
Our experience is that it is useless
to protest about the number of re-
volvers in this province. Nothing has
been done to decrease the number
end we seem -quite content that noth-
ing sball bo done.
It is difficult to recall where a
householder has been ^ailed upon to
seize a weapon and fight it out with
ea invader. Truth is, he would be
poorly advir.ed were he to try to -do
so because the invader would prob-
OAF be a much better shot than the
householder.
There are teeth in the law now re-
garding PoeSessiOn Of we0po1k but
the trouble is the teeth do not seem
to crime together and bite.—Peterboro
Examiner.
It Came Tine
For several weeks the King of Den -
Mark had been trying to find a Silyer.
march. One day the king Was
riding in Copenhagen. His bliise, up-
set by the traffict:threw iim, Chris-
tian Thomsen, a poor composer, Was
among those who ruShed to help Win.
Although in pain, the king mounted
his horse again and rode of, That in-
spired Christian Thomsen. He cern-
posed a march, submitted it. As soon
as King Christian heard it played he
exclaimed: "That is the very thing!"
He sent for Thomsen and decorated
him, And a poor composer has be-
come famous. A true "fairy tele"
from the Hans AnderSini country at
last.—Halifax Herald.
Rivers Under the Earth
A cottager near Goderich, on Lake
Huron, received word the other day
that a well -driller had got water on
his property.
"How do you know that tb.e water
you found isn't lake water that has
seeped througk the soil?" inquired
tho skeptical owner.
"Well, to begin with," explained the
driller, "the land here is about eighty
feet above the level of the lake water,
and I had to drill down nearly twice
that distance before I got water. But
if that doesn't satisfy you, consider
that the water in the well has risen
to within sixty feet of the surface,
although, as I have said, the lake level
is eighty feet below us, In other
words, the level of the water in the
well is about twenty feet above the
level of the lake. So I must have
struck a different source, a subter-
ranean river under pressure sufficient
to push the ,water high up in your
well."
Convinced, the cottager listened to
the driller's claim that he could drill
a well in the lake and get a column
of well water whose level would be
higher than that of the lake itself.
All of which is easy to understand, if
you can understand it.—Stratford
Beacon -Herald.
THE EMPIRE
Queen Mary's Laugh
'Though no Royal lady ever bore
herself with greater dignity when oc-
casion requires, Queen Mary, to whom
the Empire's affectionate greetings
have gone on her 70th anniversary,
has no liking for rigid etiquette
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"VVell,
tr*Iiiin' Of It?"
..i(won!sovidtV '
Miss Beverly Wheatly and 13.
by the University of Miami
scowl their congratulations at"
1
both of whom were selected
tbe "most pugnacious freshmen,"
other.
Tariff Cut for Brazil
OTTAWA,. 'ae _Brazil' .has .,been ac -
Summary
of the News,', , , „0 m
1:ded ost'la\-'0•Yed-. nation tariff
, .,.aea merit by Canada •undes, an Order-
. a . la -Council announced this , :Week
Fire Losses Drop 4,4, *. ,'FIlemusly , goods froni-, ethe big
• OTTAWA. Fire losses in ClatttAo"°Sontli American Republic entered
da continued a. downward tron
ing 1936 and eclipsed the recorlsie'
tablished in 1935 when. losses
the lowest for any year for w
figures are available, said J. M. ;la
°hie, Toronto Secretary-Treasuree.
the Association of panadian
Marshals in addressing delegat
the annual conference of the
elation here.
The convention, attended by
than forty-five delegates was u
the chairmanship of S. Grove
Dominion Fire Commissioner.
14,655 -Bibles Placed,
•
TORONTO. — The Canadian,
ons, it is announced placed 1, ea,'
Bibles in hotels, hospitals and se* tai`,.
during the past year. This aeeau
plishment sets an all-time recorpia
the organization.
In Toronto alone, it was statect aze
Board of Education had put in .
quest that the Gideons give
Bibles to school children.. Oft'
number, Mr. Green said, 8,000 • d
already been delivered. •• "
ov4404, the intermediate tariff
' vitae& „t et will now enter at the
IrtWegf, ariff rate accorded any for-
eign.Couutry by treaty. Brazil will
• taus receive the rates prescribed in
the trade:. agreements,twith France,
the United Stats-- Poland.
No charge hae15e.es made in the
ilf rates applicable ,to Canadian
oods entering Brazil. -For some time
•4713ratil has accorded 'Canada most fa-
• Imre(' nation treatment in exchange
for the Canadian intermediate tariff
rates. But with four other South
•American countries, Uruguay, Argen-
• tina, Venezuela and Colorable already
on the most fayched nation treatment
the Canadian 'government considered
it desiaahle to place Brazil on the
sanfe basis. •
The balance of^trade betwee1 the
two countries is heavily in favor of
• Canada. Canalian exports to Brazil
,
are about four times„Brazilian ex-
ports to Canada. In 1936 Canada
shipped 43,711,000 worth of products
to Brazil, and bought from that eoun-
try $900,00 worth. In 1935 the figures
were •0,769,000 and $335.346.
• •
B. C. Orders Cornpulsory-
Hospitalization for T.B.'
VICTORIA. --
• MAY Trade $90,497,353
0,47.4„-wA,„!:,,.,,..'440itacla'p export
trade xteuntecilbylly during May
•:. when.the'tetal'Veluelof Canadian pro -
private life. eluee'aent abroad 'was $99,497,353, an
Government 'theiteree
There is a stoey of a housemaid , • a ,
,oetteas. ,
NEW'S R DE
- Commentary on the
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS ---
,By Peter Randal
Seventy three day of tae most ter-
• rible siege in modern history ended
this week ae the insurgent columns
of GenaraN.Devila began the task of
4mopping up” •the ancient Basque
capital' of Bilbao. Fighting from
hoase to •house, the defenders still
hang .ort grimly -while refugees have
Moved down in thousands as they at-
• tempted to flee the city under the
murderous fire of the Italian "Black
Arrow" column. • An Indication that
the sieg: was actually over and that
hope of starving off the advancing
mercenaries was over, was the depar-
ture of the British consul from the
city. He was rescued by British sail-
ors from awaiting ship just outside
the sleath •swept, harbor. Latest re-
ports say that General Franco is
transferring his leudee in thousands
to'the Madrid front where another
terrific pueh is forecast by the orders
•of the Loyalist commander who has
•requested all civilians to leave the.
city. '
Financial Courage
After ten months of comparative
stale mate, the Fascists seem to be
geting Some -Where in their attempts
to subdue the, will of the Spanish
people. Just prior to the fall of Bil-
bao, new hope was injected into their
councils by the announcement of a
new loan obtained abroad for $1,500,-
000. The announcement was made by
a former tobacco smuggler, illiterate
Juan March, chief civilian backer of
the revOlution. No one seems to know
where it is to come from but there
are many close guesses.
Germany and Italy are in the po-
sition of having to throw good money
after bad. So far, the campaign has
not been much of a success but fur-
ther expenditure may turn the day.
The fall of Bilbao seems to bear out
this statestaent.
Beauty in Distress
And in Germany, all is not well.
Chancellor Hitler's close personal
friend and the Director German State
Motion Pictures, Leni Riefenstahl has
been accused of having "non -Aryan"
grandparents. In most countries, such
a fault would not be of any particu-
lar importance but in. Germany where
the Nazis are engaged in stamping
out their Jewish intellectaal class,
., atee—Maeaa
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aback on hearing whistling in the cor- . . „e a, a , r- rnpart,pd with May, 19'6, but all
' Mundt, illieu4'
ell0,anel cheeag, 'extorts fell off
culosis 'who refuse, tO ' he „pantile, , ..,
rider leading to Queen Mary's bed- ,,. et.le , t .4tiirt,r prinexpal commodities showed
hospitalization. • v., aa tee .
The new regueUalen ',eau°. "• 'Increases. r:Or the first two months
• "That any person found, with tu-
•Of the curr4t fiscal year, April and
berculosis in an infectioUse or contage.. may, exports' were $165,014,014, an in-
crease of $2a770,433 over the same
months in 1936.
• Wheat exports in May were 8,026,-
• 507 bushels valued at $10,529,311, as
compared with 27,316,983 bushels in
Hon. G. M. Weir, Provincial Sedre-
of 'Buckingham Palace, being taken Pers°ns ;14.11 severlauaa
room.
She was still more astonished On
discovering that the whistler was the
Queen herself!
As all who come in contact with
her know, the Queen Mother has a
keen sense of humor and a gift of
genuine laughter.
It was Keir Hardie—no flatterer of
Royalty—who once declared that Her
Majesty's was the moet cheerful laugh
he had ever heard. — News of the
World.
Wedding Attire
The Dean of Johannesburg is
gloomy. He looks askance at wedd-
ings to which the br'de comes re-
splendent and the bridesmaids and
pages appear in bright array, calling
such eeremonies "extravagant and
tawdry.' What then would he have?
Not, surely, the drabness of a register
cffice? Solemn vows will not be heard
less reverently if those at the altar
aro joyously attired for life's most
joyous day. With marriage goes jub-
ilation and feasting; why not wear
happiness in the drers as well as in
the heart? For a 'Taman, especially,
this is the day te which memory turns
back, and her wish is that the root -
'edam' should b' gay and pleasing.
We want no pensiveness at weddings,
and it would he ar ancoagruons to
muffle the bells as the bride in home-
spun.—London Daily Mail:
bus stage, who should refuse to lie
confined to hospital or building pro-
vided for. quarantine or .isolation Pur:'
poses, may be apprehended and niy.
be detained in such an institution.",
tary, said all cases coming under the
new regulations -would be subjectato
examination by the Tuberculosis don-
trol Board under Dr. W. IL Hatfield.
Building Tops '36 Record
WINDSOR. -- Business in the On-
tario section of athe building trade is
40.5 per cent. alien.d. of 1936 at the
present time,- 0. M. Perry, manager
of the Wim1sor Hydro.Electrio Sys -
ter, declared this week,
"As in every other line, conditions
in the electrical contracting field are
improving rapidly," Mr. Perry slid.
"Total value of building contracts for
the first live months of 1937 amountS
to $80,006,200 compared to 06,905,100
for the ea me period in 1936."
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Winnipeg Grants $1,500 For
Mosquito Campaign
WINNIPEG,. — The mosquito cam-
paign is going to be renewed in Win-
nipeg. The City Finance Committee
granted the 'campaign committee $1,-
500 to ,carrY on the fight. Finances' for
the 'hampaigie had become deplethd.
•
May, 1936, valued at $21,674,113.
Wheat flour exports amounted to 348,-
8666 bushels, valued at $2,130,325,
compared with 448,653 • bushels in
May, 193,6, valued at $1,791,174.
Newsprint, meats, planks and
boards, copper, and nickel all showed
marked 'increase in• quality and
.. i
price. Newsprint exportsincreased
in value from $8,907,000 to $10,773,-
.000 and unmanufactured nickel from
•$3,191,000 to $5,354,000.
The 1936 estimated value of dairy
production in Canada is the highest
recorded since 1930, namely $208,-
238,128, an increase of $15,827,-
705, or 8.2 per cent, on 1935.
• Ambrose Pare, proclaimed the
greatest •surgeon of his time, had the
courage to write his book on the
treatment of wounds not in Latin,
but in everyday and "vulgar"
French, Much to the horror of the
surgeon's of the long robe.
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the accusation Is the next thing to'
ruin, The charge was made by Propa-1
ganda Minister •Goebbels at a soeial
gathering. It has since been denied 09
"Pure invention". The interesting part
for conjecture is just what Chancellor •
Hitler thinks about it all and jest
what action he would take if he charge
proved to be true. 1( 19 well known
that all of the women be may have,
known, which is not many, the beau -1
tiful actress is the favourite,
Disaster Echoes
Strange how echoes of distant thun:i
der come close to norae. To weeks;
ago, finaneial circles were met withl
the announcement by Canadian paper,
Prtrodubcoearrsthawtorpericgeosinfgor nefrpom4aPer7s,
aadsup
to $10 per ton. Among the reasonS.
given by manufacturers for this rise,
(amounting to 8% over last year)
was the scarcity of, sulphite. Sid-,
phite is the bleaching agent in the.
making of chemical wood pulp. Sul -1,
• phite is also a prime ingredient of,
explosives. Apparently, the manufac-
ture of explosives is of more impala:
tante in 'this unsettled world of to.'
day than the manufacture of fine pa-
per.
Crisis Averted
And in France, a mild little mao
has won an amazing victory and prov-
ed the strength of his governraent.
Faced by a financial crisis occasjon-
ed by a steady drain of gold because
of unequal trade balances. Premier
Leon Blum has just won a vote of
confidence. Votes of confidence are a'
feature of the French governmental;
system and suppOirers of goVern-',
ments more often than not turn
against their former colleagues on the'
slightest. pratetxt. Such wastthe ceoe'
when Premier B'rulii's Communist
deputies ganged up against him only,
to be met with surp,ir sing opposition.
from other igction of the Matigier.f
The Government is now empowered'
with extraordinary financial poivers to
support the franc by regulation of the,
discount rate and a crisis which'
might have been of world importance
in view of the delicate state of af-
fairs has been averted, at least for
the time.
ridges Mean
Large Outlay
$7,700,000 Being Spent on Con -
in Dominion
TORONTO; — Expenditures by gov-
ernment, municipal and private bodies
on steel, concrete and wooden bridges
will be among the major items of new
construction contracts in Canada this
year. If expansion in bridge building
continues at its current late the to-
tal will be substantially in excess of
the 1936 volume of $7,700.000, says
The Financial Post.
Factors pointing to a larger pro-
gram of bridge construction, from
which steel companies, cement -pro-
ducers, metal fabricating industries
and timber dealers will benefit, in-
clude damage to bridges caused by
spring floods in Ontario, the Mari-
times and other areas. In addition, a
number of existing structures require
long overdue repair and maintenance
work.
New highways, embodying safety
features and two or three -lane traffic
channels, must also be equipped with
bridges of greater width than former-
ly, and in the highest cost brackets
are projected bridge spans at several
points between Canada and tire United
States, contemplated or under con-
struction in anticipation of heavier
traffic across the international boun-
dary.
Milk used for making butter, both
creamery and dairy, in Canada in
1936 showed an biomass of 169,819,-
900 pounds, or 2.1 per cent., on 1935
when the amount used was 8,143,-
583,100 pounds.
rSPORT REPORTER I
Did you know
that - "Twenty
Grand and "War
Admiral" carried
singer past the
finish post at the
Kentucky Derby,
making the two
fastest Derby
rides.
Nowadays every-
one seems to be
out for records,
IOW and entirely different, Dave
Yack, the boxer, has one—He man-
aged to be the only boxer in many
a day to win the "daily double."
The Kentucky Derby has been won
three times by Earl Sande and Isaac
Murphy.
This • year they are cutting down
the C.N.E. swim some more. The
race is to be outside the sea-wall, the
men going 10 miles, and the women
three, with $6,000 for the total prize
money for both.
In a few years they will probably.
be holding it at the Y.M.C.A., with a
cup for the first prize, just to make
it more exclusive.
Larry Gains, the colored Canadian
boxer, made between 1932 and 1934
nearly $50,000 in fights in England.
They say his biggest purse was
around $13,000. He made this when
he defeated Camera.
Gales, who has beaten most of the
heavyweights overseas, worked his
passage to England on a cattle boat
14 years ago.
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• The slave girl wrenched herself from my grasp 6ad I
heard her leap info the punt. "How little you understand
me, Dr. Petrie," she called, "Until +he clock strikes, ra-
member!" I could 'near the croak of the Vat, The drip
• wafer from the polo. kinter grew tio sounds, and
'Painter . .• osira rs SaItalia cr na Tto Bll Si ' ^
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. "What is her s,.ectalP"
muttered Nayi sif d
Smith besiclor.ila.
"Why does she •clin5,-;10,,
the+ monster, she,
Mo-
dal?" l'eould not' 01-
r.ver. A thousand11n' '0,
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I had tried to
t1)
ie 1.0 borpti...•Pi". ' '
to thewfui 'tellow
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from the '.at d ite, d
ird,ey enicjIy. .
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••••3 4xtril**
A dock began to strike
—if was the half-hour. In
an instant my handker-
chief was off, and so was
•h' W d t th I
.Sait oc, ,apon a owing -pa a ong
the Thames. Away to the leff the moon shone
upon the towers and battlements of an ancient
fortress. ". It was Windsor CaOte.":-. .
• "Half past ten!" cried
Smith. He seized my
arm and set off af a run,'
dragging me after him.'
ln a daze over all Thaf
had happened, the mission upon which we had 4\,‘
set out that evening had gone completely out \\V
.fr
of my head.
"We have two hours to save Graham
Guthrie!" Smith panted.
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