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reran Tracks
lb Sandstone
Tell Man's Age
Mat Have Been Made By One Of
Cr Earliest Ancestors
Fozond In Kentucky.
reiseta ery of footprints in sand -
atone, so human In appearance that
they nal have been made by one of
the eeriest ancestors of man, is an-
la:lanced by Dr. Wilbur Greeley Bur-
roura;'3, hid of the Deparlment of
Geologa of Berea College, Kentucky.
The aeaats, 10 in all, Dr. Burroughs
field, are boat 150 feet above the bot-
tom of the Pottsville formation of the
upper euitoniferous system. He add-
ed that if further investigation now
being etede bear out present indica-
tions the tracks would indicate that
the ve'i f man goes back millions
of yeers beyond the earliest time
dreaaa ; of, Dr. Burroughs said he
felt cer-ein the sand deposit was not
of a I:a r date,
a!a, Inches In Length
Dr. L. rrota..;hs and William Finnell,
a part time exployee of the college,
reported the investigations of the
traelts. Their were found on the farm
of W. "airmen, William's father, in ad-
joinIne :lockeastle County,
Dr. Burroughs described them as
showing five large, distinct toes spread
well 'apart. An arch was clearly- vis-
ible in all the tracks. The width
across the toes is six inches and the
tracks are 91,e,, inches in length.
f14 -k FederR.tion
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But ,Ttzt.:-.: Most First Have Free-
Adyrinistration
—UrAy Must Be Maintained.
With so much attention being paid
in India to the prospects of federation
it was nataral the Viceroy's remarks
to the Central Legislature last week
at Calcutta should have been care-
fully read by the Indian public.
Impatience Arises
The Viceroy, the Marquess of Lin-
lithgow, who was chairman of the
joint parliamentary committee, re-
minded his audience that every one
of the grounds upon which the federal
scheme is being criticized was consid-
ered by that committee.
Princes Bargain
Nevertheless the parliamentary
committee held that two factors must
outweigh all others. One was that the
early establishment of federal rela-
tions between the states and British.
India was of the utmost importance
for the maintenance of the unity of
India. The second was that the exist-
ence of a central government capable
of formulating economic policies af-
fecting India as a whole was of direct
and immediate relevance to India's
economic circumstances today.
'The natural forces working for a
federation in India are very great,
and leading princes and British Indian
parties have acknowledged that a fed-
eration at some time will be desirable.
At the moment it is believed some of
the princes are bargaining hard,
which has caused some impatience in
British India,
Ah. Pact Details
Are Now Given
Detzils of Arrangements Between
Canada and the U. S. Are
Made Public
Details of the new air pact propos.
ale were made public last week at Ot-
tawa. They were worked out at a
conference in Washington last week
between Canadian and American ex-
perts. The new arrangements when
ratified, will replace the aviation ar-
rangement agreed to in 1929.
The new arrangements will be un-
der the following headings: air navi-
gation, reciprocal issue of airmen cer-
tificates of airworthiness for export,
and the use of radio for aeronautical
services.
Apply to All Aircraft
Ali four arrangements cover flying
over -continental United States, Alas-
ka and Canada, including territorial
waters, and apply to alt aircraft other
than military, naval, tustoms or
police.
Grant Liberty of Passage.
Each country agrees to grant, in
time of peace, liberty of passage
above its territories to aircraft of the
other but the establishment of any
regular air service to, over or away
from the territory of each country will
be subject to specific consent.
Exchange Privilegas
Sabject to observance of passport.
Immigration, quarantine and caste=
regulations, aircraft of the two •coun-
tries will enjoy reciprocal privileges,
and pay the same eharges and taxes
as each country imposes on its own
air traffic.
Certificates of airworthiness and
licenses of personnel issued by the
#ompetent authorities of either ,coun.
fry in respect of its aircraft will be
recognized as hexing the same validity
as corresponding documents trotted bY
competent •authorities of the 'Other
country,
Canada's export trade in fisheries
products in the first nine months of
1937 reached a total value of $20,-
432,000, an increase of 13 per cent
over a year ego.
EDITORIAL iTOMITENV 110111 liERE. THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
CANADA
Weakly -Producing Purpose
Construction of large water stor-
age reservoirs in Alberta for use in
irrig'tion schemes and as a source of
supply for rivers which course
through Saskatchewan, will be recom-
mended to the Dominion Department
of Agriculture by the advisory com-
mittee on water development for Al-
berta. The principle of establishing
such reservoirs was discussed at a
meeting at Medicine Hat recently
which was attended by Prairie Farm
Rehabilitation Act officials from Re -
gine. The decision reached was to
recommend the idea to Ottawa.
Here we see an opportunity for
the Federal authority to develop the
great rivers of Western Canada for
a wealth -producing. purpose other
than navigation and to assist the
West in a way that will correspond
to the hundreds of millions spent on
river improvements and canals in
Eastern Canada.—Moose Jaw Times -
Herald.
Their Names In The Paper
Not again is little Johnny or Sis-
ter Susie to see their names in the
honor list'of their school class in the
paper. The department of education
has decided against publication,
thereby destroying by one stroke of
the pen a practice that has been fol-
lowed since the days of Dr. Ryerson.
The thought behind the new order of
things is to remove competition from
amongst the scholars. Why? Is it
not good to have a competitive spir-
it? Competition is said to be the life
of trade, a stimulant to achieve
greater things. If the child has no
such motive will there not -be a ten-
dency to drift, to simply get through
the tests, examinations being wiped
out, and let it go at that? With com-
petition taken away and names with-
held from the papers children and
parents will miss much that hereto-
fore has been a great joy, It looks
like a mistake, unless something else
is.to take its place, say for example,
reward for effort. — Antherstburg
Echo.
The First 'Phone
Mayor R. J. Waterous deserves to
be heartily thanked for his prompt
and vigorous effort to have Brant-
ford, as the home of the telephone,
suitably represented in a forth -corn-
ing movie. That the solution was
reached here in 1874 is indisputable
on the basis of Graham Bell's own
testimony, again most emphatically
repeated when he attended the un-
veiling of a memorial here in tribute
to himself and the great invention
Meanwhile our neighbors have always
stuck to Boston as the place of or-
igin, and they hate to let go of that
hallucination. At any rate the Mayor
has made a commendable effort.—
Brantford Expositor.
Farmer's Right -Hand Man
From his own standpoint, it is
greatly to the farmer's interest to
have a permanent employee, who is
intelligent enough to understand his
employer's ahns and plans, and is wil-
ling to co-operate with him in carry-
ing them out. The best man, of
course, for the farmer to hire is one
with a family of his own, because he
is least likely to throw up his place
for scene trifling cause.—Guelph
Mercury.
Drugstore Aids to Beauty
Any aid to beauty in this world
makes it a better world; any delicate
use of simple little artifices in the
way of cosmetics to reform an un-
natural pallor or actually ugly fea-
tures will always be welcome. Bat
men will welcome with three hearty
diem', as a trend toward real beau-
ty, any show of restraint in applica-
tion of the top layers of drugstore
allure.—Edmonton Journal.
Bonds and Deficits
Fifty million dollars worth of gov-
ernment guaranteed Canadian Nati-
onal Railway bonds were sold in a
little over an- hour. It is too bad that
a surplus cannot be negotiated just
as easily instead of the continual
ficits.— Brantford Expositor.
A Subtle Hint?
The beaver, emblem of Canada, has
been chosen to hold a place of honor
on an arch on Ottawa's Parliament
Hill. It's a good idea, as the beaver
decidedly works a great deal more
than he talks.—Hamilton Spectator.
Fight to Bolster League
PARIS.—After a discussion among
Foreign Secretary Eden of Great
Britain, Premier Chautemps and Fore-
ign Minister Delbos, diplomatic
sources stated Great Britain and
France agreed to fight attempts to
weaken the League of Nations Coven-
ant.
Diplomats said they agreed on a
united stand against attempts to kill
the sanctions clauses in the Covenant
as well as any attempt to have the in-
ternational organization recognize
Italre cOriquest of Ethiopic
Germany's capital goods industries
are operating practically at dapacity.
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THE EMPIRE
The Irish Constitution
Not one jot or tittle of additional
liberty is secured to any citizen (by
the new Constitution). In fact, it is
all the other way about; for the new
Constitution contains clauses which
may possibly be used to interfere
with freedom of speech, freedom of
the press, with freedom of associa-
tions, and the rights of women. The
Constitution has imposed upon the
public the new and costly office of
president with powers which the titu-
lar head of a democratic state should
not be given. It has established a
new Seanad which is at least as un-
satisfactory in the method of election
as its predecessor was.—Irish Inde-
pendent.
Chinese War Enters New Phase
The Chinese managed successfully
to delay the Japanese advance for
three months, and now, with long
lines of communication to be guarded
by the Japanese, comes the much -
awaited opportunity of guerilla war-
fare on the part of the Chinese—
sudden, sharp attacks and withdraw-
als, by an enterprising force, never
leaving the enemy in peace, keeping
him guessing where the next attack
will be launched. It is clear that
China will be able to get arms, de-
spite the repeated bombings of the
railways. Madame •Chiang Kai-shek
recently spoke of 500 of the latest
type of fighter planes and bombers
which could outfight and outdistance
any that Japan can send, and it is a
well known fact that in the interior
provinces there are arsenals which
are working day and night to supply
small arm ammunition. These depots
can never be reached by the Japanese
and they know it is useless for them
to even attempt to do so. Japan can
never stop ahese supplies from reach-
ing the Chinese armies, and there is
little doubt that much is coming
through other avenues, both south
and west,—Hong Kong News.
To Rescue Scientists
MOSCOW.—The four Russian ice
campers who started eight months ago
from the North Pole on an expedition
to study Polar weather, this week ap-
parently were nearing the end of their
voyage on an ice -floe at the will of
Arctic winds and currents.
Tess, official Russian news agency,
announced Dr. Otto Schmidt, thief of
the North Sea Route, a Government
agency, had been permitted to head
an expedition to remove the sciatetiets
he deposited at the North Pole by air-
plane last May.
Italian Transatlantic Flight
RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil. — Two
Italian Savoie "79" bombing planes,
one piloted by Bruno Mussolini, land-
ed here after a non-stop flight from
Dakar, Senegal.
Young Mussolini brought his ma-
chine down two minutes after his
companion, Colonel Attilio Biseo,
commander of the squadron, landed
his plane. They left Dakar, accompaia-
led by a third plane, with Captain Nin
Moscatelli at the controls.
Gold produced in Australia in a re-
cent month -weighed 116,393 ounces.
Planet Is Rushing
Toward The Earth
But No. Danger of Collision Says
Toronto Astronomer
A planet, 20 miles in diameter, is
rushing towards the earth at 20 miles
per second, A collision might easily
wipe out a city the size of Toronto.
Let no one be afraid, The end of
the world is not at hand. Prof, C.
A. Chant of Denial) observatory, who
made these observations, is equally
sure there will be no collision, The
planet Eros, he said, will be within
20,000,000 utiles of the earth this
week, but there is no clanger of it
getting any nearer.
Still 20,000,000 Miles Away
Pro). Chant speaks of 20,000,000
miles as being "close. According to
astronomical records, Eros has been
as near as 14,000,000 miles,
"Even if it did collide with this
planet, it would not mean the end of
the world," Prof. Chant stated. "It
would be a major •catastrophe. You
can imagine the effect of a chunk of
rock that .size travelling at 20 miles
a second. But the mass is so small
in comparison, there isn't any danger ,
of the earth being knocked off its
Course"
The earth had a much closer shave
last October when another small
planet got within 900,000 miles, the
prtfessor ind.iaatkaa.
News In Brief
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Benevolent Burials
SHANGHAI. — Death has set a
swift pace for the Shanghai Benevo-
lent Burial Association's seven morgue
wagons.
Disease,
starvation and exposure,
the association says, has cost the lives
of 51,000 Chinee refugees and poor
since Shanghai fighting started last
August.
Each day at dawn the seven wag-
ons cruise Shanghai's streets to pick
up the dead. Bodies are found in
refugee camps and throughout the
impoverished areas. The association
provides cheap wooden coffins and
burial in the fields on Shanghai's out-
skirts.
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Control War Industries
HENDAYE, French -Spanish Fron-
tier.—The Loyalist Government has
gained control of the war industries
of Catalonia, richest industrial region
of Spain, under a decree abolishing
the Commission of War Industries of
Catalonia, it was announced this
week.
"New Menace to PeaCe"
PARIS.—Threats to peace would
increase, not diminish, if Germany
were given the colonial territories
claimed by Chancellor Hitler, a
group of French military and political
leaders declared this week in an ap-
peal to "all the living forces of the
nation," issued. through the Colonial
Institute.
"It is not well enough known," the
statement said, "that the installation
of Germany in lands she is asking for,
by providing her wih military, naval
and air bases, would create a new
menace to peace, far from facilitating
the maintenance of peac.e."
High Court Justices
OTTAWA. — Premier Mackenzie
King announced last week selection
of two prominent Toronto lawyers for
Ontario Supreme Court vacancies
NEWS INTERPRETED
A Commentary
On the More Important Event*
of the Week.
By ELiZABETIel EEDY
HUMANITARIANISM: Speaking to
a capacity audience in Torouto's Ma-
sonic Temple last week,, Aldous Irux-
ley, brilliant English novelist, essay-
ist and philosopher remarked that the
present-day "humanitarian" movement
is so widespread that few dogs, horse,
cats are allowed to suffer pain or un-
dergo cruel treatment. Yet at the
same time, he declared, we sit back
and let terrible things happen to our
fellow human beings in other coun-
trles of the world,
caused by deaths of Mr. Justice J. H.
McEvoy and Mr. Justice A. C. King -
stone.
The appointments follow:
George" A. Vreuhart, K.C., and J.
M. Godfrey, Ontario Securities Com-
missioner, to be judges of the High
Court of Ontario.
Explosives Explode
PARIS.—Fourteen men were killed
in an explosion which wrecked the
municipal laboratory buildings at
Villejuif, where authorities were re-
moving large quantities of grenades
seized in the CSAR investigation.
Charged With Murder
LONDON, Ont.—A true bill was re-
turned by a grand jury against Dr,
Charles A. Cline, Sr., charged with
murder in the death of Mary Wilkin-
son, London school teacher.
True bills were also returned
against Mr. and Mrs. Lauchlin J. Rob-
ertson and Mrs. Rachel Stock, all of
London, charged with performing ill-
egal operations. No bill were returned
against Dr. Charles A. Cline, Jr., and
Dr. J. E. McGillicuddy, of London, on
indictments charging illegal opera-
tions.
Power Plant Damaged
TORONTO—It will possibly take
four months of continuous repair
work to put the Ontario Power Plant
beak into maximum efficiency, On-
tario Hydro officials said last week.
The generators, which were under
twenty-ilve feet of water, will be
found to have suffered some damage,
but the chief loss will be in the wind-
ings, some of which will have to be
replaced.
History's Biggest Air Raid
HENDAYE, Franco -Spanish Fron-
tier.—More than 400 Italian and Ger-
man warplanes bombarded Govern-
ment lines and villages across the en-
tire Teruel front last week -end, loy-
alists reported, in a merciless attempt
to blast a path for Generalissimo
Francisco Franco's recapture of the
city.
It was believed to constitute the
biggest air raid in aviation history.
The planes, dropping bombs by the
tens of tons, spread death and des-
truction without pause from 9 a.m.
until nightfall, the Spanish (loyalist)
Press Agency reported from Anam-
bra, northeast of the almost shattered
City of Teruel.
DIRECTORS OF THE CANADIAN CORPS RE -UNION, 1938.
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LEFT TO RIGHT: Bar. A. J. Bushell, Lt. -Col. G. R. Philp, IVI.D., Colonel C. R. Hill, D.S.O., Major
Q. R. M. Dingle, Major Hugh Ferguson, D.S.O., Major T. M. Medland, Capt. W. W. Parry, LC., Mr
Shrank Barber.
100,000 Expected
At C rps Reunion
To Be Held In Toronto This Mid-
etUriMer
The Canadian Corps Reunion for
1938 is under Way. Slated to be held
in Toronto on july 8001, 81st, and
August 1st of this year, preliminary
organization work has assaulted in the
selection by the Canadian Corps As-
socoiation Connell of a Board of Di-
rectors to handle the affairs of the
function. The "candid camera"
caught the directors at a recent meet-
ing 'while they discussed some of the
problems which arise from the eon-
centration of considerably consideiaj n ce a
hundred thousand men in one spot
for three days.
Well -Known Military Men
Seen in the picture, from left to
right, are Art Bushell, Dominion Pre-
sident of the Canadian Pensioners'
Association, and erstwhile sergeant of
the Original Third Battalion, C.E.P.
Next in line is Lt. -Col. George R.
Phily, M.D,, now Associate Coroner
for the City of Toronto, and one of
the first medical men in the Domin-
ion of Canada to volunteer for war
service.
A "Westerner" sits on Colonel
Philp's left in the person of Colonel
Charles R. Hill, who commenced his
military service as a private, and
finished up as Colonel, D.S.0,
Wielding the "big steik"—in this
case a pencil—sits Major Gordon
Dingle, President of the board and
of the Canadian Corps Association,
f,l," (1 Comptroller of the Maesey Hat-
t '1 Connaarty, Rtalisting originally
with the Qteen's Own Rifles at the
age of sixteen, he was a sergeant at
nineteen,
Number five is Major Hugh C, Fer-
guson, D.S.O. Joining the 6th Bat-
talion in 1914 he served in France
with the 10th Battalion, of which he
was second in command at the end of
the war.
In Characteristic Attitude
Major T. M. Medland, secretary of
the Corps Association and the board
of directors, is third from the right.
Puffing the ever-present pipe—
he is acknowledged Canada's eham-
pion smoke ring puffer—is Captain
W. W. Parry, K.C., legal adviser to
the Corps, and a prominent Toronto
lawyer.
Telling the President how the Sap-
pers used to it is Frank Barber, a
member of the Corps Council, for
throe years President of the Sappere
Ascomation, and entertainment -ar-
ranger de luxe..
'Twould erten; he inferred, that our
Sympathies are sadly misplaced,
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VIKINGS IN ONTARIO?: A fascin-
ating story of past ages is reconstruct-
ed by Mr. Philip •Godsell, noted authof
and Arctic traveller, who is sure OA
some time during the eleventh cen-
tury, four hundred years before the
advent of Christopher Columbus, the,
Viking followers of Brie the Red pene-
trated into Northern Ontario by way
of Hudson Straits and the Albany
River. Substantiating his belief is the
recent discovery near Beardmore,
Ont., (125 miles northeast of Port
Arthur) of a Norse axe, sword and
shield handle which are pronounced
by experts to be genuine Viking weap-
ons of the eleventh century.
The find is of great historical sig-
nificance. It may upset all our previ-
ous conceptions of how America came
to be discovered and change our his-
tory books.
Says Mr. Godson: "Beardmore, On-
tario, may have been the scene of
some woodland fight between these
hardy Vikings and the Redmeu who
for the first time gazed upon the pale-
faces who were eventually , to bring •
about their downfall. The Indians
may have looked upon them as Weeti-
goes, cannibal -spirits or visitors from
another world."
Some of the Vikings may have
stayed there, too, and become the an-
cestors of our present-day Indians.
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$1,000,000 A WEEK: Canada's ex-
ports tb Japan of war materials and
other commodities each week reach a
total of one million dollars ($1,000,-
000),
So when Canadian people talk of in-
stituting a boycott against Japan they
have a hard time gaining a sympa-
thetic ear in many quarters.
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SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE: Rev.
Israel Harding Noe, of Memphis,
Tema, who was suspended last week
by his Bishop for refusing to break a
year-long fast in the course of which
he lost one hundred pounds, finally
agreed to let himself be fed orange
juice. His diet fm. the two weeks
previous had consisted of a commun-
ion wafer arid a few ounces of water.
Rev. Noe has every intention of re-
turning to the self-imposedfast just
as soon as be recovers from his pres_
ent setback in health brought on by
the flu.
'The eccentric Mr. Noe is attempting
to prove to the world that man can
live by spirit alone, without benefit of
material sustenance.
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EYE FOR AN EYE: When ispanish
rebel airplanes bombed and machine-
gunned the innocent populace of Bar-
celona last week, hundreds of helpless
civilians went down to a horrible
death, others found themselves alive
at the end of the bombardment, but
with an arm or a leg missing.
Next day, the Loyalist army planes
bit back at the rebels by subjecting
one of their cities to the same treat-
ment, the same kind of death.
From now on, apparently, it's go-
ing to be an "eye for an eye, a tooth
for a tooth", until there are no aople
left on Spanish earth to be wiped out.
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ENVIABLE RECORD: The Repub-
lic of Argentina achieved in 1937 the
goal sought but missed by most na-
tions throughout the world. It prac-
tically eliminated unemployment, re-
duced taxes, strengthened its financial
position to allay inflation fears, and
produced bumper crops that brouaht
higher prices in expanding world mar-
kets.
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN HAVEN:
After the Communist revolution in
Russia several thousand white Rus-
sians took shelter in the democratic
Central European country of Czecho-
slovakia and founded permanent
homes there; after the suppression
of the Soviet Republic in Hungary
fugitives sought sanctuary in Czecho-
slovakia; 10,000 liberal -minded Ger-
mans and Jews have fled to Czecho-
slovakia to escape the power of the
Nazis since 1933. Now the anti -Sem -
Ric drive begun by the Rumanian Gov-
ernment is threatening to send thous-
ands of Jews across the border into
Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia, in a precarious sit-
tiation in Europe, counts Rumania,
her ally in the Little Entente, as her
best friend. It she now willingly,
shelters refugees from Rumania,
elle will be harboring the state
enemies of her ally.
Building permits issued by 58 dties
in Canada during the first eleven
months of 1.927 totalled $52,042,087
compared with $38,043,527 reported
in the period, January -November,
1936.
The moon is accompanied by a
shadow which averages 232,000 miles
'It length. Sometimes this shadow
tot/elle:: the earth, as the moon passes
Incl the sun, and then
0 solar eclipse
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