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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1938-05-19, Page 6• , Conlmentary. on the klifiblighb ,!/f the Week's News . By Elizabeth Eedy MOMENTOUS ANSI So Mach • happening in the worid, tochoT, vire/44 are moving r quickly on all fronts, that. aituationa„of Momentous •importance .in this quarter or that. • go, practically. unnoticed. Our atten- tion can be 'focussed Only or so niany .points at'oncei Witching what Hitler ' is 'doing in Central Europe, what Mussolini planning in :the Mediter,. •. raneaUk is physically ini1301§ihle • also -to keep our' eyesOn what .4 , • happening in India, in Palestine,. in, Iraq, •in Syria,mereeed,'.1d,..S.Outh America ancl: Mexico (for world - stirring events. are , brewing in ,eaphl one 9f.theae corners' Of. 'the ;earth). ▪ We do welire able.te' watch • the Progress of, the War in China andth Spain. . And in our own dear • Canada, • -there's plenty going on,,.• Whether We read the newspapers or net; to .find - 1.00: • • , :TEN,Powgn PACT: Urged by •'Winston Churchill jest week in Lon- don is wide European alliance of ten peWers. calculated . to encircle • the 'Gerniari Reich 'and block further •• aggression on the part of the Nazis. If ,such a'.front were:formed-of :the 'smaller nations of. Europe and. llus- "sia behind' Franco and great 'Britain, :uaing League of Nations .machinery; 7 Mr. Churchill.' declared, the :United• . States would undoubtedly"signal her encouragement; and sympathy." Said Mr. Churchill: .."If we Can' , •• •rally1:•eventen well -armed States in :.'turePe, all banded.together Co attack an aggressor, we'would be so strong, that ' inirnetliate danger might be warded, oft' and a breathing space Would' be gained • ter, building later "Wader -Strtietnie �1 peace." , • • • - MINED BLESSING: 'With the soil • of the, Prairiesmoitened by the, best rainfall • in. 17 years; and crep...pros- pects the Most favorable Since.1933, • Weaterif farrnera * oft. the,;‘.0ieught- , „ , stricken -areas are •nevertheless'-rOt.' half, as happy: as we iinagine them to be. For . two resigns: a good crop means a much • lower price; will, he "offered for ,wheat; a good crop nidaris 'nisi), that the.: mortgage .coinpaniee, . who .for so *long have neglected , to ; ,foreclose on farms,that, Were secm•-. ingly Worth nothing, now are likely` to blamp1:, down • on the debt -ridden "'furriers:: •'11Wixt and the • deep,.• ono, -Western neighbors' are • • AN ELECTION IN .1908?: Qt- 'tawainsists, that there is no vo.lici reason for an 413P,al, to the eountrY In 1938,,no excuse for a Donainiell election this, fall It is talking plaus ibly,„,beeause. a trip to .the polls i not really dile for another two Year • Just the same the ,oprnipn is pre- valent in some quarters that Parlia- ment will be ,dissolved next Year,L fourth year since the election— but not this •fall, For anywhere near, it. ,Should, however, 'ructions occur betW.een the., provinces and the Fed- eral :•.Goiierndlent,' that can't be patched.. up` in, thev usual way, or should national. ''''''expergency,". arise, the 'government might' deCide' to ball an election- this Year., „ „ * * * • • credited Herds • • • Leads In Cattle, Free of T.B., aof. Agriquitnral, Minister. Gardiner „ Agriculture .Minister Gradiner last week informed thO House of Commons 949 beide of Purebred beef cattle in Caneda, are accr,dited few tuberetilosis ,and found, tree, of the disease, —and 112 he.rds are i ^ process of ac- s creditatioe, The infornlatiOrl was . sought by 1.1arryLeader. (Lib., Portage 14 Prairie),; 1, • , Seven rrOvineeS have tuberculosis. free areas—Prirule Nv firunswiell Quebec, Ontario, ga- nitoba Saskatchewan aril 'british Co- lumbia. Totalling 618 CHINESE CHANCES: A„ special cable to the Toronto Telegram from John ,Gunth4er, internationally known journalist; new in Hankow; outlines the main advantages weighing on the Chinese side in favor of their ulti- mate victory over the Japanese ,in- Vaderii, First,the country is united politically as never before, drawn together by a genuine Willto resist „Japan and, to fight to secr. olfd, the ,facility of the .Japanese in guerrilla. warfare;' third; help from German technical advisers ' and Rus- sian pilots; tourt.ht.the stupendously difficult 'job ,he 'Japanese • have set themselves; fifth, the fact that 1.a7' pan's standard of living i bound to fall as the war goes on. ' • Mr. Gunther points to the reverse side of the canvas, citing China's: disadvantages: first, ' the Japanese have Virtual 'dpmrnarid Of the air; second; ,the Chinese arfiiy is woeful- deflcierit ti it'd; •t aPatlese•w:, e er.,,provksiened, het - Ler hinted; fourth, provincial feeling' i5 still strong' Among the. Chinese, and unification of the, armies is yet , . far from perfect. ; EARLIER 'VE dE.TABLE S : The spring season in Ontario, :advancing apace,.: is dov,V,two Weeks ahead of previous .years.'. Vegetables are corn- ing 00 the market ;away', ahead Of Schedule, '. and one dealer 'predicts that we'll ‘11.aVe strawberries by the 'first of ;lime." , . ' . • . . . , All ' lovely, • unless frosts come, along and nip • Our Ontario fruits-inthe bild. • " ews In :evie .APproiTAgireemeot: ' , , LONPON.: The-Houee-of-7'Commons: last :Week approifed :Prime • Minister • Cliarelierlain's?;."peace ,with Eire agreement on third 4t4t:final reading , . without' a Vote., , It now , goes to the house :ot., Lords. • • .. Conqueror VVeldiitited • Write tipilLiP; • Chan -COM.. ' idOlf ' Hitler was reeelyed:.in: hii onhis return' frOnf 141;4:With a turbu- lence of almost hysterical enthapiairri .,:and a sPienamir surpasaing iiie recep- : atter_ his bloodless conquest -of Austr a. ...• -• . - Fierce tiarinb*rdnnertev. Jepane.ec• landing' • party of probably :at .least.,1,060 :hien ecbtipied:;:the' eataterh .pare, of' Ann* •ProViribe',' in ,SCafth- •. eastern '.'ettina. over ' the, Week -end, af- ter :day -long •fighting resulting in• nierouai casual ties, particularly the:Chinese defentier.i. • ''• • f,teporti irern:witriess.ei in; the treaty •••••_Pert ....telL.pc.a.:iceppeentrated attack,• ' ebinindriciii‘g at' daylight, by tWelVe. Japanese WAraliipS and. twenty planes, , raining shells and. bOnibi ;that started ,; fires:which, aro still 'iaging•toni;ght., . 79. Killed In '1Viine Explosion ,tru'OK$AIN'Toisl,,,• Derbyshire, • Eng- land —4n offielal death list Of seventy- nine wee, counted last ‘Week 'atter tw,o 'explosions 'rocked the Markham COP liery here.. .Mote than fifty 4ninera Were inJured. drief.stricken -villagers :said aitnest .every'ilhonielest it least One Worker.... Desperate da long efforia'if 'resew eis to 'teach 'forty:five miners tratip ed nearly -half a 'Mile 'below :the :surface :failed. ' More Air Crashes LONDON:L-Vour.„airPlaiie „Crashes, .14 .Whieli eight, tiers died thie. Week, raised the total Of deatha In the Royal 'Air VOree`a preliar6dnese, :•prograin td 76 in 45 keeidenta .sinee /4st /. Two at WYtOn :fleld, ilantingdonshire, *here three Wer s killed ItT one aaei. dent and two In anOthBr.,' • , Income Tax:. Act fvahd • CALGABY.'74be Alberta Income - Tax Act, peeSed. • by . the PrdVindial ,liegbilaturel in .1932; Waelltieelared `.ul tra VireS„ In part, in a llUdgMent .of Mr tt1'tfceAg.1w1ngh1g , week, tie ,held, that iliderpe dervd. freer' Atherta, when 'not ti.sed hi the. royince Is not taxable, Empfre Flying In Two Years OTTAWA.—Within . eighteen -months:. or two Years. EMPire flying boafsiwlll span', the world in regular .paseenger and Mail flights, using Trans -Canada Airlineaas the between_ :EtirOfie and: Asia,: according to infor- mation -released here. • " Negotiation for the transatlantic ' flights -have been: completed, and, the 'huge .flying ho'ais.' are now under :Struetion,.... four- in Greet. Britain and four : in the United. States.i, ;Test 'flights, wiil :Start. in ;Tilly. or ' Angust;thie year •about.s.the time the 'Trans -Canada Air-' With "VancOuyer: in 'regular service. . — '‘ • . • Spanish , WAF) DeadloCked:::. itENDAYI; gents and. Cloy4ritcteht armica. battled' to :a deadlock this 'Week on -the vital central fronts. ' • • • • • --Aiding the coaSt. road to Alcala• de. (htiev- where, Insurgents have been atteral-2;ng to widen their *edge tri:: wards yeletfe:a and .Castellon de la 'Nana, 'Tvernment troopsblocked the adv' nc from hilltop entrenchments. •The..fighting centred'. on that ap- proach the sea where insurgents" attempted: to Widen their Seabbard,, tite'dOvernMent. right flank badit to the. ;mat, • ilk May Make w -car Finish. Dairymen.Hear:of NoW,Biprod,a .-WhiCh Cart Give Auto Bodies . A :GlO3t. y Surface. • Possibility hf onvorting Surplus rPilk' into a • finishing =toile! for 710'4' t,-,,,Uralifkr'.1iiilt.4.,:istLISL722'm.ialMitI.:W clairyinen ' meeting %at. Utica; N.Y.,teat, Week aS the. result of a...pi•oceas ,patented by :William S. Murray, re- searchohernist and .,Itepubrican State chairnian., • ;. • Henry -FI. Rathbun; of .flew Hart- ford; l'ocal :icirector. of the Dairy- men's League ,Co•operatiY,d- AsSocia-, said *Mir i'rray heobtained' a, Patent for ti'diethOd ,of converting miIk Solids into ,a plastia and had assigned'. rights; of use to ,the diative. • • Mixture Of Milk Solid* . •' The process, Itatlibtin, Said; would perinit the Use. of Milk 'solids' istea thiiih on. automebiles ahd •for. Other ritirpoSeVlot. v7hfc:1) a -bard, 'glossy atirface is.'deeired. • The procesi,,•he Said, involves. the mixture. Of milk solids, including casein and litetoie; with a, Weak fleiti, atanning agent.and an alkaline ma- e.ia1, Th. Mixture IS :treated with water ' ata° tarnprattire of 106 to 120 degree'sceritigradoe,and then is 6 dried. • ,Onitirio;.witli 618, th,i most ae7 eredtted'htrdS.• 'Manitoba has 1.33-. ,Saskhtehewan:90,,,;t1riebec82, 'Alberta 48, Prince: Aldwarti Island and Neva Scotia, 4 each; New brunsWick 3 and. British Columbia 1. There. were 8,840500 cattle' in Can- ada in 1937 and 9,610 .vvere expelled to Great ..Britain. Irish expo -yrs to Great Britain: last year totalled 815.0.e Bulk of the beef cattle exported: to the United Kingdom recentlyhas been feeders or stort.s. • Strong Thceps For Dr:iy,pts 1STAN3UL.—Applicants for driv- ers' licenses in Turkey's capital Must have 'more than Mere skill. The mu- nicipality has tightened', its require -L: rnents•fer„ candidates,,who must have, -"strong ..tbiceps, . physical' .endurance, good height and. weight." • 1 ,Though We 0 $15Q,Q0(10)0 Every Year in Co, ., 014,10opectors Are Told. 1 . . ---,-- P4TROLIA, Ont..; ,-- 'The annual . loss in the PATO/ince '03t Ontarie dtIO to the infestation .of weeds amount ed to,botWeen .$15,206,000. and, $2,2',-, 500,(109, and the lesithroughout the Dominion- is a.pproximately .9.00,090;" ':statea, .4, D:...meLeud of . tho Department of Apiculture, T� I . . CANADA • !Tato, when addressing the annual meeting of the Larobton ,CoUnty, week' inspectors here. last Week. • •"The CatiSe of the present Weed, Problem is due to the . neglect in sowing seeds in the„ past," he ,con - tinned. He. said, ,this ".year',. consider," effort' Will be ruade',.to' clean Up eeketeries. •: • The Spealier: also advVated clean- ing of .threshing •machine's, and all equipniont before moving as provided for inIthe, Vee4 Cor4icil 'Act - and stated this will. assist greatly in controlling:the. spread of weed seeds ontotheroadsides and on the neigh- boring farms. It was pointed out threshers should be vitally interested in weed control as their business and 'revenu is governed by- the condition of, the crep; • , • 'W. P. 'MacDonald, agricultural representative for Lambton County, said that because of the untiring, en- ergy Of the 30 county weed inipec- -tOrs,1*-Lambtonis not considered a "weedy'''. county' • Twenty' years, ago , soniebody in-' vented:a make of car in a story. It had a dashboard device which flash- ed a White light,at 15 m.p.h., a -green . light At, 25 --rn.P;Ii,,-a--red-light.-at-740 ni.p.h., and played `,`Nearer, My God, to Thee," at 60. miles an hour. Write.3 R. C. Reade In Toront Star Weekly—Canadian News, papernian Is Often Editor, Re porter,, Pressman, ,Type-etter Delivery Boy Rolled Into One. 0 after the paper -had been darimened 7 and left weighted down_ for several' .•hours. The type Was all set by hand ,. ' VVe Used to adjust it in the fOrins with a piece of paper here -ind' there • or a whittled -,down 'match.", '. The thrill and ,the skill of news. paper Work are ab monopoly of the :large Centres:, ;Assiirve'y;•:of 'Cana daks smell weeklies • froin. eoast. to c.oast. shows ' that theY clo not need:. p#6- grav.tire to . give' • theni have_it'in the editerial, chair.1' ' `What • ' LoOking thetri oyer from' coat Lo Coast,. from • james'Edward Patrick 'Butler, editor of 'the Newcastle ..Advocate . in New Brunswick, whb.•Was_not:afraid to tell his town that kipt "a'arpi•Isipnoky-hplot1;,7 etfq cgel; .,Savage, Who calls himself"go.Verni ing director"- of the, Covvichan Loader in Duncan, 'a Sinai! town : 40 • Miles .'north . of Victoria on 'VariceiiVei.:1S7' 140, afitt,:hasnlived a1 acore of lives as soldier.' and sailor, fernier, ,gold miner; storekeeper„.: Shakespearean .reieardher,dieur. Miller:. and 'AI.P.P.• as well as editor, .1 am ',forcedto ex- claim again, and 'again, '.."Whata nian!" , • : •• Veterans of the Game The real veterans of the Weekly genie are. in • Ontario'. , The .dean' of thorn .'all is • W. H., Tlinfaton, cditoz of the -FleSherton'AdVarree • now in his 79th: year but 'still' rePorting, the news of •:, the • Flealierton...4elistrict . in which .he was born. He ie,'..orie of, the nieny.,•..who are printers , as well as 'editors, He 'began 'newspaper life 60 years' ago brother edits', the BobeeygeOn. .Wright,', editor ..of the Mount 'Forest :'Confederate, is Older, in: years though, vent-Ter:in Weekly eerkice• kle is 88;: 'hat did not etiter jeUrnalisai ;until .1901, when: he re, tired fiom the 'teaching :profession. HOWne .for: 15 years-EnglishMaster ri collegiate. His Paper, .he is enfident;:' is the only o'rle • in, ':.,the world that,. is galled ."Confederate". ta • first Issue appeared one .Weck af- er the British North America Act stablished the/boriiiiilon. of Canada, • iiother cotot-J'uI �h} -tine:' Li Jas. editor the Carp Revie*,. Carp,' Ont.,, 'one'of thoCe" 'universai. men for whom. ,weekly journalisin is 'mous:: He is ' linetyp.e, operater,. resSipan and, refirter, as well as ditor . and PUblisher.. And he ; still nds, tirrie to cat'ch, More large basS ban any.. other fishermaji. in the-'.dia, It is hatf a centurY since he got his first job With a Weekly 'newspa- per and, Unlike the ;majoritY of his confreres in the weekly tisld, he NO never tried his hand at anything else. He has pla)yed „ an important :part in the politieal, history 'of the province..' Hot Keinpt- 'ilIo Telegram to launch , 0:2 Howard Ferguson into public life. He sold the paper to Mr. Ferghson but con- tinued to , rhanag'e‘it until,' a, few Years age, he fOunded, the Carp , Re- vie-; 'Viler, I began us a Printer's evili", he says, "the Principal 'Piece f ,thaehrrierY. was , a hand press on hich the fent ,ages Were printed w .•• • • • : •-•That_ Printer's. Error • Ed.. Stacey, editor of the weekly: ,Teesivate,r' News; gives as his most amusing case of,printer's '‘,pi",• a combination of sport and society news : He wrote about a, former Kin-. card n hockey• player Who ' Was •• going to :England. Startled 'subscribers kept ririging the phone for days rn order to tell him that the joke was on him. His I article, read "Murray - Munro i starting on the forward line in . a-Iblack coat with-l'ersian lamb ten/linings and blaek hat With :matching accessories,' Say reenland-Was. Linked With Norway Polar Expedition Suspects.- Land 'Exists In Arctic That Once Linked the Two Continents • !.COPENHAGEN.--Dr:•Latige•Koch; Danih explOrer, departed' by see , . plane last week .'for the Spitzliergen, group Of Norwegian, Arctic islands; to stag a polar: expedition to 'eager- tairi whether firm .land exists be- twben ,Spitihergen and North Green- , Koch, Who has. ObierVed:'-the area frein• the ',air; centendsthat, front a geographical viewpoint,'there probably is, land there, because the 'northern and *::.'eastern • Alp -chains Would intersect, between Spitzbergen and North" Greenland. , ,• . Saw It Once Far Off .. ' Dr': Koch's ..incle; captain P. Voeli,'repelled.... in :;1907 he had :sighted land. Members Of -another expe.dition in 1912 :said they had Se.en' itbut enly.,.at: a. 'distance. Last winter, Soviet,. explorers drifting down from the: North Pole on an ice fide thought they . sighted ,land through the Arctic darkness. • The Danish government has: plaeed the. vessel Gustav Holni at .vdit ..se0e as 4 base of loperations which '1Dr. Koch file's from ;Spitiber-- „gen to Peary -Land arid bablc,paSaing, over the area where. the, existence of land is suspected.• .• : . PhOlogi:aphielSurVey • . If Dr. yoc sights no land, fowl theair. a co'inPletephotograPhic sur- vey `will be undertaken from Peary Land.. • ,' , The Spitzbergen .oreup, ries, about, 400 lnilee off the ,eXtreine northern: "coast of Norway and abbot the:Same, distance:West Of Peary Lend; wideli is the'northerninbet tip of North Greenland,. 456 Miles' frorn:the:NOtly . • ke tare Of the petice,"'goel the Old •sayitig., •One' young American undergraduate has •jtiat taken a' European hOliday on the savingS, 12 years -tall in coppers and thktis "1 saved foi a tinN, day—not• rainy orte,"*Was htr otn1111nt• •• • . 0.r.r•rrrrrrr Not To Be sneOe4.At. )..Onterlo is Platinhig a -drive agains hay Sever and. that is 'a movereen that ia not to be. sneezed at.—Peter. ,boreugh. Examiner, ' . OF GO To Grandma's ,funeral• r of . tie The provineK,doinetroller' t. • Mice reveals that 'every,. ditizen 'of On tarlo works 54 days a year to support the government." it ,we itnew 'Which (Jaya of the year they were, we might be, tempted to stay home on some of them.7,.t. J. P.,th Stratford 'Beacon! Herald. , —o-7- . . , The Good Old Days.. • Serneone, euggesti that whenwe be. pining,for •the'"good old daYs!" we •should 'run the atttomobile Into the lake throw the radio into the garbage can, tear the: telephone off: the wall And throw the tieetric Itght switch. ,out of the windoW. Yea,and take the airplane 'down- out, Of . the sky , while we hitch up the ox team —Lethbridge Herald. r Canadians Ate. Less, Meat The Canadian" people consumed porkIn 1931 than_beet.and_veal„,_ This .was the experience in. 1936; bit in 1935 'and 1934 they ,consumed More beef than pork. In /937 the consurnp• . . (ion of pork was 6.4.35 pounds per cap- .itaas-a-oalast:16-;89-ponncladtheef and. Th '" II i ankt.l.re I 1936.}. was 67.08 .pounds.per. capita and of beef and veal:60.48 ponnds. On the , whole therefore,' the Canadian people' ate, less meat last Yearthan they did in the 'pr,evipus Year, -St. Catharines Standard. • . ,. • The: • As Spring opens up andmetorin for -pleasure or business becomes mere Intensive, . the hitclkhilthig pufsande., increases.' .Few people .object to giY- ing a 1lift to some needy person; but the galling- part (with emphasis on: the gall) is that most of thewould be riders are people who Can Well .afford, to :pay their' . way. They use simply this', means Of transportation that they 'May..he spared the ,purdhase of a ticket on, recognized carriera..-,--St-Ithornas Times Journal ". !•. . •Araridthe.,Natioris• - la, Washington, where there.,is mere, talk. than Usual aboutarmarnentS, they.. have been 'compilingtiateLomthe-na-Val strengtbs Of vatiellS nStleils• The Spviet Russia, it appears, lias the 4.5.,9- Of then], ital,Y. P9113eagiecOad, wlth 84 ships builtand,1.4":hinkling, France 411::OP9'2. .04; A4taltino.071?e'retr1213.1e,17.i!a:ie411:1' 4Qur;e°' 'Odor -Sea • craft, in the werld, today than diirlag the height. of sabinarizie Warfare in 1917,Ottawa.Journal Pull:for tIe Prairies • ••: Faith la, theprairies is. nOt confined to .these who dwell on these once. fer- tile ,grain lands, for 'Senator Oa C. rains, ..w4b -knows the. prairies „from, 'former, residence Until lago In the West, .voices‘ the, opiulou that,: given rein: 'hi June and July, the :prEiiries can raiae. 'the linest Wheat in ', the . • , • , An, that opinion she is simply ex- pressing thegeneral view held by far- mers in' the, West. They knb'w that given reasonablo-weether 'cep:did:Mae- dtiring ..the ,tne land will yield. an abundant crop, ,but they also are aware, -•frotr.4, itter expert.: leinttelee; otrbnaot 02uierldge..r,:aildrbeetigli.e:peecotplittiregon4. 'tbe. land.—Moose Jaw Timehlournar,.. Australia's Warning Iri .every democracy the public mast newaddress, itself to •the...realities of 11-th,tre9.1,..:hemeirawarylice ea Is , problematical; , but this mach may be ,proclaiined as 'certain,' that unless the opponents—Whereyer they' May he fplind—of -Thge in internatieilq danger, trio chances.. of aVerting ulti- mate .,war must be cei..ntecl negligible. W e ditist face .the vital ;tact' that Ger - Many, 'Italy. Anil ..lapen are today mos bilized for war. In' .the,'Mediterran4n (Spain), in China in ,AuStria, without declaration of bOatilities, defying tree. ties •and ;careless in 'excusee, they are .simply ravaging defenceless neighliers for 'their! own gain,. In each .of these veatures -no Itinit Is set to the olijec• tiVes; and . no,-..spectittir can propound a formula . for diplomatic bargelniog,. in cheek to thia,..process, which will not leave the marauder ttli at 'least, a_part of his loot,...Thie-we,regard as the grayest aspect of .t.fie. wood situ: atiorr in its .challengenew unmistaii- abletO eVery. people ' that possesses anything , worth coveiting.',. 'The moral t) us here in Australia is ineiCaPable. —Syd neyi-He r aid. ' • • • • Selling Our Wheat ln Many Countries Canada Is'Again.WOrrying About the Problem Of :.World :Markets With prospects :for the hest. Cana..., :tla'an wheat 'crop in „many • years ' eyes' YOf.the growers thin again to the .probi lem of world maikets S quickly cfoes .the Picttire shift that,:natione once re- garded is,•formida.ble, competitors T0. export may be forced by a •bad .seasOn. to le•ok..-fOr• imports, And some of the; competitorwhich the Dominion •fear- ed- iriOst not long age, nothbly:RilSeitt, .h:avebeen forced by Internal ' &Matti. ons to 'sleeken . pressure it . selling. nbroad, shys. the Hamilton Spectator. ' United nitidoin. Best .cuStomer.- • . . . .nr.rhie.Conneetion the figures' isSued. ly tie:Canadian -beard Of 'Grain .01inz„. thieSionera. Covering exports: , for . the crop ,year. 1936,37 are, reVealing, • It Is shown.Lthat. /240 united riagdom Is, still Our hest wheat chetorner, 'a feet Which is •frequently' overlooked, The. ..oself-eutilciency!” 'drive •whidh has led. :Franee and .'ClerMany to 'grOW—even at great cost—the wheat they.,need, ' has Cut .&.o*n thee (Mee substantial . , customers of the .Doniiniencs. grain to - 'relatively ;small, linyera, • Poi. 'our . total, exports,. of 146,886,1,72 bushels ehlef destinations:Were As. fol- --,7).-6,994;766 '• . . 6,900,636 , ?ranee ' 6,255,301 ' 'Italy. • 4;887,132 Lrish Free:State • 4,507;684., Denmark . . 4,491,399.: . Nor3vaY - _ Gerrhany ••:•,••1 ...eii 3.76-4,40..;6 -"," 80%604i -id . ,366;092 Preece . i ,44 ' 2,137;226 Morocco •SePtin . .. 1,762,406 Finland . Catiade shipped her Wheat direCt to thirty countries' in all, n commentary . On the 'extent and variety'of bur ''fckr- ---7? Si:16dr° Bit Ainan who bit his neighber'S deg has'ibeen used by the owner for tb"10: .datnages against probably loss Of the tutteidi; at Garkh, 'India.; Defendant 'idde'411ed that the' :doe -ottaf,41.0.--hiA; 86 he, soiled it ;bY the scruff.- of the .A-0' nod: atht,bit It„ toteaCh it i ..• • • 1 ne SHELF . By, ELIZABETtLEEDY. •"LITTLE LAMB" • By Dahris Martin tit large and:winsome pictures and with .one of those .chiming little stories, that. :repeat, the plight of a' steal! :lamb whose woolly coat came Off in patchesis unfolded ,,here for very small people, Baba did notlike the idea at all; . he :had been, ' all white, all oyer.. He Was new ,begin- ,ning to showi , pink .spots where :the Skin had no wool at all. it: did ' not, . look .right • to •• him, and .he ,did not think it lookedrightt anybody. So he went to the merchant .for a new Coat,' and this Worthy sent him to the. tailor, and he to the Weever, with at: last the shepherd,‘, melted by the tears of Baba—and anything more .moving., than this. picture Of Baba in , tears it would be hard for a baby to find--aent hitt' to Black Sheep. "That. wise arimal laughed and laugh-. . ed. • Baba's n,eiv• Coat Was corning in; this was Why the Old one wag coining out in spots and the story ,ends with a skipping • lamb singing about hs brand-new Coat, white.„As,11144,soft„,„ ,AlthOugh the atoty is for very „lit- tle•Iisteriera, the Pictures :will be ap- pealing, to almost any child'up•to and including the age when first teeth begin; to we;lt idose. "Little Lamb,'' by bahris Martin. Pictures in 'color' by Lilly Somppi,' 36 pp." ' TOronto.:- `Musson :13nok $1:75, • • /Spanish Silvet Paves Old Mexican' Streets Streets of --several --Mc,dean min - trig. towns liteal1y arid paved wth , silver, the National •Geographic ciety reports. . , . ' . "tatty .Spanish processes .of; ep- arating ilor froirr the ordwer'e crude.. and left retleh sliver. in 'the, tailing," the poci,etk said, - "rhe ,t tailings 'oft..etv were used for road'sur'=, t -lacing; ..*.irdn'..the Slitter , Content is. fmrtictilarly ' the, "tailings are due up and 4,e-swerked,''' , ewer ine ... oi.e-Japanese. 0-B..iitiFh Columbia, Survey Re., --,--,-, ve45 ,-,— Latter' Race IS Spread- ing Y.P.41Y ' . ./...„... , , The Japanese segment ia Azif.11v. ing, r 1!n.P1413.7: on ?British. CeistnPrin'.ii , tacier.chart• . : '. • • , ' 11,•Ritloeg134:.:.atrilrhec:timean:.g.013hwtullortifetaliet:ht!he:Boparrisra.t.tical. cOlcait'i7,0'orSiv9P:eitmn4cbaeerid'a:'.:..: population is shown in. a statistical , Picture; arnwn bY A.. W. Carrothers '- found the 'Japanese population in- ; Creased 85 ,per Cent: in the' past 15 '. years, . It has 'heengoing ahead' at • .. the rate of aPPreiciniately • 700 : year. M• 'of' c ---•.:Tap' WOMen IiH'erel'' ., 'Meanwhile the .Chinese population, ,•,; „under' preSsure, of .:stiff immigration • - restrictions, lies been decreasing at ... therate of nearly 1,000..a•year. Chi:, ' • nese now number ' only about .19,500 '- ic9mePhasroenr d: forthewith n 25,878Japanese. ietseESin the Japanese , popUlatiOn 1, and- -,cle7 ' crease among the Chinese are these:, ; Women Makeup a large .proportion , of Japanese inainigration; Japanese . make. their bodies% here. and hr,hig .. , out their,. wives: The, birth: izate,-;'.4of high—bout 25. in'every 1,,090,......dii- nese keep their ,theirwiveS:in-;:htie, ' ' '. . ' icon land, Obedient to.tradit (._„....tbe.chk, -nisi:- Man 'returns to his own, soil to die near his familY: Illustrative ofthis tiferid;'govern- , • -' •A , ..; inqnt iltailStiCS Show thae ate.A.I,I5, Japanese,. weni'en, 'in , ,Sti'fish.1coliini- 'Ilia; enly:2,525.7chint,$'a .4„ijuiii6i. , !event f Immature Legislation Is urged to Curb The OfitariO . Thesuggestiozi .has been Mad,: '-bY the COnservation' iand 'reforestation • . • . , committees that sanction from sbme authority be obtained. 'b,efo're .ture WoOd...grOvVtii could be cut. in Ontario,. Says _the.% Farmer's•! Adve- • , Th?, • thought—, htuik .of the "rocani.,... mendation, twin:oh:4)# ' the'N.utting of immature wood growth Is AO "Von. - serve our forest . and woodlots and , not Allow thein .to be. slaughtered'' by timherilianters, too many of Whorp think only of immediate gain, Th,, - are, now rrieri. who hae made- a liv- ing out of buying ',standing tiniber. who are ready to endorae the recom- mendation. „ because triercharitable . 'timber is becorning so scare° that their Jiv11hcjod is. -threatened Thousands .of Acres Cut Over 'Certainly the proposed' legislation • , w"tlidinbrie°rt'ogr63.:eoeS.21for'raWsotod.'Parrut,6hibire-t.. the property, owner taking out need- eci., pairs. The i•eguletion?Ought ieven. ,tO„ I.Pbeu:rnh ceifrivueintoar... . that treatment itwould' be More . *-prOfitable. to „What it. Shonici prevent. is 'thousends[„Of acres- -- over „land, ivirhed and uAdles.s. '\ In' the +opiniori.', Of the '.Farmers • Advocate the 'reeve or the "clerk ,Of tho, totsinallip",shoUld-',;,be the One to _decide When iininature wpod growth should ' or ,should not be cut.' Absent- Mindedness . . It Will Astound You to Learn of "TThheC Thwgs Tat Office Turn Up In • AS ,a •general. thing, ,where. absent. ; mindedness Is mentioned :ooe'S, mind reverts to 'eollege:p:rofessere, old. indri SndoIcl wdmeh, • but Jir'Londati, absent,. . •,inbidednese 3s,Jrespeasible for a •very . :thriving .ind,ti'et-ry: ' s. And that,isi.th6. hest 'Property Offide of the London Passenger Transport , Board. Situatedlit baker. Street; iri that elty ,Thia. office ' ponSiste Of •an Im- men.se 'three sioreY :WarehouSe.',.FrOnis 7 .. • . • • • .this office .each,' night a fleet Of lorries • ' goes but 'to coll�ct lost. lropertr that" ,ha, been foinid at 'un'tierground, .hus. and train. dopot all dvei London., ,Soft .1-fate:.to 'steel' Helmets • f•rem' hildnightkonthese lOrries hoe' 4: to,:headquartere, loaded W.'. Capaeity..: 'with -71-litt`.'at'zi.iils.tedF1i'dfrifeta;.-",filiiii--einijhi -- drone' to mixed Pieltlea; from fur': . Coats to football beets.; frOin , • horse, pistals: to silk stocking, `, Soine Idea' of the itninetisityet thisi Industry Can be gathered -from' the fig..1 urea 'Of .the rapt: 'flrianelal .ettiternent. which records that Within the paetil-j" twelvd.'men the tITe Lost ProPerty.''Of-Y,'.• lice tea:tittered 112,972 unibrellas„ 49,, 6:99::paire: gloves and 19,79$ .single gloves;; 88,611 pieces of clothing; 2r 949 Attache etieec. 24669 .bookW'aiit 168 plecee: • of ...Undefined...property., In • Parcele,'6,895.' pant ot spectacles; 78 005 "Aiti°8+ 'all4 '2'017 ditS• ferdilt pieceof foodatliffe indludifig In Pohltrrartrelifieet all,..there were 348,477•artielee. . , Usually An Umbrella , It. Is .hattly to he .1!ieittlered at that but oe,these b1Il1oii of traVelera,. there., Wereetilhe theimands. of ahseue4iiind- , ed' persons, , Andin theory.. it Moans: hat; every minute arida halt of every laY, In the year.,,,'s.etrie.'absentitnindeti,' bed' leaVes soniethiag behind 111 tube, „ boa, or treini and . every five 'ininlItee. hie Senietifing Is an •11