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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS; COLBORNE, ONT APRIL 14, 19*8 Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . PRECOCIOUS YOUNGSTERS--Just twenty-three hours after her birth, a baby girl in New Bedford, Mass., had two fully developed teeth extracted from her lower jaw, this week. A couple of days before, we had heard of a six-months-old child coming successfully through an appendicitis operation, another medical record. Must be the accelerated pace of modern life that is responsible. Eh, doctor? By Elizabeth Eedy STILL OUT OF REACH--Winning mothers in the Millar Will Derby have not yet caught sight of the wealth which has purportedly been coming to them ever since eccentric Charles Vance Millar of Toronto died, 12 years ago, nor are they likely to see it till on in 1939. Appeals lodged against court rulings have been made by two mothers (Mrs. Pauline Clark, Mrs. Lillian Kenny); appeal is also being made against the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada that Millar's next of kin are not entitled to share in the money. The latter case would have to be heard before the Privy Council. Until these appeals are disposed of, the four mothers will have to wait EMEP'-^NCY DICTATOR --At an historic session of China's Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) meeting in Hankow last week to place the poli-tica! organization of China on a wartime basis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was formally invested with sweeping political authority amounting to dictatorial powers. Already Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese armies resisting the Japanese invasion, General Chiang now holds in addition a post of great power that has been empty since the death of Dr. Sun fourteen years ago--he is supreme leader of the nation. The Kuomintang's position in China is similar to that of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia, and the Fascist Party in Italy. Although individual leaders have challenged its claims to supreme authority, there are no rival parties. This granting to General Chiang of virtual dictatorship is a departure from the party's former line of action which heretofore has shied away from the concentration of power in the hands of an individual. The immediate aim of the move is to create a stronger and more united front than ever against Japanese gres EASTER FINERY--Sales of women's hats, coats, dresses, shoes, and the other feminine doodads that accompany the new spring costume are up, this year of Grace 1938. Toronto retailers say that buying is definitely heavier than last year and business is better. The same apparently goes for ready-to-wear merchants throughout Ontario. As an index of general business activity, however, such findings are not too reliable. After all, Easter is three weeks later this year .... "TOTALITARIANISM" DOMINANT --Eight months ago when she began her war in China, Japan was not generally considered to be a Fascist state. Since then, it has rapidly become so although the last stages of fascisa-tion within the country may not yet have taken place. Last week after a fearful struggle in the Japanese Parliament (Diet), militarism gained formal control of the government with the passing of four measures designed to extend state control to the limit. The National Mobilization Bill is the most important of these, placing the life and property of the lowliest citizen, as well as the greatest corporation, in Government hands during "time of war or national emergency." The important point is this -- through declaration of a condition of emergency, the Government may at any time expropriate personal goods of the average citizen, impress him into "national mobilization work", deny him- the right of free speech, suppress his newspaper or close his bank. --o-- NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE--After the first outburst of indignation at Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of appeasement of the dictators, public anger against him appeared to die down in the Old Land. True, the Opposition continued to move votes of censure against the Government, stormy scenes took place in the House on an average of once a week and the National Labor Council issued a mnifesto calling for a general election. But nothing happened. Where the National Government is going to strike a real snag, however, is when it attempts to step up re-armament to the new unprecedented levels. Prime Minister Chamberlain will first have to obtain the consent of the trade union heads before he can initiate the program. Their refusal to co-operate would a^T**" prove snt at this tim He Grew Tomatoes Under The Snow Farmer Furnishes Home With Produce Growing corn in a novel hot house, with walls of snow was the recent feat of R. G. Chase of Milestone, 50 miles south of Regina. He told of his feat in a letter to a Regina newspaper. Heavy snowfall gave him the idea, he wrote. He woke one December morning to find his farm buildings almost buried in snow. Thawed Out In Tunnel "So I dug a good wide tunnel from the house door to the barn and put in some skylights with some old storm-sashes. I found the barn so warm I was obliged to leave the door open and the inner snow of the tunnel started to melt. "It wasn't long until the ground thawed out and small weeds started to grow. "I then worked up the ground on both sides of the path and planted corn and vegetables. I found the soil to be fairly blushing with fecundity. It was kept continually moist by the slowly melting snow and the climate was most salubrious. "The growth in this tunnel has been extremely phenomenal and I kept furnishing the house with about everything that grows in a garden and had corn fodder enough to feed by stock until spring. "It seems hard to believe that it was the month of February as we had green corn on the cob every day and now expect tomatoes. Colossal Shell SYDNEY, N.S.W. -- A giant clam Shell--large enough to be used as a baby's bath--was on display in the American museum this week. The shell was found on a reef off the Gilbert Islands some months ago C. A. Swinburne who presented it to the museuffi. Museum Concholo-gjst, T. Iredale, described it as a 'beautiful specimen which may be anything up to 500 years old." The museum specimen weighs about 450 pounds, and is three feet two incies long by two feet one and ine half jncftes wid*. The concholo-glst said it was the largest specimen in any museum. Rheumatism Has Twenty Varieties Expert Discloses the Progress In Treatment--300,000 In Canada Suffer From Them Medical research has changed old-fashioned rheumatism into a modern complicated disease in which more than twenty separate types, requiring different treatments, have already been discovered. This was revealed to the Victorian Order of Nurses by Dr. Douglas Jay-lor last week at Montreal when the Royal Victoria Hospital expert estimated that there were approximately 300,000 in Canada suffering from chronic arthritis and rheumatic diseases. As a cause of disability rheumatic diseases, he said, outranked tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer combined, being only exceeded by all types of accidents. Much Can Be Accomplished Until recent years, Dr. Taylor stated, chronic arthritis, or rheumatism as it is more popularly known, had not been studied seriously, rjuicess-ful treatment depends entirely ipon a cwect diagnosis and study of the individual case. "There is no justification for the pessimism associated with this group of diseases. Much can be accomplished with proper treatment. Most of the crippling deformities can he prevented," Dr. Taylor said. "The great problem of rheumatic diseases can only be solved through the education of the public along the same lines as was followed in the combatting of tuberculosis. At present there is both a lack of facilities for the treatment of these diseases and a lack of funds to promote continued research." May Withdraw After War ROME.--The proposed British-Italian friendship treaty will bind Italy to withdraw troops from Spain after --but not before--the civil war is over, informed quarters said last week. Italy agreed to retire troops also from the strategically important Balearic Islands in the Western Mediterranean at the same time, these sources said, after another : eeting between negotiators, the Earl c Perth, British Ambassador, and Foreign Minister "--'it Ciano t" Italy. Japan's Thirteen Commandments Code For Proper Conduct of the People In Wartime Has Been Laid Down Thirteen "commandments" have been laid down for the Japanese people by the Central Federation of General Spiritual Mobilization as a code of proper conduct during war- "Spiritual mobilization" was instituted in the early months of the China fighting. It is designed to condition the people, mentally and spiritually, for the duties and sacrifices the Government believes necessary. The "thirteen commandments" Spiritual Mobilization 1. "Every morning, give prayers to the Imperial Grand Shrine and pray for the safety of the Imperial Family. 2. "Hoist the National Flag properly on holidays. 3. "Worship the deities and endeavor for the harmony of the family. 4. "Live on a budget, pay cash, save regularly and buy National bonds. 5. "Wear simple clothes and avoid foreign-style hair-dressing. 6. "Observe wedding, funeral and other home affairs simply but solemnly. 7. "Reform the mad custom of late to bed and late to rise. 8. "Economize on metal, wool, cotton, paper and fuel and utilize waste and other buried things. 9. "Endeavour to prevent fire and Thought Waves Are Just Sugar Burning Human thought hai been declared by a Harvard University scientist to be due probably to sugar burning in the brain and setting up r chain of chemical and electrical vibrations in It has long been known that the brain generates currents of electricity, some of which are associated with thinking and others with other functions of the body. Dr. Predeiic A. Gibbs told the American Physiological Society last week. Research at Harvard has recently shown that these waves are the result of chemical vibrations in the brain, and that the. "energy supply in the case of brain oscillations appears to be derived from the oxidation (or b-rning) of sugar." Like Tuning Forks Further studies on the electrical activity of the brain covering "indicate that it, and probably the whole of i C-llMl 1 chf l join together i form large oscillators" acting like tuning forks vibrating in harmony, Dr. fibs added. These chemical vibrations of the brain in turn p-oduce the electrical brain waves. In many mental diseases these waves become unbalanced. * prepare for air raids. 10. "Rear the children, to be strong in mind and body. 12. "Economize in drinking sake 13. "Be friendly to neighbors and help one another." "THE SEALERS" fall, not on their literal accuracy, but on their power to make us, who have never been in the Arctic ice, feel and see the whole thing. Peter Tutein has a naive manner all his own and it is remarkably effective. Mr. Tutein joined the Norwegian sealing steamer "Quest" in Bodo. Two winters in northern Greenland had only whetted the young Dane's appetite for the Arctic. No matter how bad the weather nor how poor the catch, the sealers always rejoin. They come back swearing they have enough, but next spring they sh Heaving Slush Ice When you are off on a voyage that lasts for months without a chance to get ashore, the last night before sailing means something. And the sealers can only get off the ship onto the ice, which is moving in all directions. Peter Tutein's account of seal hunting on the heaving slush ice is hair-raising. There is a thumbnail sketch of two of them crawling on all fours on the loose ice, their legs getting nipped now and then, when they heard a pup-seal crying. He says "There the little hinder parts half buried ir its foreflippers frantically b< air. Great tears were wellim eyes. We killed it and lay, its the ice, from its managed 3 the skin. On all somehow sides young seals were screaming, either from fear of going under or from sheer terror of the storm." Natural Simple Folk You learn about ice in this book. There is, for instance, pulp ice, which is like sinking into a bog. Horrible. Yet the sealers love it. They go back every year. Peter Tutein has made the life they lead into a most rear' Me book. There is nothing hard-boiled about him, r.or do we have to skip pages of hurricane swearing. It is all very natural. "They, are simple folk rnd they have the vast elemental outlines of the original Vikings. The icy seas are their natural element. This book, if the reader is not utterly sick of the world, is their modern saga. "The Sealers," by Peter Tutein, 247 pp. . New York; G. P. Putman's Sons. . . $2.50. * Take An Imaginary Journey To Moon Stunt Is Staged By Astronomy at Hayden Planetarium -- Done By Means of Projector. A new stunt in astronomy, a trip to the moon, was put on last week by the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History. Spectators at first saw the night sky and moon as it normally appears. Then with the aid of the projector and 2,000 square feet of painted scenes, they had the illusion of travelling through space toward the It grew larger by the second, until the spectators seemed to land in a moon crater. There they looked back at a sight which astronomers have verified, but which the human eye Blood-Red Halo This was the earth, a big black ball far larger than the moon, hanging in space, surrounded by a blood-red halo. The halo is the color of sunset, and is made by sunlight shining through the earth's atmosphere. It is visible to the mythical "man-in-the-moon" during eclipses. On the moon itself the spectators saw the jagged crags and mountains which telescopes disclose. They also looked back, on their return trip, to volcanic eruptions and huge meteors crashing against the moon. Astronomers are in doubt whether eruptions or meteors caused the moon's craters. VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of th* P !H s s CANADA Good Drivers Rewarded The safe driver is being recognized in the United States. Soon he will be able to buy, on a much broader scale than ever before, liability insurance on his automobile on terms which offer rewards for avoiding accidents.--Calgary Herald. Starting Early A writer in Belleville Intelligencer makes timely comment upon the prevalence of profanity among young-people. At that, however, they may not be starting so young as in bygone days, for we read in Scripture that Job cursed the day he was born. --Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Contented Canadians Cigarettes released for consumption in Canada in February totalled 476,291,960, against 418,344,845 in February last year. The cigar totals were 9,602,502 and 7,275,795, respectively. If smoking is a solace, Canadians seem to be growing more contented.--Montreal Gazette. .."aster of Bohemia" Bismarck once said that "whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Today no one is master of Bohemia and the mastery of Europe is an uncertainty that brings the danger of war close to everyone. Bohemia is now a part of Czechoslovakia, that part of Czechoslovakia peopled by the Sudeten Germans. The affairs of the Sudeten Germans may yet plunge the world into war. Bohemia is the curient centre of the rapidly-shifting trouble map and the actions of its people are likely to have results of the greatest importance-on people in far lands who hardly realize the Sudeten Germans exist.--Halifax Chronicle. Planting With Optimism If favorable weather prevails, other month will see Alberta farmers on the land and Spring work for the 1938 season fairly well launched. There is a degree of hopefulness manifest in the province this year which was not in evidence to the same extent in immediate past y< This is due to the improved moisture conditions and the expectation that a series of wet years is in sight. The' farmer is a natural optimist, particularly in the Spring of the year. He would need to be in view of the adversity experienced in many parts of the province since 1930.--Calgary Herald. S y Ideal Of Free Speech A great deal of human betterment is due to rebels, agitators and martyrs, people who wanted to improve existing conditions, and said so, and often died for it. If the idea of free speech had always prevailed--if free speech had always been permitted in the world's doing's--there would have been less rebellion, less bloodshed less martyrdom, and we think probably far greater advance for humanity. With this thought, we have hope for advance in the future, notwithstanding the temporary crushers of free speech in Europe--notwithstanding the Fascists and Nazis who would crucify Communists rather than let them talk, and the Bolsheviks who would crucify Fascists and Nazis Free speech is a principle of the English-speaking world. That principle will prevail.--Ottawa Journal. "The blind do not need to be coddled; they do not need to-be treated differently from ordinary people." Will Erect This $3,000,000 Memorial on Site in Washington THE EMPIRE Mischief In the Mediterranean How the full implication of Italian and German intervention in the affairs of Spain could escape the minds of ordinary right-minded citizens is a sheer amazement, the aim and ob; ject being almost without pretence of purer purpose, the aggrandisement of Italy in the Western Mediterranean, with a special eye to the entrance gate :• If the "Nationalist" cause triumphs, Italy will be in the enviable-position of a first mortgagee o:' Spain, with a controlling voice in her home and foreign affairs. The trc-asure which has been outlaid, demands the best security, and the interest:; of the principal creditor will assuredly come first. Spain, and the Western Mediterranean, for long enough, if not for always, will be under Fascist domination. With a puppet State situated strategically thus, as Manchoukuo is the puppet of Japan, it can become directly the tool of an aggressive policy. The Balearic Isles, for instance, either by lease or cession, or according to the secret clauses of a treaty, would become utilizable as submarine and aircraft bases for Italy, and are so situated athwart he sailing path between Algiers and the French southern coast that a serious threat to the safety of the communication line is at once supplied.--The Fortnightly, (London). Quintuplets' New Brother CALLANDER, Ont. -- The quintuplets have a new baby brother. A boy arrived last week at the lonely Dionne farmhouse, the 12th living child of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. Government Ownership of Mines LONDON.--The House of Commons has approved and sent to the House of Lords the Government's bill calling for public control of Great Britain's coal industry. The measure provides that eventually the Government would assume ownership of all coal resources in Great Britain through purchase of privately owned coal rayaltieS Miff-ramitatj-- and compulsory amalgamation of col- Giant National Development Plan OTTAWA four-y • progra for the National development of the Dominion with a possible expenditure of $25,000,000 per year is now under r ^deration by the Federal Administration, it was learned from usually reliable sources this week. A Cabinet Committee of four, it was reported, has been assigned to work out details of the plan, a part of which was outlined in general terms to the House of Commons last week by Hon. Norman McLeod Rogers. Refugees -and Here NEW YORK.--A group of German and Austrian refugees arrived here this week to accept the United States' offer of political asylum. For the most part the arrivals were a stolidly quiet and bewildered lot. Most spoke no English and the exact number who could be classified - actual fugitives from their hor Js was impossible of determination. Must Leave Country HOLLYWOOD.--Capt. Leopold Mc-Laglen, former British army officer and brother of Victor McLaglen of the movies, was sentenced this week to one to five years imprisonment for an attempt to extort $20,000. He was granted probation on condition that he return to England and not come back to America for five Fighting Near Shanghai SHANGHAI. -- Chinese guerrilla bands are striking close to Shanghai at Japanese invaders already fully occupied on the Central China front. Japanese officers told of one of the Chinese assaults by more than 1,000 raiders who gathered fifteen miles southwest of Shanghai and at'eched Japanese near Sungkiang. Japanese said the band suffered 300 casualties b •■ it melted awy to near-by vill- In another attack near Sungkiang, Chinese were s?id to have ambushed a truck and killed ten Japanese offi- Bread should be stored in a cool dry place in a well ventilated receptacle kept scrupulously clean with frequent washings. Rinse with clear, scalding water and if possible dry in the sunshine. Any molded bread that is allowed to remain in the box may contaminate the fresh loaf, too. Do not store cake and bread in the same container.