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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., AUG. 18, 1935 ^Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . BOON FOR BUSINESS: If the West's 1938 wheat crop turns out to be as bumper as predicted, our, prairie farmers are going to have money in their pockets again--to spend, to pay their debts with. Canadian business will be given a big lift. It will help the railways out, too. Both the C.N.R. and the C.P.R. have long been saying that if the West could grow just orie good crop, the revenues resulting from heavy freight hauling would cut operating losses and substantially reduce the railways' indebtedness. MATTER OF FACT--Little good though the Runciman mission to Czechoslovakia is likely to do, (the Czechs didn't even ask Prime Minister Chamberlain to send him), this much is certain, that, while he is on the scene studying the situation and preparing to arbitrate between Germany and Czechoslovakia, Hitler cannot afford to make an open move against the little republic. 'Twould be a bad breach of manners for him to do any such thing at a moment when he is courting the favor of the British. The delay may be maddening to hint, but Herr Hitler will just have to stand aside politely till Lord Runciman's through. But then, boys, ah! then .... WE'RE BEAUTIFUL--The well-known English landscape painter, F. M. de la Coze, arrived in Canada for the first time, is full of praises for our country. He had no idea it was so beautiful. by Peter Randal Neither had some of us. We are used to thinking that far-away fields are greener, more lovely than our own. We have developed an inferiority complex on the subject of our own country and its beauties; we roll our eyes in the direction of Europe or the States instead. Now that someone who should know has told us unequivocally that Canada is beautiful, we may learn to believe it, to feel pride and joy in our Canadian countryside, our own particular sweet corner of On- BEHIND SCHEDULE--The Chinese may not be such hot fighters but they are managing to hold their own against the Japanese invasion. Their aim now is not to drive the Japs out of the country in a big offensive but to draw them further and further afield till the Nipponese war machine can be finally stalled. When the undeclared war began, the Japanese military heads had a schedule doped out which must be theirs. They expected the campaign to last but a couple of months. Now, more than a year later, when Chinese resistance has slowed up the scheulde to a point where it can scarcely be said to work any longer, the Japanese chances of success are becoming smaller and smaller. THIS WEEK'S QQUESTION -- How many Eskimos are there in the Dominion of Canada? Indians? Answer: 6,000 Eskimos and 123,000 Indians (approximately). NAMES the NEWS 08- ing gr Xavier (the c wn interests is the me public-spirited Irisli-C; n a farmer himself (ne: Ontario) and trained from liest age to the problems of 3". He ha3 had plenty of ex-e in co-operation, too, hav-•.dunted from St. Francis University, Antigonish, N.S. adle of co-operation in Can-ind from tha Ontario Agri-I College, Guclph. In 1925 wie manager of the Oxford ■alive ad- vanced it to first rank among such enterprises in Canada. He has also been a successful Secretary-Treasurer of the Woodstock Agricultural Society. "Educate the People" Always interested in people and events, Mr. Dewan was inevitably drawn to politics. In 1931 he won a seat on the Woodstock City Council; in 1934 entered the Ontario Legislature as Liberal member for Oxford; following last autumn's election he was chosen by the Pre-, mier as Minister of Agriculture. . Mr. Dewan would like to see the mass of our rural people live prosperous and happy lives. Co-operation, in his fervent belief, would help to bring about that end. His mission is to educate the people to its value; he would like to have a staff of instructors go out into the Province on an educational crusade for the co-operative movement, but in this he is sadly handicapped because the government isn't prepared to spend money on such a project. (Not only farmers but people generally would benefit by participation in co-operatives, Mr. Dewan says). Wants Wheat Pegged Again,^ the Minister of Agricul- on the farm, rural life be At, present, Mr. Dewan is urging the federal government to set a minimum price for payments to Ontario wheat producers, as well as to western growers. He points out that the price for Ontario wheat now ranges from 35c to 65c, instead of 80c, per bushel. More gold is being mined Australia than a year ago. New Brunswick's Silver Salmon 600 Miles of Coastline Provide Rare Sport for Anglers If there is one species in particular to which the Province of New Brunswick owes its inclusion on the angler's map of the world it is the Atlantic silver salmon. Although small in area when compared with the Central and Western Provinces, New Brunswick is blessed with 600 miles of Atlantic coastline. On the south the tides of Fundy lash her shores from Passamaquoddy Bay to the Isthmus of Chignecto. Northumberland Strait lies between the New Brunswick east coast afd Prince Edward Island; and Bay Chaleur, that inreaching arm of the open Gulf separates the north coast from the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. Patients Arise After Operation Rumanian Surgeon Has Been Successful With New Method Of Treatment -- Believes It Unnecessary to Stay In Bed. In a hospital at Brasov, Rumania, a man was operated on for the re; moval of his appendix. As sooii as the operation was completed he got up from the table and acted as assistant to the surgeon at the same kind of an operation on the following patient. This is not an unusual situation at Brasov. Here the great majority of the patients get up from the operating table, dress, walk to their room or out into the garden and remain ambulant instead of going to bed. Dr. Livius Campeanu, surgeon at the hospital, has been working for years under the theory that it is not only unnecessary for patients to remain in bed for long periods of time after an operation, but that it is beneficial for them to walk around. A Psychic Stimulant Since 1934 Dr. Campeanu has performed 3,150 abdominal operations in which the patients left their beds on the day following the operation. Since the beginning of 1937, encouraged by his earlier results, he has had patients, operated on under local anesthetics, get on their feet from the operating table. When operations are performed under spinal or general anesthesia* the patients are on their feet thei second day. They return < enth or eighth day for removal oj stitches. Dr. campeSiu states, * to a report on his work in "TJ Journal of the American Medical/ Association," that getting up immediately after an operation is a psychic as well as a physical stimulant and curtails the duration of disability. Among the 1,300 pati ents operated on since January 1937, there have been three deaths Desert Yields 1848 Skeletons Believed to Be Of Eight Men Who Went on Expedition Into Interior of Australia The skeletons of eight men, believed to be members of an expedition led by a German explorer, Friedrich Leichareit, which left Moreton Bay, on the Queensland coast, in 1848, to cross the continent and disappeared in the interior, have been found in the Simpson Desert in the northern part of South Australia by a ranch-owner while rounding up cattle. Grouped In a Circle Seven of the skeletons were grouped in a circle, suggesting that the men were around a camp-fire when they were surprised by blacks and speared. The eighth skeleton lay two miles away and the presumption is the wounded man fled and later fell exhausted and expired. The expedition was last reported at Innaminaka, just over the South Australian border, thirty miles east of where the skeletons were found. The South Australian Government is organizing an expedition to examine the skeletons, comprising an anthropologist, ethnologist, surveyor and a cinematographer. It is believed that torrential rains probably uncovered the skeletons. Campaign Against Hatless Germans a Hat" Hard-up Germans have been economizing and joining the hat-less brigade, with the result that there has been a terrific drop in the sale of hats. Apart from an intensive advertising campaign, women are being asked not to walk with For Seagram Gold Cup It : the Last year, as the cut shows, Ralph Guldahl got his ham Seagram Gold Cup but that was all. Lighthorse Harry Cooper, Hamilton boy, got the cup, the $5,000 cash and the Canadian ( championship. Now Guldahl is burning up U. S. golf courses, the U. S. Open title, winning the Western Open and leading al stars as point winner of this year. He's one of the biggest tl this year's Canadian title, to be played at Mississauga-Toronto ust 18 to 20. So, for that matter, is Cooper, and there are a other threats, including ace golfers from Bermuda and So.it coming for the first time to Canada. :e golf :is for dUg<i vo hundred empty cotton Brazil has ordered in mrance mills in England have been con- companies not to agree :o pay verted into new factories. losses in foreign currenci wind Voice o La'ge the P Canada The reSS Empire CANADA MAKE STARLINGS WORK If the starlings present with us in such numbers would only take it into their heads to dine on army worms, their reputation would improve immensely. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. WITHOUT THE TURKEY Thanksgiving Day will be held in October again. The great trouble with a thanksgiving on that date is that the turkey crop is not ripe while the cranberries are scarce.--Guelph Mercury. TELL THE PLAIN TRUTH We wonder whether it would have a salutary effect if the newspapers, instead of calling these deplorable affairs accidents, v»ere to state plainly that someone was the cause of his own death or that of someone else. It might-Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. - THREE EXPLANATIONS Woman near Belleville has a hen which laid an egg with three yolks in it. Our poultry expert says any one of three things can explain that: (1) the hen does not know how to count, (2) she is a trifle ambitious, or (3) she is short of shells.--Peterborough Ex POLL TAX FOR WOMEN Barrie town council has endorsed the proposal te make women who earn over $100 a year, subject to the same municipal poll There sally the why there should be discrimination between in taxation than there is in giving employment. Some lay the provincial legislators may lave courage enough to place both ipon equal terms in the matter of poll tax. In the meantime, the fair sex have little cause to worry over ;he matter,--Barrie^Examiner. ^ The ^EMPIRE NO DEATH FOR ME Five hundred and thirty-six people were killed, twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight injured on the roads last month. These, figures will not mean much to you. You know you are a careful driver. You know you walk delicately. People read of the casualties on the roads as they used to read of the casualties in the war. You always think the other fellow will get it. Never yourself.--Daily Express, London. Where Dopesters Are Registered -There are 30,000 reg'steiei opium smokers in the Straits Set- tlements. One i 3 an American, an- other a Belf;iai whose names are not mentioned. Then there are 29,500 Chinese with a sprinkling of other Easte -n races. The sale of opium is a State monopoly and buyers must regis- ter each purch AGRICULTURE on cattle, H magnificent live-F stock of every description! 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