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THE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONTARIO, THURS., SEPTEMBER 9th, 1937 VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Action Must Follow The Royal Commission on public finance and provincial relations, headed by Hon. N. W. Rowell, will probably bring down a valuable report. But its value to the country ivill depend on what action is taken on it. The people, we feel, are rather tired of that evasiveness in facing big issues which has marked the treatment of the railway and other problems.--Financial Times. Real Forest Folk Wanted The Premier of Quebec declares that he wants a forestry population, people who live and grow up in the forests in contrast to the exploiters of forest wealth. It is a statesmanlike conception, the cornerstone of prosperity and stability.--St. Cathar Jnes Standard. Achievement When a country with not more thafr-11,000,000 population exports its products to the tune of almost $100,-000,000 in a single month it seems to ns that this can be considered something of an achievement. Think of what Canada would be accomplishing, at home and abroad, if our population were somewhere nearer what it should be--say 30,000,000.--Windsor Star. It Takes Time To most Canadians, the formula for creating a dictator requires only an armed uprising, a march on Rome or a beer-cellar putsch. Actually, those things are merely the climax of a long preparatory period of secret plotting and chicanery, a covert seige of buying off and promising, of dodging and playing with loopholes in the constitutional law.--Vancouver Sun. Wants Scientific Investigation The East is ready to make any reasonable contribution to a scheme which will aid Canada as a whole. It has all kinds of sympathy for the west in its present difficult circum-stances, but surely no part of Canada would seriously consider embarking again on the wild and uncharted ocean Of extravagance in view of the sad lessons of the past. There is no objection to treating the drought prob-OB_a_grand scale, for it is a huge problem. But it is imperative that scientific investigation and caution rather than mere enthusiasm be the basis for action--London Free Press. Ontario's Wild Asses When pursued by men in an automobile a wild ass of the Gobi desert maintained an average speed of 30 miles an hour for 16 miles In Ontario the wild asses do better than this but they use motor cars. -- St Thomas Times-Journal. Maple Products Down Production in Canada is generally increasing this year, but there is one sad exception, the lowest production m ten years of maple syrup and maple sugar.--Winnipeg Free Press. Mental Tests for Drivers Lots of people wouldn't be driving cars on the highways if they had to pass mental tests, too. - Stratford Beacon-Herald. A Let-Down Coming Colonel Drew's warning that Canada should prepare now for the end of the armament race is not the voice of a lone prophet. Men of vision are looking ahead to count the-cost, realizing that fictitious prosperity invariably brings retribution. There is no cause for alarm in the suggestion that when the vast expenditures on armaments cease there may be a let-down in general employment and production, but there is real reason for anticipating such an outcome.--Toronto Globe and Native Fruit is that the invasion of Can-iterlands by Baron Tweeds-i Governor General, has op- ened his eyes to one thing, the wi ders of the Canadian blueberry and the glories of blueberry pie. There is, indeed, something peculiarly fascinating about the blueberry, whose blueness is never so strikingly realized as when one stands knee-deep in the bushes with a sea of the most lovely blue extending all around. There is another of our native fruits which is worthy of more consideration than it gets. That is the Saskatoon berry, which is found in more or less abundance all through northern Canada and grows on higher land than the blueberry. This wild berry is not so plentiful as the blueberry nnd requires more time and labor to pick. --Fort William Times-Journal. A Needed Enquiry For year, the necessity of such an Inquiry (on Dominion and provincial relations) has been seen. There has been steadily pressing need of bringing up to date the financial and ad- ministrative arrangements between the partners to Confederation. There have been repeated increases in the subsidies to individual provinces. In the Maritimes and the West there has been complaint of the incidence of taxation, tariff and otherwise. The financial difficulties of the Western provinces became so great in recent years that they were quite unable to carry on without aid from the Dominion. The business of this country has been hampered by uncertainly as to delimitation of Federal and Provincial jurisdictions. And the general desire for certain measures of social reform has been largely frustrated by difficulties over jurisdiction. The time was more than due whan the country should squarely face this whole situation and make those readjustments which are urgently required in view of the economic transformation of Canada in the last seventy years, the vast expansion of provincial services and the necessity of dealing with social problems as they have already been dealt with by many other countries.--Winnipeg Free Press. THE EMPIRE Changing China A mighty spiritual revival, more than anything else in my opinion, is drawing the people of China closer and closed together in the great cause of a united and unified nation. In every school, college and university; in every factory and business house; in the villages and in the great cities, the gospel of the New Life Movement is.being preached with a fervour and persistency which has reached the apex of a grand crusade for China's national renaissance. It is a movement unique in the history of the world; it constitutes an inspiring example to the materialistic West. That is one of the many lessons which China can teach the world. -- Hong Kong Press. Up to the Individual Road casualty lists are remorseless seers. It is forecast that in the coming holiday week at least 160 people will be killed on the roads of Great Britain. More than 5,000 will be injured. These were the figures for the same week last year. It is unhappily probable that this week they will be equalled, if not exceeded. New regulations and safer roads may or may not in the future check this grim figure, but the problem will be tackled with success only if every man and woman contributes personally in caution to the joint efforts that are being made. If you knew that in the coming week a major disaster which was to cost 150 lives was regarded as inevitable, you would ask why someone was not doing something about it. What are you doing about road accidents? Be extra careful yourself. You cannot have a spectacular result for your efforts, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that each day you are doing your best to save those 150 lives that are menaced. After all, one might be your own.--London Sunday Dispatch. Outstanding Golf Stylist Entered Canadian Open Championship Tournament to be Exciting Event %jm The entry of one f the outstanding 5iar_Ed. Dudley] llf'Sgj^ lias been received Iff " for the Canadian Wt^ * Open Champion-llpr^ ' : ahip, and the 1^™- : news that the : ^ : I Georgian will be £Hi si among those pres- Ed. Dudley ont in the 72-hole struggle for the Seagram Gold Cup at St. Andrew's on September 9, 10, and 11, will be most welcome to those who like to see low scoring with the minimum of effort. During the winter months Dudley is pro at the Augusta National Links, where the annual Masters' tourney is played, while in the summer he is at the Philadelphia Country Club and this year he has the job of being captain of the P.G.A. and chairman of the ttee that makes the selection of the international teams. He represented the U.S.P.G.A. in the negotiations for the international team match at St Andrew's on Sept. 7th. He does not compete in as many tournaments as most of the other tding pros., but whenever he tees he is classed among those to beat for the laurels and lucre. In the re-ent U.S. open he tied for the lead at the end of the first and second rounds and was setting the pace after Wet Weather For West In 1938? i Study Scientist Bases Promise < Of Records WASHINGTON.--If cyclic changes in weather which have prevailed in the past continue, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, said there should be wetter weather next year, in the Canadian West. The Smithsonian secretary, who has specialized in observations and delicate measurements of solar radiation and its effects on earthly weather for many years, declared that two approaches to the problem led him to the same conclusion regarding weather in that area. "A lengthy study of the levels of water in the Great Lakes shows a cyclic change varying over a period of 46 years," he said. "My impression is that the lakes will begin to recover from a low level in 1939, which would mean that precipitation in the area draining into them should increase in 1938." On the other hand, he added, a study of weather records from a large number of stations for the past 70 to 80 years revealed a 23-year and 46-year variation in precipitation "and this study also leads me to the same impression that a recovery from dry conditions in the Canadian area should begin in 1938." Dr. Abbot added that his predictions "cannot yet be regarded as the basis for establishing specific programs, but they do indicate in general the character of weather conditions which should prevail." Canadian Trees Are Weapons of Death In China Sulphite Pulp From Spruce And Balsam Used In Japanese Bombs Canadian spruce and balsam trees are being used to bring death and destruction on Shanghai streets, says the Montreal Star. The idea seems fantastic but science has made it possible and wartime needs make it necessary if Japan is to wage war successfully during the coming months. The man on the street became familiar with the word "gun-cotton" during the war. Not so many know that this same gun-cotton has been manufactured out of the cellulose in trees. Japan has been importing tremendous quantities of sulphite pulp. Something like 250,000 tons a year. It is estimated that approximately 40 per cent, of this sulphite pulp wag r>ht*in. ed in Canada. Much of it has been used in the making of artificial silks. Explosive manufacturers would preferably manufacture gun-cotton from cotton but it is easily possible when imported cotton supplies run short, according to experts in the Pulp and Paper Research Institute at McGill University, to make gun-cotton out of sulphite pulp. Germany did it during the Great War. For High Explosives It is anticipated that Japan, if she has not already done so, will use great imported supplies of sulphite pulp to manufacture high explosives. This is done through purification of the pulp and treatment with nitric and sulphuric acids. The resultant product is a vicious killer. One Canadian spruce tree, it is estimated, would make enough explosive to blow up a city block and kill hundreds of people in a crowded section. Cotton is preferable in the making of gun-cotton as the cellulose, which becomes nitro-cellulose during the manufacturing process, is in a more pure form in cotton. But cotton is costly and, where it has to be imported, doubly so. This factor makes sulphite pulp, which is comparatively cheap, a desirable substitute. Nudists Wear Hats MAYS LANDING N.J. -- It was too hot for nudism at the National Sun Bathing Association convention this week. Most of the 800 attending wore hats. GREENSBURG, Pa.-- Mrs. Elizabeth Mink, who gave her age as 88, applied for a license to wed Harry Davis, 63-year-old mechanic. Mrs. Mink's first husband died in 1886. 54 holes, but he broke at the 8th in the final round and finished fifth. He was third in the Masters' tourney, behind Byron Nelson \ and Ralph Guldahl. By his fellow pros, he is classed as the most under rated pro. in the big time and is long over due to win a big championship. He is generally in the prize money and if he devoted more time to tournament play and less to club duties, he would be among the biggest money winners of any season. He first made his appearance in the Canadian open in 1930, when he finished ninth and since then he has placed in the money four times, sixth in 1031, fourth in 1932, third in 1935, and seventh last year. He is older than most of his rivals, but can be included in the half dozen or so favored to win the Seagram gold cup. August Heat Sets Record TORONTO. -- Weather statistics show that the past month was the most consistently hot August here since 1900, and breaks the all-time heat record set away back In 1841. The mean temperature for last month was 72.5, whereas the previous record set in 1841 and equalled in 1900 was 72.4. It was 6.2 degrees above normal. Rest Prescribed for Louis DETROIT.--A defence of the heavyweight title against Max Schmeling this fall has been announced as definitely out of the picture for Joe Louis. A rest of two months, possibly six, was recommended for Louis by physicians who studied X-ray photographs of the hands he injured in defending his title against Tommy Farr in New York. No fracture was disclosed but the X-rays showed badly bruised muscles and tendons around the knuckles of the right hand and slightly less serious bruises on the left. Mussolini May Visit Hitler BERLIN.--The long-expected visit of Premier Mussolini to Chancellor Hitler seems definitely set for the latter part of September. From all appearances, the date actually has been set, but no German official will say what it is. The chances are the Italian Premier will come after mid-mqnlh, following the Nuremberg Zazi party congress, and will accompany Hitler to Northern Germany for the At|;umn army manoeuvres. N4w French Minister to Canada PARIS.--Count Robert de Damp-ierre, recently replaced as minister to Yugoslavia by Raymond Brugere, this week was appointed Freneh Minister to Canada, Brugere's previous post. Bequests Will Benefit Canadians LONDON, Ont.--The University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto are two of four public institu-tioas to share to the. extent of approximately $55,000 in the estate of Sir Charles Edward Saunders, noted scientist and developer of Marquis the universities' portion will be apr proximately $16,500, but the payment will not be made during the life-time of !four friends of Sir Charles. Sir Charles left $132,648. After making a few comparatively small bequests, his will directs that the bulk of the estate be divided into two equal portions. One of the halves provides life income for four friends and eventually goes to public institutions; tht\ other half goes to the relatives of 'oTed one-time Londoner. Movie Actor Mobbed DON.--Robert Taylor was hust-to a milk elevator to escape female admirers milling about Waterloo Station for their first ipse of the Hollywood film star as (he arrived in England. Cholera In Shanghai SHANGHAI.--Cholera has broken out in Shanghai's French Concession. French Concession authorities are taking every measure to halt its spread. Cholera is a deadly intestinal disease which yearly takes its toll in underfed Asiatics. An outbreak of the black (Bubonic) plague in native areas was also rumored. More People See Quints 110RTH BAY.--Despite a falling off in attendance in the last week of August, about 19,000 more persons saw the Quintuplets in that month than in July, figures released by Dr. A. R. Dafoe, showed. fturing August, 138,660 persons saw th^ quintuplets compared to 119,700 in July. These came in 34,662 automobiles, 93 buses and 278 trailers. In Juiy 29,926 cars, 84 buses and 310 ■ trailers were parked on the grounds. New Typing Speed Record TORONTO. -- George L. Hossfield. W( st Englewood, N.J., set a new speed re< ord in winning the international typewriting competition at the Canadian National Exhibition. His speed of 139 words a minute for an hour's typing exceeds all former marks for speed under international competition Grace Phelan, Etna, Pa., captured the world's amateur contest with a new world's record of 129 words a minute. Three Dead In Train Accident CAPETOWN, South Africa.--Three railway employees were killed and six ethers seriously injured here when an electric train broke through a wall at the end of the tracks in the station and plunged over thirty feet into the Administrative Building. No passengers were aboard. British Ships Bombed ST. JEAX DE LUZ, Franco-Spanish Frontier. -- Three British merchant ships were bombed and damaged by Spanish war-planes this week off the Asturian port of Gijon on the Biscay Coast, British Consular officials announced. The British ships were attacked less than twenty-four hours after Great Britain served a stern warning on the lish nationalists that attacks on British shipping must cease immediately or the Admiralty would "take such action as the occasion demands." A Commentary By ELIZABETH EEDY On Outstanding Events of the Week France Ready For Mqbilization France this week achieved the nationalization of six large private railroad systems, which with two other lines already under control, will form a network providing for mobilization of the entire French army, including six million reserves, within forty-eight hours. The Government has also bought up munitions plants, airplane factories, and controls the Bank of France, so that in the eventuality of war, general mobilization of the entire resources of the country may be brought about in the shortest possible New Pact With United Kingdom The new trade agreement made in February between Canada and the United Kingdom went into force this week. By it, British exporters benefit by tariff reductions on 179 items including textiles, iron and steel, machinery, electrical goods, etc. Guarantees to Canada on a number of preference margins were made. These embraced lumber, canned salmon, apples, dairy products, tobacco and patent leather. Easier trading between the two countries is expected as a result. Arms Program More Expensive Under Britain's new rearmament program more than four million dollars a day are being spent on military preparedness. Battleships are being built and airplanes turned out by the score. Industry is gradually being mobilized until by the time five years have passed and the program is complete, Britain will be what is known as "ready". By comparison, the net cost of the Great War to Britain, during a period of four years and eight months, is estimated at slightly less than the total amount to be spent during the five years of rearmament. Some authorities believe that action has come too late, Others think that war has been pushed back five years by British rearmament. It remains to be seen. French-Canadian Population Parity Speaking at the Canadian Institute on Economics and Politics, Jean St. Germain, Montreal lawyer, drew attention to the fact that the French-Canadian population is likely soon to be bn a parity with the Anglo-Saxon in Canada, so rapidly is it growing. Such a population equality, he said, would tend more than anything else to write both races. Discussing another phase of the French-Canadian position in Canada. M. St. German spoke of the theory that French-Canadians stand today in Canada as the bulwark against subversive theories. "An intense individualist, who will not be drawn into other people's affairs, very conservative, with a love for the land of his forefathers, the French-Canadian is rather apt to be a follower than a pioneer," he said. "Although of French descent, we have nothing in common with France today. The French-Canadians are, too, a static-minded people, as opposed to the dynamic thought of the Americans." Impasse In Alberta Defying the Federal Government's power to veto, Premier Aberhart of Alberta intends to put into immediate effect the banking legislation passed at the recent provincial session. He declares that Alberta has investigated and found the Dominion Government at present did not have authority to disallow Provincial legislation. "Consequently our legislation is still law and will remain law until declared 'ultra vires' by the courts." The Alberta banks are up in arms over the proposed restrictions to be placed on them and the Boards of Trade in the province are planning to take action. Meantime the Federal Government has not the slightest intention of retreating from the position it has taken. If the Alberta Government fails to publish in the official Gazette the proclamation of Lieutenant-Governor Bowen of Alberta to the effect that the invalid Alberta banking legislation has been vetoed by the Federal Government, the necessary proclamation over the signature of the Lieutenant-Governor will be published in the Canada Gazette. Canada In Peculiar Position Should Britain choose to withdraw her representative from Japan after the shooting of Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbulle-Hugessen, Canada could be left in a very peculiar position. The Canadian Minister to Japan would in that case be the nearest in line of representation to King George VI. When asked if the Canadian Minister to Japan would be withdrawn in the event the British Ambassador at Tok-io were recalled as a result of the present situation, Prime Minister MacKenzie King replied "We will consider that when the occasion arises." The Minister is now on vacation in Canada but may leave for his post in Japan next week. Prince Nicholas Returns VIENNA. -- Revolution is reported brewing in Rumania with the return from exile of Prince Nicholas, banished brother of King Carol, to lead the Nazi Iron Guard in a coup d'etat which might make him dictator. Diplomats said Nicholas' surprise flight to Bucharest from Italy--officially denied by King Carol's Government, in fear of an uprising--was engineered by the Iron Guard, which has sought since 1933 to drive Carol from the throne because of his extramarital with red-headed Magda Lup- Minister of War C. Angelescu was reported to have resigned and to have been replaced temporarily by Minister of Navy N. N. Iremescu. Ambassador Is Recovering SHANGHAI. -- Sir Hughe Knatch-bull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to China, should recover completely in six or seven weeks from the serious wounds inflicted on him by machine-gun bullets from a Japanese plane, Dr. E. M. Gauntlett of London, chief of the physicians attending the envoy, told the North China Daily News. Sir Hughe was able to read the messages of sympath; t of t Makes Motorboat Speed Record LOCARNO, Switzerland.--Sir Malcolm Campbell, famed British sportsman, has added the world's motor-boat speed record to his international automobile speed standard. The 52-year-old Briton piloted his 23-foot speed boat, Bluebird, over Lake Maggiore's smooth waters at a rate of 125.795 miles per hour to eclipse Gar Wood's 5-year-old mark of 124.86 m. p. h. Sir Malcolm already holds the world automobile record of 301.33 m. p. h., set at Bonneville salt flats in Utah in 1935. - Sir Malcolm's aquatic Bluebird -- his record-smashing automobile was called by the same name--was powered by a Rolls Royce aero engine, and travelled over the measured mile course in smooth and effortless fash- Plane Kills Farmer STRATHROY. -- Death rode the wings of a barnstorming plane that came to Bethesda near here to pick up passengers from a church picnic. On its first trip of the day the plane crashed into the crowd. Twenty-eight-year-old Stewart James Sullivan, local farmer, was struck by the wings, and hurled to the ground with a fatal fracture of the skull. His cousin, Fred Sullivan, aged 35, was caught in the plane's path, and had two ribs broken. As others scrambled madly to safety the plane plunged on for seventy-five feet, teetered and tipped tail up, to The pilot, Frank Smale, of London, and his lone passenger, 16-year-old Marguerite Brooks, were practically unhurt. They suffered some shock and minor abrasions, but their safety belts had saved them from serious injury. Wins Cattle Prizes VANCOUVER.--The Duke of Windsor's E.P. Ranch at High River, Alta., took the major awards in the Short-1 horn section at the Canadian Pacific Exhibition here this week, winning the grand champion and junior champion prizes. Olympics In Jeopardy TOKYO. -- Faced with increasing foreign complications as a result of her undeclared war on China, Japan decided to prepare for a long struggle of three years or more and probably to cancel the 1940 Olympic Games which were to have been held in this Belgian Bank Scandal BRUSSELS. -- The cabinet met to consider the calling of parliament to deal with what the Fascist Opposition calls a National Bank scandal. It in- j volves the payment of secret bank funds bonuses to Premier Paul Van! Zeeland while he was vice-governor of the bank. Van Zeeland said he made sure the money drawn from the special fund did not represent salary for vice-governorship of the bank because he was then holding ministerial office. "As to the question of the amount I have drawn from the special fund and what I did with the money--that is my own business," the Premier said. Refuses $57,000 For Crop GRETNA, Man.--James Handlan, of Kane, Man., forty-nine miles southwest of Winnipeg, threshed 950 acres of Thatcher rust-resistant wheat which yielded forty bushels to the acre, but refused $57,000 cash for the 38,000-bushel crop. He said he wanted his grain to go to prairie farmers as seed and turned down the outside offer. CROWN POINT, Ind.--Thirty-two years after they were divorced, Ru-fus Young, 66, and Laura Young, 60, both of Maywood, 111., decided it was all a mistake. So they were remar-