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The Papers Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - By Peter Randal Barber Signs Most of us must have wondered at some time or other how it cafne about that barbers display red, blue and white striped poles outside their shops. Well, that question mark has been answered by an explanation we came across recently. It is pointed out that the local barber used to be the local surgeon, where patients were bled and bandaged. The'pole was the symbol of the splint to which a broken broken arm was bound, the white stripe represented the bandages, the blue the veins that had to be opened and the red the blood.--Kitchener Record. Unpardonable Sin A New York Times dispatch, telling telling of the arrival in England of some 3,800 children from war-wracked Bilbao, Bilbao, contains some fearfully tragic paragraphs. As, for instance, this one: "It was not the children's physical condition, however, that caused most concern. . . . The saddest by-product of the Spanish civil war is their overwrought overwrought mental condition, brought about by the terror of the air raids. The war has left many of them abnormally abnormally nervous, perhaps for the rest of their lives. They have spent hour after hour huddled in "refugios" with their frightened mothers, while rebel airplanes droned overhead, dropping bombs. . . . Scores have seen brothers, sisters or little friends killed or maimed near their homes." Can any sensitive person read that without, feeling that the bombing of a=n inhabited town--by anyone, in any land--is one of the most shocking crimes of all the ages?--Guelph Mercury. Mercury. • - Canada's Highway Accidents Every Canadian citizen will agree tfyat there are too many accidents on the roads', yet it will corne as a surmise surmise to learn that the number of deaths in the Dominion is the third lowest in the world in proportion to the number of cars in use. A table compiled by the Automobile Manufacturers' Manufacturers' Association of New York shows the following percentages of deaths per 10,000 vehicles: New Zealand 7,4 Union of South Africa 8.9 Ùanada i 9.9 Denmark 12.5 United States ; 13.6 Australia 13.9 Norway 14.0 Irish Free State 22.1 Sweden 26.0 .England and Wales 30.C Belgium . 36.5 Chile ... k 40.0 Netherlands „. 44.0 Scotland 44.8 Ceylon 46.5 Germany 46.6 Switzerland 5,0.0 Italy 59.4 Flood Damage Every drop of Thames water was carrying some mud with ft. Where did it come from. The answer is obvious. obvious. It came from some farmer's flold. It was the soil he needed this ygfjV and for generations to come, to grow his crops. He hasn't a very large supply of it--a few inches at most --and it takes years to add an inch on impoverished grounds. That is the loss that hasn't been counted in the newspapers, but it is the worst loss of all.---Fergus News-Record. The Lure of the Road Spring is here and summer is approaching. approaching. The man of the house is looking over the old car and figuring whether it will do for another year. Some of them will keep on figuring so long that the season may he over before any decision is reached, then the car will again be housed for the winter and its owner will conclude that he has saved a lot of money just because he has not taken into consideration consideration the cost of upkeep on the old family automobile. But what we want to say is that the lure of the road is urging the long drive for the week end and the evenings. evenings. It's a good idea to give a little thought to the new conditions this year. To apply a little time and thought to the safeguarding of the car and those it contains. To make it a year free from accident.--Peter- boro Examiner. THE, EMPIRE Queen Mary's Laugli Though no Royal lady ever bore herself with greater dignity when occasion occasion requires, Queen Mary, to whom the Empire's affectionate greetings have gone on her 70th anniversary, has no liking for rigid etiquette in private life. There is a story of a housemaid, just promoted to the upper regions of Buckingham Palace, being taken aback on hearing whistling in the corridor corridor leading to Queen Mary's bedroom. bedroom. She was still more astonished on discovering that the whistler was the Queen herself! As all who come in contact with her know, the Queen Mother has a keen sense of humor and a gift of genuine laughter. It was Keir Hardie --no flatterer of Royalty--who once declared that Her Majesty's was the most cheerful laugh he had ever heard. -- News of the World. Wedding Attire The Dean of Johannesburg is gloomy. 1-Ie looks askance af weddings weddings to which the bride comes resplendent resplendent and the bridesmaids and pages appear in bright array, calling such ceremonies 'extravagant and tawdry." What then would he have? Not, surely, the drabness of a register office? Solemn vows will not be heard less reverently if those at the altar are joyously attired for life's . most joyous day. With marriage goes jubilation jubilation and feasting; why not wear happiness in the dress as well as in the heart? For a woman, especially, this is the day to which memory turns back, and her wish is that the recollection recollection should be gay and pleasing. We want no pensiveness at weddings, and it; would be as incongruous to muffle the bells as the bride in horiie- spun.--London Daily Mai). D--4 News In Brief Fire L©§§§® Drop OTTAWA. Fite losses in Cana da continued a downward trend during during 1936 and eclipsed the record established established in 1935 when losses were the lowest for any year for which figures are available, said J. M. Ritchie, Ritchie, Toronto Secretary-Treasury of the Association of Canadian Fire Marshals in addressing delegates to the annual conference of the association association here. The convention, attended by more than forty-five delegates was under the chairmanship of J. Grove Smith, Dominion Fire Commissioner. 14,655 Bibles Placed TORONTO. -- The Canadian Gideons, Gideons, it is announced placed 15,655 Bibles in hotels, hospitals and schools during the past year. This accomplishment accomplishment sets an all-time record for the organization. In Toronto alone, it was stated, the Board of Education had put in a re-, quest that the Gideons give 9,000 Bibles to school children. Of that number, Mr. Green said, 8,000 had already been .delivered. B„ C, Orders Compulsory Hospitalisation for T.B. VICTORIA. -- British Columbia Government has passed an Order-in- Council providing for "detention" of persons with severe ea,ses of tuberculosis tuberculosis who refuse to bo confided to hospitalization. The new regulation reads: "That any person found with tuberculosis tuberculosis in an infectious or contagious contagious stage, who should refuse to be confined to hospital or building provided provided for quarantine or isolation purposes, purposes, may be apprehended and may be detained in such an institution." Hon. G. M. Weir, Provincial Secretary, Secretary, said all cases coming under the new regulations would be subject to examination by the Tuberculosis Control Control Board under Dr. W. H. Hatfield. Building Tops '36 Record WINDSOR. -- Business in the Ontario Ontario section of the building trade is 40.5 per cent, ahead of 1936 at the present time, O. M. Perry, manager of the Windsor Hydro-Electric Sys- ter, declared this week. "As in every other line, conditions in the electrical contracting field are improving rapidly," Mr. Perry said. "Total value of building contracts for the first five months of 1937 amounts to $80,006,200, compared to $56,905,100 for the same period in 1936." May Trade $99,407,353 OTTAWA. -- Canada's export trade mounted rapidly during May when the total value of Canadian produce produce sent abroad was $99,497,353, an increase of $15,677,602 over May, 1936. Wheat and cheese exports fell off as compared with May, 19'C, but all other principal commodities showed increases. For the first two months of the current fiscal year, April and May, exports were $165,014,014, an increase increase of $2',770,433 over the same months in 1936. Wheat exports in May were 8,026,- 507 bushels valued at $10,529,311, as- compared with 27,316,983 bushels in May, 1936, valued at $21,674,113. Wheat flour exports amounted to 348,- 8666 bushels, valued at $2,130,325, compared with 448,653 bushels iri May, 1936, valued at $1,791,174. Newsprint, meats, planks and boards, copper and nickel all showed marked increase in quality and price. Newsprint exports increased in value from $8,907,000 to $10,773,- 000 and unmanufactured nickel from $3,19.1,000 to $5,354,000. Seventy three day of the most terrible terrible siege in modern history ended this week as the insurgent columns of General Devila began the task of "mopping .up" the ancient Basque capital of Bilbao. Fighting from house to house, the defenders still hang on grimly while refugees have moved down in thousands as they attempted attempted to flee the city under the murderous' fire of the Italian "Black Arrow" column. An indication that the siegi was actually over and that hope of starving off the advancing mercenaries was over, was the departure departure of the British consul from the city. He was rescued by. British sailors sailors from awaiting ship just outside the death swept harbor. Latest reports reports say that General Franco is transferring his hordes in thousands to the Madrid front where another terrific push is forecast by the orders of the Loyalist commander who has requested all civilians to leave the city. ~ 1 Financial Cowage After, ten months of comparative stale mate, the Fascists seem to be geting somewhere in their attempts ■ to subdue the will of the Spanish people. Just prior to the fall of Bilbao, Bilbao, new hope was injected into their councils by the announcement of a new loan obtained abroad for $1,500,- 000. The announcement was made by a former tobacco smuggler, illiterate Juan March, chief civilian backer of the revolution. No one seems to know where it is to come from but there are many close guesses. Germany and Italy are in the position position of having to throw good money after bad. So far, the campaign has not been much of a success but further further expenditure may turn the day. The fall of Bilbao seems to bear out this statement. Beauty in Distress And in Germany, all is not well. Chancellor Hitler's close personal friend and the Director German Stato Motion Pictures, Lent Riefenstahl has been accused of having "non-Aryan" grandparents., in most countries, such a fault would not bo of any particular particular importance but in Germany where the Nazis are engaged in stamping . out their Jewish intellectual class, the accusation is the next thing to ruin. The charge was made by Propaganda Propaganda Minister Goebbels at- a social gathering. It has since been denied as "pure invention". The interesting part for conjecture is just what Chancellor Hitler thinks about it all and just what action he would take if he charge proved to be true. It is well known that all of the. women he may have known, which is not many, the beautiful beautiful actress is the favourite. Disaster Echoes Strange how echoes of distant thunder thunder come close to home. Two weeks' ago, financial circles' were met with the announcement by Canadian paper producers that prices for fine papers and boards were going- up from $7 to $10 per ton. Among the reasons given by manufacturers for this rise (amounting to 8% over 1 last year) was the scarcity of sulphite. Sulphite Sulphite is the bleaching agent in the •making of chemical wood pulp. Sulphite Sulphite is also a prime ingredient of explosives. Apparently, the 'manufacture 'manufacture of explosives is of more importance importance in this unsettled world. of today today than the manufacture of fine paper. paper. Crisis Averted And in France, a mild little man-, has won an amazing victory and prov- 1 ed the strength of his government.^ Fâced by a financial crisis occasion-] ed by a steady drain of gold because j of unequal trade balancés. Premier] Leon Blum has just won a vote ofi confidence. Votes of confidence are a feature of the French governmental ! ■system and supporters of govern-] monta more often than not turn against their former colleagues on the slightest pretext. Such was the case 1 when Premier Blum's Communist! deputies ganged up against him only ] to be met with surprising opposition from other section of the Chamber. ! The Government is now empowered! with extraordinary financial powers to' support the franc by regulation of the discount rate and a crisis which 1 might have been of world importance in view of the delicate state of affairs affairs has been averted, at least for the time. Health Shorts Through Marco Polo we gain the first authentic knowledge of spectacles spectacles in China. In the latter half of the fifteenth century, literate folks, particularly the mandarins, wore them; arid the more important the man, the bigger were the circle of glass, and the heavier and more elaborate were the horn or shell frames. Double straps or thongs, drawn throug-h loops at the outer edges of the frames, were fastened around the ears. The humble in station station wore plain bamboo frames. Hi's a fact | Did you know that "Twenty Grand and "War Admiral" carried Charlie K u r t- singer past the finish post at the Kentucky Derby, making the two fastest Derby rides. Nowadays everyone everyone seems to be out for records, new and entirely different. Dave Yack,, the boxer, has'one.----He managed managed to be the only boxer in many a day to win the "daily double." The Kentucky Derby has been won three times by Earl Sande and Isaac Murphy. This year they aro cutting down the C.N.E. swim some more. The race is to be outside the sea-wall, the men going 10 miles, and the women three, with $6,000 for the total prize money for both. In a few years they will probably be holding it at the Y.M.C.A., with a cup for the first prize, just to make it more exclusive. Larry Gains, the colored Canadian boxer, made between 1932 and 1934 nearly $50,000 in fights in England, They say his biggest purse was around $13,000, He made this when he defeated Camera. Gains, who has beaten most of the heavyweights overseas, worked his passage to England on a cattle boat 14 years ago. IMS! THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum --t"~ • " ZW II V io" V.; 'Spgfil 'es if m a st ISaM Wm i SHE M7'M;:v ; 'A.;y:Ar l AiiMMA'M A A A v A'A ' "The only thing we have to do is to run under the hammer, one at a time, when it is lifted," explained the Scarecrow Scarecrow to his eager listeners. "It will require quick work if we escape the blow," said the Tin Woodman, shaking shaking his head. "But it really seems the only thing to be done. Who will make the first attempt?" They looked at one another hestitatingly for a moment. moment. Then the Cowardly Lion, trembling like a leaf in the wind, spoke; "1 suppose suppose the head of' the procession must, go first, and that's me. But I'm terribly afraid of that big hammer!" "What will become of me?" asked Ozma. "You might rush through yourself, yourself, but the chariot would tie crushed. crushed. We must, leave the chariot," declared declared the Scarecrow. But you and ^rottiy can ridé ' on the animals' backs." So this was decided upon and Ozma, Ozma, as soon as the lion was unfastened unfastened from the chariot, at once mounted to the beast's back and said she was ready. "Jiang on to his mane," advised advised Dorothy. So Ozma clung fast to the mane and the Lion crouched in the path and eyed the swinging mallet carefully until he knew just the instant instant It would begin to rise in the pi- sky. > : " Then, before anyone , thought lie was ready, he made a sudden leap straight between the iron giant's,'legs, and before the mallet struck the gr.ound 'again, they were on the other side. The Tiger went next. Dorothy sat 'upon his back and locked her arms around his neck, for he had no mane-! He made the leap straight and true as' an arrow from, a bow, and before Dorothy realized it, she was beside Ozma. • »