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lür -THE- 'te NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY l NOT QUITE READYâ€"Despite repeat- ed war “scares’’ in Europe the past few weeks it is declared by political observers who should know, and by newspaper foreign correspondents who can tell the inside story, that Ger- many,'the country presenting the big- gest. threat to international peace, is not yet ready to engage in a large- scale war. The rearmament program of the Reich is far from being com- pleted, they point out; the general staff of the army are against precipi- tating a conflict at this time. Then, too, Germany's domestic economy has not been satisfactorily organizedâ€"it cannot be until the country is able to produce or import enough food to sup- ply its people in time of war, until it can procure enough raw materials to satisfy the needs of industry. The drought this spring has reduced Germany’s crop output to a figure away below average. Under such cir- cumstances it is highly improbable that Hitler will deliberately set a match to the European powder-keg .within the next short while. Later, who can can tell . . , ? * * * CRISES WILL RECUR â€"Diplomatic quarters in every democratic country of Europe are convinced that even though Germany did not march on Czechoslovakia 'ast week-end or the one before, she will continue to pursue her aims (which include the carving of a thoroughfare east to the grain fields of the Ukraine) by a continuous series of diplomatic and propagandis- te “shock attacks’’ until both France and Czechoslovakia are ripe for set- tlement along German lines. For that reason, it is held, the world must expect a periodic return of the same crisis through which it is pass- ing nowâ€"always provided the situa- tion in north-western Czechoslovakia does not get out of hand and precipi- tate a war after -il. From now on, it is predicted, we’ll be lucky if we have breathing-space" * * * SASKATCHEWAN'S ELECTION- On June 8, the people of Saskatchewan go to the polls in one of the most import- ant elections in the history of that pro- vince. All th<3 major forces of inte- gration and disintegration at work in time are converging up- van, can be seen attemp- ting to shape it to a new destiny. Will Saskatchewan go Social Credit? Premier Aberhart of Alberta, Socred chief, lias jumped into the thick of the fight and declares he will carry the sister province. Though not willing to come out with the dire prediction that Saskatchewan is going to be another Alberta, we shall not be at all surprised to see the election result in a big win for Social Credit, or perhaps the C.C.F. party. The people of Saskatchewan to a great extent feel that they have been left in the lurch by Eastern Canada. The past six or seven years have been • n unceasing nightmare tor vast num- bers of r»;op"' in the dried-o„t areas. They cannot face a repetition of the same experience which would be sure to come with the very next year of poor crops. In their desperation, they turn to something entirely new for hope and help. * * *â-  WHERE WOMEN CAN’T VOTEâ€"Did you. know that women of Quebec have ito vote in Provincial elections? In" other words, half the people of that province have no say in matters po- litical, no representation in the Legis- lative Assembly. But throughout the rest of Canada where women are en- dowed with greater privilege, the facts of the Quebec situation are frequently f'u gotten. Why haven’t the women of Quebec a vote, we inquire? For the reason that up to now they have not asked for it hard enough. When the Canadian Alliance for Women's Vote in Quebec • appear'd last month before the Rowell Commission, the. Counsel for the Com- mission expressed his view thus: “I suggest when you persuade a major- ity of the women of Quebec that they should have the vote, and they ask for it, they will get it.’’ * * * KIDNAPPING NO. 1â€"England, that little country whither Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh fled as to a refuge from, the kidnap threats and publicity hor- rors of the United States, has experi- enced its first “snatch” in modern times. And whom should the miscre- ants choose to make off with but Lord Nuffield, the ‘‘Ford of England," multimillionaire motor manufacturer and philanthropist. The plot, however, was nipped in the bud last week, when a friend in the next , room of Lord Nuffield’s of- fice at Oxford, heard a scuffle, phoned for the police, had the two kidnappers abed in two minutes. It is thought that some time is like- ly to elapse before another kidnapping i attempted in England. Rail Speedometer Canada at this on Saskatchew A new speedometer for trains in use in England is operated by one of the driving wheels and the dial in the cab records the speed of the train up to 100 m.p.h. The dial is five inches in diameter, and is fixed on a corner of the boiler just below thte driver’s look-out window. It is mounted on sorbo rubber blocks to absorb vibration and insulated from the effects, o.f heat by fibre washers. The speedometer will enable . a driver to see the actual, speed at which he is running instead of hav- ing to estimate it; and it will also help him in the better maintenance of his running schedule and in con- forming with the speed restrictions in force in various parts of the sys- tem. Vanity Blamed For Men’s Bald Pates School of Medicine Says Should Dress Hair Like'Savages Vanity is responsible to a great ex tent for the number of baldheaded men in civilized countries, according to a thesis submitted to the Washing- ton School of Medicine. If men would adopt the type of hair grooming affected by savages they would not lose their hair, the thesis contended. The best styleâ€"from a preservation viewpoint â€" is one re- sembling an inverted soup-bowl, “hill- billy’’ effect, and yet the natural pat- tern of growth. The Very Worst Style The worst style, for both men and women, is the pompadour. William H. Carr, a barber submitted the report to the school after nine years of study of thousands of heads of hair. Carr said the common method of parting the hair and then brushing parts of it back either at an angle or in pompadour fashion forces the hair on the top and front of the head to lie in reverse, creating irritation. Nature then cuts off the blood supply and the hair falls out. Women are affected the same way, but when a woman's hairline recedes to the point where her forehead ap- pears too-high, she pulls the hair for- ward, dipping it to hide the expanse. Unknowingly, she discontinues the violation of nature. EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA if News In Brief CHURCHILL, Man. â€" Thomas H. Manning, English geologist, has re- turned across the ice to Southamp- ton Island from Chesterfield Inlet, 325 miles north of here, where he has been packing scientific supplies since April 29. Manning expects to proceed short- ly to Baffin Bay, where he will spend the next two years in exploration. He was leader of four young Brit- ish scientists who went into the Canadian Arctic in the summer of 1936. The other three came out à" year ago. Their ages totalling 303 four members of Tunbridge Golf Club in England play a every morning, .and one of Col. E. W. Pirrie, has just made the sixth hole, 134 ÿards, in one. years, Wells match them, Ontario’s Birth Rate Falls TORONTO.â€"Ontario Medical Asso- ciation spokesmen admit that On- tario’s falling birth rate is being view- ed with some misgiving. If the last eight years’ steady de- cline in the percentage figures is not halted in the next year or two, they admit that the situation will be one which may wrell occasion alarm. General economic conditions and high cost of living are the main fac- tors, they §ay, contributing to On- tario’s steady decline in birth rate from 21.5 per 1,000 population in 1930 to 18.9 in 1936. â€"oâ€"; Missing Airliner Found Wrecked LOS ANGELES, .CAL. â€" Thirty miles away from its starting point at Union Air Terminal, Burbank, a big airliner crashed into a mountainside last week, exploded and burned to death i§ nine occupants. Shrouded by fog for sixty hours, the wreckage was later discovered and the charred bodies carried out of the mountains by Stretcher bearers. â€"oâ€" They’re Looking Ahead LONDON.â€"Fearing a, slump when the rearmament program ends, the Government already is mapping a £500,000,000 ($2,500,000,000) housing and road-building program to keep workers busy and trade moving. The Ministry of Health, which must sanction such Government ventures, wants local authorities throughout the country to prepar five-year pro- grams of contemplated work, and re- vise them each year. â€"oâ€" Path to Coast Blocked BARCELONA.- -The Spanish rebels for several days have been attacking on a wide but somewhat interm'ttent' front westward of Teruel in an evid- ent attempt to reach the road between Teruel and Sagunto in a roundabout way. The situation ha,s dangerous possibilities, for should the rebels reach the road to Sagunto, they would Where Our Interest Lies Most public problems should be solved when we come to know as much about methods of government as we know about the movies.â€"Brandon Sun. And the Rest of the Week “Why not have all holidays on Mon- days?” asks the Owen Sound Sun- Times. We can think of a better one than that. Why not have ail Mon- days holidays?â€"Chatham News. Drink More Milk Dr. K. C. Hopper, of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, says Ca- nadians as a whole drink too little milk. He has presented to the. Cana- dian Council on Nutrition statistics showing that if all drank as much milk as families with comfortable incomes the increased demand would equal the production of more than 200,000 dairy cows. Dairy farmers will applaud his plea for the use of more milk.â€"King- ston Whig-Standard. Wiiat Makes An Accident A study of newspaper reports of death, injury and destruction on the highways will convince any reader that very, very few of. them were un- avoidable. A driver is moving so swiftly that he fails to take a curve and piles into the ditch; a driver with his attention fixed on something else doesn't notice the railway tracks and crashes into a train; a driver comes to the crest of a hill o.er the centre have taken the first stride toward cut- ting a pathway to the sea by another route, that would place them about thirteen miles from Valencia, provid- ed they ever reached Sagunto, which is still many miles away. â€"oâ€" Senate Passes Divorce Bill OTTAWA,â€"By a bare majority of four the Senate last week carried third reading of the bill sponsored by Hon. Lendrum McMean" (Con., Win- nipeg) to broaden the grounds for di- vorce in Canada. The vote was 33 to 29. The measure now goes to the House of Commons, where its course is un- certain, s As a private bill it is sub- ject to the restrictions of time which now govern such measures rt tills stage of the session. â€"oâ€" More Cabinet Changes Asked LONDON.â€"Premier Neville Cham- berlain’s reconstruction of the Cabinet with Sir Kingsley Wood replacing Vis- count 1 v-inton at the Air Ministry, and Malcolm Macdonald Lord Har- lech’s post at the Colonial Office, has not satisfied all ri-mente of the Con-. se-g'-Vyd Party. The.e is a feeling that the eh go are merely expedient a- 1 limited, and that certain Cabinet posts could be better filled. When the Government of South Africa drops its subsidy to Italian liners next year, Italy Will supply the deficiency and try to increase its business in South Africa Tyneside “ghost station” at Fell- ing, England, on an abandoned rail- way line, is to be preserved as a relic of the days when engineers wore top hats and passengers rode in open trucks. line and meets head-on a car going about its business in the opposite di- rectionâ€"the- long story of the circum- stances that bring accidents in their train , is painfully familiar.â€"Ottawa Journal. Pledges Come Cheap Hitler affirms that Germany will march with Italy to the end and that the Italian frontier will always be in- violate. A similar frontier pledge wan also once made from Berlin with re- gard to Belgium and by Mussolini itt relation to Ethiopia.â€"Brantford Ex- positor, When They Retire - It is interesting to see how different people take their retirement from ac- tive work. One man recently retired from railroad work is taking life with, the zest of a boy and is enjoying every minute doing tilings that have so long- been denied him because of his work. How differently folk spend the lei- sure of their eventide! Softie, settle , down at home in a kind of mental co- ma, apparently interested in nothing except to be comfortable. Some look about to see if "-ere isn’t some com- munity work they can get into that will help the town, while others just sit back, find fault and growl. To which class do you expect to be- long once you retire from, your regular occupation or profession?â€"Kitchener Record. Why .Not Finish the Job? With the Dominion Government at work on the last 30 miles of British Columbia's gap in the trans-Canada highway, there remains only some- thing over 200 miles to be completed in Ontario before we can travel the 4,000 miles across Canada by motor- car. And the fact that the latter route lies through the extremely difficult territory around Lake Superior should not deter us from getting on with the job, when you Consider what can be accomplished both during and after its completion. Thousands of single men who wouid benefit front healthy outdoor construc- tion work must still accept relief. Does this fact not suggest an opportunity for earnest co-operation between the Government of Ontario and Ottawa to provide that work rather than direct relief?â€"Canadian Business. THE EMPIRE Non-Voting Voters In the House of Lords recently an alarm was sounded concerning the in- creasing apathy of the electorateâ€" especially at municipal electionsâ€"and it was suggested that the Government should take measures “to stimulate the interest, of the public in the exer- cise of its traditional rights.” What measures could the Government take? To make voting compulsory would be a negation of the freedom which the vote is intended to safeguard; and to" strike off the electoral roll, absentee, voters would simply hand over power to possibly a minority of the discont- entedâ€"an effect indeed, which apathy in the general body of the electorate may itself produce, if only for a time. There is not a little irony, it is true, in the reflection that the valuation of the vote seems to diminish as its dis- tribution is extendedâ€"very much like an inflated currency. But, while every sign of electoral indifference conveys a warning, there seems no reason to fear that democracy will cease to func- tion.â€"Daily Telegraph and Morning Post London. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ “If you will promise not to worry about me,” said Dorothy, “I’ll go to Oz tomorrow and I’ll make a promise that you shall see me again before you do- leave the farm. “The day isn’t far off,” . her uncle said. “I did not tell you of our trouble until now, so the time is near at hand. But. if you are quite sure your friends will give you a home, it will be best for you to go to them.” That was why Dorothy went to her little room in the attic the next morning, taking with her a small dog named Toto. The dog had curly hair and big brown eyes and loved Dorothy very much. The child kissed her uncle and aunt affectionately before she went upstairs and now she looked all around her little room rather wistful- ly, gazing at the simple trinkets and worn calico and gingham dresses as If •’.-â- â€¢ i,.*a .,i,( a She was tempted, at first, to make a bundle of these simple things, yet she knew very well that they would be of no use whatever to her in her future life. She sat down upon a bro- ken chair â€" the only one the room contained â€" and holding Toto in her arms, waited, patiently until thé clock struck the hour. Then, taking a deep breath, she made the secret signal that, had been agreed upon between Ozina and her. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em .waited downstairs. They were uneasy and ex- cited, for this is a practical world and it seined to them quite impossible that "their little niece could. vanish from their home and travel so simply to the fairyland. They heard the clock' strike, but there was no sound from above. Softly they crept upstairs to the little girl’s room: “Dorothy,” they called, but there was no answer. They looked in. The room was empty.