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Te 4 was thelast man to see Mallory and In 1921 the monsoon broke on Evâ€" erest on July 7; in 1922 in the first week of June; in 1924 on June 16 ; in 1933 on May 30; in 19385 on June 6; in 1936 on May 25. Let us hope for a late monsoon. It is with hops and not gloomy forebodings that we think g the Seveh. Among wellâ€"rememâ€" red names in their number we note Odell, who at the height of 26,000 feet are prepared for all the dangers in store for them. They know that the monsoon and its enormous snows,that will end the short timein which alone their adventure has an opportunity, are capricious visitors. Used To Great Heights These men are " acclimatized ", They are used to great heights, roarâ€" ing blizzards, avalanches; but with what oxygen apparatus can they be sure of being able to move save at a snail‘s pace, even to breathe, to see, in the last 1,000 feet, if they reach it? The North Col is more than terrible enough. The top of Everest is a mile higher. The Seven against Thebes seem like mere crazy braggarts compared with the Seven against Everest. They "the altitude" sore throat, and the double vision, the sudden temporrary blindness, the wastage of muscle, the fainting fits, the breathlessness, the dilated heart, the lassitude and the physical decline at heights of 21,000 feet or so. The leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition has reported its arrival at the base camp, 12 miles away from the tallest mountain in the world. There have been two jourâ€" neys of recomnaissance. This will be the fifth British attempt to seale, says the New York Times. The seven members of the party have been trained in one of the hardest schools.l They know the mountain sickness, Expedition Arrives at Base Camp On Tallest Mountain in the Seven Climbing Mount Everest FORGOTTEN MEN: Names not in the news these days are legion. The daily papers are too busy tellâ€" ing us about the latest war developâ€" ments, too crowded with stories of munitions contracts being let, to feaâ€" ture Mahatma Ghandi (for instance) ; the Duke of Windsor (except to mention that his bathtub isn‘t of 20â€" carat gold); the Queen of Egypt; Kemal Ataturk (who is doing so much to make a modern country ont‘ of Turkey); the Pankhursts; Rev. tralianâ€"Canada tariff agreement, he says, movement of goods between the two Dominions "is amazingly oneâ€" sided" and the Australian market and the Australian secondary indusâ€" tries are being thrown open to prefâ€" erential competition from Canadian manufacturers as well as from the United Kingdom. | The Australian Trade Minister reâ€" signed last year because preferential treatment extended to Canada under the Australian â€" Canada agreement was a "very bad oneâ€"sided bargain". "WE‘RE SELFISH UP HERE": The former Australian Trade Minisâ€" ter, Sir Henry Gullett, is criticising Canada‘s "grave injustice to Ausâ€" tralian manufacturers and British exporters." Under the present Ausâ€" at Toronto the Royal Society of Canada is presenting medals of merit to three distinguished Canadians. The awards this year go to Colonel William Wood, of Quebee City, authâ€" or of many historical volumes, for outstanding work in connection with the history of Canada; Mazo de la Roche, Torontoâ€"born author of the "Jailna" novels, "for accomplishing in imaginative or critical literature some achievement of significance or conspicuous merit"; Dr. W. Lash Miller, Professor of Physical Chemâ€" istry at the University of Toronto, for his pioneer work in several newI fields of scientific interest. Pope Pius XI hasn‘t much liking for Adolf Hitler in view of the persecuâ€" tion that priests of the Catholic Church have undergone in Germany. But when der Fuchrer refused to seck an audience with the Pope on his recent visit to Rome, the disâ€" pleasure of the Vatican dropped to a new low. To show Adolf Hitler that his latest discourtesy had not gone unnoticed, His Holiness closed the Vatican museums during the whole period of Hitler‘s stay. The instant Hitler said goodâ€"bye to Rome, the museums were thrown upen again to the public. World â€" Pu; i'";iate_-M;;t: Highlights of the Week‘s News . . . By Elizabeth Eedy Commentary on the MEDALS OF MERIT: This week HIDE AND SEEK: His Holiness Kews Htkace has a movement for og licenses and taxing About 60 per cent of the fatal highway accidents in England and 76 per cent of the nonâ€"fatal occur on roads having a speed limit of 30 When the fire brigade arrived at the scene of the fire a new building had sprung up in place of the one destroyed six months earlier. The Ruler ordered that the State fire brigade "proceed forthwith to the scene of the occurrence to avoid further damage to the building.‘" The Dewan in turn submitted the request to the Ruler for "favor of immediate sanction." The successor arrived five months later, found it was a case for "imâ€" mediate" attention and forwarded it to the Dewan (minister) "for favor of necessary action". The chief fire brigade officer "acknowledged" the letter and left it over for his successor, as he was shortly going on leave. LAHORE, India.â€"A house caught alight in a Punjab State. The owner sent an urgent letter to the State fire brigade, as there was no telephone. Firemen Arrive Six Months Late Of the world‘s 3,000,000 lepers, twoâ€" thirds, he said, were in India and in China. basis. The lepers would lead a normal life except that those married would be sterilized. Mr. Burgess estimated that 50 per cent of lepers could do a normal day‘s work. The plan, approved by the World Conference on Leprosy, calls for the segregation of lepers in colonies that would be selfâ€"supporting by an inâ€" terchange of goods on a worldâ€"wide A plan for eradication of leprosy throughout the world "in a very few generations" by means of segregation and sterilization was outlined recentâ€" ly by Percy Burgess, president of the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eraâ€" dication of Leprosy, who has completâ€" @l a tour of leprosaria in all parts of the world. Plan Includes Drastic Measuresâ€" Half the Patients Can Do Normal Day‘s Work WHY THE DELAY: Transâ€"Canâ€" ada Airlines are having difficulty getâ€" ting started on its first year, a comâ€" plete air service across the counâ€" try. They are encountcring trouble particularly in establishing the Winâ€" nipegâ€"Montreal run. Reason for the delay: Planes which the company hoped soon to secure from the manuâ€" facturers are reportedly being sold to the Japanese Government who are offering a higher price for the maâ€" chines. ‘ To Fight Leprosy On World Scale areas on suitable farming land farâ€" ther north. There are also vast portions of Northern Ontario that could be utilâ€" ized for a similar purpose, sections where there is rich, fertile agriculâ€" tural soil not now in production. ands of fertile acres in Northern Alâ€" berta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are lying idle, according to Mr. Rene Pelletier, M.P. for Peace River, while thousands of farmers are living in the drought areas of the West at heavy government expense. Following â€" this statement, _ Mr. Pelletier makes the sensible suggesâ€" tion that a scientific survey of the northern sections of the Prairie Provinces be made with a view to settling people from the driedâ€"out areas on suitable farming land farâ€" Continuing, Liddell Hart declares: "that we have failed to see this war in progress is due to the fact that we are still thinking politically, whereas the dictator states are thinkâ€" ing militarily." Grave words, those, yet they apâ€" pear to be the truth, nevertheless. It is too late for us to stop what has already been set in motion. We have only the power to check the progress of events which are now in the offing TWENTY MONTHS TOO LATE: "People who talk of preventing anâ€" other great war," says Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, one of the world‘s three of four greatest military exâ€" perts, "are already twenty months out of date. The second Great War of the twentieth century began in July, 1986, in Spain, following the encouragement and experience which had been gained by Japan in Manâ€" churia <nd Italy in Abyssinia in defyâ€" ing the League of Nations and dc-‘ veloping the new technique of camouâ€" flaged war." ‘ Israet Noe (who starved himself within an inch of the grave); Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton. And there are many, many others. About some of them, however, we might cheerfully say, "Good riddance!" FARMS IN THE NORTH: Thousâ€" The high school scientist has named his newly discovered elements, Nos. 93 to 96, inclusive, ekarhenium, ekairâ€" idivm, ponderosmium and ekaplatinâ€" "‘Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."â€"Thorâ€" Minto, who also claims to have found and named four new elements in the last two yearsâ€"since he was 14 years oldâ€"said his artificial radium could be manufactured for about $250 a gram in small quantities, more econoâ€" mically in increased output. Genuine radium sells for about $25,000 a gram. | Young Minto definitely has made ’great strides," Dr. Smith said. "I preâ€" ‘dict a great future for him." Made For $250 A Gram Minto said his artificial radium was less dangerous than the genuine arâ€" ticle due to iewe~ alpha rays and more beta and gamma rays. It also is more economical, he said, because it was made from ore found near his home‘ town, whereas genuine radium comes fro n the Canadian north and lev:rall other distant points. Minto, a high school student, showâ€" ed, with the aid of a Geiger tube, what he described as the greater strength of his product as compared with the genuine radium. Dr. Smith, who has laboratories at North Bergen and Newark, N.J., witâ€" nessed a demonstration of the youth‘s finding at the annual meeting of the Eastern Elsct:nic Research Associaâ€" tion. um, declared laet week 16â€"yearâ€"old Wallace L. Minto of Jersey City "has something" in his claim of a safer, more economical artificial radium. Dr. E. A. Smith, of New York, who said he was associated with the late Mme. Curie in her isolation of radiâ€" Boy of 16 Discovers Itâ€"New Product Believed Better Since It Is Less Dangerous Substitute For Viscount Fincastle and his bride following their wedding. Pipers of related, precede the wedding party Potato acreage will be reduced in nearly every province to a total level 20,200 acres or four per cent. less than that of a year ago, if farmers‘ present intentions are realized. Barley acreage in Ontario will be moderately reduced. Spring rye will show a decrease of 16,600 acres, or nine per cent. and flaxâ€"seed a reducâ€" tion of 48,600 acres or 20 per cent. The area sown to mixed grains will remain normal in Eastern . Canada, while showing a moderate reduction in the Western Provinces. The intended area of spring wheat is 24,105,000 acres, compared with 24, 851,400 acres sown in 1937 and 26,646, 100 acres in the peak yedr, 1932. The indicated decrease in the spring wheat area from that of last year is 745,000 acres, or three per cent. The princiâ€" pal decrease will c:eur in Saskatcheâ€" wan, while increases are indicated in Manitoba and Alkerta. Less Wheat In Manitoba Durum wheat acreage will be deâ€" creased considerably ~from 2,322,000 acres sown in 1937 to 1,693,000 acres intended for 1938. This decrease will take place mainly in Manitoba where it will be more than offset by an inâ€" crease in the sowing of rust-resistant‘ bread wheats. Oats and barley are also expected to show decreases of three and five per cent. respectively, with the principal reductions occurâ€" ring in Saskatchewan. A decrease of nearly 1,400,000 acres in the area s wn to Spring grains in Canada in 1938 was indicated by farâ€" mers‘ intentions as of May 1, the Doâ€" minion Bureau of Statistics first crop report of the present season states. Canada‘s Grain â€"__ Acreage Down Decline of Over 1,000,000 Sown Bushels Is Indicated Radium Found an(L_his bri(‘le, _the former Pamela Hermonâ€"Hodge, leave St ONTARIO of the private army of OTTAWA.â€"A new mâ€"a;l?etlng pgllcy for Canadian beef, through which it is hoped ultimately to send 200,000 head of cattle a year to Great Britain and 200,000 to the United States was outâ€" lined to the House of Commons this week by Hon. James G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture. The policy is only in its experiment-‘ al stage, the Minister admitted, and The decree represents considerable speeding up of one of Europe‘s most important waterway projects because the original plan envisaged 1950 as the completion date. But the decree says: "Austria‘s reunion with the‘ German Reich and the execution of the fourâ€" year plan demand speedier completion of the project." BERLIN.â€"The Government decreed this week that the Rhineâ€"Danube Canâ€" al via the River Main be completed by 1945. Simultaneously the Danube will be developed as a "Reich waterway" up to the new German border below Vienna. Germany Speeds Danube Project OTTAWA.â€"The Island of Anticosti, situated on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which from a military point of view is of strategic importance, will not be sold to any foreign nation, according to an intimation made in the House of Commons last week by Prime Minâ€" ister Mackenzie King. Two Missionaries Shot PEIPING. â€" Death of two British missionaries because Chinese guerilla bands failed to recognize the British flag and took them for Japanese spies occurred here last week. The victims were Dr. H. G. Wyatt, a physician, and Miss Beulah Glasby. The story was brought back by a felâ€" low missionary who was travelling with them north of Taiyuanfu, Shansi Province Capital, where the incident occurred. New Beef Marketing Policy ‘"‘The deepest need of our generâ€" ation is a redefinition of success. We are obsessed by the economic asâ€" pect of life. It is good to have the things money will buy, but the most important things are those that money will not buy.‘"â€"Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. The Fascist party boasts that more than 80,000 Italian boys and girls livâ€" ing in foreign countries are now reguâ€" larly inscribed in the Bililla organizaâ€" tion, recently renamed the "Gioventu del Littorio." 000,000 yearly. These schools, which are chiefly established in the United States, Sovuth America and France, have a total attendance of €5,000. The pupils are almost exclusively sons and daughters of Italians living _ abroad and the main aim of these schools is to teach them Italian and get them inâ€" terested in the new Fascist Italy. TORONTO Almost half of this money, most of which comes from the budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is spent on Italian schools aboard. The Italian Government maintains 138 schools in foreign lands and gives financial asâ€" sistance to an additional 654. Schoo‘ls On This Continent This alone costs the government $3,â€" Italy‘s Propaganda ~| Expense $6,522,400 | Italy spends 124,000,000 lire ($6,522,â€" 400) annually on propaganda of variâ€" ous kinds in foreign countries in an effort to make new converts for fas cism and to keep Italians living aboard in closer contact with their homeland, a study of the current financial bud get reveals. Teaching Youth in Foreign Lands Fascist Culture Costs: That _ ... Much Annvally News In Review Won‘t Sell Anticosti Mermonâ€"Hodge, leave St. Margaret‘s Church, London, the Duke of Atholl, to which family the Viscount is _hefrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper."â€"Plato. Miss Switzer has trained more than 200 canaries to sing the rcale, recognize colors, shake hands and wink. If you want to train your canary she advised: (1) start when the canary is young; (2) teach the bird to eat from your hand instead of letting its mother feed it; (3) teach it in the evening after an If-‘ ternoon of rest. An intelligent canary is casier to train and learns faster than a dog, Teressa Switzer asserted last week at Buffalo. % SHANGHAILâ€"The International Red Cross issued an urgent appeal this week for financial aid, declaring its funds were exhausted and 170,000 Chiâ€" nese refugees here faced a "desperate plight." ‘Officia‘s said food reserves were adequate for only one more month, Claims Birds Learn Faster Than Dogs RIQ DE JANEIRO. â€" The death penalty for crimes against the nation aiming at its disintegration or against the regime was decreed last week by President Getulio Vargas in a law amending Article 122 of the Nov. 10 Constitution. The law is not retroâ€" active, thus it will not reach those implicated in the May 11 Putsch. The real estate deal was believed to be the largest ever recorded in Great Britain. CARDIFF, WALES. â€" Practically half a city changed hands this week when the immensely wealthy Marâ€" quess of Bute sold part of this world port of 200,000 population for a price understood to be about £20,000,000 ($100,000,000). only twentyâ€"five carcases per week are being shipped. Refu('ees F. ace Deopeute Plight The discovery of radium in a remote region of Canada was a veritable godâ€" send since this rarest of minerals was previously found in only one part of the world, the Belgian Congo mines in Africa. Up to a few years ago radium cost $70,000 a gram before the Belgian monopoly was broken by Canadian competition. ‘Thus radium was made Radium in Canada Of 359 cars tested by expert mechâ€" anics in Port Hope this week only 49 were found in proper mechanical conâ€" dition. Either the cars in Port Hope are exceptionally bad or there‘s a lot of old "crocks" in the province.â€" Owen Sound Sunâ€"Times. Plenty of Old Crocks In Time for the Next The first volume of Canada‘s official war history has at last appeared. When the final volume reaches the public, most of the survivors of the war will probably be in their graves.â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. Drastic Expedient. The Primitive tribes of Africa are reported to be scaring their children with stories of civilization.â€"Hamilton Spectator, Death Penalty for Treason VOIC Half A City Sold THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA of the Officials reported this week that Niagara Falls once more changed its shape slightly during the past winâ€" ter, and the United States falls is taking on z& horseshoe shape similar to that of the famous Canadian Horseshoc fails. The Niagara Falls, cA ® publicity deportment announced that a survey had revealed that the crest of the United States falls had developed a more decided sawâ€"tooth appearance than in former years. Two V-shaped' indentations have appeared in the crest. each about 20 to 30 feet deep. "It is clearly evident that erosion it progressing at a rapid rate and that the hevetofore fairly even and stra‘ght American falls is taking on a horseshoe shape, similar to that on the Conadian side of the river," the bureau reported. * l l Had (the Japanese militarists‘) amâ€" bitions been less grandiose, had they attempted to make Nationalist China an equal ally instead of an antiâ€"Comâ€" munist pawn, they might without seriâ€" ous _ sacrifices _ have enormously strengthened the political and econ: omic position of their island empire, and established a powerful barrier against the further advance of Rusâ€" sian bayonets and ideas in Eastern Asia. So far from affecting this, they have first spurred the Soviet Union to improve its own military position in the Far East and they have now given it the chancee of playing the role of tertius gaudens. They have made China their enemy for many a year; they have alarmed their German as-‘ sociates in the antiâ€"Comintern Pact, whose efforts at mediation wer> dashâ€" ed by the Japanese Government‘s manifesto refusing to deal with the' Chinese Central Governm»nt; and their conduct of the military campaign â€"including above all the undisciplined excesses that followed the capture of Nanking and have been reported in cetail by trust: orthy eyeâ€"witnessosâ€" :s not contributed to improve their country‘s reputation in the English rpeaking wor!ld. In fact, they appear to have achieved the opposite of what they set out to do.â€"The Times, Lonâ€" don. Falls Is Where the Japanese Erred Walter Winchell gets away with his keyhole reporting in a big city, and is well paid for it. The same stuff in a small town would bring him to fist fights very quickly. We nick named an ardent fisherman "The grasshopper king", and he came around and gave us his opinion, which wasn‘t compliâ€" mentary. Other little references of a humorous nature have caused a near fight at times, simply because we are so convenient to be got at that almost before the ink on the paper is dry someone comes around with revenge gleaming in his eye and threatens to clean up the whole gang in the print shop. We usually keep the type malâ€" let within range so that if the callers become too threatening we can take up arms in defence of the liberty of: the press.â€"Coleman, Alta., Journal. | He Can‘t Get Away With It " People away from the U.S. border do not understand the American deâ€" sire to see a Mountie. It would pay Windsor and the Soo to stand the exâ€" pense of getting members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stationed at each place. As both cities already have members of the force stationed on their borders, and as tourists want to see them why can‘t a sensible arâ€" rangement be made? U. S. fathers have told this column that the reason they came to town was to let their children see our famous RC.MP.‘s. Can‘t the force recruit a few more men, or use those whose age juslifies a soft job?â€"Sault Ste. Marie Star, Mounties on Display ‘ The picture of nine provincial sweepstakes each occurring several times a year is not one to contemplate with easy complacency. Once each province was well set up in the sweepâ€" stake business, the element ~f compeâ€" tition would,;no doubt, come into play and i* Prince Edward Island gave more in prizes than any other, as it could well afford to do, it would probâ€" ably get the largest share of the naâ€" tion‘s sweepstake dollars.â€"Financial Times, Montreal. ‘ What A Picture! A Costly Privi.lege Comparison of the Compa'rison of the income tax schedâ€" ules of Canada and Britain show the latter to be enormously more drastic, and so is the gas tax over there, three times as much as it is in Ontario. It costs the people a lot to live close to Europe.â€"St. Catharines Standard. more available to combat Mgfl scourge of ~~ *e .â€"Kitchener Record. Shape THE EMPIRE PRESS _ CANADA ;THE EMPIRE â€" _fFalls, ~.Y., publicity nounced that a survey that the crest of the falls had developed a the military campaign Roaming bands of Indians in the ‘e all the undisciplined | Alberta district of Rocky Mountain lowed the capture of | House, among the last of the redmen ave been reported in |to move to the West without benefit orthy eyeâ€"witnessosâ€" | of reserves or treaty money, may get uted to improve their|a grant of land for a reserve of ition in the Enplish | their own. In fact, they appear| In a powâ€"wow with Henry Stelâ€" | the opposite of what | fox, Rocky Mountain house represenâ€" do.â€"The Times, Lonâ€"| tative of the Federal Department of Indian Affairs, the proposal was adâ€" Wremenentininmagey vanced to the Nomad Indians that o they accept treaty money and set ssuming up a reserve in the foothills counâ€" of Horuchoe[k'}".,:"‘ of the north Saskatchewan | ing, Cutting brush for farmi./""C farmers -nymudithxlx;onit any deadline for acceptance of the phpltu set. ‘The roving bands, mainly composed of Cree and Chipeâ€" wyan Indians, gain a living by hunt. ing, cuttine mu.. 3 4VU any decision and it is m., L _ ____ C _ "‘sangements had to be dropped, however, when the Indians refused to give their names as required by the governâ€" ment, WpiMinista®buiec Hh The proposed reser tend from the Baptist of the Brazeau River the boundary of the C est reserva vome years remnant of a refuge in Can EV ECARerinp DT mant Of a tribe which sought refuge in Canada from the United States years 880, were found to be in great need and arrangements had 10â€" be 4) ... _ 3"+ Et 8 P ropose to Offer Land and Treaty Last Free Indians May Take Reserve The tube is filled with hydrogen, which keeps the mercury from oxidizâ€" ing and cools the are formed. It is made of a special alloy impervious to hydrogen, as most common metals perâ€" mit hydroger: to leak through â€"the pores of what appears to be their solid structure, Runs Through Tube The new switch is designed to reâ€" place the familiar snap switch, Its essential part is a tube containing mercury. ‘This tube is tilted up or down to an on or off position. When in the on position the mercury is in the end of the tube through which elâ€" ectrodes project and forms a circuit. between them. When it runs to the other end of the tube the circuit is opened, The test is under way in the laboraâ€" tories of the General Electric Comâ€" pany at Schenectady. If the normal use of such a switch in the home would cause it to be operated three times a day, the test would be equivaâ€" lent to about 140,000 years of actual usage. Oforated by a motor, a new type of switch for controlliag lights and other electrical circuits, has been on test for three and a half years. Its meâ€" chanisim BHas been rocked back and forth, opening and closing its circuit once every second. By June 2 the switch will have been operated 149, 000,000 miles. New Light Switch Made of Mercury Instead of the Old Snap Kind Now Sank With Treasure Francisco Madero had seized conâ€" trol from the dictator, Diaz, and forâ€" bidden exportation of wealth. Penalty for disobedience was death, The Meriâ€" da almost had reached its haven when it was rammed by the Admiral Farraâ€" gut looming suddenly out of the dark. The Merida went down and with all its treasure. The divers breathe a mixture of heâ€" lium and oxygen fed from tanks carâ€" ried on their backs, eliminating the hydrogen mixture which left divers susceptible to the "bends" and to the danger of becoming stupified if they remained down too long. Craig said the hulk, object of sevorâ€" al previous treasure hunts, was lying upside down in the sand and was parâ€" ticularly hazardous to divers. Breathe Oxygen and Helium "We hope to overcome part of that," he said, "by the new equipment we will carry, doing away with trailing airlines which might be fouled." The new diving equipment was tostâ€" ed this spring, when Max Noh] left a coast guard cutter of Milwaukee and went down to a new world record of 420 feet in Lake Michigan. The treasure which included 362 tons of silver bars, was lost when the liner Merida carrying refugees of the Mexican revolution, went down 55 miles off the Virginia coast. floor off the Virginia Capes next month in a quest which may yield a portion of the Mexican crown jewe)s and the rubies of the Empress Carâ€" lotta. Capt. Jo:n Craig, of»Chicago, who deals in sanken treasure and pirate booty on a strictly lawljabiding basis, said he would descend to the occan Chicago Man, Who Deals in Sunkâ€" en Treasure, Will Dive for the Mexican Crown Jewels. 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