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1 i. £ Ji I] 2A i cy 3 h G8 has 32 A Ra Tn 35 NH SNe x id --3 x --_-- 3 RS ava 5° OOXXXXX News in OK Lx} Fire Losses Drop OTTAWA, -- Fire losses in Cana- da continued a downward trend dur- ing 1936. and eclipsed the record es- tablished in 1936 when losses were the lowest for any year for which figures are available, said J. M. Rit- chie, Toronto Secretary-Treasury of the Association of Canadian Fire Marshals in addressing delegates to the annual. conference of the asso- ciation here. The convention, attended by more than forty-five delegates was under the chairmanship of J. Grove Smith, Dominion Fire Commissioner, Noted Weekly Sold NEW YORK. -- The Literary Di- gest, weekly news magazine, was sold outright this week to the Review of Reviews Corporation, headed by the veteran. magazine editor, Albert Shaw, -The sale brings, two of the oldest magazines in America under the same ownership. The Review of Reviews was founded in 1891 and the Digest in 1896. Practically the entire ownership of the Digest had been in the hands of R. J. Cuddihy, the publisher, and Wilfred J. Funk, who has been editor- in-chief of the weekly. B. C. Orders Compulsory Hospitalization for T.B. VICTORIA. -- British Columbia Government has passed an Order-in- Council providing for "detention" of persons with -severe cases of tuber- culosis who refuse to be confined to hospitalization, The new regulation reads: "That any person found with tu- berculosis in an infectious or contag- fous stage. who should refuse to be confined to hospital or building pro- vided for quarantine or isolation pur- boses, may be apprehended and may be detained in such an institution." Hon. G. M. Weir, Provincial Secre- tary, said all cases coming under the new regulations would be subject to examination by the Tuberculosis Con- trol Board under Dr. W. H. Hatfield. Building Tops '36 Record WINDSOR. -- Business in the On- tario section of the building trade is 40.5 per cent. ahead of 1936 at the present time, 0. M Perry, manager of the Windsor Hydro-Blectric 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." ~ Car License You don't own the license plates on your car. They belong to the govern- ment, and are only loaned to you dur- ing goed behavior.--Sault Ste. Marie, . It Came True For several weeks the King of Den- mark had been trying to find a Silver Jubilee march. One day the king was riding in Copenhagen. His horse, up- set by the traffic, threw him. Chris- tian Thomsen, a peor composer, was among those who rushed to help him. Although in pain, the king mounted his horse again and rode off. That in- spired Christian Thomsen. He com- posed a march, submitted it. As soon "as King Christian heard it played he exclaimed; "That ig the very thing!" He sent for Thomsen and decorated him. And a poor composer har be- come famous. A true "fairy tale" from the Hans Anderson country at last.--ITalifax Herald. Rivers Under the Earth A cottager near Goderich, on Lake Hirsh received word the other day that a well-driller had got water his property. "How do you know that the water You found isn't lake water that has seeped through the soil?" inquired the skeptical owner, 'Well, to begin with," explained the driller, "the land here is about eighty fect above the level of the lake water, and [ had to drill down nearly twice that distance before | got water, But if that doesn't satisfy you, consider that the water in the well has risen to within sixty feet of the surface, although, as I have said, the lake level is eighty fect below us. In other words, the level of the water inthe well is about twenty feet above tho level of the lake, So I must have struck a different source, a subter- ranean river under pressure sufficient to push the water high up in your well" ) Convinced, the cottager listened to the driller's claim that he could drill a well in the lake and get a column of well water whose level would be higher than that of the lake itself, Ail of which is easy to anderstand, if you can understand it.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. |. 4 Barber Signs f Most of us must have wondered at Bome time or other how it came about 'that barbers display red, blue and white striped poles outside their "mbops. Well, that question mark has 'been answered by an explanation we a -------- N \ nln gn cto ov WY avy LP NAR XR IOLDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHI IIH RKN IRE LD ERXXX] Hy i : ' = IX " 4 PO AR DID DR OR oo Cols om KS et Ro » Ka DC KY 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 brok- en 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. Canada's Highway Accidents dvery Canadian citizen will agree that there are too many accideyts on the roads, yet it will come as a sur- prise to. learn that the number. of deaths in the Dominion fs the third lowest in the world in proportion to the number of cars in use. A table compiled by the Automobile Manu- facturers' Association of New York shows the following percentages of <x deaths per 10,000 vehicles: New Zealand .......ccooveevernnne. 74 Union of South Africa ........ 8.9 Canada .., core, 9.9 Denmark .... 12.6 United States 13.6 Australia .......... we 13.9 Norway on. _ 14.0 Irish Free State . 22.1 Sweden .............. 26.0 England and Wales Belgium Chile Netherlands Scotland Ceylon Germany Switzerland Italy There Are Too Many Guns Our experience is that it is uscless to protest about the number of re- volvers in this province. Nothing has been done to decrease the number and we seem quite content that noth- ing shall be done. It is difficult to recall - where a householder has been called upon to seize a weapon and fight it out with an invader. Truth is, he would be poorly advised were he to try to do s0 because tho invader would prob- ably be a much better shot than the 'householder. : There are teeth in the law now re- garding possession of weapons, but the trouble is the teeth do not seem to come together and bite.--Peterboro Examiner. * Wedding Attire The Dean of Johannesburg is gloomy. He looks askance at wedd- ings to which the bride comes re- splendent 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 jub- flation" 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 recol- lection 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 home- spun.--London Daily Mail. Quebec Bars Trucks From Highways on Sunday QUEBEC. -- Motor trucks will not be permitted to convey merchandise of any description on highways of the Province or on city streets on Sunday in- future, officials of the At- torney-General's Department an- nounced last week, Traflic officers throughout the Pro- vince have been instructed of the new ruling, effective on Saturday, and have been ordered to see truck driv-_ ers and owners conform regulation. sally with the Winnipeg Grants $1,500 For Mosquito Campaign WINNIPEG. -- The mosquito cam- paign is going to be renewed in Win- nipeg. The City Finance Committee granted the campalgn committee $1,- 6500 to carry on the fight. Finances for the campaign had become depleted, Tariff Cut for Brazil OTTAWA. -- Brazil has been ac- corded most favored nation tariff treatment by Canada under an Order- in-Council announced this week, Previously goods from the * big South American Republic entered Canada at the intermediate tariff rates. They will now enter at the lowest tariff rate accorded any for- eign country by treaty. Brazil will thus receive the rates prescribed in the trade agreements with France, the United States and Poland, No charge has been made in tho tariff rates applicable to Canadian goods entering Brazil. For some time Brazil has accorded Canada most fa. vored nation treatment in exchange for the Canadian intermediate tariff rates, But with four other South American countries, Uruguay, Argen- tina, Venezuela and Colombia already on the most favored nation treatment the Canadian government considered it desirable to place Brazil on the same basis, The balance of trade between the two countries is heavily in favor of Canada. Canalian exports to Brazil are about four times Brazilian ex- ports to Canada, In 1936 Canada Sixteen Die In Ontario ~ Week-End Accidents Thirteen Lives Are Lost In Highway Crashes--Man Killed by Fire } and Boy Is Drowned--Others Near Death shipped $3,711,000 worth of products to Brazil, and bought from that coun- try $900,000 worth. In 1935 the figures were $2,769,000 and $835.346, May Trade $99,497,353 OTTAWA. -- Canada's export trade mounted rapidly during May when the total value of Canadian pro- duce sent abroad was $99,497,363, an increase of $15,677,602 over . May, 1936. Wheat and cheese exports fell off as compared with May, 19'G, 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 in- creasu of $2,770,433 over the same months in 1936. Wheat exports in May were 8,026, 507 bushels val at $10,629,311, as compared with 727,336,983 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 in 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 $3,191,000 to $5,354,000, Milk used for mak'ng butter, both creamery and dairy, in Canada in 1936 showed an increase of 169,819, 900 pounds, or 2.1 per cent., on 1935 when the amount used was 8,143,- 583,100 pounds. x TTI Kl °. 1X] i') } 3 KS 1%) "4 5) 5) Ne = -m I] - I] Kd 1 5] I) j f i') Wu : "4 I' Pe 0! : &% DC IX] & 0! 9 1% ROOOOOOOOOOEBEOOOOOAOD XA POULTRY AND EGGS Buying prices: Dealers are quoting producers for ungraded eggs, delivered, cases re- turned: Eggs-- Grade A large ............ 18. to 00 Grade A medium .. 16 to 00 Grade B .................... 14 to 00 Grade C 14 to 00 Dealers are quoted on graded eggs, cases free: : Grade A large ____.... 21. to O00. Grade A medium... 19 to 193 Grade B ................ 16% to 17 Grade C .. 16% to 17 DAIRY PRODUCE Butter-- : Quotations to yholesale trade. Creamery solids, No. 1 241% to 00 ~do 38 score ............ 23% to 00 do 37 score .......... 23 to 00 do 36 score ........ 22 to 00 Cheese-- - New large (paraf'ned) 15% to 15% do twins do triplets 15% to 16 Average price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country points.) New large (paraf'ned) 14% to 00 do triplets .........._.. 15% to 00 - HAY AND STRAW No. 2 timothy, $10 to $11 per ton; No. 3 timothy, $8 to $9; oats and wheat straw, $7 to $8. Above prices f.o.b. Toronto. °* 15% to 153; TORONTO.--The worst accident records of the year took sixteen lives over the week-end, fourteen of them in' highway mishapg, in various parts of Ontario, As if to give tragic va- riety to the picture of death, an el- derly man was trapped by fire in his island home and a 10-year-old boy. sl'pped and fell into a canal, losing his life. : The death toll may lengthen, there being a dozen or more victims lying critically injured. Two level-crossing accidents took in one car. The dead: Mrs. Isa Brown, 585 Oakwood Avenue, Toronto. Frank Webb, Huron Street, Toron- to. Merton L'ttle, Peterborough. James McCullough, Peterborough. Mrs. Emma J. Niblake, Blooms- burg, Pa. Robert Cook, Hariiton, John Mcenzie, McKenzie Island, near Kingston. Avenue, Toronto. Kenneth Blvomiield, London. Oswald Bigras, Carleton Place. . Mrs. William Bigras, Carleton Place. . William Laverdve, Carleton Place. C. A. Leitch, Ridgetor.~. Mrs. Elizabeth Falkner, Windsor. Harry Shaw, 14, London. W. R. Watson, 16, Galt, k'lled vi car, - . Tragedy on Highway Thrée of the accidents were re- sponsible for eight of the fatalities. One of the worst traffic accidents in years: took three lives on Highway No. 3, about fifteen miles west of St. Thomas Sunday morning. The double fatality occurred near Peterborough, when an open road- ster somersaulted, killing two men 'n the front seat. ' * The collision Letween two cars near St. Thomas may result in the to four or five. Four victims are in a critical condition and one or moie of their number may succumb. Harlow Estate May Not Exceed $100,000 HOLLYWOOD. -- Jean Harlow's estate may not exceed $100,000, it was reliably reported. Unfortunate investments and heavy taxes on her salary during the past several years were given as the reasons why Miss Harlow died worth far less than the million dollars credited to her. The will is understood to name Mrs." Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's mother, as principal beneficiary. Despite her tremendous drawing power, Miss Harlow's salary was said to have been $5,000 a week only for the past two years. Had it not been for her relatively moderate scale of living she would have-left practically 'ho estate, the same source reported. Insurance policies e6mprise about half of the estate, it was under- stood. : greatest surgeon of his time, had the courage to write his book on the treatment. of wounds not in Latin, but in everyday and "vulgar" French, much to the horror of the surgeons of the long robe. = four lives, three of the victims being Georgina Goulet, 479 Armadale death toll being incressed from three Ambrose Pare, proclaimed the - oe wr NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS -.. By Peter Randal Seventy three day of the most ter- rible efege 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 at- tempted to flee the city under the murderous fire of the'Italian "Black Arrow" 'column, An indication that the sief> was actually over and that hope of starving off the advancing' mercenaries was over, was the depar- ture of the British consul from the city. He was rescued by British sail- ors from awaiting ship just outside the death swept harbor, Latest re- ports say that General Franco is transferring his hordes in thousands to the Madrid front where another terrific pu:h is forecast by the orders of the Loyalist commander who has requested all civilians to leave the city. . Financial Courage After ten months of comparative stale 1nate, the Fascists seem to be geting somewhere in their attempts to subdue the will of the Spanish people. Just prior to the fall of Bil- bao, new hope was injected into their councils by the announcement of a new loan obtained abroad for $1,600, 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 po- sition of having to throw good money after bad. So far, the campaign has not been much of a success but fur- ther expenditure may turn the day. The fall of Bilbao seems to bear out this statement. Beauty in Distrezs And in Germany, all is not well. Chancellor Hitler's close personal friend and the Director German State Motion Pictures, Leni Riefenstahl has been accused of having "non-Aryan" grandparents. In most 'countries, such a fault would not be of any particu. lar 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 Propa- ganda 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 ft 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 {s not many, the beau.' tiful actress is the favourite. Disaster Echoes 'Strange how echoes of distant thun- der 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 last year) was the scarcity of sulphite, Sul- phite is the. bleaching agent in the making of chemical wood pulp. Sul- phite is also a prime ingredient of explosives. Apparently, the manufac- ture of explosives is of more impor. tance in this unsettled world of to- day than the manufacture of fine pa- per. Crisis Averted : And In France, a mild little man has won an amazing victory and prov- ed the strength of his government. Faced by a financial crisis -occasion. ed by a steady drain of gold because of unequal trade balances. Premier Leon Blum hag just won a vote of confidence. Votes of confidence are a feature of the French governmental system and supporters of govern. ments more often than not turn against their former colleagues on the slightest pretext. Such was the case 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 tinancial powers to suppori the franc by regulation of the discount rate and a crisis which might have been of world importance in view of the delicate state of af- fairs has been averted, at least for the time. Death Takes } . James McLean Long One of York County's Most Outstanding Citizens RICHMOND HILL. -- James Mec- Lean, one of York County's most prominent citizens, and Past Presi- dent of the Ontario Fairs and Ex- hibitions Associat'on and the Ontario Seed Browers' Association, died -at his home here Friday, after an ill- ness of a month. : A native of King Township, he was in his sixty-fourth year, and sell- ing h's farm on Yonge Street sixteen years ago, has since lived in Rich- mond Hill, where he continued to take part in many agricultural ac- tivities. He was a former President of the Richmond Hill Agricultural Society. For e'ght years he sat on the Richmond Hill Council, and was an active worker in the Presbyterian Church, and Adter - in the United Church, Fo fs a skilled bowler and On curler. last winter he was prominent in the Ontario -Bonspiel, SPRANG SANE" ES i ening pp Ronald John Williams, John IL. Carson, Bermuda Press, wearing shorts Ocean Flying Fashions--Bermuda Style--Arrive on First Flight and sun flight of Imperial Airways "Cavalier" from Bermuda. -------- Henry Clay Gipson and Alfred Fliteroft (L-R), members of helmets. a8 they land in New York after the first regular being a member of an all-champion plowmen's rink, From his boyhood he was an ar- -dent plowman and won many tro- phies, including the Dominion of Canada championship. - Later he was -made President of the Ontario Plow- men's Association, which he helped to organize twenty-six years ago along with J. Lockie Wilson. "I valued his advice and counsel for thirty years," declared Mr, Wilson. With Mr. McLean he founded the standing field ¢rop compettions in Ontario. } Surviving are his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Russell Lynnett, Richmond Hill; and two sons, James, a teacher in Toronto, and John at home. . in) SPORT TODAY By KEN EDWARDS- /e 3 Did you know that "Twenty Grand and "War Admiral" carried Charlie Kurt- singer past the: finish post at the Kentucky Derby, making the two fastest: Derby rides. Nowadays every- one seems to be SEE out for records, new and entirely different. Dave Yack, the boxer, has one----He man- aged 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 are '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 $60,000 in fights in England. They say his biggest purse was around $13,000. He made this when he defeated Carnera. Gains, who has beaten most of the heavyweights overseas, worked his passage to England on a cattle boat 14 years ago. The 1936 estimated value of dairy production in Canada is the highest recorded since 1930, namely $208,- 238,128, ' an increase of $16,827,- 706, or 8.2 per cent., on 1985, New Canadians Avoided Relief London Judge Points to Them As * Examples of Thrift LONDON, Ont. -- Native Canadians could well take an object lesson from many newcomers to this country, commented Judge Wearing, as he hear a story of thrift, industry, and in Se -- -- 2 some cases comparative prosperity, ¥ as mid-Europeans struggled to make their way in a strange land. Judge Wearing presided at the g naturalization court this year, gra ing citizenship to approximately 28 applicants, Among those who were admitted to Canadian citizenship was Rev. Fr. W, 8. Morrison, for several years rector of St. Peter's Cathedral, Though" Fr, Morrison has lived in Canada 31 years, he was, until now, a United States citizen. No sooner had he been naturalized than Fr. Morrison appear- ed "as sponsor for the next man on the list. Joseph F. Seaton of Strattfoy made it almost. half 'a century ,of living in Canada as an allen before he became naturalized. A United States citizen, he entered Canada in 1888, he sald. Many Europeans who came before Judge Waring to tell how they were making their own way in a new land, 'how some of them had established profitable businesses of their own and how not one had been on relief since he entered Canada, promoted com- ment by the judge. "It 1s a strange thing that few of these immigrants have been on re- lief,' Hig Honor said. ."The people who are on relief are people: ~who have been here for years." Find Big Business Minus Big Profits Majority of Investments Unpro- fitable in Good Times NEW YORK. -- The idea that big business always makes immense pro- fits was contradicted by the 20th Cen- tury Fund, a non-political foundation devoted to study of public issues. A corps of 'economics who studied the--question for two years reported conditions much different from those commonly supposed. Even during the heyday of the "trusts" in the early 1900's, the report said big .corpora- tions did- not live up to their reputa- tions of infallibly piling up vast re- turns at lightning speed. Some "trusts" did 'make 'excep tionally" rich profits for their invest- ors, the study showed, but "the ma- jority" of 93 corporations -- formed before 1904, each with $40,000,000 or more capital -- analyzed, were 'not profitable for investors in their com- mon stocks", over a 10-year period. The report came from a group which is better known for its dis- agreement with than for its approval of big business methods. The 20th Century Fund was founded by Edward Filene -- I%ew England shoe mer- chant who advocates co-operatives-- for the purpose of studying and ad- vancing 'the next steps forward in the social and economic life of the people." : English Tourists "Aided by Club Formed To Give Advice on Res- taurant, Inns and Hotels LONDON, Eng. -- "Where shall we lunch?' "Where shall we stay?" These questions which constantly face L 3 & 4 travellers ig to be answered in Eng- land by the Travellers' Food Club, which has recently been formed to give advice on restaurants, inns and hostels. The founder of the club, Mr. James White, says that he has searched Great Britain and found delightful cooking frequently at the most unex.. - " pected places. The club has jssued a manual giv- - ing information as to where good ac- commodation and good fare at all prices may be found. The club' is non-commercial, seeks to make no profit, and refuses hotel advertisements. Membership is obtain. ed simply by buying the manual, : Yudistey Needs Farms AMES, Towa.--"When agriculture is prosperous and happy statistics - show that industry fis enjoying its \ best years," Warren W. Shoemaker, of Chicago, Ill, Armour & Co., vice- president, declared here. Shoemaker, cha'rman of the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers' here with a group of Iowa farmers, told the group: "You might well ask why Americar business is so aaxious to 'now 1qore about agriculture snd I will tall you the answer : quite frankly, . - "It. took us a number of years to come to this 20nclusion: That bus'- ness men now kuow that agriculture and industry--aas the two greatest producers of the nation's wealth ---- have a great many problems in com- mon. Our interests lie along the same lines, L: "When agriculture is depressed and sick so is industry." _ agricultural comvaittee, which met F) & >. . Te xX ®