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Shik A Commentary 'on the - li £1 Ha ah Yi 24 + Highlights of the Week's News . . . By Elizabeth E. Eedy ; LY + [STORY 1938 should | as husbands. Or fs it that the man ol bon terion us for aviation in Can. | in fi sae la Bote Sieh the Suiity ada, if we read the signs aright. The | party 'ood for thoug ere. anada Alr Lines network will "be completed west of Montreal to the AMERICAN HOUR: It is an amus- er cific Coast. Experimental mail | ing game these evenings to tune in on 1 hts over the Prairies and Rockies | the short-wave set to the broadcasts " re being made this month, Schedules | in English that are coming out of call for the 1,168-mile flight from | Rome, Italy, and Zeesen, Germany, 'Winnipeg to Vancouver, with stops at under the guise of news summaries. : Regina and Lethbridge, to be made in From 210, yon Desk Bn Austieen rs and 15 minutes. girl's voice o e , 4% 7 a mail flights hy the | giving the news as Mussolini would end of the year are also contemplated, | like you to hear it and interpret it. 'according to Transport Minister C. D. The game {isn't so amusing, though, Howe. when you stop to figure how many While such developments are tak- | people there -are in the world today + ing place in Canada, Imperial Airways «who are being forced by a rigid press 3 promises in London, England, this censorship to see events in just that : week, that new planes put into service | distorted and untrue light. The same ; within the next few months, by mid- | spirit which is attempting to smother b summer in fact, will make the 205- | all free thought in other countries is > mile air trip from London to Paris in | now moving to influence people on ~~: exactly one hour, this Continent to accept the same > . | biased outlook, narrow view of life and world affairs. It will be disastrous SABOTAGE: A word of compara: | yo ya spirit continues to gain hold. -- tively 'recent origin which is being : = -. w. used more and more frequently in the BALKANS BOW: The small na- : + newspapers these days Is "sabotage" | 4, "or Central Europe feeling them: "Russian engineers are arrested | .o\ oq jor in the lurch by. Great Brit. on charges of sabotage; the blowing ain and the League of Nations are up of the Breda factories in Milan is sbrambling (with 'he exception. of laid to sabotage hy Italian workers; Austria, Czechoslovakia) under the mysterious fires in French ships are "protective" wings of Germany and' traced to sabotage; and now sabotag- Italy, the nearest big powers. Last ing iu Britain's Royal Air 'Force comes Weok- the four Balkan enténtc Goun: to light .when it fis discovered that {-ies (Greece, Jugoslavia, Rumania two of the newest type bombing | ,,4 Turkey) bowed to Italy, agreeing planes have been tampered With at to recognize the conquest of Ethiopia A __the factory." "Sabotage" comes from | ..4 crane pelligerent- rights -to the the French noun "sabot", (wooden) Spanish rebels. -- shoe, and was first used when a re- When it's a case of every man for bellious French factory-worker threw "himself and devil take the hindmost, / "a boot in the machinery to wreck it. | = 0 hardly expect the small Bal- ' . We mean the same thing as "sabo- kan powers to have acted otherwise, tage" when we say, "throw a monkey Fioueh. i hg Rorks. : MAYORS THREATEN: A repres- x In countries such as Italy and Ger- | o, ation of Ontario's mayors met last many where workers have no volce | Goon in Toronto's City Hall to fight in the Government, sabotage is fre--f yo apnounced opposition of Hon. Nor quently chosen as a method of pro- |, Rogers, Minister of Labor, to in- 'test, of getting' back at the powers creased relief payments from the Do- : that be. It is an attempt to slow up a minfon Government. . .¢ system which they believe to have Declared Mayor H. R. Cory, of : the worst interests of the forking Trenton: "It has come to the point : people at heart. where either you are going to have a 2 te rebellion of the Snsmployed, % Jou DIVORCES 'UP: An increase of | are going to have a rebellion o e twenty per cent. over 1936 is shown | ratepayers because "they can't pay "77 in the number of divorces granted to | more! : Canadian couples during 1937.. The . The small taxpayer indeed -is--not-| -- total reached '1,870 altogether, 536 of | to be envied in these days of heavy . which were taken out in Ontario. | relief expenditures. It comes to the, British Columbia ran a close second, | point in some cases that a fian wit while in proportion of population, | a tiny Dans ut poppy has 42 2 ) uebec scored the lowest, 43. keep his next-door neighbor w - Tr Soman sidelight on the statis- | most as well off. A serious situation, 7 » tics; men must still be chivalrous since | and the Ontario mayors are right in twice as many wives sued for divorce | becoming exercised about ft. ° vo J Democracies Canada's Revenue . A yg : Dominate By Shows Increase ° -- Sea And Air |g; $66,304,779 Shown For : : Ten Months' Peri But Land Forces of Dictator : ; - States Outclass France, Britain | OTTAWA.--Total national reve- 'And US. by Three to One. 'nue for the first 10 months of the : : . : . current fiscal year amounted to. WASHINGTON=The three major | $438,065,893, an increase of $66,- » democracies hold by far the world's | 304,779 compared with the same pe- dominant sea power and have a slight { rjod last year, according to the ff » edge in air strength, Ju id badly. Ce of the comptroller outweighed by the land armies o of the treasury. Fascist powers, a survey revealed. Total ordinary expenditures for The combined navies of the United | {po same period (April 1 1987, to States, Great Britain and Franch, ship | january 1, 1938) amounted to $320, for ship, are more than two and a | 679.951 a decrease of $11,869,686 half times stronger than the fleets of compared with the same period a + Japan, Germany and Italy. year ago. But when cost of relief : nr LRatio Twa To Ohs for drought ang unemployment, re- On completion of the naval rear | yop woykg fo So in Government: 3 mamen} programy '4 -(hote six poy owned enterprises and capital expen- ers the ratio, roughly, will be tWo | 400 js added the total disburse- to one in favor of the democracies. ment for the period amounted to A combination of the Tasclst DoW: | oy 4 256,627, an increase of $8,966, ; ers against the United States alone, 820. ; however, would find the American Balanced Bu dget. Nearer . fleet heavily overwhelmed. of revenue lige In the air, the democracies could Every source tats Te a Y gend out a combined aerial armada | an increase and the genera ni of approximately 12,000 fighting air- | dicates that every month inance planes to beat oft a_ theoretical Ital- Ministex Dunning is drawing ine fan-German-Japanese combination ot 'the possibility of a balanced budget. 11,000 airplanes. while the report for the 10-month pe- © It is on the ground--with the armies riod shows a surplus over all expen- which must conquer and hold land and | ditures of Ion S00 000, this ey hi = "f - "bear the major brunt of any war -- | wiped out by the heavy specia . ' that the Fao powers hold an over- | penditures for various forms of re- whelming superiority to.the present armies of the domocratic countries. Armies More Efficient This advantage fis nearly three to one. fact that one of the powers, Japan, ny {8 now engaged in a major war, and tary machine through combat service ; "in conquering Ethiopia and in giving : ald to the fnsurgent army in Spain, : 'e Japan's army approaches 1,600,000. Nippon {is known to have 1,000,000 men on the Asiatic continent, fighting in ference. The men under arms in Jap- an proper are estimated as in Xcess of 400,000. Half As Many Men Italy, at the end of the Ethiopian campaign, had 1,331,200 men under arms and, in addition, an air force personnel of 203,395. Ot the 1,331,200 there were 8,788,200 called up from the reserves. How many of these have been demobilized {8 not known. The German army Is conservatively A--C ) It is further enhanced by the' Italy has just finished putting its mili-. China and acting as a bulwark in Man. choukuo against possible Soviet inter-. lief and the Canadian National Rail- ways deficit before the end of the. fiscal year, March 31. Heaviest increase in revenues came in the excise and income tax branches which were $29,000,000 and $18,000,000 higher, respectively. Ex- cise had accounted for $1560,626,799 56 the 10-month period and was the greatest single source of revenue. As there is no. State tax in Hol: land, costs of radia programs are paid for by voluntary subscriptions. By taxing private rice mills the Government of Panama will have power to control the country's rice market, Czechoslovakia's trade with other countries is the greatest in five years, estimated at 650,000 with 100,000, In- cluding an anti-aircraft force of 40, 000 fn the separate airforce, Against this array of 3,381, 200 armed mgn, the United States, Britain and France have .a combined total of 1,443,000, A ---- lished by Canadian flying clubs in 1937 as'club activity continued on the upswing, with more than 350 licenges issued to pilots." Many of these pilots todk . positions with commercial avia- tion companies, while others joined the Royal Air Force in Great Britain. This exodus of Canadian flying club pilots to the R.A.F, began several years ago, and has continued. GQ, M. Ross, executive secretary of the Can- adian Flying Clubs Association, esti. mated there are more than 200 Cana- dian pilots who obtained licenses 'through Canadian flying clubs now with the R.A.F. Hé said there was no precancejved plan in this movement of pilots to Britain. A .survey made by the association .last year showed that more than 150 club-trained pilots and air engineers were gainfully employed in commer- time the number has increased. 21,000 Flying Hours The association reported total time flown by the clubs in 1937 was close to 21,000 hours, which is about 1,680, 000 miles, or approximately equivalent to 65 flights around the world at the equator. This represented an increase of 21 per cent. over 1936, 52 per cent, over 1935, and 100 percent, over 1934. The Toronto club headed the lst with 2,034 hours flown .-by members, jlton third with 1,658, and London fourth with 1,365. Ottawa members flew 1,170 hours, and Edmonton 1,148. Government. Membership fees aver- age $10 a person a year. Flying in- struction fees an hour on the aver- age are $12 dual, $10 student solo and $8 'advanced. solo. Only licensed in- structors and air engineers are em- ployed by the clubs, and all equipment is certified by the Government as to 200 Canadian Pilots Fly ~ With Royal Air Force In Great Britain--But An All Time Record Was Set In Canada In 1937, More Than 350 Licenses Being Issued to Pilots : --Total Flying Mileage 1,680,000. An all-time flying record was estab- 8 cial flying operations, and since that _clal figures released here that showed Winnipeg was second with 1,878, Ham-_ "industry. Continued Expansion Seen Predicting continued expansion of mining in Newfoundland, it was re- The clubs are subsidized by the" Excellent Training Program "Our clubflying plan has proved the most useful and economical plan for pilot training in the world," Mr. Ross said. "We believe, however, that a program should be launched to train at least 10,000 more pilots in Canada. It would provide a reserve for military purposes besides provid- ing a stimulus to general flying inter- est. At present there are about 1,200 pilots holding active licenses and about 800 others whose licenses have lapsed." Minerals Top Fishing Crop Production Last Year Totals Ten Million In Newfoundland ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.--Newfoundland's mineral prospects are revealed in offi- production in 1937 had surpassed the $10,000,000 mark for the first time in the history of the island. Announcement that the - value of minerals in Newfoundland: totaled $10,659,782 was accompanied by notes that revealed the:-fact this represent- ed double the value of the codfishery, long recognized as the island's leading called that the island's mineral pro- duction in 1854 was §2,208 worth of copper raised at Tilt Cove, the only operating mine in the country at that time. - Lead-zinc-gold-copper ore from Bu- chang and iron ore at Bell Island ac- counted for $10,000,000 of the total production last year, and small opera- tions for limestone and fluorspar were Army Increased "MADRID. -- Government Spain drafted youths of 19 and men of 30 oeesnc 'w ktarihisee t this week to increase its army from an estimated 650,000 to a possible 780, 000. g Government Carries It PARIS.--The sliding--wage scale provision of the labor code was re- adopted by the French Senate last week and with speedy approval of the other articles the code was sént back to the Chamber for action on "Senate changes. The Senate vote was 194-82. An amendment which would have taken the force out of the - sliding wage scale provision was defeated. Pre- niier Chautemps remained in office after having threatened to resign if the provisions were not readopted. Naval Race Continues LONDON,--British and American naval experts were reported reliably this week to have completed plans for building - battleships exceeding 40;000 tons, but to be awaiting final decisions of their governments be- fore carrying out technical tests for actual construction. Air Raid on Valencia HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish .Fron- tier.--Insurgent air raiders made two attacks over the week-end on Valen- cia and environs, and inflicted heavy damage on the town of Gandia, 40 miles to the south, : Five rebel planes dropped several bombs near the port of Valencia and nearby hamlets, Will Go To Air Conference OTTAWA.--Canada will join in a new intra-Empire Air Transportation Conference next month, when a Ca- nadian delegation will be despatched to Ireland--to consult with overseas authorities there. 4 News In Brief 1] 000,000 Germans on our borg GARDONE RIVIERA, Ltaly, id - Gabriele &'Annunzio, Italy's g "any secret deal had béen made carried on at Aguatl ~~ Humber- aitwcrthiness, mouth and St. Lawrer 5 The new developn} = air service was-reveal¢ Mihister Howe 'as the : mons gave third readitig vw' enable Trans-Canada Air Line, ited to become an integral pl : the company which will even contro} Empire flying, aie at Germany Threatens | BERLIN. -- Gerniany's or- tive field marshal, Herman W Goering, last week-end rattle sabre as he warned the Reic] force was ready to protect thi Highlights of his address: | 1. Warning Hodza to treat ti deten Germans in Czechosloval = = Hitler thinks they should be tre: 2. Warning von tion Hitler demands for them. ; 3. Warning Chautemps not X courage Czechoslovakia too muel = as one semi-official commentator it, "clinging to the doctrines of neva and adhering to my 1 with other powers." - A t Fascist Inspiration Dies warrior-poet, symbol of Italian' tionalism and President of the J demy of Italy, died unexpectedly week in his Villa Vittoriale, 'A cerebral hemorrhage caused. death. He would have been 76 March 12. D'Annunzio was the sy bol of the nationalist dream of K cism, and the inspiration of Mus lini, it is said, Defends "Back to Niagara' + TORONTO.--Denying sharply t the Quebec power companies, E mier Hepburn, before -the Legil ture, defended the reversal of | "back to Niagara" power policy week by placing responsibility dir ly upon the King Government at tawa. With the advent of 'an unusually early sprin tert, rising out of its bed to form a sma 1 lake eompleielf covering thaw, Coal Creek, O Schuschnig be SE give Austrian Nazis the liberty a = : hn so completely forgotten, the Gov. ---- VOICE THE WORLD \. _ AT LARGE . of the CANADA | THE EMPIRE PRESS CANADA Only "Me" Remains - In view of the Niemoeller trial, and the recent Nazi purge, one remarks that when Kaiser Bill resigned it was Me und Gott, but with Hitler now it is only Me.--Hamilton Spectator. World's Worst Threat This is the really most dangerous condition in the world today---namely, that the people ruled by dictators do- not get either truth or common sense from their newspapers.--OQttawa Jour- nal, The Disappearing Salmon Peoplé on the Pacific coast are at last getting an answer to that old question, "Where do the salmon go?" It seems that they go into a floating Japanese salmon cannery. -- Toronto Star. o> Rural Fire Protection An English inventor has produced a "lireplace" which carries extinguish- ers, a motor pump, sectional ladder and gas "bombs" capable of suffocat- ing flames, This may ultimately pro- vide a solution to the problem of rural fire protection.--\Woodstock Sen- tinel- Review, Financially A Able to Drive It seems to be a reasonable prinel- ple that no one should be allowed to take a car on the streets or highways unless he is in a financial position, through insurance or otherwise, to meet reasonable claims on account of any damage his machine may do, either through his own carelessness or indifference or through mechanical deficiency of his car.--Windsor Star. If They Stood Together :Raoretary. loekoe of Tnshinstop a a" anywhere. "ped Japan, without firlng a shot, "aaking a "stand" in front of Man- ---now Manchoukuo. They could stopped Germany by making a 1" on the Rhine and negotiating - and orderly revision of the Ver- ~~ Treaty. .<uce they had prestige cnough to in without war. Whether they have flay is doubtful. Whether they will % 'Montreal Star. -wnada's Lost Visions ° T'he national vision of plenty has an soifar lost, the national policy of "andance in Canadlan homes has "iment js no longer concerned with HE ability of the Canadian fishing 'ages to buy Canadian apples. Al- ~3t the entire concern of party poli- is with the exporting business to + British or some other distant mar- | The Conservative vision of na- wi policy has been-lost as com- id as the Liberal vision of freer a There is no longer any real dif- ce between the' parties, as the ister of Labour's admission about key place of the protective tariff d show. Under straight party ics, the Liberals would lead along ath of freer trade: the Conserva- would take new steps in the na- 1 policy to see that the Canadian 'le have purchasing power in the market to maintain economic 'ity. Straight party politics has to mean nothing more than the fight between Tweedledum and edee.--Ottawa Citizen, ie Silberman 's Luck: On his way home merica in the German liner rg the Dean of Exeter, Eng- Attended a ship's costume fete. no fancy dress, so he wore n's evening dress--breeches, ockings, and scarlet doctor' s He won first prize. silk export-is- concerned, 'I'ney could have ve on some black tomorrow is not. gh 2) THE EMPIRE Universal Vigilance So long as two people are killed .on Scottish roads almost every day.of the year, the challenge of the road casualties remains unanswered, At the same time despair of further ef- forts to reduce the casualty list §s not justified. These must continue to be among the first duties of every section of the community. Motorists, for ex- ample, must realize that they control, or are supposed to control, a poten. tially lethal weapon; pedestrians must realize that they can go safely aqnly if they go warily; and cyclists, even if they wre travelling on the special tracks they profess .to dislike, must remember the dangers of - unsteady and careless riding. "The process of reducing the fearsome total of dead and injured cannot in the nature of things be other than slow; but it could be accelerated if courtesy, con- sideration and watchfulness were so strictly observed as to possess the quality of instinct.--Glasgow Herald. Japan's Weaknesses The British Empire and the United States combined take half of Japan's exports and supply 63 per cent. of her needs. Then, in so far as Japan's raw the United States takes 85 per-cent. of it, this being the only Japanese export not dependent on imported supplies of raw materials. Japan's whole social struc- ture, it will be seen, is dependent on the American silk market. Japan is vitally dependent on imports of oil from the United States and the Dutch last Indies, and of iron and scrap from India, Malaya and Australia. Amongst other things, Japan's coal consumption "is .only a fifth of Great Britain's and her heavy industry is not dovelond hronartonately, to her' : : PR HUE ae ag" ngnting forces and of women to the munition - factories is bound to cause a steep fall in production at the very time when tens of thousands of soldiers have to be provided with a more substantial diet than they exist- cd on as peasants.--Iong Kong News. Clothes Prove Favorite Buy "Of Canadian Tourist Visiting the United States Returning Canadians brought into Canada $6,303,656 worth of dutiable goods under the $100 exemption clause in the Customs tariff during the ten months from April 1, 1937, to last Jan. 31, the National Revenue Department reported last week. Goods from the United States were valued at $5,537, 765. --- - Clothing valued at $2,974,184 was the principal item in the seven com- modities listed, including one for mis- cellaneous articles, and of this $2, 611,793 represented clothing from the United States. Second was furniture and household appliances, with $622, 103 coming from all countries, and $582,094 from the United States alone. Boots and shoes brought were val- ued at $576,605, with $553,302 from "the United States, while radios total- led $534,833, with $532,293 from the United States. The other two listed items were automobile accessories to- talling $87,855, with $87,745 from the United States, and automobile tires and tubes totalling $80,183, with $79, "710 from the United States. Australia iss just freed 62 per cent. of its import ¥t¥ade from re- trictions, Britain's new census of woodlands totalling 3,000,000 acres, will keep twelve surveyors busy fop'two years. ritable Lake in Spring Thaw Movements Of Body's Organs Photographed Motion Picture Films Shown For « + Diagnostic Purposes and Study May Develop New Technique of Diagnosis, { How the 'movements of the organs and joints .of the human body can be recorded on motion picture films for diagnostic purposes and study was demonstrated last week at the sci- ence forum of the New York Elec- trical Society. Dr. William H. Steward, director of the Department of Radiology in Eenox Hill Hospital, and Dr. Francis H. Ghiselin, of the same hospital, who developed the new technique by experimentation duvir; the past two vears, conducted the demonstration. The technique makes possible ' the compilation of a film record of pati- ents, showing the performance of their organs from year to year. It can be used to teach medical students exactly what happens, for example, when food is swallowed. Record . Studied at Leisure "A motion picture record of the behavior of the organs can be studied at leisure indefinitely without danger of excessive exposure of the patient or examiner," Dr, Stewart said. "These motion picture films can be shipped to distant places for consul- is tation and opinion on_the condition of the patient at the present time or at any time in his previous history. With further experimentation and improvement, the scope of the meth- od will be broadéned and ijt probably will become an important division of 'roentgenological study." nC - Fluoroscopic Screen The two physicians showed motion pictures of the motion of various "eka oe -- functioning organs, both diseased. and hE) normal. They said that in the taking : 3 B _of the films™a patient was exposed to Mik an X-ray beam, which threw an im- - Ti EN k: age of his organs on a fluoroscopic RE screen. A camera fitted with a speci- ye al finder and an unusually fast lens WEE took the images on the screen. Sheet Al lead covered the camera box to pre- : Rn vent the scattered radiation from a oni SALAD Hi y 35 pe SF HY MASE EY £3 ' 2 HC ead that the sensitiveness of 'the "Him = = ey. Sir made possible the satisfactory filming : 3d ot of almost any part of the body. Usu- TR ally, they said, it takes from five to. od ten seconds to obtain a good "shot" on an organ, such as the.heart, in motion. Population Up In Australia Birth Rate Higher -- British Migrants Sought By Com- * monwealth CANBERRA. -- Australia's populas tion has begun to Increase rapidly af- ter severe contraction during the de- pression. At September 30 tast, the population was 6,846,398, an increase of 39,646 In the first nine months of the year. (The Dominfon Bureau of Statistics' estimate of Canada's population in 1937 was 11,120,000. The census of nha 1931 counted 10,376,786). A If Australia's present rate of [n- dred crease is maintained, the population Rae Will pass the 7,000,000-mark about the middle of 1940. The government hopes however, that a rise in birth rate re- corded In the last year will be Increas- ed and that British immigration will develop -- raising the population to- more than 7,000,000 in less than two SN years, SS: A. Fewer Have Emlgrated . Not only has the birth rate risen, but the loss of population through mi. SS gration has decreased. Nevertheless, Rab for the first nine months of last year, - there was a net loss of population - 'through migration of 567 persons, For ANA the corresponding period of 1936, the A RAR population. loss through migration was $i Sh 2,165 persons.' In) Me Excess of births over deaths for the hy "ty first three-quarters of 1937 was 40,213 MA 4 : persons. or the corresponding period %) of 1936 the natural increase was 38, 191 persons, Victoria and South Australia are the only states fn the Commonwealth fn * which women outnumber men. Hunts Coyotes With Hounds "Riding to the hounds" has proven profitable "for Robert Cruickshanks of Herschel, Saskatchewan, 15 miles southwest of Saskatoon, who recent ly marketed 153 coyote pelts taken during a two-month period. , He uses a pack of hounds, bred by X crossing English greyhounds with x Ivish wolfhounds and a light truck, A capable of going 60 to 70 miles an hour. The dogs can catch a coyote readily. Present coyotes can run about 10 miles an hour faster than their an- cestors of 20 years ago, Mr. Cruicke« shanks believes, The average coy- ote, he estimates, can run about 45 miles an hour.