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5 4 FS EMA . $5,148,660,000, a high Commentary on the 'Highlights of the Week's News . , « Yas Forde By Elizabeth Eedy WATCH FRANCE: France has often been called "the key nation of, Europe." Now, as never before, this' designation is apt. For the eyes of all European governments are watch: ing the shifts and changes in the French Cabinets these days, and for- eign policies of many countries are modified accordingly. An article in "Current History" points out that, since the National (Chamberlain) Government of Great Britain is a Government of the Right or Conservative elements, it is greatly to its interest to have a government of the Right in France, too. Hence the break-up of the French Popular Front, coming simultaneously with the resignation of Leon Blum, Leftist Premier, last week, was cheered mightily in London. In Berlin, too, the fall of the Blum Cabinet was hailed as the opening of a new era, with French policy more favorably disposed toward Germany. A likelihood of the early drawing away from the Franco-Soviet pact by the new French Government was also cause for rejoicing there, streng. ing Hitler's hand to make faster work of Czechoslovakia (or Alsace-Lorraine or Danzig or Lithuania). At home in France the nation was apparently not so pleased, Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader, claim- ing followers numbering six million, was furious at the forced break-up of the Popular Front, threatened a gen- eral strike of all industry. Socialists and Communists alike, who together form the largest bloc in the Chamber, cried "Down with the Daladier Gov- ernment!" The former would not lend the government their support when invited to do so; the latter were ex- cluded as being too extreme for a Centre or Right government. For a moment, then, France was close to revolution which was kept from coming to a head by the realiza- tion that "another 1789" in France would precipitate a general European war. Why? Because civil war In France would create a situation there directly comparable to the situation ifn Spain; the armies of Hitler and Mussolini would undoubtedly plunge into the conflict and there you would have ft. The new government is representa tive of only a small section of the French people, with pressure being brought to bear on it from both the Right and the Left. The crisis is still on; France will be worth watching for the next few weeks and every new development will be significant. CONSERVATIVE LEADER: Every day in every way the list of prospec- five candidates for leadership of Can- ada's Conservative Party is growing bigger and bigger. Sometimes rumor augments it, later to be denied. At present five candidates are prominent. ly mentioned: Arthur Purvis, former Chairman of the National Employment Commission; Hon. Dr. R. J. Manion, former Minister of Railways and Can- als; Hon. J. Earl Lawson, once Min- ister without portfolio in the Bennett Cabinet; Denton Massey, Toronto. M, P., and Sydney Smith, President of the University of Manitoba, WHAT HITLER MAY PROPOSE: The foreign affairs commentator who writes under the pen-name of Augur reported last week in his private ser- vice to London subscribers that Ger- many would propose a sensational deal for extensive territorial acquis- ition when Chancellor Hitler visits Premier Mussolini in Rome next month. Augur said Germany would ask a free hand in gradual absorption of the Danubian region as far as the Black Sea. In exchange, it would offer to help Italy eventually to take from France the rich strip of French terri- tory along the Italian border includ- ing the Savoie region and the Medl- terranean port of Nice; the Mediter- ranean island of Corsica, and the North African possession of Tunisia. PRESIDENTIAL SETBACK: Presi- dent Roosevelt's administration stag- gered under an overwhelming blow dealt in the United States House of Representatives last week when a number of Democrat members 'cross- ed the floor of the House" and voted with the other side against the Presi. dent's Government Re-organization Bill. The issue was one of increasing Presidential powers to permit long overdue reforms to be made in the executive branch of the government. Observers say the defeat in such a manner of the Re-organization Bill meang a big drop in the prestige of the President, that it will mark the beginning of a nation-wide struggle between F.D.R. and his "big business" critics. READY IN AUGUST: The long- heralded transatlantic air service on a twenty-four-hour schedule between New York and Foynes, Ireland, will start this summer, perhaps by the first of August, it was officially announced from New York last week. (Passen- gers and mail will be carried--com- mercial flights must wait till later.) According to the schedule, two planes will take off simultaneously from op- posite sides of the Atlantic, an Im- perial Airways "pick-a-back" plane from Ireland, a Pan-American Airways Boeing seaplane from Port Washing- ton, N.Y. Says Stratosphere Has Possibilities Harnessing and Storing of Atomic Energy Are Among Them The great potentialities to be de- rived from the exploration of the strat- osphere, among which the harnessing and storing of atomic energy was, perhaps, the most important, were discussed by Squadron Leader John A. Sully, until recently commanding officer of an R.C.A.F. squadron at Winnipeg, in addressing the Kiwanis Club of Moatreal last week. The speaker expressed the view that the conquest of the stratosphere was but a matter of time, Purposes of the explorations being made in the stratosphere, sald Squad- ron Leader Scully, were many. Scien- tists were trying to discover what the changes in air pressure and tem- peratures were at that level in com- parison with sea level, and what was the wind speed, believed to blow stead- ily from the east, Efforts also were directed to finding out what the elec- trical conductivity of the air at strat. osphere height was for broadcasting purposes and for the navigation of air machines. Would Revolutionize Industry The explorers also were interested in discovering all they could about the sheet of ozone which was sup- posed to envelop the earth at a great height and which stops or "dampens" the ultra short-waves awhich scientists say would otherwise destroy all life on earth. The effect of the rarefied afr of the stratosphere on radio sig- nals was another problem waiting "Most important consideration of all, however," the speaker said, "was that the discovery of how to harness and store atomic energy would com- pletely revolutionize Industry, and would probably be the salvation of civilization when the earth's present stock of coal and oil came to an end." British imports last year totalled record of mahy. years. | Construction is so extensive in Co- Jombia that a shortage of materials is ghreatened. ds along the Russian border dogs to detect trespassers, The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY MURDER ON SAFARI, by Elspeth Huxley. A new type of murder story came into being last autumn with the pub- lication of Elspeth Huxley's "Murder at Government House," which was at once a satire on high official life in Chania colony and a cracking good thriller. All-round fun. Now Mrs. Huxley has done it again with '"Mur- der on Safari." . Vachell, the Canadian sleuth who tracked down the killer of Chania's Governor, is back, too, with some even stranger problems to solve. Can a herd of buffaloes prove the alibi of Rutley, Lady Baradale's conceited chauffeur? Why did the elephants take alarm und move mysteriously away? Who put walnuts on the im- provised coffin containing the remains of Lady Baradale? Then there's the thrilling climax, in which Vachell sets a trap for the murderer with himself as bait, The charaterization, the witty style and the swift-moving action of the plot grip the reader's interest from the first page to the last, and vividly re-create, from the writer's first-hand knowledge, the sights, sounds and smells of the African wilds in which the scene is set. Murder on Safari, by Lllspeth Hux- ley, pub. by Reginald Saunders, To- ronto. $2. To Stop Avalanches By planting thousands of alder bushes on the upper slopes of the Alps, the Swiss Government hope to check avalanches. These tremendous falls of snow, which rush down the mountain sides at express speed, have caused heavy loss of life and great damage to pro- perty in years gone by. The object of planting the bushes is to hold the snows in the upper Alps and so check the first movement. which gathers force as it rushes downwards. Chinese pigtails are being used in aking textiles in Bradford, Eng- South Americ a More Rapidly Than Nor th Australia" Plans Research Course Institutions On. Aeronautics to Cost Million Dollars Hon. R. G. Casey, federal treasurer, has announced Aurtralia will set up aeronautical and engineering research. institutions at a capital cost of $1, 000,000. The establishments will be hased on recommendations contained in a report by H. E. Wimperis, former di- rector of the Britis Air Ministry at Farnborough, Mr. Casey said the Wimperis report directed attention to the need for creating a chair and department of aeronautics, with a reader in meteor ology, at one of the universities. This would ensure a supply of aeronautical engineers for military and civil avia- tion, Experimental Work An establishment equipped for ex- perimental work in wind-tunnels for engine tests, and for the physical tests of aircraft instruments and other ap- paratus, would cost $572,000 with an annual maintenance cost of about $50, 000, Mr. Casey estimated, , In addition, capital cost of building and equipment for a national. refer- ence standards laboratory at Canberra would be-$320,000, with a maintenance cost of roughly $40,000. News In Review Aeeercc re r0ceseeee Fear War With Russia TOKIO. -- The danger of conflict with Soviet Russia is increasingly claiming the attention of Japanese leaders and the public. Persistent rumors of preparations --lacking official confirmation -- and bellicose statements on both sides have intensifled public anxiety. In informed quarters it was under- stood Japan recently moved some regular army units from China battle- fronts to Manchoukuo to man the bor- der of Manchoukuo and Soviet Siberia. Chinese Prepare Push SHANGHAI -- Chinese said this week they were preparing a gigantic drive toward the: Yangtse- River in an effort to retake Nanking, the capital they lost to the Japanese Dec. 11. New victories along the Tientsin- Pukow Railway and Taierchwang fronts were seen by the Chinese as an inspiration for the new offensive. A strong Chinese force along the Tientsin-Pukow line was _reported ready to strike out toward Pengpu, about 100 miles north of Nanking. Consider Next Move BERLIN.--Chancellor Hitler's next step was debated this week in the wake of the greatest vote of confi- dence ever accorded him. His creation. of a greater Germany by annexation of Austria March 13 drew the approval of more than 99 per cent. of the nearly 50,000,000 per- sons who voted in the Aprll 10 plebis- cite. Germans speculated whether he would be inspired to take rapid action on other Nazl "unflnished" business. Would Spend $5,000,000,000 More WASHINGTON. -- A potential $5, 000,000,000 program of spending-for- recovery took more definite form this week when President Roosevelt and his advisers agreed to ask the United States Congress for increased relief appropriations. A Delig Charles Whitaker, old age pensioners (at the right) had that delightful and surprisin don flat, March 29, just as they weve preparing for tea, : A 4 == 30 LJ] TRE so eel akes Millio P FOgressing 1) {Sween M py 3) ; OC CANADA Of Canada's Money THE EMPIRE Si PS, Purchases For Irish Hospital Draw ; h On Grand National Race ol the === Analyzed + In Some Respects, Says Senator Canadians spent $1,100,170 on ticks 1. Webster, .\Who Declares That ; THE WORLD : nN ets in the Irish hospital sweepstakes Interest In the Southern Con- = } on an estimate made for the Canadian .tinent Is Growing Day By Day. AT LARGE Press by statisticluns, b ; yh. 4 The figure was reached as an avers The importance of the nations of " v v : . age of four estimates I ised oe 1.0 ' the South American continent is to- : assumption that Canadian purchasers day being increasingly recognized by CANADA THE EMPIRE had the same probability of drawi European powers and by the United --C-- prize winners as all other purchaser@h._ Sian Senator Lorn C: Webster | Morning's the Time Inconsistency . These Ssumastes wete mate of te = ing the Impressions made on him oy | A Watch that is wound in the | The whole of Hungary's agricultu- | FRCL AL MCh Clon PCs CRUE e Imp 5 "0 YY 1 morning will last longer. The tight- | ral labor market has been disorganiz- | °¥ ¢ case a 60-day 15000 mile visit to that [A Onger, ? and total prise money. - In. each cohtinept ly wound main spring will stand the | ed. Why? -Because Germany has the amount of prize money going to The unsettled European situation fs | *H0¢ks and jars of day better than engaged 20,000 Hungarian agricul- | 0 0.0 0 So iaed by the total , largely rior pean 5 A a loose main spring. For the same tural laborers for work in East Prus- amount of prize. This, of course, gave tention to South America, Senator | '%ASOn people are fresher and do bet- | sia, : a traction, which was multiplied by i ; y ter work in the mornings. By night Yet Germany still keeps up her de- 1 1 le of Webster believes; the new attention . . : $13,-730,010, the total world sale © being exemplified by German, Italia they get ran down -- Windsor Star. RRNA Lor Slomios rine tha fhe tickets, Pp y » Italian oe needs to find an outlet for her sur- and more recently British radio 0-- iu opulation. <= Lond Sund The statisticians found their four broadcasts directed at South Amer- | Better Be Careful Pn Pou Aion: Ridon *Y | estimates yaried only slightly, despite fo Jistapers: Rror hate in Fouth Dr. W. T, Crombie, Superintend- |. --0-- 1 i ieient Tsthods ye "reach: Marios: tihresss Stives of dhe fa ent of Queen Alexandra Sanitarium, | "It Has No Parallel" a 'On The Derby Too (= i 118 Vokes wee gigese i Landon, Ontario, wud noted author- Those in Canada who cherish the The estimate made on consolation Intercourse with that continent, "A oh joryionly has an Juplass. freedom of speech, writing, and pub- | prizes gave the total expenditure of Thoroughly Modern were an he asserts half of "he fis Masiing gianna y oa gn Canadian 83 $1073.00), thal of Lorges , stitution are much co : . found, "syn pects. (he Senator | population of Canada would be shown | "Padlock" Act recently passed in | 166000, and br. toral prizes. money, ig FOU ey od to have tuberculosis. Not that they | Quebec. The measure has no paral- $1,064,000. : instance South America has a regular should be in sanitavia, decidedly not, | lel in a British Dominion. One The statisticians also estimated & Trans Hate aHPIane "Serica. but they should® protect themselves | clause declares it to be illegal for that Canadians spent $603,530 on the¥ 1¥ing. passengers, wall and perishable agains care andtoverwork lest they | any house to be used to "propogate | British hospital sweepstake on the o¥press. Some o* the univeisitics 'of fn themselves gthere. -- Canadian | communism-of bolshevism by any | Derby last ye» when total world sale South America ante-date North Amer- Agazine. LS. means whatsoever," though it is to | of tickets was $10,317,780, indicating ican institutions as McGill and Har : ror be noted that in no part of the Act is | a heavy increase in Cahadian purchase vard by as much as a hundred years. A Big Attraction any attempt made to define these per- | of Grand National tickets over those Good roads are much in evidence Every effort must be put forth by | PiClous doctrines PR Among elemen. bought. og. ths. Derby. throughout the continent, and thor- | the authorities at Queen's Park to tary principles of British constitu. On. the Grand, Natighd] see, Cans oughly modern motor cars, railways, | conserve and increase the game fish tional government are freedom of | adians got 125 of the 1,600 consola- radius, moving pictures, etc., are to be | and wild life in general in. this pro- speech, of the press, and of public | tion prizes, 104 of the 1,264 horses found. i vince. That the groat Northern On- meeting, subject to the limitations of | drawn, 48 of the 576 horses starting- "Much of the South American na- | tario playgrounds . and fsherman's the criminal law; the right of a man | and $618,650 of the total prize money tive population is being Anglicized | paradise are the main attractions to | tO ® fair trial in open court if | of $8,057,600. by movies made in the United States | American tourists who left something charged with an offence; and the A a and Britain," Senator Webster re- | like $295,000,000 in this province in freedom. of the home from arbitrary i \ vealed, "with the younger generation | 1937. is evidenced in the constant | "€2r<h: All of these are violated by Rat Gives Man t learning the language quite well by | gtream of inquiries flowing into th the new Act, and the anxiety of lib- : = his means." : g Into the | oral opinion th h Canad A Rare. Disease th Canadian Travel Bureau each spring b poughony [Canada al The Younger Generation --Guelph Mercury. = * | the reactionary nature of the measure A "The same younger generation ls : can well be understood.--Manchester The ; pation 3 ar i \ Is Thrown Into Coma For Two eveloping an Intense na'ionalistic r . eeks After Conta i spirit, a spirit very much in evidencs Canada's War. Debt Wek Rodent Wan in other parts of the world," the sena- 'As shown by the Canada Year | °o 0 ; tor found, "and young leaders are Book the war and demobilization ex: Expert Visions DETROIT.--IIl five weeks through rising rapidly through the continent. penditures of Canada up to and in- "Fli 9» contamination by a rat, Samuel Tush. The colorful historical background | cluding the fiscal year 1920 totalled wvver Plane man, 32, local poultry dealer, is re- of South America, and the many at- | $1,670,406,236. In the next three : covering from a disease of which not tractions it has to offer, give it great | years, 1921-23, there were further For ts Mass Producti : more ty a dozen iol have been potentialities as a tourist mecca, -ac- | expenditures of $23,000,000 odd and wn for P hs on of Ar reported in the United States. The foning 0 iy Senator. "Names, like | since then there have been additional P Use: 8 ors malady is known as Weil's disease, or Megan 2a eigh and Captain Kidd, | small items chargeable to war. These se . infectjous jaundice. Dia Fo is Spanish Main, = are figures apply only to actual war ex-- -- . : Tushman sald he contracted the rought vividly to mind by South | penditures. To get the cost of the Dr. Alexander Klemin, head of | disease after stumbling over a rat in America, he said, "and their asso- | war there would have to be added to | New York University's school of ae- | nig shop. He believed that the pol- Sil with hy Janse visited lends a | them the large, continuing, outlays ronautics, this week forecast mass | son either seeped through his shoes, . stinet fascination. for pensions. From 1914 to 1920 the production of "flivver" airplanes | which were wet, or he was poisoned gross Ast ada, rose steeply Nitkin five 0050 Miner Sound ingor. when he touched the boot with his a Poor Thi rom ,391, to $3,041,629,578, | borate revolutionary safety devices | hands. He was In a coma for two Some pb nk nothin This enormous increase was chiefly | for the 'private owner. weeks, A Ty aya ns ne but not entirely due to the war ex- In an article in the "Quadrangle" Dr. Henry F. ugha, Detroit nn A penditures.--Kingston Whig-Stand- undergraduate publication, Dr. Kle- | Health Commissioner, said that the ph. ard. : min said . developments making for | disease was carried by a minute or- --0-- ig riety would include an abo- | ganism called "leptospira," which may They also canvassed the possibilities | Those Royal C issions ition o rudders to simplify opera- | be carried by rodents or other ani- a roping Me Federal » Govern. " ommi tion, improved air brakes and devices | mals or may be found in water or MOnLS Pleat « MOUTH ACLS, The Ottawa Journal laments the | to make "stalling" and "spinning" | playgrounds. The disease, he said, is such as the United States Housing now familiar orgy of royal commis- | impossible. usually mild. Only one other case has Authority's program of clearing slams | S17 hie has marked our Canadi- The prices of the "flivvers", he ad- | been reported in the city's medical and building homes for low income mh itical scene .in the past few dos would is down to those of popu- | history. SIOUpE. : S.... ar automobiles. Vehicles may be p . But it is a splendid way for a gov- | made, he said, which could be Yio ° Sei Down For Five-Yeirs ernment to skate around responsibil- | either as airplanes or automobiles. Chinese Trade NEW YORK. -- Richard Whitney, | 1t¥; it is assumed that by appointing Tricycle Landing Gear SI] J bankrupt broker and former president Do son they have "done some- He characterized as the most pro- hows Decline LI of the New ok Bek Exchangs, wos t 4 Rios by i safety development the "tri: E nd " sentenced last week to serve from e list of commissions in the past | cycle landing gear which simplifies Reactio; and . : . n of War--J - five to ten years in prison for grand | few years would be an impressive landing. Another encouraging factor eign Com bir ul A barany, : Lo Sus, Whether the price of clearing 3 modern light: plane design is the' p oe ritney, whose brokerage firm, e air in some cases was worth the | elimination of rudders, inasmuch as i Slots Richard Whitney & Company, failed | cost is an open question. Yet one | the novice pilot<has a hard time co- Sp ra So on March 8, had pleaded guilty to two | might well wonder where the respon. | ordinating his hands and feet in us- antl the und Wr bo. indictments charging first degree | sibility of politicians in action begins ing ailerons, elevators and rudder, | yunon Chines trad Ne ared. war ; grand larceny in the misuse of secur- | and where it ends--or if the royal | Dr. Klemin found. " bri d hr Ee ohana ow ities entrusted to his care by the New | commission is going to become a con- Lateral control. as In some pres-- Ro an Jamie oe York Yacht Club and members of his | venient vehicle for holding electoral | ent day experimental types of planes a fis Inosn Saliva. d oily, heli 3 sould b i : 2 g n firms' trade had slumpe pp amilton Spectator. hii d be achieved by aileron opera sharply. Japanese business in oc- -- : - t : cupi as i k . The service costs of the "flivver," Spied avo ca roporied to bolle htful Surprise for London (England) Couple the is concluded, would be ro | "The Timmonsville Leaf Tobacco greater than on the average automo- Co i . 7, Ty 5 go bile, and hangar rent would approxi ig wing dd Jrickmand, Vag Hesse ; : \ mate gress Font. t reign company to file no- ) tice of suspension -of businezs in : 2 Xx China, : ; "People Poverty Stricken Ve New Coal Furnace Business of most American tobacco companies is described as seriously Runs For Weeks impaired by destruction of factories, ~ % warehouses, and stocks, inability to Without Attention to Fuel Sup- De lation; and hniting fi - z y a hinese government o ply, Ash Ronovel or Dam- the amount of foreign exchange made per Selling available to Shanghai. The oil business also has dwindle The head of the house, weary after | and is faced, besides, with a A, a season of coal stoking, can. look for- Japanese government oil monopoly ward to another winter when he | such as took over the business in wk have to fire the furnace more Manchoukuo. than once a fortnight, the Mellon In. A decline in k ion : ' ) croscne consumption v inte reported this week at. Pitts- broughove the Interior was attribut- . ed to the poverty-stri y i Dr. E. R. Weldlein, director, at the of roy Ty a whoso hots) end of the. Institute's first year in its [.and crops have been destroyed, ~£ ii spacious $6,000,000 home, told trus eo A Jess of the development of anthracite T F : > eating equipment that operates "for <A own Lor. Wacky i atime" without attention. Sele e told, too, er bh: oon ais scientists had Want to buy a town? An entire 062, 0 year on.scien- township is forsale near Melbourne tific research on things ranging from Australia, with electricity and water IR lars to dish washing. complete oint " . if y ---- BR oe 8 the Dosuibiines of com It's not very big, but- it has.its own ning. heating; plants with other | Post Office and store.: Its dozen or so Household utilities, and of using base- houses were bullt for employees on a ne por IREGALION. ARG. Athek PUL" hugenresenvoir scheme, which Is now % i ; FE hed Installations of anth ite heati Sompleted, be # Cagis » : . 29 Rthrac ating And in case you ask who wants to It isn't every British subject who finds his King and Queen at the door In answer to a knock. Mr. and Mrs, | S0UIPment are now operating fof | buy a town, anyway, there Is keen experience in their Lon. weeks at a time, without any attention bidding among anglers' clubs and pri- §¢' At the left, the King and Queen, during the teatime | Whatever to the fuel supply, ash re- | vate fishermen, who want (o establish moval, or damper settings," + | © anglers' pettiement there, os