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hw vin eo ow a A va a yp gm aR NR 2s a Eo ol, ET i Europe Interests F oreign Farmers But Few Desire to,Return Per- manently to Native Lands PORT BURWELL, Ont.--Foreign tobacco workers retain a keep in- terest in European and internation. al affairs even though a large per- centage of them are poorly educa- ted and very few of them have any intentions of returning to their homeland. Evidence of this inter- est was shown in the Ives restau- rant and ice-cream parlor here last week when three Polish tobacco workers came in and requested that a certain radio- station *be tuned in on the radio. They wanted to lis- ten to a new commentator discuss the international question. Through the entire news broadcast they lis- tened attentively and then for a quarter of an hour afterwards dis- cussed European affairs. Would Rather Stay Here The three had been in Canada for several years but apparently from their conversation they had kept in touch with friends in their homeland of Poland and also Ger- many through correspondence, That belief about foreigners return- ing to their native land is errone- ous, however, and it can be said in their defence and as a compliment to the country of Canada that very few of them have any desire of re- turning to Europe after they have spent a few years here. z Renew Trade Pact With New Zealand Ottawa Ends Exchange Dump- ing Duty on Butter Coming In From Antipodes. Trade with New Zealand, which like that with Australia has been subject of frequent negotiations in the past three years because of the wide balance in favor of Canada, will continue another year under the pact agreed upon in 1932 with some modification. In announcing extension of the existing agreement until September 30, 1939, the Trade and Commerce Department revealed the govern- ment's decision to cancel the ex- change dumping duty against New Zealand butter imports. In return for this concession the New Zealand government agreed to co-operate as far as possible by lim- iting butter shipments to such pro- portions as not to unduly prejudice the interests of Canadian produec- ers. Trade Is Increasing The present agreement was nego- tiated in 1932 for a period of one year but has been successively ex- tended. Under it trade has increas- ed steadily but always with a large balance in favor of Canada. In 1933 Canada bought from New Zealand goods to the value of $969, 000 and sold goods to New Zealand to the value of $3,611,000. For the 12 months ended with June last these figures respectively had in- creased to $5,187.000 and $16,552, 000, Grand River Work Begins In Spring Survey Is Already Complete: In The Luther Marsh Area Near Fergus Several I'ergus men have receiv- ed employment on the survey work now being conducted in the Luther Marsh area in connection witih the irand River conservation scheme. H. G. Acres, engineer-in-chiet for the Commission, fs moving ahead rapidly with the survey of that area preparatory to deciding the definite site for the $10,000 dam to be built in the marsh district. Owing to the fact that the survey work will not be completed for about two more weeks and that af- ter that sufficient time would be needed to draw plans and geek ten- ders, it will be too late to start ac- tual work this fall. ' Large Storage Dams The entire Grand River conser- vation scheme, with its series of large storage dams, strategically lo- cated, is expected to cost more than $2,000,000, of which the Dominion Government and the Provincial Government have promised to pay 87% per cent. each, leaving 25 per cent. for the municipalities to be benefited by the works to contri- bute. At a recent meeting of the Com- mission-a committee was appointed to interview the Governments again with regard to paying the entire cost of the project and relieve the municipalities of an added taxation burden, - When the first large dam is con- tructed, it is expected that about 00 men will be given work for at least six months. In the war against mosquitoes, the cause of malaria in Australia, the civic authorities of Brisbane have placed Medaka fish in all of the city pools. The medaka re- sembles a small goldfish and has a voracious appetite for mosquito larvae, ADOLF HITLER To citizens of our Western World these last tense weeks Adolf Hitler of Germany has ap- peared to be the most momentous figure in all history, by whom our civilization stands or falls. This man has caught the coun- tries of Kurope napping. They did not believe that a so-called mystic, visionary, fanatic (what you will) could be a coldly prac- tical planner. Not until Austria had been annexed did we wake up to the fact that this wild-eyed dreamer-orator is swiftly turning into "reality and substance, the shadows of his own mind. We are finding, too late, that Hitler in his autobiography, "Mein Kampf" (written 15 years ago) meant ex- actly what he said. A native of Austria, the one- time bricklayer's helper and paint- er of picture postcards, wes em- bittered towards his lowly lot early in youth. The war expand- ed his horizon and with it, his dis- content. The shame of Germany's defeat acting on his overemotional nature became a determining force in Hitler's life. He has felt his divine mission to be to awaken Germany to revolt against the Treaty of Versailles. By what means he is accomplishing his ends, we all know. Hitler is a master of staging, an artist at playing on other people's emotions. Into his words as an orator he puts all the elementary force and stupendous vitality that are his to command. Screaming, sobbing hysterically . . . . The man is still an enigma. The answer to his personality- riddle will be revealed only by sub- sequent history. Peak Is Reached In Maple Syrup Top Production Figure Again Touched This Year In Canada Total production of maple sugar and syrup, expressed as maple 8y- rup, amounted to 3,300,700 gallons in 1938, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. This was double in volume the short crop of 1,673,440 gallons in 1937 and equal to the 1929, the year of peak production. The 1938 crop wag valued at $3,849,000, compared with $2,245,000 in 1937. Although the quality of the crop was gener- ally good, prices were somewhat lower than in 1937 owing to the heavy supplies. Only 10 per cent. of the 1938 crop was estimated to. have been made into sugar as com- pared with 25 per cent. in 1937. Lots Of Sugar, Too Production of syrup in Ontario amounted to 570,800 gallons as com- pared with 439,700 gallons last year. Maple sugar production to- talled 79,000 pounds. } The combined value of sugar and syrup produced in 1938 by Ontario was $853,200. 0 FEED NEHE 4-29 "He can't join our army , . ., he's under the age limit!" VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA SIGNIFICANT TREND A significant trend in all fairs, large amd small, js the prominence given to boys' and girls' club work. It is one of the best fea- tures the exhibitions have ever in- troduced.--Farmer's Advocate, WHAT NEXT FOR THE NORTH? Jim Curran of the Sault has discovered that there used to be white Indians along James Bay and now some bird at Timmins has discovered white blueberries. Tall tales from the North! -- St. Catharines Standard. IN PRAISE OF SOME DRIVERS The total motor accidents in which children are injured while playing on the streets is appalling, but still more striking is the num- ber of times in which accidents are avoided, either by what appears to be a pure miracle, or by re- markable efforts on the part of the motorists.--Guelph Mercury. ALL BRUTES TOGETHER The Philadelphia prison horror grows worse as the details are re- vealed. Twenty-six men were locked in the eight-by-ten cells, and steam heat turned on while the only ventilation was from a small grating in the roof of each cell. Twenty-two men were taken out unconscious after two days, and four men were dead, literally baked to death. This is civilization in Philadelphia. No wonder Ja- pan, Russia, Germany, Italy and others want to know in what re- spect we think we excel them.-- Hamilton Spectator. HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS We have no quarrel with those who refer to the "horse and bug- gy days." It is an apt term, very descriptive of an earlier era. But there is a sound objection to those who use the phrase in a tone of scorn. The "horse and buggy days" were important in the develop- men of Canada and of Canadian- ism. They ptoduced the men and women who made the present era, with its conveniences and com- forts, They made these modern days possible, Thus, when one refers to the "horse and buggy days" it would be better to do so in a spirit of respect, rather than a spirit of sarcasm.-- Windsor Star. The EMPIRE "THINKING" UNDER THE GUN Even the obdurate citizen who still refuses to acquire a (radio) set will not easily escape the voice of authority, for it is planned to spread a network of loud-speakers over all the towns so that the German going about his ordinary occasions shall not miss the in- structions of "his leaders. Loud- speaker columns in the streets and subterranean loud-speakers hoom- ing through gratings in the pave:- ment will impress even on tha most heedless citizen the latest edicts of Nazi headquarters. When. the full blast of this propaganda is added to that of a press com- pletely controlled, the canalization of public thought will, it is reck- oned, be as complete as it can be made. The German who may still be independent enough to wish to hear what the rest of the world is saying does so at his peril, for consignment to a camp may be the consequence of receiv- ing sentiments of which his gov- ernment does not approve. The total effect is a smothering of thought in an intelligent people for which history holds no parallel. --DManchester Guardian. Tight . shoes are the greatest blessing on earth--they make you forget all your other troubles.-- F. Billings, Prince Arthur Passes Well known in Canada through his own visits and the connections of his relatives, Prince Arthur of Connaught, ABOVE, died after a long illness in London, England. In recent years his health forced him out of publi¢ life, 'but twice before the war ahd once in 1917 he visited Canada in the course of his official duties, He was in his 56th year. 230,000,000 Bushels - Canadian Wheat Are Exportable This Year's Crop Biggest Since 1932; Wheat Board Expect- ed to Handle Most of Har- vest Canada probably will have more than 230,000,000 bushels of this year's wheat available to sell in world markets, Government figures showed last week, The Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics in its first estimate of- this year's Canada field crop yield set the wheat harvest at 358,433,000 bushels, nearly double the final es- timate of last year's crop, which was 182,410,000 bushels and the highest production since 1932 when 443,061,000 bushels were harvested. Average yield from 1928 to 1937 was 329,761,000 bushels. Nearly Double Last Year Home consumption of wheat likely will be between 110,000,000 and 120,000,000 bushels, leaving more than 2393000,00 for export. In Washington, the United States Agricultural Department estimated the U.S. wheat crop would be 939, 972,000 bushels. The U.S. has an- nounced a subsidy program for ex- port of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat and 5,000,000 barrels of flour. It -is expected at Ottawa that practically the entire Canadian crop will be handled by the Canadi- an Wheat Board, which will pay the Western farmer 80 cents a bushel for No. 1 Northern at Fort William. The price also has been fixed on other grades and any losses suffer- ed by the board in marketing the wheat at a lower price will be met by the Dominion Treasury. Germany To Buy No Extra Wheat The German Department of [Food Supply stated this year's pur- chases of wheat in Canada prob- ably would not exceed, the normal quantity. A spokesman said that in ac- cordance with the German-Cana- dian trade agreement, an average quantity of grain was purchased annually in Canada. - This mean about 2,000,000 bush- els. During the last fiscal year Germany bought 1,935,836 bush- els from this country and the year before 1,678,896 bushels, accord- ing to Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics figures. 'The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "IMPORTANCE OF LIVING" By Lin Yutang Here is a book td enjoy by tid- bits--to pick up and put down at your leisure. It is a witty, wise and delightful summing-up of a distinguished Easterner's outlook on life. In Lin Yutang you will find: a widely traveled, widely read man with the gentle wisdom of an ancient race and the practical out- look of a modern man... a wit- ty, intelligent, tplerant, delightful companion . . . ready to discuss your favorite topics with you, whatever they may be . . . full of stimulating thoughts about every phase of life from your marriage to the tobacco you smoke, from a religion that fills a need in your life to landscapes, from the pleas- ures of literature to those of eat- ing, from international affairs to arranging flowers . . . a philoso- pher with a deeply satisfying phil- osophy of living--not in a seclud- ed tower but in the hectic world of today. "The Importance of Living," by Lin Yutang ... . Toronto: Mec- Clelland & Stewart, 215 Victoria Street. News -- Parade By Elizabeth Eedy gle on the situation in the Mediter- ranean: Travellers making the crossing to North Africa from the Continent are patronizing Italian boats more and more, so that French shipping companies report a falling-off in traffic. Why give French steamers the go-by? Be- cause they have been targets over and over again for "pirate" bombing and torpedoing. Italian ships aren't bombed, torpedoed, so your travellers figure they're safe aboard 'em. TEN OBJECTIVES--Don't you be- lieve Adolf Hitler when he says in his Nuremburg speech that Ger- many doesn't want to take Alsace- Lorraine. Upon the wall of the Feldherrn- halle in Munich, which has been made into a.Nazi shrine, is a great scroll bearing the words, "God Make Us Free" and on either side five wreaths, with flowers renewed every day. Each wreath carries the color of a lost: province and not a day passes without tens of thousands of Germans coming there and mourning their loss. Ten names are inscribed on the scroll, the names of "the lost provinces™: Alsace-Lorraine; the Palatinate; Schleswig-Holstein; East Prussia; Memel and Danzig; Sudeten Deut- schland; South Tyrol and South Styria, Posen, Silesia; the Colon- fes. : ON WITH THE NEW--The money has to come from somewhere. So it part of the tax burden is lifted from real estaté (which would be a good thing, don't you agree?) other new taxes will have to be imposed, go the Ontario Government says, to make up the difference. Three new sources of taxation are under consideration, then, by the staff at Queen's Park and will come up for action at the next ses- sion of the Legislature: an amuse- ment tax, to he collected by each municipality; a sales tax imposed by municipalities; increase of pro- vincial gasoline tax from six to seven cents extra proceeds to go to muncipalities. The Ontario mayors who get pretty mad sometimes should be pleased with these proposals which should bring more revenue to their respective towns and cities, and re- duce the number of sales of pro- perties for tax arrears. DECEITFUL FRUIT -- Those peaches you bought looked won- derful in the store under their de- ceptive covering of rosy gauze but when you got them home, you found them to be green as grass and hard as bullets. But it isn't just peaches . . . every sort of fruit grown in Ontario is shipped to market in an immature, unpalat- able state in order to catch the best prices, quick, before they drop. How long has this been going on? Oh, for years and years, but nobody has said anything much and the growers have consistently got away with it. But now a storm has been raised in the press of Ontario which may result in action being taken. THE WEEK'S QUESTION--What alignment of European powers is the Kingdom of Greece likely to swing in with? Answer: Greece is becoming more and more closely affiliated with Britain and France and the other democratic powers. The silk spinning caterpillar " (Bonbyx ni cultivated exten- sively in the Far East and Europe for "the production of silk on a commercial scale. Japan produces about 80 per cent. of the raw silk available to international trade. He has mastered all points who has combined the useful with the agreeable.--Horace. : After leaving the Whimsies, Guph continued on his journey. He want. ed to get to the Country of the Growleywoge, and in order to do that he must cross the Ripple Land, a hard thing to do. For the Ripple Land was a succession of hills and valleys, all very steep and rocky, p which changed places constantly by Hppling, While Guph was climbing a hill sank underneath him and became a valley, and while he was descending Into a valley it rose up and carried him to the top of a hill. This was very perplexing to the traveler and a stranger might have thought It impo&sible to cross the Ripple Land at 'all, but Guph knew that if he kept steadily on he would get to the end at last, So he pald no attention to the hills and val- leys and kept plodding along 'just as though he was walking on level ground. The result of this wise per- sistence was that the General finally reached firmer soil and after pene- trating a dense forest came to the Dominions of the Growleywogs. - No sooner had he crossed the hor- der of this fearful Domain when two guards seized him and carried him before the Grand Gallipoot of the Growleywogs, who scowled up- on him ferociously and asked him why he dared to intrude upon his territory., "I am the Great Lord High General of the Invincible Ar- my bf the Gnome King and my name is Guph," was thé reply: "AN the world trembles when that name Is mentioned." At this pompous speech the Growleywogs gave a shout of jeering laughter. Suddenly one of them caught the gnome In his trong arms and toss- ed him high into the alr. Guph was terribly shaken when he fell upon the hard ground but he appeared to take no notice of the impertinence and composed himself to speak again to the Grand Gallipoot. "My master, the Gnome King, has sent me here to confer with you. He wishes 'your assistance to conquer the Land of Oz" Here the General paused and the Grand Gallipoot scowled upon him and said: "Go on. he Skunk Is Cause Of Near-Death ' Waterloo Golf Club Stewardess Narrowly Escapes Asphyxia- tion When Men Attempt to Finish C™ Animal GALT.--As an aftermath of the visit of a skunk to the Waterloo Golf and Country Club, Mrs, J. Murphy, the stewardess of the club, was put in hospital suffering from carbon-monoxide poisoning. She was first treated with a pul- motor and then put in an oxygen tent. It appears that employees of the club first attempted to get rid of the nuisance by attaching a hose to the exhaust of a motor car and placing it in the shed. Mrs. Mur- phy was working in the kitchen of the adjacent elubhouse, and it is said the deadly fumes permeated the kitchen and Mrs. Murphy sud- denly became ill. She was taken home and hours later her trouble was diagnosed as carbon-monoxide poisoning. She was removed to the hospital, and was soon out of danger, but she had a close call. . Pays Fipal Tribute His Eminence Rodrigues Car- dinal Villeneuve, Archbishop -of Quebec, was one of the large num- ber of princes of the church who attended the funeral rites in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, late ad- ministrator of the largest Roman Catholic diocese in America. Greater Music Interest Urged Sir Ernest MacMillan Advocates That Canada Learn to Stand On Her Own Feet Musically. Sir Ernest MacMillan, head of the Toronto Conservatory of Mus- ic, was the luncheon speaker on Women's and Music Day at the C.N.E. this year. He urged Can- ada to stand on her own feet in the music world. No longer should she depend on the United States for musical nourishment any more than she should for defence, Sir Ernest said. : Unifying 'Power of Music Support for music financially and otherwise was relatively small, he added. In laying foun- dations for future development of the nation and "unifying, civiliz- ing and peace-making" power of music should not be forgotten. "If the various mad nations to- day would take off a little time from their feverish armament pre- parations and learn some of each other's songs they would find themselves nearer to peace than all the disarmament conferences and non-aggression pacts are ever likely to bring them," Sir. Ernest believed. : Treat Horses To - Day In Country Pegasus Club Is Host to 100 Horses From Gotham's Hot Streets Dobbin had his day at the Pega- susu Club, Rockleigh, N.J., as 100 horses frolic in the country away from New York's hard city streets, "All the fun and relaxation of an honest:to-goodness day in the coun- try will be theirs," promised Doug- lag GQ, Hertz, millionaire art con- noisseur and sportsman, who acts as host to the animals at a day. of carrots and oats, contests and fresh air, Each equine guest on arrival at the picnic grounds will be present. "ed with a large straw hat bearing the legend "Yo ho, baby." Contests to determine the most glamorous, the mos: faithful - and the most intelligent are on' the pro- gram and prizes include rubber shoes for New' York's unfriendly streets, « N'Y EIR