: ] Tr ree 'To Build Read From New York To Buenos Aires 12,000 Miles Long, It Will Be - Opened on Anniversary | of * | Columbus' Arrival in Amer- .. ES ica < Over miles-high mountain peaks, - Across plateaus both arid and fer- , tile, and through sea-level swamp i and jungle, men, armed with "spades, axes, picks and :brush- knives, aided ' by oxen, horses, burros and machines, are building a road in South America, "Pan-American Highway" When completed, this road will be a thin white ribbon stretch- ing from Buenos Aires, 12,000 miles north to New York City, says a commentator in The New York Sun, It is to be called the PaiAmer-. ican Highway and its official op- ening, is set for October 12, 1042, the 450th anniversary of the. dis- covery of the western world by Columbus. / The project is rapidly becoming a feasible reality instead of a wild flight of the imagination. The first northern link of' this "great international highway is al. ready familiar to thousands of American tourists who have trav- led over it from the United States -to Mexico City. Equal thousands of South Americans" have motored over the southern portion, now complete, from Buen. 0s Aires to Lima, Peru. The com- pletion of the westermost link of this highway connected with the existing roads from Lima, Peru, to Quito, Equador, and thence northeast to Bogota, Colombia. Colombian highways carry 'the route to a point near the Pan- amanian border, 2 'Chicago Show Sets Records Smiling Canadians Leave Live Stock Exposition 'With 25 Titles and. 507 Firsts. . Prize-winning aristocrats of the agricultural world paraded at the 1939 international livestock show - at Chicags the last night of the exposition, while exhibitors cram- med $1,000,000 in sales and prize money into the: wallets, ) "It was 'the' greatest show in the '40-year history of the exposi- tion," said B. H. Heide, general manager, = 2 ~. Thirty - states, four. Canadian provinces' and Argentina were pre- sented among the top winners, The-. Argentineans won one first place, Canadians took 25 cham- pionships and 507 firsts. Knighted F or Exploit EELS | + "Admiral Sir H. H, Harwood, former Commodore in command. of the-British_ squadron which put Gerany's pocket battleship "Graf " Spee' out of commission. He: has been knighted by, Kin and promoted to rank o following the victory. George Admiral "Does Hitler Eat _ 'Too'Much Fat ? Expert on Diet Declares Man! "With Torpid Liver -Is Bade! "Tempered { 1 t Hitler had 'fewer 'eggs and! _.-les¥sbutber and thé German 'people': had more, the world would be a more peaceful place," said Mrs, : Eileen = Murphy, of the British' Commercial Gas Association,' speaking at Stoke, Eng., on mod-' ern home-making. * ; "Hitler does not'drink, smoke od eat meat," she said. "But his die contains too many eggs and too | much fat. } A'His chef has to 'cook eggs in | thirty different ways, and he is | Jeby fond of vegetables done with A 4 A and fat are good when 1. sat hodpraton, But too much 8 of them terids td upset the liver, "A man with a torpid liver is usally "Bad-tempered, unreason-' EEE NEWS PARADE ... The Second.Great War broke a record fn its fifteenth week -- for excitement. Two events, one of un- ¢xcelled dramatic {nterest, the oth- er world-shaking in held: the spellbound attention - of Jewspaper readers, radio' hovuiids, of all coudtries.. We refer tothe "sulcide" of the Graf Spee, the ex: of Nations: 'What a: wealth hinged on these 2 happénings! Mad "Hitler himself ordered the scuttl- ing of the Spee? Was it a gesture of "great bravado, or .was she of her construction might not fall the action taken at Geneva, many thinking people felt regret and an- -noyance that the League had not seen fit previously to do something about the aggressions of Hitler, the rape of Albania by Mussolini, (The League had never even dis. cussed the disappearance of Aus- tria, Czothoslovakia or Poland from the map). Looking ahead, too, the world wondered whether Rus- sia's expulsion _ would not throw the US.S.R. and Germany closer together, IN Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano's * speech to the Fascist Chamber embodied the first clear and comprehensive statement of Itallan policy since the beginning of the war. He asserted, first of all, that the Rome-Berlin Axis re- mains strong as ever despite Italy's neutrality," Extenuating Hitler's pact with Stalin, he declared that Italy knew of the accord in .ad- vance, Further, 'ho said, Italy in- formed the Reich last May, that owing to 'the effects of the cam- paigns in Ethiopia and Spain, she in warfare for three yedrs. Such a statement appeared to end for the moment any hope that Italy could be induced to come in on the Allfes' side, (Same week: Virginia Gayda, one of Mussolini's month- pleces, in a radio address declar- ed that Italy must have sea outlets Suez). During the week U.S. Ambassa- dor Kennedy returned to Washing- , &ive.a report on the war by word- of-mouth to his chief. He emphat- ically urged the States to stay -ut of the conflict at all costs, "This is not our: tight," he said. = . At home in Canada, the final draft of the momentous Empire air training plan was. completed. Highlights: estimated cost of plan for "three years, $600,000,000, with 'quired establishment in Canada of 67 schools of all types; nearly 40, 000 men required to carry out plan, exclusive of students; about. 60 new alr fields to be constructed: and 20 existing fields enlarged; United Kingdom to supply most of afr- craft, including engines and spares, as her'share in cost; Canada, Aus- tralia and New Zealand: to contri: bute to total: cost in proportion to use made of plan by pupils from those countries; excluding cost of afrcraft supplied by Britain, Can' ada to bear cost of initial and ele} mentary training in Canada an about four-fifths of remaining costs of 'program; -program to be admin: _ istered by Dominion Government, with supervisory board composed of representatives from four coun- tries involved; great majority of pupils will be 'CAnadlans; 'pilot , training to take about '26 weeks, many thousands of pilots to be turned out each-year. The War at the end 0f'1939 was "not one war, but threé: between the Alllss. and Germany; between Russia and Finland; between Jap. an and China -- Western, Eastern, Far Eastern, ' Will Get View "OF Six Planets Is "Astronomer "Unique 'Grouping In Februafy Dis. play Is Seen Only. Every 'Few Thousand Years > The people of today will be + privileged to witriess something which neither 'their childrén nor their great-grandchildrén will sce --a grouping of six planets in the western sky next February, Dr, Frank 8S, Hogg, professor of astronomy at the David 'Dunlop Observatory, Toronto, told the Royal Canadian Institute in an address' last week, ; "It's only every few thousand '}-years that you find as many as six planets in the same region of the skies," he said, "Along with earth, "there. will 'Appear in 'the western sky during the latter days "of February the planets' Mercury, Jupiter, Venus; Saturn; Mars and ablee and hard to live with"! Uranus". . importance, pulsion: of 'Russia from the League - blown up in order that lhe sgerets | into enemy hands? With regard to would not be prepared to engagg. at Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and, "ton from hjs post at London to Canada's -hare, $350,000,000; re- - of speculation * for work ferrying militar son. Pretty Canadian G irl Is Instructing Future Pilots of The R.C.A.F. 5 . N Determined to show the air force that women instructors éan turn out as good a pilot as male instruc- tors, pretty Helen Harrison is busily engaged in giving instruction to pilots who have their eyes on the R.C. AF. She is teaching flying at Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club after f \ planes. Her record includes the instructing of military pilots in South Africa and test pilot for a 'Canadian aircraft company. Pictured with her is Provisional Pilot Officer Paul Hender- eing turned down when she applied Grand Titles Go To 8 Canadians Show, Chicago --¢ Winners In Live Stock Section Also William Rogers of Tappen, B.C., was awarded the grand champion- ship for rye at the twenty-first international grain and hay show Rogers' victory brought the to- tal number of grand champion- Chicago to eight. x The other grain grand awards were wheat, field bean and oats to Alberta; alfalfa to Saskatch< ewan; soy beans and field peas to Ontario and timothy --sced "to British Columbia. " Ontario Boys, Best Corn © Two youthful farmers, members of the Canadian Boys' and Girls' Farm Clubs, Gerald Hessenauer of Rodney, Ont.,.and Garnett Knist- Film Hero Dies Suddenly ae Douglas Fairbanks, great star at his acrobatic ability before the camera, died suddenly from a Monica, Calif. He was 55. : 3 5 At International Hay and Grain ships won by Canada this year at" the silent screen and renowed for heart attack at his home in Santa er of Ruscomb, Ont., won awards in corn, Hessenauer took first in Region 1 and Knister first in Re- gion 2. These youngsters won against a big ficld of entries from a wide area in the United States. In the live stock section Ed- wards Brothers of Watford, Ont, sold" at good prices eight of the thirteen head of Aberdeen-Angus cattle brought to the exhibition, I. G. Todd, Lucknow, Ont., who showed at the international for the {first time this year, scored twice in the Aberdeen-Angus class. Lin- coln sheep class championship ram was exhibited by H. M. Tce, High- gate, Ont. i Eastern Canada Winners . Other Fastern Canada .winners were: - Breeding shorthorns -- Two- year-old heifers, I. H. Deacon and Son, Unionville, Ont., third; sen-~ ior year-old heifer, T. A. Russell," Downview, Ont., second; junior ond; senior heifer calf, Douglas yearling heifer, James Douglas' and Sons, Caledonia, Ont., sce- and- Sons, ~fiest, =; Makes Tomatoes 0. A, C Lecturer Plans to De- 'velop: New Types -- Takes' Seven Generations to Fix he "Variety - C. E. Mighton, of Guelph, is a young plant wizard who has set - himself to perform a real feat of legerdemain =~ two of them, in fact, He has determined to be the Burbank of the tomato. This young lecturer at the Ont. ario College of Agrlzulture promisés to reach into his scientific hat and pull out a bigger, redder, julcler tomato.than any now grown in Ca- nada, and present it to tlio catsup preservers and tomato juice squeez- ers of Western Ontario. "Small, Round, Flrm," Wanted He promises to reach. into an- other hat and ol out a little, firm round tomato, niore prolific than any grown in Canada, and to pre- gent it to eastern Ontario canners who have been looking for a tom- ato that won't go squashy in the can. - fone "There'll be no hocus-pocus or ""abracadabra' about 1," sald Migh- ton, in a recent address at Toronto. "We are working along strictly sclentitic lines, and I think we are meeting success; | Strictly Sclentific . "Once you' have found the char- acteristica you want, it takes from' six to nine goferatlons to fix them," he said. "At O.A.C, we. grow two generations a year, one outside and one in a hathouse, so it will take *hree lo five years to fix our variety o :e we find it." Will Regulate Hog Industry Ottawa Acts to Prevent Scand- als Like in Last War Blanket regulation of "Cunala's hog industry -- designed to guard against any repetition of the bacon scandals of the last war -- is to be an immediate result of tho arranze- ment now concluded with the Bait {sit Government for large-scale pur chases "of Canadian bacon last week, . Id a story in the \gindsor - Daily Stoc, . To Supervise 'Industry | A bacon control board Is being set up by the federal government to supervise all phases of the. na. tion's hog industry. It will regulate - not only the price to be paid to the primary producer, but also the op- erations of the packing plants. The spread that thé packers will be al-- lowed to'eirn will be rigidly speci: fied by the federal bacon, author ity, : RCE So fay as the farmers-are con- cerned, it 13 likely that the scheme will return them about an average price of nine cents per pound or a litile better over the year for their bacon hogs. Called Adequate The hog population of the Dom- inion at the piesent time is four and one-quarter million animals: This {8s adequate to the productive requirements of tho new British arrangement. 3 Urges New Systém Of Ontario Relief Norfolk Children's Aid Society Superintendent Says Prob- lem "Big Business A call for a complete overhaul- ing of the province's relief syas- tem as it affects the rural areas was made: in Wecodstock-by Thom= as Phillips, superintendent of the ~ Norfolk Children's Aid Society ad. dressing a meteing of the Wood- stock Rotary Club; "This question has now enter- ed the realm of big business," said Mr, Phillips, "and it is time to take its -administration away from the niunicipalities that are ill-equipped to raise the necessary taxation or to appoint persons skilled énough to administer such a problem. Federal and provincial participation have made the lot of municipalities easier but the mach- inery is creaking badly," Mr." Phillips advocated that out- side of the large urban Sengres no unit for relief should .be [ess than country-wide and the adnlin. istration placed in charge of spec- ially trained persons, VOICE of the PRESS INTERESTED SPECTATORS Ethiopians will be interested in 1talian indignatéon over Russian barbaritlos in Finland, - Brawdon Sun. SUPPORTING THE TOWN BAND, Interesting is the vdsult, 'the passing of a by-law' at Fort Erte to spend a quarter of a mill annua. ly for the town band and that is - not a big price to pay for band con. certs. It is possible Fort Erle may set a fashion eisewhere in province, -- PRESERYE SPIRT OF DEMOCRACY If there is to be democracy alter the war is over, democracy must not ba abandoned while the war is on, The spirit of democracy mu=t be fespected, not suppressed, with. in tho democracies themselves. The thing for "which the war is fought abroad must not bo lost at home. -- Toronto Star, WARNINGS UNHEEDED Another case of poisonfug by monoxide gas has been reported. 1t i§ regrettable that, in spite of all the warnings that have heen pub- lished for years rogarding the dan- ger of this deadly gas, fatalities still occur to fhose who thought. lessly tinker with their motor cars fn closed garages while the engine is running, -- Brantford Expositor, MICK IE SAYS... SOME SUBSCRIBERS GOT TH IDEA THAT WE MAKE SO MUCH MONEY ON ADS AN' JOB WORK, WE DONT HAVE T' COLLECT OUR SUBSCRIPTION MONEM! \ IY AINT 50, FOLKS! the Nobleman Gave "Sandwiches" Name The origin of sandwiches is in teresting. In the reign of King George HI there lived a famous nobleman who was very fond of gambling, He passed whole days at the card table and would not leave his 'game even for a meal, Nat- urally - he found playing on an' empty «stomach uncomfortable work, and so devised a plan by which he might' eat with as little - trouble as possible, Ly He ordéred his servant to cut two thin slices of bread and place meat between, The meal proved satisfying. The famous noblgman was the Eavl of Sandwich, and so popular did his slices of bread and meat become that they were valled by his name. --- . os -- I: Sell Buffalo Meat All Across Canada Se Juicy steaks and roasts of buf- falo meat about 35 cents a pound are available all over Canada now, As a war measure there has been a slaughter of baffalo at the Do- minion Government park at Wain- wright, Alta, and 3,000 buffalo are being dressed to provide ap- - proximately 1,000,000 pounds of meat, which will be distributed nationally. 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