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e papers editorial comment from here there and everywhere canada art of plowing plowing is one of the most pleas ant as well as the most important parts of farming provided one has a good team and the land is free from stone it is not an arduous task differing in this respect from some other types of farm work it is im portant because good plowing is the basis of good farming usually a good plowman is good farmer while a bad one is a poor farmer who soon finds his land overrun with weeds it requires some skill to be adept at the practice the best plow men have a natural aptitude for it and one lacking this can never be come perfect the good farmer knows the proper depth at which to plow his soil as well as to how to keep a straight furrow no matter how good a plowman is however he is not going to be much of a success unless he has a well- trained experienced team after all it is the team that does the most of the work and it is not difficult to keep a straight furrow if possessed of horses that know how to walk straight and pay attention to direc tions the horses must also have tho proper gait anyone who has been kicked on the ribs by a plough handle when the implement is being pulled by a headstrong team knows just what this means windsor star story teller earns prize hand the prize to that algoma pike that first sank its teeth into one oar dived under the boat struck the other oar and used it as a gangplank for boarding the fishermens craft stratford beaconherald we would hand the prize to the fellow who first told the story chatham news cow is taken away from other cows however or if something exceptional occurs to make her nervous there may be instant danger a cow that for any reason does run amok is more agile than a bull and with its added nervousness is at least as perilous the moral for city people because farmers are doubtless aware of the situation themselves is that while they should not become panicky about cows they would do well to remem ber that any animal of that size and strength is a potential menace and that watchfulness at all times is the part of wisdom toronto star antitank guns no sooner have experts invented a new and more deadly war weapon than another set of experts develop a weapon to combat it the tank is no longer a safetyfirst fort on a bat tlefield woolwich arsenal gun ex perts have perfected an antitank gun they claim infantry armed with the antitank rifle will be able to stand up to tanks and beat them a tivopound shell fitted with a special armoredpiercing nozzle is fired by the antitank gun this shell can penetrate the armorplates of any tank and explode inside one direct hit from an antitank gun means death to the whole tank crew and the destruction of the entire mechanism the gun travels on a small rubber tired truck and is so light that it can he taken up into the front truck mounted on a tripod and brought in to action in less than 30 seconds it fires with terrific rapidity and can blow up a tank a mile away the antitank rifle is made for use against whippet tanks and fires special armorpiercing bullets which can bring a tank to a standstill at a range of 500 yards brandon sun canadian blankets ihe reputation of the canadian government in matters of paternal- js i seems to have spread across the line our morrisburg ont corres pondent reports that while strolling down the street he was hailed by a united states tourist who said pardon me can you tell me where the government woollen store is tho contributor says he didnt want to appear dumb in case the government had recently gone into the wool business so he asked a few cautious questions it turned out that the tourist was looking for hud son bay blankets macleans mag azine cow runs amok the recent tragedy near sarnia where a farm woman was attacked and killed by a cow which had run into her yard from the road causes surprise and apprehension as well as sympathy and sorrow is a cow thorefore unsafe it is not unusual to hear of people being killed by bulls two neighbors of the woman who was killed in moore township have met a similar fate in recent years from bulls but cows are usually regarded at least by city folks as placid animals which graze quietly and in their moments ipf leisure chew their cud at peace jvith tho world some city girls out in the counfy on picnics arc loath to climb over a fence into a field jfvherc there are cows is their fear justified or are their companions right in making fun of them t farmers tell us that on the whole tows of course arc much quieter than pulls if cows arc together in a group or a herd without bulls they tjro almost entirely harmless if a sentence suspended the magistrate suspended sen tence quite often we read some thing to that effect in accounts of trials and a good many reading dismiss the matter from their minds with the remark well thats dis- poseu of or that chap got off easy they think evidently just suspended sentence sees the last of the case often too it seems that those who have been released on a suspended sentence have the same idea that is entirely a mistake a sus pended sentence is just what the name implies a sentence that is sus pended that hangs over the offender so long as he behaves himself noth ing further is done about it but if he offends again during the term for which sentence has been suspended the first offence can be cited against him in case of conviction and the penalty be imposed in addition to that for the second offence suspended sentence does not mean that the judge or magistrate has placed the offender in the position of one who has not broken the law if he does not take his lesson to heart and breaks the law a second time the magistrate may remind him that he has broken faith authority the magistrate may say has given you a chance to go straight only one thing can be done with a person who will not behave it is high time for you to learn that the way of the transgressor is hard society will stand for only so much suspended sentence then is not a clearance nor is it a sign of weak ness on the part of the authorities it is a manifestation of the desire of the law to give one who has slipped a chance to get back on the straight road a favor which too often is not appreciated timmins daily press toronto selected as clearing depot film library of overpeas league extending activities london toronto has been ten tatively selected as the central clear ing and distribution depot for the empire film library of the overseas league which is extending its ac tivities throughout canada john g bridges development sec retary of the league wilt arrive in quebec with a goodwill party of nearly 200 members who will make a brief tour of quebec and ontario he will take charge of reorganiza tion work t dominion and has brought with him hundreds of films which will form the nucleus of the leagues library according to present plans the to ronto clearing depot will be in opera tion early in seotembev subdeoos and libraries will be set up it other centres such as saint john montreal winnpeo- calgary and vnouvr- the films depicting many nhsses of life in the old oountr- rml other parts of the empire will be rafe available free of charge to pihlic schools universities service clubs community organizations and educa tional bodies sets of lantern sldes with descrintive lectures are also to be released myrna loy advised her sisters in wedlock to keep their chins up and their hair waved the grecueyed 32yearold actress was married for the first time to arthur hornbiow jr her director in arrowsmitli june 2 193c she had prepared for matrimony by playing both vamps and perfect wives on the screen so she was tol erant when her husband disdained her favorite salad and he previously div orced overlooked the feminine furbe lows in their new home a wife cannot escape the competi tion ot other women is miss loys philosophy but she shares the same privileges at the beauty parlor luckily women are finding out that the battle has just begun when the altar is reached if they all learned to put es much effort into making marriaro a success as they would in to business then reno cot 11 be given back to the indians news parade commentary on the highlights of the weeks news by peter randal news in brief 813000 expenditure winnipeg manitobas pine falls pulp and paper mill will be improved to the extent of 513001 increasing capacity of the mill from id tons to 300 tons daily officials announced here this week the extension program would result in reduction in cost of newsprint by 172 a ton the proposed expenditure is part of the abitibi power and paper com panys reorganization plans to be pre sented to bondholders of the company oct 15 plans have been approved by the shareholders protective commit tee pine falls is a subsidiary of ab itibi half of the 5s13000 will be spent on the mill 220000 is to go toward townsite improvements appropriation ot the remaining 1sg500 was net re vealed crops lock promising ottawa all eastern canada end british columbia continued to show prospects said a crop report issued this week by the dominion bureau of statistic tb droughtstricken prair ies however faced failure over a wide area with low yields expected from those fields which still promised a crop in ontario the weather has been favorable for tiie development of all crops cutting of fall wheat is nearly finished and yields should be above average some early spring grains have been cut and in southern dis tricts harvesting will be general this week with fairly good yields in pros pect fruit and truck crops are prom ising in northern districts baying is delayed by wet weather but general prospects are good us senate passes navy construction bill washington the united states senate sent to the white house this week a bill authorizing construction of six naval auxiliary vessels at a max imum cost of 50000000 the senate agreed to house amend ments to the bill which provides for a new seaplane tender destroyer ten der mine sweeper submarine tender fleet tug and oil apply ship an item for wives a goderich man tripped over the lawn hose when he went to turn the water off and fractured his arm in three places we imagine many married men will make sure their wives read that particular item pet erborough examiner the empire wants more at both ends of modern bathing suits lachine que rev aime boil- eau in condemning bathing suits worn by swimmers at this lakeside resort just west of montreal said a catholic womens organization had prepared a suit to be worn by women bathers but no one wanted to buy the costume because it was not uptodate fath er boileau parish priest of the holy angels here told his congregation at all masses that bathing suits should be completed by adding more to both ends no cancellation in war debts owed us washington senator j hamilton lewis dem 111 said in the senate there would be no cancellation or 50 per cent reduction of war bedts owed the united states by other na tions taking cognizance of reports of a new proposal to settle the debts at half their present figures lewis said america had been yielding too far to maintain the respect of the world to change our climate scientists have put forward a new theory they say that if the ice caps which cover each pole north and south could once be removed they would never reform once they went the whole climate of the earth would be altered the hard climate of britain would change to the soft warmth of the semitropics scientists say that with modern explosives the feat is not impossible and certainly it would be better for mankind to use explosives in this way than to blow each other to death with them sunday express 21 bananas too many stratford harold twist well known downle township cattle buyer lost a betone ot the few in his life time mr twist told a group of stratford men he could eat three dozen bananas within fifteen minutes thoy doubted his word and purchased the bananas harold managed to eat fifteen ban anas before ho gave up the failure cost him the price of the fruit ho has a good excuse for losing however tho bananas werent ripe enough to bo oaten wholesale ho said gives wives some tips hollywood from tho vantage point of a years marital happiness cattle boom nears toronto canadas cattle busin ess domestic and foreign is ready to boom under the impetus of a govern mentassisted plan for shipping thin live stock from tho dry prairies to ontarios rich feeding laud then to market live stock men said this week the movement of western cattle to on tario has started several weeks earlier than last year the first in which the dominion government paid halfcost of shipment and halffare of eastern buyers who select their own cattle for finishing because the market is better due largely to cattle shortage in the un ited states eastern cattle men are hurrying to take advantage of the government scheme personally or through agents they are buying west ern cattla in july last year heavies purchases were in august to get an early start the dominion live stock branch here reported july shipments unusu ally large and added that the heav iest movement was expected in tho period from august to november threeyearold steers and heifers oh younger and cows and calves qualify under the government plan higher prices and prospects of a ready sale to the united states are incentives to ontario dealers who find choice grade steers marked at 9 to 925 compared with around 575 a year ago cattle moving to ontario will not be marketable until fall but live stock men are satisfied there will ho no slackening in demand those who wil be remembered longest are often the least known canadas history studded with names far better known than that of sir charles saunders but it is doubtful it any other man has had a greater in fluence upon its development mac- donald created confederation but it was saunders discovery marquis wheat and its later improvement in garnet wheat that provided the means of existence for a very young nation railroads had been built from east to west across limitless expanses of al most laste land the country was un der a heavy burden of debt the saunders discovery turned the vast prairie wastes of the west into a treas ure house which was to lift canada from the position of a relatively un important appendage of great britain into one of the five great trading na tions of the world as wheat poured out gold poured in and found its way from the farmers pocket into every form of canadian economic develop ment the west of today as the creator of the treasure house passes beyond it is interesting to ex amine the future of these same broad lands the ona crop west is passing through a dark period in its history thousands of acres are being scoured clean of top soil rain has failed and the 1937 wheat crop is a failure in a line of failures the western wheat carry over has shrunk from a lush of 211 million bushels to under the liun- ded million mark thousands aie in dire want it will come back in line with the experiences of the dust bowl states to tho south there are many who belive that this great area stretching across southern albera and saskatchewan should bo abandoned aided by the federal government many families have already been transplanted troji the most affected areas but the possibilities of moving an entire population are too enormous to be seriously contemplated even if those involved were agreed that the move was in their own best interests that is tho strange quality of the western character in spite of con tinued crop failures and hard luck these people still believe that the west will come back irrigation a few years ago a well known eastern financier and engineer came to their support according to it o sweezey of montreal the west needs irrigation on a huge scale true the expense would bs enormous but so will be the expense involved in any other solution the great difference is that irrigation will be an invest ment capable of bringing in a great return whether irrigation is the key to the riddle or some other solution is required does not matted the wealth ot canada not only for the west and the farmer but for the east and industry depends on saving the western wheat field child prodigy z over genius liate rolens henid pccej with cell but prefers to fiav cnrd gane sporting comment by ken edwards ifec sew mm germany is utilizing waste human hair berlin the use ot human hair for the making of carpets tarpaper covering for roofs and felt is ger manys latest plan for saving raw ma terials hairdressers throughout the country will be asked at tho coming barbers convention at breslau to start collecting human hair of every kind and length how do you fishermen react to this piece of information in 193g the state of wisconsins two hatcheries produced 7000- 000 huskies for restocking pur poses theyre probably big fel lows by now waiting for you gents out there one of our american tourists caught a prize trout up north last week so this should prove we in canada have a few big ones left no one ever talks or hears about the oyster well here is just a fact hey say that an oyster takes from four to six years to ripen for the market jimmy wilson take the stand the new york giants are willing to pay 50000 for his services the chicago cubs want him too whether or not 50 grand is a little high we are not sure just now i guess theyll still have to stretch it a little to come up to babe ruths top salary of 80000 a year they say last season at saratoga and lexington the sales for 800 year ling were 150000000 referring back to oysters again it is said a female oyster spawns 50000000 eggs in a year guess we better hoof it along gang thanks a lot for your letters our column is dedicated this week to jack legge torontos statistical whirlwind adios ken girl glad to return to north detroit tlich koxanre her rck threcyearom wh n rted ai another child proiiy viil pese vitl her doll but would much latiicr piaj cards- her mothar mrs donald f her ri of monroe mich who was here with the lively little girl for a visit said roxanne has an intelligent quo tient 51 points higher than genus roxanne poitelv posed for cam eramen with her favorite doll which originally belonged to her auat but deserted it immediately to engage in a card game with the aunt the child knows face cards at a glance and iratches the others ex pertly into books she adds or sub tracts by means of pennies or apple and uses such grown up words as extraordinary enjoyment and atro cious besides naming and locating a dozen large mountains and livers she uses several french exppressions her father is a government engin eer miss myrtle mosher monroe school teacher who gave roxanno the binet simon test last april said the girl has the vocabulary of an intellgent eightyearold child the test rates genius at 135 rox anne received 189 points four more than mary christine dunn the small girl wonder of bonne terre mo who called on henry ford when she was here last june dcrolrry berens kov 21 takes firct trip ott thi3 summer in 1870 lax was grown on 24000 acres in england today probably tho only llax grown in that country is on the kings sandringham estate fort smith nwt petite darkeyed dorothy kerens 13 home from the first trio outside in her life of 21 years and glad to be back ever since sho was a little girl dorothy youngest of the five children of johnny kerens pilot for many years aboard the hudsons bay companys sternwheeled steamboat distributor has stayed at home and helped around the house she went to school at the settle- went called the metropolic of the north and had her first holiday away from home last year when she went 1300 miles further north with her father to aklavik then came her chance for a real vacation two months with her sister mrs alice connibear in edmonton coo miles south dorothy went out by boat and train stayed the two months and returned only a little impressed meets governorgeneral i liked it all right she told the governorgeneral when she met him aboard the s s athabasca river dur ing the viceregal tour of the north but im glad to be going homo i like it in the north later she was asked if the city sur prised her ill say it did she de clared i had never seen tall build ings or trains or street cars or mov ies before and i didnt have any idea what it would be like she said the city would bo all right if my people were there but id rather be home even then it took her a long time to decide what she liked best in the city she said she had been taking danc ing automobile rides to tho exhibi tion she admitted that was good fun but the dancing was no novelty ex cept for the crowds and to motion pictures floating home has advantages worran says lack of hojceworlt is one of beet features port stanley ont no vacu um cleaners and little housowoik is the best part of ife on the water says mrs h a secard of london ont who makes a family home on tho cabin cruiser jacquetta mr- and mrs cecord are spending their fourth summer on the water and they like it they are the only family at the present time wlio have their complete home afloat during the summer months at this port the cruiser is anchored in a quiet section of the river handy to the lake plenty of tme is available for re creation with the drudgery of house work removed says irs secord life goes on in a space of 35 feet by 10 feet but there is a place for everything and everything in its place oaks have to be sturdy in order to survive more than 300 insect pests prey on them- b 4 the wonderland of oz by l frank baum girls long journey seeking her father winniceg to vancouver on fcot car and freight train vancouver a 19ycarold winnipeg girl sat in a ywca hos tel here recently and told of her twoweeks journey from the prairie city by foot freight train and auto mobile olive peters is looking for her fa ther she beleves he came here from winnipeg two years ago after the death of his wife the tall 57- ycarold carpenter gave no hint of his destination but he was on the pacific coast in 1933 and olive be lieves he had returned here i made up my mind 1 was going to find dad olive said today and i just started out at tne start i took the wrong road and had to go back five miles then i got a lift and between walkng and riding i reached rcgina the same method of transporta tion with an occasional span covered by freight train carried her across the prairies which in some places were like a desert all dry and burned up to tho british columbia mountain town of golden and on to vancouver believe in coincidences suddenly they heard a shout of jeering laughter and stopped short they would have had to stop in a moment anyway for the huge moun tain barred their further progress and the path ran up close to a wall of rock and ended who was that laughing asked ozrnn there was no reply but in the gloom they could see strange forms flit across the face cf the rock whatever the creations might be they seemed very like the rock it self for they were the color of rocks and their shapes were as rough and rugged as if they had been broken away from the side of the mountain they kept close to the steep clff facing our friends and glided up and down this way and that with a lack of regularity that was quite confus- do not mind them said tiktok as dorothy shrank back they ore only the gnomes and what are gnomes nsked the girl half fright ened they arc rock fniries and serve the gnome king replied the machnc but they will do us no harm you must call for the king bccause without him you can ncvcr find the entrance to the palace you call said dorothy to ozma just then the gnomes laughed again and the sound was so dis heartening that tho twentysix offi cers commanded the private to about face and they all started to run- the tin woodman at once cried halt and when they had stop ped he nsked where arc you go ing i i find ive forgotten tho brush for my whiskers said a gen eral trembling with fear sosos wo arc ggoing back for it this one is being retold a few years ago a few miles out of boston harbor two schooners came into col lision oachof the vessels being a sixmaster this does not appear at first glance to have been remarkable as schooners frequently bump then some one made the discovery that they were the only two sixmastcl schooners in the world and the inci dent was considered remarkable here is another on dec 5 lgfil the english ship mcnia crossing the channel was lost- only one passen ger of the 81 on board was saved and his name was hugh williams on the same day of the samo month in 1785 a pleasure boat was wrecked on the isle of man there were sxty persons on the boat and the only man save i was hugh wil liams on august 5 1820 a picnicking party on the thames was run down by a coal barge there were 25 in the nicnic party and the only one saved was a lad of five years from liverpool who was visiting in lon don his name was hugh william 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