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1i the papers j news in review j s ay editorial comment from heftb there and everywhere ilm canada a woman of eighty sha is a woman of eighty in her younger days she played the piano well enough to give lessons to others today she is still giving lessons not because she is required to by need of money to sustain her far from it for the reason is she is helping others who have not the means to pay for tuition two little girls daughters of a neighbor were eager to know how to play the piano but the depres sion had left their parents with little better than sufficient to pay for the necessities of life and piano lessons were out of range so the neighbor of eighty years comes into the pic ture she brings the little girls to her home and give- them lessons regu larly with the rosult that the gift to play the piano 13 not to be lost to these children of the depression years lethbridge herald iing others acknowledge making as high a3 10000 a year the majority however report pro fits ranging all the way from 100 to 1000 a year anything above the lat ter figure being exceptional experi ence of farmers in this province would appear to be much like their cousins in prance anything above a 1000 a year being exceptional at least ac cording to income tax returns ed monton journal men canny losers a survey of department stores buses trams and street cars has de monstrated that women lose more ar ticles than men as a matter of fact the male of the species also mislays many things but he knows enoigh to do that in the home and then have every one else in the household hunt for them brantford expositor still to come there is food for thought in the perfectly accurate contention of a writer in the philadelphia messenger that the world has yet to see either a christian country or a christian city a christian city he says would be a city without alums without jails without poverty without unemploy ment without injustice without drunkenness without vice without jealousy without hatred without bit terness a christian country the same writer holds would be a country without guns without luxury for the few and hunger for the many without bribery without- gvaft without oppres- sion brockville recorder and tlmes music for the people music is no longer a luxury or the almost inaccessible field of a few gift ed enthusiasts it has suddenly be come part of the stuff of daily lite and a very important part as lord horder said recently i envy musici ans because they doctor thousands of people at one time when as a phy sician i can only attend to one pati ent at a time winnipeg tribune sign it clearly next to an anonvmoils letter in our nioriring mall we nre most annoyed by communications bearing signatures which no one could read it is customary for the average stenographer in a business office to type the name of the big b033 below his scrawl which is very helpful to the puzzled reader sometimes one may guess at the name by checking over the officers designated on the letterhead too often the reader is left wholly in the dark it is certainly a breach of courtesy on the part of any letter writer to so scrawl his own name that it is illeg ible to the recipient of the communi cation if those who write letters are incapable of writing their names clear ly they should at least be consider ate enough to have it typewritten or printed in block letters cornwall standardfreeholder carries a moral a story in the new york times seems to carry a moral of some kind for thoughtloss drivers as the traffic light turned on a busy corner a frail old woman started to cross the street with a crowd a big car brusquely nosed its way around the corner while others scattered out of the way the old woman stood still seemed incapable of movoment just as the car seemed about to hit her a silkhatted man with a cane limped quickly to her side and swung her out of harms way at the same moment there was a sharp report and the tiro of the car went flat talking to a nearby policeman a few minutes later a reporter learned that a slmilarlncldent had been hap pening nearly every morning and that the bilkhatted man figured in each of them following up the story the reporter learned that the man as a former diplomat whoso foot hadbeen crushed by an automobile and that it was not a cane he carried but a sword stick the forgotten pedestrian who has to keep out of the way of imperious drivers should be glad to know he has an avenger guelph mercury a judge defends the moving picture industry has re ceived so many thrusts from magis trates judges and social workers that it is refreshing to find no less a per sonage than lord hewart chief jus tice of england coming to its 3 fense he was addressing 4 dinner if moving picture people and remarked thatwhlw there was a fear that films of passion and crime influenced the young people to become killers black mailers thieves and to lead frivolous lives he went back to the days of his yuth and recalled that while he and doubtless millions o other boys and young men enjoyed stories about pi rates robbrs and criminals of all klndsthey had nearly all rown up normal and decent living people many of these stories ho said had become classics of literature including for example oliver twist wherein ap pears the greatest burglar of all bill sikes yet the piety and virtue of the readers had been undimmed st thomas timesjournal badly needed the search for the nonglaring head light and the 100 per cent efficient glareeliminating windshield must go on the reward for the discovery will be fewer traffic accidents thou sands of lives saved annually and faster and more comfortable night driving port arthur newschronicle 1 coronation film by place london a special transatlantic airplane flight is being planned lu order to hasten delivery to north american motion picture theatres of coronation films negotiations are proceeding with amy mollison beryl markham and other distinguished pilots to under take a flight to new york according to sir cordon craig general ma iager of the company which has been grant ed exclusive rights to film tho cere monies on may 12th british movie tone news copies of the films will also be des patched to north america on the dir igible hindenburg scheduled to leave frankfurt germany late on the day of the coronation they will be flown to frankfurt mrs mollison and mrs markham both of whom have already conquer ed the north atlantic by air have in dicated their willingness to attempt the flight it wa3 stated canada will receive its copies of the films from new york by fast service soviet likes ontario seed toronto fifteen thousand bu shels of ontario variegated alfalfa seed valued at more than 250000 was purchased by the soviet govern- nien last year for use in russia ac cording to an announcement made during the annual meeting of the on tario field crop and seed associa tion here ten years ago two bushels of the ontario variegated seed were sent to russia which also secured united states grimm and western canada grimm for experimental purposes a delegate announced and he added the russian go vernment last year purchased 15000 bushels of ontario variegated alfalfa the purchase was of considerable im portance to our business rules kissing bible is not necessary goderich when campbell grant solicitor jumped to his feet and protested a witness had not been prtfperly sworn in that she had not kissed theblble judge tm costello ruled that kissing the book was hot necessary witness in taking the oath does not have to actually kiss the book his honor maintained in raising the book in the right band he said to the witness you have solemnly sworn to tell the truth society girl bride of italian diplomat guards cruel say prisoners treated like animals complain inmates at guelph to commission newsprint takes forest wealth at great rate guelph charges ot harsh treat ment of prisoners at the hands ot the superintendent and the guards ot guelph reformatory were made by inmates testifying before the madden royal commission inquiry into the riots of january 17 some prisoners swore they re treated like animals that guards abused them and punished them without reason that there was in sufficient medical treatment that they were not given enough to eat that they were tnrown in the holo for in solence when they asked for moc food that their blankets were not years ot selling newsprint at a i01 charles vining asserts industry not obtaining adequate return toronto the newsprint indus try is using up canadas wealth of forests at a prodigious rate and get ting little for it beyond wages for tho industrys workers charles vining president ot the newsprint associa tion ot canada told the canadian club here recently we are consuming our forests at a prodigious rate said mr vining a single sunday issue or the new york times means some 225 acres of our forest the tabloid new york news with its buie circulation is using co sfliare miles a year tho canadian mills during the last five sarah jane sanford of new york and signor mario pansa italian diplomat pictured after their brilliant wedding at the home of the brides father john sanford left at palm beach fla mrs stephen sanford is at the right silly is banned but it seems rather a pity never theless that mr speaker should have rulod silly out of order the amen ities and the dignities for ever ot course but really the house of com mons ought to ho of sterner stuff than to jibe at a little plain speaking in debate better surely that mens ar guments should bo called silly than that they themselves should be exhib ited by mr speaker as sissies in the sight ot the nation mr blackniore says ho will not use the word again all right mr speaker he said i have several others just as good but he is boast ing of course there is 110 better word for silliness than silly that is the trouble about censoring the apt word vancouver province a good season unless the devastating floods of the midsection of the united states have an adverse effect on tourist travel it is confidently expected that north bay district and other sections of northern ontario will enjoy even a greater business in the coming sum mer season visitors to the dionne babes will number 750000 according to an estimate by persons in the know which means a 30 per cent gain over tho number counted at the hospital last year north bay nug get the empire income of farmers an item in the new york times tolls of tho income tax received from small french farmers the french peasant as a rule keeps no books comments tho article that makes tho news all the more interesting for the government has to rejy mainly on tho word of the taxpayer one fronch farmer confessed last year to a profit of 17000 on the years farm- big ben the most familiar voice in the world today is that of no mortal ora tor whetherklng peer or commoner but of a robot dictator the deep- cliesleel tones of big ben thanks to tho bbc reverberate daily through the length and breadth of the globe londoners accept those brazen ac cents as a matter of course though many of them have paid their pence to gaze through the telescope by boadlceas chariot on westminster bridge and wutched big bons giant paws visibly counting off eternity on his colossal dial but as tho bbcs oversea correspondence testifies to kinsmen in distant corners of tho em pire the star performer on the ether is big ben kiplings banjo may claim to be town and all that over went with evening dress but big bon for dusky foreloopers of tho empire is londons roar personified his voice i3 that of tho empires muezzin daily summoning tho scattered kinsmen to thoughts and memories of tho old country london cor ottawa jour nal up to province ottawa bouses at a low ren tal was urged in the house of com mons by denton massey cons tor ontogreenwood but his motion for a national housing plan for slum eli mination ran into difficulties in the matter of jurisdiction following upon the recent ruling of the privy coun cil hon charles dunning minister of finance contended that the problem which mr massey raised lay entirely within the provincial jurisdiction said mr dunning the federal authority has been put in its place in respect to its powers recently by a very high authority he admitted that until recently there had been little in the act to encourage the building of lowercost homes since the act came into force the average price of homes built was 4801 due to recent changes design ed to encourage lowerpriced homes however this average had dropped to about 2400 and tho scheme was growing to trap burglars newmarket mayor s j boyd last week enthusiastically endorsed a submitted by a resident whereby any householder could give a burglar alarm to its one police con stable during the night for years we have sought a com munication system and heres one that beats the cost objection said mayor boyd if a burglar enters your house you telephone the waterworks department and a man working there all night presses a button which then makes the of the town clock at the post office go dark the police man looking to seo what time it is sees no clock and realizes that some thing is wrong he telephones tho waterworks department and hurries to tho homo entered by tho burglar the scheme is beautiful in its sim plicity cut unlikely ottawa the postoffica de partment will have the largest net re venue this fiscal year that it has had since 1920 but there is not much pos sibility of a reduction in postage rates the reason is that the financial po sition of the postoffice department is so much a part ot the national fi nancial system and although feder al revenues have shown an increase ot 58000000 for the first ten months of the fiscal year there will still be a deficit ot 75006000 when the bud get is brought down country without prisons london if the trend of the past thirty years is maintained britain in another fifteen years may boast of the ideal state of being a country without prisons since introduction of the probation offenders act in 1907 by sir herbert samuel then parliamentary under- secretary for the home office the number of committals to prison in britain has fallen from more than 180000 to fewer than 60000 discussing the probation system sir herbert declared more than half of the countrys prisons had been closed for lack of tenants the saving of cost to the nation has been immense but more impor tant has been the saving of souls he said new spray winnipeg the manitoba horti cultural association were informed of a 100 per cent satisfactory method of killing dandelions developed by dr g p mcrostle now of the ontario agricultural college guelph a solu tion of copper nitrate and water is sprayed william h sllversides university of manitoba student told of the dis covery he collaborated with dr mc rostle who recently left the mani toba university six years experiments were be hind the discovery sllversides said the solution is made ot 1 pounds of nitrate to ivt gallons of water a quantity sufficient for 1000 square feet of lawn space he said two sprays during the summer one about midjuly the other in midaug ust were recommended both need to be done on a warm bright after noon when there is no wind ho said tho two applications the agronomy student continued end the operation both turn the grass to sickly yellow ish green within 48 hours but after about two weeks tho grass will re turn to its natural colour the next year tests showed it willi come back greener and heavier than before and free of dandelions tho spray must hit leaves of the weed winners new york canadian dog fan ciers carried off three blue ribbons and a reserve award in tho competition among the scottish terriers and cock er spaniels at the westminster dog show in madison square garden k e and w batt of guelph won the majority of the prizes with their scotty puppy haldon emblem judg ed the best of the puppies between nine and twelve months of age he went to the front in the class for no vice dogs and then ranked second only to the mora experienced gold finders starman owned by william quade of gardner mass in the class for best of the dogs among the cockers william h bar retts gardens desirable lady of cooksville ont was judged the best of the novice bitches of solid color ideal weather undefeated fouryear old owned by leonard collins of toronto paraded to the top of the sheep dogs for his 10th straight vic tory changed in twelve months that they wero forced to sloo on the floors of cells during the inquiry and that dr j d heaslip the superintendent wa3 trying to turn the reformatory into a penitentiary leadership asked first witness on the stand this af ternoon was a 24yearold prisoner who had served time in burwash and mimico what this institution really needs is some official who knows how to handle men he said at the outset ot his testimony do you mean guards or the su perintendent the superintendent and the guards i dont think the superintend ent knows how to handle his job he wants to make this a penitentiary not a reformatory he said he admit ted he had nothing against dr heas lip personally and that the superin tendent had once approved his request that he be transferred to mimico c f neelands assistant provincial secretary had rejected the request ho said the prisoner declared that his nerves were on edge since the riot he frankly indicated that if he hrd opportunity he would break from the jail i dont suppob this will do me any good but i dont intend to stay here at all when this is over im at the end of my nerves and just about ready to do anything id like to get in another institution where i could do my time like a man not a child he complained of being locked in a cell for three or four weeks without tobacco he was a regular smoker he said and there was no just reason why he should be locked up duke planning to buy estate move to hungary edward seeks place with hunting golf facilities if the great depression through which wo have passed had been a scourge of typhus or some other one of the plagues wo would ho thinking now about the means to mako another such scourge impossible frances perkins amelia earhart plans aviatrix to make east-lo- west trip next month to learn how humans react under strain economy recovery is tho ally ot free instituions simeon strun- sky b t new york amelia earhart putman said that she is tired of fly- ins the atlantic and will try a west erly flight around tho world next month to stu ly human reactions tho bobbedhaired aviatrix who flew the atlantic twice the pacific from hawaii to california once and held the transcontinental womens speed record for years declares she will take off from oakland calif as soon as weather permits in march i and fly 27000 miles around the equator in the first world flight a woman ever tried not only that she laughed point ing at a huge globe in her hotel where she and her husband george palmer putman received the press she would fly cast to west around tho world which no male pilot has ever done ive been over the north atlan tic twice she said i know what its like im tired of flying the at lantic as soon as the ship is ready nnd weather permits im going to takeoff on a long flight to deter mine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue alone no captain harry manning will be my navigator vienna the duke ot windsor has indicated a desire to purchase an estate in hungary into which ho can move during may a vienna real es tate agent said last week authoritative reports recently said the former british monarch was con sidering marrying mrs wallis simp son in hungary uecause the hungar ian attitude toward divorce and re marriage is more liberal than in aus tria mrs simpson has been divorced twice previous reports said tho marriage date likely would be april 27 the ex act day mrs simpsons divorce from ernest aldrich simpson probably will become final the duke seeking a permanent home showed interest in estates near the austrian border the agent de clared he said edward wanted a place with hunting and golfing facilities have consumed at least 40i0 square miles of forest equivalent to a strip 12 miles wide stretching from mont real to toronto lack minimum return if we sold our gold as we have been selling our forests one cau al most say that we would mine the gold pay the miners nnd then give the gold away said mr vining as ho quoted figures to show that news print companies were not securing a minimum economic return the nowsprint industry in 193g had an alltime high in tonnage pro duction but an alltime low in price mr vining said last months re turns ot shipments show a gain over last january of 25 per cent and it seems safe to predict that 1937 means a new high record in tonnage produc tion although this rate of gain is higher than will be maintained for tho full year in dollars the 1937 performance is absurdly sad overseas prices are substantially improved but in tho north american continent which consumes 80 per cent of production the 1937 contract price is up only 150 nearly g a ton lower than the 192 price it is no advance at all because of rising production costs mr vining said the newsprint x dustiy is our largest single indus trial investment with theexception of investment in hydroelectric power and accounts for at least twofifths of canadas total power development thereare single mills which use more electrical energy each year than is used to light the cities of toronto and montreal combined benefit to canada the industry brought to canada be tween 1930 and 1935 in spite of its disrupted condition 5g3o00ooo from foreign sources compared with 475- 000000 of gold productionand 130- 000000 of nickel exports newsprint income is spent in canada for nearly all materials of newsprint production are of canadian origin he said the parish of monks risbridge suffolk has no inhabitants it cov ers one hundred and twentynine 1 300 strikers quit general acres of arable land but there are plants after pact no houaes or buin f anv kiml motors signed sympathizers shout themselves hoarse baby princess receives name alexandra helen elizabeth olga christabel christened london the duko and duchess of kents infant daughter has been christened alexandra helen elizabeth olga christabel tile ceremony was held in tho pri vate chapel of buckingham palace with the archbishop of canterbury of ficiating the king and queen queen mary and other mombers ot tho royal family wero there brought especially from windsor castle was the gold font which al ways is used for royal christenings water from tho river jordan was sprinkled on tho little girl born on christmas day sho wore an ancient robe of brus sels lace and cream satin made from queen victorias christening afterwards a big cake surmounted by a stork and both tho british and greek flags was cut with a golden knife at a private reception in another room of tho palace the babys mother is the former princess marina of greece her fa ther is tho kings youngest brother flint mich three general mo tors plants held by approximately 1300 pitdowners were returned to company police as workers quit them on the urging of united automobile workers of america officials last barrier to the resumption of negotiations to end the general mo tors strike was broken down when strikers in quick succession marched out of fisher body corporation plants 1 and 2 and chevrolet no 4 several thousand sympathizers who marched two miles from the main fisher plant to tho two located in the zone guarded by state militia found the nationalguardsmen had been re called from patrol duty a few mo ments before homer martin international presi dent ot uawa drove from detroit with members of his board of strat egy to lead tho evacuations whistles blew horns wero sounded strikers and sympathizers shouted thomselves hoarse begin bargaining tuesday detroit general motors corpor ation and the united automobilo workers have signed a threepage peace treaty under which they will begin bargaining tuesday on wages hours and working conditions just before tho formal ending of the across the country general motors billiondollar corporations plant acros sthe country general motors granted a voluntary wage increase all workers will receive a raise of ave cents an hour effective fob 15 on the issues raised by tho strike there was a compromise for six months john l lewiss union tho united automobilo workers will have sole bargaining rights in twenty plants where strikes occurred in re turn it will remove all sitdown strikers and allow general motors to resume tho production of automobiles as soon as possible shutdown believed avoided osiiawa news ot the signing of the agreement between general mo tors and the strike organization in tho united states was received with de light at oshawa and according to the land is farmed but all the farm buildings are in the next parish its a fact by ken edwards down in the pad dock we came across the fam ed chas hors es ayers who has many a bc- lievt it or not up his sleeve he tells us that wilson wood ward owner of gallant fox omaha and granville has yet to bet on a horse race although his stable has won over 3000000 in purses they say that in india wrestlers go three and four hours in one bout and receive money in four and five figures the lion of punjab makes 10000 for each match a gentleman by the name of ctamo is the champion bone bust er of india and has been for the past 27 years ctamo is now 50 and weighs 250 lbs this talk of india brings to my mind an incident that happened in jack corcorans office one day there happened to be an indian manager and his wrestler there turban nnd all who were telling of wrestling in india it happened that the man who was so interested was that hungarian shiek sandor zabo after he struted around be fore everyone with his chest out anl muscles knotted for the benefit of the man with the turban he asked would the beautiful women like him in india the dapper little chocolatefaced manager with a flashing smile quickly admitted tho women would accept him zabo in broken eng lish said i go india i go india rut after he was told that the bouts lasted three and four hours in tho smeltering heat he was crushed harry 1 carmlchaol vicepresident hence he turned his head towards and general manager of general mo- australia tors of canada probably means that its a well known fact that man the canadian plant will avoid a shut- mountain dean the 350odd pounds down he believes that the flow of of smashing dynamite has made material can bo resumed beforo presj 500000 wrestling in the past two cnt supplies hero are cxhaustd i years