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s in review hhnhm lost division carries on hendaye france the spanish governments lost division sailed rorth from its hidden pyrenees mountain stronghold over the week end in we raids on the insurgents northern lines militaiy despatches said the divi sion which has become a symbol of heroism to the barcelona govern ment and a thorn to the insurgents was hampering general francos preparations for a drive near the teneh frontier greatest battle of toe war tokio the battle now raging on the lunghai railway line in shantung province china is com parable to the greatest recorded in japans military history according to correspondents at the front who for the first time in months are re porting the fighting in detail goldrush to lakehead port arthur sensational gold values found in diamond drill ing to shallow depth have been fol lowed by a rush of gold miners and prospectors into the township of gorham nine miles north of port arthur canadas northwest booms as exploration continues oil gold and salt are found in commercial quantities radi um discovery 8 years ago be gan the development of this rich area 8- hvuse collapses rotterdam the netherlands ain persons were crushed to death this week when an ancient house on the hoogstraat collapsed a woman her baby and seven hen were killed the hoogstraat is the city s busiest street and it was jam med by rushhour crowds fascist revolt crushed rio de janeiro brazil a spectacular wellplanned though weakly carried out uprising staged last week by the integralistas bra zilian fascists who planned to kid nap or kill president getulio vargas arid seize the administration failed after sharp fighting between the reb els and government forces many were killed and wounded among the latter being the minister of war enrico gaspar dutra and the prince of braganza pretender to the brazilian imperial throne hitlers house a monument berlin the government has purchased the house in leonding near linz in which chancellor adolf hitler lived as a boy it will be a national monument hitlers mother sold it in 1905 newer insulin proven better smaller daily dose needed and good control of diabetes obtained dr richard f friedlander re ported last week at boston that in vestigations with the new longact ing insulin now available for the treatment of diabetes showed that patients needed less of it per day than the older type of insulin dr friedlander is instructor in medicine at university of california medical school experimented with 52 the advantages of the newer in sulin dr friedlander said include a more constant hence better phy siologic control of diabetes a re- duction in the number of daily in jeetions of insulin and frequently a considerable reduction in the total daily insulin requirement his report was based on experi ments with a group of 52 patients previously treated with regular in sulin and chosen at random ever since labines radium dis covery in 1930 and the subsequent rush into great bear lake there has been considerable interest taken in the development probably and ac tual of canadas northland beyond belief of the probably development thr country is far too vast and little known for the average man to hazard a guess too many things enter into the making of a mine an oil field or a tar stands plant for any one man to say there is a mine or there is an oil field the best thing for anyone to do who is fond of such fantastic speculation is to examine a map of the precambrian shield of canada take the area prospect ed divide it into the number of mines and multiply it by the area still unknown that would give you an idea of the possibility of the coun try but do not bother because no one would believe you no not even yourself the book shelf by elizabeth eedy australians adopt world voyage in national insurance little lamb by dahris martin in large and winsome pictures and with one of those chiming little stories that repeat the plight of a small lamb whose woolly coat came off in patches is unfolded here for very small people baba did not like the idea at all he had been all white over he was now begin ning to show pink spots where the skn had no wool at all it did not look right to him and he did not canberra a national insur ance bill was passed on second read ing last week by the australian par liament it is expected to go into effect january 1 providing funds for illness and retirement payments the bill lim ited to persons whose annual income is less than 1460 will affect 1850- 000 workers and their families or 53 per cent of the population state will contribute the state will contribute 1000- 000 for each of the first five years after which this sum will gradually increase to 10000000 in 1961 increases in general tariff rates on 17 items were proposed in the house of representatives by j a perkins minister without portfolio the object of the changes is to pro tect australian manufacturers fol lowing the abandonment of sir henry gulletts import licensing system he said the rates on british goods will not be affected the amount of im ports which would be affected by the 70foct schooner 3oat is at san juan porto rico fter 30000 miles in 13 months n the- a commentary on the more important events of the week gy elizabeth eedy momentous days so much is happening in the world today events are moving so quickly on all fronts that situations of momentous importance in this quarter or that go practically unnoticed our atten tion can be focussed only on so many points at once watching what hitler is doing in central europe what mussolini is planning in the mediter ranean it is physically impossible also to keep our eyes on what is happening in india in palestine in iraq in syria in morocco in south america and mexico for world- stirring events are brewing in each one of these corners of the earth we do well if we are able to watch the progress of the war in china and in spain and in our own dear canada theres plenty going on whether we read the newspapers or not to find out tenpower pact urged by winston churchill last week in lon don is a wide european alliance of ten powers calculated to encircle the german reich and block further aggression on the part of the nazis if such a front were formed of the smaller nations of europe and rus sia behind france and great britain using league of nations machinery mr churchill declared the united states would undoubtedly signal her encouragement and sympathy said mr churchill if we can rally even ten wellarmed states in europe all banded together- to attack an aggressor we would be so strong that immediate danger might be warded off and a breathing space would be gained for building later still a broader structure of peace arise the government might decide to call an election this year chinese chances a special cable to the toronto telegram from john gunther internationally known journalist now in hankow outlines the main advantages weighing on the chinese side in favor- of their ulti mate victory over the japanese in vaders first the country is united politically as never before drawn together by a genuine will to resist japan and to fight to the finish sec ond the facility of the japanese in guerrilla warfare third help from german technical advisers and rus sian pilots fourth the stupendously difficult job the japanese have set themselves fifth the fact that ja pans standard of living is bound to fall as the war goes on mr gunther points to the reverse side of the canvas citing chinas disadvantages first the japanese have virtual command of the air second the chinese army is woeful ly deficient in artillery third the japanese are better provisioned bet ter armed fourth provincial feeling is still strong among the chinese and unification of the armies is yet far from perfect airplane plays big part the actual development is a dif ferent thing since 1932 things have moved so fast in the north that nothing surprises anyone any more and the residents are becoming so used to change that they have for gotten that a few years ago the country was little different from that which mackenzie discovered in 1789 the airplane has taken its rightful place so naturally that it is impossible to imagine how people got along without it and with the coming of wings the edge of the un known has been thrust back a thous and miles starting from the south which the rush did not do the tar sands of alberta are the first to show the im petus of the 30s since 22 various companies have been interested in the worlds largest tar sand deposits that stretch for many miles along both sids of the athabasca river just south of fort mcmurray the visible area of this potential wealth is known to be not less than 1500 square miles this represents 750 million tons of bituminous sands or considered on a basis of 12 per cent bituminous content this means al most 100 million tons of bitumen the total rca is considered much greater salt beds 200 feet thick another industry as yet in its in fancy is the salt deposits of water ways and fort mcmurray here in dustrial minerals limited complet ed last year an exaporation plant which with its three drying pans in operation whl be capable of pro ducing 100 tons of salt a day eight hundred feet below lie the salt beds 200 feet thick and of unknown ex tent the salt is as pure as is found think it looked right to anybody so he went to the merchant for a new e i j u- l change previously totalled o07000 coat and this worthy sent him to the i t i tailor and he to the weaver unjjt at last the shepherd melted by the tears of baba and anything more moving than this picture of baba in tears it would be hard for a baby to find sent him to black sheep that wise animal laughed and laugh ed babas new coat was coming in this was why the old one was coining out in spots and the story ends with a skipping lamb singing about his brandnew coat white as milk soft as silk and warm as a quilt although the story is for very lit tle listeners the pictures will be ap pealing to almost any child up to and including the age when first teeth begin to work loose little lamb by dahris martin pictures in color by lilly somppi 3g pp toronto musson book co 175 he excise duty on radio tubes has u as pllot on been reduced by three pence to one ho who has shilling nine pence each after having sailed almost 30000 miles in the last thirteen months a thornton baker of princeton nj took steps to have his fiftyton schoon er yacht sj foug built at hongkong brought i manently under united states registry san juan porto ri co is the first united states port he has touched since he sailed out of hongkong larch 1c 1937 registration became a legal for mality on his entering a united states port the so kong seventy feet over all was designed by olin stephens of new york she is rigged with a 100liorsepovvf diesel auxiliary she has a beam of sixteen feet and draws tci feet 15 mics n a day her best days sail was 215 miles said mr baker who has skippered the vessel throughout the trip around the world the engines masts sails and fit tings were sent to hongkong in 1936 when mr baker decided he wanted to sail round the wirld with his two sons a thornton baker 3d who is listed as pilot on the ships papers been the navi gator will excavate baden village ruined indian homesteads at foot of baden hills ontario will be explored for relics editorial comment from here there and everywhere canada man who cannot sink in water birmingham eng a man who cannot sink in water has been found here he is arthur v wynn 57 known as britains only rubber ball man wynn can lie on the water read a book smoke and even go to sleep in perfect comfort he cn propel himself along the water with a pair of paddles like a boat once he was j bound hand and foot thrown into a i reservoir and pushed under the wat er with a pole every time he bobbed up smiling to the surface doctors and scientists attribute his nonsinking quality to the fact that his specific gravity is so low that it is a great effort for him to go un der water sun ceilings nat to be sneezed at ontario is planning a drive against hay lever and that is a movement hat is not tobe sneezed at peter jrorgh examiner o or go to grandmas funeral the provincial comptroller of fin ance reveals that every citizen of on tario works 54 days a year to support the government if we knew which days of the year they were we might be tempted to stay home on some of them e j p in stratford beacon- herald o the good old days someone suggests that when we be gin pining for the good old days we should run the automobile into the lake throw the radio into the garbage can tear the telephone off the wall and throw the electric light switch out of the window ves and take the airplane down out of the sky while we hitch up the ox team lethbridge herald the re- anywhere pipes of peace fill war chest mixed blessing with the soil of the prairies moistened by the best rainfall in 17 years and crop pros pects the most favorable since 1933 western farmers of the drought- stricken areas are nevertheless rot half as happy as we imagine them to be for two reasons a good crop means a much lower price will be offered for wheat a good crop means also that the mortgage companies who for so long have neglected to foreclose on farms that were seem ingly worth nothing now arc likely to clamp down on the debtridden farmers twixt the devil and the deep our western neighbors are an election in 193s ot tawa insists that there is no valid reason for an appeal to the country in 1938 no excuse for a dominion election this fall it is talking plaus- j jbly because a trip to the polls is not really due for another two years just the same the opinion is pre valent in some quarters that parlia ment will be dissolved next year the fourth year since the election but not this fall or anywhere near it should however ructions occur between the provinces and the fed eral government that cant be patched up in the usual way or i hould a national emergency earlier vegetables the spring season in ontario advancing apace is now two weeks ahead of previous years vegetables are com ing on the market away ahead of schedule and one dealer predicts that well have strawberries by the first of june all very lovely come along and nip fruits in the bud unless frosts our ontario after mussolini and abyssinia we usually associate italy with hokey- pokey it may therefore come as a surprise to learn from recently pub lished statistics that sunny italy is europes tobacco producer number two greece heads the list with ri yearly growth of 100231 tons actually italy is a new hand at the game in 1922 for example she imported 80 per cent of her tobac co today she supplies europe about 82500 cultivated acres are required to produce the plant the government holds a tobacco monop oly it nets an annual profit of 150- 000000 from doing so so mussolini swells his war coffers from the pipes of peace will fireplaces radiators and gas and electricfires be done away with in the house of the future mr richard crittall the english engineer and wellknown authority on heating and ventilation has just invented a novel system of heating rooms and corridors he imitates the sun by placing the source of heat in the ceiling so that it throws its heat waves down upon this world and just as the suns heat is radiated into the surrounding air from the surface of the earth so is the heat from this sunceiling electric wires are imbedded in sheets of cardboard which are plas tered into the ceiling a thermostat on the wall enables the heat to be controlled to the exact degree need ed sunceiling heaters have been installed in the board room of the general post office london eng land and in a number of other new buildings there with complete suc cess the cost is about that of or dinary furnace heating o canadians ate less meat the canadian people consumed more pork in 1937 than beef and veal this was the experience in 193c but in 1935 and 1934 they consumed more beef than pork in 1937 the consump tion of pork was c235 pounds per cap ita as against 5ss9 pounds of beef and veal the consumption of pork in 1936 was c70s pounds per capita and of beef and veal 604s pounds on the whole therefore the canadian people ate less meat last year than they did in the previous year st catharines standard x strengths of various nations suit is interesting soviet russia it appears has the most submarines with something like 150 of them italy comes second with s4 ships built and 14 building france has 92 britain 70 germany gl and japan 60 altogether there are more undersea craft in the world today than during the height of submarine warfare in 1917 ottawa journal o pull for the prairies faith in the prairies is not confined to those who dwell on these once fer tile grain lands for senator iva c fallis who knows the prairies from former residence until 1920 in the west voices the opinion that given rain in june and july the prairies can raise the finest wheat in the world in that opinion she is simply ex pressing the general view held by far mers in the west they know that given reasonable weather conditions during the growing season the land will yield an abundant crop but they also are aware frorr bitter experi ence that under drought conditions little or nothing can be expected from the land moose jaw timesjournal dctcrr hut amateur archaeol ogists ttiil set out some time in the late summer to disturb the sleep of a ruined indian village which for centuries has slept in shelter at the foot of the baden hills as soon as the crops are off the land sometime late in august most probably we plan to excavate the site alfred ruthig new hamburg school principal asserts foretaste of what they shall find already has been had the other day a reporter rambled over the place where years and years before an unknown tribe cf inoians had its home on the ground the scribe found intriguing little souvenirs of those aboriginal days arrowheads chipped from flint as only the red- men could chip them the exquisite lywrought head of a tomahawk the neatlyturned blades of old skinning knives and pieces of what had been earthenware pottery the existence of the old village has not been what might be termed a deep dark secret but compara tively few people have known of its existence those who did know havent talked about it any too free ly lest it be disturbed before they could organize their excavating party the camp is to be found at the eastern base of one of the rolling baden hills in its flourishing days it had shelter both from the hill be hind it and from the forest in front today much of the forest has gone but a few of the stalwart old trees still remain between the camp site proper and the fresh water creek from which the indians drew their water probably no one will know until the old report is found just what fate befell the tribe some people in the district think the village was burned by an enemy for each spring when the land is newly ploughed ashes are worked to the surface looking down on the freshturned soil from the hill top observers say they can see by the disposition of these ash patches how the tribal tents or huts had been arranged be fore the pillaging tic oil flows out by pipeline ank br e on great bear lake ends barrel eva save time ind labor in delivering fuel to mines the empire b d o the hitchhiking nuisance as spring opens up and motoring for pleasure or business becomes more intensive the hitchhiking nuisance increases few people object to giv ing a lift to some needy person but the galling part with emphasis on the gall is that most of the wouldbe riders are people who can well afford to pay their way they use simply this means of transportation that they may be spared the purchase of a ticket on recognized carriers st thomas timesjournal o arms and the nations in washington where there is more talk than usual about armaments they have been compiling data on the naval australias warning in every democracy the public must now address itself to the realities of the menace thus disclosed whether another great war may yet be averted is problematical but this much may be proclaimed as certain that unless the opponents wherever they may be found of brir igo in international danger the chances of averting ulti mate war must be counted negligible we must face the vital fact that ger many italy and japan are today mo bilized for war in the mediterranean spain in china in austria without declaration of hostilities defying trea ties and careless in excuses they are simply ravaging defenceless neighbors for their own gain in each of these ventures no limit is set to the objec tives and no spectator can propound a formula for diplomatic bargaining in cherk to this process which will not leave the marauder ith at least a part of his loot this wo regard as the gravest aspect of the world situ ation in its challenge now unmistak able to every people that possesses anything worth coveting the moral ti us here in australia is inescapable sydney herald the wonderland of oz fort smith nwt arrival this year on great bear lake of the tank barge serving the mines at cam eron bay will forge the last link in a chain of barges and pipe lines which will make the transportation of fuel oil in barrels at thing of the past in the canadian northwest last summer saw completion of all but the one important link so that today fuel oil can b pumped into fanks and start out for the busy diesels in mines and boats as far re moved as out post island yellow knife bay the eldorado and aklavic on the arctic coast from the oil wells 55 miles below fort norman radiates a waterways system that reaches the scene of ev ery major activity in the territories today northward the mckenzie flows for another 500 miles past good hope arctic red river and aklavic before emptying into the arctic ocean southwards river steamers and tugs can pick up a barge and take it up the mckenzie within reach of any of the mines at out post island or the yellow knife building costs at 1918 level but many taxes now did not exist 20 years ago very sorrowfully our friends de cided to return to the upper world without their friend the tin wood man so ozma gave the order to begin the march through the passage the army went first then the royal family of ev and afterward came dorothy ozma billina the scare crow and tiktok they left the gnome king scowl ing at them from his throne and had no thought of danger until ozma chanced to look back and see a large number of warriors following them in full chase with their swords and spears and axes raised to strike down the fugitives as soon aa they drew near enough evidently the gnome king had made this last attempt to prevent their escaping him but it did him no good for when dorothy saw the dan ger they were in she stopped and waved her hand toward the charging soldiers and at the same time she whispered a command to the magic licit instantly the foremost warrions became eggs which rolled upon the floor of the cavern in such numbers that those behind could not advance without stepping upon them when they saw the eggs all desire to ad vance departed from the warriors and they turned and fled madly back into the cavern construction costs arc at present 12 per cent lower than 192c and exactly equal to costs which pre vailed in 1918 according to c d harrington montreal chairman canadian construction association who addressed the management com mittee at ottawa last week ho added the only difference was that sales and municipal taxes were added which were nonexistent in 1918 actually excluding taxes to days costs are cheaper than in 1918 if building costs arc too high why are all our brick companies and woodworking subcontractors in fin ancial difficulties extension of the dominion hous ing act to the rural communities in british columbia was requested by a british columbia member who suggested that the act at present was confined to the larger urban cen tres in his province sued for biting dog a man who bit his neighbors dog- has been used by the owner for 670 damages against probably loss of the rnimal at gargh india defendant decarcd that the dog attacked him so he seized it by the scruff of the neck and bit it to teach it a lesson