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Will Spend More To Train Youth Ottawa To Increase Vote For 1939 â€" 50,000 Canadians Benefitted Last Year AV'ith particular emphasis on placi'ment features, the Dominion- Provincial youth training program lor the present fiscal year is mak- ing excellent progress, the Fed- eral Labor Department said this week. "While it is naturally too early to determine with accuracy the number of young Canadians who will benefit by the plan this year, it is probable that last year's fig- ures will be equalled if not ex- ceeded," the department's state- ment said. Province* Contribute "Approximately 50,000 Cana- dians between the ages laid down in agreements with the provinces have profited by the program. The exact figures arc; Men, 32,301; women, 23,15C; or a total of 55,- 457. Last year the amount voted by Parliament was $1,000,000. This year the Dominion contribut- ed in the neighborhood of $1,500,- 000. Provinces contribute on a 50-50 basis. Blackleg Kills Lambton Cattle Many Are Dying Off As Result Of Infection Lambton County cattle are threatened by a spread of "black- leg", a virulent disease not un- common at this time of the year. It is estimated that twenty-five cattle have died in the county in recent weeks as a result of the disease, but veterinarians an(' othei-s do not believe the situa- tion is yet o'nc for alarm. Cauied By Bacillus Prevalent among cattle in that area for the past forty years, the disease has chiefly affected herds along the sixth and eighth con- cessions of Enniskillen township. Cattle between the ages of six months and two years arc most susceptible to the disease, which occasionally attacks sheep and goats also. The disease is not peculiar to any particular climate, soil or al- titude. It is caused by a bacillus which forms a sore within itself and lodges in the soil. A sore is usually the means by which an ani- mal contracts the disease. Duce Was Once A Burly Waiter Former Fruit Salesman Remem- bers Mussolini Working In A Soho Restaurant LO.XDOX, I-Jng.â€" A gray-haired old fruit-seller in Soho, who once told Mussolini to be (juiet, laughs when he thinks "whore old Ben is now" and a showman who once told the Italian waiter his play "Napoleon" was lousy still thinks he was right. Old Jack .Smith, fruit salesman and radio star, is 80 but he can still remember the night he sat in a cafe and told a friend one Eng- lishman was worth ten Italians. A young Italian, 22, powerfully-built and stumpy, dashed to his table with clenched fists, shouting in broken Knglisli for a retraction. Tub-Thumper Jack recalls he slapped Musso- lini on the back said: "Oh, chuck it, Ben, you and your poliiti.v make me sick." "In those days," he says, Musso- lini "was just a cocky little Italian waiter who was always throwing out his chest and tub-thumping â€" like the street-corner politicians do in Hyde Park." Mussolini, says Jack, "worked at nights in a big restaurant where King Edwai'd VII used to go some- timt.<:." Brantford Woman Shows Livestock Mrs. Clara Kendall Also Looks After Exhibits Mrs. Clara Kend.ill, R. R. No. 5, Brantford, was probably the only woman at the Western Fair, Lon- don, sliowinK live stock â€" not Just owning live slock but taking care of it, and grooming it for the show- In {r. Mrs. Kendall, a widow, had to ep actively Into the running of e farm when her husband died three years ago. "I help my sons all I can," she Bald. A new-born Jersey calf from the Kendall herd was the only addition io the Jersey herds during the Fair. An hour or two after It was born the calf had a motor ride. Inocu- Kted against disease, It was placed a warm corner of a truck, and brought to the William Kendall & Sons' stock farm near Brantford. VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA TRULY DEMOCRATIC With the C. N. E. over, ricn and poor won't rub shoulders again until the Christmas shopping stampede. â€" Toronto Telegram. WHITHER "SOCIABLES"? The Brockville Recorder and Times thinks church socials are going out of fashion. Fact is, they've never been the same since they ceased to be know as socia- bles. â€" Toronto Star. THOSE GLARING HEADLIGHTS A Sunday drive is the enjoy- ment of thousands of motorists until it is time to go home. As darkness approaches and head- lights on cars are turned on then it is a nightmare for the driver. Of all the vast improvements made in cars in recent years, glar- ing headlights still exist and re- lief is not in sight. â€" Elmira Sig- net. OFF THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE Apart from sentimental and strategic reasons, there is another factor why both Great Britain and the United States are interested in Canada. There is $6,800,000,000 of out- side capital invested in the Domin- ion. Of this amount, Great Britain has supplied 40 per cent, ond the United States has put up 58 per cent., leaving only two per cent, supplied by other countries. â€" Windsor Daily Star. WHAT IT TAKES A good editor is one who has never made a mistake; who is al- ways right; who can ride two horses at the same time he is straddling a fence with both ears to the ground; who always says the right thing at the right time; who always picks the right horse as well as the right politician to win; who never has to apologize, who has no enemies, and who ha.'? worlds of prestige with all cla.sses, creeds and races. That is all an editor has to do to be rated a good editor. There has never been a good editor.â€" North Hastings Re- view. The EMPIRE CANADA AND WHEAT PRICES Under the 1932 treaty Canada and -Australia are bound to sell wheat to the Motherland at the world price, which is the price on the Liverpool Exchange. This price is fixed by competition be- tween the buyers of the world, not the buyers of the United Kingdom alone. The British mar- ket is not large enough to absorb all the Canadian export surplus of wheat. The balance of this sur- plus is sold in competition with the exports from the United States, Argentina, Russia, the Daii- ubian countries, and every other wheat-exporting country. It is this competition with foreign wheat which fixes the Liverpool price and therefore the price which British importers pay for Canadian wheat. For this reason the prefernce is not thought to be of much value. If the preference is repealed, Canada may sell less wheat to Britain, but, in that event, other countries will sell more and there will be. less com- petition in selling to foreign coun- tries. It is, in the Canadian view, a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other. â€" Manchester Guardian. Amateur safe-crackers who broke into the office of Grimsby Stove and Furnace Limited last v/eek used the company's own ace- tylene torch and electric drill to cut a Iwo-and-a-half-foot hole in the door of the office safe. Then they used a company chisel to cut off some rivets and gain access to the cash compart- ment. He Flew Chamberlain Commander Eric Glynne Robin- son, pilot of the airplane which flew Prime Minister Chamberlain to Germany for his second confer- ence with Chancellor Hitler, is shown ABOVE. Ho received his first flying instructions at Hamil- ton, Ont. . Parade By Elizabeth Eedy WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: In the Great War of 1914-18, it was the uniformed men in the front line trenches who bore the brunt of enemy punish- ment. Today, things are different, as we know from watching dress rehearsals (for another v/ar) in Abyssinia, in Spain and China. It is the civilian population, the women and children, who arc the first victims of war, meeting swift death from the air, or a horrible mangling, or .slow starvation. They call it "totalitarian war". * * * * WHAT PRICE DISTRACTION? They tell us that whenever war appears on the world's horizon, women's fashions automatically become more elaborate, more or- nery than ever â€" ss a distraction, don't you know, from the grim- ness of reality. This present season, judging from the specimens one ha.s glimpsed on the streets of Ontari.> tow'ns and^ cities, women's hats and hair-dos are providing a No. 1 diversion. European embroglios are forgotten when the latest "doll hat" sails by atop a nest of high-piled curls. Women become interested only in going their fel- lowwoman's hats one better; men are intercst"d in watching the women. LINE-UP: Britain plu.^ France plus Russia have a combined strength of 15,400 planes. Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 11,500. Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined naval strength of 2% million tons. Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 1 million tons. Measured in men, Britain plus Fi-ance pitis Russia have a total army strength of 26,000,000. Compare that with Germany plus Italy, 10,600,000. Consider then, that the United States is morally behind Britain, France and Russia. Aren't Germany and Italy brave to stand up against such an align- ment? • * • • We complained loudly in this column at Easter-time when the first spring millinery atrocities ap- peared. But since then, as the European situation has grown worse, things have been getting more and more impo.ssible in the hat world. And now, words fail us. We cannot bring ourselves to describe the latest creations in feather and felt. Those terrible chin-strap models we howled about in the spring were infinitely pre- ferable, don't you think? * • * * THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: How many hours distant by air- plane is Moscow from Berlin? An- swer: 4 "4 hours. When buying brooms, soak them well before using. Never let the bristles stand on the floor. A new floor-mop for wet use lasts longer if tightly tied round with cord as near the swivel part as possible. All brooms and brushes need recular washin.g in warm suds. Hang in the air to dry. This Curious World '/er^^r WEAKF(SHES ARE ANVTHING-: BUT V\/eAK/ <3RAV ITATI ON AL. PUl_U OF" THE AAOU NJTAl rvJS P/L£S U/^ THE WATEF2. NJEAR. 7-^^: SHORES. \ ^ / COPfl 1938 BVNEA SERVICE. INC. 2-// THET*' CAN GIVE ANV A BATTLE. NA/lt_L_ DROP> THEIR. BOMB-UKE. F<Vy> Tf^f^OUGf-t THE A/fiS. C>NTCD F^OOD THAT THEV CANNOT REACM THE name "weakfish" comes from no lack of gamenes; or stamina, but because the bony processes of the mouth are soft and tender, thereby causing them to tear out when a fisherman's hook is jerked too suddenly. NEXT: How do heat waves and cold waves dUTer in the wax ' they approach and depart? SATISFIED USERS The satisfied acclaim of over a hundred thousand Canadian home- owners is your positive guarantee of '.-he greatest heating value money can buy. Give your home the thrilling comfort and de- pendability of "the world's finest anthracite". â€" The colour guarantees the quality. Order from your nearest 'blue coal' dealer today. Ask him also about the 'blue coal' Heat Regulator which provides automatic heat with your present equipment. blue coa THE MODERN FUEL FOFf SOLID COMFORT Tune in "The Shadow" every Sat., 7 p.m., CBL, Toronto, or 6.30 p.m., CBO, Ottawa. Tourist Total Remains High Extensive Revenue â€" Slight De- cline Seen From 1937 For Canada Tourist traffic will bring between $205,000,000 and ?275.000,000 to Canada this vear, Leo Dolan, chief of the Canadian Travel Bureau, De- partment ot Transport, estimates. Last year's estimated tourist traf- fic revenue was $295,000,000. '•The tourist industry has shown less decline than any other normal business activity in Canada this year." said Mr. Dolan. Millions of Visitors Canada up to July 31 received 9,- 012,177 visitors, a drop 'Of G.S per cent, from the 9.G7G,734 who came In the seven months ending July 31, 1937, but a general upswing was reported in AuRust with improved business conditions in the United States, the grent source of Can- ada's tourist trade. The tourist business dixp has been most pronounced iu Ontario and Quebec because they are con- tiguous to the United States indus- trial areas that felt most keenly the recession. But in these two provinces there was an improve- ment in August over July. B.C. Does Better British Colinnliia has done well with her toiuist trade this year. Vancouver Island reports a record number of visitors. Through the customs at Victoria in the eight months ending August 31 there were cleared 26,000 United States motor cars, bringing 72,000 people to the island, a record high. New Brunswick reports tourist trade as good as ever. Nova Sco- tia reported a slight decrease with Prince Edward Island about un- changed. The Prairie Provinces report a better tourist trade than in 1936 but slightly below that of 1937. Value Of Contests For Farm Children Ontario's Minister of Agricul- ture Favors Special Grants To Agricultural Societies Featuring Such Competitions Hon. P. M. Dewan is so convinc- ed ot the value of competitions for farm boys and girls that he favors a system of special grants from the Department of Agriculture to those agricultural societies which feature such programs. Commending Wilmot Agricultural Society upon its activities along this line, the minister in opening the society's tall fair at New Ham- burg said: "I am rather of the opinion that we ought to go so far in the department â€" though we have not yet considered it definitelyâ€" -as to give probably a special grant to those fairs which feature junior programs." Train For Future "After all," said Mr. Dewan, ''I do not know of any place where the boya and girls can get an education which can be a greater inspiration to them for their future work on the farm than by learning to ex- hibit their products at the fall fairs. If there is one thing which it is our duty to do more than another at the present time, it is to train the young men and women who are go- ing to be the future farm msn and women of the province. "They are going to have the priv- ilege and advantage of living iu ru- ral communities, with the privileg- es increasing as the years pass, and it will not be very long until rural life will be probably superior, even in respect of general conveni- ence, to that of town or city life." Insects in green vegetables will make an immediate e.Kit if you add salt to their washing wat- er. j The \eook shelf 1 By ELIZABETH EEDY "MY SISTER EILEEN" By Ruth McKenney It's a natural! It's a howl! this story of the adventures of a rogu- ish Irish lass and her sister Eileen, now 25 and 24 years old respec- tively. It will have you rolling in the aisles, because you have ex- perienced things just like that, yourself, perhaps. . . . The book starts off in the days of peanuts and the silent movies, debating teams and bird hunts, girls' camps and Raster eggs. By easy stages it progresses throu'Jih first lessons in being a waitres;?, the care and feeding of a Georgian Prince, the blushful experiences of a girl reporter (Ruth McKen- ney writes for the "New Yorker") interviewing Randolph Churchill. Later Ruth and her sister Eileen mig:rate to New York, where they hire an apartment from Mr. Spit- zer, a sad fellow who couldn't tell a fungus from an elm tree. The final staggering climax is reachad the night Eileen and Ruth enter- tain the Brazilian Navy. "My Sister Eileen," by Ruth McKenney .... Toronto, George J. McLeod, Limited, 266 King St. West .... $2.2.'S. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ "Wo wiiiit your help In this con- quest," said fJuph, "for we need th« aid of the (irowlcywftg.s in order to make aure th<it we sliull not be de- feated. You hate good creatures as much as we Knomo do. I asm ure It will be .1 real pleasure to you tn tear down the Emeriild City, and In return for your assistance we will allow you to brini? back to your country ten thotisnnd people of Oz to be yur slaves." "Twenty thousand!" BrowleJ the Grand Gallipoot. "All rlKht. t\'enty Ihou.s.'ind slaves It shall he!" nfreed llie General, who by thi.n lime was very frishtcned. The (".rand (ialli- poot made a sisnnl and at once his attendants picked up (Jeneral CJuph and carried him away to a deep, dark pri.son, where the Jailer amus- ed himxelf by sticking pin.i in the round, fat body of the old t,'ni>mo to see him jump and hear him yell. .\nd while this was Kolnif on the Orand OalUpoot was talking with his counselors, who were the most Important officials of the Growley- woBs. When he had told them of the proposition of the Gnome King, he said: "My advice is t help them, then when we have conquered the Liand of (>z w will take not only our twenty thousand prisoners, but ev- erything else we want." "L*t us take the magic belt, too," suggested one counselor. ".\nd rob the Gnome King and make him our slave." "That's a good Idea," declared the Grand Gallipoot. "I'd like King Uujri^edo for my own slave. He could black my boots and brinK me my porridee every morn- Ins while 1 am in bed.' "There is a famous .Scarecrnw in Oz. I'll take him f(»r my slave." said n coun.«=<Utr. "I'll lake Tik-Tok. thr machine man." said nnothov "(!ive me the Tin Woodm.in." s.ii da IhirU. t V :j â-  t' • ( ) i 1