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â-  tMrt iii iiJMMiiaiiiji^ Young Men of C.A.S.F. Off For Intensive Training \1 Seven thousand determined young Canadians got their initiation into army life at Exhibition Park, Toronto, during the winter months. Comforts not usually associated with active service, even to batteries of hot shower baths, were available in well heated buildings. In the Illustrations above they are seen entraining for .summer encampment.s end their smiling faces would seem to indicate that the prospect is a pleasing one. The big camp is now being prepared for this year's Kx- olbition. The buildings will be occupied by troops again next fall fol- lowing the "Ex." \ VOICE OF THE PRESS DIALING FOR TROUBLE You no longer need to borrow trouble. You can get it delivered on ibe. radio dally. â€" (Biandon Sun) SHORTER SPEECHES There Is merit In the principl<! Iieililnd the proposal made by Mr. Ralph Maybank, Liberal M.P. for Winnipeg South Centre, that the length of parliamentary speeches on matters affecting Canada's war •Sort be limited. Discussion, of oourse, is valuable, but only up to tte point that It contributes to a olearer understanding or the im- Vrovement of legislation. Beyond that it is a waste of time. â€" (Wind- tor Star) BORN TO MISERY Of all the livestock (hat men raise the chicken is by far the most ill-used. In the brooder, artif- icially heated, the chicks cry, "What is home without a motlier?" and afterwards, when they liave tome to years of discretion and would like to enjoy a run where they can scralch, they find them- selves stacked up in hen-batteries, each one in a narrow cell of its own, and are compelled to lay eggs to save their lives. The modern lieu is born to misery from the egg on- wards. â€" (Fori William TiniiK- Jourual). The manufacture of chemical.'; and allied producls in Canada during 1938 totalled .$].4(;,13!i,- 312. About .$61 millions were spent on materials and supplie-, $29 millions on .salaries and wag- e.s, and $5 million.'; for fuel ami electricity. RADIO REPORTER By DAVE ROBBINS TRY YOUR HAND Among radio listeners there are nutny folks who would like to try their band at writing a radio pro- gram â€" maybe a mystery tale, a drama or comedy sketch, or possib- ly they may have an entirely new Mea for the air â€" so why don't j«u and you put your Ideas on pa- per and send them to a radio sta- Oon? Radio stations are always look- teg for new stories and new Ideas â€" and yours might be the one that clicks! NOTES AND NEWS One of the bret-ziest programs presenttxl over the NBC-red net- work Is Flaniatlon Time â€" heard on Wednesday nights at 8:30. The Plantation Party includes lionise Massey and the Sinking Western- •rt, Tom, Dick and Harry, a smart weal trio, and other top-notch en tertalnere. For facts with an unusual iwist no BUKgest you tune In Stranger Than Fiction â€" presented over sta- tion CROC each weeknight at six. One of (he better midweek pro- (rams on the CDC conies from the â- bores of the Atlantic, when Mar- Jorle Payne directs a concert or- chestra In music of the llKhter TOln. This treat is on Wednesdays •t 8:00 pm. Iniiigine a theatre seating thirty Million people! That, hy actual •orvpy, Is the e.stlmat(Ml audience of the lladio Theatre conducted by Cocll H. Demllle, veteran showman •ACh Monday evening at 9. That neaps only one thing - that the Sadin Theatre pre«enlfi lopnoicli •lows • ' "";.:'r " When Steve Wilson,' of B«)ward 0. Hoblnson'a Big Town program kakeil for •ffl on wl â- bouUI continue their racket hurl lug tales of Big Town - or present ^liferent types of draioiis â€" • the folk* on the receiving end roted nverwlielmingly to cnnllnue the Wk Town (""rlr'. The rrogrant comes over the Columbia chain on Tuesday nights at eight. Jean Goldkette, one of the veter- an band leaders in the dance field, will soon return to the band stands with an orchestra of fifty pieces featuring swing symphony. It should be good, for the Detroiter always had ace bands. AROUND THE DIAL Dialing little known radio treats - - Sunday, Four Star Hevue from CKOC at 10:15 a.m. . . . Rendez- vous on Mutual at 5:30 with Ra- mona, Jimmy Shields and the Tune Twisters . . . Monday, 1,'il Abner from NBC • Red at six . . . Bloiidie on the Columbia Chain at 10:30 . . Tuesday, Fun witli Revuers via the NBC-Blue at 9:30 ... Composers series on CBC at 10:30 . . . Wednes- day, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Missing Persons, on NBC-Blue at 7:15 . . . Sevlllana from CBC at 8:30 ... . Thursday, i Love A Mystery at 8:30 on NBC-Red . . . Nan W'ynn on WABC-ColumbIa at 10:45 . . . Fri- day, Uncle Don via WOH at six . . . An Editor Looks West on CBC at 7:46 .. . Saturday, Hit Parade on CKOO at 1:00 p.m. . . . Sky Blazers with Col. Roscoe Turner on Colum- bia at 7:30. THE WAR-WEE Kâ€" Coniiiiciitary on Current Events ITALY'S ENTRY CARRIES WAR TO MEDITERRANEAN One month to the day after Hitler's armies crossed the bor- •iers of the Low Countries, Muss- olini declared war on Britain and France, ushering in one of the most critical hours in the his- tory of the world. .\cvcr before had the Briti.'^h and French Empires been in a lio.siiion of such supreme danser. Ki-ance, beating off encirclcmert iif Paris, fighting for her very life, now found herself attacked on .still another front, her supply lines to Africa threatened. Bri- tain, not yet recovered from the disaster of Flanders, hourly ex- )>ecting a Nazi invasion, was forc- ed to action on far-flung fronts â€" in Africa, the Near F^a-st, the Mediterranean, Gibraltar, Suez. Objectives Italy went into the war demand- ing Tunisia, Djibouti, French and Biitish Somaliland, Corsica, Mal- ta, Gibraltar, .Suez, Savoy and two French departments of the jVlaritinie Alp.s. To those posses- sions Italy "aspired," as well as to "independence from the de- funct democracies. ".After attacl<- inp France's lines to Africr, prime Italian objectives were .seen to be Tunisia and Epypt. But one at a time, and perhaps Egypt first, since capture of -A!- e.xandria from the rear by mech- anized columns (like Hitler's cap- ture of the Channel ports) would achieve more and probably be ea.sier than cutting into Tunisia and French Morocco. Meanwhile the Gernian.s, driv- inyr on Pari.s, were aiming for the capture of Paris and the Lower Seine River, no matter how tei- rific their losses, in the hope of forcing French capitulation and cutting France off from her ally. Great Britain. The Allies, on the other hand, were attempting to hold Germany until Empii'e and industrial resources could be mo- bilized for a successful counter- offensive. Should ParLs fall, the French were expected to make a stand in the valley of the great Loire River which cuts well across France from the west coast. .South of this line would be both afiricultural and industrial areas to support the o/i'ort. The time factor was in favor of the Allies; again.st the Gerin- ans, who knew they must win be- fore their effort slowed d'.iwn, before the United States could enter the war with all its vase resources. • * < Goodbye To Neutrality U.MTED STATK.?: One of the most tensely lislened-to speeL'hea in the annals of political hi.ftory was made during the week by President Koosevclt, prcparins; the American pejplo for the par- ticipation in the European war which is so sure to come. "We will pursue two obvious and sim- ultaneous courses," he declared: "We will extend to the ojjpor.- ents of force the material re- sources of this nation and, al the Slime time, we will harness and speed up the use of those re- sources in order that we our- selves in the Americas may have e((uipment and training eciual to the task of any emergency and every defense." The republic-to- the-south-of-us was no longer neutral; it was non-belligerent. Following his address. Presi- dent Roosevelt warmly endorsed an organized "Stop-IIitler-Now" movement, working to rush all possible material help to the Al- lies, while Congress continued its rapid-fire action on the national defense program, grown to .$5,- 021,019,622. Another colossal problem was thru.st before the United States by the possibility that the Bri- tish Government, if Hitler won the war, might move to Canada and continue the fight against Germany from here. Washington was a bit upset by the idea. For the first time in its life, the sup- remacy of the United States in the Western hemisphere would be challenged; another great fleet would be stationed on this aide of the Atlantic; the war would be brought to America's very doorstep. * * • CANADA: That same possibil- ity was reflected in the sixth ra- dio address of Prime .Minister Mackenzie King on the war situ- ation. He declared that Canad- ians are prepared to fight to the finish in this war, "will proudly accept" their new responsibilitie.-^, undaunted by the threat of spreading conflict. There was talk of thd British Throne being trans- ferred to Ottawa . . . Two days later Canada declared war on Italy, and Princess Juliana of the Netherland.s and her two children arrived in Halifax. . . . The nation was saddened dui- ing the week by the tragic death in an air crash of Hon. Norman McLeod Rogers, Canada's De- fence Minister, a man of fine character who had worked un- ceasingly in the public interest . . Many Canadians woke up one morning to find that war had brought them a new inconven- ience, (taxes, etc. aside), â€" start- ing July first no one could cross to the United States without a passport. Other events of the week: Rain unceasing; saturation of land, atmosphere, clothing (some people blamed it on the war clouds) . . Arthur W. Roebuck, Liberal, To- ronto-Trinity, charging in the House of Commons that the On- tario Government had treated single unemployed transients with "cold brutality" . . . anti-Italian demonstrations throughout the country . . . Puzzle: Had the Vimy Mem- orial really been bombed? Still merely a report, this story had neither been confirmed nor de- nied by the Canadian Govern- ment. » • If In The Baltic RUSSI.A.: The Soviet Union, stiddenly the centre of renewed diplomatic attentions from three European nations, patched up her Far Eastern dispute by an agree- ment with Japan on the Man- choukuo-Outer Mongolia bound- ary question, which had produc- ed two battles and several years of intermittent fighting â€" Rus- sia and Japan agreed on the ex- act frontiers to be respected in future . . . Two newly named Ambassadors from the Allies â€" . Sir Stafford Cripps of Great Bri- tain and Eric Labonne of France . â€" arrived in Moscow; and it was announced that Italy and Russia would once more keep ambiiss- adors in each other's capitals . . Diplomatic observers in Stock- holm advanced the theory th-r\t Russia, determined that Germany mu.st not expand further in the Baltic, was seeking a-definite pcl- itical agreement with Finland and Sweden to forestall any German moves in the north. * • • BALK.^NS: It appeared to be the devout wish of all Balkan capitals last week that their coun- tries should not be drawn into the growing vortex of war. And indications were strong that for the time being at least, south- eastern Europe would be left alone; that the Italian campaign in the Bhlkans . would be diplo- matic rather than military. Greece was already reported to have made a "deal" with Mussolini. Eaitern Mediterranean Sooner or later, however, it was thought that the conflict would somehow hit the Eastern Mediterranean, and then there would be a rush to Salonika from both the Italian and Near East- ern sides. The stand of Turkey was seen as all-important. * * • NORWAY: The war in Nor- way came to an end last week when King Haakon ordered the capitulation of the entire coun- try to the Germans. It was an- nounced, however, that his gov- ernment would continue to fight with the -Allies on the Western Front. BEE HIVE GOLDEN CORN SYRUP PS22 â€" A Great Energy Food SOUTH AMERICA: Fasciiim reared its ugly head again in the Western Hemisphere. President Vargas of Brazil, in the first out- spokenly Fascist speech by any South American President, justi- fied the aggressions in Eurojte of Germany and Italy. Vargas, who has ruled Brazil through ten years of dictatorship, spoke of the beginning of a new era under Fascism. Pi-eviously it had been believed in South America that Brazil would follow the United States policy toward the Euro- pean situation. A nasty shock, that. SCOUTING . . . Ad a weekly good turn, Scouts of the 2nd Moose Jaw, Sask., Troop gathw the comic sections of the week-end papers and present them to the Children's Shelter. The latest addition to Vancou- ver's Sea Scout fleet Is the patrol boat, ".Mary Walkem" owned by the 40th Vancouver (St. .\ugu3tinel Sea Scout Troop. The boat was duly Liunched with lull ceremony In the presence of some 500 Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides and Brownies. The 24- foot lifeboat was the gift of Mrs. Walkem, wife of Col. George A. Walkem, and dedication was made -by Rev. J. A. Leighton, Chaplain of the Vancouver Mission to Seamen. White^ Yellow â€" Black Races White races double their popu- lation every 80 years, yellow in CO years, and the black in 40 years. Nova Scotia's Blossom Queen And Her Princesses The Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival, Nova Scotia's most colorful spring party, this year was a gay event centred in the fragrant beauty of the British Empire's largest single apple belt. Queen An- napolisa VIII (Miss Audrey Clarke of Wolfville, N. S.) is seen here with her Princesses. (Canadian Pacific Photo). LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "When I Say Tbree You Hit Pop an' I'll Yell for Men REGULAR FELLERS-A Big Blow By GENE BYRNES r a yole Ifjfli radio jUt^iij fhulhej HI(^vP srid Txi r^Ui ivfja*