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â- n > t . '. y n --*-v »• '»â-  *» 1 i> V •f V ^ w fK « ♦ • â- â™¦ * '1 * ♦ ♦" * 4' >• V 't t r >- r \ V'' Y ^ ^ T w * ♦ « n- * % '^-- - -^ -i-^ " r ^: ;> -» s i 1 â- f ? bays Calgary Has The Worst Drivers Tie World'. "Wackiest" Are To Be Feund b the Alberta City, Traffic Observer De- clares The world's '"wackiest" drivers ars in Calgary and they've any- thing skinned that I've seen in my trip across Canada," said Julius R. Klippering. of New Yoric City. The man with the world's most piLuliar hobby, Mr. Klippering ni.-.de tfiia statement as he sat in his corner and watched traXfic pass the intersection of Seventeenth av- enue and Fourth street west, Cal- gary. A retired pants manufacturer, Mr. Klippering spends his summer months motoring through Canada and the United States, observing the antics of automobUe drivers and pedestrians. Disregard "S^op" Signs Sometimes he talies miniature movies of traffic scenes. At other times h^ talces candid camera shots and he makes notes and every win- ter he spends several months sort- ing out his material. He then enter- tains his friends by showing mov- ies of "how not to drive." Mr. Klippering said that in no other city in Canada do drivers show such a fine disregard for the "Stop" signs as they do in Calgary. He expressed the belief that only three out of ten drivers come to a full stop as the regulations demand ami only two out of 10 gives sig- nals when turning out from the curb, turning corners or heading into or out of traffic. Poor Judgment Is Blamed For Most Accidents Vast Majority of People Involv- ed In Smash-ups Are Honest, Law-Absding CitJzeTss, Police Chief Says. Reduction of the automobile ac- cident rate depended mostly on im- proved driving practices and atti- trde and law enforcement must be directed primarily to that end, said Howard M. Baker, traffic engi^er of the JMontreal police department, in a speech at the annual conven- tion of the Canadian Good Roads' Association, at Bigwin Inn, Ontario. Although reckless, inefficient or drunken driving was a factor in c.itJSins accidents. Mr. Baker said the vast majority of persons involv- ed in accidents were honest. law- abiding citizens, driving competent- ly and with reasonable caution. Thpy were chargeable at the worst v.itii bad judgment rather than a fi.-ced intent io peopardize them- s?lvcs. Knforccmtmt iuriicted in i spirit ol: revenge^ defeated its own end and wrcnged the , community. It should seek to correct and educate. Suspensions and revocations of li- ct-nses had a greater deterrent ef- fect on en'iug drivers than almost any other punitive measure. Sarnia Bridge To Be Finished Soon New International Link At Point Edward Complete Construction work on the Blue Water Bridge proper is expected to be completed next week. This will consist of the final painting on the Canadian end of the centre span. The .American half of the bridge \v;is completed last week. All that remains to be doue now so that the bridge can be put into opera- tion, is the completion of the cus- toms and immigration buildings at the Point Edward end. T!ie Sarnia and Hamilton bridge companies, which had a joint con- tract for the construction of the Canadian approach, have completed their section of the bridge and they have turned it over to the Ontario department of highways. The Am- erican bridge company will wind up its contract tor the centra span with the flushing of the aluminum painting. It is expected that two weeks will be required to complete the Canadian customs and hnmlgratlon builJings. Half-Century Mark Thiity-cight years old Chaim Koienholtz of Warsaw claims that he has divorced 25 wives. "I want to bring up the number to fifty," he -said in a press interview, "and then I will be satisfied." Belling the Cats -â- Ml cats in Staveley, Alberta, have to wear bells "bo give the birds a chance." The bird popu- lation is now increasing so much that other towns in .Alberta intend to enact similar laws. Parade By Elizabeth Eedy GOODBYE SUMMER: As we look back upon the past three months, we realize that it has been a lovely summer, not too hot, not too rainy, not too cool. So that autumn's approach with its pro- mise of pumpkin pies and Thanks- giving and ducking for apples and colored leaves and beechnuts and fowl suppers finds us in a satis- fied, peaceful frame of mind to- wards life as lived in our Ontario. If only the thought of wars and rumors cf wars did not have to be faced! And the conviction that this peace of ours which lies over the land is only a temporary armis- tice « • * « DAYLIGHT TIME: While we are on the subject of summer ending and such, a few words about daylight saving. Some of our Ontario cities and towns have found it a boon, that extra hour of sunlight a gift from the gods. Too bad all the cities and towns of Canada don't adqpt it auto- matically, in their own interest. Or all of the Dominion go on Summer Time each year â€" as Eur- ope has been doing ever since the Great War. .\nd here it is that we would ask a question. Why is it that farmers don't like daylight saving time? The domestic animals of Europe seem to get along all right; the cows and horses don't appear to suffer from dislocation of the time sense. .A.re our Cana- dian animals any different? Or is it that farm work under daylight saving could not get under way at an early enough hour each day? We wish someone v.-ould wTite in and shed a little more light on the problem. « « * « LOST OPPORTUNITY: We have been kicking ourselves ever since. Last week we wrote a paragraph for this column on the European war scare; then just as the paper went to press we yanked the paragraph out because it look- ed at the moment as if we might be wrong. Later events support our original viewpoint. Here is part of the paragraph, under the heading, "Supercolos- sal Bluff": ".\n illuminating comment on the situation in Cen- tral Europe was made this week by Public School Inspector D. M. Eagle, of Windsor, just returned from his nineteenth trip across the Atlantic. He should know whereof he speaks. Says Mr. Eagle: 'I don't think the Germans want war. I believe they're trying to see what they can get by bluf- fing and by a show of force'." Mr. Eagle could have gone fur- ther and said a few words about "blackmail" â€" of the deinocratic powers by a desperate state, Ger- many. Bluff it all was (though a very risky one) because Germany was not really ready for war nor capable of waging it successfully. Confronted by the democratic powers acting in concert, she would have been blocked from the outset. Now, Hitler is top-dog in all Europe. With Czechoslovakia under his belt (it is rich in min- erals, munitions plants), he will have the wherewithal to defeat the world. Plus the key to the Balkan regions and a route to the Black Sea. There will be no stopping him. « « • « FORCE TRIUMPHANT: From an editorial in the New York Times which deals with the Czech- oslovak crisis and the Anglo- French proposals: "This is the end of the whole system of collective security built up in the post-war treaties. It is the end of that system because a demonstration will have been giv- en, in the very heart of Europe, before the eyes of all the world and in a manner which leaves no possible room for doubt, that Ready to "Liberate'* Czedboslovakia's Gennans This picture was taken at Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtes- gaden, when the Reichfuehrer conferred with Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten Germans. Shortly afterwards, Hitler, in a speech from Nuremberg, served notice on a world bristling with arms that his Nazi empire stood ready to "liberate" the Sudeten Germans regardless of any opposition from other European countries. VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA EXCRUCIATING .\11 the troubles of the world are as nothing to the man with a couple of raspberry seeds under the upper plate. â€" Brandon Sun. THE CREDIT SYSTEM This country would be in better condition if tliere were not so many mortgaged motor cars park- ed hy rented houses on paved highways built on credit. â€" Forest Standard. WHY FAVOR TORONTO Toronto, so we see, is to get higher relief grants from the Pro- vincial Government. And why an exception in favor of Toronto'.' Any revision for the benefit of the municipalities should apply gen- erallv. â€" Ottawa Journal. A NEEDED "WEEK" What with Fish Week, Furni- ture Week, Cheese Week, Dog Week and all the others, it is said that everything has been com- mandeered up tu the second week of June, 1947, and someone has designated that as "Mind Your Own Damned Business Week. â€" Woodstock Sentinel-Review. to "Let them eat battlesiiips.' Halifax Herald. FOOD SUBSTITUTES Surely mankind around the world is getting tired of diplo- mats, and statesmen, and dicta- tors, and leaders who have no time, nor inclination to worry about underfed people. "Spheres of influence," "corridors" nnd "new alignments" â€" newer and quicker ways of bombing, gassing and killing each other occupy their time, talents and energies. Marie Antoinette's famous re- mark, "Let the people eat cake," has, says one, been changed today force or the threat of force is the determining factor in the relation- ship of nations." How to build it up again....? « • • * THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What is the burden each person in Canada can'ies, as his share of the public debt? .Answer: $638 for every man, woman and child in the country. Gaspe Peninsula Sneezers' Haven TOO MANY CABINS? Is it possible that we are over- building for the attraction of the tourist dollar? Even in the best of tourist seasons, it is doubtful if sufficient visitors cross the border to make profitable the operation of all the cabins, lunch stands and other establishments that have been created along the highways to fill their needs â€" and yet there is a constant increase in the num- ber of these places. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. HIGH COST OF DYING The cost of dying is not thought of so often as the cost of living. But it looms as a major problem for most people. To low-wage earners the cost of burial services constitutes an increasing worrj', because they are haunted by the fear of a "pauper's grave." The most common form of industrial insurance is nothing more than burial insurance. Of every insur- ance policy under $1,000 it is found that over half is used for funeral expenses. There are cases where funeral directors assume the payments on premiums of policies which are in danger of lapsing. Indeed, the struggle among thousands of people to provide for a decent exit from this life makes their later period of living a harried, unenviable one. â€" Toronto Star. Over Twenty Have Swum Channel Woman Doctor, Gardener sae Last To Cross Five men, seeing a helmeted wo- man swimming towards shore near Dover. England, ran to meet her, and found she was Frau Bruna Weudel. 35-year-oId German doctor, who claimed to have swum the Channel from Cap GrisN'ez in 15 hours 33 minutes. It Is doubtful if her swim will be recognized, as It was made unofficially. Record-Holders The record for the swim is held by G. Michel, a Frenchman, who crossed from C:ip Gris-Nez to Do- ver in 1926 in 11 hours 5 minutes. Up to this swim 21 people had done it â€" nine of them women. The fastest time for a woman is that of Miss Gertrude Ederle â€" H hours 34 minutes. Ragweed EIilninatf^d There Ex- cept for SnyUl Area; Victory In Sight. Raswt'ed, plague of har fever victims, has been practically elim- inated from the Gaape Peninsula, Georges Maheux of the Quebec De- partment of .\griculture, told a meeting of the eastern section of the association committee on weeds of the Dominion Department of Ag- riculture and the National Research Council at Ottawa la.st week. Co-Operation Effective Setting out to make the Gaspe area a refuge for hay fever suffer- ers the Quebec Government had se- cured the co-operation of farmers, teachers and school children and the south shore of the St. Law- rence had been practically freed from the weed. One limited area of infestation remained on the north shore btit in two or three years It was expected ragweed would dis- appear from the whole area. The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY NAMES in the NEWS > ♦'♦ ♦'â- â€¢ ♦»*»•♦♦â-  I ♦♦#••• â-  "EARLY BUILDINGS OF ONTARIO" By Prof. Eric D. Artliur L'niversity of Toronto Press has just released a new publication entitled "The Early Buildings of Ontario," which describes and il- lustrates many of the province's historic buildings which have out- standing architectural features. Eri,- D. Arthur, Professor of .\rchitectuTal Design, University of Toronto, is the author of the booklet. John -Alford, Professor of Fine .Art, of the same univer- . sity. has written a foreword in which he states that "the quality of architecture is the quality of the material environment we make for ourselves in the process of our relations with raw Naturi; and with eacii other. From Lancaster to Hamilton The largest groups of good early EDOUARD BENES President of Czechoslovakia. He helped to found the republic. For the past twenty years he has prov- ed to be one of the "smartest little* statesmen in Europe. houses are to be found in tha earliest settled portions of On- tario. The Kingston Road from Lancaster to Hamilton provided^ hundreds of e.xamples of prrticu- .. larly good home- in the neightior- hood of Kingston, Brockville, Preston and Cobourg, the book points out. The Niagara Penin- sula and the country around Ham- ilton also contain some of the best old houses in the province. In the western part of the province an- other group is to be found on the shores of Lake Erie and along the Detroit River. The book provides an instruc- tive study and is recommended for teachers and any others interest- ed in Ontario's architectural heri- tage. This Curious World By Wilt:am Fer£ui:.i >.^ mxanmEmrrry- CWeP STANDi'iN'GOSER., KORTTR CASOLIN'A I.NiDJA.M, <CAISI PUT AN AR;^0W TH.^OUvSf-i /^ RACES. H SAT V^VAVES APPRCA^CH BUT DERAR-T WITH A THU rsi D ERSTORM ./ revefsse: the. prcxiess. THEV C2SME: \^n-u A SUDDE3SI STORM AND DEPART CjRADUAU-V JN THE US. THE33E AI?E *-â€" ^ i-H /v\C'RETHAN ONEMlLLtON STUT-rEj2£J5S. com 19M BY His StKVICE. MC; CHIEF ST.ANDINGDEEK, most famous of North Carolina Chero- kee archers, has been ruled out of archery competition by his tribe. Champion for -â- > generation, his skill discouraged younger com- petitors fro.m entering the annual toiunamenls. NEXT; Where wilt an inaccurate watch keep correct lime? THE WONDERLAND OF OZ Railways of Denmark and Ger- many will operate a bus line be- tween the two countries. . Theae GrowIeywc>g» were rerairk- abl« creatures. They wer« of gigan- tic six* yet were alt bone, skin and muscle, there belns no meat or fat upon their bodies at all. Their pow- erful muscles lay Just under the akin like bunches of rope and the weak- est Orowleywog was so stroii? he could pick up an eleph.int and toss It seven miles away. Guph knew that they hated all people. Ha also knew that If he succeeded they would afford him very powerful assistance, "The I,and of Q» Is ruled by a namby-p.imby sir! who Is dlsgustlnRly (tood and kind." he said. "Her people are all h.ippy and contented and have no cares or worries whatever." "Go on!" growled the Grand Gallipoot. still scowling;. "Once the Gnome Klnsr ensl.-ivcd the Royal Family of Kv. " said the General, "but 0»ma Interfered, al- thoush It was none of h?r business, and marched her army against us. With her was a Kan.a.is sirl n.Titied Dorothy and yellow hen, and they marched directly Into the Gnome King's cavern. There they liberat- ed our .'•Isves from Ev and stole King Ruscscilo's magic -belt." "So noTT our K na: â- .-â- Â» niakinar .i tunnel under the deadly dcscit so we can march tnroush it to the Em- erald City. When we get thore w« mean to conquer and destroy all th« land and recapture the magJc belt," Again he paused and again the Grand Oallipoot growled, "Go onl" Gupli tried to think of what to say next, for be was quite nervous, and a hajj- py thougrht soon occurred to him.