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News Parade Uy Clizalielli L'eJy ESCAPE: It's next to Imposslbla fpr a Ueiraaa to Ret out of Cer- ' many with enuujsh marks In bit 'ppcket to gtart a new liome In an- other couutrr. He's allowed to <iarry abroad Ju«t euuugh moner for a good holiday, no more. Kow comes to our ears th» stonr o{ a clever man who outwitted th« 'Mentt of Hitler and escaped from ' ^rmany forever, taking all hli , money with him. IIow did he do fft He sold Uts properties, pur- ^asod bonds (negotiable In Great Britain) with the proceeds, made t 'record of the numbers of the bonds, t^en took a holiday trip to England. m London he contacted a firm ot bond dealers, told them his story. The Arm asked for a dupllcat* record Of the numbers ot the bonds, Bent a lawyer back Into Oer- many with our clever man. The iiumb'':B checked, our friend lit a match to the bonds iti the presence of the lawyer who later certified that they had been destroyed by fire. Over in England asaln, the triumphant fneilive was reimbur.sed In the total amount of the bonds. And life began anew. â€" â€" GREEN LIGHT: A Canadian judge recently ruled that a pedes- trian who starts to cross the street when the liglit is green has the ripht of way till lie gets to the other side, regardless of whether the light chauge.s to red In tlie nieaiitinie or not. That's one to re- member, motorists. Rut If pedes- trians stand too rigidly by their rights In the mailer, tliry are lilsely to run Into lroul)le .... or be run Into. â€" (> â€" FREEDOM'S A GIFT: "I liave taken the veil for domocracy" last week declared former Czech jVnibas- sndor lo Croat liiitain. .Ian .Mas- aryk. son of Czechoslnvakia's foun- der. Sad bi!t not bilter at the fale of hl.s beloveil country, he has come to this continent lo do his part in saving what is left of democracy In the world today. He l.s devoting the rest of ills life to serving llie cause <it freedom. Addressing a Toronto audience hn said: "TIio only thing that can save the world now is to make peo- ple understand that freedom is a great gift. We must do everylliing we e:in lo preserve it." â€" o â€" FALLEN AMONG THIEVES: We expiessed I lu' opinion last week that Erance is certainly in for U. That stronghold ot liberty and democracy on the continent of Europe is gradually being encircled by a ring of thieves and black- mailers. The day will soon arrive when her position Is intolerable. At the moment. France is report- ed lo have agreed to do nothing to ' prevent a Fascist victory in Spain â€"in exchange for a German pro- mise to dissuade Italy from taking slices ot France's African empire. What a promise and what a bar- gain! Czechoslovakia first. France next will be sold down the river, nut she will have helped to sell herself. â€" o â€" THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What does the Federal f loveinmenl's new rell'^f program involve'/ Answer: Starting April 1 the Dominion will pay 40 per cent, ot direct relief payments (Instead of 30 per cent). Each province will 1)0 required lo pay at least an equal 40 per cent., and the balance will be paid by the municipalities. Under the proposed agreements the noniinion Govern- ment will provide for a sharing of the cost of aid given lo transients on a .liiSO basis with the provinces. On Iho slrangth of tlm program newly announced, Canadian cities have already started feeding the Jobless slngln within their gates. Hitler's New Study Thirty Yards Long Walls Are 32 Feet High in the German Fuehrer's Office â€" No Pictures, Few Books .Vine pencils In different colors lie on Adolf Hitler's lesk in his new Chancellery study, probably the lar- gest study maintained by any ruler. There is also a largo magnifying glass, indicating Intensive study of maps. There are no pictures hut tho books for dally use Including Herr Hitler's own "Mein Kampf," Hans Frank's "Hook of (Jernian Law," directories of the llelchstag, government offices and youth groups, and â€" topmost â€" a volume on Hrilish and German lines In the World War. Tho room is 8S by 45 feet and .12 fei high. At one end Is • round table with chairs and sofa under a I.enbach portrait of nis- marck. The desk Is at the other end. A bust of the late President Paul von Hlndenburg is in one cor- ner. Mrs. Sarah Adcock, of Wooton, England, 105 years of age, took hVr first trip in an airplane a few geeks after her first ride in an Komqbile and her first talk on e telephone. Darinc Flyer Returns With Russian Bride Back on IJjilisli soil following a daring flight into Ilussia to bring home his wife from whom lie had been separated for four years, Brian Grover is picturc<l here with Mrs. Grover as they reached London. Grover made headlines a few weeks ago by making an unauthoized trip to the Soviet in a dilapidated old plane. He was detained for si.x weeks and after paying a fine was allowed to leave the country accompanied by his wife, born a liussian. Grover met his wife while doing scientific work for tho government of Russia. Owls Creep Up On Their Prey Once the Bird's Talons Have Fastened On Its Victim There Is Small Chance of Escape. Owl.s slip up on their prey on silent wings â€" the feathers being fringed with down to render them noiseless. Once tho bird';- strong talons have secured a grip on an aniir.al's llesh, the creature sel- dom escapes. Birds are able to see at least 100 times as well as can human beings â€" yet they cannot see the color blue. Half the weight of a bird con- sists of the musrles that move the wings. Consume Small Creatures As many as 8,000 skulls of mice, rats and gophers have been found uiideineath tlie nests lof barn owls. These birds consume small creatures in their entirety, later coughing up tho bones and fiir. Of all living: creatures, birds possess most active rc-piration and require the most oxygen. The reii- son is that the air they inhale is sent from their lungs into pockets siirrounding their internal or- gans, and even into the inside of some of their bones. Three Miilions Being Spent On Northern Roads Ottawa Is Paying Half the Cost Of Work On Northern On- tario Highways This Winter â€" Trans-Canada Links. Three million dollars la being spent this winter on .Northern On- tario roads, chiefly on Ihe Trans- Canada Highway from .N'orth Hay to Sault Sle. Marie and roads run- ning north from It, Ontario HIkIi- ways Department ofbclals report. Completed March 31 Most of the projects are under way. All must be completed by March 31 under the terms of two agreements with the Federal Got- ernment covering winter relief work up to that date. Clearing and grading. Involving the elimination of hills and curves, constitute the chief works under the agreements with the Federal Qovernraent. An advantage of do- ing this work in the winter Is tljVt cleared brush can be burned with- out danger of causing forest flrps. No permanent surfaces will be laid in the winter months. Clearing And Grading The Highways Department esti- mated that upwards of luo miles of the Trans-Canada Highway be- tween North Bay and the Soo la ready for permanent surfacing any time, a first class roadbed having been laid. No decision has been made on whether any pavinj: Is to be done this year, It was stated. You Can Sleep On Either Side It was long held that right- handed peoiile generally sleep on their right side, while left-handed people go to sleep on the left side. Careful experiments which have been carried out recently show that this is not really the case. When 150 right-handed persons were cxaniineii it was found that there was no great preference for sleeping on one side or the other, although in the case of loft-handed people the majority preferred the left side. When, in the course of experi- ments, sleepers were asked to go to re. t so many nights on their habitual side, it was found that they got to sleep more easily when on their normal side than when they were in the unusual position. The doctors, therefore, feel that people, whether they be prown-ups or boys or girls, should make a practice of sleeping on the aide which they usually favor. VOICE OF THE PRESS EXCEPT MONEY A farmer's wife, after looking over a new recipe book, expreaaer Ihe opinion that it is possible to make almost anything out of egga, except money. â€" Moncto: Tran- script. TRY THE RURAL AREAS A Toronto woman has written to Vancouver for a husband. The situation in Toronto probably it •he same as in Guelph â€" the dear lady has found out all the nice men are already married. â€" Guelph Mercury. AND THE DOUGH'S ALL SPENT As the public accounts of Ontar- io are not distributed until the Legislature meets, and it will as- semble late this year, the accounts will be 11 months old before any- one but members of the Cabinet see them. â€" Wodstock Sentinel-Re- view. DRIVERS WHO FALL ASLEEP It may be surprising to learn that drivers who fall asleep at the wheel are the cause of more than 70,000 automobile accidentsannu- ally. It pays to have all senses alert when in charge of a motor car. â€" Chatham News. BETTER LOOKED AFTER A very potent fact which re- strains emigrants from leaving Great Britain to risk ventures in the Dominions is the social secur- ity measure in effect over there. Unemployment insurance and old age pensions are the main bene- fits which are not offered in all British Dominions: â€" Brandon Sun. SPORT AND CRIME Juvenile crime in Lethbridge has diminished perceptibly. This year there have been only 20 ju- veniles in court so far as against 58 last year. This, we have no hesitation in saying is greatly due to the encouragement given boys by the facilities provided by com- munity playgrounds and skating rinks and the interest taken in ju- nior Hockey Association, the ex- ecutive of which is composed of adults. â€" Lethbridge Herald. Nonagenarians For 24 years, C. G. Gabb has been keeping a record of the death notices published daily in The London Times. During that per- iod, reports Gabb, 9,781 persons passed 'JO before dying â€" and most of the nonagenarians were mar- ried women. The year 1938, when 48i) persons over 90 died, was typical of that total: 154 were men and 3.35 were women, 213 of them married. Chemical experts assure the British Government that if the worst came to the worst the people could be fed on tablets which would provide everything necessary except bread and water. Deer Leaps Into Office By Window Police of London, Ont., were called at 4.30 one morning last week to arrest a new kind of burglar, a 125-pound deer that leaped through the office win- dow of the Leonard Foundry, when startled by early morning noises. "We received a call from the night watchman about 4 o'clock, and he said, 'You may not be- lieve it, but a deer just jumped through tho window of the of- tice,' " slated Sergeant Percy Last. P.C.'s W. Clipperton and Charles Shipley were des- patched with the black maria to remove the frightened deer from its new found sanctuary. It reiiuired four men to capture it and place it in the police transjiort, in which it was taken to Tond Mills and released. WONDERLAND OF OZ Garden Of Elden May Grow Apples New Hope For Arid Eastern Land Is Seen In The Giant Reservoir Being Build In Iraq By British Engineers. Women and men may pick ap- ples once mora In the Garden of Fden when wafer flows Into the arid country from a giant reserrolr built by British engineers. The Kut Uitm Irrigation project, designed to bring under cultivation a great tract of !aa4 bstv^rseii t« Tigris and Euphrates rivers, tradi- tional sits of the land from which Adam and Eve were expelled, was completed New Year's eve. Dam Across Tigris A 1,500-foot dam across the Tigris will send water down a 2^ mile canal Into the Shatt-el-Oharraf riv- er at all seasons of the year. In addition locks will permit vessels to voyage along the Tigris between Baghdad and Basrah. Work on the project was started In December, 19.'54. with construc- tion of workers' camps and actual building of the dam and reservoir begun In June, 1935. As many as 2,50J Arabs and Kurds labored day and night removing 1.000,000 cubic yards of soil from the reservoir and placing more than 250,000 cu- bic yards of concrete In the giant forms that shaped the dam. In 1936 the highest flood aver known In the Tigris delayed work. Laborers worked under conditions varying from freezing In winter to 125 degrees In the shade in mid- summer. Hundreds in Berlin wore waste- paper baskets over their heads on "Pedestrians' Day" to draw atten- tion to the carelessness that often leads to fatal accidents. Nazis Inspired By Columbut Propaganda Minister Qoebbela, In an exposition ot German ans Italian contributions to world jtriv gress this week remlndsd "te away living observers who Insult and criticize authoritarian states'* that ''.'Vraerica was discovered by an Italian." Ooo'bbels spoke before a concert Inaugurating closer radio co-operv tlon with Fascist Italyâ€" the "Roma- Berlin radio axis" a3 he put it. (Jo.a'jbels said "the world of today Is not imaginable" without Oerman- Itallan accomplishments. "Not Imaginable" Without Thtm ''Books and newspapers can b« printed because Gutenberg invent- ed i.t9 art of 5riati!ij. Tb? w'.^iv less for all time is couSACtcd with the name of the Italian, MarcoaL The first comibustlon motors wer^ made by the Germans, Ben* aff4 Daimler," be summarized. "The old and new world have taken possession of these accomp- lishments and benefit therefroa." Sets World Record With Model Plane John T. Dilly Gait, mode! aeroplane designer and builder, has been advised he broke a world's record for model planes. At the Canadian champion- ships in Toronto last Septem- ber his outdoor stick model stayed aloft four minutes and twenty-two seconds. He lop- ped si.xteen seconds off the world's mark. The Federation Aeronautique International of Paris has now recognized this as an official world's record. ROLL YOUR OWN BETTER CIGARETTES EXTRA MILD LIFE'S LIKE THAT «IS By Fred Neher imm rz ~\ "Why dont'cha lake tho striped one It'll make you look taller.' By L. Frank Baum Thft owl-ninir« riiiiinl eyes blink- •il nflri'plv upon thr> Inliurter. "Wlist «r<» you ilnlntr herfl"" he <1emiinit'>il. â- haklnar hli dub. "I've come to nfe tho First nod Korfmont PhunfHim of PJi«iit«»tlf<i." rupllPd the Deneml. He did not like the wny thia rrrfi- ture Inoked at him. hut Ktlll wan not afraid. "Ah. ynii nhatl Ree him." Ihs >n nald wKh a unperlnir IsuKh. be Flrnt and Voremoat ahall ds- e upon the beat wny to punlin "lie will not punish ni«." returned rjuph. rnlmiy, "for I hnvo come here til (li> him and hiR people a rare f.w- or. l-PHd on and take mo directly Id your master." The owl-man r:iis- pd Ilia club with a threnteiilnr ee?- lure. "If you try to escapt>." h lid, "beware"â€", but here Ihe C' 'rat Interrupted him. ".Store your fhreat.x." he said, "and do not he Impertinent. I will have you sev- •rely punished. L,end on and keep illent." This Guph was really a clever ras- cal, and It sccm.H a pity he wn.R so bad. for In Bood cau.se he miRht have accomplished much. He re.illzed that he had put himsielf Into a dnn- uerous position by coming to thIa dreadful mountain, but he also know If he showed fear he was lo.st. so ho adopted a hold manner as his best defense. The wisdom of thIa Plan wa« aoon evident, for the hunfasm with the owTs he.id turn- ed and led the way up the moun- tain. At thf^ vei'y top of the i):ith with a level plum upon which were heaps of rock Ihat at llrst Klance seemed .solid, but on looklnK clo.ser Ouph risoovered that lhe.'<e ruck heaps were dwcllinKs. for each had an op- ening. Not a ppr.son wn.s to be seen outside llie rmk hut.s. All was sil- ent. The oxvl-ninn led the way amonR the «l\v,,>llittKS to one stand- ing In the centre. (Iiitside the en- tpjtnce Ihe Kuide cave a low wall that sounded likeâ€" "1-ee-Ow-Ah!"