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r r t JAPAN AND US: We are willing to wager that It a poll were taken of Canadian public opinion it would be found that 90 per cent. o( the people of the Dominion are dead •gainst Japan in its "undeclared" war on China, and have the utmost •ympatby for the harried Chinese. What do we do about It, though? Speaking In Toronto last week, Pearl Teh-wel Liu, daughter of a colonel in the Tenth Chinese Army, charged that Japan got 90 per cent. of its nickel from Canada in 1938; that 17 per cent, of all her war ma- terials were imported from Great Britain and 81 per cent, camo from the democratic nations of the world. And now Japan goes and sends itff shaving brushes infected with anthrax germs! A nice return for onr help . . . â€" o â€" "POLITICAL VICTORY": David Lloyd George said in London last week that Italo-German forces will remain in Spain until Great Britain and France have granted demands cf Germany and Italy. Almost simultaneously with his words came a declaration from Mussolini's mouthpiece Virglnlo Gayda, at Rome, that Italian troops will not leave Spain until a ''politi- cal" as well as a "military" victory has been assured General Franco â€" in other words till Spain has definitely been made into a Fascist state; until France has been black- mailed Into surrendering pieces of her territory to Italy. The Fascist position: Italy occu- pies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca in the Mediterranean. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "life-line". Four German submarine bases have been established on Spain's north- west coast. German submarine T)ases on the Canary Islands could threaten Britain's route to the East around Africa. Italian and German airdromes are located only a few miles from the Franco-Spanish frontier. â€" â€" TRIAL BALLOON: Why did Pre- sident Roosevelt allow three days to elapse before denying that he liad said "America's frontier is in BVance?" There is more in it than meets the eye, we opine. It is our idea that even though the President may not have uttered such words at all, those are his sen- timents nevertheless. But he has first to educate and prepare public opinion in the IT. S. to accept a new foreign policy when the time comes to announce it. (Bis denial, later, left his opponents with little to stand on.) In the meantime, too, the ruse served to shut Mussolini up, whose scheduled speech (demanding some- thing from the democratic nations, no doubt) did not come off. â€" 0^ RUMOR DEPARTMENT (not to be depended on, of course): It is whispered in some circles that for- riier Prime Minister of Canada, R. B. Bennett, may shortly seek elec- tion to the British House of Com- mons, later to be taken into the Chamberlain Cabinet as Secretary for the Dominions. THE WEEK'S QUESTION: Why will Lloyd's no longer insure against war? .A,nswer: The Brit- ish Government frowns upon it, since, if people insured heavily against war, they would stand to win big sums if a war came, and therefore they might agitate for and foment war in order to get this money. Keep Your Canary Singing, Active If You Wish Him to Remain Healthy and Happy â€" Suit- able Position For Cage Is Im- portanL It you have a canary bird, it is Tery important for the health of your pet to keep it in a suitable position. The outward signs of bealth in song birds are activity and song. A niopey bird is a sil- ent, miserable pet. It Is a great mistake to hang a cage at a window where the In- mate is subjected to draughts and violent changes of temperature. A cosy recess away from the windowâ€" not In a direct line be- tween the window and door â€" .ihonld be chosen, and the cage should he placpd on a table within a few feet of the floor. Do not hang the cage near the ceiling of tlie room, as in this io.=!ition the bird is subjected to exi'ossive heat and a vitiated at- mosphere. The proper feeding of birds Is also of importance if they are to remain healthy and to give of their best with their sweet song. Few people take the trouble to inquire about fending when purchasing a new bird. Do not kill your birds with kind- Bess l)y giving them slices of cake, sugar, bananas and other indiges- tible foods. Hordes of Spanish Refugees Poursd Over the Border Into France A pitiful scene which was reproduced at least five-thousandfold, showing women and children refugees of Catalonia, arriving in the French border town of Le Perthus. It was the first point of safety for these civil war non-combatants, since they fled Catalonia Province, which had been taken by the victorious armies of Gen- eral Franci.sco Franco. Advantages Of Electric Fence This Type of Fence Is Being Adopted More Widely In Canada Because of Its Gen- eral Rsjige of Usefulness. The introduction of the electric fence into Canada has been receiv- ed with much interest and it is gradually becoming more widely adopted for fencing pastures. This type of fence has many ad- vantages, but at the same time caution is necessary in establishing the equipment. Research and fur- ther investigation will, no doubt, improve the safety features, its efficiency and general range of usefulness. Tlie advantages of an electric fence are briefly enumer- ated as follows: 1. Reduces the cost of erecting temporary fences. 2. Reduces c::penditurcs for wire, posts and gates. 3. Reduces injury to live stock. 4. Especially adapted to wind- ing coulees or temporary pasture aeas otherwise impractical to fence. 5. Enables the use of untillable land in fields that otherwise might be wasted. Aluminum Foil Butter Wrappers Canadian Butter Exporters Are Given Advice On How to Compete Successfully With New Zealand In The British Market. Canadian butter exporters who wish to compete successfully in the British market with New Zea- land exporters should wrap butter in aluminum foils, with parchment on both sides of the foils. Dr. F. R. Hood of Ottawa told a meeting of the Manitoba Dairy Association convention. Dr. Hood is chief of the Dairy Research division. Sci- ence .Service, .Manitoba Depart- ment of Agriculture. Such foils are a sure protection against surface deterioration, which in the case of some 56- pound cubes examined by the de- partment, had been found to pene- trate to a depth of M inch, he said. Should Not Store The Surplus W. C. Cameron, Ottawa, associ- ate chief of the Grading and Dai- ry Products Inspection Sei-vice, reported a total of 205,839,599 pounds of creamery butter was produced in Canada during 1938. This figure was the largest in the history of the industry, he said. Canadian producers should not store quantities of butter during the season of heavy production with the hope of exporting to Brit- ain at a profit in the fall, warned J. F. Singltton, Ottawa, associate director of Marketing Service, Dairy Products division. Depart- ment of Afrriculture. Spray Controls Potato Sprouts Prevents The Growth of Buds On Tubers In Your Cellar Farmers who have spent many long hours in the potato cellar in the spring, pulling the sprouts from potato tubers no longer dor- mant, can breathe a sigh of relief. Potassium naphthalcneacetate will end all this. Dr. John Gun- thrie of the Boyce Thompson In- stitute for Plant Research, Bos- ton, says that chemical prevents the growth of buds and no sprouts are produced. It causes the old potato to act just as though it were dormant or freshly harvest- ed. If the tubers that liave been so treated are again sprayed with an- other chemical, ethylene chlornliy- drin, the "dormancy" is broken and the sprouting of the buds is again possible. Obviously these findings will mean much to the farmer who wants to control bud growth in the winter and stimulate it to renewed activity at planting time. VOICE OF THE PRESS >»♦•••< »•»•»♦ 4 FREE SPEECH In Canada you can say anything you desire and not be ari'ested for it! and in your home you can say anything you wish and no one will pay any attention to it. â€" Brandon Sun. THE FARMER'S FRONT DOOR A never-ending puzzle is why some farmers bother about placing front doors in their houses when they are never opened and when, indeed, no stops lead to them. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. MINISTERS' WORRIES This is the season of annual church meetings when ministers find out how really difficult it is to get all of the people coming and giving all of the time, instead of some people coming and giving some of the time. â€" Fort Erie Times-Review. Central Ontario Exhibition Dates F. Wessels of Wooler was elect- ed president of the Central Ontar- io Fairs' .Association at the annual meeting in Belleville last month. Fair dates chosen by the direc- tors were: Campbellford, Sept. 2()- 27; Mountain View, Sept. 23; Madoc, Oct. 3-4; Brighton, Sept. 13-14; Picton, Sept. 28-29; Tweed, Sept. 21-22; Bancroft, Sept. 14- 15; Stirling, Sept. 19-20; Marmo- ra, Oct. 16-17; Coehill, Sept. 20- 21; Centreville, Sept. 15-10; Belle- ville, .\ug. 29-Sept. 1 ; Wooler, Sept. 28-29; Warkworth, Oct. 5- 6; Napanee, Sept. C-8; Roseneath Oct. 12-13; Mohawk (Deseronto) Sept. 13; Shannonville, Sept. 10. Highland Orphanage in Inver- ness, Scotland, has offered to place several German refugee children with its GO Highland or- phans. MOST PEA-CULIAR As an authority on anatomy in a noted agricultural district the Chatham News is hard to beat. It says that cabbages have heads, corn has ears, celery has a heart, grapes have sl<ins, potatoes have eyes and squashes have necks. â€" Kingston Whig-Standard. DOWN WITH DIPHTHERIA! A doctor points out that, due to the use of vaccination, many phy- sicians (he himself included) have never seen a case of smallpox. The time will probably come when, thanks to toxoid, many members of the profession will be able to say the same thing of diphtheria. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. DO WE WANT NATIONAL UNITY? Whatever political and other leaders may do, it is possible for individual citizens to accomplish much in the way of strengthening Canadian unity. They can learn the language of their feilow-Cana- dians, or at least visit them in their native province. They can forget prejudices and drop anci- ent grudges. .Above all they can subscribe to the idea of a nation- alism which is no longer racial in its basis, but which is based on a devotion to Canada as intense as that which our neighbours to the south feel towards the United States. â€" London Free Press. The chairman replied in a few appropriated words. K Itting First Was Denounced In England As a Scottish Im- portation â€" First Became Popular In Reign of Good Queen Bess. The origin of knitting has often been disputed. In mediaeval days all hose was made of cloth or skins of animals, and it is generally be- lieved that knitting wag Invented in Scotland during the fifteenth century. Certain it Is that knitted stockings found their way to Franco from Scotland about that time, and became bo popular with the fashionable French ladles that in 1504 a Guild of Stocking Knit- ters was established in Paris, who chose for their patron the saint Fiacre of Scotland. Knitted Hose, Curiously Wrought In England knitting was viewed with disfavor, probably ou account of its Scottish origin, and it was not until the reign of Queen Eliz- abeth that It became popular. The Virgin Queeu was presented one Christmas with a pair of hand- knitted black silk stockings, the handiwork of her wardrobe wom- an, who had learned the art from a Scottish fricud. Her royal mistress was so pleased ^-ith these novel stockings that from that time she wore no other kind, and her Court ladies followed suit. The fashion must have spread rapidly through all classes, for less than twenty years later, when a foreigner was visiting London dur- ing the reign of James the Second, he was amazed at the craze for knitted stockings, "so curiously wrought, with open seams down the legs, and clocks about the ankles, and sometimes interwoven with gold and silver thread as is gorg- eous to behold." Knitting ranked In importance almost equal to sewing in the edu- cation of girls, and right up to the end of the last century every little girl was taught as a matter of rou- tine to kuit her own siockiogs. Electric power used by the gold mining industry in Canada during 1937 was valued at $4,517,217. Total production in the wood- using industries in 1930 reached a value of $74,728,115, an in- crease of almost $10,000,000 over the preceding year. THE HANDY fir the tmpouiullin It's freeâ€" write for one NOW • Fits the special top of the 2 lb. tin of Crovm Urand, LUy White and Karo syrups. • IteasUycleanedondcanbeuacd OTer and over aftaln. • Fours without a drip. • FroTldes means of accurate meafiuremeuts. • Makes the 2 lb. tin an excellent table container. • The protectlre cap prorldea â-  sanliary cover. Tell the boys that portriitt of famout hockey stars tan Ftill be 'jblained for •CROWN BRAND â-  labels. CORN lYRUP The Famous Energy Food fhe CANADA STARCH CO., Limited, Toronto MORE CIGARETTES FOR YOUR MONEY ^ X EXTRA MILD X PACKAGE alio in 25* Tins '/a LB. TIN 55c LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Nehe nosmiiM, am,*jrni turn) Sc;-^^ "That butler's been in his family for forty years." WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum (.Itiph spoko out n.s the Ftr.'it nnij Forcnn.1t had roinm.nnded. He tried not to pay any .iltention to a strange rustling sound that he honrd ns of .m tin.icfin multitude dri»wln(t npnr to li.ston to his words. His eyca rould son only thft flerre bcar-mnn and to him ho riddrcincd his speech. Fir.it he told of his plan fo conquer tho I..nnd of Oz and plunder the country of Its riches and enslave Its people, who, bcInK fnlrles, could not be killed. Then he ^old them of iho tunnel tho (inomo Kins was building, and snld he had come to ask tho Fir^t and Foremost to join tho snomcs with hi.i bund of warriors and help them to defeat the Oz people. The nenr>rnl .»poke very earnestly and tmpdpssWely. but when he had fin- ished the bear-m.^n began to laugh as if much amused, and his lnuf?hter seemed to bo echoed by n chorus of merriment by an unseen multitude. Guph began to feel a trifle worried. >ou?" a.'>kcd !he First nml Fore- most. "The Whimsies." replied the (ieneral. "Any others?" "The Crowl- eywoRs," said 'Juph. This fet the bear-man laughing: anew. "What share of the spoils Tm 1 to have?" was the next finest ion. ".\nythiniT you like except tho m.igic belt." re- plied Guph. "Oh. these foolish Bnomes." laughed tho bear-man. "How small they really are." Sud- dcnl.v ho seized fiuph's neck with his hairy paws and dragrgcU hii.i out Into the open. Here he c.nve a curious w.iilinK cry and, ns if in answer fmm all tho rock huts on the mountain tops came flockins: a hoard of Phaii- fasms. all with hairy bodies, wenr- Ing the hcfids of v:iriotis animals, birds and reptiles. All were ffK.c- lous and repulsive tookintr to ih«« deceived ryes of the trnonie. md Ouph could not repress ri shtnMer of disgust as he looked upon them. The First and Foremost slowly rais- ed h:s arms and an astounding thing h.^PDencU.