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NEWS PARADE... The Se^-ond Great War bioke a record in its fiftee^nth week â€" for excitomeut. Two ev&!it8, one of un- excelled dramatic Interest, the oth- er world-shakiog in importauce, held the spellbound attc^iilion ot nowsiiapor readers, radio hounda, ot all oouatrles. We refor to the "suicide" of the Graf Spee, the ex- pulsion, of iluBsla from the League of Nations. What a \voalth of speculation hlngod on thwi' 2 happenings! Had littler hiui.seK ord&red the scuttl- ing of the Spoe? Was it a gesture of great bravado, or waa she blown up in order that the secrets Ot her construction might not fail into enemy hands? With regard to the action taken at Geneva, many thinlciac people felt rc-gret and an- Doya,nce that the League had not leen tit previously to do souietblng ibout the aggressions of Hitler, the rape of Albania by Mussolini. (The League bad never even dU- cussed the disappearance of Aus- tria, Czechoslovakia or Poland (rem the map). I^ooking ahead, too, Ihe world wondered whether Ru«- ila's expulsion would not throw the U.S.S.R. and Germany elo»er logeithe". ItaJiau Foreign Miai.ster Count Ciano'g speech to the Fasci«t Chamber embodied the first clear wd comprehensive «fatem«nt of Italian policy since the beginniiig tf the war. He asserted, first of ill, that the Home-Berlin Axis re- mains strong as ever despite Iiaiy's neutrality. Kxtenuating Hitler's pact with Stalin, he declared that Italy knew of the accord in ad- rance. Piuther, he said, Italy In- lormed the R&lch last iMay, that owing to the effects of the cam- paigns In Ethiopia ami .Spain, sh* wouJd not be prepare<l to engage in warfare for three yjars. Such I statement appeared to end for tbe moment any hope that Italy eould be induced to come in on the Allies' side. (Sam« week: Virginia Gayda, one of Mussolini's mouth- pieces, In a radio address declar- ed that Italy must have sea outlet* tt Gibraltar, the Dairdanelles and Buez). During the â- week TJ.P. .imbassar dor Kennedy returned to Washing- ton from his post at Loudon to give a report on the war by word- of-mouth to his chief. He emphat- ically urged the States to stay -u* of the conflict at aid costs, "Thl« Is not our fight," he saij. At home in Canada, *.be final draft of the momentous Kmpire air training plan was completed. Uighlights: estimated cost of plan for three years, $6OO,0Oi:i,000, with Canada's hare, J350,000,000; re- quired establishment in Canada of $7 schools of all types; nearly 40,- 000 men required to cai ry out plan, exclusive of students; about 60 new air fields to be constructed and 20 existing fields enlarged; United Kingdom to supply most of air- craft, including engines and spares, as her share In cost; Canada, Au/B- tralia and New Zealand to contrl- l>ute to total cost in proportion to use made of plan by pupils from those countries; excluding cost ot aircraft supplied by Britain, Can- ada to bear cost of initial aud ele- mentary training in Canada and sbout four-fifths of remaining coste of program; prograjn to be admin- istered by Dominion fJovernment, with supervisory boa.d composed Df representativefl from four coun- tries involved; great majority of pupils will be Canadians; pilot training to lake about 26 weeks, many thousands of pilvjts to be tuirned out each year. The War at the end of 1939 "as not 0119 war, but three: between the Allies and (Jermany ; between Russia and Finland; bolweea Jai»- an and China â€" Western, Eastern, Far Eastern. WiU Get View Of Six Planets Astronomer Says Unique Grouping In Fcbruery Dis- play Is Seen Only Every Few Thousand Years The people of today will be privileged to witness something which neither their children nor their great-grandchildren wilt sea â€" a grouping of six planets in the western sky next Februai-y, Dr. Frank S. Hogg, professor of tttronomy at the David Dunlop Observatory, Toronto, toW the Royal Canadian InBtitu'>.>i in an â- ddress last week. "It's only every few thousand years that you find as many as •ix planet.1 in the same region of the skies," he said. "Along with •srth, there will appear in the western sky during the latter days of February the planets Mercury, Jupiter, Venu.s Saturn, Mars and ''ranus." Pretty Canadian Girl Is Instructing Future Pilots of The R.C.A.F. Deierniined to show the air force that women instructors can turn out as good a pilot as male instruc- tors, pretty Helen Harrison is busily engaged in giving instruction to pilots who have their eyes on the R.C. A.F. She is teaching flying at Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club after being turned down when she applied for work ferrying military planes. Her record includes the instructing of military pilots in South Africa and test pilot for a Canadi.in aircraft company. Pictured with her is Provisional Pilot Officer Paul Hender- son. Grand Titles Go To 8 Canadians At International Hay and Grain Show, Chicago â€" Winners In Live Stock Section Also William Rogers of Tappen, B.C., was awarded the grand champion- ship for rye at the twenty-first international grain and hay show Rogers' victory brought the to- tal number of grand champion- ships won by Canada this year at Chicago to eight. The other grain' grand awards were wheat, field beans and oats to Alberta; alfalfa to Saskatch- •wan; soy beans and field peas to Ontario and timothy seed to British Columbia. Ontario Boyt, Bett Corn Two youthful farmers, members of the Canadian Boys' and GirJs' Farm Clubs, Gerald Hesseiiauer of Rodney, Ont., and Garnott Knist- Film Hero Dies Suddenly er of Ruscomb, Ont., won awards in corn. Hessenauer took first in Region 1 and Knister first in Re- gion 2. These youngsters won against a big field of entries from a wide area in the United States. In the live stock section Ed- wards Brothers of Watford, Ont., sold at good prices eight of the thirteen head of Aberdeen-Angus cattle brought to the exhibition. F. G. Todd, Lucknow, Ont., who showed at the international for the first time this year, scored twice in the Aberdeen-Angus class. Lin- coln sheep class championship ram was exhibited by H. M. Lee, High- gate, Ont. Eattern Canada Winner* Other Eastern Canada winners were : Breeding shorthorns â€" Two- year-old heifers, F. H. Deacon and Son, Unionville, Ont., third; sen- ior year-old heifer, T. A. Russell, Downview, Ont., second; junior ond; senior heifer calf, Douglas yearling heifer, James Douglas and .Sons, Caledonia, Ont., sec- ami Sons, first. Makes Tomatoes O. A. C. Lecturer Plans to De- velop New Types â€" Takes Seven Generations to Fix Jie Variety IJiju,ila;i Fairbanks, great »Lar at the silent screen and rcnowcd for his acrobatic ability before the camera, died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 55, C. E. Mighton, of Guelpb, is a young plant wizard who has set himself to perform a real feat of legerdemain â€" two of them, in fact. lie has determined to be the Burbank of the tomato. This young lecturer at the Ont- ario ("ollege of Agriculture promises to reach Into hts scientific hat aud pull out a bigger, redder, juicier tomato tlian any now grown in Ca- nada, and present it to the catsup preservers and tomato juice squeez- ers of Western Ontario. "Small, Round, Firm," Wanted He promises to reach into an- other hat and pull out a little, firm round tomato, more prolific than any grown in Canada, and to pre- sent It to eastern Ontario canners who liavo been loohing for a tom- ato that won't go squ.i8hy in the can. "There'll be uo hocus-pocus or 'abracadabra' about it," said Migh- ton, In a recent address at Toronto. "Wo are working along strictly scientific lines, and I think we are meeting success Strictly Scientific "Once you hare found the char- acteristics you want, it takes from six to nine generations to fix them," he saiil. "At â-  O.A.C., we grow two gen&ratlona a year, one outsido and one Ju a hothouse, so It will tak" 'hree to five years to fix our variety o o we find it." Will Regulate Hog Industry Ottawa Acts to Prevent Scand- als Like in Last War Blanket regulation of Canada's hog industry â€" designed to guard against any repetition of the bacon scandals of the last war â€" la to be an immediate result of the arrange- ment no<v concluded with the Brit- ish Government for large-scale pnr- ohases of Canadian bacon last week, . .id a story in the Windsor Dally Star To Supervise Industry A bacon control boanl is being set up by the federal government to supervise all phases ot the na- tion's hog Industry. It wili^reguiate not only the price to b&.paid to the primary producer, but also the op- erations of the packinE plants. The spread that {he packers will be al- lowed to earn will be rigidly speci- fied by the federal hacon author lly. So far as the farmers are con- cerned, it is likely that the scheme will return them about an average price of nine cents per pound or a little better over the year for their bacon hoes. Called Adequate The hoK population of the Dom- inion at the piesent time is four and one-quartor million animals. This Is adequate to the productive requirements of tho now British arrangement. Urges New System Of Ontario Relief Norfolk Children's Aid Society Superintendent Says Prob- lem "Big Business" A call for a complete overhaul- ing of the province's relief sys- tem as it affects the rural areas was made in Woodstock by Thom- as Phillips, superintendent of the Norfolk Children's Aid Society ad. dressing a meteing of the Wood- stock Rotary Club. "This question has now enter- ed the realm of big business," said Mr. Phillips, "and it is time to take its administration away from the municipalities that are ill-equipped to raise tho necessary taxation or to appoint persons skilled enough to administer such a problem. Federal and provincial participation have made the lot of municipalities easier but the mach- inery is creaking badly." Mr. Phillips advocated that out- side of the large urban centre."* no unit for relief should be less than country-wide and the admin- istration placed in charge of spec- ially trained persons. VOICE of the PRESS INTERESTED SPECTATORS Kthiopians will be interested in Italian ln<lign:u:on over Kussi.an barbaritie-s in Finland. â€" Uiuiulon Sun. SUPPORTING THE TOWN BAND Iiiterefitlug la the result, the lass lug of a by-law at Kort Erie to spend a quarter of a mill annual- ly for the town band and that is not a big price to pay tor baud con- certs, rt Is possible Port Erie may set a fashion elsewhere in the province. â€" Niagara Falls Review. PRESERVE SPIRT OF DEMOCRACY If there I3 to be democracy after the war Is over, democracy must not be abandoned while tho war Is on. The spirit of democracy mudt be respected, not suppressod, with- in the democracies themselves. The thing for which the war Is fought abroad must not be lost at home. â€" Toronto Star. Nobleman Gave "Sandwiches" NanijC Tlie origin of sandwiches is inr teresting. In the reign of Kin^ George ill there lived a famous' no!)leni8n who was very fond of gambling. He pas.sed whole days at the card table and would not leave hi."? game even for a meal. Nat- urally lie f->untl playing on an empty stomach uncoi.ifortablt wori;, and so devised a plan by which he might eat with as little trouble as pos.sible. He ordered his servant to cut two thin slices of bread and place meat between. The meal proved satisfying. The famous nobleman was the Earl of ilandwich, and so po^mlsr did his slices of bread and meat become that they were called by hiii name. V â-  • % ♦ ^ » / I V V \ (••♦ Sell Buffalo Meat All Across Canada WARNINGS UNHEDDED Another case of poisoning by monoxide gas has been reported. It is regrettable that, in spite of all the warnings that have been pub- lished for years regarding the dan- ger of this deadly gas, fatalities still occm' to those who thcught- lesfily tinker with their motor cars In closed garages while the engine is running. â€" Brantford Expositor. MICKIE SAYSâ€" r Some subscribers sot TW' IDEA tUAT WE MAvKB SOMUCH>^\OKIEM OKJ AOS AM' JOB WORK, WE POMT" I4A\;E T' COUECIT OUB' SUBS£a\PTlOM MOWBil rr Aiisrrso,Foi,v^» \T Aivrr SOI Juicy steaks and roasts of buf- falo meat about 35 cents a pound are available all over Canada now. As a war measure there has been a slaughter of buffalo at the Do- minion Government parlc at Wain- wright, Alta., and 3,000 buffalo are being dressed to provide ap- proximately 1,000,000 pounds of meat, which will be distributed nationally. Big -trees of California are said to have no natural enemies and none of these trees has been known to die or insect or disease attack. /iiklf^ BEE HIVE "I Want You To Tell Me How You Managed to Get Into the Hou9« Without Wakinc My Wife." REG'LAR FELLERS-Get the Broom By GENE BYRNES