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CANADA 'Need Great Men There never was a time fn' the *- world's History, probably, when there wis a graver need fo. great men, than - there 18 today. [Important events are transpiring today which will shape the En destinies of 'every nation on earth. Ree Faas : Naw thought in the matter of govern: » NY =: ment, economic control, religion and most other departments of human ac- : _ tivity, are appearing on the horizon. Ad . demanding the judgment of the best x 3 minds that the world can -produce. ' The masses look tc thelr leaders for competent guidance, and this is the task of great men. : Which recalls the words of Matt. hew Arnold, who in defining the great men of culture stated they are "those 2 who have a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of soclety to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time; who haye labored to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, un- + couth, difficult, abstract, professional. exclusive: (0 humanize it, to make it efficient outside the clique of the cul: tivated and learned, yet still remain. ing the best knowledge and thought of the time."--Chatham News, : é& » 1 ~~ Cost of Carelessness " In the first eleven months of this year, statistics show, the use of motor vohicles in this province increased 7.6 per cent., the number of traffic ac cldents. in.reased 10 per cent, the number of persons injured in accl denis increased 27.6 per cent. and the property damage was up 33.3 per cent, Eighty-four persons ~ were Ikilled in these eleven mnths, against eighty: two in the same period in 1935. and the record of death has been at least maintained in December. Accident, intury. damage are up far out of pro- "portion to the increase in motor traf- fic,--Vancouver Province. L A RJ . amen Mrs, Simpson No matter what turn events may take, Mrs. Wallis Simpson remains a public figure for life. Down the years ghe 18 bound to crop up In the news and is almost certain to find a place in history. Future Listorilans may ap- : "praise this place, future novelists and ? . playwrights may clothe her as a ro , mantic figure. ranking with the glam: = __orous women of the ages for .whom ' - \ glon- if not their souls. Most of us in Canada know little about Mrs. Simp son except what we have found out from -reading,: Reports from across the Atlantic suggest an intense hatred for her on the part of certain people thers who feel that she has been a siren who has lured a king from his duty. and carried 'a throne close 'to .the rocks. But one hears little of that in Western Canada. After all, what woman might not have her head turn: ed by attention that appears to run to adoration from one who was the most popular king and one. of the most popular and sought-after men in the world ?--Regina Leader-Post. . The Good They Do Cost of maintaining legations abroad is negligible compared to the benefits which can be achieved. They are well worth the expenditures, if only to pro- mote more friendly relations; but there are also the concrete benefits "in the way of incieaced trade to be considered. For some time there has been -talk of a -trade agreement be- tween Canada and Belgium, and set: ting up a legation at Ottawa should help to pave the way.--Windsor Star. Our Indians Tha Federal efforts to better the position of the Indians have had good i results in the ominion as well as in R= the United States. But it is felt that "i much more could be accomplished for them and an enlarged program: was announced at Ottawa the other day. The department will devote particular attention ito improving their skill 'as trappers and to helping them to take i better care of furs before these are Se + murketed. s There are many, other ways in which é they. can be given assistance that will enable them to reach a higher econo mic plane. The working out of the plan: will be followed with keen in . terest, as the national responsibility for the welfare of the Indian popula: ] 'tion 1s widely recognized.--Edmonton , Jornal. d "What Is Needed" . "4 +. The truth is that the authori Feng ties, sometimes with the connivance of q the courts, are themselves to blame in large part for the added dangers to "3 highway travel in Ontario. They are oe Ti . today reaping the harvest of light ob NY is and reduced charges and | " unless. they change their ways, there is little possibility of the situation. be {ng improved. -- » . ene ----a--------------"--------C What is needed more than anything |- else In dealing with the minority that Ser hor Ter men laid down' their worldly ~posses- Jingle In The Pocket The year end brought with it more .angible evidences of progress . in Nova Scotia than tor many dreary years, There have been the addition: al car order at Trenton and the pros-| pect of more to follow: the order for stee! rails at Sydney and the prospect, more yet tu come* and all time re- cord shipment of coal up the St. Law- rence and the anticipated continuing: demand; the - even anda half percent. wa increase In steel and subsidiary plants; the doubled Christmas bonus in the pay envelope at Westville; and now another may be added to these 'vith the axtre week's wages found in pay envelipe of the employees of the Oxford Foundry and Machife Com- pany. : Laurier once sald, folk did not need to b told when prosperity existed, they knew it by the- jingle in their packets. It would be far from the truth to say .nat everybody fis pros per.usg, but chis at least Is true, that many have fel. more of a jingle in their pockets han they have known for a long while.--Halifax Chronicle, \ TY Ignorant Females ; ----1 have been warned by three different feminine (friends that if | take any wore cracks at them about not knowing what drafts on a stove are there for, the said friendships will come to a sudden end. [n a hum ble and apolegetic tone of voice | coul® remark (couldn't | now?) {if the cap fits, we: ~ {t! 2 'How about trying to catch them young by teaching it In the schools They could have toy stoves and the 'ittle darlings could learn, at an early age, to shut the drafts. No more fool. ish than lots of the rubbish taught to the rons and daughters of the hard working .d hard-up) parents at the present time.--Kamloops Sentinel. Candid Admission "These {is nothing connected with the Press that has ever got me {nto such. great trouble as the accuracy of the reports of what | have said." con tides Lord Derby. And such admirable ~v.mest and candor. {s worthy. of a place in the .-e-ords.--St. Catharines Standard. : THE EMPIRE When War Comes -As-long as Hitler and Mussolini con: tinue to get their way without war, Burope is in no immediate danger of conflict. But this {s merely another vay of saying-that when war comes i* will' bc at the time and tinder the conditions most favorable to the Fas cist cause, Peace on these terms can offer no security.--The Nation, Lon don. . lg "Mickle Maks Muckle" "Tha moderate investments of ~our thrifty classes have piled up Britain's princinal assets. Weli over £1,000,000, 100 is invested In the Post Office Sav: 1:8 Banks, and National Savings Cer tiicates, and thiere are many hundreds of millions more In life assurance policies and in'*the keeping-of build ing societies Analysis has shown that the average holdings of stocks ard shares in the railway companies, the big banks, and many of our great Indusiries do 1ot exceed a few hun dred pounds. Like the army of work: men which reared the pyramids, the hosts- of-the "small men" have reared tL: great edifice of British wealth.-- London Daily Mail, : No Mannequins For Her W. L. Clark writes in Windsor Star, -- When Queen Mary buys a dress she goes usually to one of two well-known firms in London. Taking the garment, she holds it against herself, looks. in, the mirror and she quickly decides yes or no. They used to try and have manne: quins and models parade for -. the Queen Mother, but she does not go for that. And, she rarely pays more than $100 for a dress. Adminlt Duughie Wek Lady, Prudence Jellicoe, daughter of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Jellicoe, is shown as she was leaving Trinity Church, in London, Eng., with her husband, Francis Loudon, after they were wedded, recently, Income is $452,000,000 | Higher Than Last Year All Classes of Nation's Business Did Better -- Manufacturing Takes Precedence of Agriculture = OTTAWA Canada's national in. come from all sources for 1936 was estimated recently by the Canadian Press at $4,646,000,000, which was $452,000,000 greater than; in: 1936 and $1,351,700,000 greater than the low yean;of 1933: The 'Dominion Bureau. of Statistics has records of the values created covering a considerable portion of the year for five-eights of all per- sons in Canada gainfully employed. With these figures as a basis and as- suming the remaining three-eights of those actually working are equal: ly productive of national wealth-the national income- for the 12: months 'was. estimated, Manufacturers: produced the great- est wealth with agriculture. second 'mining : third, tourist: traffic fourth, and forestry fourth. 'Everyone of the big industries showed. increases, Percentage -increase for industries in 1936 over-1935 were as follows: -- Agricultyre 10.6, forestry 19.0, fish- eries 3.0, trapping 9.0, mining, 20.4, electric power 9.4, construction, 3.5, 'repairs 8.6, manufactures, 6. The tourist traffic is among the in- dustries unreported by. 'the Bureau of Statistics. Estimates from other sources, however; place the value of this industry at $250,000,000 in 1936, compared with $202,000,000 in 1935 and $117,000,000 in 1933. At $4,645,000,000 the 1936 grand total is 11 per cent above $4,093,- 926,000 in 1935. The figure for 1933 was $3,193,000,000. . After eliminating the value of ma- terials consumed in the production process and making allowance - for some duplication in reports under different headings, the estimate of commodity production in Canada for 1936.was about $2,841,000,000, an in- crease .of 42.0 per cent above $1,- 996,000,000 in 1933 and 11 per cent higher than $2,6569,000,000 in 1936, ~~ Weather Handicapped Crops ~~ Partly owing to crop reduction 'due, to adverse weather conditions in recent years, manufacturers now definitely 'take precedence over agri- ¢ulture 'in net value of production, Since 1083,' however, agriculture has shown "an 'annual increase 'in' value, Based: on: 29! 'factors; the index of manufacturing production in the first nine months of 1936 had risen to 107.8 compared with 97.6 in the same period of 1936. - The price index, on the base of 1026 equals 100, was 75.6 in November against 72.9 in Novem- ber, 1986. Employment in manufacturing was up to 103.1 for the 10 months com- pared with 96.7 last year. Among factors showing heavy in. creases were raw cotton imports, up 31.6 per cent at 129,446,000 pounds in 11 months, and steel ingot produc- tion up 20.8 per cent at 1,010,698 long tons in the same comparison. Pig iron production showed a 15.3 per cent advance --at--610,000 long tons. RELL I Acreage of wheat planted in 1936 was up 4.9 per: cent at 25,289,000 acres, but yield fell'20 per cent and the production of 233,600,000 bushels was 16.8 per cent below 277,339,000 bushels in 1936. Higher Farm Prices Wheat prices mounted, however, with the result that the value of pro- 'duction was placed. .at $200,085,000, which is 17.6 per cent higher than $170,333,000 last year, All field crops had a value of $694,000,000, a gain of 16.7 per cent over $509,000,000. During the 11 months creamery butter production increased 3.4 per cent at 238,266,000 pounds, and fac- tory cheese output was up 15.5 per cent at 114,375,000 pounds. Contributing to the spectacular improvement in mining, every branch of the industry except copper showed production increases in com- parison. Gold was up 15.2 per cent per cent at 13,110,327 fine ounces, and, nickel 6.2 per cent at 123,669, 126 pounds, Highest percentage .in- creases were gypsum, 44.4 per cent at 568,138 tons, and asbestos, 44.1 per cent at 204,235 tons. | An increase of 6.3 per cent in the wholesale price index of the wood tial effect on the value of forestry products.. Newsprint production was up 16.2 per cent at 2,880,000 tons for the first 11 months -of 1986. Exports iof planks and boards for the. same at 2, 746,631 fine ounces, silver 9.6. and paper group to 69.4 had substan- Would Revive Marriage Trade Stamford J. P. Gffers to Perform Ceremony On Instalment Basis STAMFORD, Connecticut, -- Franklin Mittau, podiatrist' and one of the 21 justices of the peace elect- ed in November, is making 'a valiant 'effort to revive the dying "marriag business" in Stamford... : 'He is offering to perform marriage céremonies on the instalment: basis | --so much down and so much when you feel the urge to pay the rest. Mr. Mittau, who says that he cam. paigned for the Republican: party in the recent election, did not have to chance defeat, for nomination was equivalent to election for justites of the peace." : He said that he had not yet per- formed a marriage ceremony but that he was hopeful. "I won't charge any fixed fee but will leave it to the parties who de- sire to be married," he said. "Suppose they forget about the in- stalments?" he was asked. - "I haven't looked up the law, but [ suppose there'd be a way to make them pay," he replied. "However, I'm willing to leave it to their own conscience. It would hurt them more than it would me to cheat. Besides, all I'd be giving would be my ser- vices." . Mr, Mittau has sent cards to news. papers and organizations letting it be known that he is willing to tie nuptial knots on the above basis. Ite neglected to explain that the blood test .law and the five-day wait are necessary before a license could be issued, but said: Bye "I'd make that plain to any pros. pect when he called me." Before the operation of the new Connecticut marriage law, which prescribes a blood test and prohibits the marriage of people whose tests disclose a social disease. Justices of the Peace here picked up consider- able money performing marriages. For instance, Joseph Davidson, a lawyer, who was. perhaps the cham. pion marrying justice of Stamford, counted it a poor year when he did not receive from $600 to $800 in mar- riage fees. This year, under the op- eration of the new law, his dropped to $15, New York. State town justices are getting all the business that former- ly went to Greenwich and Stamfora. - The Kind Word Observes the New York Sun -- A great many. girls and boys have been encouraged in politeness by a little reward from a relative or an intl mate friend of the family. "You've been very nice to me Mary," says Aunt Almira as she departs after a visit, "and, here's something to put in your bank)" "Now, Mira," says mother, "you must not spoil the child; she only mira, "this ain't agoin' to spoil her, and she is u nice girl." "Tommy," says Uncle *Bill, "you took good care of me; don't spend all this in one place." "Shucks, uncle, I'liked to do it," says Tommy. "Bill," says father, "I won't have you givin' money to Tommy; it'll teach him bad habits; it'll make a beggar out of him." "Now Pete, you keep still," says Bill, "or I'll tell Tommy some things about you." "And Pete keeps still, the children are not spoiled, and if they think that perhaps good manners are not pena- | lized they will help to make a plea- santer world. pexiod were -1,566,756,000. board fect, an, improvement of 47.8 per cent. Employment in logging, was 8.7 per cent better, bringing the index to 127 at the end of November, AS RDB fees does as she should." "Well," says Al- id Christopher Billopp writing in the Baltimore Sun observes: Smith meetsJones and says "Hel: lo, Jones; how are you?!" justice reply: ~4] am beginning to feel my age. I have several teeth that are giving me trouble, and there are unmistak able evidences that 1 am on the verge uf-a cold. There is a shooting pain that runs up my right leg an ends in the small of the back. "My right elbow i* sore. 1t feels as if a tendon had been strained. My eyes are tired from "having - used them so much and 1 suspect that I do need to hav- my glasses changed. A callous place on my left foot is giv. ing me trouble, "1 was nervous. last night and un- able to immediately drop off to sleep and this morning ) awoke ahead of the alarm clock. My digestion is not what it was, and at the noon hour 1 did nor eat my pie a la mode with the customary relish. I think [1 am getting a little deaf in one ear, "l find that | am 'rather short winded and | am a little disturbed about my heart. On the other hand, I. am conscious of other symptoms that lead me to suspect that there is something radically wrong with my liver, appendix, gall-bladder and other 1teinal organs" Sometimes I've buzzings in my head that lead me to suspect the beginning of some mental disorder If 1 were the kind of man who easily grows alarmed about himself [ would gc at once to a doc- "tor and have him look me over. In fact 1'm just terrible." . But, .nstead, he replies, "I'm feel- ing fine, Smith. And I hope you are the same." Contracts Gain In December Awards Total $6,118,800, In- create of 40.2 Percent. OTTAWA.--Contracts awarded in the Dominion for the month of De- cember, as compiled by MacLean Building Reports, - Limited, amounted to $64 18,800, an increase of 40.2 per- cent. over the December, 1935, ftig- ure of $4364,900, and this despite the severe weather that spread across Canada. the latter part of November. Ontario, with $2,338,000 and Que- bec with $2,132,200 headed the list, Other provinces in order were. Al- British Columbia, $331,000; Man- 200; New Brunswick, $21,000. There were no contracts awarded in Prince Edward Island. Contemplated work reported for the first time amounted to $14,405,900, bringing the year's total to date to $259,537,600, as compared with $232, 960,100 for 1935, an increase of 11.4 percent. } Toronto and suburbs with 1562 jobs costing $793,600 was ahead of Mon- treal Island, where 89 contracts were let- amounting to $576,200. Largest Baby e largest baby ever born weighed twenty-five pounds. It.was born in the United States in 1916, This fact is presented by the Journal of the American Medical Association in re- viewing the literature on the connec- tio.. between the birth of large bables and the existence of diabetes In their mothers, [It finds that there are re- peated observations in medical litera. ture of the birth of large, mostly fat, bables to mothers suffering from dia- betes and not receiving treatments tor it. Babies weighing more than nine pound~ are met once in every thirty births, while those more than thirtee 1 pounds are met only once in 200,000 births, The death rate among giant babies is reported to be 14.9 per cent, while the average death rate for all births {s 3.2 per cent.--New York Heralc Tribune, "Do you, expect. me to believe all that rubbish about the Land of 0z?" inquired Billina, who seemed a little nh LA) ot ry Lcried Dorothy. ed to the machine And then she turn- "Pardon me, man and asked, arm ed Copyrighted 1932, Rellly & Lee Co. now," said Tiktok.. I left there," declared Dorothy. "I He is not the king "He was when thinking. After this the copper man. spoke no more for several minutes. He turned around again to resume his Then after secvera i br -------------- min- To which Jones might, with perfect berta $612,300, Nova Scotia $421.600, | itoba, $140,600; Saskatchewan, $123,-° Rural Homes Recommended For War Veteran -- Commis- sion Hears, Ottawa "Legion OTTAWA, -- The establishment of rural homes for Canadian war véterans. physically unfited for occu- I'pdtional employment. was urged upon - ithe War Veterans Assistance Come missjon 'at a public session here to- day, 5 4 o | Cok J. G. Rattray, C.M.G., com- | mission chairman, presided and evi- i dence was heard from officers of the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Le- gion, Other recommendations were that a corps of commiss'onaies be form- ed, in sma!l units to perate in large (irban centres, and to be recru'ted frem both married and single war veterans. Captain Gordon H, Ro- chester, who presented the case for the Legion, urged that such a corps should offer a means of permanent employment "at a rate of pay that assured a reasonable standard of living." Unemployed veterans should be utilized in reforestration "or other needful national development work," said Captain Rochester. Other re- commendations submitted asked that Dominion Government give assur- ance that no war veterans would be dismissed from the public service except for cause, and that the "sol. ployment" be continued. Federal relief in lieu of municipal relief for non-pensioners and train- ing opportunities for men whose profession n« longer provided remun- erative employment werepoints also pressed on the commission. With regard to creating rural homes, Captain Rochester admitted was what he had in 'mind He be- lieved that under a co-operative sys- tem costs of maintenance could be so reduced that such establishments, provided they were situated on good land close to cities, could be made self-supporting. ' Is Descendant Of Pocahontas Chippawa Indian Living In Sar- nia Believed Great-Great- Great-Great-Great Niece SARNIA, -- A Chippawa Indian woman, living in what is believed to | be >arnia's oldest nome, 18 the great great-great-great niece of Mrs, John Rolfe better known to North amaricans as the Indian heroine, Po- cahontag, who like the English col scalping and marcied- another. The Sarnia_descendant, who has what Is believed to be an original oll painting of the famed Indian Princess made in _Tngland in 1616, is Mrs. Agnes Wawanosh Sands Mern, until recently a Brooklyn, N.Y, resi lent of many years. The miniature of Pocahontas carrie" the date 1616. Oftentimes, Mrs. Mern said, her grandmother-- spoke of Pocahontas. "Many or the storles ['ve forgotten, 'for most of them were told to me "when | was a young girk"-she ox-- laired. "Historians seem to be accurate in recording the main incidents of Po- cahontas' life. Mos. school children know she was.supposed to have saved Jol Smith, by her pleas in his be- half, as the Indians were about to put him to death. I've also been told she warned the English of an- impending attack 'by the Indians, and th-n gave food to the famished colonists. "It's a matter of record, too, that after being converted to Christian: ity. she n.arried John Rolfe, an Eng lishman, who ventured to America early in the seventeenth - century, Two years Iater--in April, 1614--she went to England with her husband. "My grandmother sald it was lone. gomeness that caused Pocahontas' death in 1617." said Mrs. Mern. "She was greatly feted in England, but she longed for her home." Pocahontas had a son, Thomas Rolfe, who settled in Virginia, and from whom many prominent Virginian tamilies claim descent. Mrs. Mern's great-grandfather, Joshua Wawanosh, was a tamed chieftain of the Chippa was. Many of his descendants were well educated, some securing univer | sity degrees Plus-i ours Help NEW YORK. Culottes, while they are not so strongly in evidence as last season, will be sought by smart women because of their trim- ness. They are exceedingly good looking when the trouser division is dier. premerence for government em- that the idea of "soldiers' homes" 'onists so well she saved them from - the life of the adventurous -Captain Woman's Figu.c persists in conducting: itself without . regard to the safety of others on the road 18 not further education, because that has been tried and found want in but fearless enforcement of the 'laws that are already embodied in the'] highway code and an end of all the ovasions that have been practised by the Crown authorities and the courts. ~Brookville Recorder and Times, + C4 » cross, "What rubbish?" asked Dor- othy "Why your impossible stories about animals that can talk and a tin woodman who fis alive, and a scarecrow who can think" "They are all there," said the child. "I do not believe it," cried the heh. "In the Land of Oz" remarked Tiktok,. turning toward them, "any-thing. is possible, For it is a won-der-ful fair-y coun-try." cagerly: "Do you know the Land of Oz, Tiktok?" No, but I have heard a-bout it," said the' copper man. "For it is on-ly sep-a-rated from this Land of Ev by a broad des-ert." Dorothy. clapped her hands together delightedly; - "It makes me quite happy to be so near to my old friends, The Scarecrow I told you about, Billiha; is now King of the Emerald City of Oz." ! "rightful heir to the throne, know," said Tiktok, "but there was a rev-ol-ution in the Land of Oz, and the Scare-crow was de-posed by a gol-dier wo-man nam-ed Jin-jur, And then Jin-jur, was de-posed by a lit tle girl nam-ed Oz-ma, who was the 0Oz- ma of Oz is now the rul-er of the Land 6f Oz. "That is news to me," remarked Dorothy thought- fully, uts had passed, Tiktok approached Dorothy and Billina, and made -a stiff bow. "If you will be kind e-nough to fol-low me," he said, "I will lead you a-way from here to the _ town of Ev-na where you will be more com-fort-able, and al-so I will protect you from the Wheel-ers." "Alright," = said Dorothy, "I'm ready, and grasping Tiktok's hand, she followed him, only at the front, the back being treated like a skirt. Plus-fours are mannish, For the first time they ac- tually contribute to the good appear- ance of a woman's figure, As for pajamas and slacks--they have be- come narrowen and generally sleeker. play in, and one may take to eyeling, "fortable and pleasant to behold, The new play togs seem meant to' golf or tennis assured of being com- appar A: a gp, we Tt EY oY ~~ hg 3 Et Er SR pi: