I [4 i Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn of Ontario who caused a flurry in Canadian affairs over his Govern- ment's condemnation of Prime Minister Mackenzie King's war ef. forts: Impossible To Cure Baldness Science Offers No Hope -- It's In. herited, And There's Nothing You Can Do About it The young man of 25 whose hair oegins to recede at the temples or to disappear from a round spot at the back is likely to give himself a great deal of unnecessary dis- tress, spend a lot of money unne- cessarily and indulge in all sorts of queer performances to save his ghalr, since there is not really very uch that he can do. The reason lies in thé fact that his loss of hair was deter mined by heredity. . \ WOMEN SELDOM LOSE IT Women seldom: lose hair as do the men and complete baldness is practically never seen in women. Most of the experts in the field of - heredity are likely to say that hair growth {s determined by our con- stitution and that the factor in the constitution which is responsible is in the glands. They say that ordin- "ary baidness can be inherited just through a single gene in men and through two genes in women, The genes are those little elem. ents in the cells which determine our characteristics." The explana- tion seems to be that a man with two baldness genes will have sons _ all of whom' will be bald, and if his wife happens to have two baldness genes, some of their daughters also "will be bald. if the man has only one baldness gene, one or two of his sons will be bald. lf, however, the genes for baldness are absent, none of the children will be bald. F orm Original . "Denture Club" Montreal Workers Needing' False Teeth Join in Co-opers ative Effort to Get Them -- A "tooth. club" is the newest 'twist to the popular co-operative movement in Montreal, and if you ask any of its 30 members they'll tell you it's a success=~though 10 of them have aching jaws and & set of false teeth or the way. A year ago'a group of Iverley community centre workers decided they. sorely needed false teeth. They lacked, sufficient money so decided on a co-operative effort. Their dite sion -of ways and means to obtain the teeth on mea- gre incomes led to organization of the Denture Club. Members agreéd to deposit 50 cents weekly "at a centre office. When Dr, James Dance heard of the scheme he volunteered to pro- vide sets of dentures for the mem- bers at basic cost. He went fuc- ther and gave centre clubs a ser- fes of lectures on dental health and' care of the teeth. ; £ :~ An Extraction Party -- It looked just like a Christmas party when the 10--nine women and a man--gathered at nine o's clock one morning. But there was a line of hospital cots for the patients while they came out of the anaesthetic. The "operating room" was behind 'a screen at one end of the room. The first patient, a woman, came out of the ether and asked: "through 'puckered lips: "Are my 1 teeth really out?" This Book's Alive A new type of book has been ' produced by Mr. George Olin, a collector of cacti, at Los Angeles, . His book is different, because it , lives! Gouged into the pages are "pockets and compartments cone * Yaining lichens, -cactl, 'and other ": small plants: Each pocket contains "the right kind' of nourishment so that the plant ean flotrish, and "you can read the description and "5eo the llving organism. o on the "same, page, PARADE... The tempest in our own Ontarlo Legislature bade fair last week to rival the European war in sig- nificance as far as Canadians were eoncerned , . , Damned by some, Praised by" others, the Premier epburn-sponsored resolution cen- suring Prime Minister Mackenzie King's war efforts made the prime topic of conversation here , , . The action threatened on the one hand, to split the Liberal party; on the other, to get Mitchell Hep- burn arrested under the War Measures Act, a wag suggested . . . (seemsection on statements "pre judiving recruiting") .. . . . . . During the twentieth week of the war between Germany and the Allies, the Italian Government approved the largest military bud- get, $532,000,000, since Great War days. [Italy's armed forces would be made ready, a Cabinet statement said, for any eventual. ity . . . a tremendous explosion in a London, England, gunpowder factory killed half a dozen, in- jured fifty . . . the Western Front grew active for a_time when the Germans: began bombardment of the areca west of the Saar . ... Stockholm, Sweden, readied air- raids precautions . , . the [Italian liner Orazio caught fire and sank, two more British destroyers went down, and many neutral mer- chant ships were mined or torped- oed . . , Great Britain acknowl- edged the loss of three submarines, the affair of Hor2-Belisha's res ignation blew over . .. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Church- ill made another of his vivacious, pugnacious radio speeches , .., 21 Germans escaping from the U. 8. aboard a Japunese ship were taken off it by the British. , . . Swiss living. in areas bordering on the Reich were given aotice to expect evacuation at any time , .. Ger- man troops were reported massed along the frontiers of Hungary . . Grain of Salt Needed Fifty-below zero temperatures caused frightful suffering to both soldiers and civilians in the Arctic theatre of war . . . the Russians were driven back on the Salia sec- tor, on the Karelian isthmus and north of Lake Ladoga. (If a count were made of all the Russians_re- ported at different times to havé been" killed in this conflict, the staggeringy total of two millions would-be reached. .. news mag- azine "Time" warns that figures are grossly exaggerated) , . . Bri- tish officialdom last week advanc- ed the belief that given 30,000 more men and 200 more airmen, - plenty of armed equipment before May, the Finns could hold the Rus- sians indefinitely . . . Prognostications Outstanding theories - of 'the week: Hanson W. Baldwin, military and naval correspondent. of the - New York Times, said Germany ~probably will adopt a policy of a "war of waiting" during 1940, sit- - ting tight as long as she can be assured: of supplies from Russia; a political writer in the Paris "Temps" advised that if the Al- lies would undertake naval action in the Black Sea (which is Russia's tender spot on account of the oil wells in that region) Soviet rein. forcements could be kept from going to the Finnish fronts; Karl von Wiegand, one of the most ex- perienced war correspondents. in the world, staked his reputation on the prediction that Italy will get into the war on the side of Germany; a trustworthy Polish ob- server declared that Russia is like- ly to cede the Galivian oilfields to Germany in réturn for a large slice of Central- Poland, including Warsaw. MICKIE SAYS - [war IF THERE ARE BIZNESSES IN TOWA MAKIN! MORE MONEY THAN US 2 WE &IT A LOT O' BATISFACTION Our O'GEIN' ABLE TO HELP FOLKS, AN' IN MAKIN! THIS Al Sir William Mulock, grand old man of Ontario, and one of the fove- most figures of the Dominion, celebrated his 96th "birthday at his home in Toronto by receiving a stream of friends and visitors, who flocked to the Mulock residence to offer their felicitations. Puck Chasers TOPICS OF THE CURRENT HOCKEY SEASON Congratulations are in order to Bob Crosby and his McIntyre Mine team. They are the first Canadian club to go Into New York after a week's tour and come out undefeat- ed. They held the Rovers to a 3-all tie. Brothers Lockhart, Thompson and Miss Mulany, Secretary of the Rovers' Booster Club, haven't got over it yet, LIMIT STICK LENGTH The C.A.H.A, rule on vver-length "hockey sticks is now in effect. And that means strict enforcement of the rule limiting the length of hoc- key sticks and width of the blade. The rule is as follows: Hockey -J sticks shall not exce-d 53 inches from the heel to tho end of the shaft and 14% Inches from the heel to the end of the blade.. The blade of the stick shall not exceed three inches in height, except in the.case of the goal-keeper"s 'stick, which shall not exceed 31% inches. * SENIOR "A" NOTES Hamilton gave Goodyears a real scaro In the Mountain City, losing out by a 5:4 score... M. J. Rodden, veteran official, made his first-Sen- for appearance of the season In the O.H.A. as referee at St. Cath- erines . .. Galt signed a new cen- tro player, McCaffrey, from Ottawa + « « Jack Astle returned to Nlagara Falls aftor a four-week absence . .. Goodyears signed Joe Start, onec- time professional, as spare goalie. NTARIO 7 UTDOORS By VIC BAKER ~ WAR AND WILD LIFE During. a recent discussion on™{- Ontario's annual fall classic, the" «pheasant shoot at Pelee Island, we learned with. great Interest that the pheasant is playing a_ part in Eng- land's Air Raid Precaution system by means of which the heart of the Empire fs protected during these war times, - A letter appears in a British out: door publication as follows: "In these days of substitutes, why not a few: pheasants instead of the much-maligned A. R. P. war- den? As ono of the latter and a keeper of the former, 1 am relying on my birds, both by day and night, to warn me when it is time to stop patrolling the village and to take . to cover, By way of war work the pheasant farms, Instead of closing . down, could be turned on to pro! ducing vast numbers of these nat- ural sirens. A cock, with a hen or two for company, penned at say half-mile intervals in the gardens of our towns, would cost the rate- payer less money than wardens, -and possibly have lass bricks thrown at them." HEAR SOUNDS INAUDIBLE TO us . During the World War 1, we are "toldy parrots kept in French" for tresses and on the Eiffel Tower in Paris gave waving of trie approach of aeroplanes that they could not possibly have seen, before they were discovered by human beings, At night," during that period when enemy planes were wont to fly overhead and drop bombs at random, the pheasants in the cov- -erts-inland were the first to discern the explosions of the bombs, or de- fending anti-aircraft guns, and (o - hasten to {issue a warning of ap- proaching evil, In this way, their behaviour has - helped to throw Hght upon the problem of the "zones of silences" around great detonations, which, after skipping these zones, became audible. The "inaudible" soundwaves were evi dently "picked up" by the pheas- ants, for they acted as if greal- _ly agitated. All of which adds to oul" store of knowledge concern- ing this Interesting g game-bird, "Coal Butter" Is German Idea ~ Exile Tells of Progress in Mak- __ ing Edible' Synthetic Fats : Germany is prepared to make ed- - ible fats from coal and shale, Quite in a pinch sho -can make literally, her butter from coal, Details of this discovery were given to the American Association for the Advancement of Sclence by a recently arrived German expat- rlate, Dr. Willy Lange, who was formerly an'-assistant professor in the University of Berlin, His iig- ures covered developments up to midsummer, shortly before start of tho war. Ir «Syhthetic Chemistry Fats and copper are the two materials which {nformed scien- tists here sald Germany was most likely to run short of in war, This month there have been news ro ports that Germany was -progres- sing on tha fat problem with new synthetig chemistry, The coal fats, Dr. Lange sald, are made by blowing steam through burniig coal 'to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. This pois onous gas is the starting substance which, with subsequent chemical treatments, 'becomés first Indust. rial fat, and then edible fat. Shale Also Used Shale, of which Germany has a larger supply than of coal, {8 an other starting material for butter substitutes. The shale is first con: verted Into oll, VOICE of the PRESS SLEIGHING NOT SLAYING Fortunate Canada! Sleighing parties instead of slaying parties. --Toronto Star, rh ARY OTHER SUGGESTION? G. Wells says this war fis er the end of things as they are now or the beginning of some- thing different. Has anyone else any better sugeestiony --London Free Press, ~~ EASY NOT TO LISTEN Getting on the air and taking it for granted that thousands are lis- tening is an error, The thousands may be listening--but to some- thing else, Or they may not be Nstening at all -Peterotongh Examiner, --)-- IRON ORE IN CANADA The year 1939 was notable for at least one thing--Canada began to mine iron ore. There have been - previous activities but the Helen Mine at Michipicoten looks like the first permanent operation. The ore -is sintered and a train load of this arrives at the Soo daily. Sault Daily Star. --0-- "PUTTING OVER" A NEW FLAG The Tribune has no objection to a Canadian flag, as such, pro- vided that the people want it, But such a flag would have to be duly authorized by the people's repre- sentatives in Parliament. This pa- per would object to a "national flag" being "put over" by hole-in- the-corner methods. -- Winnipeg Tribune Wild Horses Go When War Comes B.C. Intencifies Round-up in Cari: boo Ranchlands--Range Is Needed and Foxes Re-_ quire Meat The war nid ans death for thous- ands of wild. horses which roam the Cariboo ranchlands in British Columbia's interjor. Provincial government oficials have ordered an {intensification of tho 1940 roundup of the animals whose forebears escaped from the aanches and became as wild as the moose or deer. Hunters were urged to clear the range of overy wild horse, If possible; i The roulid-up Is an annual graz- Ing control measure in the Cariboo but officials said it should be inten- sified this year to preserve as much grazing land as possible for livestock that will produce food- stuffs, Hunters taking part in the round- up can receive $2.50 a head from the owners of branded horses, or slaughter the animals for fox meat. Luxuries Now Coming Higher Canadians Who Like Their Caviar And Paris Perfumes -Will Have To Pay Plenty in Wartime The fixury-loving Canadian has bad to economize on his purchases sinco was was declared. Caviar will likely be scratched " off swanky menus since the cost of this luxury, Tmported from Russia and Finland, already has trebled fn price. Some imported cheeses are havder to got than before the war and speelal fam, marmalades and sugared fruftg aro higher on the luxury list. CHINA, GLASS, SJLVER Perfumes ara hitting the higher brackets and many imported French scents are becoming scarce, Jewellers believo their business will not suffer materially during war (ime, New sources in neattral countries have been discovered to roplace tho novelty and Jewel wares usually imported from Euro- pean countires-now at war. But or- ders of china, glass and silver are filled more slowly because of trans- portation difficulties, -- thence to the hemt to be sent to Produce Better Cream, Butter Ontario Dairymen Told of Govern: ment Pian to Improve Products «JL. Baker, chief ereamery in- structor for Ontario, told the re- cent 'Western Ontario Dairymen's convention that a provincial gov. ernment program to improve the quality-of cream and butter will be continued with greater effort «this year. "We plan to do more work with the producers in 1940," he said, noting that in 19039 the instruc- tion branch concentrated more on, dperations in creameries. PROPER GRADING OF CREAM Among suggestions he offered dairymen in a co-operative scheme to better quality of cream and butter were proper grading of all eredm with payment to be made actordingly and the holding of short courses for cream haulers to educate them as to proper meth. ods of carving for (ream on the farm; In connection with licensing of ecreameries, Mr. Baker said the dairy branch "did not feel incline. ed to hurry creameries into mak- ing improvements, but neccessary changes must be completed before 1940 licenses are granted." During inspections for 1940 cer- tificates, approximately 57 per cent of ercameries were approved without having to make improve- ments, he said. This compared with a figure of 11 per cent in the previous year Liver Performs Sixty Functions It's An Important Organ In The Body Every organ of the body has one or two jobs to do. Dr. Robert G. Contrell, Englewood, N.J., in Clinical Medicine and Surgery, says: 2 Not so with the liver for there is hardly a part of the body that is not directly or indirectly affect- ed 'by the functioning or working™ is large gland." ively stated that mn sixty to one hundred activities, and that every other important system --circulation, digestive, nervous and others--is definitely influen- ced by the activitics of the liv er. CLEARS OI' IMPURITIES All the blood from the digestive apparatus--stomach and intestine --is carried to the liver to be fil- tered and cleaved of harmful sub- .stances before it goes back to the heart to be sent to lungs and "It is onsen the liver has all parts of the body, The blood must not only get rid of carbon dioxide and. be enriched with oxy- gen by means of the lungs but before it can do all its work of building and maintaining the ¥ ail woos) > The appointment of Honey S Gage to the position of General. Sales Agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Com. pany, has just been announced, Mr, "Gage was formerly Sales "Agent for the cpmpafiy in Gntario and Western New York and is a © well known figure in the coal bus- iness in both countries, - having ° spent much of his time in Canada before being appointed to his pre- sent executive position with the or- ganization, var. ious tissues, it is made fit by the liver to destroy harmful products in other fluids of the body. KEEP IT MORE ACTIVE It has long been said that life depends upon the liver; it might well be said that "your every-day health depends on the liven" Epa is 'Sweetener 5h Ula LIFE'S LIKE THAT ~ NEA E A S19 197, "Wanna Buy A Good Watch Pog, Buddy?" REG'LAR FELLERS_ Bird of a Dog By GENE BYRNES \