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> 'as Armistice Is Called In Furniture Strike Temtaliw© Terms Agreed Upon at Toronto Conference Will'Be Submitted Submitted to Ontario. Locals----Reconvene Saturday TORONTO. -- Possibility of an r early and amicable settlement of ' r the dispute between Ontario's fur- ' niture workers and employers appeared appeared oright to-night when tentative tentative terms were agreed upon at an "armistice" meeting in Toronto. Delegates from the opposing ramps scattered to their widely spread home towns to present the terms of the tentative agreement and will reconvene in Toronto on Saturday. Terms of the proposed setlement of the tie-up of the industry industry were not disclosed. Hon. David ('roll's Department of Labor issued word that both sides '■hoped" that the proposals submitted at this conference would be confirmed and the danger removed. removed. Louis Pine, Industrial Standards' Standards' Act officer, presided at the conference. His only comment was that "we are hopeful that the delegates ail will return Saturday with authority to accept the plan to which they gave tentative approval at this meeting." Discussions opened at 10 o'clock Thursday morning and continued, under the chairmanship of Mediator Fine, until early in the evening. More than 1,000 furniture workers workers in eleven centres of Western Ontario were affected by the walkout walkout launched Monday morning after manufacturers had turned down demands demands of the men. A Necessity Boston woman judge, says Wives have a right to work after marriage. Having washed thé dishes, straightened straightened up the house and put the kids to bed, most wives could toll her it isn't a "right" but a necessity.--Windsor Star. gBmamttsmmam Pm Papers EDiTuRlAi, COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA High ' Halting Whatever may be said about royal personages, they know the art of Wearing top-hats. And they ave grace in handling them when they remove remove them from their heads. Moreover, Moreover, so far as Britain is concerned, they are mighty vve.ll informed on how to keep high hats ' good condition, which'is' another art. This is to introduce introduce a counter-blast to lampooners of top-hats in this country "or in the United States. In the latter cor-try they profess to despise kings, princes and top-hats, but worship them all. .At every possible official opportunity the proud U * citizen will appear in publi in ill-shaped, unfitting and unkempt unkempt high hats. At lev the European European top-hat looks worth wearing and ■seems to fit both circumstances and head. One of the better things Britons Britons ever saw the present Duke of Windsor do was to manipulate his always always well-groomed high hat. He seemed to be born to it as part of Ms station in life. Now the chief executive of the United States should send his to Madame Tussaud's and wear a soft felt hat.. We hate to tell It to onr* D.S. lampooners but even Harvard cannot teach their notables the grace of wearing top-hats--and we are not high-hatting. -- Brandon Sun. Tree Week? The St. Thomas Horticultural Society Society In sponsoring a tree-planting campaign to mark Coronation Year. More power to the progressive society society cf that city; the effort should be emulated everywhere.--St. Catharines Standard. Her Special Train A woman had a ticket to Halibur- ton, one cent a mile, as advertised at Toronto for Saturday last. The train stopped at Fénelon Falls, ail got out except the woman. She Insisted on the railway taking her to destination, a trip of 80 miles there and back. The railway carried out its contract, cheaper to have done s • than to have faced a suit in court for failure. Getting Getting a private train at one cent a unite does not happen every day.--- St Catharines Standard. Strike is still going on. Tangible figures figures are hard to get, bt-cause so much of the loss does hot reduce readily to dollars and cents; but one of the most conservative estimates puts the- cash loss at about $84,000,000, divided divided equally between workers and the stockholders. Add to that the losses suffered by other companies which had to close down or go part-time operations because of the stoppage of General Motor orders, and you get a bill that must go well over $100,- 000,000. Rather a high price to pay, is it pot, for failure to devise some system of mediation that would have brought strikers and management together together at the very start, instead of after two months of strug le?-- Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Record. " THE EMPIRE No Sentiment in Trade It may be argued that in the ordinary ordinary course of events Great Britain would not merely have held her ground in the Australian market but would have increased her trade cora- toensurately with Australia's increasing increasing purchasing power. Apart from Imperial sentiment, she had a right to expect, this, seeing that her expanded expanded purchases of Australian primary products had been a major "factor in creating this increased purchasing power. This is unassailable reasoning; reasoning; but pure logic does not govern trade. The old instinct of buying in the cheapest market is still strong. It may be well that the savings effected by buying cheap Japanese textiles have enabled Australians to buy other British products. There are - many compensations, direct and indirect, in the complex structure of international trade.--The Australasian. Crooners, For Instance The broadcasting of the spanking of a London schoolboy was an arrant mistake, but each day, over radio, there can be heard far less salutary things.--Brantford Expositor, Something Wrong Blind River has 950 people still on relief, and yet cannot get enough men for the bush jobs offered. No wonder a physical fitness test of those on relief has been ordered, with the Object of removing from the rolls ; those in. sha pe to take the jobs offer- fed.™ dirait Ste. Marie Star. The Cost of Strikes The dreary task of computing the ,@ost of the General Motors sltdown Tell Your Banker Do you desire that the children of Great Britain should grow sturdily and happily? Do you honour the memory memory of that great man and great King, George V? Do you retain still the emotion which the voice of King George V evoked in you when in his Christmas broadcast he spoke specially specially to the children? If you do--then tell your banker that he may transfer to the King George V Memorial Fund any odd shillings and pence standing in your bank account. You may have an overdraft. Tell your banker to transfer an amount equal to its shillings shillings and pence. You may have no bank account. Then send to the fund what you can spare. By so doing you will give the 'children now, and for future generations, room, to fill their lungs and stretch their legs, and you will help to honour worthily a great memory.--London Sunday Dispatch. Two rules we should always have ready:--that there is nothing good or evil save,in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow follow them.--Epictetus. News In Brief Elected President MONTREAL--John Bassett has been elected president of the Gazette Gazette Publishing Company, Limited, succeeding the late Senator Smeaton White. Mr. Bassett has been vice- president of the company for 17 years. .Paul Bilkey, vice-president and Editor-in-chief, was re-elected as vice-president, and J. S. Miller, secretary-treasurer, secretary-treasurer, was elected a member of the hoard of directors. Ross H McMaster joins the board as a representative of the White estate and directors re-elected were W. J, C. Sutton and V. R. Peters. 35 Million Oh Relief OTTAWA -- Appropriations for unemployment and relief in the supplementary estimates tabled in ■the House of Commons totalled $16,283,400. In addition $19,500,- 000 was provided for monthly 'grants-in-aid for the Provinces. The i. nemployment relief appropriation appropriation was divided as follows: Relief • utilement agreements with Provincial Governments, $400,000 ; Federal contribution to Provincial and municipal relief projects, $7,- 831,000; agricultural re-establishment re-establishment in co-operation with Provincial Governments, $52.500; contribution to farm employment and supplementary supplementary plans. $3,283.500. Outstanding claims for direct relief relief under Unemployment Relief Acts of previous years, $169,000; outstanding claims for drought area relief, $215,200; contribution toward the Greater "Winnipeg sewage sewage disposal scheme, $362,200; development development and training projects for unemployed young people, $1,000,- 000; direct relief for the driedout areas, $2,000,000; administration expenses genera.iy, $475,000, and unforeseen contingencies, $1,000,- 000. $2,250, «300 For New Roads OTTAWA -- Approximately $2,- 250,000 will be spent by the Dominion Dominion Government this year in cooperation cooperation with the Provinces in •providing roads and other facilities to reduce transportation costs to and from the mining areas of Canada. Canada. Hon. Thomas Ac Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources, is asking the House of"Qfipimons to vote-an appropriation of : $1,400,000 at the present session, and as the arrangement arrangement is that the Provinces will 'spend $1 for every $2 provided by the Dominion, it is estimated that the total expenditure this year will be $2,500,080, as ■ there was a portion portion of last year's vote of $1,500,- 000 unexpended. Routes of the highways will be defined by tile Federal and Provincial Provincial Ministers of Mines. There will also be provision for wharves and other facilities for airplane transportation transportation to the mining districts. The actual road building work will be supervised by the Provinces. No Debates Over the Air OTTAWA--The country is to be spared both the tedium and expense of listening to the radio broadcast of debates in the House of Commons. Commons. Prime Minister Mackenzie King brought applause and merriment from Parliamentarians when, orally replying to queries on the order paper from W. A. Tucker, a Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Liberal he stated: "The Government does not think it would be advisable to broadcast the debates of the House." "What would be the annual cost of broadcasting the debates of the House of Commons from the shortwave shortwave station in Ottawa?" was the first part of Mi. Tucker's double- barrelled question and the second part of it was, "Has the Government Government given consideration to the desirability desirability of broadcasting such debates debates in this way or otherwise?" Trained Workers In Demand WESTON-- That there was a demand demand for the services of vocationally vocationally travned stuoents was the information information given Weston Board of Education by Principal E. H. G. Wordan of Weston High and Vocational Vocational school last week. The greatest greatest demand, he added, was for those accustomed to carpentry, woodworking woodworking and motor mechanics. Attendance reports showed that the day enrolment in the High and Vocational Vocational school was 847 with 454 attending night classes. With a registration of 350, attendance at King Street school averaged 310, while in Memorial school with a register register of 814 the attendance was 285. The eport of the school nurse indicated indicated twenty-nine school visits, eighty-mne home visits, 115 individual individual visits and 164 pupils examined. examined. Announcement was made that after being dormant for six years, the High school annual publication, "The O jnning Tower," would be issued issued this year. $113,330,199 In Subsidies OTTAWA-- Total cash subsidies and financial assistance given the Canadian Pacific Railway since its incorp .'.ration amounted to $113,- 380,199 an answer tabled in the. House of Commons by Transport Minister Howe The .argest item in the total was $37,791,435, the book value of lines constructed by the Government and transferred to the C.P.R. Dominion cash aid, including subsidies subsidies to main projects and to acquired and leased lines amounted to $3.3, ,11 7,889. while cash consideration consideration for ; lands given up by the C.P.R. was $10.180,321. Assistance under Unemployment Relief /icts and the special Public Works Construction Act, from 1930 to 1937, amounted to $12,330,199. Dominion land grants to the railway railway for all lines was 26,108,988 acres. 500 Millions For Navy WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's Roosevelt's billion-dollar 1937-38 national defense program was formally set in motion this week when the House Naval Affairs Committee favorably Championship Form Keeping in shape for the North American championships, to be held in Boston, Dorothy Caley, of Toronto, Canada, Canadian National National figure skating champion, duts some fancy capers on the Rockefeller Rockefeller Center, New York City, skating pond. reported a $526,555,428 navy appropriation appropriation bill, including $130,000,- 000 for new warships already under construction or to be laid down. As soon as the naval bill is out of the way, a $416,000,000 measure to finance the army's activities will be introduced, the two together setting setting a.peace-time record and carrying carrying out the President's announced policy of a national defense second to none. Home Loans, $1.501,167 OTTAWA --Figures issued by Finance Minister Dunning showed 1,883 loans have been made under the H one tmproevment Loan Plan up to Jan. 31 in cities of 20,000 population or more. Total amount of loans in these cities was $768,326 out of a total of $1,501,167 I broughout Canada. Total number of loans made in Canada Canada up to Jan. 31 was 3,959, Montreal headed the list in total amount of loans, while Toronto had the largest number. Montreal's total. total. number of loans was 251, with value of , $137.712 while Toronto's total number of loans was 343 with value of $123,909 Quints' Third Film HOLLYWOOD -- At the robust age of three years the Dionne quintuplets quintuplets will star in their third motion picture tliis June, A story for the five little sisters was prepared at a studio here recently recently which would offer acting opportunities opportunities the quints never have had before. Last May 28, on their second birthdav the quints received $250,- 000 as down payment on a new three-picture contract running to the end of 1936. Like no other stars in movie history, history, the quints, unable to come to Hollywood, have had Hollywood come to them for each picture. To Wed At Home " KANSAS CITY --Mary Pickford, the T ironto-bovn film star, will marry Buddy Rogers in California --at least her future father-in-law thinks so. . Miss Pickford, .wearing- scarlet lounging . pyjama:;... with otiggvoi and "fingernails to match, apparently squelcned rumors of a London wedding. wedding. during a hv-ucinutf stop-off here en route fo- London to ,i<;;n-ber- fiance. "I guess we' lave to have the whole family .with us when we: get married, won't we v she asked Probate Probate Judge Bert Rogers, who met her at the train. "Yes, yes, yes " agreed Buddy's father, seemingly relieved because the remark eliminated an English locale for the nuptials. Fishing Season Ope s PORT DOVER- The fishing season season opened at this Lake Erie port this 1 week The lake has been free of ice practically ail winter, and there is nothing to keep winter boats in haroor. There has been a very short respite between .1936 and 1937 fishing because of the extension granted at the close of last season by the Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries. NORTH BAY--Triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Brown, whose North Bay home is approximately approximately 12 miles from the birthplace of the Oionno quintuplets. Like the quints, the Brown babies are all girls. They weighed more at birth than the Dionne five whose total weight, officially recorded seven days after their Hrtfa, May 28, 1934 was 10 pounds, 24% ounces. The Brown threesome weighed an even 16 pounds. Willed $380,009 KINGSTON-- Queen's University has received $380,000 under the wild of Dr. Agnes D. Crane of Smith's Falls. The money is to be used for the erection and support of a biochemistry biochemistry building, it has been announced. announced. Dr. Crane, 75, and the last member member of one of the leading families of Smith's Falls, was born in that town and educated at Queen's, where she graduated in medicine in 1888. She did post-graduate work in Europe, attending Dr. Biibroth's famous English clinic in Vienna. Form Protective Union TORONTO --Contending that the prices are 50 cents a hundred pounds higher than they should be, large consumers of sugar have formed the Canadian Sugar Consumers' Protective Protective Union, and have established Walter Martin as their secretary in offices in tlio Northern Building here. Domestic consumers may join the union without fee, while promoters promoters except labor unions to support support the campaign, it was announced recently..