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He faprt* 3™/ EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. hmm a commentary on 'outstanding events e news # by jane fortune Canada Criticized Declaring that Canada lacks national national aim and is drifting along without without leadership, the former editor of the London Evening Standard before leaving on the return trip to England last week criticized the Dominion for having a wonderful future which it is not trying to use. ' It is a marvellous country," he said, "but populated by 11,000,000 people content to drift along between Britain and the United States as markets and protectors, without any national plans of its own, no policy to follow. You could he a great people . , . President Roosevelt's Speech Believed to be the most important speech he had ever delivered on world affairs. President Roosevelt's address at Chicago last week has created a great deal of comment in countries other than his own. He spoke in actuality actuality to the world, appealing for the' "concerted effort" of peace-loving nations ' to uphold laws and principles on which alone peace can rest secure." He raised his voice against an "epidemic "epidemic of world lawlessness," against tile trouble-making powers, declaring that epidemics always call for quarantine. quarantine. The President's suggestion for a quarantine against international lawlessness lawlessness is looked upon as the strongest strongest and most concise offer of United States co-operation given to European nations seeking to curb the aggression of Italy, Germany, Japan. Press-Gag Bill Stopped The bills before the Alberta Legislature Legislature on taxation of banks, the Credit Act and the bill "to ensure the publication publication of accurate news and information" information" were reserved by the Lieutenant- Governor to await the pleasure of the Governor-General of Canada, when they came before the House this week. The Lieutenant-Governor gave his assent to eight other bills which bore no relation to the one disallowed by the Federal Government in August. Premier Aberhart's proposal to con trol the press of Alberta has thus gone by the board. Japan indicted A conference of tile nine powers who signed the League of Nations treaty guaranteeing the territorial in tegrity of China (China, Japan, Greal Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands anf 1 Portugal) is proposed for this week deal with the Japanese invasion. This- followed close on the, declaration oi the League's Sino-Japanese sub-committee sub-committee that Japan is guilty of violating violating the treaty. Medical Plan Attacked Claiming that medical services are not being provided the public on a sound economic basis, Dr. T. H. Leggett, Leggett, of Ottawa, President of the Canadian Canadian Medical Association, calls for a thorough overhauling of the system in Canada. At present, lie said, the scheme is right for the wealthy but not satisfactory for the middle class, working men and those on relief. Present Spread of War War is already here according to the Hon. Mrs. Freemantle, Britisli author, journalist, who last week ad dressed the Toronto -Branch of the English-speaking Union, "But we can prevent spread of war by immunization," immunization," she declared, "as we would deal with an infectious disease. The im portant thing for us to do is to avoid infection by taking preventive medicine." medicine." Toronto-lo-Rio Flight Harry Richman, night club singer, screen star, Atlantic flyer, has ar nounced that in February next he piv poses to beat the world non-stop flight' record by hopping from Toronto to Rio de Janeiro, a distance of 7,50(1 miles. United States authorities would not allow him to make the flight from there, and now he is hoping that tin Dominion Government Will not expresi similar disapproval. been in, Hollywood studying motion picture making, arrived here from Los Angeles, travelling under the name of Wollard. With him were six secret service men. 'The reason for his departure departure for the East was not disclosed. Douglas' Agent Charged the Dominion Department of Agricul ture had ordered 65 carloads of veg etables from the Holland marsh grow erg at Bradford, to be shipped to tin Western Canada drought areas. Predicts Fascist Sweep MILAN, Italy.--Fascism is going t.< CANADA Soond Philosophy Women are the true philosophers. A woman saves her pride by looking at her good points and forgetting the others.--Victoria Times. Haven't Got The Cash - - Mr. Anthony Eden seems to have made a two-base hit at least when he stated at Geneva that the trouble with countries (like Germany and Italy) which wanted raw materials is that they, haven't the money to pay for them. Even "colonies" like to get some cash--Sault-Ste. Marie Star. Lost "Face" Zm Nanking It is a curious thought that, though for years many people in the United States have considered Japan as a potential enemy, while most persons in the British Empire have considered Japan as an active friend, when the crisis arrives, the Americans go, and the British stay. As a result of this fact British prestige will be greater in the Orient (among Chinese and Japanese alike) than that of the United United States.--Hamilton Spectator. Life Goes On » The public view of the daily news is always out of perspective. Shanghai Shanghai people are going to the movies. The Mediterranean is spangled with the white sails of pleasure craft. The taverns of Madrid are ringing with laugher. And--even--in Alberta men and women rise in the' morning and go about their tasks and harvest crops and love and listen to music and --write sonnets ; the mountain streams still murmur as they move among the pebbles, and the sun still sets in red and gold; neither has the prairie lark forgotten his song. Extraordinary, isn't it? -- Calgary Alberta (Social Credit). -Rendering/a Real Service Mark well this brief press despatch, just over the wires from Belleville, Ontario. "Fifteen bushels of alfalfa seed from three loads of hay is the record set by Joel Murray, Holier farmer." farmer." Not a great triumph in war or diplomacy, to be sure ; not a great record record ft: sport; not one of those achievements achievements that make the front .pages-- but a record, nevertheless, and of far more importance to mankind than all the bluster and sabre-rattling hat surround surround the ways of "warlords" today. A new system in bridge ; a new service service at tennis; a baseball pennant won, or a football kicked so far, A picture to take the critics by storm . .. All these things "go over big.". But that man who has just made two blades of grass grow where' only one grew before is deserving of more praise.--Halifax Herald. The West Has Faith' There is apparently no limit to optimism optimism of the people of Western Canada. Canada. They do not appear to be discouraged discouraged after eight seasons of drought that have afflicted areas in the Prairie Provinces comprising about 12,000,000 acres. In a recent speech before the Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Regina, the Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, said : "There is no better next-year country in the world than Western Canada." In that brief £- 4--4 sentence the Minister of Agriculture epitomized the opinion of Western Canada, One wonders sometimes whether there is something in the big open spaces of the Prairie Provinces that develops this spirit. It is, questionable questionable if the citizens of Eastern Canada would stand up as well under repeated discouragements as their Western compatriots have. -- Brantford Brantford Expositor, Hunters--Stop, Look! If all who take pleasure in hunting would remember four little words -- Stop! Look! Make sure! -- there would be none of those hunting fatalities fatalities which disgrace the newspapers of British Columbia every time the hunting season comes around. There is not one of these accidents but could have been prevented. In every case human carelessness is the prime cause of a hunter being killed, maimed or injured to some degree or other. The prevention is simple. It requires requires only that -those carrying lethal weapons should always remember to STOP, LOOK and MAKE SURE. Don't walk behind a companion with a cocked gun pointing toward him; don't grab a gun by the muzzle and pull it toward you when getting out of a car, boat, or when crawling under a fence; don't guess, be sure it is not a human being at which you are shooting, and don't forget to unload unload your gun.--Kamloops Sentinel. ; THE EMPIRE Britisli Subjects The constitutional report of the Imperial Imperial Conference, published recently, finally scotches the rumors and fears that the common status of the citizens of the British Empire could and would be altered and the title of "British subject" changed. Not, even in fact did South African delegates propose a modification of the status. As for defining nationality - within each Dominion, Dominion, quite another point, the suggestion suggestion that legislation was necessary everywhere has found no support, and the matter is left for future consultation. consultation. Let us hope the whole thing will be dropped. Meanwhile, the main fact, is that all South Africans remain British subjects, not in the sense of subjects to Britain but as subjects to the King.--Capetown Argus. Trainipg the Unemployed In Great Britain the government has achieved a good deal by fostering training and instructional courses, chiefly attended by the younger unemployed. unemployed. These cater for three classes of men--those who have never learned a trade are given a modicum of skill ensuring in almost all cases their permanent engagement; those who find their skill unsought are fitted for other trades where labour is in demand; demand; those who have lost manual dexterity, or general physical condition, condition, or the habit of work, owing to prolonged idleness, are givep the opportunity opportunity to tone up eyes, muscles and hands. The first two classes, go to the training centres for six months and the third to instructional courses for three months. Such a scheme might well be adopted here. On the one hand there are the tens of thousands of unemployed; on the other many opportunities opportunities for qualified men. Well organized organized training centres could do much to bring labour supply and demand demand together. -- Auckland (N.Z.) News. Story of Hot Bog's Rise to Popularity Frankfurter Game to North'America North'America In First Half of 19th Century The hot dog--the frankfurter -- the weiner-wurst--or whatever you choose to call it--came to America in the first half of the 19th century. When it arrived it was a delicaey. Something Something to be enjoyed at breakfast, or as an. afternoon snack; but it was so tasty, so toothsome and so delicious that it grew rapidly in popularity. Giving It a Name American sausage makers soon began began to produce it here. No one knows who first conceived the idea of making a sandwich of a frankfurter by slipping slipping the whole sausage, hot, into a roll, but it was introduced in that form to the public when I-Iarry Stevens, Stevens, caterer at the New York Polo Grounds, began selling steamed frankfurters frankfurters in hot rolls, back in 1898, At about the same time, the well known cartoonist, ' Tad" Dorgan gave the name "hot dog," and these occurrences occurrences started something. They lifted the frankfurter out of a class of ordinary ordinary merchandise into the realm of big business. News In Brief -- alleged public scandal and ridicule, disgrace and public hatred, contempt and aversion. Wed Eighth Time CROWN POINT. Hit. When Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Cogswell, former Georgia beauty queen, divorced her seventh husband in Chicago last August, August, she said: "Never again," but this week she annexed her eighth husband. He is Dick Raymond, 30 years old, of Peoria, a musician. Mrs. Cogswell gave her age as 26 and her home as Peoria. Lindbergh Extends Lease LONDON. -- Charles A. Lindbergh has extended the lease on his English country home, Long Barn, near Sev- enoaks, Kent, it was learned this week. Last spring he extended the lease for six months, which has now expired. expired. The length of the new extension extension was not learned, but was understood understood to be for six months or a year. Duke Will Make no Speeches LONDON. -- Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Washington, has obtained "favorable reaction" from thp White House regarding the Duke of Windsor's forthcoming visit to the United States, it was said on excellent authority. The Duke was said to have agreed to refrain from making any speeches during his travels over the United States. The "no speeches" agreement agreement was believed to have been one of the British Cabinet's stipulations before it sanctioned the visit. German and Japan Warn The German foreign office warned the presiden to remember the "shipwreck" "shipwreck" of President Wilson when he sought to safeguard peace for all time through the League of Nations. Japan warned officially that peace may be "difficult to maintain" if demands of the nations which "have not" colonies and raw materials are ignored. Vittorio Mussolini Leaves for New York SAN FRANCISCO.--Vittorio Mussolini, Mussolini, son of the Ita-lian dictator, left here this week-end for New York by airplane. Young Mussolini, who had EDMONTON.--A fourth charge -- defamatory libel--was read to G. F. Powell, emissary of Major C. H. Douglas, Douglas, when he appeared in police court this week-end. Mr, Powell was arrested arrested on three charges, counselling to murder, seditious libel and defamatory libel "well knowing the same to he false." Calls Dietrich "Traitor" BERLIN. -- Julius Streicher's antl- Jewish weekly, Der Stuermer, has branded Marlene Dietrich a "traitor" because she has taken out. her first American citizenship papers. Der Stuermer, publishing a photograph photograph of the actress taking the Ooah of Citizenship before a Los Angeles- Judge, said, "Her association with Hollywood film Jews has made her un-German. She has become a traitor to Germany." Holland Marsh Vegetables OTTAWA. -- R. L. Wheeler, fruit commissioner, said this week-end that sweep the world whether the worlc likes it or not, Premier Mussolini'r newspaper, Popolo dTtalia, declare! this week-end. The newspaper predicted the tri umph of "20th century Fascism" ovei "19th century capitalism, parliamen tary democracy, Socialism, Commun ism, liberalism and certain vacillating Catholicism, with which sooner or later later we shall deal in our own manner,' "Flying Physician" Lost Fears are mounting that Dr. Clyde cle Fenton, the northern Australian "Flying Physician," won't be found alive. He has not been heard from since last week and was last seen near Booroloola where he called on a patient. He carried a ten-das water supply. Royal Australian Ah Force planes are conducting a widespread widespread Search over the territory, the most arid and desolate of northern Australia. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum Mi» o h peUMji * "el "A r mmm ». s'. Mil mm In a moment the King of the gnomes returned to his throne and relighted his pipe, while the rest of the little band of adventurers settled themselves themselves for another long wait. They were disheartened by Ozma's failure, and the knowledge that she was now an ornament in the Gnome King's dreadful palace saddened them all. Without their little leader they did not know what to do next and each one, down to the trembling private of the army, began to fear -that he would soon be more ornamental than useful. Then suddenly the Gnome King, began to laugh. "Ha, Fla, Ha, He, He, He, Ho, Ho. Ho !" - "What's happened?" inquired the Scarecrow, startled. "Why your friend the Tin Woodman has become the ftinniest thing you can imagine," replied the King, wiping wiping tears of merriment from his eyes. "No one would ever believe he could make such an amusing ornament. "Next !" They gazed at each other with sinking hearts. One of the generals generals began to weep dolefully, ..'.."What arc you crying' for?" a , ... u the Scarecrow! "He owed me six weeks back pay," replied the general, "and I hate to lose it." "Then g'o and: find him," commanded the Scarecrow. Scarecrow. "Me?" cried the , general. "Certainly, it -is your duty to .follow your commander. "I won't," said the general. "I'd like to of course, hut I simply won't."