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4w s EDITORIAL COMMENT * ROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA highlights of the news f a Commentary ora outstanding events jane Fortune Hitting the Wrong Man Perhaps municipalities are helpless because they have to shoulder their portion of the burden of relief, but that the small property owner should have to pay four or five extra mills on the tax rate after a life of effort and sacrifice indicates something wrong. He is being penalized because of the ills of others and through no fault of his own. That Is where the system of social legislation is at fault. It is conceived conceived on false premises and has a tendency to keep on the process of making people poorer. If there is any new found system in civilization which needs a thorough overhauling, it is the ways and means devised for the taxation for and the distribution of State charity.--Victoria Colonist- The North Has a Future Lord Tweedsmuir's notable and adventurous adventurous trip to the Far North of ÇSàtrada, resulting in a great confidence ip the importance of the development that lies ahead of it, will remain one of the experiences by which his term as Governor-General will always be remembered. He has certainly quickened quickened the interest of the Canadian people people in their north country, in the transformation that will Inevitably take place and in the benefit to come from the development of northern resources. resources. With Russia making great progress in the development of its northern regions, and with the richness richness of the resources in parts of the Canadian North already known, why should we not look to a great future for that part of Canada, long regarded as a permanent wilderness ?--Winnipeg ?--Winnipeg Free Press. The Powerful Public Whatever timid governments may think of it, the general public in several several lands is quite ready to apply sanctions to Japan. And the public makes and unmakes governments.-- Toronto Globe and Mail. Worst Is Yet To Come Mr. Justice McFarland says the slaughter on the highways is becoming becoming appalling. With a 50-mile speed limit and markers that cannot be read it is to be feared that the worst has not yet been seen.--Peterborough Examiner. Examiner. Thanksgiving In Oxford An old hymn for harvest thanksgiving thanksgiving runs: "The valleys stand so thick with corn that even they are singing." singing." The current report of the department department of agriculture says that in Oxford "a great many will have corn left Over • after silos are filled." -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Cruelties of Boycott A boycott against Japan because her military leaders are bombing China might work terrible hardships on the wage-slaves of Japanese industry, who, with business as it is, earn scarcely enough to keep body and soul together. Pressure on their country scarcely could drive them to revolt, while they are ip, the grip of military autocracy.--Hamilton Spectator. B--4 THE EMPIRE Sinned Against and Sinning One may spend an instructive five minutes in any busy thoroughfare in the city watching the human hens crossing tile road. They will step into a stream of fast-moving traffic with all the confidence of the children of Israel passing through Jordan. If there are traffic lights they ignore them. If there are pedestrian crossings they go out of their way to avoid them. There is scarcely a human foTy that can be committed in face of such a weapon of destruction as a bus that they fail to commit. Anri motorists, if they are sinned against, are themselves sinners, sinners, although the rigours of the law exact from them a higher sense of responsibility responsibility than pedestrians usually reveal. But if pedestrians are afraid to use Belislia crossings in Glasgow-- and there is no doubt that many are-- it is motorists who have made them so. One may see, too, without looking very carefully, many instances of selfish selfish and heedless driving by motorists who allow themselves to relax from the ceaseless vigilance and caution that is due from them as road users. --Glasgow Herald. China Unconquerable China is an awkward dish to swallow. swallow. Like a string of macaroni, she is too long to swallow whole, but also too tough to bite off short. If anyone anyone is rash enough to take one end between his teeth, lie finds himself forced to go on swallowing till lie chokes,--London Economist. Science Probes Human Radios Studies RemarkaM e Cases When Subconscious Mind Comtes to Surface A great stir among her neighbors was lately caused by a Polish girl who, when in a cataleptic trance, spoke fluently in both Latin and Hebrew, Hebrew, neither language being known to her in her normal state. Quite a number of such remarkable cases have been vouched for by unimpeachable witnesses, but no one with certainty has explained their cause. William James, the American philosopher, philosopher, tells of a: girl who when in a- trance spoke a language that none of her relations and friends could identify. identify. A Jewish scholar, however, recognized recognized her words as being sentences of the Hebrew Talmud. As the girl in question had once worked for a Rabbi it was suggested that she had from time to time heard him reciting the verses, and* that her subconscious mind had stored them up, releasing them by some trick of the mind when under the influence of a trance. James argued that whatever entered the memory memory remained there subconsciously, until circumstances brought about its release. Speak Strange Languages In a number of such cases, however, however, the person in the trance has uttered uttered words in a language or dialect with which he or she has had no possible possible link in a natural way. Perhaps, like a wireless receiving set, the human human mind can receive and radiate matter from distant and unknown sources when these are tuned in by some special set of circumstances. News In Brief toafi Attacks Contacte JERUSALEM. -- Elusive snipers kept alive the wave of terrorism in the Holy Land this week-end by a series of attacks in hallowed Biblical settings. The now attacks were a continuation continuation of the outbreaks which have resulted in thirty-nine deaths -- six Jews and thirty-three Arabs -- since Great Britain, as mandatory power, proposed the partition of Palestine July 7. Saxraut Appointed PARIS.--The French Government has announced that appointment of former Premier Albert Sarrau t as director director of French North African affairs resulted from a loss of power by local, authorities because of "too much interference interference and outside influence." The Cabinet named him to the new post and gave him powers of "control and co-ordination" of general policy ill North Africa. Italian Capital Taxed ROME--A 10 per cent, levy oil corporate corporate capital to provide funds for imperial imperial development in armaments was decreed by the Italian Council of Ministers Ministers this week. It is expected to raise between five and six billion lire. Turnover taxes were raised from 2% to 3 per cent, with minor stamp duties added. At the same time a move to attract foreign investors was made by fiscal concessions and freedom freedom from debt duties for 20 years, on capital coming to Italy before December December 31, 1939, together with a declaration declaration that such capital cannot be sequestrated sequestrated even in time of war, without without indemnity. Chinese Deliver Blow SHANGHAI. -- Chinese military sources report that China's northern northern armies, spearheaded by China's famed "Red Napoleon," Chu Teh, have delivered a stunning setback to the Japanese along a broken 500- mile front from Shansi to the sea. The reports said Chu Teh's veteran Eighth Routers, hard-bitten remnants of China's old "Red Army," had cut through the Shansi border into Hopei Hopei Province, and were attacking the Japanese from the rear. Secretary Hull Visits Canada OTTADA.--United States Secretary Secretary of State Cordell Hull, arrived at Ottawa on a visit to Governor- General Lord Tweesmuir, was given the usual colorful reception accorded distinguished guests. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Arthur Redfern, private secretary secretary to the Governor-General, headed headed a party of officials who greeted Secretary Hull when he stepped from his private car shortly after noon. Mussolini Backs Down LONDON. -- Premier Mussolini, running up against a dangerous British-French British-French front, suddenly dropped his defiant attitude and agreed this week to collaborate in a plan to withdraw his Fascist Blackshirts and other foreign "volunteers", from Spain. II Duee's conciliatory gesture, which came as a surprise even to Italian diplomats in Rome, held out hopes of solving a three-way deadlock deadlock with the Non-Intervention Committee Committee and averting a crisis crammed with possibilities of war. The Non-Intervention delegates, quick to seize upon Italy's consent to Sending a neutral "volunteers" commission to Spain at once, agreed that it constituted "a substantial degree degree of progress" and asked that immediate immediate steps be taken to put the proposals into operation. ; Bated in Gas Masks The British 'Home Office last week practised with babies in a nursing home at Hawksliurst, Kent, as models for fitting gas masks that will serve the rest of Great Britain's baby population population .in the event of an air raid. A very wise move on the part of the Home Office, we think, since should another war break out, is it not the babes in arms who will get the worst of it? Stock Market. Toboggans Weakened by a steady retreat since mid-August, the New York, Montreal and Toronto stock markets went down before a selling whirlwind, last week into the worst crash in more than four years. Losses in some leading industrial industrial issues mounted as high as $10 a share, and sixty-five per cent, of the gains of the past two years were wiped out. Though the cause of the crash largely remains a mystery, some authorities blamed the undue optimism optimism at the beginning of 1937, and the excessively glowing reports on business business that were made at that time. President Roosevelt refused to intervene, intervene, would not close the New York exchange nor lift trading restrictions. The day following the crash, however, saw a revival of the market when huge international investment trusts with billions of dollars in resources stepped in and bought from speculators who were frantic to sell. It was feared in some quarters that a major depression would follow close upon the crash, but it is now pretty generally felt that the set-back is only temporary. Asks Improved Banking System President Roosevelt speaking at ceremonies dedicating the new Federal Federal Reserve Building at Washington declared that the Government of the United States must improve and coordinate coordinate credit machinery if it is to "achieve and maintain an enduring prosperity, free from the disastrous extremes of booms and depressions." The banking system will have to be further improved, he said. May Solve Our Biggest Problem Canada's "greatest problem," finding finding a satisfactory basis for relations Rat-proof, Fireproof Garments Fashioned by Secret Process A now and secret process has just been perfected by use of which seaweed seaweed from the Thames and Tlianet shores in England, can be turned into fabrics of various kinds, suitable for the manufacture of garments, upholstery upholstery and boots. The new fabric is rot-proof, fireproof, and sound-proof. Also it is cheaper than any other fabric fabric at present used in these various lines. The manufacturers of this seaweed seaweed fabric are Mr. J. S. Campbell and Mr. F. S. Arthutbnot, who are opening a special factory at Gravesend to deal with cargoes of Thames weed. Peggot- ty's Boathouse, famous in Dickens' "David Copperfield," which stands on tile edge of Gravesend Canal, is to he. turned into a canteen for the seaweed workers. Already seaweed is put to a number of uses. Twenty tons of seaweed, dried in,the sun and then burned, yield one ton of kelp, a product used in the manufacture manufacture of soap and glass, as a fertilizer, fertilizer, and for the extraction of iodine. between the Dominion and the -Provinces--in -Provinces--in other words, "keeping Canada Canada united"--may be solved by the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Dominion-Provincial Relations, headed by Chief Justice Row.ell, in the opinion of Federal Federal Revenue -Minister, isley, just returned returned from a conference at Geneva, Switzerland. "At the present time," he said, "we have an outbreak of sectionalism sectionalism in Alberta that is formidable." Campaign Against CzechoaL^ la Germany this week intimated~EBat it will not cease its "aggressive menacing menacing press campaign" against the Czechoslovakian Government as long as the Czech police continue,to down pro-Nazi demonstrations in that country. country. The German Government alleges that the German minority in Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia are receiving brutal treatment treatment at tile hands of the policed The pro-Nazi agitation in Czechoslovakia has, of course, the approval of the German Government which hopes to gain independence for the region in which, most of the Czech-German minority minority live. Italy Capitulates Finding that he could no longer stall on the Spanish war participation issue, Mussolini, after giving all the countries countries of the world a bad scare last week, dropped his defiant attitude and agreed to co-operate in clearing Spain of "volunteer" foreign troops. Faced up against a formidable British-French front, he discovered that withdrawal from his belligerent attitude vas the only way out. Thus another crisis crammed with possibilities of war was averted. Kellogg Brands Japa' - Declaring that he could. x -J Japan's present policy in .«ha "neither With the letter nor spirit of the Keilogg-Briand Peace Pact," Frank B. Kellogg, co-author of the pact, and former U. S. Secretary of State, said at St. Paul, Minnesota, last week, that the hope of the world for peace depends depends upon the faithful adherence of nations to their plighted word. The, society of nations can exist only upon a foundation of mutual confidence, he believes. tresses, chairs and cushions; in making making certain kinds of paper, and for gelatine. gelatine. l>3ii.jS§§ Now Dead In Spanish w ar •Since the Outbreak of the Conflict At least 1,310,000 persons have been killed on both sides since the start of the Spanish civil war, according to a United Press source in Madrid who asserted he had access to secret figures figures compiled for the loyalist cabinet. The compilation was made by a group of army medical officers, police and labor union and political leaders. The report was summarized as follows: follows: Killed in action--loyalists 110,000; insurgents 250,000. Killed behind the lines--loyalists 500,000; insurgents 400,000. (The total excluded civilians killed by bombs and shells but included those executed). Civilians killed in air raids and bombardments bombardments -- loyalists 50,000; insurgents insurgents 10,000. Seaweed Suits Seaweed is also used for stuffing mat- THE WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum Copyrighted 1032, Keilly & Lee Co. Mm §« : v.V"\ - G-V'G Billina had been picking crumbs from the floor. Now she was getting sleepy, so, spying a hole underneath the King's rocky throne, she crept into into it, unnoticed by any of her friends. She could hear the chattering of those around her, but it was almost dark in this rocky nest, so she was soon fast asleep. ' Next,": called the King, anrl the private, whose turn it was to enter the fatal palace, shook hands with Dorothy and the Scarecrow, bade them à sorrowful good-bye and passed through the rocky portal. They waited a long time, for the private was in no hurry to become an ornament and made his guesses very slowly. The Ghqmo. King, who seemed to know by some magic all that took place iii his palace, finally grew impatient impatient and declared he would wait no longer. "I love ornaments," said he, yawning, "but I can wait until tomorrow tomorrow to gqt more of them. As soon as that stupid private is transformed, we will go to bed and leave the job , to be finished tomorrow." Indeed it was not long- after t., ' > that the private made his last guess and became an ornament. So the King clapped his hands to summon the ciiief Steward. "Show these guests to some sleeping rooms," lie commanded, commanded, "and he quick about It." "You've no business to sit up so late," replied the Steward, "you will be as cross as a <griffln In the morning."