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EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, CANADA Most Dangerous Motorist The most dangerous motorist is neither the drunk nor incompetent but the exhibitionist--the chap who has an exaggerated sense of his own Importance when he gets behind the Steering wheel, and insists on driving with that sense of his importance as his ruling motive. This verdict is returned by Dr. C. H. Watson, of the American National Safety Council. "Safety is a question of performance," performance," says Dr. Watson. "Because people know what they should do, does not mean that they will do it." One needs to drive only a little while to understand the truth of what Dr. Watson says. The man who weaves in and out of traffic lanes, passes other cars on curves or hills, cuts in suddenly, crashes lights and Ignores stop signs, is displaying all the stigmata of the man who has set himself himself tip on a pedestal. He also provides provides the set-up for most of our accidents accidents Guelph Mercury, A Silly Custom - An Essex (England) rector finds fault with confetti at weddings and In future will require a deposit of five shillings. If no confetti is thrown in the churchyard, the deposit will be returned. returned. But if confetti is thrown, enough of the deposit will be used to pay for cleaning up the mess. We are all for the rector in this matter. Confetti-throwing is a silly and annoying custom. It causes serious serious embarrassment in many cases. And it certainly litters up churches, homes, yards and railway stations. Though some light-hearted persons may complain, nothing would be lost If confetti were abolished.--Windsor Daily Star. Ineqtiai Inequality We are not opposed to equality for women but it does seem they have a lot more equality than we men have.-- Brandon Sun. Talking .Out of Turn Not so loud a ho hi Germany's colonies, colonies, Mr, Blackshirt Mussolini. When you geeva da Tyrol back to Austria there will be plenty of time to talk about what the Mistress of the Seas ought to do regarding Germany. -- Hamilton Spectator. The Money Rolls In Beet and grain cheques are. making life brighter for the man on the land ill Southwestern Alberta. After all, wealth comes from production, though there are times in the ebb and flow of prices when production brings less than the grower is entitled to receive. --Lethbridge Herald. Dionne Reciprocity Papa Dionne bought the Christmas presents for the Quints in the United States. That is only reciprocity, the 1T.S.A. having contribute,;- much to Papa in the wherewithal With which to buy presents.--St. Catharines Standard. Standard. Doleful Thought A constant theme of pulpi t, pi ess and platform in these days of worldwide worldwide strife and dissension is tie throat and the possibility of the collapse collapse of civilization. May it not be that the collapse lias already arrived?--Halifax arrived?--Halifax Herald. Time For Talk It is one of the tragedies of democracy democracy that it requires an. eternity of talk as prelude to a moment of ac- tion.--London Observer. Rome-Berlin Axis What, then, is the truth about Mussolini's policy, in which the outpourings outpourings of his tied press have their part? He is playing at power-politics. He believes that his situation is tactically very strong, and can be further exploited exploited by a shrewd diplomacy. And so he is making use of every device of bluff, every resource which lias nuisance value, every manoeuvre which a troubled European situation opens up to him, in order to extend his power and buttress his position. He derives considerable assistance from the fact that his fellow-dictator, fellow-dictator, Hitler, is playing exactly the same game. We have, therefore, that remarkable remarkable joint, bluff, the Rome Berlin axis. Germany and Italy, divided ultimately ultimately by divergent interests, rig up a facade of unity. This is the Rome-Berlin axis. It is made of plaster, plaster, not of steel.--London Evening Standard. Australia Looks at Canada Sir Harry and Lady Chauvel came back by the Canadian route. Sir Harry Harry saw nothing of the army and air force in Canada, the staff being mostly' mostly' away, on manoeuvres, which were too far afield for him to visit. He saw a great deal of the Royal Canadian Canadian Mounted Police, of which his o'd friend, Major-Generâl Sir James Mac- Brien, is commissioner. They are a very fine body of men, and their detachment detachment at the Coronation shared the honor with our own men of the best reception of all the Dominion troops in the procession. They have a very attractive upifprm, and wore mounted on their own horses, which made a. lot of difference, Sir Harry was impressed with the evidence of prosperity which met them everywhere everywhere in Canada except in the western western prairies. He found Canadians much more concerned at the world situation than we are, and everywhere he went he was asked what the people people of Australia thought about it. -- Australasian (Melbourne). Blind Student Hurdles Five F&ot Ten Bar Chauncy Hahn, twenty-two year- old Washington State College Student Student from Spokane, although virtually virtually blind, maintains a scholastic average of eighty-six and takes an active part in university sports. Although handicapped by not being being able to see the bar, Hahn high jumps 5 feet 10 inches and has run the 100-yard dash in .09.9 seconds. Track, Coach Karl Sehlademan is grooming Hahn to clear the bar at 6 feet. Hahn had formerly attended attended the Washington State school for the Blind at Vancouver, Washington. Washington. He took an active part in sports there. Instead of white lines being used to designate the lanes to runners, they use strings suspended between 'thé. distance markers. B 4 •glaF* warai Novel Device /MJtomatical'y Notifies Notifies Police, as Hands' Are Placed on Safe An ingenious telephone alarm which automatically "phones" a message message to police headquarters whenever a burglary is being perpetrated forms the subject matter of a patent just granted post-humously to Ralph W. Carnahan, Shaker Heights, Onio. The moment the burglar lays his hand on safe or cash register, the mechanism automatically dials police headquarters and a phonograph-like device attached to the telephone broadcasts a predetermined hold-up message recorded on a disk into the telephone. Burglar Doesn't Suspect The unusual thing about the mechanism mechanism is that the burglar does not know that he himself is warning police, police, since the operation of the alarm is silent. There is no disturbanee : of any kind that would make him suspicious suspicious of the fact that an alarm is being broadcast. The new telephone alarm may be also directly connected to the police radio broadcasting transmitter, so that the message on the record is broadcast directly to scout cars cars which might happen to be in the vicinity of the burglary. News ! in Brie F • ^ 'Wed in AKfirnkg. LONDON.--His bride of a few hours in tears and wearing mourning, Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse started for Ostend this week-end on _a sad honeymoon--to claim the bodies of his entire immediate family, whe perished perished in a flaming airplane there. The Grand Duke and Ms bride, Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes, were married at St. Peter's Church in Eaton Square. It was a strange wedding. Rejoicing was replaced by sorrow and the wedding gowns with sombre black. Canada's Death Rate OTTAWA--Canada's 1936 death roil was 106,617, according to preliminary preliminary figures published in the animal animal report of the National Health Department. This represented a ration ration of 9.7 per thousand of popula- lation. , The highest rate was in Prince Edward Edward Island, 11.1, and the lowest in Saskatchewan, 6.7. The Quints' -Education NEW YORK.--When the Dionne quintuplets reach school-age, possibly possibly in a year and a half, when they will be five, they will learn their A. B.C.'s in a classroom built with the money their fame brought them. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said here that their education would be interfered with if they went to a regular school like other children. He told a press conference that because the five little little sisters of Callander, Ont, "are in the same class as princesses, fated to live in the spotlight all their lives," they would have to be educated by private tutors. Labor "Ginger" Party - LONDON..--The Labor Party this week announced its new front bench to put more "ginger" in its attacks on the Government. But it turned out; to be much the same front bench that has faced the National Government Government across the House of Commons since the 1935 election, and even before. before. Si a commentary ©n outstanding events y ne SPORTS: Ihà November season of pheasant shoots: brings its annual crop of cruelty stories, tales of ' sportsmen" who "fish" for birds by placing baited hooks on wire fences, or drive wounded birds into the lake forcing them to drown. In Essex County Court this week, William William Ferguson, Pelee Island farmer, denounced the hunters as "maniacs" and "savages," claiming that two men had shot his chickens along with wild pheasants. Another story tells of two hunters who ignored a "No Trespassing" Trespassing" sign on a certain farmer's property, property, pursued a pheasant to the farmer's farmer's very back door, turned deaf ears to his pleas that they spare its life. The bird was a family pet, tame for many years. Poor sportsmanship, we call it. More game wardens are needed who will take an active interest interest in their job and put a stop to such vandalism. THOSE ELECTION SPEECHES: The Canadian Broadcasting Commission Commission is celebrating its first birthday with a conference on the many and complex problems which have come before the board during the past year. One of the most important questions to be discussed is the broadcasting of political speeches during election campaigns," campaigns," those speeches that were such a headache to nine-tenths of the people people who listened in this September and October. Many these are who actually enjoyed the broadcasts, who appear grateful for the political information information they derived therefrom, but judging by the number of protests received received by Major W. E. Gladstone Murray, Murray, the Commission's General Man 1 tiger, it is pretty generally felt that tile candidates and their backers were wasting both time and money in monopolizing monopolizing the air waves, A "ginger group" of twelve was elected to sit with Clement Attlee, Leader of the Opposition; Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader; the party party Whips, and the Executive Committee. Committee. Winners at Royal TORONTO.--To United States and Manitoba went the top awards in the female classes as the judging of the largest showing of Belgian horses that has ever been forwarded at the Royal Winter Fair was completed. Senior and grand champion mare was the 8-year-old Aida de Bierbeek, shown by Sugar Grove Farm, Aurora, 111. Their yearling filly, Madelene Supreme, was the reserve junior champion, and they also had the winner winner of the class of sixteen yeld mares. Japs Make for Nanking _ SHANGHAL---Warships of Japan's third battle fleet this week-end blasted blasted away Chinese obstructions in the channel of the Yangtse River above Shanghai opening the way for a naval naval bombardment of China's devastated devastated central capital--Nanking. The Chinese, fearing more Japanese Japanese aerial bombings in advance of. the impeding naval attacks, hastened their partial evacuation of the capital capital and made last-minute changes in their plans to continue the war, despite despite the crushing defeats they have suffered around Shanghai and in the northern Provinces. They sail seventy seventy Japanese warships were in the lower Yangtse. VACANT SPOTS: Speaking in Winnipeg last week, Right Hon. R. B. Bennett declared that the British Dominions must build up their populations populations and fill in the vacant spots towards which the jealous eyes of other less fortunate countries are now turning. Question: How shall we fill these "vacant spots" in a hurry? Mr. Bennett's solution to the problem is Empire co-operation, by which he means, no doubt, encouragement of emigration from the more crowded areas of Britain's domains. CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE: -- France, one of Europe's few remaining remaining democracies, has her own troubles, troubles, Since the fall of Blum's Popular Front government this summer, they have increased a hundred fold in view of the fact that the present administration administration headed by Premier Camille Chautemps is neither definitely of the Left nor of the Right, but is at the mercy of both factions. Every now and then Rightist agitators, believed to be backed by Fascist interests, are arrested when authorities come upon a cache of arms, a bomb-proof shelter. Rumors are now current that the Rightists are preparing a "putsch" against the government. Too many issues are involved for Blum's Socialists to attempt at this time to regain the seat of government. A revolution such as that of 1789 would have to be faced, with international international complications too drastic to contemplate. CANADIAN CAPITAL: We have been hearing a great deal the past few years about the domination of Canadian industry by American capital. capital. Refutation of that idea is made this week by the Secretary of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, D. H. Ward, who addressed a service club in Leicester, England. Says Mr. Ward: Of every $100 invested in Canadian Canadian industry, $70.00 is Canadian, $21,14 American and $7.92 from the United Kingdom. He declares that there are about 1,400 United States controlled or affiliated companies in Canada, but .only 08 per cent, of them are ■ manufacturing concerns. Of capital capital invested in. these companies, only 38 per cent, is in manufacturing. The minority interest in these companies, coming to about 22 per Cent,, is chiefly Canadian, he says. Cheering news, this! We may now begin to hold up our heads. PASSING THE BUCK: It's happened happened again! Deadlocked, the Nine- Power Conference meeting at Brussels Brussels to settle the question of the Sino- Jap conflict, had to give up trying to mediate in tote. In the first place, they were powerless because Japan refused to have anything to do with the Conference, would consider none of its proposals. When Ambassador Norman Davis of the United States I made a rather non-committal speech inferring that action should be taken against Japan, it was immediately seized upon as the opening all had been waiting for. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden immediately let it be known that Britain would follow the American lead, The United States then accepted the appointment as Committee of One, backed by Britain and France, to take fitting steps to end the war in China. But before the United States can institute any steps, Congress will have to be agreeable, Do yon think they will do anything! Frankly, we don't. ? ©Merlan WffÇM HÜ mÈÊMIlm mm» I il Wmm C6pytighW19S'2, Rdily & Led Go. i : Il r 1 ' 1 /, 'iL. mm The yellow hen, stepping high and with an air of vast importance, walked walked slowly over the rich velvet carpets carpets of the palace, examining everything everything she met with a sharp eye. Billina had a right to feel important. important. She alone shared the Gnome King's secret and knew which objects were the transformations of her friends. She was very sure that her guess would be correct, but before she began began she was curious to behold all the magnificence of this underground palace palace Which was perhaps One of the most splendid and beautiful places in any fairyland. As she went through the rooms she counted the purple ornaments and found the entire ten. Billina did not bother to count the green ornaments or the gold ones that she knew to bo transformations' of the Qz people. She was sure she could find them all when, the time came. But she did try to find the Tin Woodman,; who she 'had heard the Gnome King describe as something very funny. Finally, having made a survey of the entire palace and enjoyed its splendor, the yejlow hen returned to one of the rooms where she had noticed noticed a large purple foot-stool. She placed her claw on this 1 and said "Ev" and at once the foot-stool vanished'and vanished'and a lovely lady, tali and slender slender and most beautifully robed stood •lefore her.