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1 'k EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA It May Come to Pass The best thing that could happen the world would be for United States to come to the belief that a definite alliance with Britain would be as much to her benefit as that of Britain--and Britain--and it may come to that--Port Arthur News-Chronicle. The "Unemployable®" When work has, been found for all employable persons in Canada, something, something, will have to be done, for the "unemployables," and that should be done, not only by state aid, but by re-training such men and women for positions they can fill in spite of physical handicaps. -- Niagara Falls Review.. Despotism of Patronage •- In Ottawa certainly the belief is general that there is a patronage authority to prevent men from getting getting work unless they are on the same side in politics as the party in office. It is an appalling .condition in the public service of Canada when men can. be threatened with dismissal dismissal from such work as cleaning the windows of government offices at the whim of some local patronage despot. It could only be done with the connivance of a permanent civil servant.---Ottawa Citizen.. Have The Better Minds Women, or woman's point of view, Will eventually, rule, in North America. America. .because the male mind is too • laden" with fetishes, complexes and bigotry to*, carry -thé burden of civilization civilization to its ultimate goal. Woman's mind thinks of life, in terms of people and ' individuals. Man's mind thinks of life in ternis of fictitious symbols, such as political theories that have no foundation: in fact and movements which : cist only in the besotted imagination--Vancouver imagination--Vancouver Sun. *1 ! P , c T o' Basis Having in mini1 the contre fies over housing programmes in.-v^çtfiîa, it occurs that the Success <: of" slum clearance and cheap housing; in England, England, is in large measure' due to the assessment policy. Alt least so far as private capital is concerned there Is less risk to investment in low-cost housing, where the charges against it are levied in terms of the revenue- earning capacity of the property. It might easily be that reform, rather than revision and reduction, is the tax solution Canada seeks.---Toronto Globe and Mail:. Marriage Isi The Country That country young people have an advantage over city folks in Choosing wives is the contention of A.. Walker, C.P.R. General Freight Agent at Toronto. Says.he: "In the country young ladies have been raised with the young men of their community. They know whether 01' not they are good workers ; Whether or not they will be good providers; they know their dispositions dispositions and their habits, and they have 6 keen appreciation of . the young men's problems." This may be one of the reasons Why fewer farm than city marriages. go on the rocks.--- The Midland Free Press. (That Funeral Chill A local clergyman tells us that he goes without a hat every day so that fee will not catch cold at f unerals. He is going to all that trouble to protect his health. Very wisely, perhaps. But in our opinion, the practice of especially with persons who work in Sold weather, is entirely uncalled for, especially wit persons who work indoors. indoors. We are glad to observe that many funeral directors nowadays instruct instruct those taking part not to remove. remove. their hats. The other day we Were present at a funeral when the undertaker said: --"Keep your hats On, gentlemen. You are. paying- no, disrespect to the dead by protecting pour health." Many a man would be alive today who was the victim of a Well-intentioned act in removing his feat before a chilly blast that swept tile cemetery.-- : St. Marys Journal- Argus. Mr. John E vison, J.P. of Heming- îo.rd Grey, England, is buying himself » gift for his 93rd birthday -- a new bicycle. He has just travelled 800' fellies in Ms new car -- alone. B--4 " THE EMPIRE Benefits of Immigration If more people came into the country. country. the broad effect would be to enlarge enlarge the local market. New Zealand might find herself consuming more of her primary produce, leaving smaller surpluses to dispose of in the crowded crowded markets overseas. Similarly local manufacturers would have a larger domestic demand to supply. Important Important industries, especially those organized organized oil a large-scale to .turn out heavy goods or to fill a mass, standardized demand, would find it economic to start in New Zealand. Around. them would be built up subsidiary industries. industries. In its turn industry would stimulate stimulate the distributive trades, more shops and shopkeepers, larger offices and office staffs, more calls on transport transport and workers. And the newcomers would have to be fed and clothed, housed and educated and entertained. A whole new and invigorating cycle of. progress would start to revolve. The overhead of public services--railways, services--railways, roads, harbours, power schemes, and' all the rest, representing national capitalization for a much larger population--the population--the burden of this overhead would be progressively reduced and the people move forward with lighter step:--Auckland (N.Z.) Nows, | Mews In Erie! ~f Cl'imese Trapped ■ ■ NANKING.---A." Japanese drive to- . ward WrJui, Yangtze River port 60 miles southwest of Nanking, threatened threatened last week-end to bottle up thousands thousands of Chinese troops defending the nation's capital. Chinese commanders were expected to disclose Boon whether they will follow follow advice of foreign military experts and save a dozen of their strongest divisions by immediate withdrawal or stake all on a finish fight just outside , the - City walls. Retreat under fire would be virtually impossible across the: broad Yangtze, .north ami west of Nanking. .There are no bridges and river Graft would be at the mercy of Japan's warplanes. To Singapore and Back SOUTHAMPTON. -- The Imperial Airways seaplane "Cordelia" landed here this week-end, completing a 16,- t,i)0 mile test flight from Great Britain to Singapore and back. The return trip took a little more than six days. Purge Continues MOSCOW.---The round-ujp of suspected suspected enemies of the Soviet regime will continue, 1 Tarda, Communist party newspaper declared this week on the third anniversary of the assassination assassination of Sergei Mironovich Kir- off. The killing of Klroff, Joseph Stalin's chief lieutenant, started the purge. More than 700 have been executed in the last -six months. « Livestock Loss Feared REGINA. -- Ice has formed over Southern Saskatchewan ranges to make it difficult for cattle and other livestock to reach the short stubble and Russian thistle which provides the major portion of their winter fodder. fodder. Colonies Germany 'Wants LONDON. -- The suggestion that Germany's demands for the return .of Lay Corner Stone ' 7 For New College St. Hilda's, Trinity College, Toronto, Toronto, Will Be Completed In August, 193S The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new St, Hilda's College building on Devonshire Place, Toronto, was held on Saturday, November 27. The stone was laid by Miss Mabel Cartwright, LL.D., Principal of St. Hilda's College from 1903 to 1936. The new building will have accommodation accommodation for seventy-five students together together with the necessary staff. It will include also a dining hall, a chapel, a large recreation room with platform to be known as Cartwright Hall, a library and two common rooms. St, Hilda's College is affiliated with Trinity College in the University of Toronto. The students receive their instruction in the University of Toronto Toronto and Trinity College. They receive receive their degrees from the Univer- - sity of Toronto. The new building will be completed in August, 1938, and will be ready for occupation in September. It will be : a notable addition to the buildings of Trinity College and, will provide in a very adequate way for the.accommodation the.accommodation of its women students. In September, 1938, St. Hilda's College College will celebrate its Golden Jubilee as it was founded in 1888. During this period of fifty years it has had only three principals, Miss Patteson (afterwards (afterwards Mrs: Rigby), Miss Cartwright and Mrs. W. A. Kirkwood. The last named was appointed Principal in 1936. Prince Improving AMSTERDAM. Prince Consort Bernhard Zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, who was injured in an automobile accident last week ■ is considerably improved. Crown Princess Juliana, who is expecting expecting the birth of an heir to the throne early next year, remained at the hospital" hospital" and assisted in caring for her husband. Suing Stokowski for .Divorce LÂS VEGAS," Nev,--The frequently denied separation of the Leopold Stokowskis was confirmés tills week when thé famed concert conductor's wife filed Suit for divorce. She had been a resident of Nevada": six weeks. She charged. the Philadelphia orchestra orchestra leader with,, extreme cruelty. Although a waiver and a stipulation denying the charge was filed by Stokowski's Stokowski's attorney, C. D, Breeze, he said the action would be uncontented. Aiming' at Canton SHANGHAI .---Japan last week-end was reported to have landed 50,000 soldiers in South China in an apparent" apparent" drive on the metropolis, of Canton, a principal source of Chinese military supplies. Foreign military attaches said that if Canton is taken, a vital blow will be struck at the huge trade of the British Crown colony of Hong Kong, Already tense relations between London and Tokio were strained further. Hong Kong exists almost exclusively exclusively on commerce with Canton, the financial financial and commercial centre of South China, Eastern. Air Terminus OTTAWA.--Transport Minister C. I). Howe said last week Moncton would he the terminus of the Trans- Canada Airlines in the Maritime Provinces Provinces and the hub of feeder services "connecting with other points in the three Eastern provinces. The Minister said that 'planes flying flying the Eastern leg of. the line would halt at Moncton and .that feeder lines would be established to, Saint John, Charlottetown, Halifax and Sydney. highlights of the news ♦ a commentary on outstanding events ♦ by jane fortune TWO DICTATORS: Vernon Bartlett whoso Sunday commentaries on the news you have doubtless heard coming- coming- over the air waves from England has written a book on his journalistic experiences, high-spotting his encounters encounters with European "big men." Contrasting Contrasting Hitler and Mussolini, he declares declares that Der Fuehrer is an orator always, even when alone with him self ; that 11 Duce i private life appears appears to be an approachable, very intelligent man whose judgment in conversation commands respect-- when addressing an audience, he becomes becomes unreal, bombastic, full of platitudes. platitudes. We are here reminded of the story of how Hitler began his rise to power: power: shortly after the war ended, he chanced to bo one of a gathering in a Bierstube listening to a soap-box orator hold his hearers spellbound. "I can do that," said Hitler to himself. himself. Which he did. And there's a career in a nutshell ! KE f POSITION : In the new trade negotiations now going forward between between Great Britain and the United States, Canada holds the key position, says the Financial Post. The impending impending deal, so it is claimed, finds Use Dominion in the place of one who has an option that can be swapped i<r ns A FACT By KEN EDWARDS This series of chats, about boxing and the arrival of jack Dempsey in our town the other day to referee a wrestling wrestling match seems to be a kind of coincidence. coincidence. Well, if it's O.K. with Dempsey, who is now recovering from acute appendicitis appendicitis since his trip here, we'll continue a synopsis of official boxing rules or notes on what to do and what not to do in and around a ring. . 1. When à contestant is down, his opponent shall retire to the farthest neutral corner arid remain there until until the count is completed. Should he fail to do so, the referee and timekeeper timekeeper may cease counting until he has so retired. Should a contestant who is down arise before the count of ten is reached reached and again go down intentionally, without being .struck, the referee and timekeeper shall resume the count where it left off.» Should a contestant leave the ring during the one minute period between rounds and fail to be in the ring when the gong goes to resume boxing, boxing, the referee shall count him out, the same as if he were down. And so folks, until next week, if Ali Baba is still matched around these parts, I'll be back with wrestling wrestling notes. So long. The imaginary lines known as the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Capricorn, are so named because the sun, when farthest north, is In the sign of Cancer, and, when farthest south, is in the sign of Sapricorus, l'or valuable concessions; practically nothing can be -done without this country's approval; and Canada will undoubtedly have the final word. Although the new trade pacts in the proposed three-way arrangement may result in no great economic benefits, it is thought that the political effects of such an agreement will be far- reaching. When the Fascist nations see the two richest countries of the \ world joined as links in an economic chain, they will be obliged to pause and reflect before initiating any new aggression. Therefore in the long run it is believed that the coming agree-, ment may lend a much-needed stability stability to the wavering cause of world peace. FLAVOUR OF SAVAGERY: And speaking once more of dictators, which would you rather have, Mussolini, Mussolini, or his sons, Vittorio and Bruno ? The man who plans the wars of aggression, aggression, or the ones who take an active part in the slaughter ? Last week Son Vittorio announces to the world that "war is the quintessence quintessence of beauty" and "bombing" is magnificent sport." Says Vittorio further in describing the Abyssinian campaign : "I remember that one' group of horsemen gave me the impression impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst. It was ex- ceptioally good fun and they were easy to hit, offered a perfect target." This week his father backs up Japan's Japan's claims of victory over a helpless China. QUINTS AREN'T ENOUGH: Speaking Speaking before the recent meeting of the Ontario Associated Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, E, L. Banner, of the North Bay Board of Trade, said; "The thousands of tourists tourists who come up here to see the .Quintuplets, turn around and ask us if we have nothing" else to show-them." Continuing, "They want to see some of our northern wild life, but the chances of catching a glimpse of a "deer along the Ferguson Highway these days-are very slim." The creation creation of a wild life preserve in the vicinity vicinity of the Timagami Forest Reserve was then suggested and a resolution" passed to that effect. In starting the new preserve, the primary. aim is to. please the public, but as the scheme progresses, another end will come in view--that our northern northern forests may once again abound with wild life. "NEAR REVOLT": Britain has so many troubles these days, in Palestine, Palestine, at home and in the Far East, that the possibility of India's being on the brink of revolution is given little prominence in the news. There may not be a great deal behind them, but the" statements, of the President of the Nationalist All-India Congress party last week bear looking into. Addressing Addressing a gathering of 5,000 students at Allahabad University, he told them that India is on the brink of revolution. revolution. He asserted villagers were 'marvellously organized." Nationwide Nationwide discipline, he said, is needed to face a "crisis which would not necessarily necessarily be caused by foreign invasion," A venerable old man with a flowing flowing white beard was stopped in the street at Cairo by a police officer. Woven into the hairs of his beard, and cunningly hidden, was a packet of heroin. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ MB[ 1 "XPAC1 ■& m sroosa Kills It might easily have been ry>e end of Gzma of Oz, had she been a real grasshopper instead of an emerald. But Billina found the grasshopper hard arid lifeless arid suspecting- it was not good to eat, she quickly dropped it instead of letting it slide down Jter throat.' Then she: coughed loudly several times. "I might have" known better," she muttered to herself, "for where there is no grass there cannot bp grass- ; hoppers, It is 'probably one of the King's transformations." Then she •• approached one of the purple . ornaments ornaments and while the "Queen watched her, the hen -broke thenehnntinen: and a sweet--faced Lttle girl stood beside them. "Evanna," cried the Queen, as she clasped the girl to her bosom. Ip a short time Billina had restored all : the royal family of Ev to their proper proper forms,' and now she began on the green oriiiriicnts, which were',the Oz -, . o_ by B, i r :■ her: all of the officers ■" ■"•"' f-:> wçre restored to their 1 - O, , r fo, l;u-. : "Now," said Billina, "I must find Ozma. Look around you stupid ' soldiers soldiers and help me find her." For a while they could discover nothing , more that was green. Then the Queen said! "Maybe it is the grasshopper:" grasshopper:" "Of course it is the grasshopper!" grasshopper!" exclaimed Billina. "I am nearly as., stupid as these brave soldiers. soldiers. Wait, I'll get it."