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EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE. THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA Government Ad Abaurdum That the number of Canadian governing governing bodies--58,000--could be cut Jjy two-thirds or at least by half must be apparent to every serious citizen taking the time took over the situation. situation. Indeed, the more one thinks of it the greater the puzzle becomes. Why have we been so cool and indifferent indifferent toward the building up of such a vast number of organizations to handle handle public money? No matter how good the intention, you must have serious overlapping and extravagance under such a system.--Windsor Star. Till the Next Depression But it is all very discouraging to the man on the street. While the depression depression was at its height--or should it ho depth?---we used to hear politicians politicians and money magnates declare that a new system would have to be devised so that such a disaster could never, never occur again. Cheerfully, Cheerfully, as the curve of business swung Upward, they began to present us each with his own plan for assuring future immunity from the unhappier consequences consequences of the economic cycle. And now when we believe we have emerged from the woods what do we find? The reformers are putting their plans back into pigeon holes and the financiers are in a huddle talking of how to soften soften the blow when the next depression comes.--Calgary Albertan. Worthwhile Hobby Mrs. Albert Matthews, new "first lady" of Ontario, admits her most important important hobby is her husband. Husbands Husbands in general will appreciate such leadership.--Niagara Falls Review, Sensible Decision Able-bodied single men who refuse to work in Northern Ontario timber and pulpwood camps are refused relief relief by the Government. It. is a sensible sensible decision.--Ottawa Journal. Cacada'a Farmers Lead Canada has retained the world wheat championship at the Chicago International Exhibition. In addition the crowns for barley and oats have come to this country. Canadian farmers farmers are still second to none.--London none.--London Free Press. A Super-Toothache The international situation is like an ulcerated jaw. And It starts up reflex reflex actions in three teeth, Italy, Germany Germany and Japan, either singly of all together,, so that one doesn't know exactly exactly where to lay the finger on the cause. It is a super toothache.--Hamilton toothache.--Hamilton Spectator, Home-Owners Wanted Not quite half of the householders of Stratford now own their homes. Moreover, tile trend is downward. Which is not a healthful situation, A community of home-owners is the ideal toward which eiyic administration administration should direct its efforts.--Stratford efforts.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. Sports and Morals A sporting city is generally a good moral city. The promotion of sports is both a civic and social duty. You promote civic patriotism by keeping the boys interested in home sports, Be ft good sport and support the games. A good bunch of rooters helps to create a winning .spirit, -- Guelph Mercury. THE EMPIRE Anglo-U.S. Deal Britain will make a trade pact with the United States. There are many reasons for welcoming it. Friendship follows trade, and Britain and America America need to be friends. The talks on which the terms of this New Deal will be based have been communicated to the Dominion Governments. At all stages they have been informed and, so far, no objections. British trade policy now rests (since the Ottawa Trade Treaties 1832) on three bases. First comes the British producer; next the Empire producer; third the foreign foreign producer. If the new pact gives preference to the Americans - above all other non-British traders, the Daily Express will welcome it. There are ways in which American industry and agriculture are complementary to our own. But let's be plain. Ottawa stands.--London Daily Express, Sees Two Menaces An amusing commentary of these claims to champion mankind against the Soviet menace is forthcoming in resolutions passed by a body calling itself the India Independence League of Japan, with headquarters at Tokio. This body, whose president is Mr. Rash Bihari Bose--a character whose patriotism is shown by the fact that he has become a naturalized Japanese Japanese citizen--has resolved as follows. "Whereas true happiness and contentment contentment cannot reign among the peoples of Asia till British Imperialistic and Russian Communistic influence and domination are completely put an end to . . . this League hereby earnestly requests China to cease hostilities immediately, immediately, make up with Japan, and present a united front against British Imperialism and Russian Communism, both of which are a great menace to humanity."--Times of India. Camion Bites Core ,R From Ocean Floor New Method ' Aids Study cf World's Evolution Through Past Ages A "cannon" which shoots itself into into the ocean floor is throwing new light on the earth's past, Dr, Charles S. Piggott of the Carnegie Institution Institution said at Washington, D.C. The cannon, a, highly specialized piece of artillery, is lowered from a ship on a long cable. When the muzzle muzzle strikes bottom a trigger sets off a charge of powder, driving the gun into the ocean. floor. The .barrel ; bites out a vertical core, or sample, of the sediment, much as an apple eorer operates. Record of the Deep During millions of years, a continuous continuous record of the changes the planet has undergone has been kept in the sediment. The record consists of rocks, pebbles and sand brought by ice, clay and mud carried by rivers and ocean currents, and skeletons of marine organisms which evolved into various forms. Among other things, the cores so far examined have shown that there were successions of cold and warm eras. This was indicated by the remains remains of tiny sea creatures in the mud at different levels. Some are known to exist only in warm water; others can live only in cold. Spâilisli- Galleon • Wreck'Uncovered ïs • Being Dug Up Near Puerto Rico to fee Preserved an Historical Historical Monument A sixteenth-century galleon, once burled beneath the sandy shore of Mona Island, off Puerto Rico, is now being excavated, and restored for preservation as an historical monument. monument. The wreck wag discovered through the use of a terrometer, a device device for detecting metal, by an exploring exploring party consisting of administrative administrative officers of the United States Forest Service. The wreck is thought to be that of a Spanish galleon, the Santa Margarita. Margarita. It is built of cedar, fastened with wooden pegs and hand-hammered bolts, and the type of construction indicates indicates 1550 as the approximate date. Mona Island is in the middle of Mona Passage, on the direct route of the treasure galloons which once passed from Panama to Spain. News In Brief i i'o Qualify As President: DUBLIN, Ireland--A Czechoslovakian Czechoslovakian Count, whose ancestors left Ireland more than 200 years ago, prepared last week to become an Irish citizen so that he might be qualified to succeed Eamon da Valera Valera as President of the Free State. Count Edward Taafe, who recently recently sold his vast estates near Prague, is one of a half dozen men proposed for the Free State's first President under the new Constitution which will become effective December 29. Amalgamation Wanted WINNIPEG -- Premier Bracken asked the Dominion-Provincial Relations Relations Commission at its last sitting in Winnipeg ths week to make a thorough study of the proposal to unite the three Prairie Governments into one. He related the history of the abortive attempt of his Government Government in 1932 to get action oil such a plan in order to have one Legislative Legislative meeting per year, instead of three; one university, instead of three; and one civil service staff, instead instead of three, to head the west. Brazil Bans "Tarzan" RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil--Police have seized several books, including "Tafzan the Invincible," by Edgar Rice Burroughs, because of their alleged alleged "Communist tendencies." The Brazilian police ban on Tarzan Tarzan was the second action within a week taken by a foreign nation against characters well-known to American readers. On December 1 the Jugoslav Government ordered a temporary suspension of the comic strip series of "Mickey Mouse" because because some of the strips were considered considered of an "anti-monarchist" nature. nature. Will Defend Possession's - LONDON--Foreign Secretary Anthony Anthony Eden told the House of Commons Commons this week the Government "will defend British possessions wherever they may be" in answering a question question about Hong-Kong in the Far East. Mr, Eden declined to make a statement statement on the position or composition of Japanese forces near Hong-Kong, British island off Canton, China. Loyalist Victory MADRID-- Loyalist anti-tank gun crews were reported by the War Office Office to have blown to bits a squadron of "whippet" tanks which led a surprise surprise rebel attack qn positions in the Sierra Nevada Mountains southeast of Granada, last week-end. -A--THE- NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY BOOST FOR CANADA: "A fortnight's fortnight's holiday on the east coast of Canada would give better value for the money spent, than a month in many overcrowded Continental resorts". resorts". Thus spoke the Duke of Gloucester Gloucester to a Canada Club dinner last week in London, adding the hope that he and the Duchess might be able to come here in the near future. If the Duke had no real intention of sojourning in Canada, and made the remark merely to seem pleasant and agreeable, he will now bé put rather on the spot, poor chap. At any rate his statement is a good advertisement advertisement for Canada, as a holiday resort. resort. * * * SHOWMANSHIP: A writer in the Toronto Financial Post leads a timely timely discussion of Canada's sad lack of "showmanship". The fifth largest trading nation of the world has fallen fallen down badly, he says, in national advertisement. The exposition is suggested suggested as a good medium. At the Paris show this year, our exhibits lacked the punch and glamor of modern modern showmanship -- they "missed the boat", seemed dull and old-fashioned among more clever contemporaries. They overplayed the Indian, the trapper trapper and the things of yesteryear when they should have told of our present development and the promise of the future. Canada will have other other chances, however, at the Glasgow Exhibition in 1938 and the New York World's Fair the following year. Exhibits Exhibits at these, the Post says, should be designed to represent present-day life in Canada, should assist exporters exporters in the sale of goods, induce tourists tourists to visit oc- country. May the Government lend an attentive ear to these constructive suggestions! * * * FIASCO : Nobody really expected anything to corne of the Brussels Nine-Power Conference convoked to settle the Sino-Japanese question. How complete a fizzle it turned out to be, however, is realized only when one learns that its sole accomplish-, ment , was the production of "A Report" Report" --• not a report on anything, just "A Report". It's the old fable once again of the mountain giving The tank attack against the Government Government lines around Portugos and Pitres, 22 miles below Granada along the Trevelez River, was launched after rebel infantry suffered heavy losses in two attempts to storm the well-fortified loyalist positions. Urged to Forget Russia BUCHAREST, Rumania -- King Carol II and Premier George Tata- rescu. were reported to have warned French Foreign Minister Yvon Del- bos last week that France must choose between close collaboration with Soviet Russia and faithful military military support from Rumania. Urges Conservatives Reorganize TORONTO--Hon. Dr. R. J. Man- ion, Conservative former Federal Railways Minister, addressing Conservative Conservative businessmen here this week declared "nobody knows what is the policy of the Federal Conservative party." The party must be reorganized, reorganized, he said. B--4 birth to a mouse. Even "A Report" was the result of heated wrangling, the American Ambassador fighting vainly to have it entitled, "A Report to the Governments Here Represented." Represented." Not addressed to anyone, "A " port" covers twelve typewritten p es with an historical summary lit which Japan and China are pictured as entangled in difficulties "such that solution can be achieved only by the co-operation of all countries interested in the Far East". "A Report" Report" has indeed told us something, there. #■ * * QUESTION MARK: Claiming that the whole future "is a gigantic question question mark", Lammat du Pont, President President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., one of the wealthiest concerns in the United States, has proposed to his fellow manufacturers in all fields that a huge $25,000,000,000 program be instituted to create 3,- 000,000 new jobs, lend new expansion to industry. Before such a scheme can be launched, he said, the Government Government will hâve to dispel the fog enshrouding enshrouding business and guarantee a reasonable amount of certainty upon which it can count in planning current current and future operations. Further, "New jobs, new wealth and agricultural agricultural prosperity could be produced only through planned research, planned planned development and planned expansion expansion of plant, sales and administration administration facilities. That meant, he said, "planned expenditure of ca. months and years in advance of Wy penny of return." Mr. du Pont is now offering of his own free will to endorse that which President Roosevelt has all along been trying to induce big industry industry to do, Tlie outcome may be that; if Mr. Roosevelt turns clown Ms offer, Mr. du Pont will be able to blame the New Deal for any further recession in business. * =6 * • GIVE HIM SIX YEARS: In spite of h:s. continual talking and campaigning campaigning for colonies, Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler last week admitted-that he:didn't expect to have German demands demands answered for another six years at least. Hitler is right in this, that for the present Britain and France are not ready (intimidated though - be) to rush forward and offex. . j make a gift of certain sections of their territories to Germany. Say Britain and France: "Germany's colonial colonial demands require 'much more extended study'. " * * * HOW MUCH TO EAT: A nationwide nationwide nutrition survey is soon to be made with the purpose of discovering what the food requirements are of the various stages of human development; development; what the Canadian working- man's requirements are and what resources resources are available to supply them. The data will be gathered by the 25 (approximately) members of the new National Council on Nutrition who will pick out 60 typical families across the Dominion and make an intensive study of their diet, down to the last detail. Something very important important will have been achieved when it is found out exactly how much each person needs as food. Then it will be our business as Canadians tt see that every individual receive! the proper amount. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ SfSïï® I5M1S8 s* i f '-'if Billina went into the room where she had seen the grasshopper and presently Ozma of Oz, as lovely and dainty as ever, entered and ap- roaçhed the Queen of Ev, greeting er as one high-born princess greets another. Then Ozma asked : "But where are my good friends, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman?" "I'll hunt them up," replied Billina, Billina, "The Scarecrow and Tik Tok are solid gold, but I don't know what the Tin Woodman la, because the Gnome King said he had been transformed transformed into something funny. Ozma assisted the. hen in her quest, and soon the S< :v ecrow and the marin w man were restored to their accustom ed forms. \ws§ CaiyUghtiKl tags, But, search as they might, they could not find the funny ornament that might be the transformation of the Tin Woodman. "Only one thing can be done," said Ozma, at. last. "That is t<) return to the' Gnome "in;- and iv.-.ike him tell vs what has ' wore of <hi> friend." "Perhaps he oirt." ' hi Bilt'.nv. "He must," re-' 1""';*<*:.■! O'yo," firrly. Tualt Wmm So they started for the entrance, and ab they reached the hall the doors flew open, before them. The room was filled with warriors. In the centre of this terrible group sat the Little King upon his throne. He neither smiled nor laughed; instead his face was distorted with rage, and most dreadful to behold. ■«