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 -THE- NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY HALF-STARVED CANADIANS: â€" During the past couple of years, the British public has been waking up to the fact that a great proportion of the population are undernourished, that if Great Britain doesn’t watch out, she will shortly become a 03 na- tion, The national physique ig deter- iorating through lack of the proper vitamin-carrying foods. Reason given is that the above-mentioned articles of diet; are too expensive for the low- er wage groups. Here in Canada it has been esti- mated that if a family of five are to receive an adequate supply of vitamin- contaiaing milk, an outlay of $2.99 per week, is required, at present prices. Then the appalling discovery is made that such a sum represents 20 per cent, of the total income of families living on between ,$750 and $800 a year’ Excluding farmers who generally belong to the $800 income group but who supply the family table from the products of their own toil, the number of Canadians falling below the $800 mark is indeed Very large. There is a wolf outside more doors than we have imagined, and that wolf is Malnutri- tion. Good news is that the newly-ap- pointed Canadian Council of Nutrition hopes: to do something about the sit- uation. Exhaustive research work will be done, and the public made nutrition-conscious, SOFT PEDAL: The United States apparently has stopped sending notes 'to'Japan protesting the bombing of the Papay, j ...a while there, it was thought by some that the incident might lead to war between , the two countries, i But. not. by Washington. iiiEiiSjrs Asked To Kill H^zce New “SpW’ Is Urged: by Pro- fessor to Save Cow’s Food “Yo.ivks! ; The .mouse!” That won id be the cry of red-coated hunters, riding to eats instead of to hounds, if they follow the anti-fox hunting advice, of E, L. Palmer, pro- fessor of rural education at Cornell University. “Six meadow mice in a year destroy as much grass as a cow could eat in a year,’’ Professor Palmer says. “Therefore thé mice, cut down on the cow’s food, its milk production and the farmer’s milk cheque.” On the other hand, he says, the fox undoubtedly kills “lots of mice, rab- bits and woodchucks, all harmful to the farmer.” So he advocates a mouse-hunting vogue to supplant the traditional fox hunt on grounds that the hunters would ‘ get is much exercise” and “at least as many trophies,” Why- Heavy Water Produces Xliirgi Zoologists i ExperimsF fiats r‘- Aw It’s As the Montreal Star pointed out in a capable editorial, the U. S. Govern- ment had to make a huge fuss to sat- isfy public desire for retaliation. It wouldn’t have done to have let the outrage go unnoticed. The last thing in the world the United States wants is war, so it was a hard course for the diplomats to steerâ€"-between the two extremes. This week the Japanese came out in praise of the peaceful settlement of the Panay Crisis which demonstrat- ed, they said, the ability of "two civil- ized nations to solve their problems in a civilized way." Dictator Thanks Voters for Election ANOTHER DICTATORSHIP: As a result of a vote impasse in the King- dom of Rumania whereby Premier Taterescu and his Cabinet found it necessary to resign, King Carol II may take it upon himself to act as Royal dictator with a pro-Fascist gov- ernment under him. Another dictator- ship, another Fascist. State in Europe! UNOFFICIAL FLAG: Lancashire, England, has asked the question: “Why should Canada be the only one of the Dominions without a flag of her own?’’ Lancashire asked the question â€"and manufactured a Red Ensign with the Canadian coat-of-arms on it. This Is quite unofficial but many Can- adians seem to like it. They call It “°ur Lancashire flag,” and it has been flown a good deal. London “Answers” comes back with a smart one: “What Lancashire weaves today Canada waves tomor- row?” But the fact is, we still have no offi- cial, distinctively Canadian, flag. “COLD TO MIGRATION”: Domin- ions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald last week told the British House of Commons that the time is not yet ripe to ask Canada to co-operate with the United Kingdom in encouraging the migration to Western farmlands of assisted Britons. The issue may never actually come to a head since, while time is being consumed in preliminaries, the British birth-rate is falling day by day and re- lief of congestion by emigration is be- coming less and less necessary. Husband and Wife Dead MONTREAL â€" Hacked with an axe : Mrs. Joseph Pozaony was found dead in her home last week-end, and. soo- afterwards her husband’s body discovered -hanging from a transoi an upper room of the house. V. The 36-year-old housewife was lying, j in the hallway of the St. Urbian St. j home when her son, James, 14, return- ' ing from work, saw her sprawled body through the glass of the locked * door. She was dead by the time a doc- tor had arrived. S£alin.’. di(îtat°r of Sovtet Russia, voices his thanks to the voters of Moscow ' liS e ectlon 36 kader of the country’s destiny. He is shown in Tibetan Ruler Mustn’t Play Football Is Thought to be Too Undignified An Exercise For the Regent The regent of Tibet, highest and least known nation of the world, has a brand new English football, but the Council of Noblesâ€"who really ruleâ€" won’t let him play with it.. And the Dalai Lama, who would be the spiritual and temporal ruler of forbidden Tibet if he’s ever found, ought to know his Tibetan alphabet by now, He’s just four years and 10 days old. These historical facts were revealed last week by Suydam Cutting, trus- tee of the American Museum of Nat- ural History who is one of few white men ever to enter the country with permission of the Government. His wife was with him. on a two-month trip collecting clothing and household articles including unusual bejeweled head-dresses of yak and human hair and hammered bronze pieces. “A lot of bunk about the Dalai Lama hag passed around the outside world,” said Cutting, a veteran of Central Asia expeditions with Theo- dore and Hermit Roosevelt. “The Chinese claimed to have found him but that was a trick to try to gain control of the country. Immediate Reincarnation “They have found clues in the vic- inity of the village where the old one was born,” he said. “They believe an immediate reincarnation took place so he must have been born where the old one diedâ€"Dec. 17,'1983. They told me I’d know him as soon as I saw himâ€"he’s totally different from any other child,” "Re-Din g-Gya-Rinpoehe, the regent, is 35, a delicate thin man who got the football from England because he thought he needed exercise,” Cutting said. “But the MahsaJ, the Council which really rules, made him give it up because it was undignified.” To Control AM Shanghai SHANGHAI â€" Japanese army claimed “in principle” this week-end the right to extend provisions of , military law into Shanghai’s Interac- tional Settlement and French Conces- sion, where thousands of Britons and other foreigners make, their homes. The Japanese army spokesman an- nounced the claim, under which the troops could enter foreign areas still outside Japanese control and arrest and try "all persons” suspected of crimes against Nippon's armed forces. A Fascist Rumania. BUCHAREST â€" Octavian Goga, the leader of the Fascist-inclined National Christian Party, has succeeded in the' forming of a new Government which foreign observers predict will swing Rumania away from Europe's demo- cratic pc veers toward the Rome-Berlin «3.X1S, Goga wag said to have told King Carol tha; he would not deviate- from the National Christian Party program, which includes: 1. Close co-operation with. Fascist countries. 2. Severance of relations with Rus- sia. 3. Adheram c to the Berlin anti-com- munist pact. 4. Seizure of all JeWish-owned land. U. S. Up® Defense Appropriations WASHINGTON â€" President Roose- velt pushed plans this week for the increased national' defense on land, on sea and in the air. The President gave orders to press rearmament plans for the American fighting forces at all possible speed, regardless of budget-balancing require- ments or other domestic political con- siderations. It is reported that Mr. Roosevelt ex- pects to ask Congress to appropriate well over $1,000,000,000 for national defense during the 1938-39 fiscal year which begins next July. 1938 Ford V-8 Trucks, Commercial Cars Quints Gain Weight CALLANDER â€" Possibly due to the huge Christmas dinner they ate, the. Dionne quintuplets, now three years and seven months old, ail registered weight gains during the past month, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, their physician, announced. ' Emilie furnished the major surprise of the month when she added one and one-quarter pounds to her weight to draw up on even terms with Annette for the first time since they were born. Annette, prior to this month, lias alternated with Yvonne for .the heavyweight, title among the SisterwY i> Av; â-  (i £i Constitution DUBLIN .... A black flag flew over the b eadqnccicrs of Sinn Fein this week as tile hew Irish Free, State con- stitution cams’ into effect â€" a consti- tution which,., though it Is called only “year republican,’’ severs most of tbf remaining vies with Great Britain and brings the country close to the status ~ of an independnent republic. Sin;. Fein disapproved the constitu- iion because it did not provide for an actual republic, with no ties at all, J threatened to hold a riemon^tra- in to-ni" "' - >rk tile resentment nforeement of a "tution which sub- . maintains Eng- “eland’s territory eut Up rial employment .... ...__ ___ 34,444 persons during November, exceeding the av- erage for the period in the last 15 years although being smaller than in 1929 and 1939,-fir' Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. The bureau reported ”a large sea- sonal contraction,” at .comber 1st, from v! t’v- preceding month to 1,169,727. The crude index based on the 1926 average as 100, fell from 125.2 at November 1st to i 71.6 at December 1st, while the seasonally adjusted in- dex declined from 120.3 to 119.1. Killed in Earthquake LIMA, Peru,----About 100 persons i were killed or Injured in an earth- j quake -in Central Peru on Christmas j HVe, said delayed dispatches to the ! newspaper El Comercio. j The quake rocked Huancabamba, a j small Andean Township in Junin De- ! partaient, and Oxapama, a small town ] in the jungle. Heavy damage was re- i ported. Smart “Footwork”^ ’W to of burglars, who recentiÿ, a number of houses in. j tar Warsaw, must take the ingenuity. Before starting ! they raided the police sta- while the police were all their boots. ' was raised there ; tation and by the raked up new 1 a were miles