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EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, CANADA THE EMPIRE forgotten Hero Among the forgotten heroes is the gtork In the Millar will derby.â€"Ham- ilton Spectator. Or Grapefruit! An exchange points out that the trouble with too many ambitious men in the,-public eye is that they are in the public eyeâ€"like a cinder.â€"Cab gary Herald. Undisturbed Canada’s gold, nickel, copper and lead mines are yielding more than ever before in our history. Evidently haven't heard the tales of the ticker- tapes .â€"O ttawa Journal. Absolutely Essential Unless a larger spirit of goodwill is built up between the provinces of Canada, this Dominion is certain to face troubled times. It should not be difficult for any provincial govern- ment to achieve at least « measure of understanding of the viewpoints ami problems of other provinces. Af- ter all, it is very doubtful if the peo- ple Of any province, as individuals, harbor ill-will toward their fellow Canadians who happen to live In other parts ' Of the Dominion. â€" Edmonton Journal. Canada’s Task In ÃŽ9SS Make Canada one nation : that is Canada’s job of the year. It Is a job to which every citizen must put his hand. To leave it to selfish, narrow-mind- ed provincial politicians of the type that have been particularly vocal, in recent weeks is to jeopardize our fu- ture as a nation. The job will require a modernized constitution. It will require the best wisdom and judgment the Rowéll Commission can bring to bear .on our complex financial and taxation puzzles. It will require elimination of over- lapping services and of the vexatious confusion and waste that have crept Into our governmental system since 1.867, It will require encouragement of every unifying force such as our na- tional p ublications. Above all, it will require the active co-operation of all Canadians Who be- lieve Canada should go forward as one nation and who are prepared to make sacrifices, if necessary, to achieve this end. This ig Canada’s job for 1938.â€"To- ronto Financial Post Love’s Autopsy The acting chairman of the Aus- tralian Wine Board has asserted that lack of knowledge of cooking is per- haps the most prolific cause of divorce. The statement is provocative in this compressed form, but when it is ex- panded it sounds quite feasible. Bad cooking means bad indigestion ; bad Indigestion means bad temper; bad temper leads to.the death of love. So the autopsy reveals that love died of wounds inflicted by (a) a blunt in- strument such as a frying-pan, and (b) a shart. instrument such as a can- opener. But bad cooking does not al- ways lead to divorce. Many a husband proves long-suffering in more senses than one. Although he speedily learns that his “lass with a delicate -air’’ is also a lass with a delicatessen flair, he forgives her.â€"Melbourne Argus. Stimulating Migration For some years British migration j to Australia was in the doldrums ; in fact the How of migration ran back- ward, with a loss to Australia of near- ly 30,000 people of British stock dur- ing the period 1930-36. Now the tide has turned at last, and the flow Is in the normal direction, outwards from Britain to this country. In the nine months ended in September of last year our population gained 117 peo- ple by migration. For the same period this year the gain was 2,438,-a rapid and gratifying increase which is also a natural indication of the change from depression to economic recovery. With better conditions, too, there has been a recent psychological change in the attitude to migration, both here and in Great Britain. It is feltâ€"and felt rightlyâ€"that, the time has come when pracical plans for stimulating British migration should be worked out and put into action. â€" Sydney (Australia) Herald. War Diet Kills Madrid Elephant Paiicho, the Retira Park Zoo ele- phant, who thrilled generations of Madrid children, died last week, a war casualty. Pancho, ill for months from under- nourishment, died in Ms snow-filled pen without having tasted a peanut or any tidbit except coarse black bread for 17 months. What is left of the fat of his body will be converted into grease for war purposes. German Ancestor Worship Spreads In Mfecldeidburg, la the Centre of New Eiireime Neo-paganism Ancestor worship such as that practiced by the Japanese and Chin- ese has appeared in Germany along the Baltic Sea coast, notably in Meck- lenburg which has; become the cen- ter of extreme German's® and neo- pagan experimentation. The head of the National Socialist party in Mecklenburg has ordered that unused chapels he transformed into “ancestral halls.” Here ances- tral tablets will be placed, containing the names and symbols of families in the vicinity. Replace Christian Marriage Ceremony A regional cultural director of the party recently dedicated such an an- cestral chapel. It was decorated with a swastika and the ceremony opened with a Chopin prelude. The party of- ficial delivered an address and then “-received into the community of all Germans” six children of a local fam- ily. Like ceremonies are taking the place of Christian marriage and bap- tism in coast villages. New Jap Conscription Law TQKIO.â€"The Japanese' War Office has called for a new conscription law to mobilize additional man power for the war in China, while Emperor Hirocliito presides over an Imperial conference on the conflict. The Ministry of War announced that the conscription hill to be sub- mitted to Parliament would swell the ranks of the armies by restoring the old 24-month term of service instead of the present, term of 18 months. The former term was in j effect until 3.927, when the conscription law was revised. Unemployment Insurance Proceeds OTTAWA.â€"Although diced by an opposition blockade of three Provin- cial Governments, the Federal Admin- istration will proceed with plans to provide for an unemployment insur- ance measure, Prime Minister Macken- zie King intimated last week follow- ing a meeting of his Cabinet. Younger Men Appointed LONDON.â€"Further high army ap- pointments were announced last week end as additional proof the policy in- itiated by Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secre- tary for War, of bringing youth and ability to the fore, is being aggress- ively pursued. The new appointments lare a direct consequence of the -sweeping shake- up of the Army Council, Dec. 2, when The Spirit of Service Peril a ps it is their habit of public service that impels telephone gills all ovet tin piov- ince to plan good cheer for underprivileged families at Christmas time. This year hundreds of poor families benefited. The girls in the picture are representative of the thousands of telephone workers whose well-laid plans and well-tilled baskets meant a bupjitu Con - mias for so many of their less fortunate neighbors. THE- NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important' Eventa ml the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY UNCONQUERABLE? â€" An inter- esting article by Frank Illingworth fir an English magazine discusses the ex- ceedingly timely topic, “Can China Ever Be Conquered?" Drawing les- sons from Chinese history, the writer comes to the conclusion that the Jap- anese will detach more and more of China; that the Chinese will tight des- perately, and probably lose. But as soon as the conqueror set- tles down, the Chinese will go> back to his fields, hack to- liis books of wis- dom, back to the cities ami villages where life has not altered one hit for centuries. “And the Japs? They’ll be- come Chinese I ” himself “honorably and confidently” to co-operate with ail nations marked a New Year reception to the diplo- matic corps this week when brilliant- ly uniformed foreign envoys and a little group of high Nazi Government officials were grouped in the Fueh- rer’s Chancellory in the historic Wil- helms trasse. Tide Has Turned MADRID.â€"President Manuel Azana declared in a decree this week the victory of Government forces over Spanish insurgent troops at the pro- vincial capital of Teruel, 160 miles east of Madrid, changed the face of the Spanish war. Ozana awarded the Laureate Insig- nia of Madrid to General Vicente Ro- jo, Chief of Staff of the Government’s central army and commander of the Teruel offensive. Rioting Is» Austria VIENNA.â€"Disorder raged through- out Austria this week-end as Monar- chists and Nazis clashed with clubs, stones and stink-bombs at sixty mass meetings, called to open a campaign to restore the 25-year-old Archduke Otto to the Hapsburg Throne, The worst disorders occurred In Vienna, where eleven meetings were held in tribute to the handsome and exiled youth, .who is hailed as "Aus- tria’s savior.” Fifty anti-Monarehists were arrest- ed in Vienna and at least 200 in oth- er parts of Austria. Numerous sus- pects were released after they were taken Into custody for investigation. Refuse to Recognize Him WASHINGTON. â€"- The United States’ refusal to recognize King 'Vic- tor Emmanuel, of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia has resulted in suspen- sion of the Italo-American negotia- tions for a commercial treaty. Informed sources said Mussolini re- quired the new treaty to be made in the name of Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia and that State Secretary Hull re- fused. Arrested On Lliarge .CHATHAM.â€"Bail was set at $5,000 each last week-end for two London, Ont., men who allegedly obtained $300 from a Raleigh township resident by claiming they were members of a syn- dicate which had sold a patented chemical formula to Lawrence Du Pont for $4,000,000. The two are Sam- uel Willis, 69, and Thomas Agnew, 67. Suicides Like Hanging Best Death by hanging remains the most common method of suicide, records at the city morgue reveal, says the Mont- real Star. It is apparently the most popular method for the male sex; all of last year’s 21 hanging victims were men. Next in order as means of suicide, were fire-arms which, were used by 1.4 men and one woman. Carbon mon- oxide accounted for nine suicides. More Men Shoot Themselves Poisons, more used ordinarily by women, claimed an equal number of men and women suicide victims, six of each. In addition, four men and two women drowned themselves. Jumping out of widnows, and razor- slashingâ€"two more ways used only by menâ€"resulted in six suicides, four by razors and the remainder from falls. While the year’s number of suicides amount to 61 men and eight women, it ! does not include 24 deaths in which Coroner Prince and Deputy Coroner Hebert were unable to decide wheth- < er drowning», poisonings, shooting and asphyxiation» were accidental or voluntary. China has already been conquered successively In the past two; thousand years; by the; Tartars,, the' Khans, the Juchens,, by Jenghfe Khan; and; his Mongol: hordes, by the Manchus. But! all these invaders; have settled: down; and been: absorbed amongst the Chin; ese. Two- thousand! years, of history have by now accustomed! China ta the-,'./ thought that any conquest of her 400,- 000,000' people can- only he a tempor- ary affair. *- *- * WE’RE ALL CRAZY: Scientists; and psychologists are telling trs now, and apparently bo one is daring- to say them nay, that insanity or a tendency towards it exists: in a large number of people who look to be perfectly normal. Two specialists speaking be- fore the American Association for the Advancement of Science, went so far as to declare that a great, many sup- posedly normals should trade places, with Insane patients in mental hos- pitals. They based their remarks on tests, made of forty-three patients in an Ohio mental hospital and of another! group of forty-three college students..1 Which shows you never can tell. As. the old saying goes, “All the world’s a little queer but thee and me, and sometimes I think thec’s a little queer”. * * * THINK OF THE CHILDREN: If loving parents bent on giving their firstborn a beautiful name would pause a moment and reflect on how that name is going to sound to the bearer of it twenty years hence, there would he far fewer foolish monickers disguised under variegated initials in - the world today, and the number of sheepish, henpecked-looking individu- als slinking about their daily rounds would he considerably less. Think of the effect the precious name is going to have on your sensistive child be-1 fore you make the decision irrevoc- able! Best rule to follow: steer away from the exotic; stick to common . sense.. .....â€".. . It takes all a man has, to rise above a name like “Cyril” or “Elmer”, * * * HEAVIER POLICING: Motorists of Ontario were given a chance to be- have themselves on the roads at Christmas time, and look what a mess they made of itâ€"the blackest holi- day toll ever ! A wave of protest has swept the country and indignant let- ters have been appearing in the press,. Now the Attorney-General of Ontario is doing something about the situa- tion, ordering an immediate and sub- stantial increase of the motorcycle patrol force of the Provincial Police, instructing them now to prevent vio- lations of the traffic laws. We motorists have failed to act like adult human beings on the streets and highways of Ontario. If for a change ,ve are treated like the children we evidently are, better road behavior may result. *. * * BALANCE OF POWER: When Ital- ian Fascism in the person of Musso- lini’s son-in-law, Count Ciano, crossed into Hungary last week on a diplo- matic mission, it met with a sharp disappointment. Hungary and Aus- tria refused to say “yes” to the Ital- ian suggestion that they quit the League of Nations and recognize the regime of Franco in .Spain. Neither would they join the anti-Communlsm. pact recently signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. The democratic powers had reason to breathe easier following this re-’ huff. Nevertheless the new Rumanian' set-up with Octavian Goga as virtual 'dictator under King Carol’s wing Is' viewed, as threatening to reverse the'" balance of power In south-eastern Ear*; ope, and the democratic governments' tremble. Reason why: Rumania, ai ally up to now of Czechoslovakia, has' been helping to block Hitler’s pnX posed march east through Czechoslo- vakia to seize the oil and grain fields of the Ukraine. j It is our fervent hope that Rumania' will continue with, her former allies in spite of governmental changes an* not line up with the Fascist powers,’ * « * BIRTH RATE FALLS: In the first" half of 103T, births decreased in the1 Dominion of Canada, 0.7 per thousand, At the same time deaths increased 0,6, the figures raised by a higher dis-! ease toll and a larger number of auto- mobile fatalities. Looks as if the population of this fair country may shrink to nothing before we know what it’s all about.