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B". *v I News In Brief EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. HELPING HAND: Many of the heavy German shells fired hy Spanish Insurgent soldiers into Loyalist ranks the past few weeks did not explode. They did no damage, killed no one, because they had been filled with saw- dust by munition workers in the Ger- man factories where they were made. Not being allowed under the Nazi re- gime to say a word or perform any act of sympathy towards the Spanish Loyalists, these factory workers found an indirect but marvellously effective way to aid their fellowmen in another Country* * * * * RAY OF HOPE: An all-time record for moisture during the month of Feb- ruary has been achieved on the Re- gina plains. The heavy snowfall did it. The dry southwest areas of Sas- katchewan the past week were blank- eted in a welcome coat of white, in some places twelve to eighteen inches deep. Crop prospects have brightened very considerably, especially since this precipitation of snow follows up- on the heavy rains of last autumn. Chances for a good crop are better than they have been for many a long year. Let us hope the West will get a break in 1938. * * » * CUTTING OFF ONE’S NOSE? It is difficult to understand just why Great Britain is moving toward mak- ing a loan of large sums of money to Mussolini. Italy’s financial position has been very shaky for the past year. Without substantial aid from an out- side power, the Fascist regime might very well face collapse. If Britain now extends a loan, Muss- olini’s hand will be strengthened for further depredations in the east; she will be in a position to finance another “volunteer” army expedition into Spain. Italy will be more powerful than ever in the Mediterranean. But that is what Britain in the long run does not want, because the Medi- terranean is her “lifeline” to the Near East and India. * * * * PERMANENT CAR MARKERS: A plan has been presented to the To- ronto Board of Police Commissioners proposing that permanent license plates replace the present yearly markers on Ontario cars. It is sug- gested that larger plates be used, five inches by 16 for the front and 12 x 14 for the rear. These would be weld- ed to the body of the car and colored stickers attached to windshields would indicate that the yearly fee had been paid. Sounds grand. If we had the same plates year after year, maybe we could femember our license number. * * * * BRAVE WOMAN: Ishbel MacDon- ald, daughter of the late British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, is not WSSM® a snob. Neither is she a coward. This former hostess at No. 10 Downing Street, London, last week disclosed her plans to marry the village “han- dyman” of Speon, Buckinghamshire. A former house painter, electrician’s helper, ditch-digger, drum-player in the village band, Miss MacDonald’s fiance lias been a regular customer at the “Old Plow,” an inn which she operates. Miss MacDonald does not , allow worry over “what people will say” to stand between her and happiness. * * * » PRISON FINDINGS: Shortly to be presented to Parliament at Ottawa is the report of the Royal Commission on penitentiaries, a tabulation of find- ings made during a thorough inves- tigation of Canada’s prison system. It is expected there will be some “eye- openers" on how the penal situation is administered, and a number of very definite recommendations for reform. The report should indeed he valu- able, since the Commission took care to hear the evidence in private of every convict who wished to speak. À study has been made of how, the “detention and reformation”, which the present law calls for, has been car-led out. # » * * PAGING DOBBIN: Next, time, he swears, he’ll take the horse. A farmer a couple of miles from London the other day set off for town driving his ’38 model sedan. The road was hor- ribly icy. He kept her under 25, but before he had gone half a mile, the car slid quietly into the ditch. The neighbor's team did some hefty pull- ing, negotiated the sedan back onto the road again. This time, our man kept her under- 20. But in spite of his careful manipulating of the controls, the car turned right around and faced east Instead of west. Annoyed beyond words (do you blame him?) our far- mer refused to fight fate any further. He continued east, arrived without event in his own yard a few minutes later, and locked away the car. iVlay Visit Canada LONDON.â€"The Daily Mail (Inde- pendent) this week-end said King George and Queen Elizabeth planned to visit each of the Dominions in turn during the course of the next few years to open each Dominion Parlia- ment in State according to the West- minster tradition. Canada would probably be the first to be visited, owing to its compara- tive nearness, the paper said in its newspage story. Spanish Government Gain HEN A YE, France. â€" The Spanish Government’s army took the offensive anew in Eastern Spain this week-end with a drive against insurgent lines midway between Teruel and Zara- goza. Government dispatches from the front some 150 miles east of Madrid said Government troops advanced along a 2 Mi-mile front just northwest of Montalban, Peer Wants Isolation LONDON.â€"Opposition Peers in the House of Lords this week pressed for a foreign policy of isolation as op- posed to one based on the League of Nations, and urged an immediate set- tlement with Germany, even at the cost of the entente with France. Declaring it was astonishing that British policy should still be based on the present Covenant of the League which had brought nothing but fail- ure, Lord Arnold, Labor, who was a member of the first MacDonald Min- istry, warned the Government Britain might be drawn into a war in which no real British interests were at stake through the League commit- ments and the alliance with France. Defendants In Stork Contest TORONTO.â€"Justice W. E. Middle- ton, who will preside February 25 at the hearing of the “elimination con- test” called to determine winners of Toronto’s $500,000 baby race” has ruled that four mothers accepted by executors of Charles Vance Miller’s estate should appear on that day as defendants against two other mothers seeking a share in the prize money. â€"qâ€"THE NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary 0a the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY ^^LdUstelonger. eailiei A , ,=is. In- 123 ^le9°M8o every abactor. apart ftA-s Neanderthal Tooth Shown Molar of Man Found in Cave at Gibraltar in 1865 Additions to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, include a molar tooth of Neanderthal man, presented by the medical committee of the Royal Dental Hospital, says “The London. Times.” The tooth was found in the Genista Cave, Gibraltar, in 1865, by Captain F. Brome, gov- ernor of the military prison there. The discovery was made while the prison was being extended and a new water tank dug, in the course of which operation fissures in the lime- stone pavement were revealed. These were excavated by Captain Brome over a series of years, and the ma- terial discovered was sent to Eng- land and examined by George Busk and Hugh Falconer. CANADA They Do It Over There While Boards of Education on this continent are hesitating about the use of radio broadcasts in schools, there are more than 7,000 schools in Eng- land receiving lessons via the ether waves.â€"St. Thomas Times-Journal. THE EMPIRE Know More Than Farmers ? Speaking about “fertility," it is hard to beat the minds of those people who seem to know so much more about farming than the farmers. Hamilton Spectator. B â€" D Block Out Propaganda BUCHAREST. â€" Rumania literally Is going to whitewash the Fascist Iron Guards and other opposition out of sight. More than 1,000,000 gallons will be required to make- effective a single decree of the Government, a decree ordering the removal or painting over of all political advertising or propa- ganda. The amount of such surface on house,-"billboard and fences is es- timated at many millions of square Protest to Hitler LONDON. â€" Great Britain and France, fearful that Nazi penetration in Austria may be the groundwork of a German invasion eastward, agreed this week-end to lodge representations in Berlin and Vienna asking assurance that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler intends to preserve Austrian independence. The parallel action came after Foreign Secretary Anthony EMen stated in the House of Commons that he had “reason to believe” Hitler’s ambitions in Austria included more than the mere injection of Nazis into key Cabinet posts. Asks Tax Fraud Probe OTTAWA.â€"Alleged evasions of the income tax by “scores of wealthy Canadians” who have taken up resi- dence in the Bahamas “in order to es- cape taxation” formed the. theme of several questions placed in this week’s House Votes and Proceedings by T. L. Church (Cons., Toronto, Broad- view). At the same time Mr. Church asks if the Government will make an investigation into “whether a sim- ilar state exists in Canada as in the United States about huge income tax frauds.” tiit Wrong Man Marshal von Blomberg, German Minister of War, has resigned and departed on a honeymoon with a young lady of whom the army officers did not approve. Now why couldn’t that have happened to Chancellor Hitler, instead?â€"Woodstock Sentinel- Review. , Arekduke Clears Out BRUSSELS, Belgium. â€" Archduke Otto, 26-year-old Pretender to the Hapsburg Throne of Austria, is re- vealed to have left “for abroad” from Steenockerzeel Castle after learning of the Austrian Cabinet shakeup. Radio In The Family Broadcasters should ever hear in mind that they are not talking to sophisticated adult audiences, as in the theatre, but that what they say goes into homes where there are young boys and girls. What gets by in a theatre, where there has been undue laxity of recent years, is utter- ly out of place in the midst of a fam- ily. Radio has been slipping in this respect for some time, one of the most frequent offenders being a high- priced comedian whose tiresome per- sonal allusions are sometimes in very questionable taste. Radio is family entertainment, and should he kept as clean as family life itselfâ€"Stratford Beacon-Herald. The Township Clerk Nominating candidates for the post of “forgotten man” is a not uncom- mon occupation these days and one hesitates to suggest additional nom- inees. Isn’t it just possible, however, that, Whoever else may be entitled to the designation, the municipal clerk is in line for such recognition? And now at a time when all over the district, municipal clerks are tak- ing up their duties for the year, it might be opportune to stop and think what that work means. Clerks are important officers in cit- ies and towns but especially in the rural municipalities the work of the clerk is almost all-embracing. Town- ship councils, get in the habit of rely- ing on the clerks in many ways and year by year, as new regulations are put Into force by the government, the scope of their duties Increases. The Perfect Egg Canada claims to have produced, af- ter years of research and experiment, what is from the point of view of the consumer in England the perfect im- ported egg. The first consignment of these eggs has just arrived in London â€"750 dozenâ€"and they will be dis- tributed to experts in various parts of the country, from whom opinions will be gathered. The bousing and feeding of the poultry have been min- utely watched, the eggs have been graded and tested, they have been sent over in special chambers kept at a fixed temperature and watched by vigilant C.P.R. officials, and they are being handled on this side with all the care usually bestowed on the most precious cargoes. â€" Irish Inde- pendent.. â€" Cast-off “Charity” The self-comforting but specious opinion that anything is good enough for charity is apparently more widely held than the large number of genuine givers who make real sacrifices would lead one to believe. It seems there are far too many people who are in- clined to look upon charitable institu- tions as a convenient dustbin in which cast-off clothing and other oddments no longer fit for human human use can he deposited with a minimum of troubleâ€"thus obtaining for the givers a fictitious glow of godliness and W' the same time saving them the bother of burning the articles at home. For that, it appears, is what the charitable institutions have to do with the rub- bish. After all, charity may cover a multitude of sins, but it must cover something. Blankets that are but shreds of their former selves, gloves without fingers, hats without crowns, coats that let in the four winds of heaven, and other rags that shame gilded alms, can cover nothing but the recipients’ confusion and the donor’s hypocrisy, In such cases the charity that begins at home might well end there.â€"Johannesburg Times. LISTEN. . ,, CANADA-I93M I IMDFBIBI KW,AGCO'S ' al IMPERIAL WASCO'S INSPIRING PROGRAM EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT On a National . Coast to Coast Network THE WONDERLAND OF 02 ‘ Well, a goose egg you will be, un- less " you go and fetch us the Tin Woodman,” declared Billina. “You can see .that Dorothy is able to use the magic belt all right,” added the Scarecrow. The Gnome King thought it over and finally consented to go and search for the Tin Woodman, for he did not want to become a goose eg*. So he went into the palace to get the ornament â-  which was the trans- formation of the Tin Woodman, while all awaited his return impatiently, for they were anxious to leave this under- ground palace and see the sun shine once more. But when the Gnome King came back ha brought nothing except a puzzled and anxious exprès sioii on his face. “It’s gone!” lie said. “The Tin Woodman is nowhere in the palace,” ‘‘Are you sure?” asked Gzma, stern- ly. “T am very sure,” answered the King, trembling, “for 1 know just what I transformed him into and ex- actly where he stood, but he is hot there, and, please- do not. change me into a gpnre egg; tor 1 ha.’o doue the best i (•!•••; For a moment everyone stood silent in their disappointment. Then Dorothy spoke, “There is no use punishing the Gnome King any more,” she said. “I am afraid we will have to go away without the- Tin Woodman." “If he is not here we cannot rescue him,” agreed the Scarecrow, sadly. “Poor fel'ow, 1 wonder what has become of him."