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 m M 4 ! â-  â-  â-  â-  <â-  : - i ' •ft: V ' 1 rue ' " ~ ' ====S=3| -1 i -mt- HEX l/S INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. 1 1 ss= By ELIZABETH EEDY â€"â€"-â€" PRECOCIOUS x UUWba a v uov twenty-three hours after her birth, a baby girl in New Bedford, Mass., had two fully developed teeth ex- tracted from her lower jaw, this week, A couple of days before, we had heard of a six-months-old child coming successfully through an ap- pendicitis operation, another medi- cal record. Must be the accelerated pace of podérn life that is responsible, Eh, doctor? STILL OUT OF REACHâ€"Winning mothers in the Millar Will Derby have not yet caught sight of the wealth which has purportedly been coming to them ever since eccentric Charles Vance Millar of Toronto died, 12 years ago, nor are they likely to see it till on in 1939. Appeals lodged against court rulings have been made by two mothers (Mrs. Pauline Clark, Mrs. Lillian Kenny) ; appeal is also being made against the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada that Millar’s next of kin are not entitled to share in the money. The latter case would have to be heard before the Privy Council. Until these appeals are disposed of, the four mothers will have to wait and wait .... EMERGENCY DICTATOR â€" At an historic session of China’s National* ist Party (Kuomintang) meeting in Hankow last week to place the poli- tical organization of China on a war- time basis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek was formally invested with sweeping political authority amount- ing to dictatorial powers. Already Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese armies resisting the Japanese invasion, General Chiang now holds in addition a post of great power that has been empty since the death of Dr. Sun fourteen years agoâ€"he is supreme leader of the nation. The Kuomintang’s position in Chi- na is similar to that of the Commu- nist Party in Soviet Russia, and the Fascist, Party in Italy. Although in- dividual leaders have challenged its claims to supreme authority, there are no rival parties. This granting to General Chiang of virtual dictatorship is a departure from the party’s former line of ac- tion which heretofore has shied away from the concentration of power in the hands of an individual. The immediate aim of the move is to create a stronger and more united front than ever against Japanese ag- gression. i- ,----------------“ hats, coats, dresses, shoes, and the other feminine doodads that accom- pany the new spring costume are up, this year of Grace 1938. Toronto retailers say that buying is definite- ly heavier than last year and busi- ness is better. The same apparently goes for ready-to-wear merchants throughout Ontario. As an index of general business ac- tivity, however, such findings are not too "reliable. After all, Easter is three weeks later this year .... “TOTALITARIANISM” DOMINANT â€"Eight months ago when she began her war in China, Japan was not gen- erally considered to be a Fascist state. Since then, it has rapidly become .so although the last stages of fascisa- tion within the country may not yet have taken place. Last week after a fearful struggle in the Japanese Parliament (Diet), militarism gained formal control of the ' government with the passing of four measures designed to extend state control to the limit. The Na- tional Mobilization Bill is the most important of these, placing the life and property of the lowliest citizen, as well as the greatest corporation, in Government hands during “time of war or national emergency.” The important point is this â€" through declaration of a condition of emergency, the Government may at any time expropriate personal goods of the average citizen, impress him into “national mobilization work”, deny him the right of free speech, suppress his newspaper or close his bank. NIGGER IN THE WOODPILEâ€"Af- ter the first outburst of indignation at Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of the dicta- tors, public anger against him ap- peared to die down in the Old Land. True, the Opposition continued to move votes of censure against the Government, stormy scenes took place in the House on an average of once a week and the National Labor Council issued a mnifesto calling for a general election. But nothing hap- pened. Where the National Government is going to strike a real snag, how- ever, is when it attempts to step up re-armament to the new unprece- dented levels. Prime Minister Cham- berlain will first have to obtain the consent of the trade union heads be- fore he can initiate the program. Their refusal to co-operate would prove a serious embarrassment to the Government at this time. t. ;'.Z “THE SEALERS” By Peter Tutein Books like “The Sealers” stand or fall, not on their literal accuracy, but on their power to make us, who have never been in the Arctic ice, feel and see the whole thing. Peter Tutein has a naive manner all his own and it is remarkably effective. Mr. Tutein joined the Norwegian sealing steamer “Quest” in Bodo. Two winters in northern Greenland had only whetted the young Dane’s appetite for the Arctic. No matter how bad the weather nor how poor the catch, the sealers always rejoin. They come back swearing they have enough, but next spring they sign again. Heaving Slush Ice When you are off on a voyage that lasts for months without a chance to get ashore, the last night, before sailing means something. And the sealers can only get off the ship onto the ice, which is moving in all directions. Peter Tutein’s account of seal hunting on the heaving slush ice is hair-raising. There is a thumbnail sketch of two of them crawling on all fours on the loose ice, their legs get- ting nipped now and then, when they heard a pup-seal crying. He says: “There the little creature lay, Its hinder parts half buried in the ice, its foreflippers frantically beating the air. Great tears were welling from its eyes. We killed it and managed somehow to remove the skin. On all sides young seals were screaming, B â€" D either from fear of going under, or from sheer terror of the storm.” Natural Simple Folk You learn about ice in this book. There is, for instance, pulp ice, which is like sinking into a bog. Horrible, Tot i he sealers love it. They go back every year. Peter Tutein has made the life they lead into a most readable book. There is nothing hard-boiled about him, nor do we have to, skip pages of hurricane swearing. It is all very natural. They are simple folk and they have the vast elemental out- lines of the original Vikings. The icy seas are their natural element. This book, if the reader is not utterly sick of the world, is their modern saga. “The Sealers,” by Peter Tutein, 247 pp. . New York; G. P. Putman’s Sons. . . $2,50, TEN WAYS TO LOSE M O N EY Twenty years’ experience looking over investment portfolios shows us that 90% of invest- ment losses occur the following way:â€" 1st. Attempting to catch the short swings of the' market. 2nd. Acting on “TIPS” from strange salesmen. 3rd. Market gambling on “Short” positions. 4th. 1 Trying to pick cine or two “Low priced winners.” 5th. Maintaining a precarious margin position. 6th. Over concentrating in one security or industry. 7th. 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I agree to use the information at my own risk. ...... Please service me for one month. $5.00 Regular. Please service me for 3 months. $10.00 Special Offer. ................ ADDRESS ......................................... W.L. SIGNED News In Brief Quintuplets’ New Brother CALLANDER, Ont. â€" The quintup- lets have a new baby brother. A boy arrived last week at the lonely Dionne farmhouse, the 12th living child of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. Government Ownership of Mines LONDON.â€"The House of Commons has approved and sent to the House of Lords the Government’s bill call- ing for public control of Great Brit- ain’s coal industry. The measure provides that eventual- ly the Government would assume own- ership of all coal resources in Great Britain through purchase of privately owned coal royalties and voluntary and compulsory amalgamation of col- lieries. Giant National Development Plan OTTAWA. â€" A four-year program for the National development of the Dominion With a possible expenditure of $25,000,000 per year is now under c -sidération by the Federal Adminis- tration, it was learned from usually reliable sources this week. A Cabinet Committee of four, it was reported, has been assigned to work out details ol’ the plan, a part of which was outlined in general terms to the House of Commons last week, by Hon. Norman McLeod Rogers. EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Colossal Shell SYDNEY, N.S.W. â€" A giant clam shellâ€"large enough to be used as a baby’s bathâ€"was on display in the American museum this week. The shell was found on a reef off the Gilbert Islands some months ago by C. A. Swinburne who presented it to the museum. Museum Concholo- gist, T. Iredale, described it as a “beautiful specimen which may be anything up to 500 years old.” The museum specimen weighs about 450 pounds, and is three feet two inches long by two feet one and one half inches wide. The concho lo- giat said it was the largest specimen in any museum. Refugees .-.and Here NEW YORK.â€"A group of German and Austrian refugees arrived here this week to accept the United States' offer Of political asylum. For the most.part the arrivals were a stolidly quiet and bewildered lot. Most spoke no English and the exact number who could be classified "S ac- tual fugitives from their hoir " 'Is was impossible of .determination. Must Leave Country HOLLYWOODâ€"Capt. Leopold Me- Laglen, former British army officer and brother of Victor McLaglen of the movies, was sentenced this week to one to five years imprisonment for an attempt to extort $20,000. He was granted probation on condi- tion that he return to England and not come back to America for five years. Fighting Near Shanghai SHANGHAI; â€" Chinese guerrilla bands are striking close to Shanghai at Japanese invaders already fully oc- cupied on the Central China front. Japanese officers told of one of the Chinese assaults by more than 1,000 raiders who gathered fifteen miles southwest of Shanghai and attacked Japanese near Sungkiang, Japanese said the band suffered 300 casualties b-fore it melted away to near-by vill- ages. In another attack near Sungkiang, Chinese were said to have ambushed a truck and killed ten Japanese offi cers and “'"Vers. CANADA Good Drivers Rewarded The safe driver is being recognized in the United States. Soon he will be able to buy, on a much broader scale than ever before, liability insur- ance on his automobile on terms which offer rewards for avoiding ac- cidents.â€"Calgary Herald. Starting Early A writer in Belleville Intelligencer makes timely comment upon the pre- valence of profanity among young people. At that,,, however, they may not be starting so young as in by- gone days, for we read in Scripture that Job cursed the day he was born. -â€"Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Contented Canadians Cigarettes released for consump- tion in Canada in February totalled 476,291,960, against 418,344,845 in February last year. The cigar totals were 9,602,502 and 7,275,795, re- spectively. If smoking is a solace, Canadians seem to be growing more contented.â€"Montreal Gazette. -â€"oâ€" “Master of Bohemia” Bismarck once said that “whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe.” Today no one is master of Bohemia and the mastery of Europe is an uncertainty that brings the dan- ger of war close to everyone. Bo- hemia is now a part of Czechoslova- kia, that part of Czechoslovakia peo- pled by the Sudeten Germans. The affairs of the Sudeten Germans may yet plunge the world into war, Bo- hemia is'the current centre of the rapidly-shifting trouble map and the actions of its people are likely to have results of the greatest import- ance on people in far lands who hard- ly realize the Sudeten Germans ex- ist.â€"Halifax Chronicle. Planting With Optimism If favorable weather prevails, an- other month will see Alberta farmers on the land and Spring work for the 1938 season fairly well launched. There is a degree of hopefulness manifest in the province this year which was not in evidence to the same extent in immediate past years. This is due to the improved moisture conditions, and the expectation that a series of wet years is in sight. The farmer is a natural optimist, particu- larly in the Spring of the year. He would need to be in view of the ad- versity experienced in many parts of the province since 1930.â€"Calgary Herald. THE EMPIRE Mischief In the .Mediterranean How the full implication of Italian and German intervention in t> N af- fairs of Spain could escape the niind:! of ordinary right-minded citizens is a sheer amazement, the aim and ob- ject being almost without pretence of purer purpose, the aggrandisement of Italy in the Western Mediterran- ean, with a special eye to the en- trance gate itself. If the “Nation-,^ alist” cause triumphs, Italy will fea in the enviable position of a first mortgagee of Spain, with a control- ling voice in her home and foreign affairs. The treasure which has been outlaid, demands the best security, and the interests of the principal cre- ditor will assuredly come first, Spain, and the Western Mediterranean, foi long enough, if not for always, will be under Fascist domination. With a puppet State situated strategically thus, as Manchoukuo is the puppet of Japan, it can become directly the tool of an aggressive policy. The Bale- aric Isles, for instance, either by lease or cession, or according to the secret clauses of a treaty, would be- come utilizable as submarine and air- craft bases for Italy, and are so situ- ated athwart the sailing path be- tween Algiers and the French south- ern coast that a serious threat to the safety of the communication line is at once supplied.â€"The Fortnightly, Duty Is Lifted - From Seed Oats OTTAWA. â€" Seed oats may hr i- ported by provincial governments fix. of customs duty and special excise taif for distribution to farmers for seeding purposes between April 4th and May , 31, Revenue Minister Ilsley has an- nounced. Members of the House of Commons, the minister said, had made represen- tations to him that there was a short- age of seed oats in Canada at the pre- sent time and that this concession should be made to meet the situation. Provincial governments desiring to distribute seed oats would make appli- cation to the Department of National Revenue for permission to import dur- ing the period mentioned, subject to remission or refund of customs duty and special excise tax payable on this commodity. Oats enter Canada subject to a duty of three cents a bushel under- British preference, nine cents iiy___ mediate and 1.6 cents general. ,