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t=======^^ Lone White Man Rules 9 Islands Eight Degrees South of - the Equator A British Adminis- trative Officer. Is in Charge of 4,300 Subjects If you look at a map of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near the meridian of ISO degrees, “where tin'-' ceases to be,” and about tr,, degrees south of the Equa- toî ni will see the Ellice Islands Tr.s - .erl thereon. There are nine islands in the group of coral atolls â€"Xanumea, Nanumaga, Niutao, Nui, Vaitupu, Nukufetau, Funafu- ti, Nnkuiaelae an.l Nurukita, all quite unpronounceable to English folk. Mail Thrice a Year But this little kingdom of 4,300 South Sea Islanders, remote, iso- lated and far removed from the world’s activities, is ruled by one white man, Mr, Donald G. Ken- nedy, the British Administrative Officer. He. is the only white man there, and he says that he speaks English so seldom that he finds difficulty in becoming fluent again on returning to civilization. Mr. Kennedy has under his care the entire population of 4,300 scattered over the nine islands, The mail boat calls three times a year, when he has a chance to talk with the captain. Once a year, a ttâval sloop from New Zealand looks in. This is Mr. Kennedy’s great occasion. Morn Chickens Fewer Turkeys Went to the Old Country From Canada for Christmasâ€"-The Dominion’s Birds Are Rated Tops More Canadian chickens graced the Christmas tables of British householders this year, but Can- adian turkeys were fewer in num- ber in the British Christmas trade than a year ago. Total About Same The total amount of Canadian poultry shipped to the United Kingdom for the Christmas trade is about the same as a year ago, approximately 500,000 pounds. Turkeys shipped numbered 20,428 against 24,624 last year, but 80,- 628 chickens were shipped com- pared with 52,244 a year ago. Fewer ducks were shipped this yearâ€"4,200 against 17,000 and the geese about the same at 4,400. All Canadian poultry exported must be inspected and graded by Department of Agriculture inspec- tors and because of its high qual- ity the Canadian turkey and other fowl have made a place for them- selves on the British market. They command a premium over other imported birds. , Mostly From West _ Due probably to the prolonged drought and a shortage 'of grain for feeding, the turkey crop in the .Prairie Provinces was smaller than- a year ago and chickens were also fewer. Preparing For Arctic Circle Fourteen young men are attend- ing- the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade training school at Win- nipeg preparing for tests they Burst pass to qualify themselves as assistants in various trading posts ns’ far north as the Arctic' Circle. In nine weeks they are required to learn the rudiments of fur grad- ing, merchaii rising', post accounts ing, first aid," wireless telegraphy, radio mechanics and carpentry. Because they are bachelors, they must also learn to do their own cooking. Such versatility, is necessary, said E. H. G. Bormycastle, acting personnel manager for the com- pany. “Many of our men are entirely on their own resources. They Can’t go to the corner store for a chop for their dinner, or call a man to repair the outboard motor. Ver," often, there’s no doctor near- by and our man is. called upon to render, first aid to natives; who have met with an accident.” “Sixty per cent. " of. our post managers are married men. Their Wives like stylish clothes and the native women are great imitators. We sell silk stockings and lingerie to the women and polo shirts and flannels to the men. It isn’t a case of a sunset-striped blanket any more.’ Mews Parade By Elizabeth Eedy HAPPY NEW YEAR: We are no pessimist by nature, but the out- look for Canada in 1939 doesn’t ex- actly cause our spirit to rise up and cheer the incoming New Year with unqualified enthusiasm. A million people on relief; 400,000 young peo- ple without jobs in a land of plen- ty; ill-feeling and non-co-operation b e t w e en go v e r n m en t s. What’s to be thankful for? one might ask. Lots. For these things, .that we really have a - wonderful country, of boundless potentialit- ies; that we still are a free people; and that it is possible to turn our backs on Our mistakes and start anew. SPREAD IT ON THICK: Canad- ians are being asked by he Nation- al Dairy Council, please, please to put more butter on their bread, and to slap it thick in the pan when frying things. Use it up for good- ness sake, because the country's butter surplus has reached unpre- cedented proportions. “This has been a year of abund- ance in butter production in Can- ada, United States, and in almost all butter-producing countries the entire world over,” says Mr. A. C. Fraser, Secretary of the Council, “We have in Canada, as they have in the United States and Britain, larger stocks than we ordinarily re- quire. In Canada- we have Upward of 15,000,000 pounds we would like to remove from the country if we could find a buyer. The buyer is not available. If our 2,000,000-odd families in Canada would cook with butter this winter , our situation would be rectified by spring.” WHO KILLED HIM?: Something that the newspapers on this contin- ent haven’t featured very big is the Story emanating from London, Eng- land, that the German Government arranged for the killing of their ,own embassy official at Paris, von Rath, whose death was the Signal for the outbreak of terrific pogroms against Jews inside- Germany. (Young Polish Jew Grynszpan was merely the catspaw, the story goes). The Paris secret police de- clare there is no doubt whatever that the German government plan- ned it ail. In London, even the pro- Nazi daily, The Observer, concedes that the possibility .of a deep-laid German plot is interesting to say - the least. THE WEEK’S QUESTION: Just what is the significance of the Uk- raine in today’s news? Answer: This rich piece of territory extend- ing across south European Russia, eastern Poland and eastern Czecho- slovakia is the objective of Hitler’s ‘‘Drive to the East”, to obtain pos- session of which he first had to re- duce Czechoslovakia to a state of powerleesness; now must make it possible to ..match through Ruman- ia, The Russian part of the Ukraine is a vitally important unit of the Soviet' economic system, including the black earth belt, the great coal- fields of Donetz, the ironfield of Krivoi Itog, the important indust- rial centres of Kiev and Kharkov; the great electrical generating sta- tion of Dneiprostroi ; ports on the Black Sea. The Ukraine contains 80 per cent, of the coal in Russia, 70 per cent..of the iron, 95 per cent, of the manganese, and the greater portion, of the wheat, copper, gold and other minerals Germany would like to have. Excessive summer heat is now blamed for the death of fish in- some rivers of Germany; Trouble Spot On The Baltic, Memo! Is A Quiet Town Memel, object of German ambitions to expand along the Baltic, once again takes the news spotlight following the smashing pro-Nazi Victory in the Diet election in Memel territory. Kaunas, capital of .Lithuania, and Kaunas province were put under a state of emer- gency. What lies in store for MemeT'territory, taken from C after the world war and handed to Lithuania, is uncertain. VOICE OF THE PRESS THEY WEAR BIG HATS There are lots of people in this world we can see through. But we never get them in front of us at the movies.â€"Montreal Star. TO STOP BRAIN EXPORT The only way to stop or lessen the drain (on Canadian brains to the United States) is by providing greater inducements here for young Canadians with ability so that they need not go abroad. That can be done by greater sup- port for research, by better.: re- muneration for those doing- valu- able work in the technical branch- es of the public service, and bet- ter remuneration for those en- gaged in higher education, The national gain from consistent ad- herence to such a pr 1 icy would far outweigh the additional, cost, which would really not be: very great.â€"Winnipeg- Free Press. THAT CERTAIN UNITY Those people who say there is lack of unity in Canada are not wholly correct. They overlook the fact that we. are all agreed some- thing- should be done about it.â€" Toronto Saturday Night, NO LULL Canadian politics is never with- out a certain liveliness. "No sooner is the rift in the Ontario Conserva- tive lute mended than Federal and Provincial Liberal leaders begin to exchange fraternal amenities. -â€"London Free Press. WILD LIFE IN THE NORTH Yes, there is still plenty of wild life in the Northland. A train of the Hudson Bay Railway was held up for hours by a herd of 10,000 caribou which moved across the line in front of the locomotive.â€"- Brockville Recorder and Times. NO ONE TO BLAME Coroner’s juries perform a vel-y useful service tq: the state by in- vestigating the circumstances lead- ing up to fatalities of one sort and another, and more particularly with respect to motor accidents on railway level crossings. But not infrequently they bring in the for- mal verdict, “No one was to blame”. We have no quarrel with such a verdict. But in nine times out of ten the man who is to blame is the driver of the car whose fatal ending is the subject of the inquiry.â€"Guelph Mercury. Kings Liable To Nicknames History Provides Many Ex- amples, Some Are Most Unflattering Not even kings are immune from nicknames, and history provides a great many examplesâ€"unkind as well as flattering. The various Kings Charles, especially of France seem to have been particularly liable, and lead the way tn the roy- al nickname parade. LIFE’S LIKE THAT r There was Charles the Bald, son of the second wife of Louis the Kind; Charles the Simple, son of Louis the Stammerer; Charles the Handsome, son of Philip the Hand- some; and Charles the Wise, who was fond of books, rather a rare distinction in his day. He inherited the library of twenty volumes which had satisfied the literary yearnings, of his father, but left, at his death in 1380, some 900, pret- ty well all there wore then. Charles the Fat was Ring of Swa- bia and Italy. Charles the Bad mis- governed Navarre. Charles the Bold reigned . over Burgundy, and Charles the Warrior over Savoy. In one month recently Bombay, India, imported 9,810,548 yards of cotton piece goods. London is acclaiming- the drama- tization of “Good Bye, Mr. Chips,” •James Hilton’s famous story. - By Fred Nehër ‘“That’s what you get for putting yotir lunch any oV pîa PUCK CHASERS NEWS OF O.H.A. DOINGS Secretary W. A. Hewitt, of the O.H.A., along with other hockey officials,- assisted the N.O.H.A. in the grand opening of the new rink in Schumacher, Ont. Bill Grant is back in the Good- year’s line-up after being out three weeks with a broken toe, Goodyears have lost Teddy Man- oryk for at least three weeks; he is out with a broken arm suffered during the exhibition game with Toronto Varsity. Regina Tisdall, of Qshawa’s G. M. men ran into a broken nose in- jury during- one of the many scrambles in their tie game with Goodyears, Referee Gordon “Beef” McKay of Hamilton, ran into a cut lip over in Niagara Falls. Two stitch- es were necessary 'to close the wound. Army Armstrong, of Oshawa, has handled two games in Toronto and made a fine impression on each occasion. St. Catharines will be without Roust, their centre-star, for sev- eral weeks. He is suffering from a spine injury. Brantford Indians make the Eastern Hockey League tour op- ening in Baltimore on Wednesday, January 4. They play in Hershey and Atlantic City on Thursday and Friday nights and then meet the New York Rovers in Madison Square Gardens on the Sunday af- ternoon. Coach Leo Reise will take along about 16 players for the test.. Sherbrooke’s failure to accept the C.A.H.A. invitation paved the way for Brantford’s chance to travel. Here’s hoping they have better luck on the trip than did Goodyears. Caves In Arctic Yield Evidence Of Ancient Life Yâ€"â€"- 7, % % Discovery in . Canada’s 'North- west-Hinterland Leads to Be- lief Primitive Man Migrated There from Asia The discovery of large mountain caves in Canada’s "Northwest hinterland, believed to contain evidence of habitation by primitive man thought; to have migrated from Asia thousands of years ago, was reported at Edmonton last week by Dr. Wesley !.. Bliss, an American archaeologist. After a five-month expedition ir the Northwest Territory, Dr. Bliss said his findings, add strength to a widely-accepted _ theory that America’s first inhabitants reach- ed,the continent across the Bering Straits either before or after glaciers swept over this continent. Location Stil, a Secret The archaeologist said', that the exact location of the mountain caves would remain, a secret until he returns to them next year to make a more thorough examina- tion. Valuable.rirelics found by the- expedition in- caves and other formations will be shipped to the University of New Mexico. . They include roughly - chipped stone weapons and cooking utaitsils and a . precious fragment .of an aged1 basket weave. Elephant’s -Tooth Fotind Dr, Bliss found a preserved elephant tooth ori the rim of the Arctic Ocean. 'He said elephants and other mammoth animals un- doubtedly roamed that region at one time. WONDERLAND OF OZ 'sa-a “Do you make -all of the paper dolls ?” inquired Dorothy. “Yes," re- plied Miss Cultendip. “I cut them out with my scissors and paint the faces and some of the. costumes.. It is very pleasant work and 1 am happy in making: ray paper village grow." “But how do the paper dolls happen to be alive?" asked Aunt Em. “The first dolls made were.not alive," replied the little queen. ‘Til tell you all about it," “I used to li ve , near the castle «of a great sorceress named" Glindà the Good, and she saw my dolls and said they were very pretty. , I told her I thought I would like them bet- ter, if they were alive and the next day the. sorceress brought me a lot of magic paper. ’This is live paper/ she said, ‘and fill the dolls you cut q.u t of it will be able to think and - tfYlk. When you have used it all up come to me and I will give you m ore/ *• ...-. “Of course £ was delighted with this present," continued Miss Cut- ’ ten-clip, “but the dolls I made were so thin that 1 found any breeze would blow them over and scatter them dreadfully, tie Glindg built a wall around the place to keep the wind out, and told me to build a papqr village here and, to be its queen. That is why I started the Village which you now see. It was rnanfv years ago that I built the first house and I’ve kept very busy and made my village grbw." By L. Frank Baum “Many years ago!" exclaimed Aunt Em. “Why how old are you child.'"’ . “i never keep track of. the years, said Miss Cuttenclip, laughing. $‘You see, I don’t grow up at all. I just stay the same as I was* when I first came here. Perhaps I’m older than even you are, madam, but I wouldn’t , say for sure." They looked àt the lovely little girl wonderingly and the Wizard asked: “What happens to your paper village when it rains?" , '