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AEE J Forgotten Hero stork in the Millar will derby, --Hams ; Or Grapefruit! harbor ill-will toward their fellow __Canadians-who happen to live in other parts of the Dominion. -- Edmonton Journal. _. irked at suppression of news but it is | aa IS a of the =----= 4 THE WORLD AT LARGE _ CANADA THE EMPIRE . PRESS CANADA Among the. forgotten heroes 1s the flton Spectator. An exchange points out that the tréuble with too many ambitious men in the public eye is that they are in the public eye--like a cinder.--Cal- gary Herald, d Undisturbed Canada's gold, nickel, copper and lead niines are yielding more than ever before in our history. Hvidently haven't heard the tales of the ticker- tapes.--Ottawa Journal, Absolutely Essential Unless a larger spirit of goodwill {s 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 a measure of understanding of the viewpoints and problems of other provinces. Af- ter all, it is very doubtful if the peo ple of any province, as individuals, No. Holiday For Death The shadow of Ontario's traffic toll over Christmas had been deepening in repeated warning that it would be an alarming one. It was an alarming one. More people were killed in the province than in' the state of New York; an appalling number injured. That is onc of the most sinister ele- ments in this never-ending tragedy of the roads. It is worked -out like a business chart. The shattered lives and sorrow that follow in its wake are down now to a numerical proposition. Itis a chilling commentary on care- 12s3ne€88 and negligence. -- Hamilton Spectator. Rights of the People It is well for the people to remem- "ber always that the freedom of the rress is not a privilege enjoyed by owners, publishers and editors of newspapers for, their own exclusive' use-and advantage. As a matter of fact, the press has no special privilege before the law. Freedom of the press.. wag granted not to newspapers but to the people, Without it, democracy cannot function. Newspapers may be the people who are injured when a right is enjoined. The people who are shut off from facts about their gov- ernmentg or news of nations or peo- ples..are the principal sufferers, -- 'Brandon Sun. Canada's Task In 1938 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 politiclans 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 Rowell 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 nto .our governmental system since 1867. . It will require encouragement of every unifying force such as our na- tional publications. 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 is Canada's job for 1938.--To- ronto Financial Post. War Diet Kills : Madrid Elephant Pancho, -the Retiro Park Zoo ele- phant, who thrilled generations of Madrid children, died last week, a war casualty. Pancho, {ll for months from under- nourishment, died in his 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 he converted into grease for war purposes, "The bungling, over-sentimental or wiitul handling of the parole problem still romains ono of the greatest dis graces America has ever kawon." -- J, Dagar Hoover. PLR THE EMPIRE N 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 f{ndigestion; 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-panm, 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.--Melbourne Argus, Stimulating Migration For some years British migration to Australia was in the doldrums; in fact the flow of migration ran back- ward, with a loss to Australia of near- ly 30,000 people of British stock dur- ing the perlod 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 felt--and felt .rightly--that the time has come when pracical plans for stimulating British migration should be worked out and put into action. -- Sydney (Australia) Herald, Lawyers Offer Services Free Four Young Winnipeg Lawyers Have Been Appointed to Hear Inquiries From Those Unable to Pay. Persons unable to pay for legal ad- vice will be assisted by a social ser- _vice to be.set up-in Winnipeg and to be known as the Needy Persons' Ad- vising Centre. J 8 R. B. Maclnnes, of the Law Soclety of Manitoba, announced the new ser- vice, being sponsored by the society. It will be carried on for a year in the Winnipeg judicial area after which decision' will be made as to whether the service should branch into all judicial districts of Manitoba. Meet For: Consultation Mr. MacInnes said a committee of four young lawyers has been appoint- ed 'by: the society to hear inquiries from those unable to pay for legal advice. This. committee will meet regularly in the: law - tourts where: consultations will take place without fee payments. After hearing the cases and making necessary inquiries, the committee will make recommendations to a:cer- tificate-issuing committee and a-gen- eral-chairman for final decision. The' general chairman is John: Kelly and the certificate-issuing- committee in« cludes R. M. MacInnes, E. G. Phipps, Baker and W. P. Fillmore. No Criminal 'Cases If the certificate-issuing committee considers the cases within their juris- diction and they .point:to a possible successful verdict, their. recommenda- tion is passed on'to the general chair- man who supervises the operations of the agency. Mri. MacInnes said the Law: Society would stress the duty ofievery prac: tising lawyer in giving ;his services tree, Cases. outside:the scope of the service would include slander, libel.. small debts, cases against the debt ad. justment board or any other such Appeal, unless the committee decided 'there had been a miscarriage of jus- tice and considered an appeal justi fled. ° EE The agency will not touch criminal. cases as the government supplied a: was without means. Await New Japanese Moves LONDON.--With 'the sesslons: of the: Japanese Imperial Conference, the: FarKast situation is bellaved herd to be: entering a new and more danger- ous phase. It ig recognized that Jap- . anese strategy continues to be direct ed against the Western powers, the decision of the Tokio Conference re: garding the actual war in China bing: relatively meaningless. - ig themselves in readiness for gency session if Tokio developments 'follow the expected course and Japan boards, and appeals to the Court of "}- lawyer when the plaintiff or accused. |. it ix learned 'that: British Cabinat.| Ministers have been notified to hold. | ~~ 188 alle an emer: " we. ES 3 " th Se 5 Robert Horne, left, and George na! Morgan to the A to tell their weird story to the tions Made to Facilities vp: North During 1937--Lend and Water Traffic at New High. Transportation activity in the Northwest Territories reached a new high in 1987 when the four principal transportation companies, using steam and diesel-powered boats, carr'ed 23,- 000 tons of freight from and to Wa- terways, Alta., at the end: of steel,' the Federal Department of Mines and Resources reported last week. In addition, two main airway com- panies handled 600 tons of freight and supplies and due to increased mining activity the transportation compan'es are looking forward to an even heavier movement in 1938. New Boats Launched The report stated that an import- ant addition to transportation facil- ities of the northwest during the past year was launching of the diesel- powered steel boats, Radium Queen and Radium King, on the Mackenzie River route. The tugs were built at Sorel, Que., and moved:to the north in sections by rail. Another noteworthy development, the report said, was construetiont.of an eight-and-a-half mile pipeline with storage tanks to overcome navigation difficulties at St, Charles Rapids on Great Bear River. Th's is believed to be the world's: farthest north pipe-line, A fleet of tanker barges was con- structed at Fort Smith to aid move- ment of oil between wells: 50 miles below Fort Norman and-the-consums= ing points. Oil during summer months now moves on a regular -gchedule in the northwest. i Tractor Road Built The report said that completion of a winter tractor road from Yellow- Knife Bay to the Gordon Lake area speeded up movement of heavy freight.! Brought to Yellowknife Bay during the water navigation season, freight and supplies are re-shipped 76 -miles by tractor at much cheaper rates than the former method of aer- ial transportation. The airline continued to- play an important role in northern develop- ment, the report said, with the num- ber of planes in service in the north- west last year varying froni 16 to 20 operating from Edmonton, Prince Al-- bert and Fort McMurray. Indications are that this number will increase this Year, : Canada Imports More U.S, Coal 2,000,000 Tons For Year Is Ex- pectation Voiced by Anth- racite Institute Exports of Pennsylvania anthracite to Canada in 1937 may exceed 2,000, 000 tons for the first time since 1931, the Anthracite Institute said this week. ' During November, 1937, the export total was 232,617 net tons, according: to Dominion Bureau of. Statistics fig- ures, the highest tonnage for any month since February, . 1931. The total for the first 11 months of 1937' was 1,825,199 tons, and compilation of December figures was expected to push the tonnage above: 2,000,000, A year ago Pennsylvania supplied Canada with-47.6 per cent. of its anth- racite, but the percentage now has in- creased. to: 56.2, the Institute said. The United Kingdom's anthracite ship- ments to the Dominion have dropped Transportation Increases In Northwest Territories Ottawa Reports Important Addi- greeting of Premier Mussolini in Ger- 14 Th Hitler to Visit Duce In Soring Committee: Starts Work <on Plans For Colorful Reception Plans to welcome Chancellor Hitler: of Germany with fanfare rivalling the many last September, were discussed this week -by an Italian. Government reception committee, "Hitler will visit Italy next spring, returning Mussolini's trip through Geimany. The exact date has not been fixed but he is expected to ar- rive in Rome on May 9, second anni- versary of the proclamation of the Italian Empire. The committee sought to arrange for Hitler the 'most spectacular en- trance possible into Rome. Newspa- pers already have urged that he leave his tran outside the.city and ride ceremoniously past the Coliseum, the Arch. of Constantine, the Basilica of Masenzio, the Roman Forum and oth- er vestiges of the glory of Ancient Rome, / News In Review | $0 300 New Jap Conscription Law TOKIO.--The Japanese War Office has called for a new conscription law to mobilize additional man power for the war in China, while Emperor Hirochito presides over an Imperial conference -on-the conflict. -- SAT The Ministry of War announced that the conscription bill 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 effect until 1927, when the conscription law was revised. : Unemployment Insurance Proceeds OTTAWA ,--Although faced by an opposition blockade of three Provin- cial Governments, the Federal Admin. jstration will proceed with: plans to provide for an unemployment insur. ance measure, Prime Minister Macken- gle King intimated last week follow- ing a meeting of his Cabinet. Younger Men Appointed LONDON.--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. } ! ; ew. appointments are. a direct copseguéncd of the sweeping shake- up of the Army Council, Déc. 2, when the Minister passed over 'fifty senior . Generals to make: Maji-Gen. Viscount Gort Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and, by wholesale. retirements, from 63 to 62. s Supreme Soviet Foregathers MOSCOW. -- Newly-elected Soviet 'deputies gathered in colorful array in Moscow this week: ready for: the first session of 'the: Supreme: Soviet. Many of the deputies;: coming: from distant segions, had .to. start their journey -in sleds drawn by reindeer or dogs. In some cases it took 15 days to reach'a railway. Several had never geen a train before; Pope Warns: Hitler BERLIN.--A : dramatic warning: by the envoy of Pope: Pius to Chancellor Hitler that mankind calls for peace, 12 per. cent, and a reply in which Hitler pledged 3S a "Mad Jack" , formally declares war off Chino. "court, in Loss Angeles: They Threw a "Madman" to the Sharks . the sailors who admitted throwing reduced the average of the Council .[States! refusal: to recognize King Vic- Commentary oi the Fae 5% Highlights of the Week's News = Semon tie, - ak UNCONQUERABLE? -1 An inter- esting article by Frank Illingworth in an English magazine discusses the ex- ceedingly timely topic, "Can China Ever Be Conquered?' Drawing les- comes to the conclusion that the Jap- anese will detach more and more of China; that the Chinese will fight des- perately, and probably lose. we But r+ soon as the conqueror set- tles down, the Chinese will go back to his fields, back to his books of wis« dom, back to the cities and villages "where 'life hag not altered one bit for centuries. "And the Japs? They'll be- come. Chinese!" China has already been conquered successively in the past two thousand years by the Tartars, the"Kitans, the Juchens, by Jenghiz 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 havé by now accustomed China to the thought that any conquest of her 400, 000,000 'people can only be a' tempor- ary: affair, * & & 'WE'RE ALL CRAZY: Scientists and psychelogists are telling us now, and apparently no one is daring to say them nay, that insanity or a tendency towards fit exists in a"large number of people who look 'to He perfectly normal. Two specialists speaking be-. fore the' American Association for the Advancement of Sclence;: went 'so:far ag to declare that a great many sup- posedly- normals should : trade: places with insane patients in mental hos- pitals, 25 z 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. 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 thee's- a little queer", . - rE are 7 HE ¢ eo 5 THINK OF THE CHILDREN: If loving parents bent on' giving' their firstborn a beautiful: jname would pause -a moment and: reflect on how that name: is going to. sound .to the bearer of it twenty years hence, there would be far fewer foolish monickers the world: today, and the 'numberof sheepish; henpecked-looking::individu- als. slinking about their: daily 'rounds would. be considerably. less." Think: of the effect the precious name is going to have on your sensistive child be- fore you make the decision irrevoc- able! Best rule to follow: steer-away song from Chinese history, the writer | disguised under variegated initials 'In' "os AR Ey; -- a name like "Cyril" or "Elmer", ® : . & 8. 'HEAVIER POLICING: Motorists of! Ontario' were given a chance to be- have themselves on' the roads' at Christmas time, and look what a mess .day toll ever! A wave of protest has 'swept the country and indignant' let- ters have been appearing in the press. is doing something about the situa- tion, ordéring an immediate and stb-: stantial {icrease of the motorcyele' patrol force of thé! Pfovinelal Police} instructing them How torprevent 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 we are treated like the children we evidently are, bettér road behavior may result, 2 . & ~~ BALANCE OF POWER: When Hal. fan Fascism in the person of Musso- lint's sdn-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- {an suggestion that they' quit the t.eague. of Nations and recognize the regime of Franco. im Spain. Neither [would they join the: anti-Communism pact recently" signed. by Germany, Italy and Japan. - : The democratic powers had reason ta breathe easier following this re- buff. : : Pet 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 Eur- ope, and the democratic governments tremble. Reason. why: Rumania, as ally up .to now of Czechoslovakia, has- been helping to block Hitler's pro- posed march east' through' Czechoslo- vakia to seize the oiland grain flelds of the Ukraine. 2 : It is our fervent hope that:Rumania will continue with. her former allies in spite of governmental changes and not line up with the Fascist powers. ¢« * 0% - : BIRTH RATE FALLS: Tn the first Dominion of Canada,:0:7-per 'thousand, 1-0.6, the figures raised .by.a higher dis- ease toll and a larger. number of auto- mobile fatalities, ' Looks as if the population of thid 'fdir country may shrink' to nothing before: we know: what it's all about. himself "honorably and confidently" a New Year reception' to- the diplo- matic corps this: week' when brilliant: ly uniformed foreign envoys: and a officials were: grouped in. the. Fueh- rer's- Chancellory in the historic Wil- helmstrasse. » Tide Has Turned: MADRID.--President: Manuel' Azana declared in a: decree. thls 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 'Teruel offensive. Rioting In rAustria' VIENNA .--Disorder raged . through .out; Austria this. week-end, as Monar- chists and Nazis clashed with clubs, gtones and stink-bombs. at sixty 'mass meetings, called to open a campaign "to 'restore i the 26-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." LE : Fifty anti-Monarchists 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, i ] 7 Refuse to! Recognize Him WASHINGTON. The United tor r<Emmanuel. of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia has resulted in suspen: islon of the Italo:American negotia: tiong for. a commercial treaty. : quired the new treaty to bs made in ed, Avrested On Fraud Charge Ont, men. who alleged to co-operate with all nations marked | Flying Classrooms little: group of high Nazi: Government: central army dnd commander of the, Informed sources sald Mussolini re< the name of Victor Emmanuel -as King of:Italy.and Emperor of Ethiopia bd that State Secretary Hull re: CHATHAM Ball was set at $5,000. each last weelkeond for two Londonj:| : % ly obtained $300. "from a Raleigh township: resident by claiming they weré members of a syn: dicate which had sold a patented chemical formula to Lawrence Du Four Big Planes Will 'Carry Six to Eight Student' Flyers And' Instructors 'In the R. C. A. F. "Flying. classrooms" will lightén: .the- tedium. of. learning . for Royal Canadian 'Air :Force.. student fliers. Constvuction of four big planes will ,| be started soon in a Montreal air- craft" factory at a-'cost of nearly "$100,600 Jack of 'the four sturdy Noorduyn' :"Norseinen" will have accoramodation dents; and will be used to:teach em- (|: bryo. fliers such: sciences as bombing, radio communication and "spotting" for. artillery, : Supplément Ground Teaching The aerial classes will 'spplenment the usualt theoretical tnaching" of ground school.' Under a-tual fiight i| (conditions, Canada's': yo:.r.g airmen: .will learn the. science of aerial war-: fare under the first-hand gnidance of experienced instructors. : The big' Canad'an-désigned trans- port planes will have attachinents for 'bomb eights; ground-tosplane radio, removable: ports and mounts for aer- ial cameras, and, gun mounts, Monoplane Transports Used - To aid teaching navigation, especi~ ally. under adverse weather condi- tions, latest navigation instruments -will"be installed. ~~ ~~ Ay The "classroom planes" will be built by Noorduyn Aircraft, Ltd., at 'suburban Cartierville, Quebec, They will be'monoplane transports of netal construction: andi powdered with a "ing thém a high speed of nearly 170 { miles 'ant hour! ; In keeping with Canadian flying conditions, the new planes will be adaptable: to; skis for Winter: flying and to either. wheels: or seaplane floats in the Summer. : : without the other being J prosperous.' . i A year ago. a' disoarded cutting from a pineapple plant wasithrown on phils hearing fruit and g although it rofd & wi i [ Hh <4 Pont for $4,000,000, The two are Sam- Jimages to .enjo ets, 60 and Thoian Agnaw; 871, own devieeh & life from thd exotié; stick to eommon | It takbs all & man has, to. rise aboys | J i than 5 ever before, they made of it<-the blackest holl- |' Now the Attorney-General of Ontario | 'half of 1937, births: decreased' in" the | At the same time deaths increased |: for nix: Lo 'eight instructors and stu-- map reading, navigation, sketching, Wasp engine of 526 horsepower, 'giv. ¢ "There oan be Ho real prodperity in state orimatioh for either: the indus} ..trial: city: on the agricultural country" heap at Torquay. It is new: Nrive when" pampered with care and attention, it Astonishing cases have often been- dead, were restored to life by an ins jection of adrenalin. Asthma suffer. ers know the almost miraculous relief "an injection of this drug gives during 'an attack, : From Ox' Glands And' adrenalin, which has brought pellet to millions, is extracted from 'the glands of oxen and, recently, from . tropical frogs. : : 1 * Many. a twinge of lumbago or rheu- matism has been eased by a canthar- fides plaster, Cantharides consists merely of a certain kind of dried beet- "les, Victims of & bite from a mad dog rush to a doctor to be inoculated against rabies. But most of them do: not know that the injection is made from the-brains:of infected rabbits. Shake Polson For Healing Snake-bite, which annually took an enormous toll of human life in the since sciéntists discovered that ft L gould be cured by venom "milked" from the fangs of the snake. Snake venom is also used for haemophilia-- the bleeding disease. bs In haemophilia the blood does not harden to form & scab, and the shf- ferer may bleed excessively from a trivial wound. : ey Even thie extraction of a tooth may have: fatal results. Hardening of the 'blood 1s definitely hastened by cobra venom, < The common cold is now treate with a salve containing the venom of the viper.-This salve, which has been prepared by a scientific institute in Austria, is rubbed into any part of the body; and headache and running nose promptly disappear,' As a pain- "Killer; snake venom has been of great . benefit, and it establishes no drug habit, From His Body Amazes Doctors' -- Nova Sco- tian' Fights Death; Suspect : Arrested | SHELBURNE, N.S. -- Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police last week laid a charge of attempted murder: against Dennis Ross, 24, of Stoney Island, as the man he is alleged to have shot amazed doctors with his fight for life. ~ "Phe attempted murder charge was laid: after Ross was taken to Yarmouth Hospital where Warren Brown, 41, Stoney: Island storekeeper and taxi. driver, 'lies with more than'50 shot- 'gun' wounds: Police refused to say what 'happened in the: hospital room 'after they: brought 'Ross into it. x 1 = Penetrate Stomach, Intestines Brown's 17-year-old son, Warren, heard a.shot outside the - family's dwelling and then hfs father scream- ing he" wad' wounded. : 'Brown' was 'admitted to hospital and physicians 'sald: they expected 'him to | :die in afew hours. But he still fought for. lite. : : The No, 10 shotgun pellets, more péndtrated' his stomach, intestines, bladder, hand 'and-arm. Forty-three of the':shoty were irémoved from his body, Bi New Technique Restores: Sight Toronto Surgeon Transplants Cor- | mex Tissue! From Eye of Still- born' Infants -- Three Years' ; Research. > : research, anew technique for th , delicate operation of transplanting cornea tissue has been developed by Dr. A, L. Morgan, member of the de- partment of ophthalmology, Univers- ity of Toronto, and assistant eye sur- ren, : " The cornea is the transparent film |" over the eyeball, which admits light which sight is not possible. . X The. cornea, it was said, is the only part of the:eye which surgeons have * bedn able to transplant. Dr. Morgan 'new method: by 'which it: to graft: healthy tissue taken foreign eye in place' of the inj .cornéa, Shp sad . Not Yet Applied to Humans For. clinical work, human tissue is necessary. s tissue is removed from eyes with the cornea intact, but which have been' removed 'because of othéy' causes from stillborn infants, and! from corpses! 2 ry x applied. to. humans of the (lack of suitable patients and the un- | certainty. of. a supply of cornea. The "operation to be successful must be performed with tissue from the same : species. Animal 'cornea' hurts: Ho Somebopaque. "reported: in which people, apparently gg to "the interior: of the eye, without : 'working' with 'rabbits, has' found a The new operation has: mot been because y 4 tropics, has lost much of its terror We 43 Shots Taken "# * ®- B72 i ah 'than '60 'of "which entered hig body, : nly. After more: than: three years. ie 3% \geon at the Hospital for: Sek Child- grafted A 2 - Eats