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' ES Blackouts Affect M.P.'s Attendance . Only Handful Sometimes During Important Debates In The . British House of Common ! The © London = Daily Mail last . week administered an editorial re- buke to «British members of Par. liament who neglected--in large numbers--to remiin in the House of Commons during important de- bates, + _ : Several times, the newspaper said, "only a handful of MP's have thought it worth while to at- tend throughout important de. bates." ey Ly " "The blackout is one excuse for early departure, It is a poor ev- cuse. What would the M,P.'s think if their constituents blamed the blackqut for . neglect of duty? Something should be done. to re- move the deplorable impression "that M.P.'s are bored, tired or indifferent." The Daily 'Mail suggested again --although Premier Chamberlain had turned down a similar pro- posal--that' the House meet earl- ier and adjourn before darkness, because of the blackout. Veteran Skier At 15 Eleanor Boyle of Lake Louise, Alta,, and only 15, caught by the camera. as she prepares to take off over the mountains and hills for ~a practice run for the Do- minion : Ski Championships meet coming - up at Mount Norquay, February 28th to March 3, Miss' Boyle, who skiis to school, is such an expert that she is in the sen- sation class, and will test the met-- tle of all contenders in the wo- men's events, She started to ski when only four years of age. 'wy- ==C,P.R. Photo Dog Proverbs Therp: are good dogs -of all sizes;--French, a The dog understands his mast- er's mood.--Chinese, A dog has: no aversion to a poor family.--Chinese, ba An old dog does not grow used to the -collar.--Italian, Better have a dog for a friend than your enemy.--Dutch, The dog's kennel is not a place to keep a sausage.--Danish, When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep.--German. Who has no bread to share should not keep a dog.-- Spanish. When two dogs fight for a bone the third runs away with it.-- Dutch, ! ; The dog in his kennel barks. at his fleas, the dog that hunts does not feel them.--Chinese,, Sudetens Find Happy Haven German Refugees Enjoy Peace In © Western Canada y ---- Several hundred families of the 'Budeten 'Germans are llying quiet. ly northweat of Edmonton while their old homeland Is involved in . the European war, A , ARB ADAPTING THEMSELVES The Sudetens have migrated to Canada within the last eight months wsnder'a refugee settlement program 'drawn up after thé German annex- ation of Czechoslovakia, Although they speak only German, the réfug® #08 say they are happy to be in Ca. nada. Establishment of the Sudeton fa , milles on land in western Canada was supervised and each family * .. was given $1,600, ° t * The refugees rapidly adapted themselves and gardens will supply them with vegetables for the win: NEWS PARADE The inspired Turkish newspaper . "Son Telegraf" last week sounded & warning note: "Toward the end" of March or the beginning of Apnl events "are going to precipitate themselves." At the same time the - entire Turkish press turned its at . tention to Russia's rich' Caucasian oil fields across the border, openly hinting thta the British-French- Turk armies in the Near East, numbering nearly 1,000,000, might be considering an attack on- that region, 'TWIXT DEVIL AND DEEP But while the. world audience waited fer the curtain to go up on the war in the Near East, signifi- cant events in other quarters were ripe with dramatic interest, In the twenty-fourth week after the Al. lies' declaration of war on Germ. any, we saw Sweden, a powerful nation long neutral, squirming on the horns of a: dilemma. As the Russian campaign in Finland en- tered a new and more successful phase, the Swedes appeared to be in peril whichever course they would choose to pursue, In an ex- traordinary message, King Gustav V declared that Sweden must re- fuse to send military aid to Fin- land because of the danger of being drawn into both the Finnish Russian war and the western 'Eur- opean conflict, (In addition, pass- age was refused to foreign troops who wished to cross Sweden on their way to Finland). Sweden's choice lay between accepting a Russian-dominated Baltic; or dare ing all,--to be attacked then by Germany, or Germany and Russia both. 3 Er, "A verbal war broke out in the same week betwean Great Bri- tain and Norway over the "Ali- mark" incident -- when 326 Bri- tish sailors were taken off a Ger- man-*slave ship" in a Norwegian fjord . . . Britain announced the sinking of the 50th German sube marine since the war started . . . intense cold on the Western Front paralyzed almost all military" ac tivity . . ."the Bulgarian Cabinet underwent a shake-up; the new Premier was seen to be more fav- orable to Russia than his predeces- sor .-, . Britain received a note of assurance from Bucharest that Rumania' had no intention of in- _ creasing its supply of oil to Ger many . . . Italy's supreme defense council met for seven successive ~~days, showing concern over tha _ mission of British-French military forces in the Near East... IT COSTS MONEY In Canada, Dominion Finance Minister Ralston warned that it is going to be a long and costly war, defense contributions for the next fiscal year to total half a billion dollars, In Ontario, the def cit for the fiscal year ending - next March 31 was revealed: as $4,444,929 , . . the surplus fore-- cast for the next- fiscal year 18" $356,239, to be achieved in the main by reducing the provindial subsidy to municipalities; by cut. ting unemployment relief-by 40 per cent, and Department of Edu. cation costs by $1,000,000 (Middle School examinations to be abole ished) ; and by undertaking a min fmum of road construction in the province, ; 3. = Winter Winter has more disguises than any April: Today he--is a bright-cloaked knave with bells, Tomorrow an old man crouched in some dim corner \F YA KIN SELL. ANY MORE GOODS :8Y NOT TELLIN' FOLKS 'BOUT, - "THEM, THEN IT DONT PAY. TO ADVERTISE Canadian Scout Flag Presented to Polish Consul-General { : al YC . a - Mr. Victor Podoski, Polish Consul-General in Canada, receives a Canadian Scout flag from Mr, J. F. M, Stewart of Toronto, Vice-Presi- dent of the Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts' Association. Earlier presentation of the flag from the Boy Svs of Canada to those Tr, of Poland was deferred by the coming of the w It will now go to Po- land when that country has been restored... . NTARIO UTDOORS "BY, VIC BAKER Y 1] FISH WITH GOITRE While we're not ceratin as yet whether members of the finny tribe suffer from gout and siniilar ailments, we have it on good auth- ority that fish, in common with many human beings, are .suffer- ers from the ravages of goitre. So next time you make g catch that , is wearing a good-sized bump un- der its chin, don't forget it might not bé something .it ate but just tho visible effects of goitre. _The mellicos blame this condi- tion on iodine deficiency and for treatment prescribe this liquid as medicine. It seems that the agri- culture experts have also discover- -edthis- condition of goilre in cat- .tle, sheep and hogs as well with the result that iodine is now rec-' ommended in the food as a pre- ventive measure. The salt licks and salt mixed in the animal's food \ contain quantities of icdine which remedy this condition. . - THEY FLY HIGH In answer to an inquiry about how high birds fly, we have this to say, it all depends entirely up- on the bird, of course. Storks and «anes have been scen flying some 20,000 feet above sea level over the Himalayas in India. A vulture has been seen 26,000 feet above sea level around Mount Everest, which is also in the Himalayas. Rat Bites Baby Then Gets Father Pierre 'Englehart of Ellis Bay, Que., was bitten bv a vicious rat when he fell asle_, while watch- ing for the redent, which had bit- ten the face of his 8-months-old daughter the previous night. Mrs. Englehart was awakeped by the cries of the infant and she saw the rat in the baby's cradle. Tho child's face was bit- ten severely in several places. Ellis Bay is én Anlicosti: Island in the Gulf of Lawrence. _ He Was Responsible For The Altmark Incident This photo of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiral. ty, is the most recent one of the man on whose shoulders rests the re. sponsibility for the politics of the British navy. The spectacular invasion of Norwegian waters by British warcraft to rescue 800 British seamen from aboard the German prison ship, Altmark, is the latest and greatest . of these responsibilities. The admiralty announced frankly that it gave the orders for the British destroyers to rescue the Altmark's captives even if it meant going into Norweg ian territory to do so, VOICE OF THE PRESS »> EASIER TO PREDICT The difference between a movie plot and a garden plot is that in the" former, one can usually teil what is going to come up, . \ ---KEdmonton Journal. ---- A WINDY CAMPAIGN Says an Ottawa despatch: "Whirlwind campaign will" be launched by all major parties with. in a fortnight." With the accent on the "wind," no doubt, ~--Owen Sound Sun-Times --0-- AMPLE MACHINERY Lord Riverdale says Canada "can easily do with 40,000,000 people." At any rate this country would have enough governmental machinery and railways to take care of that number, ~~ --Kitchener Record. wr NO INCREASE NEEDED The Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration reports a net operating surplus of $357,454 for the fiscal year. Owners of radios will s€e in the profit an assurance that their licenses will not again be increas- ed, -- Montreal Gazette, --0-- SMALL TOWN LIFE One hears, "What do you people. do living in a small town?" There's plenty to do in a small town if one wants to do it, and if a city resident became actively in- terested in the many forms of ac- tivities that are at his or her dis- posal we'll wager that it would keep them so busy that there would be no time whatever left to even think about what a tough break life has handed them, or something. "What do you people do living in a small town?" Next time you hear that kind of super- cilious talk open up with both bar- rels and convinece-the city speaker they're just kidding themselves but not others. Although we have had Huntingdon in mind hen =writing the answer to this ques- tion, all the other'towns are alike. -- Huntingdon Gardening .... Spring may not really start with the first day of March next week but, regardless-of the weather, the real gardener is already planning " what is going to be done this sea- son. Experts admit that jt is pos- sible to make some sort of a gar' den without a plan, in fact they usually point scornfully to many examples. But for real satisfac- tion, actual results and fun, they strongly advocate a little planning before field operations begin, There are seed catalogues and bul- letins to be: pored over, flower beds to be sketched on paper; var- feties new and old to be selected. - Dreams In Packets When we buy a packet of seeds we are literally buying a dream which will come true. Unlike al- most any other purchase this is only the beginning of our pleas- ure but the end of the expense. It is something that will grow into beauty or usofulness. 1 Sweet Peas Soon Sweet Peas must be planted early, This plant develops its ex- tensive root growth and upper vine structure when the weather is cool. If it does nof get its feet well down into tho soil then, when the days turn hot, it is liable to wither and cease furnishing its daily quota. of color and frag- rance. Planting directions are simple but important, Successful garden. ers advise a trench, dug at least a foot deep, filled within two ine ches of the top with rich soil mix- ed with well rotted manure or old leaves. Seed is planted about an inch or two deep and just as soon as the soil can be worked. Rains will wash more soil into the trench {filling it up gradually and thus adding further to root grawth, (Que.) Gleaner, Oil Shortage + Is Envisaged Expert Says Curtailment In Canada May Be Dictated By War -- Rationing May Come Householders with oil-burning furnaces may have to go back to coal if the war lasts long enough. OQil-burning locomotives may be replaced by coal burners and other oif-burning devices may likewise be affected. Gas for motor fuel may be rationed, and sope buses, and trucks stop running' These rhdical changes were en- yisioned in a paper by G. A. Ga- herty, M.E.LC., president of the Montreal Engineering Company, dealing with the Dominion's econ- omic wartime front, and present. ed before the Engincering Insti- tute of Canada assembled in con- vention at Toronto. - FOR MECHANIZED WARFARE "The need of exchange for war purposes may make it desirable to curtail domestic consumption of petroleum products as the war pro- ceeds," stated Mr. Gaherty. \ "Arp. we become adjusted to a war basis 'gasoline for private auto- mobiles may have to be rationed as in England, and the use of bus- es and trucks may have to be stop- ped altogether where passengers and goods can be transported by rail. This all would reduce the pressure on the. sources of supply and release tanker capacity for transport of oil from North and South America ports to the thea- tre of war, und so make available additional supplies of oil and gaso- line vital to the successful con- duct of mechanized warfare." Probe Grouches Of Customers Faults Found by Householders Are Analyzed -- Discourteous Clerks Top List Elmer PP. Ressoguie, of the Seripps-Howard Tiewspapers, told a recent meeting of the Toronfo Ad. vertising and Sales Club the re sults of a recent home Inventory er tad hy Seripps-Howard, del {vered a penetrating analysis of the buying trends of the average man and woman. RETAIL FAILINGS About the only "constant factor" in the groeery business, said Mr. Resseguie, was the finding that Sat- urday was by far the best sales day. Au analysis of retail failings revealed that faults were divided into the following percentages: - --Discourteous- clerks, 36 per cent; poor values, 9; insufficient help,"§; misrepresentation, 8; poor store arrangement, 6; alteration and ex change trouble, 4; credit practices, 4; out-of-date, 3; and delays In de- livery, 2. . These, said Mr. Resseguie, were the pet grouches of houscholders questioned during the survey, that wag made in 52,000 homes of 15 cit- les. --allaresuitablafor framing More Home Loans Made In Ontario $19,320,774 Total! January Increase In Dominion 12 Per Cent. Above 1939 Hope improvement loans, for January totaling $514,578 are shuwn fn figures released by thé Hon, J. L. Ralston, minister of finance, This répresents an increase of 12 per cent.'over the volumo reportéd to the department during the cor responding month last year. The mumber of loans in January, 1940, was 1,356, against 1,173 fu January with an increase of $77,010, and Al. berta and British Columbia share' third place, Alberta showing the larger incredse fn volume of loans and British Columbia the larger number of ew advances, Men Can Change Their Minds Too Women seldont exercise their traditional privilege "to vhange their minds," according to Karl Robinson, director of debate at Nerthern University, Chicago. Robinson, who colipleted a two- year study to determine whether or not there was any relationship between sex and willingness to change opinions, discovered that "women tend to cling tenaciously to their attitudes and opinions." "Personal factors," Robinson said, "seem to be of greater im- portance to women than facts in solving problems." FREE Over 125 N.H.L. Ho Nel RY PICTURES MAPLE LEAFS « CANADIENS RANGERS + BRUINS AMERICANS BLACK HAWKS RED WINGS You can oin the finest collection of great hockey players pictures ever of- fered <Pictaires of all the players in all the N.ITL.1. teams, Allmeasure 07 x7% --all are mounted--and and they're free! For each picture desired send one Bee Hive Syrup label or two Durham or Ivory Starch labels along with your name and address, Epecify N.H.L. players wanted. Send requests to © the address on every abel. 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