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beid Deficits for the last two fiscal years follow : 1935â€"36â€"12,686,000,000 lire. 1936â€"37â€"16,230,000,000 lire. These figures include the deficit of the Italian railways. Italy has expended the following sums in East Africa in the last three complete fiscal years: 1934â€"35â€"985,000,000 lire. 1935â€"36â€"11,136,000,000 lire, 1936â€"37â€"17,519,000,000 lire. Ancther indication of the large ©Xxâ€" penses required in colonization was scon in the growing budget deficits since 1930, the article said. The fiscal year of 1930â€"31 rovealed a deficit of only 504,000,000 lire. Emp‘re tui‘ding in Italian East Afâ€" ricaâ€"including Ethiopia and Italian Somalilandâ€"has cost the government nearly 30,000,000,000 lire (about $1, 678,000,000) since the beginning of the I‘asloâ€"Ethiopian war, according to staâ€" tisticsa published in the newspaper Popolo Di Roma. Ailrican Development Appears to Have Abscrted More Than A Billion Dollars Mussolini Finds Empire Costly PERMANENT CAR MARKERS: A plan has been presented to the Toâ€" ronto Board of Police Commissioners proposing â€" that â€" permanent â€" license plates replace the _ present . yearly markers on Ontario cars. It is sugâ€" gested that larger plates be used, five inches by 16 for the front and 12 x 1! for the rear. These would be weldâ€" ed to the body of the car and colored ‘"volunteer" ; Spain. Italy 1 than ever in t But that is w run does not v terranean is he East and India If Britain now extends a loan, Mussâ€" olini‘s hand wiil be strengthened for firther depredations in the east; she will be in a position to finance another "volunteer" _ srmy â€" expedition â€" into Spain. Italy wiil be more powerful than ever in the Mediterrancan. But that is what Britainâ€"in the long run does not want, because the Mediâ€" terranean is her "lifeline" to the Near is difficult to understand just why Great Britain is moving toward makâ€" ing a loan of large sums of money to Mussolini. Italy‘s financial position has been very shaky for the past year. Without substartial aid from an outâ€" side power, the Fascist regime might very well face collapse. 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. it. The dry southwest areas of Sasâ€" katchewan the past week were blankâ€" eted in a we‘lcome coat of white, in some places twelve to eighteen inches deep. Crop prospects have brightened very considerably, especially since this precipitation of snow follows upâ€" on the heavy raings of last autumn. RAY OF HOPE: An allâ€"time record for moisture during the month of Febâ€" ruary has been achieved on the Reâ€" gina plain=. The heavy snowfall did HELPING HAND: Many of the heavy German shells fired by Spanish insurgent soldiers into Loyalist ranks the past few weeks did not explode. They did no damage, killed no one, bocause they had been filled with sawâ€" dust by munition workers in the Gerâ€" man factories where they were made. Not being allowed under the Nazl reâ€" 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. CUTTING OFF ONEK‘S NOSE* It LiSTEN ... EVERY ERIDAY NIGHT TANAMâ€"19304 Coast to Coast Network Commentary on the Highlights of the Week‘s News IMPERIAL TOBACCO‘S INSPIRING PROGRAM Hreavs Fikacds It was understood the hatcheries will be located at New Liskeard, Peterborough, on Manitoulin Island and in Muskoka. Trout and other varieties of game fish raised in the new plants will be used primarily to stock lakes in the surrounding disâ€" TORONTO.â€"It was reported unâ€" officially at Queen‘s Park last week that construction of four new fish hatcheries with rearing ponds, at an estimated cost of $120,000, is proâ€" vided for in estimates of the Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries to be recommended for inclusion in the budget at the forthcoming sesâ€" sion of the Provincial Legislature. One liter of gasoline of the type used by cars in France produces 500 liters of oxide of carbon. This is inâ€" jurious to most trees, and is the prinâ€" cipal cause of the difficulty, It has also been found tha emanations from the tar aud asphalt used on the paveâ€" menis are harmful to vegetation in Summer. According to this year‘s park proâ€" gram the chestnuts on the Rue Caulaincourt will be replaced with the sophora, a tree that has been found to be specially strong. The elms of the Boulevard du Palais will be replaced by plane trees, as will those on the Avenue de Maine, the Avenue d‘Italie, Avenue de Clichy and Aveâ€" nue de Saintâ€"Ouen. One of the main attractions of the city has always been the number of streets lined with trees, and the city government is attempting to maintain the tradition by substituting hardier varieties for the traditional elms and horseâ€"chestnuts. Several years ago it was necessary to replace the chestâ€" nuts on the upper half of the Champs Elysees with plane trees. Thsso are doing well, and the same plan is being followed with other streets. At the same time, experiments have been catried on with a graat variety of trees. Ontario Planning Fish Hatcheries Automobile exhausts are continuing their work of destruction to Paris trees, and it will cost the city park department 1,720,000 francs for reâ€" placement of dead or dying trees durâ€" ing 1938. Chestnut Trees With Hardier Varieties, Such As Paris Replaces a couple of miles from London the other day set off for town driving his "38$ model sedan. The read was horâ€" 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 pullâ€" 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 farâ€" 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. PAGING DOBBIN: Next time, he swears, he‘ll take the horse. A farmer The report should indeed be valuâ€" able, since the Commission took care to hear the evidence in private of every convict who wished to speak. A study has been made of how the "detention and reformation", which the present law calls for, has been carvied out. s on penitentiaries, a tabulation of findâ€" ings made during a thorough invesâ€" tigation of Canada‘s prison system. It is expected there will be some "eyeâ€" openers" on how the penal situation is administered, and a number of very definite recommendations for reform. PRISON FINDINGS: Shortly to be presented to Parliament at Ottawa is the report of the Royal Commission Miss MacDonald does not allow worry over "what people will say" to stand between her and happiness. ald, daughter of the late British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, is not 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 "hanâ€" dyman" of Speen, Buckinghamshire. A former house painter, electrician‘s helper, di%châ€"digger, drumâ€"player in the village band, Miss MacDonald‘s flance has been a regular customer at the "Old Plow," an inn which she operates. Sounds grand. If we had the same plates year after year, maybe we could remember our license number. stickers attached to windshields wuwoars indicate that the yearly fee had been paid. Gas Fumes BRAVE WOMAN: Ishbel MacDonâ€" Tar Emanations Harmful by Peter Randal LONDON.â€"Great Britain this week ended the first year of a £1,500,000,000 ($7,500,000,000 fiveâ€"year rearmament program and planned a heavy increase in defense expenditures in the second year. Schuschnigg, long a bitter foe of Nazi penetration into Austria, where the Nazi Party has been outlawed since June, 1933, announced his capiâ€" tulation and submitted his new Cabâ€" inet list to President Wilhelm Miklas after Hitler‘s threeâ€"day ultimatum exâ€" pired. Rearmament Program Increased TONDONN â€"firaat Britain this waat VIENNA.â€"Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany, backing up an ultimatum with strong military forces along Ausâ€" tria‘s northern frontier, last week forced Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to place five Austrian Nazis or Nazi sympathizers in his Cabinet. OTTAWA.â€"Important negotiations which concern the modification of the trade agreement between Canada and the United Kingdom are in progress now. They are .antecedent to the negotiations for a revised treaty beâ€" tween Canada and the United States because the negotiations for an Angloâ€" American pact are ahead of what Otâ€" tawa and Washington are figuring on between themselves. Sweencey Schriner, No. 11, of the New York Americans, skates past the net a}oal past Bill Beveridge, whoâ€"attemnts to save. (Note buive in not ac : HANKOW.â€"Word that more than 200 civilians, including several forâ€" eigners, were killed by Japanese air raiders at Chengchow cast a pall this week over elation raised in Chinese Government circles by reports of Chinese successes along the northern part of the Tientsinâ€"Pukow Railway. "So far we have been fighting our own battles," he said. The Soviet airâ€" craft were purchased in the same way as the airplanes from the United States but no fighting pilots had been supplied. "Fighting Own Battles" Notwithstanding reports from Japâ€" anese sources, Mr. Liu assorted China had received no assistance from foreâ€" ign troops. resscesccersesear cssc ces r4e00 The Chinese nation had every conâ€" fidence General Chiang Kaiâ€"shek would be able to hold Japan in a death grip until the conflict could be brought to an effective conclusion. A new army of 1,500,000 men was taking form in the interior of China. This would in all probability be augmented by units from other nations within a very short time. "How on earth can the Woestern nations hope to have a peaceful, prosâ€" perous condition of things while the whole trade and commerce of the Orâ€" ient is being slowly strangled by the war machine of one nation? And beâ€" lieve me when I say it is affocting the whole of the East. To Close Door "If Japan wins this war she will close China to all other countries exâ€" cept those who are able and willing to pay heavy tolls. Long before that day arrives Japan will be bankrupt and slowly sinking in her own mire but she will have dragged down China and a large portion of the comâ€" mercial world with her." During the 1937â€"38 fiscal year, Britâ€" "A number of wellâ€"meaning, fearâ€" stricken pacifists can trace their bustâ€" ness losses back to last July when the Japanese were allowed to invade China. Brsiness conditions slowed down even more when the Japanese invested Shanghai on Aug. 13," he said. No highly organized nation in the Occident can hope to escape from the evil results cof the desecration of China, declared W. C. Liu, special enâ€" voy of the Chinese Government who spoke last week in Toronto. Ruin For All Business Seen In Civilians Killed In Air Raids WHOLE TRADE OF ORIENT S SLOWLY STRA News In Review Japanese Victory by Chinese Envoy â€" Door to Western World Would be Closed. Trade Pact Negotiations They warned that to interpret the message in any other way would inâ€" evitably lead to inaccuracy and exagâ€" geration. Denies His Letter Provocative MOSCOW.â€"Joseph Stalin‘s widely published letter appealing to the workâ€" ers of the world to unite behind the Soviet Union if it is attacked must be read as a document of domestic, rathâ€" er than international, importance, auâ€" thoritative Soviet sources declared this week. Two Murderesses NEWARK, N.J.â€"Mrs. Ethel Strouse Soh1, policeman‘s daughter, and Geneâ€" vieve Owens, her companion in a $2.10 holdup during which a bus driver was slain, were convicted of firstâ€"degree murder by an allâ€"male jury which recommended mercy. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia â€" Four fliers were killed this week when two Czechoslovakian army planes collidâ€" ed and crashed during manoeuvres near Milovice. Lord Plymouth termed "very disâ€" turbing" the announcement by Japanâ€" ese authorities in Shanghai that they would not respect even foreign obligaâ€" tions secured by the customs. Disturbed By Japs LONDON, Eng.â€"The Earl of .Plyâ€" mouth, Underâ€"Secretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Lords last weekâ€"end the Government is closely watching the problem of international trade on the Yangtse River in China, as well as the future of the Chinese Customs Administration. Osservatore recalled that ordinarily such a marriage is regarded as void when it involves a union between a Catholic and a person who has not been baptized. Against "Mixed Marriage" VATICAN CITY.â€"Referring directly to the prospective marriage between King Zoz I of Albania and Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary, the Vatican organ, Osservatore Romano, this week gave voice to the Catholic Church‘s objection to "mixed marâ€" riages". Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Deâ€" fense Coâ€"ordination, said the 1938â€"39 figures would be between £325,000,000 ($1,625,000,000) and £350,000,000 (§1,â€" ©50,000,000). ain has spent £269,739,000 ($1,348,â€" 695,000). Then one day in a cafe in Palermo the wonder was effected, says the Irish Independent. A young apprenâ€" tice who saw the ineffectual attempts of his clients to keep cool tried his hand at a mixture of treacle and ice. The result was rather good. In fact it was a considerable improvement on anything hitherto devised. So the apâ€" prentice followed up his experiments,. He made a wooden box with a double bottom. In the lower department he placed a quantity of crushed ice and filled the other with cream, when lo! the original ice cream, It is not surâ€" prising that the apprentice who had the genius to discover ice cream had also the sense to realize the possibilâ€" ities of his discovery. When he had made sufficient money in Palermo to enable him to start on a large way he established in Paris. It was the beâ€" ginning of an Italian peaceful peneâ€" tration that has lasted to the present day. The English claim they had disâ€" covered it before this time. It was in 1660 the apprentice from Palermo opâ€" ened his shop, and it is claimed that Charles 1 had already treated guests to ices at a banquet. Charles seems to have been very proud of this deliâ€" cacy; for it is on record that he gave his chef $100 yearly pension to keep the method of production a secret. In th~ Seventeenth Century â€" Italians Claim Its Disâ€" When Ice Cream Killed In M Was First Made ans, skates past the net of the Montreal Maroons, having shot (Note buige in net, as puck rebounds from force of shot), vVECB And now at a time when all over the district, municipal clerks are takâ€" ing up their duties for the year, it might be opportune to stop and think what that work means. Clerks are important officers in citâ€" ies and towns but especially in the rural municipalities the work of the clerk is almost allâ€"embracing. Townâ€" ship councils get in the habit of relyâ€" ing on the clerks in many ways and year by year, as new regulations are put into force by the government, the scope of their duties increases. â€" Sault Ste. Marie Star. Isn‘t it just possible, however, that, whoever else may be entitled to the designation, the municipal clerk is in line for such recognition? Nominating candidates for the post of ‘"forgotten man" is a not uncomâ€" mon occupation these days and one hesitates to suggest additional nomâ€" The Township Clerk Radio is family entertainment, and should be kept as clean as family life itself.â€"Stratford Beaconâ€"Herald. Broadcasters should ever bear in min$® 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 utterâ€" ly out of place in the midst of a famâ€" ily. Radio has been slipping in this respect for some time, one of the most frequent offenders being a highâ€" priced comedian whose tiresome perâ€" sonal allusions are sometimes in very questionable taste. Radio In The Family A prominent headmaster in South Africa is strongly advocating a sixâ€" day school week. He says that the gap from Friday afternoon to Monâ€" day morning is too long, but he needn‘t expect any applause from the ranks of juvenile Canada.â€"Brantford Expositor. Children Won‘t Anplaud Marshal _ yon Blomberg, German Minister of War, has resignéd 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 Sentinelâ€" Review. Hit Wrorg Man 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 Engâ€" land receiving lessons via the ether waves.â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. They Do It Over There VOICE CANADA THE WORLD AT LARGE of the 400 students occupied a cafe at Lille, France, for 7 hours and drank only one . halfâ€"pint of beer. â€" They were staking a protest against being forbidden to make a procession. It is possible to see only about 2,000 stars at any one time with the naked eye, and only persons with keen eyesight can see this number, Britain and Canada also bought a great deal more from the United States than they sold. Canada‘s sales in that country totalled $399,000,000 in 1937, an increase of six per cent over 1936. Canada negotiating a new trad» agreement, increased its buying in the U.S. 33 per cent to $510,000,000. Japan which bought cotton and other goods there in large quantities until a few months ago, bought $288,000,000, that was $84,000,000 more than the United States bought from Japan, Britain Buys More The British purchases were 21 per cent more than in 1936, The United Kingdom, now negotiatâ€" ing a trade agreement with the United States, bought $535,000,000 worth of merchandise in 1937, out of total Unitâ€" ed States shipments to the world of $3,345,158,000. Japan was the United States‘ third ranking customer, followed by France Germany and Mexico. the second urmi cdlto;e'rm;; tl;; United States, with the United Kingâ€" dom occupying first place as purchasâ€" er. Canada sold more goods to the Unitâ€" ed States than any other country durâ€" ing the year 1937, the U. S. Commerce Department announced last week at Washington. At the same time, the Dominion was Dominion‘s Sales In the United States Top All Other Nations‘ For The Past Year. The se!l-comfnr'lmg but â€"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 inâ€" clined to look upon charitable instituâ€" tions as a convenient dustbin in which castâ€"off clothing and other oddments no longer fit for human human use can be deposited with a minimum of troubleâ€"thus obtaining for the givers a fictitious glow of godliness and at 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 rubâ€" bish. After all, charity may cover a multitvde 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. of the country, from whom opinions will be gathered. The housing and fecding of the poultry have been minâ€" 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 Indoâ€" pendent. * Canada claims to have produced, afâ€" ter years of research and experiment, what is from the point of view of the consumer in England the perfect imâ€" ported egg. The first consignment of these ezgs has just arrived in London â€"750 dozenâ€"and they will be disâ€" tributed to experts in various parts The Perfect Egg PRESS THE EMPIRE 1937 Customer CANADA THE EMPIRE The rim of fi‘b;‘;'c;-:\h'c(‘ in a watch travels as much as 10 miles a sun, from left to right; hop vines wind with the sun, from right to le{. There was a sound reason for Good Queen Bess‘s appointment. A bottle discovered by a fisherman on the shore near Dover contained tho news that Nova Zembia, until then Russian, had been seized by the Dutch a long time before, and it was reâ€" garded as important that any such news in future should be communiâ€" eated to the right quarters without any possibility of loss of time., The use of bottles to learn about sea currents is an ancient one, aF it is on record that Queen Elizabe® of England appointed an â€" ofcial whose title was "Uncorker of Occan Bottles." He was the only person allowed to open sealed bottles disâ€" covered on any English beachâ€"and anyone else who ventured to do =o did it at risk of being executed! The office and title continued to the time of George III. The complaint from which the man was suffering was hyperhydrosis, acâ€" cording to a Sydney specialist. 1t was an extremely rare trouble, he addod, but there had been several operations in Sydney for it. Under an anaesthetic, the doctor removed the first and second ganclia â€"nerve centres in the region of the shoulder blade. After three woeks the man was allowed to leave. He was told that a similar operation might be necessary on the other side for a complete cure, but this has proved unâ€" The doctor who performed the opâ€" eration said it was an extraordinary case, the first he had known. "The patient would start perspiring in the middle of a public address or at some other most inopportune time and have to stop speaking," he declared. The principal of a school, he at times lost pints of moisture while lecturing to a class. A man who sweated so freely he could not carry on his work has been cured by a simple operation at the Wahroonga Sanatorium, Sydney, Agp Man Who Perspired So Frecly He Couldn‘t Carry On His One Operation Cured Trouble Statistical charts aim to prove that the unemployment problem has been solved by the requirements of the army and the munitions and arms trades. Local union labor, aided by the League for the Rights of Man and the Thaeimann Committee, have ar ranged the exposition, which features documents bearing on several events during the Hitler regime, particularly the Reichstag fire, the racial theory, antiâ€"Jewish measures, hostility toward Catholics and exâ€"communications in the fields of art, literature and science. One of the more prominent di#@Kiy informs visitors that "285,000 years in prison" have been moted out to Hitler‘s adversaries by _ Gorman courts; ninetyâ€"five persons have been executed by the hatchet, How Unemployment Problem Soived There is an exposition in Paris to commemorate Adolf Hitler‘s fiveyear reignâ€"but it is not a show that Pro. paganda Minister Joseph Gochbels would sponsor. & Moâ€"ning glories wind acainst Formal evening top coats with satin revers and evening capes lined wth white satin are in for a revival, sait the designers, Color also goes forth in evening clothesâ€"and not timidiy., Dinner jagk ets are in powder blue and burgundy, and worn with black trousers, This prediction, along with the p, formation that men‘s trousers wiy be half an inch shorter at the cuf and the Duke of Windsor has lost out to Hollywood as a styleâ€"setter, was given at the annual conference of the Mep chant Tailor Designers‘ ASScciation meeting in Chicago. 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