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CANADA
Most Dangerous Motorist
The most dangerous motorist is
neither the drunk nor incompetent
but the exhibitionist --the chap who
has an exaggerated sense of his own
importance when he gets behind the
steering wheel, and insists on driving
with that sense of his importance as
his ruling motive,
This verdict is returned by Dr. C.
H, Watson, of the American National
Safety Council.
"Safety is a question of perform.-
ance," says Dr. Watson. "Because
people know what they should do,
does not mean that they will do it.
One needs to drive only a little
while to understand the truth of what
Dr. Watson says. The man who
weaves in and out of traffic lanes,
passes other ears on curves or hills,
cuts in suddenly, crashes lights and
ignores stop signs, is displaying all the
stigmata of the .man who has set him-
self up on a pedestal. He also pro-
vides the set-up for most of our acci-
dents. --Guelph Mercury,
A Silly Custom
An Essex (England) rector .finds
fault with confetti at weddings and
in future will require a deposit of five
shillings. If no confetti' is thrown in
the churchyard, the deposit will be re-
turned. Bttt if confetti is thrown,
enough of the deposit will be used to
pay for cleaning up the mess.
We are all for the rector in this
matter. Confetti -throwing is a silly
and annoying custom. It causes seri-
ous embarrassment in many cases.
And it certainly litters up churches,
homes, yards and railway stations.
Though some light-hearted persons
may complain, nothing would be lost
if confetti were abolished,—Windsor
Daily Star.
lnequal Inequality
We are not opposed to equality for
women but it does seem they have a
lot more equality'than-eve.nren have.—
Brandon Sun.; -
Talking Out of Turn
Not so loud about Germany's col-
onies, Mr. Blackshirt Mussolini. When
gooua:,..da-•T.ystol••hxaic4to_. ,ustrTa
there will be pdenty of time to talk
about what the Mistress of •the Seas
ought to do regarding Germany. —
tiamilton Spectator,
The Money Rolls In
Beet and grain cheques are making
life brighter for the man on the land
in Southwestern Alberta. After all,
wealth comes from production, though
there are times in the ebb and flow
of prices when production brings less
than the grower is entitled to receive.
—Lethbridge Herald.
Dionne Reciprocity
Papa Dionne bought the Christmas
presents for the Quints in the United
States. That is only reciprocity, the
U.S.A. having contribute . much to
Papa in the wherewithal with which
to buy presents.—St. Catharines Stan-
dard.
Doleful Thought
A constant theme of pulpit, Doss
and platform in these days of world-
wide strife and dissension b tie
threat and the possibility of Alia col-
lapse of civilization. May it no:: los
that the collapse has already ar•
rived ?—Halifax Herald.
Kings And Dictators
Three kings recently dined together
in Buckingham Palace, but it is not
believed that the legs of the three dic-
tators, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini,
will ever be assembled under one ma-
hogany.—Brantford Expositor,
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THE EMPIRE
Time For Talk
It is one of the tragedies of dem-
ocracy that it requires an eternity of
talk as prelude to a moment of ac-
tion.—London Observer,
Rome -Berlin Anis
What, then, is the truth about
Mussolini's policy, in which the out-
pourings of his tied press have their
part?
He is playing at power -politics. He
believes that his situation is tactically
very strong, and can be further ex-
ploited by a shrewd diplomacy. And
so he is making use of every device
of bluff, every resource which has
nuisance value, every manoeuvre
which a troubled European situation
opens up to him, in order to• extend •
his power and buttress his position.
He derives considerable assistance
from the fact that his fellow -dicta-
tor, Hitler, is playing exactly the same
game. We have, therefore, that re-
markable joint bluff, the Rome Berlin
axis. Germany and Italy, divided ul-
timately by divergent interests, Jig
up a facade of unity. This is tho
Rome -Berlin axis. It is made of plas-
ter, not of steel.—London Evening
Standard.
Australia Looks at Canada
Sir Harry and Lady Chauvel came
back by the Canadian route. Sir Har-
ry saw nothing of the army and air
force in Canada, the staff being most-
ly away on manoeuvres, which were
too far afield for him to visit. He
saw a great 'deal of the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police, of which his old
friend, Major-General Sir James Mac -
Brien, is commissioner. They are a
very fine.,body of men, and their de-
tachment at the Coronation shared
the honor with our own men of the
best reception of all the Dominion
troops in the procession. They have
a very attractive uniform, and were
mounted on their own horses, which.
made a lot of difference. Sir Harry
was impressed with the evidence of
prosperity which met them every-
where in Canada except in the west-
ern prairies. He found Canadians
much more concerned at the wgrld
situation than we are, and everywhere
he went he was asked what the peo-
pie of Australia thought about it.
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�a'iind Student Hurdles
Five Foot Ten Bar
Chauncy Hahn, twenty-two year-
old Washington State College Stu-
dent from Spokane, although vir-
tually blind, maintains a scholastic
average of eighty-six and takes an
active part in university sports.
Although handicapped by not be-
ing able .to see the bar, Hahn high
jumps 5 feet 10 inches and has run
the 100 -yard dash in .09.9 seconds.
Track Coach Karl Schlademan is
grooming Hahn .to clear the bar at
6 feet. • Halm had formerly attend-
ed the Washington State school for
the Blind at Vancouver, Washing-
ton. He took an active part in
sports there. ' Instead of white lines
being used to designate the lanes to
runners, they use strings suspended
between the distance markers.
Sees Apples Growing
On Trees First Time
A man who fanned for more than
a quarter of a century in Canada last
week saw an apple growing on a tree
for the first time.
Although the apple is Canada's
largest fruit crop, Clarence Stork,
M.L•A., of Shaunavon, Sask., travel-
ed hundreds of miles to sce his first
one actually on a tree.
"For their help against the Loyalist
Government, we promised Germany
and Italy nothing."—General Franco.
Portrait of Poverty
Gaunt of feature, patiently wait-
ing for the silver lining, yet un -
resigned to yielding before fate,
James B. Sloan, of Washington,
D.C., has been chosen as typifying
those who battle adversity, by re-
lief workers in the Capital.
Flashes from the Pre
Japs Make for Nanking '
SHANGHAI.—Warships of Ian's
third battle fleet this week -end ast-
ed away Chinese obstructions nk' the
channel of the Yangtse River i,ove
Shanghai opening the way for a, na-
val bombardment of Chines devas-
tated central capital—Nanking:.
The Chinese, fearing more Japan-
ese aerial bombings in advance of
the impeding naval attacks, hastened
their partial evacuation of thej api-
tal and made last-minute changes in
their plans to continue the war, de-
spite the crushing defeats they have,
suffered around Shanghai and in the
northern Provinces. They said :'ssev-
enty Japanese warships were in the
lower Yangtse...
Agreement With El Salvador.
OTTAWA.—A trade agreement
between Canada and the Central Am-
erican Republic of El Salvador,
granting mutual .most -favored -nation
tariffs, was. announced 'here. this 'Week-
end. •
The agreement, signed at Sa °Sal-
vador Nov. 2, provided one exc tion
to favored -nation tariffs—adva ages
given Central American Republ s by
El Salvador will not be disturbld as
• long c they are not n to
Cold Weather in Spain
HENDAYE,—Winter., weather par-
alyzed military action tiin Spanish war
fronts this week. Neither side re-
ported any fighting.
Observers believe;;the advent, of
winter would prove a major obstacle
to Insurgent General Franco's cam-
paign for an early end to the con-
flict.
Winners ' at Royal
TORONTO.—To United. States and
Manitoba went the top awards in the
female classes as the . judging of the
largest showing 'of Belgian 'horses
that has ever been forwarded at the
Royal Winter Fair was completed.'
Senior and grand champion mare
was the 3 -year-old Aida de Bierbeek,
shown by Sugar Grove Farm, Aurora,
III. Their yearling filly, Madelene
Supreme, was the reserve junior
champion, and they also had the win-
ner of the class of sixteen yeld mares.
The Quints'.. Education
NEW YORK.—When the .Dionne
quintuplets reach school-age, possib-
ly in a year and a half, when they
will be five, they will learn their A.
B.C.'s in a classroom built with the
money their fame brought them.
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said here that
their education would be interfered.
with if they went to a regular school.
like other children. He told a press
conference that because the five lit-
tle sisters of Callander, Ont, "are in
the same class as princesses, fated to
live in the spotlight all their lives,'
they would have to be educated by
private tutors,
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BEHINDTHEI
An Interpretation
Of the Week's Major Events.
By ELIZABETH EEDY
VACANT SPOTS: Speaking in
Winnipeg last week, Right Hon. R.
B. Bennett declared that the British
Dominions must build up their popu-
lations and fill in the •,vacant spots
towards 'which the jealous eyes of
other less fortunate countries are now
turning. Question: How shall we fill
these "vacant spots" in a hurry? Mr.
Bennett's, solution to the problem is
Empire co-operation, bY, which he
means, no doubt, encouragement of
emigration from the more crowded
areas of. Britain's domains.
CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE:
France, one of Europe's few remain-
ing democracies, has her own troub-
les, Since the fall of Blum's Popular
Front government this summer, they
have increased a hundred fold in view
of the fact that the present adminis'•
tration headed by Premier Camille
Chautemps is neither definitely of the
the
is
Left nor. of the Right; but at
mercy of both factions. Every now
and then Rightist agitators, believed
to be backed by Fascist interests, are
arrested when authorities come upon a
cache of arms, a bomb -proof shelter.
Rumors are now current that the
Rightists are. preparing a "putsch"
against the government.
Too many issues are involved for
Blum's Socialists to attempt at this
time to regain the seat of government.
A revolution such as that of 1789
would have to be faced, with interna -
Airmail In Alaska
WASHINGTON — The United
States postal officials said thid week
they would open bids Dec. 15 for air-
mail contracts providing weekly ser-
vice between Juneau, Alaska, White-
horse, Yukon, and Fairbanks, Alas-
ka. Officials said the mail would be
flown once a week between Juneau
and Whitehorse and on a similar
schedule between Whitehorse and
Fairbanks.
Vied in•; Mourning
LONDON. -His bride of . a few
hours in tears and:wearing mourning,
Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse started
for Ostend , this week -end on a sad
honeymoon—to claim the bodies of
his ;ei ttr,iinmedii to family, who per
=idled aa$ Via'-flamiiiig• airplane therei
The Grand Duke and his bride,
Miss Margaret (lampbell Geddes,
daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes,
were married at St. Peter's Church
in Eaton Square. It was a strange
wedding. Rejoicing was replaced by
sorrow and the wedding gowns with
sombre black.
Canada's Death Rate
OTTAWA.—Canada's .1936 death
rolI was 106,617, according to pre-
liminary figures published in the an-
nual report of the National Health
Department. This represented a ra-
tion of 9.7 per thousand of popula-
lation.
The highest rate was in Prince Ed-
ward Island, 11.1, and the lowest in
Saskatchewan, 6.7.
Labor "Ginger" Party
LONDON.—The Labor Party this
week announced its new front bench
to, put more '=ginger" in its attacks
on the Government. But it turned
out to be much the same front bench
.that has faced the National Govern-
ment across the House of Commons
since the 1935 election, and even be-
fore.
A "ginger group" of twelve was
elected to sit with Clement Attlee,
Leader of the Opposition; Arthur
Greenwood, Deputy Leader; the par-
ty Whips, and the Executive Com-
mittee.
"No civilisation can stand up
against the social resentment and
class conflict which come from a silly
maldistribution of wealth, labor and
leisure."—George Bernard Shaw,
tional complications too drastic to
contemplate.
CANADIAN CAPITAL: We have
been hearing a great deal the past
few years about the domination of
Canadian industry by American capi-
tal. Refutation of that idea is made
this week by the Secretary of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce, D. H.
Ward, who addressed a service club
in Leicester, England. Says Mr.
Ward: Of every $100 invested in Can-
adian industry, $70.60 is Canadian,
$21.14 American and $7.92 from the
United Kingdom. He declares ,that
there are about 1,400 United States
controlled or affiliated companies in
Canada, but only 68 per cent. of thein
are manufacturing concerns. Of capi-
tal invested in these companies, only
,`38 per cent. is in manufacturing. The
minority interest in these companies,
coming to about 22 per cent, is chiefly
Canadian, he says. ' Cheering news,
this! We may now begin . to hold up
our heads., •
PASSING THE BUCK: It's hap-
pened again! Deadlocked, the Nine -
Power Conference meeting at Bruss-
els to settle the question of the Sino -
Jap conflict, had to give up trying to
mediate in toto. In the first place,
they were powerless because Japan
refused to have anything to do with
the Conference, would consider none
of its proposals. When Ambassador
Norman Davis of the United States
made a rather non -committal speech
inferring that action should be taken
against Japan, it was immediately
seized upon as the opening all had
been waiting for. Foreign Minister
Anthony Eden immediately let it be
known that Britain would follow the
American lead. The United States
then accepted the appointment es
Committee of One, backed by Britain
and France, to take fitting steps to
end the war in China. But before the
United States can institute any steps,
Congress will have to be agreeable.
Do you think they will do anything?
Frankly, we don't.
THOSE ELECTION SPEECHES:
The Canadian Broadcasting Commis-
sion is celebrating its first birthday
with a conference on the „many, ani,
coinpies problems which have come
before the board during the past year.
One of the .most important questions
to be discussed is the broadcasting of
political speeches during election cam-
paigns, those speeches that were such
a headache to nine -tenths of the peo-
ple who listened in this September
and October. •Many these are who
actually enjoyed the broadcasts, who
appear grateful for the political infor-
mation they derived therefrom, but
judging by the number of protests re-
ceived by Major W. E. Gladstone Mur-
ray, the Commission's General Man-
ager, it is pretty generally felt that
the candidates and their backers were
wasting both time and money in mon-
opolizing the air waves.
POOR• SPORTS: The November
season of pheasant shoots brings its
annual crop of cruelty stories, tales
of "sportsmen"' who "fish" for birds
by placing baited hooks on wire
fences, or drive wounded birds into
the lake forcing them to drown. In
Essex County Court this week, Will-
iam Ferguson; Pelee Island farmer,
denouucdeT;rthe hunters as "maniacs"
and "savages," claiming that two men
had shot his chickens along with wild
pheasants. Another story tells of two
hunters who ignored a "No Trespass-
ing" sign on a certain farmer's prop-
erty, pursued a pheasant to the far-
mer's very back door, turned deaf
ears to his pleas that they spare its
life. The bird was a family pet, tame
for many years, Poor sportsmanship,
we call it. More game wardens are
needed who will take an active inter-
est in their job and put a stop to
such vandalism,
Fu Manchu
Ai we strode along I made sure my pistol was in. order.
We were going alone to capture the formidable Chinon
docttor, for ..I.aramaneli'had barred peben esristante
"You dont think it's e imp, do you?" Smith asked qucliy.
"We are trusting i'hat.girl blindly."
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the hulk!" Smith. exclaimed.
Tim ban] dipped in mud slopes fo the tenet
cF iho running tide. •• fly, a narrow inlet there
was as rough pier. Boside the pier loomed a
r^cy t,i:pe—the hulk of what had once been`'
a ship.. . "J!' ' d:ould we find aboard t
flux 51x.,.. , i ri esti
11 Wayland Smith stopped
suddenly end seized rny, awn.
"hook!" he said, pointing off
eCross the marches, "that's the
Ilgh$, Pigs, ' If'w'a keep•,if
ilreight ksfore or, 'according
ettt information, we sh'ali
Atte Fe Man,
After fen minurr,s of
'tea d y t-udging we
came within -sight of the
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Australia uying
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Canadian Paper
Contract Mada For 200,000 Tons
Over Period of Seven Years;
Will Help Stabilize Inid„eatry.
A stabilizing effect on the news-
print export market was expected
this week from a huge deal that guar-
antees Canada about 75 per cent.; of
the newsprint purchases of Austra-
lia and New Zealand for the seven
years beginning Jan. 1, 1939.
Canadian paper company officials
said the newly -negotiated contract,
giving seven of this country's paper
companies the major slice of the 200,-
000 tons a year Antiodean market,
could be depended upon not only
to steady the market for this coun-
try alone but also to have the same
effect on overseas newsprint, trade in
general.
Newspapermen's Contract
A group of. Australasian publish-
ers have contracted for the Canadian
paper. William Dunstan, general
manager of the Melbourne Herald
and the Weekly Times, who conduct-
ed the negotiations on their behalf,
said their price for the seven-year
stretch would be based. -on the price.
of Canadian newsprint in New York.
The Canadian paper group, Dun-
stan said, would have access to be-
tween 75 and 80 per cent, of the
total market up to 1942. After that,
its . tonnage would be reduced by
;whatever amount was turned out by
a paper mill planned for Tasmania,
expected to begin production that
year.
Up to now, there has been no
agreement of the kind with the An-
tiodean publishers. They have
bought their newsprint from Cana-
dian and English milis in varying
quantities and at varying prices.
Sea Floor Yields
Ice Age History
Steel Tubes Shot Into:. Atlantic
Ocean Bottom Take 'lore '
Samples' of Ancient Strata
The million -year history of the
Ice -Age summarized in ten feet of
ocean -bottom mud and sand, says the
New York Times. 5'
That is the meaning read from
thirteen core samples of bottom ma-
terial by a group of U. S. Geological
Survey scientists, declares a copy-
righted article by Dr. Frank Thone.
They are still working on the mater-
ial, first ever obtained by a new
device developed in the laboratories
of the Carnegie Institution of Wash-
ington • 'by' -Dr. C1 arl's, S_ - gi got.. <.,;,
Evidence thus far obtained strongly
supports the theory that the several
strata within this very small depth
record cold periods of ice advance,
with warmer intervals of ice retreat.
Two Layers of Ash Found
During the long time in which they
were being slowly deposited there
•were two periods of major' olcanie
activity, perhaps in Iceland. This
is shown by two layers of fine vol-
canic ash that serve as convenient
landmarks by which the strata in . the
various samples can be identified
and correlated.
The cores show four zones con-
taining sand, with pebbles of a wide.
variety of minerals. In these lay-
ers remains of living organisms are
scarce. They appear to have been
formed in part from materials car-
ried by floating ice and strewn on
the bottom.
20,000 Years A Foot
Interspersed between these Sandi.
and -pebble zones are layersrich i1/4
shells of one -celled animals that ii
dicate marked changes in living con-
ditions.
The rate at which the ocean -bot-
tom layers were laid down is as yet
a subject of only the most open con-
jecture. At some stations the 20,-
000 -odd years since the close of the
Ice Age were represented by just one
foot of material. Elsewhere the rate
of deposition seems to have been
nearly ten times as fast.
Practises Tarzan,
Scares Citizen
Blood -chilling cries which frighten-
ed residents on several occasions, now
echo no more through Brookside Park,
Cleveland, since `Tarzan" tell into the
bands of binecoats.
Tarzan" had been seen swingin,r
about the trees dressed in a tiger -
skin breech -clout and:shott.ing wild -
1y ,
But he turned out'to be a short, rail;
mannered, blue-eyed 37 -year-old man
with a 44 -inch hirsute barrel chest
and movie ambitions.
Excuses Himself
Police waylaid him tis he walked
home from work at a bakery, He wall
proud to display his complete Amigo
of Tarzan costume — one a real tiger
skin, the other of striped velvet.
"I was practising Tarzan," the bile
rcl-chested ono told the policemen. "I
am very sorry when I scare people.
When 1 am in the woods practising
end I"happen to run into anybody I
lust run out and excuse myself for
scaring thorn,"
After watching `Tarzan" flex his
ninscles and throw out his chest for a.
time, the police decided that he was
hot 'a menace --- jtist an eccentric
practising for the movies.
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