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Commentary on the
Highlights of the Weeks News . . . By E11ZaiDe#
THE FINAL GOAL: An editorial
is The Yorkshire Post, influential
British newspaper which is owned by
the family of Mrs. Anthony Elden, we
believe is well worth quoting from:
"Germany's final goal in the drive
iaugurated by the Austrian coup,
lila newspaper declared, is the total.
testruction of France, "not to gain
much territory, but, as 'Mein ISampi'
(Adolf Hitler's autobiography and pol-
itical testament) sets out, to remove
Germany's last serious Continental
military rival and thus free her hands
for the .seizure of as much territory
eastward as she may desire."
"The military occupation of Aus-
tria will be followed by an attack on
ozecltoslovakia in order to clear that
eastern route. Assurances to the con-
trary are worth just as little as have
been all the rest of Germany's assur-
ances."
NO MORE HAZING: Those hair-
raising days of the annual freshman,
baiting season are gone forever from
the University of Western Ontario.
The Student Government there voted
last week to abolish initiation alto -
foether, the general opinion being that
r the past couple of years the leg-
endary hazing has been getting pretty
anaemic anyway.
All very well to do away with the
crueler aspects of the sophomore -
freshman conflict, but we do not wish
to see the color and glamor depart
from college life entirely, nor the
students become a bunch of stuffy
crepe -hangers, old before their time.
94,000 UP: In the five months since
October last, Ontario's relief rolls
b.ave increased from 166,000 to 260,-
000, up 56 per cent.
Now, the fight is on between the
Provincial Government and the Fed-
eral Government over the relief grant
policy. Ottawa has been making
steady reductions in relief appropria-
tions to Ontario while unemployment
figures have been rising. Premier
Hepburn's cry is that the Federal Gov-
ernment went in on the promise of
making relief a national problem.
Ontario municipalities, too, claim to
be overburdened by relief costs.
Body
political observer, commenting on the
Franco victories declared that by,
them she could see that Hitler had
already begun to repay Mussolini for
Italy's acquiescence in his seizure of
Austria. The repayment, she said,
consisted, in part, of shipment from
Germany to Spain of heavy artillery,
aeroplanes and munitions, giving
Franco enough equipment to guaran-
tee success of his drive against the
Government.
CONSULTANTS ONLY: What
President Roosevelt' said off-the-rec-
ord
ff-the-resord -at a press conference in 1933
throws a light on the policy the Unit-
ed States is likely to pursue in the
present world crisis. At that time Mr.
Roosevelt declared:
"If all the nations agreed to set up
some kind of machinery for consulta-
tion in the event of an act of aggres-
sion, we will be very glad to have
somebody there to consult with. I
consider that to be a step forward.
"Do not get the idea that it means
that we bind ourselves in the first in-
stance to agree with the verdict, .. .
We agree to consult. Therefore, It
does not tie the hands of the United
States in any shape, manner or form
and leaves our final action entirely
up to us."
HEAD WITHOUT A BODY: On
November 12, 1918, the Austro-Hungar-
ian Empire officially came to an end.
Hungary was made into a separate
country. Austria was proclaimed a
Republic, and the constitution later
adopted provided for union with Ger-
many. The Republic was predomin-
antly Germanic, but the subsequent
peace treaties prohibited such a
union. took steps to see that Germany
and Austria were kept apart with not
even a customs union allowed.
In the light of these facts, it is not
hard to understand the attitude of the
Austrian people, who, although tem-
peramentally
emperamentally different from their Ger-
man cousins, appeared last week to
welcome Adolf Hitler as their new
head of state.
For the past twenty years the great
city of Vienna with its 2,000,000 in-
habitants has been like a huge head
on a tiny body. All the industries,
commercial institutions, etc., of the
country have been concentrated with-
in its confines while the rest of Aus-
tria (population 4,000,000 more) has
contributed little but scenery. Vienna
stood ready to service a much larger
countryside, with plenty of natural
resources. Toronto would be in the
same position if it were cut off from
all the rest of Canada except for what
lies with a 75 -mile radius.
The tourist industry alone could
not keep Austria going forever.
Polio Caused
By Lack Of
Vitamin
Es Latest Theory—Compares In-
fantile Paralysis With Beri Beri
Style Forecasters Say •
People Will Wear Less
Latest Predictions Have It That Magnetic Storms
The Sports Girl Will Be -- Fash-
ion Leader - Men Becoming
Less Self -Conscious.
Usually Accompanied by Large
NEW YORK.=Fashion experts Sunspots
who are not afraid to go out on a
limb to forecast the future clothing Scientists are trying their hand at
styles are predicting that; ' making predictions concerning the
1. Women will wear less and less coming of magnetic storms, the dis-
clothing, the simplicity and the coni- turbances that blank out communica-
fort of sports apparel becoming More tion on certain wave lengths of radio
and more popular. channels, make the magnetle needle
2. Men, too, will be wearing far erratic and are accompanied by the
fewer clothes 25 years Bence. (Tho aurora borealis.
hot weather town suit of 1963 maY. They aro usually accompanied by a
well be washable shorts, shirt
n and large sun spot, but this is not neees-
jacket like the Tyrolean mountain- sarily so because the disturbance on
eer's costume.) the sun may exist below the atmos -
3. The familiar collar and tie nay phere, or surface level, and not be vis -
be supplanted by a less -binding, rood- able to astronomical observers. Mag-
ernized tunic, with perhaps a soft, netio and radio observations may,
soft neckerchief for prominent Ad- therefore, furnish astronomers a
am's apple concealment. means of tracing sun spots before
4. Fabrics which resist rain, per- they have reached the visible state and after they have disappeared from
spiration or spilled drinks, will be in view.
A new theory of the cause of infan-
tile paralysis, - abiished in the jour-
nal of the Canadian Medical Associa-
tion, attributes the child scourge to
lack of Vitamin B.
Vitamin B, (usually called B-1) is
the nerve vitamin. Only in the last
three years has it been available for
medical experiments. It has already
been found to prevent the nerve dis-
orders and forms of partial paralysis
caused by too much alcohol with too
little food.
Similar Symptoms
Dr. W. J. McCormick, of Toronto,
who offers the vitamin theory for in-
fantile paralysis, finds his justification
in a comparison of this disease and
beri beri. The latter is the Oriental
disease which led to discovery of vit-
amin B. It is caused by a lack of this
vitamin.
Infantile paralysis, writes Dr. Mc-
Cormick, shows much the same symp-
toms as beri beri, such as flaccid leg
paralysis, digestive disturbances, and
muscle pains and tenderness.
He finds that the suceptibility of
children to infantile paralysis can
be explained by the fact that they do
need more vitamin B than adults. He
explains the summer-timo occurrence
of the infantile outbreaks by asserting
that the summer vacation increase in
children's physical activity depletes
their vitamin B.
Eggs and Spinach Have It
He says the average American diet
is lacking in this vitamin.
His theory also harmonizes, he
points out, with recent discoveries
about virus diseases. Infantile paraly-
sis is one of the diseases caused by
viruses. The latter have been identif-
ied in some cases as non -living pro-
tein substances, which could come
from deranged metabolism.
Vitamin B is found in tomatoes, un-
polished rice, spinach, legumes, eggs,
yeast, kidney and other glandular tis-
sues.
BEHIND THE VICTORY: Simul-
taneously with news of Hitler's Aus-
trian coup came reports of a big in-
surgent drive in Spain meeting with
such successes that the Government
armies were being driven eastward
toward the sea and that the civil war
was rapidly drawing to a tragic close.
Genevieve Tabouis, the noted French
Red Cedar Finds
F. ver hi Britain
Pre -Fabricated Walls In Houses;
Highly Resistant to
Weather
HULL, Eng. — A selling point of
two "show" houses constructed here
in 11 working days is that the Brit-
ish Columbia red cedar used Is dry -
rot proof and highly weather -resist-
ant.
The method of construction is based
upon the use of pre -fabricated cedar
wall sections. The first -floor walls Of
both houses were in position within
eight hours of starting work.
The wall is of three-inch plank 'fin-
ished externally with weather -board-
ing, with under -felting and an interior
finish of a throe quarter inch airst►ade
and three -quarter -10h plaster board.
A wall of this tylpb has greater iti- }"
sulating qualities an a nine-itnine-111Abrick . wall, it is contended, and as
there is no iieeh to Wait for it to dry
out, the house is habitable as soon a'ly
It is allotted,
Aurora 5. Glass raincoats may Nserve alsoBorealis.
A strong Aurormagnetic storm is usually
as protectors from lightning. accompanied by a display of aurora
Streamlined Clothes borealis. This happened a month
genies may pop up here and thereStyle observers say Empress Eu- ago, when these northern lights were
seen as far south at Florida.
to put their fleeting stamp on the
fashion world but it is the sports
girl of the future who will set the
pace for the long pull.
Garments are becoming more
streamlined. The slim silhouette
dress is in vogue from bungalow
boudoir to Biarritz ballroom. Baby
rompers are going more Hollywood -
ash. As the flair for sports and play
clothes becomes stronger among
girls, an increase in the percentage
of more natural, healthy figures is
expected.
Abbreviated Sportswear
Man, however, is becoming less
self-conscious in abbreviated sports-
wear and is appearing in shorts on
the tennis courts, at the beach and
at the lawn mower. Accustomed to
showing off his shanks at summer
colonies he may become emboldened
to expose more or less knobby knees
in office and shop.
Further improvements are expect-
ed in water-repellent fabrics. Mater-
ials made from glass, glass and milk
are here. Crownless hats are made
of cellophane. In the future we may
be wearing glass raincoats to shield
us from lightning.
New casual clothes of the softly -
tailored or spectator sports types will
be important in spring fashions for
1938. Popularity is forecast for
suits and jacket costumes.
Designers predict new versions of
the fitted waistline, modined so that
it is easier to wear.
common use.
Why Music Soothes
The Savage Breast
It's a Wonderful Release From
The Cares of the Day
CANADA'S PEANUT IMPORTS
From 1929 to 1936, Canadians ate
106,000 tons of peanuts. The amount
of peanuts imported in 1936 was 15,-
000 tons; in 1935 practically a similar
amount, and 17,000 tons in 1934. Also
known as ground nuts and earth nuts,
peanuts are used for human food, for
feeding live stock, and as an oilseed,
yielding oil for culinary and industrial
purposes, and oilcake for stockfeeding
and fertilizers. The bulk of peanuts
in world trade is made into oil: Can-
ada imports a small amount of peanut
oil for soap -making and canning fish.
India and China are the chief peanut
growing countries.
PINK SANDWICHES
A Manchester (England) catering
firm has started baking brown, white,
pink and green loaves — mainly for
cocktail parties. You can have a sand-
wich to match your drink, or even
your dress—for there is hardly any
limit to the colours obtainable.
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News In Review
VOICE
CANADA
THE EMPIRE'
of the
THE WORLD
AT LARGE
PRESS
CANADA
Within One's Debts
A survey of municipalities shows
that many cities, now in need, have
borrowed to their limit. It is eure
tough 'when you can't live within your
debts.—Winnipeg Tribune.
Forgotten Provinces
Sir Evelyn Wrench speaks of the
Maritimes as "Canada's forgotten pro-
vinces." It is evident that he has nev-
er been in Ottawa when the House
was in session.—Peterborough Exam-
iner.
0 Ask Czechs Be "Reasonable"
BERLIN.—News commentators this
week -end posed Germany's absorption
of Austria before Czechoslovakia as
a warning of the need of "an early -
and satisfactory solution" of her min-
ority issue.
The German press, apparently on
instruction, told the neighboring war -
created republic with 3,500,000 Ger-
mans to be reasonable about meeting
German demands.
New Pulp Industry
TORONTO.—Establishment of a $7,-
000,000 pulp industry in Northern On-
tario within the next few weeks was
forecast this week in the Legislature
by Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of
Lands and Forests.
Body Is Recovered
RENFREW, Ont.—Body of Mrs. R.
A. Hoffman, 42, mother of three chil-
dren, was found in the Bonnechere
River a few hours after an employee
of a nearby powerhouse reported he
saw her drop from the powerhouse
platform into the water.
Advance On Suchow
SHANGHAI.—Reinforced Japanese
troops fighting southward along the
Tientsin-Pukow Railway advanced
this week on the strategic Lunghai
rail junction at Suchow.
Three bodies of troops strongly
supported by aircraft, mechanized
equipment and artillery started the
new offensive from Liang-hsiatien,
where desperate Chinese resistance
halted the initial drive in this sector
early in January.
Russia Will Aid
MOSCOW—Soviet Russia, fearing
that Germany's annexation of Austria
has brought the danger of war close,
is ready to fight with France as an
ally if Fuehrer Adolf Hitler attempts
any invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was
stated authoritatively here last week.
Speed Is Expensive
If an automobile is driven at a
speed of thirty miles an hour, its life
will be three times the life of the
average car. Economically as well as
every other way, speed is expensive.
—Chatham News.
SPAIN LOSES OLIVE OIL MARKET
Spain, before the civil war, used to
supply Canada with olive oil. Now
the Dominion gets its supplies prin-
cipally from France (12,000 cwt. in
1936) and Italy (4,000 cwt.) World
trade in olive oil has declined in re-
cent years.
THE EMPIRE'
Youth and Politics ed b
An interesting point remark y
Earl de la Warr is that, for a country
which still thinks of itself in terms of
youth, Australia is curiously prone to
prefer government by older men. The
age of Parliamentary represeintatives.
in Australia is well above the average.
Why should a relatively young coun-
try
ouptry distrust youth in its political coun-
cils? Why do not our young mem
choose ' politics as a vocation? Or is
it that the existing party machinery
discourages the enlistment of youth
and bars the way to preferment to all
except the mature in years? These
questions are well worth asking and
bettor worth answering. The youth
of the Fascist countries is being fired
with ideals and enthusiasms which
we do not share, but democracy ought
equally to inspire its young men with
the ambition to serve and excel in
the political sphere. Otherwise, the
restless and ambitious among them
may be attracted by other ideologies,
to the detriment of the democracy
whose spirit is being extinguished in
so many lands. No more than in the
days of the Pitts is it today an "at-
rocious crime" to be young. The poli-
tical education of youth, ancli the
search for talent in leadership in its
ranks, is surely an appropriate task
for a country which is young in trap
dationsand outlook, even if it must
now be reckoned mature in years.—
Sydney (Australia) Herald.
Canada Should Take Heed
The decision of the British Broad-
casting Corporation to deny Right
Hon. Josiah Wedgwood the radio air
to comment on Hitler's or Mussolini's
policies is a sign of which the Parlia-
ment of Canada should take due
notice. We may as well admit now
that there is in certain parts of this
free Dominion a sinister growth which
unless curbed may, sooner than most
people think, become malignant. Much
has been said about the Government -
controlled radio commission in this
country of late. Objection to an in-
crease of the annual fee by fifty cents
is, comparatively speaking, an Insig-
nificant matter. The fact is the Cana-
dian people distrust control that may
result in suppression of views of pub-
lie men whose sole interest in their
country's future is her welfare and
the preservation of her free institu-
tions.—Victoria
nstitutions.—Victoria Daily Times.
No Help to Villages
The Montreal Star says that "coun-
try towns with good highway connec-
tions tend to develop and prosper."
Experience in the case of Ontario vill-
ages is probably the reverse. When
good roads arrive, the trade that for-
merly went to the village stores more
often passes their doors and is re-
ceived by establishments in the larger
centres. Dozens of Ontario villages
are actually poorer, in point of busi-
ness done, for the better road com-
munications t1llat they now possess,
while largertowas and cities aro en-
riched by the same development. —
Brookville Recorder and Times.
Deadly Houses
This housing problem is a matter
that is financial, social, humanitarian,
moral. For six months, in a good or a
bad year, it makes our courts resound
with quarrels between tenant and
landlord or simply between tenants—
a fact which, brings out another as-
pect of the situation. It takes, in our
Province of big families, an added
importance and an appearance that
is often dramatic. In Montreal it
creates an endemic evil in given
zones that contaminate the human
capital of the nation. If the State
votes millions for the hypothetical de-
fense (If our coasts it should be able
to find money to save lives, which are
not vague ideas, but which wither and
fade, like poor forgotten flowers, from
lack of space, or air, or sun.—Mont-
real La Petrie.
During the first two mouths of this
year, a slender, white-haired Italian
has been the subject of more news-
paper columns of ecstatic praise than
has been bestowed on almost any
American in recent years. Arturo
Toscanini, brought back to this con-
tinent by NBC to conduct ten concerts
over the radio, became almost an ob-
ject of worship to American music
lovers.
Music is a wonderful release from
the cares of the day. That is one rea-
son why it has won such a command-
ing position here during the past ten -
years. Other reasons are the avail-
ability of the victrola and radio.
Its Healing Value
Even the ancients realized the heal-
ing value of music. The Romans b -
lieced that sciatica could be reliev
by the tones of a flute. Today music
is used to quiet excited mental lar
tients, and as a stimulant and t6lii9 to
brace up those suffering from melann
cholla.
The waves of music, the vibrations
of ajiplause, affect the nerve oontr0s
and influent% the heart and tate c rol}- .
lation, This produces a reaciion 'fn
the brain which gives the spirit new
strength and courage. Muslo thus be.
comes an emotion -food, and a concert
a banquet for the starved and etch at
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Forty torts of bulbs have also been planted to add to a floral display,
Canadian Eggs
Winning Favor
Complete With Danish Project
On British Market
LONDON.—Again Canadian export-
ers have launched a successful chal-
lenge
hatlenge to Denmark's long-standing dom-
ination
omination of the United Kingdom's egg
market.
Experimental shipments of Cana-
dian eggs, sponsored by the Dominion
Department of Agriculture and co-op-
erative organizations, have met with
such success that steps have been tak-
en to establish the scheme on a per-
manent basis. r 0
Direct negotiations for a regular
and .increased supply have already
been opened between a leading firm
of London importers and the Quebec
authorities.
Supply Quickly Exhausted
It was originally intended to carry
on the experimental shipments for a
period of eight weeks only, each ship-
ment consisting of 50 cases of 180
eggs. The demand was so keen for
the Canadian product that the supply
was quickly exhausted.
A member of the importing firm of
John Loudon declared there was no
doubt Canadian eggs were fresher
than most other countries, were better
packed and handled, thus commanding
higher prices.
"Although there is little possibility
Canada will capture the market out-
right from Denmark," the importer de-
clared "it is certain if negotiations
are successful Canadian eggs will de-
mand a good place on the London
market."
Indian Remains
Are Identified
Toronto University Professor In-
terested In Theory of Plague—
Studies Bones Found Near
Brantford.
BRANTFORD. — Professor J. C. B.
Grant, head of the department of an-
atomy at the University of Toronto,
said last week that examination of
the skulls and bones found near His
Majesty's chapel of the Mohawks, on
the borders of this city, last week,
wore "definitely" those of Indians and
were characteristic of those found all
over the country. Ho expressed in-
terest in the theory advanced here
that the remains are those of mem-
bers of the Tutelo Indian tribe—incor-
porated with the Six Nations.
Nearly 200 of the Indians, or virtual-
ly the whole tribe, were wiped out in
a cholera or ship fever epidemic
which swept this part of the country
less than 100 years ago. The mode of
burial appeared to preclude possibil-
ity of then being the remains of the
older Attiwandaron or neutral In-
dians whom the warlike Iroquois ex-
terminated nearly 300 years ago.
IMPROVING DRESSED POULTRY
"It is apparent that all the Cana-
dian exporters of dressed poultry are
responding to the representations of
the Poultry Services, Dominion De-
partnieiit of Agrieulture, to improve
their export 'packs of chickens and a
continuance of this policy will event-
ually land us at the objective we are
all trying to attain," states W. A. Wil
son, Animal Products Trade Commis
signer for Canada in Londan, England,
• In a recent letter to the Department.