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{VOICE THE WORLD AT LARGE = of the CANADA THE EMPIRE PRESS CANADA Forgotten Hero Among the forgotten heroes is the stork in the Millar will derby, --Ham- flton Spectator. Or Grapefruit! An exchange points out that the trouble with too many ambitious men in the public eye is that they are in the public eye--like a cinder.--Cal- gary Herald. Undisturbed Canada's gold, nickel, copper and Jead mines are yielding more than ever before in our history. Evidently haven't heard the tales of the ticker- tapes.--Ottawa Journal. Absolutely Essential Unle.s a larger spirit of goodwill §8 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, harbor ill-will toward their fellow Canadians who happen to live in other parts of the Dominion. -- Edmonton Journal. 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 one 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- Jessness and negligence. -- Hamilton Spectator. Rights of the People It is well for the people to remem- ber always that the freedom of the press 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 spec... 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 irked at suppression of news but it is the people" who are injured when a right is enjoined. The people who are shut off from facts about their gov- ernments 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 politicians 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 fnto 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, ill 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 be converted into grease for war purposes. "The bungling, over-sentimental or wilful handling of the parole problem still remains one of the greatest dis- graces America has ever knwon." -- J. Bdgar Hoover. A--C THE EMPIRE 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 indigestion; 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-pan, 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 period 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 mohths 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. g Fersons 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. 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. MacIlnnes 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 courts 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. Maclnnes, E. G. Phipps Baker and W. P. Fillmore. No Criminal Cases It 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. Mr. MacInnes said the Law Society would stress the duty of every prac- tising lawyer in 'giving his services free. Cases outside the scope of the service would include slander, libel. small debts, cases against the debt ad- justment board or any other such boards, and appeals to the Court of Appeal, unless the committee decided there had been a miscarriage of jus- tice and considered an appeal justi- fied. The agency will not touch criminal cases as the government supplied a lawyer when the plaintiff or accused was without means. Await New Japanese Moves LONDON.--With the sessions of the Japanese 'Imperial Conference, the Far-East situation is believed here to be entering a new and more danger- ous phase. It is 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 being relatively meaningless. It is learned that British Cabinet Ministers have been notified to hold themselves in readiness for an emer- gency session if Tokio developments follow the expected course and Japan | formally declares war on Chino. Ottawa Reports Important Addi- tions Made to Facilities up North During 1937--Land 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 aiczel- 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 construction 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 consum- ing points. Oil during summer months now moves on a regular schedule in the northwest. 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 im northern develop- ment, the report said, with the num- ber of planes in service in the north- west last year varying from 16 to 20 operating from Edmonton, Prince Al- bert and Fort McMurray. Indications are that this number will increase this year. Canada linporss 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 232,517 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 1,826,199 tons, and compilation of December figures was expected to push the tonnage above 2,000,000, A year ago Pennsylvania supplied Canada with 47.5 per cent. of its anth- racite, but the percentage now has in- creased to 55.2, the Institute said. The United Kingdom's anthracite ship- ments to the Dominion have dropped 12 per cent. Transportation Increases In Northwest Territories Hitler to Visit Duce In Spring Committee Starts Work on Plans For Colorful Reception Plans to welcome Chancellor Hitler of Germany with fanfare rivalling the greeting of Premier Mussolini in Ger- many last September, were discussed this week by an Italian Government reception committee, H'tler will visit Italy next spring, returning Mussolini's trip through Germany. The exact date has not been fixed but he is expected to ar- rive in Rome on May 9, secoird 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 tra'n 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 | " 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. 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- istration will proceed with plans to provide for an unemployment insur- ance measure, Prime Minister Macken- zie 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 hy Lee!' © -o.Belisha, Secre- tary .. _.aging youth and ability re, is being aggress- ively pursued. ~ The new appointments are a direct consequence of the sweeping shake- up of the Army Council, Dec. 2, when the Minister passed over fifty senior Generals to make Maj.-Gen. Viscount Gort Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and, by wholesale retirements, reduced the average of the Council from 63 to 52. 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 regions, 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, and a reply in which Hitler pledged They Threw a "Madman" to the Sharks court, in Los Angeles. Robert Horne, left, and George Spernak, the "Mad Jack" Morgan to the sharks, wait to tell their weird story to the sailors who admitted throwing Vows Hircde Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . CI) by Peter Randal - UNCONQUERABLE? -- An inter- esting article by Frank Illingworth in an English magazine discusses the ex- ceedingly timely topic, "Can China Ever Be Conquered?" Drawing les- sons from Chinese history, the writer 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. But + 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 has 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 have by now accustomed China to the thought that any conquest of her 400,- 000,000 people can only be a tempor- ary affair. * * J WE'RE ALL CRAZY: Scientists and psychologists are telling us now, and apparently no one is daring to say them nay, that insanity or a tendency towards it exists in a large number of people who look to be perfectly normal. Two specialists speaking be- fore the American Association for the Advancement of Science, went so far ag to declare that a great many sup- posedly normals should trade places with insane patients in mental hos- pitals. 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". * * * THINK OF THE CHILDREN: If loving parents bent on giving their firstborn a beautiful name 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 disguised under variegated initials in the world today, and the number of 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! Eest rule to follow: stec~ away from the sense. It takes all a man has, to rise above a name like "Cyril" or "Elmer", * LJ *® HEAVIER POLICING: Motorists of Ontario were given a chance to be- have themselves on the roads at Christmas time, and look what a mess they made of it--the blackest holi- day toll ever! A wave of protest has swept the country and indignant let- ters have been appearing in the press. Now the Attorney-General of Ontario is doing something about the situa- tion, ordering an immediate and sub- stantial increase of the motorcycle patrol force of the Provincial Police, instructing them how to prevent 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, better road behavior - may result. exotic; stick to common * *® ok BALANCE OF POWER: When Ital- jan Fascism in the person of Musso- lini's son-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- ian suggestion that they quit the feague of Nations and recognize the regime of Franco in Spain. Neither would they join the anti-Communism pact recently signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. The democratic powers had reason to breathe easier following this re- buff. 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 oil and grain fields of the Ukraine. 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. LJ » »* BIRTH RATE FALLS: In the first half of 1937, births decreased in the Dominion of Canada, 0.7 per thousand. At the same time deaths increased 0.6, the figures raised by a higher dis- ease toll and a larger number of auto- mobile fatzgities, Looks ap ,*Orhe population of this feir country '/zay shrink to nothing ore we 'now what it's all about. himself "honorably and confidently" to co-operate with all nations marked a New Year reception to the diplo- matic corps this week when brilliant- ly uniformed foreign envoys and a little group of high Nazi Government 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 this 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 central army and commander of the Teruel offensive. Rioting In Austria VIENNA.--Disorder raged through- out Austria this week-end as Monar- chists and Nazis clashed with clubs, stones and stink-bombs at sixty mass meetings, called to open a campaign to restore the 25-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." 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. Refuse to Recognize Him WASHINGTON. The United States' refusal to recognize King Vic- tor Emmanuel of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia has resulted in suspen- sion of the Italo-American negotia- tions for a commercial treaty. Informed sources said Mussolini re- quired the new treaty to be made in the name of Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia and that State Secretary Hull re- fused, Arrested On Fraud Charge CHATHAM.--Bail was set at $5,000 each last week-end for two London, Ont., men who allegedly obtained $300 from a Raleigh township resident by claiming they were members of a syn- dicate which had sold a patented chemical formula to Lawrence Du Pont for $4,000,000. The two are Sam- uel Willis, 69, and Thomas Agnew, 57. Flying Classrooms Four Big Planes Will Carry Six to Eight Student Flyers And Instructors In the R. C. A. F. "Flying classrooms" will lighten the tedium of learning for Royal Canadian Air Force student (fliers. Construction of four big planes will be started soon in a Montreal air- craft factory at a cost of nearly £100,600. Eack of the four sturdy Noorduyn "Norsemen" will have accoramodat'on for «ix t¢ eight instructors and stu- dents and will be used to teach em- bryo fliers such sciences as bombing, ' map reading, navigation, sketching, radio communication and "spotting" for artillery. Supplement Ground Teaching Ths aerial classes will 'pplement the usual theoretical teaching of ! ground school. Under a~tual fiight' conditions, Canada's yo: rng airmen will learn the science of aerial war- fare under the first-hand gnidance of experienced instructors. } The big Canad'an-des'gned trans-: port planes will have attachments for bomb sights, ground-to-p'ane 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. : The "classroom planes" will be built by Noorduyn Aircraft, Ltd., at} suburban Cartierville, Quebec. They |} will be monoplane transports of metal | construction and powdered - with a Wasp engine of 525 horsepower, giv- ing them a high speed of nearly 170 miles an hour. In keeping with Canad'an flying conditions, the new planes will be adaptable to skis for Winter flying | and to either wheels or seaplane floats in the Summer. "There can be no real prosperity in, state or nation for either the indus-| trial city or the agricultural country without the other being AE -- Herbert H. Lehman. ! | A year ago a discarded cutting) from a pineapple plant was thrown on a rubbish heap at Torquay. It is now bearing fruit and growing rapidly. So, although it refused to thrive when pampered with care and attention, it manages to enjoy life when left to its own devices on the rubbish heap. © -- - - ~iR