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PUCK CHASERS NEWS OF O.H.A. DOINGS Herbie "Sweets" Mortimer, U seriously threatening Harry Mc- Qucston's regular berth as goali* for the Goodyear club. Mortimer held Hcrshcy to a tie and scored • win over Atlantic City on their tour of the Eastern Hockey League. Port Colborne Sailors •re scheduled to make the same tour in February. Jack McKwen of Oshawa G.M., U in for a great season as net- minder for the Motor City boyi. He appears to have plenty on the ball when it comes to controlling the puck during scrambles in front of his net. Ossie Carnegie came through with mighty fine effort for the St. Catharines Indian Chiefs as they defeated the Brights right in Niagara Falls. Only excellent goal-tending by Mowers, for the Falls, kept the St. Catharines boys down to a 3-1 victory. Doug Runions moved over from his win position to centre-ice for Port Colborne last week and cele- brated the event with a scoringf bee of four goals and one assist for a total of five points. Runions is leader in the rac« for the fur-lined glass jar, an honor accorded to the individual player who gathers the most points in any one game. ST. CATHARINES ARENA Latest schedule points to the grand opening of the new hockey arena in St. Catharines on Tues- day, December 20. The Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League have accepted the Invitation of the Garden City of- ficials to participate in the grand opening ceremonies. St. Cath- arines' new hockey arena will bs the last word in artificial Ics palaces and the Senior O.H.A. cir- cuit is proud to have the Garden City team and its new rink ss members of circuit. White Man Has Need Of Eskimo "Co-operation of the natives, who have lived for centuries in the environment that is new to the white man, must be sought if the present work in the Far North is to be successful," Major D. L. Mc- Kcand told members of the Ottawa Junior Board of Trade last week. "They alone fully understand the conditions under which the human being must live in the North. They not only have survived, but have managed to make a great deal of progress." How Thejr Live In a country where nothing grows except moss, the Eskimo depended on the animals of the sea for food, and the white fox as a medium of exchange. He was not interested in wood, but for heat and light had developed an efficient seal-oil lamp. His people lived in scattered groups of two or three families, eating cariboo meat and fish, and wearing white fox clothing, and sealskin mitts and boots. Oysters Must Be Cultivated If the Industry is to Survive â€" P. E. I. Would Restore De- pleted Fishing • Grounds As far as Prince Edward Island is concerned, oyster fishiug has been a declining Industry In the last fow years, but with the com- bination of closed areas, scientific experimentation and cultivation, hopes are held the Industry will re- gain Its former status. The bods In the far-famed Mal- peque Buy region, In the western part of the Island, which produced oysters noted the world over for thoir quality, have been reduced to extroinely low levels. Overfishing, Disease Do It According to A. W. L. Needier of the Prince Edward Island Oyster Experimental Station, the decline Is a direct result of overfishing, di- sease and the oyster's greatest en- emy, the starfish. Starfish ent the spawn and attack fully-developed oysters, open the shells and devour the meat. Only possible way to prevent ex- tinction of the Industry, Mr. Need- l»r said, Is by cultivation of the oy- ster. Howlers ! Prise Errors Picked From Examination Papers Algebraical symbols are those ua* •d when you do not know what yM •re talking about. Quebec Goldfields Acquire New Rouyn-Senneterre Railroad Line To Survive in the Far North, He Must Learn to Co-Oper- ' ate With the Natives Who ' Know Their Environmenet In this country you have to pr^ duce a certirtcata befor* you am prove you are born. The rich gold fields of northwestern Quebec acquired direct transportation with the opening of a new railroad line between Senneterre and Rou^n. The new branch lins was officially opened by Hon. Onesime Gagnon, Quebec's minister of mines, who u shown RIGHT, assisted by S. J. Hungerford, president and chair- man of the Canadian National railways, cutting the golden ribbon to open the line. The traditional gold spike, to mark the completion of the line, was driven by Hon. C. D. Howe, LEFT, federal minister of transport. Canada's First County Airport Huron Council Takes Over the Operations of Sky Harbour At Goderich Huron County Council, at its closing session in November, made an important decision, after a long discussion, to take over Sky Harbor airport, just north of Goderich, Ont., and in future conduct it as a county municipal airport, probably the first of its kind in Canada. The county will only take over the private lease for the present and will take out the 1939 license in ihe municipality's name. It also will henceforth maintain the landing field. The day was visioned when the airport would be a training ground, perhaps a testing field with a factory manufacturing air- planes. "This will go down in history as the first county in Canada to es- tablish an airport," said Reeve Turner, of Goderich. "We are setting the example and it is not without the bounds of reason, with the British Government spending millions for air defence, that Sky Harbor may develop some day into a large industry." • •>••••••••••>»••••â- â€¢â- â- . VOICE OF THE PRESS »♦•♦••••••••>»• m I UNIFICATION Those people who are looking tor a man to unite all Canada can take hope. Santa Claus will soon be here. â€" Toronto Saturday Night. Royal Itinerary Being Prepared Ottawa to be Centre of Activi- ties During the Visit of King and Queen to Canada Next Year , Ottawa Is proposed as particular ceremonial centre for the visit of Their Majestlos the King and the Queen. The stay In Ottawa as now planned tentatively, will be the longest by reason of It being the national capital. Ceremonials At Each Place The Itinerary has not yet been worked out finally and when It Is the Hoyal sanction will be required but the present prospects are for arrival at Quebec on Monday, May 16, go, the next day, to Montreal and arrive In Ottawa Wednesday night or Thursday, to stay four or five days. The King's birthday, will be specially observed on May 20th. That week-end and probably Mon- day will be spent In Ottawa. There will, of course, be proper ceremonials at every place visited but the greatest number of func- tions will be for Ottawa. Both there and In other places, there will be care to ensure that the population at large have an opportunity of seeing the King and Queen. That, In fact. Is described as the primary objective of the tour. FEED THEM WELL Canada could take more advan- tage of the United States market It our lire stock raisers would put mors grain Into their cattle. â€" Far- mer's Advocate New Outlet Vital For Wheat Crops Place in World Markets Declar< ed Only Solution for Prairie Problems BLOOM IN DECEMBER After being dead all summer, a large locust tree at Albuquerque, In New Mexico, has suddenly come to life and Is now In full bloom. Most municipal candidates are the same way. â€" St. Catherines Standard. PROGRESS It was a news item when a church in Petrolla recently decided to pull down the driving shed In which horses used to be tied during church services. But will the next news Item from the same church concern the parking problem? â€" Kingston Whig-Standard. ROADS IN THE NORTH It Is unbelievable that any sec- tion of the South should protest de- velopment of the North. Practically every dollar expended by northern Industries finds Its way to south- ern Ontario to keep manufacturing plants in operation and to sustain wholesale houses and contribute to the welfare of producers of farm products. What would Ontario be without the North? â€" North Bay Nugget. "AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING" A letter from Quebec reads, in part, as follows: "Everything looks gloomy with us; to all appearance the ensuing winter will be a very troublesome one . . . Emigration, the very lifeblood of a colony, has almost ceased; agriculture quite neglected; the ordinary trade of the country depressed; all energy and enterprise paralyzed, and confi- dence between man and man al- most destroyed." No, It was not written this year; It was sent to the London Times 100 years ago. â€" Edmonton Journal. Automobiles of Japan may be equipped with a carburetor attach- ment, just invented by a Tokio man, which is said to greatly re- duce gasoline consumption. During the imposing of speed limits in Bombay, it was empha- sized that Bombay City is on an island and has'l»nly one road con- nection with the rest of India. Unless Canada blasts a place for western wheat In world markets, the Prairies will not be able to support their existing population on a Canadian standard of living. Prof. Jacob Vlner, of the University of Chicago, declared at Ottawa last week b&fore the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. ' Subsidies would be a kind of al- ternative to new markets but they would be no real solution, he said, and Canada did not have unlimited revenue sources from which to sup- port Its wheat. The warning signals had been gi- ven far back In the last century. He claimed "The people of the Prairies were trapped, were drawn in on the basis of prospects grossly exaggerated." 'It Is inconceivable to me that all the propaganda issued for set- tlement purposes was believed In by those who prepared it," Dr. Vin- er, appearing for the'Manitoba Gov- ernment, said. "Source of these ag- encies still issue the same type ef propaganda. Chicago newspapers even today are carrying advertise- ments of land opportunities In Western Canada." We Are Ignorant Of French Canada "One of the Greatest Barriers to Canadian Unity," Mont- rea Barrister Declares â€" Ad- vocates Understanding One Another J. Alex Kdniisou, Montreal attor- ney, addressing an audience In Ot- tawa last week said that "one of the greatest barriers to Canadian unity is the great Ignorance of the most people, particularly Ontario concerning the French-Canadian." Mr. Edmison, told his listeners ho spoke, "as one who ' has spent the last 10 years In the province of Qebec, after spending 25 years Id Ontario." Many Misconceptions "When I lived in Ontario, I had a complete misnderstanding of the French-Canadians, and a prejudice against them based on current mis- conceptions. "The sooner the people of On- tario get to know the French-Can- adian, get to appreciate his view- point and understandings, his aspir- ations and ambitious, the sooner we will bring about Interprovlnclal unity, which Is absolutely neces- sary In the future If Canada Is to take the leading part she should In world affairs." MYSTERY PASSENGERS: The new Trans-Canada Airlines planes aren't carrying passengers yet. In fact, you can't buy a ticket to fly aboard 'em. Their sole cargo Is His Majesty's mail. Before the Inaugur- ation of tho Trans-Canada service. It was announced by the powers- that-be that no "dead-heads" ("no- pay" passengers) would be carried aboard the planes. Who then are the phantom passengers who step out of Trans-Canada air ships ev- ery *lme one lands at Malton, say, or Montreal? The planes are full of them. 'S a funny world! TWO DEMOCRATS: What were some of the things that Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain and Premier Daladler of France talked about when they con- ferred In Paris? (Of course It's a miracle to us that they could even hear themselves speak above the noise of civil strife, threaten- ing voices from Germany and Italy). They decided to defend their countries by: Increase of French artillery forces in the Far East to supplement British defenses; ap- proval of the Hltler-Daladler Peace Pact; purchase by France of 6,000 war planes, mostly In Canada (on credits extended from London) ; expression by Chamberlain of his resolve to try and get national mil- itary conscription voted in in the United Kingdom. THE PAY-OFF: You surely didn't think that Mussolini gave Hitler a big hand In the Czechoslovak busl- n&ss free, gratis and for nothing, did you, without any expectation of reward? If such was your naive be- lief, you under.estimated the clev- erness of the Duce, or should we say the diabolical ingenuity of Mussolini plus Hitler â€" equals ''the Rome-Berlin axis." The pay-oft comes now, in the aftermath of Munich and the signing of the Ang- lo-Italian accord, when Hitler Is helping Mussolini (In, oh, such a very subtle way) to advance his claims on France's Corsica, Savoy, Nice, Tunis. As long ago as the first of Aug- Favor Azore« Route For Winter Flying Further investigatioa «f tka proposed winter transatlantic air route via the Azores is reeoift. mended by Captain Georgs ThoBS- son, special survey ofBesr for la^ perial Airways, London. He hat returned to England aftar a year's study of flying conditiona in the South Atlantic. Although the Azorss lalanda present certain geographical diiB- culties. Captain Thomson believM the route should be seriously con- sidered as an alternative in wia- ter to the more direct ronta fron England to New York via Ireland and Newfoundland. With co-operation of Portuguesa meteorological and radio services to Horta, he suggests a series of flights could be usefully and saf*. ly carried out during the coming winter. ust, 1938, a purported secrM docu- ment sent by Mussolini to all his ambassadors abroad said that Italy "Is determined in the near future to urge its claim to the Latin soil of Tunis, adding that constructioa of 14 airports on the Libyan-Tunis- ian frontier has been ordered, ''which win make a speedy cam- paign possible." Mussolini's next objective is tba complete domination of the Medi- terranean basin and the Suez Can- al. Towards this he will be helped first by the reduction of Franc» to a state of vassalage (with Hit- ler's aid); then by the overthrow of Britain as a world power- (with Japan's aid, too). SIGN OF THE TIMES: Is Premier Hepburn losing his hold In Ont- ario? We pose the question, made curious by the results of the mayor- alty contest In Windsor. David Croll, M.P.P.. won out there by ma- jority of 5,000, iu spite of the Pre- mier's Intervention, personally, to oppose him. THE WEEK'3 QUESTION: What new type of legislation is likely to be introduced at the next session of the Federal Government, open- ing iu January? Answer: Unem- ployment insurance measures and a marketiug program. This Curious World V. William Ferguson UFEPLASnS, OR. BI^^OPHVLLOM^ NOT ONLV SET SEECsS, BUT ALSO GROW TINV NENA/ Pl_AMTL£rTS ALL. OVER. THEIR. LEAVES AND STE^^S COPR. 1938 RV NU SERVICE. INC. IMOVA/ tAUCh* TltAE. ELAPSES ON EARTH BETWEEN THE ENDING OF PEB tST. AND THE BEGINNING OP F^EB. SRE>? WE are apt to think of the mighty ice masses of the north aa frozen from large quantities of open water. Yet all the great sheets that held whole continents during the Ice Age Wert (onnad ty the packing, partial melting and re-freezing of countlti of tiny snowflakes. WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum Denide the path wera paper trees all cut out very neatly and painted k very brilliant green color. Rack of (ha Ireea ware rows of cardboard hoiisea painted In various colom, the moat uf them havlnc Krsen blinds. 3omo were large and some were rary amall, and In tha front yards were beds of paper flowari quite natural In appearance. Over inme of tha pnrchea paper vinaa wera twln- id. RlvlnK them a aauf and ihndy took. Aa the vlaltiirs passi'il nionif tha itreet, a good mniij' impcr dolla mme to tha doors iind window.s of thi'lr houaea to look at them o«r- loiisly. These (IoII.m weri' all the aame height, but were in (lirrprrnt shapes, .lome helne fat ami some lie- Injf lean Th siri (Icili.i wore m;iiiy betiutifui co>*umf** of fis**"' t>;<T>er. mnklnR them tiiiite fiiiffy: i 'i Iheir heafis and hands were n-^ thiel: - hin the p'ipiM of whieh t^ey wese nada. Some of the paper people were on the atreet walking along or cnngre- rated In groups talking, but as soon aa they saw the strangers they flut- tered Into the houne as fa.it as they could go. so -IS to be out of dancer. "Excuse me If 1 go edRewise," said (he rantain. ai they came to a nlight hill. "I can cet along faster this wny and not finder so mueh." "That's all rlKht," aaid Dorothy. •â- \Ve don't mind hotr you go, I am sura." On one «Me of the street was a paper pump and a paper boy was pumping w.'iler Into a paper pall. Aecldentali.s the yellow hen happen- ed to brusH asainst this boy with her wing, and he flew Into the air and fell lnt'> a paper tree, whera he stu k un'ii the W.zard gently uulled him out. \t the .lame time tha pail went .soniinu Into the air, spH« Unit the p:ipei writer, while the pa» per piimr* h.-'.t nearlv dotible. "flrac- lous." said CIMina. "what If I flap- ptMl my win --s?" " -^ nmjim i tt t m iiMM Mmrmitrr^