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If •J V News Parade By mizabelh Cedy HAPPY NEW YEAR: V\'e are no BegsimUt by nature, but the out- look for Canada In 1939 doesn't ex- actly cause our spirit to rise up and chter the incoming New Year witli unquiillflcd enlliusiasm. A million people on relief; 400.000 young peo- ple n-ltbout jobs In a land of plen- ty: ill feeling and non-co-operation between governments. Wbat's to be thankful for? ono jnlgbt ask. Lots. For these things, that we really have a wonderful country, of boundless potentialit- ies; that we still are a free people; and that it Is possible to turn our backs on our mistakes and start anew. SPREAD IT ON THICK: Canad- ians are being asked by he Nation- al Dairy Council, please, please to pa', more butler on their bread, and to slap it thick In the pan when frying things. Use it up for good- ness sake, because the country's butter surplus has reached unpie- cedented proportions. "This has been a year of abund- ance in but tor production In Can- ada. I'niled States, and in almost all butter-producing countries the entire world over." says Mr. A. C. Fraser, Secretary of the Council. "We have In Canada, as they have In the United States and Britain, larger stocks than wo ordinarily re- quire. In Canada we have upward of 15.000,000 pounds we would lilce to runove from the country If we cou'.d find a liuyer. The buyer is not available. If our 2.000,000-odd families in Canada would cook with butter this winter , our situation Tvouid be rectified by spring." WHO KILLED HIM?: Something that the newspapers on this contin- ent haven't featured very big is the etory emanating from London, Ens- land, that the German Government arrrjMged for the killing of their ow:i embassy official at Paris, von Ra;h, whoso death was the signal for the outbreak of terrific pogroms against .lews inside Germany. (Young Polish Jew Grynazpan was merely the catspaw, the story goes). The Paris secret police de- clare ihere is no doubt whatever that the German government plan- ned It all. In London, oven the pro- Nazi daily. The Observer, concedes that the possibility of a deep-laid German plot Is interesting tj say the least. Preparing For Arctic Circle Hudson Bay Trainingn School Qua'.ifies Young Men for Posts in Far North Fourteen young men are attcnd- ini? the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade training school at Win- nipeg proparinfc- for tests they must pass to (|ualify themselves as assistants in variou.s trading posts as far north as the Arctic Circle, In nine weeks they are required to learn the rudiments of fur grad- ing', merchandising, post account- ing, first aid, wireless telegraphy, radio mechanics and carpentry. Because they are bachelors, they must also learn to do their own cooking. NeceMary Versatility Such versatility is necessary, said It. tl. G. Honnycastle, actini; personnel manager for the com- pany. "Many of our men are entirely on their own resources. They can't (fo to the ooriior store for a chop for their dinner, or rail a mat. to repair the outlioard motor. Very often there's no doctor near by ami our man is called upon to render first aid to natives who have met with an accident." ".Sixty per cent, of our post managers are married men. Their wives like stylish clothes and the native women are great imitators. We ."clI silk stockings and lingerie to the women and polo shirts and flannels to the men. It isn't a case of a sunset-striped blanket any more." THE WEEK'S QUESTION: Just what Is the significaucc of the Uk- raine In today's news? Answer: This rich piece of territory extend- ing across south European Russia, eas'.ern Poland and eastern Czecho- slovakia Is the objective of Hitler's ''Drive to the East", to obtain pos- scfslon of which he first had to re- duce Czechoslovakia to a state of powerlessness; now must make It possible to march through Ruman- ia. The Russian part of the Ukraine Is a vitally important unit of the Soviet economic system, Including the black earth belt, the great coal- fields of Donetz, the Ironfleld of Krivol Rog, the Important Indust- rial centres of Kiev and Kharkov; the great electrical generating sta- tion of Dneiprostroi; ports on the Black Sea. The Ukraine contains 80 per cent, of the coal In Russia, 70 per cent, of the Iron. 95 per cent, of the manganese, and the greater portion of the wheat, copper, gold and other minerals Germany would like to have. Lone White Man Rules 9 Islands Eight Degrees South of the Equator A British Adminiso trative Officer. Is In Charge of 4,300 Subjects If you look at a map of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near the meridian of 180 degrees, "where time ceases to be," and about eight degrees south of the I'^qua- tor, you will see the Kllice Islands marked thereon. There arc nine islands in the group of coral atolls â€" Nanumea, Nanumaga, Niutao, Nul, Vaitupii, Nukufetau, Funafu- ti, Nukulaelae and Xurukita, all quite unpronounceable to- Knglish folk. Mail Thrice a Year Hut this little kingdom of 1,300 South Sea Islanders, remote, iso- lated and far removed from the world's activities, is ruled by one white man, Mr. Donald G. Ken- nedy, the British A<lministrative Officer. He i.s the only white man there, and lie says that he speaks English so seldom that he finds difficulty in becoming fluent again on returning to civilization. Mr. Kennedy has under his care the entire population of 4,300 scattered over the nine islands. The mail boat calls three times a year, when he has a chance to talk with the captain. Once a year, a naval sloop from New Zealand looks in. This is Mr. Kennedy's ffreat occasion. More Chickens Fewer Turkeys Went to the Old Country From Canada for Christmas â€" The Dominion's Birds Are Rated Tops More Canadian chickens graced the Christmas tables of British householders this year, but Can- adian turkeys were fewer in num- ber in the British Christmas trade than a year ago. Total About Same The total amount of Canadian poultry shipped to the United Kingdom for the Christmas trade is about the same as a year ago, approximately 600,000 pounds. Turkeys shipped numbered 20,428 against 24,624 last year, but 80,- 628 chickens were shipped com- pared with 52,244 a year ago. Fewer ducks were shipped this yearâ€" 4,200 against 17,000 and the geese about the same at 4,400. All Canadian poultry exported must be inspected and graded by Department of Agriculture inspec- tors and because of its high qual- ity the Canadian turkey £\nd other fowl have made a place for them- selves on the British market. They command a premium over other imported birds. Mostly From West Due probably to the prolonged drought and a shortage of grain for feeding, the turkey crop in the Prairie Provinces was smaller than a year ago and chickens were also fewer. Want Democracy? Then Work For It Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield, Former British Cabinet Min- ister, Visiting Canada, De- plores "Laissez-Faire" Atti- tude Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield, former Labor Minister in the Brit- ish cabinet, urged women of Can- ada to choose honestly between democracy and totalitarianism. She declared if they earnestly de- •sire democracy they must work for it. Speaking at a meeting of the Women's Canadian Club, Toronto, the first Woman Privy Councillor deplored the "Laissez-faire" atti- tude which allows people to think one way and act another. She told har listeners "80 per cent, of the Japanese war materials are com- ing from this continent â€" Yet your sympathies are with China". Trouble Spo4 On The Baltic, Memel b A Quiet Town Memel, object of German ambitions to expand along the Baltic, once again takes the news spotlight following the smashing pro-Nazi > victory in the Diet election in Memel territory. Kaunas, capital of Lithuania, and Kaunas province we-e put under a state of emer- gency. What lies in store for Memel territory, taken from Germany after the world war and handed to Lithuania, is uncertain. P O L A. N D PUCK CHASERS NEWS OF O.H.A. DOINGS Secretary W. k. Hewitt, of the O.H.A. , along with other hockey officials, assisted the N.O.H.A. in the grand opening of the new rink in Schumacher, Ont. Bill Grant is back in the Good- year's line-up after being out three weeks with a broken toe. Goodyears have lost Teddy Man- oryk for at least three weeks; he is out with a broken arm suffered during the exhibition game with Toronto Varsity. Regina Tisdall, of Oshawa's G. M. men ran into a broken nose in- jury during one of the many scrambles in their tie game with Goodyears. Referee Gordon "Beef" McKay of Hamilton, ran into a cut lip over in Niagara Falls. Two stitch- es were necessary to close the wound. Army Armstrong, of Oshawa, has handled two games in Toronto and made a fine impression on each occasion. St. Catharines will be without Roust, their centre-star, for sev- eral weeks. He is suffering from a spine injury. Brantford Indians make the Eastern Hockey League tour op- ening in Baltimore on Wednesday, January 4. They play in Hershey and Atlantic City on Thursday and Friday nights and then meet the New York Rover.s in Madison Square Gardens on the Sunday af- ternoon. Coach Leo Reise will take along about IG players for the test. Shorbrookc's failure to accept the C.A.H.A. invitation paved the way for Brantford's chance to travel. Here's hoping they have better luck on the trip than did Goodyears. Caves In Arctic Yield Evidence Of Ancient Life North- Discovery in Canada's west Hinterland Leads to Be- lief Primitive Man Migrated There from Asia The discovery of large mountain caves in Canada's Northwest hinterland, believed to contain evidence of habitation by primitive man thought to have migrated from Asia thousand.s of years ago, was reported at Edmonton last week by Dr. Wesley L. Bliss, an American archaeologist. After a five-month expedition in the Northwest Territory, Dr. Bli.ss said his findings add strength to a widely-accepted theory that America's first inhabitants reach- ed the continent across the Bering Straits either before or after glaciers swept over this continent. Location Still a Secret The archaeologist said that the exact location of the mountain caves would remain a secret until he returns to them next year to make a more thorough examina- tion. Valuable relics found by the expedition in caves and other formations will be shippee' to the University of New Mexico. They include roughly - chipped stone weajions and cooking utensils and a precious fragment of an aged basket weave. Elephant's Tooth Found Dr. Bliss found a preserved elephant tooth on the rim of the Arctic Ocean. He said elephants and other mammoth animals un- doubtedly roamed that region at one time. Farm Relief Cost Falling Agriculture Minister Gardiner has indicated Dominion Govern- ment expenditures for rural relief in the Prairie Provinces this year might not exceed $9,000,000. This compared with $26,000,000 a year ago. Better Crops the Reason The improvement is due to oet- ter crops and a resulting de.rease in the areas of total crop failure in which the Dominion pay? 100 per cent, of relief costs. Prac- tically all the outlay this year will he in Saskatchewan, as little as- sistance will be required by Mani- toba and Alberta. In municipalities whivh have had an average wheat yield of less than five bushels an acre for suc- cessive year? the Domir.ion as- sumes the whole cost of farm re- lief. In other areas with ebtter average crop? but still in need of relief the costs are shared be- tween the Dominion, the province and the municipality. Kings Liable To Nicknames History Provides Many Elx- amples. Some Are Most Unflattering Not even kings are Immune from nicknames, and history provides a great many examples â€" unkind as well as flattering. The various Kings Charles, especially of Franca seem to have been particularly liable, and lead the way in the roy- al nickname parade. There was Charles the Bald, son of the second wife of Louis the Kind; Charles the Simple, son of Loul.s the Stammerer; Charles the Handsome, son of Philip the Hand- some; and Charles the Wise, who was tend of books, rather a rare distinction In his day. He inherited the library of twenty volumes which had satisfied the literary yearnings of his father, but left, at his death in 13S0. some 000, pret- ty well all there were then. Charles the Fat was King of Swa- bla and Italy. Charles the Bad mis- governed Navarre. Charles the Bold reigned over Burgundy, and Charles the Warrior over Savoy. Narrow Room Needs Carpet The long narrow living room is not an easy room to make home- like and every effort should be made to do away with that long look. Instead of using rugs in this type room you will find it will in- crease the width to carpet the room to the baseboard. Then cut across one of the narrow ends by putting your davenport crosswise with a tnl)le in back of it. Care- ful planning of the furniture can do much to get rid of that long narrow appearance. Excessive sununer heat is now blamed for the death of fish in some rivers of Germany. In one month recently Bombay, India, imported 9,810,548 yards of cotton piece goods. VOICE OF THE PRESS THEY WEAR BIG HATS There are lots of people in this world we can see through. But we never get them in front of us at the movies. â€" Montreal Star. .._ THAT CERTAIN UNITY Those people who say there is lack of unity in Canada are not wlolly correct. They overlook tha fact that we are all agreed some- thing should be done about it. â€" Toronto Saturday Night. NO LULL Canadian politirs is never with- out a certain liveliness. K'o sooner is the rift in the Ontario Conserva- tive lute mended than Federal and Provincial Liberal leaders begin to exchange fraternal amenities. â€"London Free Press. WILD LIFE IN THE NORTH Yes, there is still plenty of v.-ild life in the Korthlanl. A train of the Hudson Bay Kailway was held up for hours by a herd of 10.000 caribou which moved across tUa line in front of the locomotive.â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. NO ONE TO BLAME Coroner's juries perform a very useful service to the state by in- vestigating the circumstances lead- ing up to fatalities of one sort and another, and more particularly with respect to motor accidents on railway level crossing.-;. But not infrequently they bring in the for- mal verdict, "Xo one was to blame". We have no quarrel with such a verdict. But in nine times out of ten the man who is to blair.e is the driver of the car v.hoca fata! ending is the subject of the inquiry. â€" Guelph yer.ury TO STOP BRAIN EXr-C^T The only way to stop or lessen the drain (on Canadian brains to the United States) i,< by providing greater inducements here for young Canadians with ability so that tiiey need not go abroad. That can be done by greater sup- port for research, by better re- muneration for those iloing valu- abl; work in the technical branch- es of the publie service, and bet- ter remuneration for these en- gaged in higher education. The nations' gain from consistent ad- herence to such a p< licy would far outweigh the additional cost, which would really not be vcrv great. â€" Winnipeg Free Press. Morocco has placed the making or importation of gas masks unde.* government control. LIFE'S LIKE THAT Sy Fred Nehei "That's what you get for putting; your lunch any ol' placa, WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum CafrtifhiM i«:. M(iii * LmC* "Do ]rou innke all of tha paper dollsT" Jnqulrod Dorothy. "Yea," re- plied Miss Cuttcncllp. "I cut them out with my acissors and paint tha races and some of the costumes. It 1* very plenmint worl< and I sm happy in mnl<lnR my paper villnfre Brow." "Hut how do the paper dolls h.ippcn to he HllveV" nslccd Aunt i;ni. "The flrst dolls msdc were not alive," repllr-d Iho little queen. "I'll tell you all nhout It." "I used to live nenr the enstic of a Kreat noivereBS niininl lillndu the liood. niul she saw my dolls and siild thi>y wore very pretty. I told hor I tliiiiiBht I would like them hot- ter If Ihey were alivo mid the iieM day the .loncress hrinmht nie « lot of iniiKic paper. 'Tlii.H \* live paper,' she said, 'niid all the dolls yoii * * out of II will he able !â- > (hliik i.. I talk. When ynu have li-<d il nil u,> come to me mid I will i.'l\p yo\i more." " "Ur course 1 wan delluhted with this present," coiititiuud Miss Ctit- tuncllp, "but the dolls 1 made were â- u thin that I found any breezu would blow them over and scntler them dreadfully. So (iliiidii built a wall around the plme to keep the wind out. and told mn to bulUI a piper village here iiiid to be Its gueeii. That Is vhy I started (he villae.r which you tu-w see It was 1.-. iiiv years hjto Ih'il 1 Imilt the flr><l hou>io and I've kepi vry busy and made my vtllaKe grow." •'.Many year.t ««<•: eNclalmed Aunt Km. "Why how old are you child?" "I never keep track of the years," said Miss Outtenclip, laughins- "You see, I don't grow up at all. I Just stay the same ns 1 was when 1 tlrst came here. Terhapa I'm older than even you are. madam, but t wouian't say for sure." They looked at th» lovely little cirl wonderinBly and the Wisard asked: "What happens to your paper village when It rains?" »â-  r r •r -» 4' y 4 7 X i â- t » V t ^ â€"