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? D Parliaiii«ntiry Doinss Wltk Oatariv'a L»Kliilat*iaa nv t:i!:Dy PARLIAMENTARY DOINGS This business of goveniing gets lerious at times .... so serious la fact that last week Ontario's M. Li. A.'s were asltecl to spend every evening as well as every atiernooa (from 3 to 6) in the House passing bills and things .... Heavy was the agenda, with motions being in- troduced right and left to amend almost every Act on the statute 4>ooka .... sometimes the amend- ment amounted solely to the cor- rection of a typographical erit>r, but it had to be dealt with just the game. , . . Into the midst of this preoccu- pied (With official business) atmos- phere, was precipitated the Strange Case of the University Professors Who Hefused to Conform .... Busy members on both sides of the House dropped their papers, eye- glasses and don't-bother-me air to give full attention to this ripe, juicy scandal .... "TutI tut! tchk! tchk!" on every hand, and "let me at 'em" .... Vou all know what it was that Professor Grube of Trin- ity College said that he shouldn't hare (that Canada's expenditure for defence would only be a contri- bution In support of British imper- ialism), but Professor Underhiil's alleged utterances (tchk? tchk!) are only vaguely reported .... something about hanging out wool- len flags which would shrink like the British Empire is shrinking.... And the question of free speech In a democratic country had to be gone into all over again .... there's nothing like a little free speech now and then to stir people up and get everybody good and mad at the other fellow^ but pleased with themselves. . . . Stormy petrel of the Conserva- tive Party, "Holly" Acres, provided the House with some squally scenes when he accused the Llt*- eral member for Temiskaming of certain practices and attacked the administration for its lack of con- structive policy toward the relief of unemployment .... Kow you're getting something .... because the rampant unemployment, par- ticularly among the youth cf this country, is a heap sore spot with every parliamentarian in small halls and great .... There's a spec- tre at every feast, anil a skeleton in most legislative closets today in Canada .... The situation im- l>roves not a whit while over the past nine years $900,000,000 hm been spent in the Dominion tor un- employment relief, direct and in- direct. A constructive policy of works projects is indicated as the immediate solution. Symbolically, the wolf was at the door of the Ontario Parliament Buildings last week, but it was only Joe LaFlamme's tame wolf from Sudbury, accompanied by his mas- ter ... . but more than one M. L. A. was seen to start at the i\\y- parition The Age of Chivalry Is Not Yet Dead Tub Opposition busied itself with inquiries into various "deals" the Government is reported to have made with such companies ai- the Lake Sulphite, Abitibi and fulp- wood Supply .... The Lake Sul- phite Company were granted large areas of extremely valuable timber but oetore they reachetl production they went into liquidation. The Abitibi company has been in liqui- dation for upwards of seven years and the government has been In the "picture" iu every attempt at reorganization. Tlitf bio yuesiion .Mark: What stand will Premier Hepburn take In the next federal election'.' (It Is recalled that while Mr. Hepburn has stated he will not aid .Mr. King, he has not gone the length of ieflnitely stating that Conservative Leader K. J. Manion can count on him for all he can give). Kext week we shall reviev the session lu its perspective as soon as the clouds and the smoke have rolled away. His German Toe Made A Rumpus Kev. H. M. Hftninett of Culgai">' had one of his bifr toos whioli wa^ grafted from the amputated foot cf a Oerniaii .<si>ldier durirj: tht- Great War. removed last wetk bo- cause it had been "kicking un" during recent Kuropean crisis. "It's the first time since the too was graftcii to my foot that it had acted up.'' Hnninett said. "Perhaps I'd better ask Hitler â- wliat to do with it now that it's removed." Ncaviy ",000 waitresses and dancers accepted the invitation of the police of Tokio to uatlicr in a hail and hear a friendly discussion cf public morals and the part they piay In Japan's present enicrftoi;- cy. Master John Kershavy abiy demonstrated that the age of chivalry is not y^ dead in England as he presented Queen Mary with a-purse, when sha officiated at the opening of the new holiday home for working mothers at Stansted, Eng. After making the presentation. Master Kershaw bowed hke a closing jackknife, but his performance evidently aroused the roval mirth of the Queen Mother. NTARIO UTDOORS By VIC BAKER ANTICIPATING MAY lit Many thousands of Ontario's anglers are eagerly anticipat- ing the opening of the trout season on May 1st as the month of April slowly wends its way through the calendar. This im- portant date in the angler's al- manac introduces a long season of outdoor happiness and pisca- torial thrills. April 1st may be "all fools" day and lend itself to the per- petration of practical jokes of doubtful humour, but May 1st spelLj freedom from the social conventions of "soup and fish" leaving us free to eliminate the soup and just fish. .\s a rule, most anglers have put away their equipment by October, not because they are tired of fish- ing, but because the climate and closed seasons force them to desist. Therefore, it seems a long time between bites and so as the season once more ap- proaches we are all on edge and "rarin' to go." Doubts Value Of Bombings U. S. Envoy Says CiTiUans Become Accustomed to Raids â€" Morale Can't Be Broken That Easily. Bombing of civilian populations iu an effort to break their morale proved a boomerang in the recent Spanish civil war, sayg Claude G. Bowers, T. S. ambassador to Spain for the last si\ years. "Instead of breaking down the morale," he said, "the effect seem- ed to be very perceptibly a stiffen- ing of the morale of the people â€" a rise in their resentment. "The first effect on the civilian populations, of course, was to throw them iiito a state of terror. The amazing thing, however, is that ia a very short time â€" a matter of weeks only â€" they become accus- tomed to it and hardened to it." WE WONDER As May Ist this year falls on a Monday, we wonder if the Ontario Fish and Game Depart- ment will be kind enough to ad- vance the opening date for trout fisliing to Saturday, .\pril 29, to give us an extra week- end. Last year the opening date was advanced to -Xpril SOth and anglers were enabled to hie themselves away to their fa- vourite stream on the preceding Saturday for a week-end of fishing. â€" â€" NYLON FISHING LEADERS A new fishing leader, which will not fray, split or become brittle, is invisible in water and possesses elastic qualities per- mitting a uniform "give" of about one inch per foot and re- suming normal length with much the same action as a rub- ber band, is now available to the Canadian angling world. Designed to fill the place place among the fishing frater- nity now occupied by Spanish silk-worm gut, the new leader is on the market in standard weights and lengths, both level and tapered. I The I BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY THE CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE By Anthony Boucher The telegram so startled Colonel Raud chat he took the next plane to Los Angeles. He arrived just in time to be an invaluable witness at the inquest on Humphrey Garnett's body. Dead by poison, and iu his hand the clue that pointed to the mur- dererâ€"a crumpled jack of diam- onds. Colonel Rand knew the signifi- cance of the crumpled knave. But he didn't know anything about the "Hector" mentioned in that amaz- ing telegi-am. Many detective story writers are masters of the double bluff. In "The Case of the Crumpled Knave" -Authouy Boucher triples it, and proves conclusively that the hand of the writer is quicker than the eye of the reader. It's an "Inner Sanctum" mys- tery. â- â€¢The Case of the Crumpled Knave." by Anthony Boucher .... Toronto: Musson Book Co. . . . $2.25. APPEASEMENT BUTTER One thing they never thought cf in appeasement was giving Ger- many some New Zealand butter. â€" Hamilton Spectator. THE NEW CRUSADERS .Agnes MacPhail visualizes wo- men tis crusaders for world peace. Perhaps, but not in those new spring hats. â€" Kitchener Record. TOURISTS MAKE UP FOR IT Canada's unfavorable trade bal- ances with the United States in 1938 was almost $68,000,000. That is where a tourist trade lialance in favor of Canada helps out. â€" Sault Daily Star. LEFT PRETTIEST AT HOME A member of the Post staff, following a holiday in Florida, tells us that he saw only one pret- ty girl from the time he left To- ronto on the way south until he returned to this snow-crusted land. â€" Lindsay Post. FROM FARM TO UNIVERSITY The statement of Premier Hep- bum that Ontario Universities are cluttered up with the sons and daughters of wealthy people will not go dowr: very well with the farmers who make sacrifices to put their sons in the professions. There have been thousands of them in the past who have made distin- guished contribution to their country. â€" St. Catharins Standard. LOAN SHARKS Go\Tnment action at Ottawa, to bring down legislation designed to curtail the operations of loan shai'ks, wins widespread attention and approval. The topic aroused considerable interest when the Hon. Mr. Ilsley forecast its intro- duction. Reaction in the press of many parts of Canada has been favorable, and the introduction of such legislation in the Upper House by Senator Dandurand has stimulated the laudatory comment. â€" Halifax Chronicle. Taming Wolves, Women Similar Joe La Flamme, of Gogama, Ont., Is 50 years of age, six feet tall, weighs 250 pounds, sports a full beard asd long silver hair; he talks brokenly, as you would expect of a trapper from the hinterlands of On- tario; he wears moccasins; as he talks, his almost black eyes spar- kle. Joe, you know, is believed to be the first man in history to have worked a full team of wild wolves as sled dogs, and he looks the part. He has the distinction cf having the firs: wolves that ever flew in an airplane. He brought them to Sudbury by air for his sportsmans' show, says a writer in the Windsor Daily Star. Joe didn't begin training wild wolves because he wanted to be a showman. The reason was much more practical. .At first a trapper, and now a prospector and assess- ment worker, he remembers that back in 1923 he was trapping. There were plenty of sled dogs, but a plague of distemper struck, and the dogs were dying off like flies. He> trapped his first wolf then and got the idea of using her in his sled pack. .At this point, he drew a parallel between wolves and women, a phil- osophy of which he is a strong dis- ciple. "Wolves are like women," he said. "When .vou meet dem for de firs' time, you mus' be ver' gen- tle. .Aften ten year you have to watch for frying pan and Je sticks. It you know how to handle women, you can h.iadle wolf. De more women, de more danger. De more wolf de more danger. " Dropped shoulders to go with dropped fullness in sleeves for a new style gesture, "dropping"' lines. 8 Pallbearers Aren't Elnough At t^uneral In London, Ont, Of 500-Poimd WomMi Mrs. Oominic Pailaria, believed to be the largest woman ia On- tario if not all Canada, weighing 500 pounds, was laid at rest La St. Peter's cemetery, London, Oat., early in April. .An l!i-piec8 band preceded the> funeral cortege In parade forma- tion to St. Peter'i Cathed.-al, where requiem high mass was song. The bbnd, which consisted en- tirely of brass instruments, was comprised of members of the Lon- don Veterans' Band and members of the old London Marconi Club Orchestra. Largest Coffin Ever Eight husky pall-bearers and two funeral home attendants had diffi- culty bearing the weighty coffin, the largest ever constructed in London, measuring 36 inches by six fee:, six inches. The total weight of coffia was more than 600 poanda. The Richest Man Lives In India From the sultr.v, showy place la the city o? Hyderabad, capital ol this south central Indian proriace, ths nizam wields his power over some 14.000,0*)0 subject*. Ia a hv red and gold room he direct* th« routine business of his natlT* state, reaching decisions qoicklr. Ha attends his official duiiea witk utter lack of ceremony He wsara the slmplee: attli-e. On state oe> caaiona, however, ha stagei TMt Oriental splendor. Rule* 14,000.000 Subject* Fabulously wealthy, tie nisam is said to b« worth 1600,000,004. Yet he Is virtually a prisoner la his own land. Ancient customs d«- crea that he shall never leave lo- dian shores. Actually he never leaves the capital city, even durlnc the torrid summers. Tanneries Use Cattle Hides World's Most Wealthy Infirid- ual. The Nizam Of Hydera- bad, Is Thought To Be Worth $600,000,000. Picturesque, a character who might have stepped oat of the Old Testament, the Nizam of Hydera- bad conducts one of the strangest reigns of modem time; rule of tha richest man in the world. Cattle hides comprise tha pria- cipal material used in the Canadlaa tanning industry, which is now on* of tha chief manufacturing indus- tries in the Dominion. Approxim- ately '70 per cent, of the cafJe hides coma originally from Caaa- dlaa farms, the remainder being Imported. A similar percentage ap- plies to the next important mater- ial "calf and kip skins", whlla sheep skins usually attain a ittj- fifty basis, fifty per cent. Caaadlaa and fifty per cent, imported. Ac- cording to tha latest statistics tha t3tal number of hides and skins used ia the Industry in 1937 was 3,4T5.S01. of which :.313,9TT wars Canadian and 1,139.824 of foralga origin. GREATEST TOBACCO BARGAIN IN CANADA LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred NeheT "I think I'll to over and tit on the sofa for a while any money playing her* with you." I can't maka WONDERLAND OF OZ By V. Frank Baum â-  > â- MM > < I 1 1 ' I . I I [ 1 1 Hd^^^I^^I ^^^^^H^^/'^^^^H ^^^^K.' ^ ^Xc^^^l m^ K^ |o[ !^VA J^^^k, j§S I.I I .1.11 II I I I J. tit For a whiif the King was !housh:ful. "I ;in\ almost son.v we did not unJerts'iie U<e roMQufst aU'iie." sjiid h». "'.Ml of these .•ilUes are datiKcrouj people and the.v nijij (l^m.iDd luoro thJ»n .vou have promised I hem. It nilglit have been better to ecu quer 0« without an.v outsiie assiotiinoc ' "Wo cotiid not ilo It." said tbf Ueror:. â-  posUivfl.v, "Wh.v not. Ci»ph" Vrti t;itio^ Ter.v wciu You lia't one e»pi>''rn- â-  the 0» people »iiU iho.v defoiiU'i Th.'^t \Tas (ico:iu.->o the.v rollcil ci;k5 a' us," replied the Kititr, with a shudder. '•M.» Rtiomrs cati't stand eggs any more Ih.ir. [ c!in. The.v are poison to all whc live ui'dciKround." "That Is true enough." iiisroeO <.;uph. "But we might have tHKen lhi> «•/. neople b.»' surprise and coiiQuercd ihom before they had a chance to get •r>\ e)f!t«," s.'iiU the King. '•Our former » d»ic to the fact that Doroth.i- vw hfn wiih her." "1 di-n't know vxh.it became or that ht", hut I believe there are no more heits ir tu now. so there could b« uo C!<ss there." "On the contrary." said Gupii. "there arc hundreds of chickens in Ox. 1 met h hawk on my way home who told me he had been there «n<l had seen them," "That Is .'» bad report." said the King, nervousl.v. "Very bad. indeed. My srnomes are wiUing to flght. but the.v simply c.in't face ess«. and I don't blame them." "The.v won I 111-. •) ii- .., f ... tluph. "We'll send our allii.s fliji i.ml h.v the time we se: there, the csc» «ni be t:otie." "Perhaps."' retxirned the King, "but I want it understood that Oama and Ooroth.v belone to me. The.v are nice Birls asid 1 won't let thenn be hurt. I win brine thetn here and transform thom into orn.i- ments." "A'er.v well," sa'd lluph. "let us iret the tunnel finished as soon as poss- ible." "Tt will be read}' in thre« da\?.' promised the Kins. .n â- a at 'i