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Veteran Wellesley Exâ€"Clerk Honored 7th, 1987, in recoguition of Peter ®¥. Schummer, who served us muni eipal clerk in the township of Welles ley. for a period of forty (40) years Resolution Moved by J. C. McKay, seconded by John Reidei that this representaâ€" t‘ve meeting of ratepayers, of the township of Wellesley, go on record us expressing to him the sincere thanks of the ratepayers of the township of Wellesley, for the very courteous manner in which he at all times conducted the affairs of the township for such a long period of The â€" following _ resolution _ was passed at the towuship hall, Cross hill. at the nomination meeting., Dec His genlal nature and pleasant manners have @udeared bim with all with whom he came in contact. and it is the sincere wish of this meetâ€" lmg that he may long be spared to eajoy the very best that this life may have in store for him and that a copy of this resolution be forwardâ€" ed to him â€"Carried New Hamburg has an eleven yearâ€" old lad, Harry L. Stahl, son of Mr rnd Mrs. Roy Stahl, who has shown what a genius can do in his teen age The lad‘s Christmas lighting disp‘ay is a wonder and is a train outht. It comprises a steamâ€"type freight enâ€" gine. 22 inches long and 14 cars and a passenger engine with four cars It has tracks, switches, bridges, sta tions, tunnel, semaphore, crossing gates and bell. It also has a farm stock yard. village of 200 anima‘s and people all of which is electricâ€" aily lighted John Wanner NEW DUNDEE, Jan. 6.â€"There passed away at his home here early Thursday morning, a lifelong resiâ€" dent of the community in the person of John Wanner, in his T72nd year. Mr. Wanner was in failing health for 11 months and took seriously ill about a week ago. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eli Wanner and was born at the Wanner homeâ€" stead two miles northwest of the village. He was married to Mary Hank on Dec. 19, 1893, and farmed on the homestead until 25 years ago when he moved to this village where he was engaged as a cement conâ€" tractor. He leaves to mourn his widow and one son, Myrum, at home, and one adopted _ daughter, _ Mrs. _ Areli Goodwin; also one sister, Mrs. Reâ€" becca Cressman of Wilmot Centre and one brother, Neil Wanner of Blair RR. â€" Mr. Wanner was a member of St. James‘ Lutheran Church, at which church the funeral will be held on Saturday afternoon. Following a private service at his late residence at 2 p.m., interment will be made in the New Dundee Union Cemetery. Rev. Wm. Nolting will have charge of the service. Paul Zettler Another aged Kitchener citizen, Paol Zeitler, died at the home of his sonâ€"inâ€"law, â€" Harry Heiman, King street east, on Monday, in his T5th year. Mr. Zettler lived and farmed nearly all his life at Chepstow, until six years ago. . His wife predeceased him 16 years. He is survived by six sons, Leo of Walkerton, Peter of Hanâ€" over, Albert and Phillip of Kitchâ€" ener, Herbert of London, and Simon of Ribstone, Alta., two daughters, Mrs. Harry Heiman, Kitchener, and Mrs. Frank Sutler, Walkerton; four brothers, John and Andrew Zettler of Chepstow, and Henry and Joseph of Ribstone. Alta.. and 16 grand children. Anthony Vogt Death called Anthony Vogt, 78 who died at his Frederick street re sidence, Kitchener. Tuesday after noon. He was a carpenter by trade and formerly lived at Elmira. He is survived by one sister. Mrs J. Peterson of Toronto. Funeral services were held from Lippertâ€"Hunter Funeral Home on Thursday morning to St. Mary‘s R.C. church. Interment in Mount Hope ‘Cemetery 11â€"YEARâ€"OLD LAD A MARVEL Norman Peppler Friends and business associates in large numbers attended the funeral services on Thursday for the late Norman Peppler, prominent Hanâ€" over furniture manufacturer, who died en route to Chicago to attend a furniture exhibition. Interment was made at the Hanover cemetery. Waterloo No extra charge for use of outr homeâ€"like Funerul Chapel. Walsh Funcral Service 160 King St. S. â€" Phone 677 Our optical department takes pleasure in adding an entirely new featureâ€"without cost to you. A certificate of insurance will be issued to every purâ€" chaser _ of _ glasses _ against breakage, loss by fire or theft â€"even if you lose your glasses they will be replaced without cost to youâ€"for a period of ome year from purchase date. PAY $1 WEEKLY Phone Kitchener 185 or call inte the store for appointment. We guarantee a complete and scientific examination. The W. G. Young Company Jewellers â€" _ Optometrists 8 KING E.. KITCHENER John Heinbuch. Chairman SOMETHING NEW! INSURED GLASSES OBITUARY on credit Baumaaâ€"At Floradale, Jan. 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bauman, a Ballingallâ€"At St. Mary‘s Ho-glul, Jan. 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bllhxznll, Kitchener, a son. Heitâ€"At St. Mary‘s Hospital, Dec. 31, to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Heit, Kitchener, a son. Traynorâ€"At St. Mary‘s Hospital, Jan. 5, to Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Trayâ€" nor. Water street north. Kitchener a daughter FIRST ROBIN OF YEAR AT KINCARDINE NINC4RDANE, Jan. 6 â€"®arliest on iccord reported here, a robin was loday sighted in Kincardine by J. C. Cox. Penched on a tree limb near the Royal Hotel. the bird chirruped cheerfully,. taking uo cognisance of the wintry weather prevailing Ibbotsonâ€"Meinzingerâ€"George Ibbot son, Fergus, to Margaret Mein zinger, Kitchener, Dec. 28 KITCHENER, Jan. 5. â€"Going to Texas six months ago after he had MOTORIST SURRENDERS, GIVEN SEVENâ€"DAY TERM voceived a summons for drunken driving. James Handill, ‘Kitchener, cturned here yesterday and gave h mself up to Chief Constable Wm. Hodgson. He peaded gutlty today to Griving a car while intoxicated and was sentenced to one week in jail. A reckless driving charge was not pressed Mrs. Charles Reiman U RESTON, Jan. 5. â€"Death sumâ€" m oned Mys. Charles Reiman, nee k.izabeth stuempfle, daughter of one o. Preston‘s pioneer families, at ber bome here today in her 86th year. The doceased, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mchael Stuempfe, was born in Pieston, where she lived all hor ie except for 30 years spent at Douglas. â€" Manitoba. _ Her husband codeceased her three years ago. The [.te Mr. and Mrs. Relman celebratâ€" d their golden wedding anniversary in 1925. She was a member of Knox Imesbrvterian church. Surviving are three sons, Wi‘liam <â€" Mouse Jaw. Leonard of Los Anâ€" veles, Herman _ of Toronto, one . .uchter, Mrs. Plorence Lehman of i~eston. one sister Dorothea Heise cf Prestuon, one brother, Herman of Terre Haute, Ind., seven grandchil ison and four great grandchildren. The imneral will be held Saturday atternoen Mil‘bank, Jan. 5.â€"â€"Miss Mary Reid, a resident of Mornington township, xd at her home today in her T5th yeur after an illness of one week. She was born in Mornington townâ€" ship She is survived by one brother, J. To Reid and one sister, Mrs. MoKay u[ Newton. Funeral services will be held from her late residence on Friday to Milâ€" bank United Church. Burial will be made in Millbank Cemetery. Rev. 8. E. stevenson will officiate. | Lorne A. Campbell | NORTH EASTHOPE, Jan. 6.â€" Death of Lorne Alexander Campâ€" bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. ‘Campbell of North Easthope, ocâ€" |curred Sunday night. Mr. Cnmgbell 'was 27 years of age. He was born Feb. 8, 1910, in North Easthope. Many friends attended the funeral en Monday of William Bringloe, veteran race horse trainer, who died at San Francisco a week ago. Serâ€" vice was held at the home and at St. Saviour‘s Church, Waterloo. Inâ€" terment took place in Mount Hope cemetery. ‘ wl The services were conducted by Canon R. J. Setonâ€"Adamson, rector of Holy Saviour Anglican Church. Pall bearers were Hugh Freeston, Charles Merret, George Binning, Sharpe Riley, George Lowe and Stan Chadder. Surviving are his parents, two sisters (Mabel) Mrs. Lorne Capling, Shakespeare, (Jean) Mrs. Percy Way, Stratford, and three brothers, Colin Campbell, North Easthope, and Kenneth and Jack at home. _ _ The funeral was held on Saturâ€" day. John McKenzie NORTH EASTHOPE, Jan. 6.â€" John MoKenzie, proprietor of the Ladshill Hotel, died at the Stratford General Hospital yesterday in his $(0th year. Mr. McKenzie had operâ€" ajed the hotel for the past 28 years. Surviving are his wife, one brothâ€" es W. M. McKenzie of Steveston, B.C. and two sisters, Mrs. A. Mcâ€" Cillawee of Vancouver and Mrsa. Wm. Yarshall, Montreal. The funeral was held Thursday citernoon at 2 o‘clock from the Heimbuch Funeral Home, Stratford \DO= |YOU l KNOw THAT Many friends attended the funeral services at Guetph on Thursday for the late Joseph Martin, RR. 1, Ariss, who died at St Joseph‘s Hospital, Guelph, on Monday to St. Boniface K C. Church, New Germany, for funâ€" eval mass. Interment was made in the adjoining cemetery Schreiter â€" Sandrock Limited FUNERAL HOME Marriages 51 Benton St. â€" Phone 4480 KITCHENER William Bringloe Miss Mary Reid Joseph Martin __ of _ our orgaâ€" nization â€" has had careful training and _ knows _ his duties. EVERY member 200 JUNIOR FARMERS MEET A imost enjoyable evening was speut by 200 Junior tarmers Wednesâ€" day evening when they spent several hours skating at the auditorium and later adjourned to the Y.M.C.A., where the â€" Bell Telephone Co., showed some fine pictures . Refreshâ€" ments were later served Shortly after three o‘clock Wedâ€" nesday afternooun Kitchener Aremen were called to Queen St South, where a large barn at the rear of the Super lest Station made a spectacular blaze attracting bundreds of people. It was on old empty unused barn and the loss will not be large. Children playâ€" ing in the barn are biamed for the fire. The barn was owned by Mrs. E. Quickfall and the loss ts about $50u BIG BARN FIRE AT KITCHENER PARADISE LAKE CAMP Kiwanians of Kitchener will again sponsor the Paradise Lake Camp for the childrep this coming summer. It is their major service to the pub lic and funds are raised each year to take care of cost J. G. Brown, Past LieutGovernor. inducted the rew officers while President Leo Wallis in a brief talk set forth the three main objectives of the club PENNY SAVINGS BANK Waterloo‘s . public schools . this week started its peonny bank saving at the various achools and much inâ€" terest was taken by children in the first deposit on Wednesday. The toâ€" tal deposits follow: Central School, $37.27; Elizabeth Ziegler, $39.89; and Alexandra, $46.73. It promotes thrift and a bank experience on the part cf the children Waterloows town clerk, N. Bolduc, has received application forms for the Dominionâ€"Provincial Home Trainâ€" ing Schools, the second classes startâ€" ing Jan. lith. Women are invited to enroll and ffll in their applicaâ€" tions WILL SIGN BILLS On suggestion of Ald. Sturm, Ald. Gowd was named by council Monâ€" day night to approve general expense accounts for councii. Other commitâ€" tee chairmen also sign their respecâ€" dive accounts. HOME SERVICE Grants from the town were ac knowledged in letters to council Monâ€" day night by the Salvation Army (850), and the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children ($25) NO ACTION TAKEN No action was taken by town coun c:l Monday on a letter from the Can adian Federation of Mayors and Mu wicipalities asking the town‘s mem bership at a fee of $13.50. A questionnaire from the Canâ€" adian Travel Bureau at Ottawa askâ€" ing for information as to Waterloo‘s tourist attractions was ordered filled cut by council Monday night and reâ€" turned Finance committee of town counâ€" cil on Monday night passed accounts ot $2.009.97 general expenses and $1.398.76 relief making a total for Pecember of $3.408.73 An effort will be made by council t3 table their estimates carly this year, and all spending boards of the town will be asked to prepare their capected figures as soon as poskible. TO BORROW $60.000 A by‘aw to borrow up to $60,000 trom the Bank of Toronto to meet current expenses until taxes are colâ€" lected was passed by council Monâ€" ilay night. A Court of Revision to examine and aathorize revisions of assessâ€" ments on business and income taxes as provided for under Ontario staâ€" tutes will be composed of Mayor Mcâ€" Kersie. Rceve Heer, Deputy Reeve Ratz and> Ald. Wells. SET FLANKAGE RATES Flankage rates for oiling will be the same as for paving, council de cided Monday night. with a 25 per cent exemption on one side of corâ€" ner properties. BREAKS LEG IN FALL A Kitchener women, Mrs. Somers, St. Leger St., fell on Tuesday nignt aud suffered a broken leg. Treatâ€" ment was given at the St. Mary‘s hoepital. In Kitchener court on Tuesday three transients were found guilty uf being drunk and sent to jail for thirty days. Another drunk paid a $10 fine FINED FOR CONDUCTING LOTTERY Two Waterloo men, Harvey Grai and Clarence Kueneman, gullty of conducting a lottery, were fined $10 ang costs. The latter was held pendâ€" Ing payment of fine THREE MONTHS IN JAIL Pleading guilty of theft of a diamâ€" ond ring and taking a car without the owner‘s consent. Lloyd Lehman, Waterloo, was given a three months‘ jail sentence RECORD SIZED EGGS Miss â€" Adeline Woolner, Natchez road, reporta that her prize white Leghorn hens have been making a reputation in oversized eggs and as a resault are paying dividends to the owner DRUNKS GIVEN JAIL HOLIDAY SMALL BLAZE AT FACTORY Kitchener‘s fire brigade made a quick run to the Consolidated Felt Factory on Tuesday to extinguiah a blaze in the plcking machine Little damage resaulted FAILED TO PAY FINE, JAILED Umable to pay a $10 fine for disâ€" orderly conduct. Walter Kirschel and George McKay were given a month in jail Mrea. Kirschel and Mra. Snyâ€" der, Guelph, were let go"on suspendâ€" ‘ed sentence. All were found drunk and disorderly on Benton street. TABLE ESTIMATES EARLY RETURN QUESTIONNAIRE CHEQUES RECEIVED CcoURT OF REVISION PASS ACCOUNTS TRAINING COURSE FOR THE KIDDIES NEWS THB Twin Cnt{ and district nurses have successfully obtained their nunfin’: Mildred Ahrens, Kitchener, Doris F. Allcock, Waterloo, Evalene J. Carey, Kitchener, Helen I. Hostetler, New hamburg, _ Leda H. Pequegnat, Kitchener, Marjori¢g J. Peterson, Kitchener, Katherine J. Reimer, Kitchener, Helen L. Slum:l, Waterâ€" loo, Bernice E. Woinowsky, Kitchâ€" Results of the recent examination for nurse registration in the Provâ€" ince of Ontario show the following ener Major and Mrs. G. A. Heather have returned from Toronto where they spent the holiday week with friends. Mr. and Mrs. George Poll of Kitchener spent the New Year‘s boliday in St. Agatha. _ Mrs. Charles Hazelton, St. Clair, Mich., is a visitor at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Hannusch, York street, who is ill. CONFERENCE Rev. K. A. Kreisel, pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran Church, Waterâ€" loo, and Rev. F. Malinsky, Elmira, president of the Ontario District of i(the Missouri Synod, were in Londo.n Mrs. Gordon Hamblin, Pandora avenue, entertained members of the C. C. Club at her home Monday night in honor of the birthday of one of the members, Mrs. Kenneth Rabb. A poem, appropriate to the birthday celebration, was read by Mr. Gordon Hamblin, followed by a presentation to Mrs. Rabb. Lunâ€" cheon was served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doyle and Mr. Fred Desinger, all of Niagara AFlAl‘]l, f\&i â€"‘;eâ€";'e-ufn;ha;yfix'uela at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reitzel, Allan street, Waterloo. FURNITURE TRAVELLER DEAD L. Charlevois, of Montreal, well known throughout Ontario and this district, died this week. He repreâ€" sented the Beaver Furniture Co. of Kitchener BIBLE STUDENTS GIVE TALK Students of the Moody Bible Institute on Monday night gave a talk to the members of the Young People‘s Society of the Waterloo First Baptist Church. The Light Brigade of the St. John‘s Lutheran Church received six new â€" members _ at Monday‘s meeting. Ruth Rueffer presided. PASTORS AT LONDON drunkenness on Tuésday'a‘;ladnw,edhiésfliy attendâ€" ing a district conference. FINES TOTAL $176 According to Chief of Police Moreau‘s report given at the counâ€" vil meeting, fines and costs for last month totalled $176.00.â€" There were seven â€" arrests, the majority for W ATERLOO MAN REMANDED Sentence was deferred for one week wher Ployd Lehman, Waterl00, pleaded guilty to theft of a diamond ving and taking a car without ownâ€" e~‘s permission. NEW MEMBERS FOR BRIGADE vETERAN MEMBER OF Conrail Huenergard, 33 Young St., Waterloo. with his appointment to the Library board for another term, by the council this week enters upon bis 31st year as a member of the board. a very creditable record of service. $200 Fine Levied on Reckless Driver TILLSONBURG, Jan. 6.â€"Magisâ€" trate McCrimmon in regular court here, in a deferred decision proâ€" rounced John Graham, of Ottervil‘e, guilty of reckless driving and imâ€" posed a fine of $200 and costs totalâ€" ing $63.85. and suspended his driâ€" ver‘s permit for six months, Graham was arrested in ‘Tillsonâ€" burg on July 21 last after Mr. and \irs. A. Syentisi and Anthone Vos3 were kiled in a collision with Graâ€" hum‘s car, north 0; tne tOwn. ura h:m at that time, was charged with manslaughter, which was later reâ€" @uced to criminal negligence and |agnln reduced to reckless driving. Shooting Dea}l_l GUELPH, Jan. 5.â€"A verdict of ; rccidental death was returned by a coroner‘s jury at an inquest into the death of Howard Kellington, 21â€" yearâ€"old farm hand, fatally wounded by a stray shot on the Harris farm near Rockwood on December 27. The jury brought in a recommendaâ€" tion that all holders of gun licenses be 21 years of age or over. Charles Shuiltis, 17, and Edwin Watson, 26, who were shooting rabâ€" bits on the farm at the time of the fatality, were the chief witnesses. Shultis told of firing a shot at a rabbit toward the top of a hill where Kellignton was loading wood. The hunters were unaware of the trageâ€" dy until Watson found Kellington critically wounded. He died in the Guelph General Hospital an hour later. Four pellets from a shot gun had entered his head. _ Coroner Dr. L. M. Stewart pre sided at the inquest. Query Girls in Slaying of Man OAKFIEBLD, N.Y.. Jan. 6.â€"State Police Inspector Eugene F. Hoyt eaid Inday Iwo Buffalo girla would be questioned in connection with the sl.ying last Friday of Joseph Ottaâ€" viano. 24, Oakfield hbarber Hoyt said letters found by investiâ€" cators led authorities to a love feud theary Otfaviano was round shot to death last Friday in his bu‘letriddled car. parked near hi@ Oakfield home GIVEN 12 MONTHS JAIL FOR STEALING OVERCOAT GUELPH.â€"Ernest Acette, Toronâ€" to, was sentenced by Magistrate F. Watt in police court to 12 months in the Ontario reformatory. Acette pleaded guilty to the theft of an overcoat from a department store shortly after his release from county jail receml‘y‘. "I was cold and didn‘t know what to dd," said Acette, "the comt I had was very ar, north oi ine town. uraâ€"| PRESTON, Jan. 5. â€" Mrs. Elizaâ€"| that time, was charged with beth Reiman, 85, widow of Charles ighter, which was later re Reiman, died here today after a to criminal negligence and brief illness. With the exception of educed to reckless driving. several years in Western Canada, _ _________â€" ’glrn. ‘l'!ielmln I:lv‘ed here .%‘l‘l’i; lifef.‘ 5 urviving are three sons, William 0 Otlng Death Mu;ose J:lw‘;‘ Leonardf 'qu Los Anâ€" a geles, and Herman, of Toronto; one Held Acculental daughter, Mrs. Florence Lehman, of |Â¥{rgston H)ne si.ster,d Mrs. porot'l‘lel LPH, Jan. 5.â€"A verdict or| Heise, eston, and one~ brother, ital death was returned by aH-:::jrman Stuempfie, of Terre Haut, LIBRARY BOARD War Supplies For Chinese Troops ‘HIONG KONG, Jan. 6. â€"Completion uf a bridge linking the British and Chinese sections of the Hong Kongâ€" Canton motor road has opened the way for a considerable movement of foreign made war materials to Gen. Chiang KaiShek‘s forces in the inâ€" terior of China. This announcement followed clese iy on statements made in Tokyo toâ€" day by Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, Japanese minister of the interior, that Japan would stop Britain from aliding China even if it takes a war to do so Since the bridge was finished New Year‘s Day, long lines of trucks have moved out toward Canton carrying bombing planes of United States and lialian make. They could not be shipped by railway because single track tunnels en route to Canton are too narrow. Hundreds of Trucks Likewise, hundreds of trucks, of United States and German make, have been assembled here, and then driven to the interior ‘Besides smaller shipments of exâ€" plosives arriving almost daily from Europe, it was disclosed today the liner, Conte Verde, last week brought 1,400 iqns of aerial ‘bombs from lialy which were transported by rail to Canton. One hundred thousands barre‘s of oil arrived from the Pacific Coast of the United States within the last 10 Cuys and were shipped to Canton. "Drys" Win Three Of Four Contest Much Interest Taken in Efforts The ~drys" were victorious in three out of four Western Ontario municipalities voting on beer and liquor plebiscites this week. In the fourth the race was so close there may be a recount. Blemnheim, Oil Springs and Highâ€" gate voted to stay dry. In Petrolia, «fiicia‘s said the result was so close they may count the ballots over again. The liquor question brought out heavy votes in Petrolia and Blenâ€" beim where the "wets" and the "drys" staged a real oldâ€"time camâ€" paign. Blenheim has been dry for 25 years. Interest in the voting was whipped up by two committees that brought out the largest vote polled in the town in many years. The Citizens‘ Committee for Govâ€" erument control worked hard to get out the "wet" votes, while the Loâ€" cal Option Committee worked on the "drys". In local option municipalities that were dry, the "wets" needed a twoâ€" thirds vote to win. At Blenheim 623 voted in favor of the sale of beer and wine, and 427 against it. The "wets" lacked the twoâ€"thirds vote by seven ba‘lots and lost the battle. At Petrolia the vote was on the establishment of a liquor store. After a spirited campaign, 761 voted for the store and 513 against it Again the twoâ€"thirds vote was lacking, but the "wets" said there might be a recount because the race was so close. At Oil Springs the e‘ectors turned the beer and wine question down by a vote of 136 against and 85 in favor. â€" At l-rlilgihrg'at; the vote was 162 azainst beer and wine, and 85 in faâ€" vor. Preston Woman Dies; Aged 85 Years Safeâ€"Breakers Caught in Act TORONTO.â€"Police, tipped off a‘ robbery was planned, watched two men hack at tge vault in the Mutual Street â€" Arena early Wednesday. Four police fired seven shots into the air before they arrested Paul Gadway, 24, and Thomas McGrath, 27, both of Toronto, and charged them with shopâ€"breaking, having burglars‘ too}s and attempted safeâ€" cracking. â€" ; and Germany Shl& M Equipment to War Gadway collapsed, police said, when he was told the vault was empty. He had previously said he expected to find about $12,000 there. It was stated, however, that receipts _ from _ the _ Armstrongâ€" Quintana fight that night were only about $3,000 and even this was not in the vault. SALESMAN IS SLUGGED AND ROBBED IN TORONTO TORONTO.â€"Bruised and bleedâ€" ing, his face badly battered, Tudo O. Roberts, 44, dragged himself into a waterfront office early Wednesâ€" day. Later at hospital he told deâ€" tectives he had been beaten by three thugs, who drove him for hours about the city and robbed him of $4, wrist watch and fountain pen HAMILTON.â€"A link with early days in Hamilton was broken Wedâ€" nesday by the death of Mrs. Wilâ€" liam Geddes, 97. She had been ill for about a month and was the widow of William Geddes. CHRONICLE CLASSIFIEDS of "Wets" to Repeal DIES AT 97 BO MUCH. BRING THESE DICTATORS AND OUR EMPIRE By Ciaris Edwin Siloox in. Since ltaly and Germany are now both out of the League of Nations or on their way out, and since Britain, Prance and Russia still render lipâ€" sorvice to Geneva, London is for the time being in the Parisâ€"Moscow axis, but the Rothermere press and the Angloâ€"German fe‘lowship are leaving no stone unturned to create a Berlinâ€" London axis. Their propaganda faâ€" vors the jettison of the League of Nations, the return to a system of alliances based on natlonal interests, the safeguarding of the lines of emâ€" pire by an agreement whereby Gerâ€" many will be given a free hand in Eastern Euruope if she will leave us alon& on the high seas, and a recogâ€" i‘tion of Realpolitik as opposed to Wilsonian idealism. This may or may not be the best policy, but to convince Britain, democratic as she is, that it is, will tax the Rothermere iesources to the limit. It also means that the people of the United Kingâ€" dom must forsake France and Russia and throw in their lot with the dicâ€" tators, and if Britain does this, what will the Dominions say? 1 Know These Dictators: by G. Ward Price. (Toronto: Oxford Press) Price, §2.15 We have heard much of the Romeâ€" Rerlin axis and much of the Paris Moscow axis. Sometimes we have wondered just where London came As Mr. Hillson‘s book bears the sulrtitle "A Plea for AngloGerman Friendship",. he does not disguise bis partison approach to the whole matter, althoughâ€"and perhaps this is typically Englishâ€"he completely ignores what the Dominions may think about his scheme. He miniâ€" mizes the importance of such probâ€" liems as Hitler‘s cruel treatment of the Jews and seems quite unfamiliar iwnh the more subtle factors in the epposition of both Catholic and Evanâ€" gelical churches to the Hitler regime. I1. general, he admires everything that Hitler‘s government has done wund compares their achievements with the meagre efforts of the Unitâ€" «d Kingdom to act with equal effectâ€" iveness. Undoubtediy, the Hiter regime, like the Communist regime in Russia, lhes worked some miracles, and we ieed to understand its good points and to study its succeess dispassionâ€" aiely. We can therefore learn a great ddral in this book if we read it criticâ€" ally and not be carried away by the author‘s . prejudices. Perhaps. the best chapter is that on "The Total State" in which he attributes the reâ€" sarrection of Germany to the "comâ€" bination of economic methods with secial serveie."" In Canada, our gov~‘ ernments vacillate between economic methods of creating wealth and alâ€" leged social service methods of dissiâ€" pating wealth, and it often seems that more attention is devoted to wealthâ€"dissipation than to wealthâ€" creation. Only as we see the prob ‘cm of relief in relation to the quesâ€" tion of wealthâ€"creation and take stops to safeguard the wealth already acâ€" ciamulated and to circumvent borâ€" rible losses in the future through forestâ€"fires, landâ€"erosion, etc., will we be able to approximate under our system of freedom what the dicâ€" tatorial regimes have apparently sucâ€" coeded in doing at the price of freeâ€" |dnmA Mr. Hillson is obviously and bitâ€" terly antiâ€"French, and if a Borlinâ€" London axis is to be prevented, the Paris government will do well to enâ€" courage a little more understanding of British problems among the French people, for there is some truth in the author‘s statement that "whenever the British government Ixgins to think of the British people: 11 the expense of the French, the French press rises in fury and acâ€" cuses us of the basest treachery". Certainly, the main purpose of the British government is not to protect France. and if France does not learn to understand that fact, she may force Britain directly into the arms cf Germany. In this connection, it riust be remembered that Britons have perhaps more in common with Gormans than with the French, alâ€" though, on the other hand. France and Britain. being both ‘imperial" powers, may inevitably be bound more closely together against the enâ€" |x-mm‘hmf-n|s of "hungry" nations Speak of Germany: by Norman Hillson (Toronto Mussons) . Price. $3.50 G. Ward Price is a special corres: | London township last night after pondent of the LONDON DAILY | Melvin Bradley. service station atâ€" MAIL and a loyal devotee of the|tendant at St. Johns, was slugged Rothermore press. He knows and ‘over the head by one of the pair vdmires both Hit‘er and MussonnlA} The thieves, with replenished gaâ€" The best thing about the boO0k is |soline supply obtained from the man that it is a corrective of the th(‘sisfn.p_\- attacked. sped back toward the that these. dictators are megal0â€"}«ity and the stolen car was later mwaniaes. egoists and fanafics. INâ€"{found abandoned on King street. ¢ved. he finds them intensely gentle, Mr. Bradley suffered a severe head amiable and human Much in the | wound that required several stitches L:ves of these two men is comparâ€"|to close. He was not knocked unâ€" ahle. Both were born in relative POâ€" conscious by the blow and obtained virty and knew its bitterness; both llh(‘ license number of the car served in the war; both were woundâ€" | â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" «d on active service; both served | STEAL RUGS FROM CARS terms in prison for political nf~' se fences; both love imusic; both are Motorists altending the First Menâ€" oo ators and know how to sway hngP‘uwnim Church, _ Kitchener, _ report '. owids io frantic devotion with Im-[mat thieves have stolen rugs and j saioned, even theatrical appeal; \esher articles while cars are parked buth are adored by their suwbjects; |in the adjoining sheds. Police Chief both are practically totalâ€"abstainers,. Hodgson is investigating A Woeekly Feature furnished by the Associntion of Canadian Bookmen and the Canadian Woekly Newepapers Association Take Advantage of These Clubbing Offers Now ! Chronicle Chronicle Chronicle Chronicle Chromicle Chronicle Speak of Germany Know These Dictators Rising costs of newsprint have forced the increases and Toronto Globe and Mail and Toronto Evening Telegram and London Free Press and Toronto Daily Star and Farmers‘ Advocate and Family Herald and Weekly Star THAT MATTER noted above !Illtll limiting his induigence in wine to siateâ€"dinners when boresome speeches have to be offset some way ; both are nonwimokers and Hitler cannot abide the smell of tobsace®; ‘both are frugal in their meals, Mussoâ€" lini sipping only a glass of milk for breakfast and abstaining from both te« and coffee; both are thoroughly consistent with their own avowed privciphes. . To be sure, there are some differences as well. Hitler is a true Germanâ€"dreamy, mystical, inâ€" tuitiveâ€"who cannot refer to some of his ea@rly struggles without tears coming to his eyes; Mussolini on the eontrary, is a true Latin with tlashing, twinkling eyes and a dash of saving cynicism, less mystical and more oldly and ruthlessly loâ€" gical. The one is the more suwbjecâ€" tive; the other the more objective. Both, however, believe in their stars and do not fear assassination. They expect to die in their beds What is more importantâ€"both have challenged democracy and done »way with the crudities of the multiâ€" purty system which is the bane of cemocracy. Mr. Ward Price, howâ€" ever, sneers openly at the futilities of democracy and â€" quotes . Lloyd Ceorge: "the dictators act while the democratic leaders fumble"; again, "the difference between Germany and the democratic countries is like that between a professional and an @amateur football side. The amateurs can please themselves; but the proâ€" fessionals have the satisfaction of playing better football". Agmin, to use the words of Mussolini "fasciam has abolished the game of Parliaâ€" mentary chess; it has simplified the taxation system and reduced the deâ€" ficit to â€" measurable proportions". While Mr. Ward Price is glad that democratic Britain allows the Rothâ€" ermere press to speak its mind freeâ€" ly in praise of dictators, he appears to favor the subservience of the press to governmental policy instead of the practice of democratic counâ€" tries where a large part of the press has moved in the opposite direction. I1stead of putting national moveâ€" ments first, "its outlook on public affairs is dominated by a set of vague and visionary principles". Mr Aberhart might approve Mr. Ward Price gives much more space to Hitler than to Mussolini and this is probably due to the larger amount of material available in Hitâ€" ler‘s autobiography and also ‘because lis primary concern is with Angloâ€" German friendship which, he says. "is the key to the European situaâ€" tion". No one objects to AngloGerâ€" man friendship if it is not based mere‘ly on the author‘s fundamental abhorrence of communism, his conâ€" tempt for democracy and the ideals of collective security. his addiction to â€" nationalism, imperialism â€" and Realpolitik, his incurably European uind which views the lesser breeds with contempt, and his opposition to the set of idealistic principles which he designates as "vague and lvisionary"_ Perhaps, his policy may win the day, but one wonders if it is worth the possible price of the disintegration of the British Empire and the collapse of all possibility of Angloâ€"American understanding. Si. tain may have to choose, and Rothâ€" ermere et alii will do well to widen their vision ‘beyond Europe to the New World and the Far East. Press Freedom Is Court Issue OTTAWA, Jan. 6.â€"Freedom of the press is a fundamental right of de mocratic citizenship which must be vniform throughout Canada, accordâ€" ing to one of the arguments submitâ€" ted to the Supreme Court of Canada in a factum on behalf of the Alberta newspapers for next week‘s referâ€" ence on the validity of Alberta‘s press bill. The factum, presented by Hon. J. L. Ralston, counsel for the Alberta daily and weekly newspapers, arâ€" gues the "act to ensure the publicaâ€" tion of accurate news and informaâ€" tron". passed at the recent session of the Alberta Legislature is unâ€" rinion Parliament‘s sphere of legisâ€" ccnstitutional and includes the Doâ€" lation. Assent to the measure was reserved _ by _ Licutenantâ€"Governer |bowen, Car Thieves Slug | Man and Escape LONDON. Jan. 6.â€"Two motor ear thieves travelling in a stolen car. escaped a police dragnet spread in London township last night after Melvin Bradley. service station atâ€" tendant at St. Johns, was slugged over the head by one of the pair Mr. Bradley suffered a severe head wound that required several stitches to close. He was not knocked unâ€" conscions by the blow and obtained the license number of the car Per Year $7.175 7.178 7.15 6.75 2.175