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EPAR KG FROM 9 • • ,* THE PRESS !CANADA No "Free Hood" PouibTo How can Britain and France agree to the chief objective of the Hitler regime--a free hand in central Europe? Europe? What is meant is annexation of German sections of Czechoslovakia and Austria. France, for instance, has defensive and offensive treaties with the little Entente nations. -- Niagara Falls Review. Underpaid Teachers It is easy enough to criticize school teachers and to say some of them have not the necessary qualifications for their duties, but school teachers are human beings who must live like everyone else. And if we think so little of the duties of the teaching profession that we withhold from the members of that: profession adequate rewards for the services they perform, perform, then the responsibility is not Upon the teachers at all, but upon the whole population.--Halifax Herald, Herald, Ontario's North Premier Hepburn forecasts a far- reaching program of Northern Ontario Ontario development. "We must now turn our eyes," the head of the Government says, "to Northern Ontario and recognize its potentialities, for the hope of this province lies, to a great extent, in the North." What Mr. Hepburn says is generally generally recognized. The wealth of the North, has contributed in large measure measure to the progress of this province . for a good many years now. It is .generally recognized, also, that only a. start has been made, that the greatest greatest development lies ahead.--Windsor Daily Star. THE EMPIRE Owe Trade With India A feature of the returns for the current fiscal year is the greater trade with the Union of South Africa and with Canada. Neither Dominion enjoys enjoys any preference in the Indian market and Canada at least feels aggrieved, as she given Indian products products preferential treatment. Both the Union and Canada are in a strong position, as in most years India India exports much more to them than they send to her. In the first three months of this : year, however, Canada's Canada's exports to India were three times their value in the corresponding corresponding period of 1986 and trade between the two countries almost balances. This situation is not wholly normal, and the Canadian Government is likely to ask for trade negotiations once those in London are over.-- Calcutta Statesman, A Little Tod Far And suppose- the: theatres stopped the show every , few minutes to talk about acidity, mouth wash or auto parts.-- -Brandon: Sun. Million Accidents Ontario has had a million accidents accidents since 1915. 'There- is evidently evidently lots of field for such organization as the Safety League to work in,-- Peterborough Examiner. What Police Are For In the very existence of a revolver are potentialities of tragedy. Tens of thousands of Canadians who. now own such: weapons would be better advised to depend on police for their protection. protection. That is what police are for-- Edmonton Journal. Democracy al Bay Agglomerations of individuals throughout, the world are agitating for justice being meted out to China. There is not on record an instance of even one solitary body agitating for placidity being the policy in regard regard to Japan. It remains, therefore, for the peoples of the various nations nations to assert their wills. Recently we wrote about the Popular Front coming to Asia. By that we did not mean Communism in all its crudeness. crudeness. What we meant, and we make the explanation in view of the fact that we have been told that our policy is rather inclined toward the "red" policy, is that we stand first and foremost foremost for the pure principles of democracy, democracy, which actually means equality equality in all things national and international. international. When one .considers that, throughout the world there are millions millions of liberally-minded people, one realizes what enormous power is virtually virtually at the back of China. The causé. of -China is the cause of Democracy.--Hong Democracy.--Hong Kong News. Drop In Tehsiqgi Seen In Europe Foreign Secretary. Eden Says That There is No Immediate Danger of War in Europe Troubles Would Be. Multiplied If government, loans were made too easy to obtain, there is reason to fear that the farmer, whose present difficulties difficulties arise from too heavy a load of debt, would find before long that his troubles had been multiplied instead of being banished.--Fort William Timcs-Journal. Dangerous Pedestrians If a motorist creates a traffic, hazard hazard by pushing through stop lights, by : excessive speed and by erratic driving 1 , to an almost similar degree does tt pedestrian create a traffic hazard hazard bv disobeying traffic signals, darting darting out from, the curb, between intersections intersections and generally proceeding as though in a mental fog, If it is fair and reasonable, as it is, to punish punish a motorist for driving to the common common danger, why is it not equally fair and; reasonable to penalize a pedestrian pedestrian for walking to. the common danger? Heaven knows we would not increase the burdens of the-average man afoot, who has enough to do dodging careless drivers. But just as there is a type of hopeless motorist who needs to be disciplined, so is there a type of defiant, discourteous and reckless pedestrian who needs to be curbed.--Vancouver Sun, LONDON.---Foreign Secretary Eden last,-week-end attended a private meeting meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the House of Gommons. It. was later reported he informed members "there is no immediate danger of war in Europe." Mr. Eden, it is understood, stressed that British prestige has increased among the smaller European states because of its rearmament program and co-operation With Prance in all fields. .He. was reticent on the government's government's policy regarding the Sino-Jap- anese conflict, defining it as a "wait and watch" attitude. When the people talk of wind- burn they are talking about something something that does not exist. Scientists at New. York University found by test that wind does not produce chapping or redness of the skin, but that it merely makes the action of the sun greater by reducing the moisture moisture of the skin. Wind itself does not redden the skin, but it helps the sun db it. The ultra-violet rays of the sun cause sunburn, and these act more violently on skin that has been dried with the wind. Northern Ireland shipped nearly $960,000 worth pf flax, to the United United States in a recent month. Airplane Pilots' Asbestos Suits Will Enable . British Flyers (o .Land Biasing Ship and Escape British air pilots are to fly in fireproof fireproof clothes--•asbestos suits in which a man could sit in a petrol blaze without without serious injury. Ground fire-lighting trials with heavy asbestos suits have produced the new flying type, said to be lighter lighter than the lined flying suits now worn by R. A. F. men. The material is closely woven light asbestos. Thé/ flyer -wearing such a suit has time after catching fire in the air to land his plane and escape. In an ordinary fabric flying suit a. pilot cannot. Tests have shown that a pilot cannot, cannot, stand the heat of a real blaze in his plane for more than a.few seconds. An injured man in a fireproof suit could live some time in a crashed blazing plane until rescuers pulled him clear. The suit consists of an overall overall "teddy bear" suit, helmet, gloves and emergency visor, Government For The Conquered PEIPING.--Leaders of the provisional provisional new "Government of the Chinese Chinese Republic" were quoted by their Japanese sponsors this week as expecting expecting to be replaced soon by a for- France and Germany are importing importing old automobile tires from the United States to be made into hot water bottles The Only Country Without A BeM Venezuela Has Instead A Surplus of $30,000,000----Studies Canadian Canadian Banking Venezuela is the only country in the world without internal or external debt, according to members of the Venezuela financial mission now visiting visiting Ottawa. The mission has come to Canada in the course of a, tour embracing embracing all South America and the United States. Want Canadian Flour Its members told The Journal Venezuela Venezuela has a surplus of $80,000,000, and no income tax. Pointing out that Venezuela at, present gets Canadian flour through the United States, they suggested It might he of mutual advantage advantage if Canadian flour were to go direct to Venezuela, this country taking taking In return their coffee and chocolate. chocolate. The mission comprises Dr. Manuel. R. Egans, director of public credit; Emilio Beiner, of the Bank of Venezuela, Venezuela, and Xavier Lope Bello, fiscal agent general of banks. They have discussed banking and other matters with Graham Towers, Governor of the Bank of Canada. And banking in all its phases will be closely closely studied in the countries visited. MOST PROVINCES MAINTAIN THEIR VICE-REGAL HOUSES' When- Ontario Dropped ' Government Government House In Ciiorlev Park It Was. The Joining Small Minority Minority of Provinces In Canada. Christmas Day Programs The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Corporation Schedule For December 25th All programs will be carried over the CBS National Network. (Eastern Standard Time used throughout) throughout) 9,50 a.m.--Official opening of the Ontario Ontario Regional Transmitter, CBL. Inaugural Message from the Honourable Honourable G. D. Howe, Minister of Transport. 10.00- -The King's Message. 10.10--Continuation of Official Opening. Opening. 10.30--Music by 'the Toronto ; Symphony Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest Macmillan, and the -Mendelssohn -Mendelssohn Choir, conducted by. Dr. H. A. Friclter. 11.00 a.m.--Christmas Morning Service Service from; St. James Cathedral, Toronto, Toronto, 12.00 noon -"The Christmas Stock ing," a children's fantasy. 1.00 pm.--Special Christinas Day program program from the Vatican. 2.00 p.m.---Metropolitan Opera Company, Company, Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet." 5.00 p.m. -"Canadian Christmas," a panorama of Canadian Christmas scenes. 6.39 p.m.--"The Animals' Christmas," a talk by Dan McGowan. 8.00 p.m.--"Reindeer Christmas-," a play written by Her Excellency, Lady Tweedsmuir; from Toronto. 8.30 p.m.--"Yuletido Music"; from Vancouver. 9.00 p.m.--N.H.L. Hockey Broadcast. 10.30 p.m.--NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini conducting. 11.30 p.m.--Canadian Press News; weather forecast. Ontario joined a small minority of Canadian Provinces at the end of November when it discontinued, paying paying keep of an official residence for the Lieutenant-Governor. Premier Hepburn long has contended contended that the $25,000 spent annually annually for the maintenance of Chorley Park, could be put to some other purpose. purpose. So when Lieutenant-Governor Herbert Bruce moved out of the stately residence in Rosedale November November 30 the Ontario Government no longer maintained it as the official domicile, of the Kings representative. It may be sold. New Brunswick Has None Of the other provinces, New Brunswick Brunswick is the only one actually without without a state residence. Many years ago the Governfent House was sold to the Dominion Government and it now is used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Governor of New. Brunswick, at present Col. Murray MaeLaren, lives in his own home in St. John and rents a residence in Fredericton, the provincial provincial capital, during Legislature sessions. sessions. H's expenses are paid from interest on $50,000, the sum. obtained obtained from the Dominion for the old Government House. In Prince Edward Island, the Lieutenant-Governor pays for the upkeep upkeep of the official residence at Charlottetown. There is an arrangement, arrangement, however whereby the Government Government defrays the cost of repairing. Except for Rideau Hall, at Ottawa, the residence of the Governor-General maintained by the Dominion Governfent, Governfent, the province of Quebec maintains maintains the most lavish of the viceregal viceregal establishments. Yearly Upkeep $55,000 Quebec's Government House is at Spencer Wood, a 69-acre property on the southwestern fringe of Quebec r City. It has housed 17 Lieutenant- Governors since Confederation. Its yearly maintainance cost is about $55,000, not counting the $10,009 salary salary to the incumbent, at present Hon. E- L, Patenaude. In recent years the upkeep has gone somewhat above the $55,000 figure. The Government House at Halifax was built in 1827. Present cost r" maintenance is about $5,900 yearly paid by the Provincial administra-/ tion. Manitob!* Government House was built at a côit- O.î $125,605, and the Legislature at Winnipeg appropriates $10,000 a year for its support. Prairie Provinces Maintain Them In Alberta, about $12,000 a year is spent to maintain the Government House at Edmonton. In 1934, the Legislature passed a resolution asking asking that no further appointment be made at the end of the term of the Lieutenant-Governor in office. The resolution recommended an inquiry) into the possibility of turning the ; Government House into a sanitarium. No action has been taken as yet oh the resolution. It costs about $35,000 annually to keep British Columbia's Government j House in operation. The structure . was built in 1903. Hon. Archibald Peter McNab who receives $9,000 annually,, lives in Government House at Regina, which ; is maintained by Saskatchewan. ; t News In Brief Steel Workers Support C. I. O. PITTSBURG. ---/The Committee for Industrial Organization steel workers' convention threw its solid support last Week behind .John L. Lewis and his policies. Three separate resolutions terming Lewis "our peerless leader," praised him and his chief lieutenant, Philip Murray, for their unionization work and pledged "our fealty to the cause of the 0,1.0." Interested In Trade "Agreement WASHINGTON.--Choice of Joseph P. Kennedy lis the next American Ambassador to the Court of St. James is believed in informed circles to indicate indicate the Administration's vital interest interest in a successful trade agreement with Great Britain, -Announcement of the choice is expected to come officially officially from the White House soon. /.'Insurance Rates May Rise TORONTO. -- Sharp increases in auto accidents In Ontario the past twelve months may boost motor-insurance motor-insurance rates as high as 25 to 40 per cent., it was revealed last week by an official of the Canadian Underwriters' Association. Italian War Budget Increased ROME.--The Fascist Cabinet last Their Last Photograph For Two in Group week-end approved a. $289,986,347 war ; budget for the 1938 financial year, an/ Increase of $13,258,450, to bolste- - Premier Mussolini's defiance of wh. he calls "the threats of the democrat' cies." Of the total budget of 5,799,726,946 lire, the Cabinet voted 2,591,066,946 (about $129,553,347) to the Italian army, a figure $5,000,000 greater than the army budget for the present fiscal year. Western Mortgages REGINA.---That the Dominion Government Government appoint a corporation to take over $375,000,000 of first mo:" -'age farm indebtedness in' Westeiir~van- ada, cut it clown to the current col-, lectible level, what, ay that is, and; change the indebtedness to amortized amortized loans on a basis of 3 per cent, or less, was the proposal of the Saskatoon Saskatoon Board of Trade brief to the Do minion-Provincial Relations Commi slop last week. v ~"' "Germans Invented Christmas" BERLIN.---Christmas is a. German ; holiday exclusively and the Christians "merely borrowed it without asking j permission," the newspaper of Fueli- ; rev Adolf Hitler's elite storm troop- j ers said in assuring Germans that ! they may celebrate the holiday. [ Das Schwarze Korps, consistently * scathing in its attacks on Jews, the i>" Catholic Church and anti-Nazi Pro- f testants, told its readers that they ; may observe Christmas without being > guilty of un-German practices." Egyptian Crisis Resolved ' CAIRO.--Egypt's brief constitution- .* al crisis was believed settled this - week by a compromise between young * King Farouk and his Cabinet, ' All Pasha Maher, former Premier , and now adviser to the Monarch, and . the Cabinet reached an agreement to l reduce a "secret funds" appropria- ^ I A few sevends afier this photo wâs'made in Shanghai, two of the four Jjiitish: soldiers shown herewere killed and two wounde I A bomb tel! on their outpost, James Mafion, holding triwd, amfwil- tvere wounded " ot tln ® Ê lit! » died. J. f.c .ei.na, Ifcffc, and L, Smith, tion of $195,000 to $70,000, 'Archduke Wins Lawsuit VIENNA,--Leopold Marie Alphonse Archduke of Austria and Knight tX- the Golden Fleece of the Holy Romm Empire, has won a lawsuit again!, his mother, Archduchess Blanks, for" a weekly allowance of $25. Ho is 40. , Syrian Terroriste .Arrested JERUSALEM.---North Palestine pol- , ice reported last week they had arrested arrested 150 Syrians on charges of complicity complicity in terrorism which had caused two deaths and injuries to more than a dozen persons in the Holy Land within 24 hours. The Syrians were said to he smuggled smuggled across the Palestine border. ' Recognize Ethiopian Conquest DUBLIN.--President Bamoii de Valera Valera this week told the Dali (Parlia- ■ ment) that the Irish Free State would, conditionally recognize Italy's ' con- ! quest of Ethiopia in the near future. He said the proposed Free Stab minister to Italy would have eredeiix tlals addressed to King Vittorio 'Emanuel# as, emperor of Ethiopia.