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 -s. COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. how much better satisfied you will be if you will only “make your job in- teresting.”â€"Kite Record. What Causes the Losses The losses of the Canadian Na- tional Railways are not operating losses. This year, as last year, and the year before that, the Canadian National had a net operating surplus. The loss, and the only loss, is on in- terest charges. Well, no policy of uni- fication nor of amalgamation would or could reduce a cent of the loss on interest charges. The bondholders would go on collecting their Interest. â€"Ottawa ..Tournai. CANADA The Ones To Solve It We still have the Idea that housing problems will he solved by people who want to own homes rather than by politicians who would provide themâ€"Financial Times (Montreal). Funny-â€"They Love Us! An antidote to serious pessimism over the human race is to be found in the fact that dogs and also some other animals think quite a lot of a great many of usâ€"Hamilton Specta- tor. No Jobs In The North The people of the North are warm- hearted, kind, hospitable! But the country itself Its not. The man who comes here with the idea that it will he no worse to be out of work in the North than in the South will soon find this is a mistake. For his own sake, he should have some , assurance that he can secure employment before he undertakes the hardship of the jour- ney here and the weather that will greet him on arrival. Literally thousands of men from the South, the East and the West have found, work and opportunity in the prosperous North in recent, years. But there is a limit to the power of absorption. That limit was reached some time ago. Surely it is no more than cruel to hold out false hopesâ€"to recommend a Sweepstakes ticket as a sure win.â€"Timmins Advance. Do You Like Your Work? If you do not get: any enjoyment out of your daily job, or if you do not get a “kick” out of viewing a piece of work you have done well, then you are not interested in that job, and you will not likely make a success of it. . As long as you look upon your daily toil in this way, you will always feel dissatisfied. Why not experiment? Try a month of actually showing interest in the problems and solutions of the busi- ness you are in. You will be pleas- antly surprised to note how much your outlook on life will change and where skiing begins earlier and lasts longer. Try the Mt. Tremblant Sector â€"the Kandahar, The Tasche- reau, fastest downhill terrain in Eastern Canada. 125 miles of trails. Instructor. Ski-joring behind dog teams, Skating, Hockey, Curling, Horseback Biding, Sleighing, Dog Teams and the unsurpassed hos- pitality of Gray _V__ Bocks Inn. â€"* W rite for folder. Make reseicva- lions now. SJESSeafe F. H. Wheeler, “Two Little Words” Not a right nor a line in the Brit- ish North America Act is affected by Dominion Government’s proposal to put into force unemployment insur- ance. Merely the two words are add- ed to the constitution, making it clear and definite that the problem is a na- tional one, on which all are agreed. It would certainly seem that the op- position of Alberta, New Brunswick and Quebec to thé proposed legisla- tion would be fatuous, if the opposi- tion is pressed.â€"St. Catharines Stan- dard. We’re All Getting' Them At one time the ownership of an automobile was a sign of wealth. That time is not very long ago, but it has departed definitely now. A survey of the United States and Canada has shown that automobile ownership among families with incomes of less than $30 a week is increasing at the rate of 1,000,000 annually. It is expect- ed that by 1940 two-thirds of the mo- tor cars in the two countries, or more than 15,000,000 of them, will he owned by persons in the less-than-$30 class. â€"Edmonton Journal. THE EMPIRE Guileless Censor A friend lately received a letter from her brother, resident in one of the countries now at war. He wrote: “I will not tell you about the war, as our letters are sure to be read.” Across the back of the envelope, out- side, was officially written: “You are wrong, your letters are not read,” London Times. To Stop a Stampede â-  As still higher wager, and more paid holidays make jobs in the towns more attractive in this country, so will the present drift from the land become a stampede. How to stop it? Not by saying agriculure is Important: not by extolling the charms of country life. We’ve got to help the farmer to make a job in the country as good as a job in the town. Prosperity passes agri- culture by because we do not take prosperity to the countryside. â€" Lon- don Daily Express. The etching art developed in Cen- tral Europe, north of the Alps. It is a method of picture making on metal plates, in which the lines and depressions are eaten out by acid in- stead of being gouged or scratched mechanically. B â€" D Learn the Truth About Yourselr Watch for the first Article! Analysed by An Expert Graphologist Your Handwriting Tells' AM Next week in this paper, Lawrence Hibbert, psychologist, character-analyst and lecturer, begins a series of articles on handwriting. He Will Send You a Complete Personal Analysis For 10c â€"Qâ€"-THE- ,W3 INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH EEDY New Scales Weigh The Human Breath Rochester Experts Say They Can Accomplish This Thanks to modern scientific equip- ment, it is now actually possible to weigh the human breath. Each time a person breathes, re- search specialists at the University of Rochester Medical School explain- ed, an infinitesimal drop of moisture is lost from the body. Scales now in use at Strong Memorial Hospital are so delicately balanced that it is possible to measure this loss in body weight. An “Insensible Loss” The information is put to practical use in determining the metabolism of children, valuable in treating cases of scarlet fever and pneumonia, Dr. Ern- est. Pinson, research fellow, said. The scales, known as the “Sauter balance,” were invented in Germany, Dr. Pinson said. There are only a half-dozen such in the United States today. The tests, he explained,, were con- ducted in a room kept at constant temperature, and careful graphs were maintained of the “insensible loss” re- sulting from respiration as well as from perspiration. “In an hour,” said Dr. E. S’. Adolph, pediatrician at the hospital, “the body loses about one and two-thirds ounces of water in perspiration and about ofte Arrested in Moravia, a Russian was posed for police photographs, but ev- ery plate exposed remained a blank. Offering to exchange his secret of in- visibility for freedom, he was refused. PEACE WITH ITALY: Fresh moves are under way to bring about better relations between Great Britain and Italy. Mussolini, to tell the truth, is hard-pressed for cash, having spent enormous sums in Ethiopia, and is looking for a little financial help from John Bull. Britain, apparently, will be glad to lend the money if for noth- ing else than to restore peace in the Mediterranean, but Italy first will have to comply with certain condi- tions : cease anti-British propaganda among the Arabs in the Near Blast; withdraw “volunteers” from Spain. Again there are wheels within wheels. Italy will not fulfill these re- quirements unless Britain first recog- nizes the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and consents to call the King of Italy, “Emperor”. TO RESCUE CHINA?: If a rumor that armies from Outer Mongolia, a highly insulated country between Sov- iet Siberia and China, are advancing to the aid of the Chinese armies turns out to be true, it means the be- ginning of the end for Japan. The army of Mongols is reported to num- ber 250,000 men, all mounted ; their highly mechanized equipment has come from Russia and they are skilled & in the most up-to-date military pro- cedure. Outer Mongolia is at once under the suzerainty of China and the protection of the Soviet Union, can fight in self- defense against the Japanese without involving the neutrality of Russia, The Mongol armies are in a position to make short shrift of the long-drawn- out, Japanese lines in the north of China, and to deliver body blows at the Japanese Empire. 75,000 MORE HOMES: A member of the housing commission headed by Hon. Herbert A. Bruce, Mr. David Sheppard, expert in housing problems, declared in a public address last week at Toronto that Canada needs 75,00(1 more homes. “If we don’t put the money into home construction now,” Mr. Sheppard said, “the slum prob- lem will soon reach the proportions seen in many United States cities. It will then cost us $250 a year to keep each family in the slums. We pay for our slums in increased costs of hos- pitalization, police and fire protection, social service and upkeep of mental institutions and jails,” The slum menace multiplies day by day. And it isn’t in Canada’s larger cities alone .... our smallest of towns has its disgraceful habitations, hovels. We’ll have to face the fact that something has to be done, and that right speedily. â-  New British Consols Trophy Creates Widespread Interest Among Curlers Handsome Cup Donated by Macdonald Tobacco Co. Ontario curlers from the smallest towns and clubs are being given an equal chance with their brother devotees of “besom and stane” to' win the new British Consols Trophy this year. This will be emblematical, of the Single Rink Curling championship of the Ontario Curling Association and will carry with it the right to represent Ontario in the 12th annual play- downs for the Macdonald’s Brier Tankard and the Curling Championship of the Dominion of Canada. Every one of the other Canadian provinces, and all will be represented at the Macdonald’s Brier pi ay downs which start February 28th at the Granite Club, Toronto, declares its provincial champion by the Bonspiel route. In order to pick the strongest possible rink to represent Old. Ontario in the Dominion playdowns, Ontario has been split into eight divisions. From the divisional games at Kingston, Sarnia, Midland, Toronto, Oshawa, Kitchener, Guelph and London will emerge the eight district champs. On February 23rd the group winners come to Toronto for the Ontario finals. The winner there will receive the new Trophy, presented by the Macdonald Tobacco company, the gold medals which go vvith it and the right to carry the Ontario banner into the lists for the Macdonald s Brier Tankard. Runners up will be presented with Silver medals.. Since the inauguration of the Macdonald’s Brier Tankard play in 1927, Ontario has only once won the Dominion. Championship in curling, western Canada seems to produce the annual winners. BRIDGE GOES OUT: The biggest news story to break in Canadian press circles for many years was the threat- ened collapse, and later, the actual buckling of Niagara’s famous “Honey- moon Bridge.” News photographers went to town on it, picture engravers did a land-office business, newspaper circulation figures soared. Over the week-end, too, railways and .highways carried armies of - sightseers to “X" marks the spot. While the people of Ontario sat quietly in their homes reading the evening -, paper, Hydro officials were shaking in their shoes at the prospect of an acute power . shortage which would cut off electric light service in Western Ontario and cause an unpre- cedented industrial tie-up if the plant at Queenston were any further dam- aged by the ice-jam. The Ontario Power Company plant just below the Falls was already a wreck. With the dropping of the wind and colder weather again, the danger passed and headlines stopped scream- ing at us from front pages of the dailies. Could the situation have been avoided ? No, says a well known en- gineering expert, declaring that onco an ice-jam of such magnitude collects, there is nothing you can do about it. The bridge, constructed over 40 years ago of a type of steel greatly inferior to the alloy steels used today, was generally conceded to be obsolete any way. ifgmm 'IP -MjsJraHB mm-mA IMPERIAL TOBACCO’S ' inspiring program EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT On a National Coast to Coast Network WMstEsig Ear Made Itself Heard Alter Victim Suffered Recurrent- Sneezing Attacks Physicians at Alameda County Hos- pital, California, were confounded last week by the case of Mrs. Betty Grose, 24, who fell to sneezing day after day and developed a whistling ear. While doctors studied what they called one of the strangest cases in the hospital’s records, Sterling Grose, Unemployed plasterer, led the five Grose children and neighbors in pray- ers for his wife’s recovery. Hospital attaches said sedatives gave the attractive, red-haired young matron only temporary relief. She sneezed every 20 seconds, An ear whistle, lasting about 10 seconds and occurring every three minutes, developed. Doctors said the sneezing probably . caused the whist- ling by breaking an ear drum. Millions of people have con- fidence in the blue colour that assures safe,economical, satisfactory heating.