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- mr Rn PL AD RL dor es ne SE EA Be VOICE "THE WORLD - AT LARGE of the AS i CANADA THE EMPIRE PRESS CANADA What Else Is "There? Collections of speeches by Earl Baldwin, former British Prime Min- ister, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, have been banned in Germany as "undesir- able literature." What DO the Nazis read anyway? -- Stratford Beacon- Herald, Snow as Tourist Lure Tourist organizations in all parts of the country use the snow as a lure, write eloquently of our unparalleled facilities for outdoor sports, of our outdoor Switzerlands at homo, We have sent around the world the game of hockey, and the ski almost has earned a place among our national emblems.--Ottawa Journal. Farmers' Profits In all the discussion that is ensuing {fn regard to higher milk prices, fit seems to be overlooked that the dairy farmer, as much as anyone else, is entitled to a reasonable profit upon his operation, and that, moreover, it ifs the urban manufacturer and mer- chant who benefit to a good extent from the existence of such a profit.-- Brockville Recorder and Times. Forget It! In the past, stock prices have re- flected pretty accurately business con- ditions. Today they do not. In these changing days it is foolish to make any predictions as to the future, but the outlook, for Canada at least, is so bright that our own advice is to for- get the stock market.--London Free Press. Arrest the Car The impounding of a car for three months is not a calamity when com- pared with the results- of the improp- er operation of the vehicle, There can be no valid argument against im- pounding the car of the drunken owner-driver, Nor is there much room for sympathy for the owner who has carelessly allowed his car to get into improper hands if he is denied per- mission to use it himself for three months.--Toronto Telegram. What the West Has Done Nobody would say, of course, that wheat-growing in the west of the lakes was the only reason for present-day Toronto or Montreal. There were oth- er causes for their rise, notably the flourishing mining industry, But that -- the-western expansion was one-cause, and a major one, cannot be denied by any candid person. Mr, Duplessis, who says the East cannot be saddled with the burden of the West, may reflect if he chooses, that Montreal would not be half the city it is if no wheat had been grown on these plains since 1900. --Winnipeg Free Press. Win. Over Diphtheria Among fourteen cities of Canada with population over 50,000, four had no deaths from diphtheria in 1936, four only one death, one had two, two had three and one had four. The re- maining two had 18 and 25 deaths, or together nearly three times as many ag the other twelve combined, Again among the smaller cities three have had no deaths from the disease in ten years, two each have had none in nine, eight and seven years, three none in six years and two none in five. There are many other smaller cities and towns with no fatalities for lesser per- jods. If the toxoid campaign be stead- ily continued:-and if it were extended generally to villages and rural areas, diphtheria would soon become un- known in Canada.--Kingston Whig- Standard. Pressures Up To 1,500,000 Pounds A new tool for scientific research which gives pressures up to 1,600,000 pounds a square inch has been devel- oped at the new research foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. The maximum far exceeds any pressure previously attained. The device makes available - wide fields of investigation into pressure phenomena, varying from studies of the structure of the earth 200 miles below the surface to the behaviour of nntapped energy in the interior of the atom, It has been found that atoms bend under pressure and that ordinary glass 'can be bent to a spherical cur- yature having a radius of four inches. #Too Much For Implements" OTTAWA ~ Canada's $60,000,000-a ear farm implement outlay will be Piva early consideration in the House Commons, with the report of a atliamontary commitfee forming the asis for a discussion left over from THE EMPIRE Copy the Judges Why are judges permitted to live and work till well over 80 while ordin- ary mortals are officially and very often altogether finished at 66? The reason seems to be almost entirely psychological, The judge in England fs generally appointed after 50, and can, like Tennyson's brook, go on for- ever. He naturally feels boyish and buoyant, being on the threshold of a new career, He has still the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords to look forward to. On the serene heigh's of judicial dignity, with the compla- cent consciousness of wisdom and in- fallibility which he enjoys (at least in non-appealable cases) a judge well may feel fresh and immortal. So- clety should take a leaf from the judge's book. There is a needless hur- rying on with life in modern civiliza. tion,--Times of India. Women In the War The womenfolk in China are taking their full share of responsibility in -the present Sino-Japanese conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow pen- cils, they have now taken active parts fn the front lines, and have been en- gaged in militia duties in the rear. It is even sald that some of them have actually seen service in some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai. Throughout the country, girls are petitioning the Government for enrolment into the women's fight- ing forces, but so far only those with previous military training have been drafted. But those who havé-been re- jected are trying to make themselves' useful in other ways, such as bring- ing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red Cross work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines. The former Red Army, subse- quently renamed the 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops, -- Hong-Kong News, 26-Mile Counter At British Fair 'Canada Will Be Well Represented This Spring By Exhibitors and Buyers at the British Industries Fair, A shop counter of British goods, 26 miles long, will be displayed at the London and Birmingham sections of the forthcoming British Industries Fair, February 21 to March 4. 'The total area occupied by the exhibits will be 846,000 square feet, which is well in excess of the 19387 record, the London total already being 10,- 000 square feet greater, Eight and three-quarter tons of catalogues of the -fair in nine lan- guages are now on their way to 65 countries. Show Cards in 17 Languages A new idea in London this year will be cards on many stands an- nouncing the various languages spok- en by exhibitors, The Department of Overseas Trade has already been asked for cards in 17 foreign langu- ages, including Russian, Czech, Bul- garian, Turkish and Greek. One ex- hibitor has been given a card in Es- peranto. Two firms have assistants who among them speak eight langu- ages. Canada will be well represented at the fair by exhibitors and buyers. In fact, the Dominion holds first place among Empire buyers' representa- tions. A Canadian official and com- mercial exhibit will be organized by the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in the Empire section of the fair, located on the ground floor of the Earl's Court Building. Life Span Has Increased Twelve Yea rs Since 1900 New-Born Child In In U.S. May' Ex- pect a Longer Existence Than Tes Parents Could -- Longevity Data Studied. Today a new-born child in the Unit- ed States may expect to live twleve years longer than {ts parents could have expected to live at their birth, The parents had a mean expectation of life at birth of 49.24 years in 1900, whereas the expectation of today's baby is 61.26 years. 3,964 Centenarlans We live longer than we ever did, but how much longer, we may expect to live in the future cannot be deduc- ed from the tables that statisticians have compiled, Sugh is the general conclusion reached by Harold F. Dorn statistician of the United States Pub- Plic Health Service. The census of 1930 showed that there are in the country 3,964 persons who are 100 or more years old. Dr. Dorn thinks this fs an over-statement. It is incredible that 2,647 ,of ' these centenarians should be Negroes, who comprise only ten per cent of the total popula- tion. Though the assumptions of a mod- ern life table are unreal, Dr. Dorn warns, it is possible to picture the an state of the nation's health pare our longevity with that of iour ancestors. There is reason to believe that a Roman in Nero's time had an expectation of life at birth of no more than 20 to 25 years, and possibly twice that in Northern Africa. ; "The first lite table computed from deaths and the population of specific ages exposed to death was published by Milne in 1815," says Dr, Born, And from this table, based on records in two parishes in Carlisle, England, be- tween 1779 and 1787 it seems that the average boy! or girl 'baby born about 1800 in England could expect to live 38.7 years. Importance of Disease Control What of the future? It depends on the control of such old-age diseases as cancer, diabetes, heart afflictions, kidney disorders, strokes that cripple the brain. Dr. Dorn quotes Drs.-Louis I. Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka of the 'Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to the effect that the expectation of life at birth in this country may even- tually be increased to about 70. In New Zealand the average girl at birth may even now expect to attain the age of 679 years, the average boy 65 years, Sporting Comment y KEN EDWARDS It seems that the 'champion weight, Henry Arm- strong of Los Ange- les is hard after Lou Ambers' lightweight title. The boy must 'do some 'hard slug- the lamb from more tough boys yet, how- ever, Armstrong has knocked out 27 of his 28 opponents in 1937, which isn't bad, either. Even with ail this snow and cold weather the baseball moguls are be- ginning to peep about major base- ball for 1938. They say April 18 will open the season with Athletics at Washington and Yankees at Bos- Did you know that Pedro Candioti holds the world's record for non- feather-- ging and take it on ton, closing about Oct. 2. is stop swim? Pedro swam 258 miles . in 8 ddys 16% hours. He swam down the Parana River in South 'Am- erica. To keep up his spirits a band was placed at his: disposal in an: ac- companying boat. They played until exhausted, but still old Pedro forged on alone to complete his 258th mile and snatch the world's record. So long. = Early Dominion Election? ST. CATHARINES--Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King plans to call a Dominion election next spring or aut. umn because of the split in Liberal unity between Ontario and.- Quebec and the Federal Government, Malcolm Ross, Secretary of the League for Peace and Democracy, said here at a meeting this week. Mr, King would seek a vote of confidence in his Ad- ministration and seek to unify the Provinces, he said, oy LISTEN... oil CANADA-19384 IMPERIAL TOBACCO", INSPIRING PROGRA EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT - On a National 'Coast to Coast Network ~. Revi view v } News In Rumanian 'Parliament Dissolved BUCHAREST, -- King Carol dis- solved: Parliament last week-and or- dered new elections to cnable Ru. mania~to express approval or disap- _proval of the anti-Semitic, semi-Fasc-- "ist policies of Premier Octavian Goga. "The Premier, who controls but 9 per cent of tho votes in the present Parliament, thus will have a chance to strengthen his position at the elec- tions set for March 3. New French Government PARIS. -- Camille Chautemps last week formed a new French Govern- ment composed, with two.exceptions, of members of his_ own Radical-Social- ist Party--the mgst moderate group' of the nineteen-months-old coalition of Left. parties known as the Popular Front, - Whether hig success in ending the five-day political crisis precipitated by resignation of his previous Govern- ment meant the doom of the Popular Front {itself 'was not immediately clear. It was certain, however, that support of the Communists--one of the (three main groups in the coalition : --had been discarded. 1 Urges: Closer Ties With U.S. ST. THOMAS.--Describing the sit- uation in a world supposed to be civ- {lized as having developed into a state' of international piracy rather than of international diplomacy, Premier Hep- burn told members of the St. Thomas branch of the International Assocla- tion of Machinists that it probably was time for Canadians to tie up a little more closely with the United States, forgetting imaginary boundar- ies so far as mutual protection was concerned. He would put the two na- tions in such a position that it would be advisable for any other nations, 'bent on invasion and conquest, to leave Canada andthe United States alone, Narrowly E MADRID. -- /Insurgent bombing planes, extremely active along Spain's east coast these days, narrowly missed harming a party of six Labor mem- bers of the British Parliament at Val- .encia this week. An exploding bomh damaged one of the party's automobiles during a raid on the city, but occupants escaped in. jury. ---- Prison Riot WINNIPEG,--Tear-gas bombs were used to drive unruly prisoners "from. Headingly Jail dining-room last week, Headingly is the 'Proyincial jail sit- with their ald. But it is hard to com- 'quist's dummy moves up to first vorites., Jack Benny who has held "other countries continue. to think of- ;a wobbly Europe of a shake-up in the least 'change in 'public political | Bammentaryon the Highlights of the Week's News » (3 DUMMY LEADS: Things have come. to" a pretty pass when a ventrilo- place on the list of current radio fa- the No. 1 position for the past three years may well ask, "What has h got that I haven't got?" Why, Jack, Charlie's real! AT THE FAIR: Canada has reserved 40,000 square feet of space for the 1989 World's Fair, to be held in New York, 'That-should give plenty of room and -seope for a worthwhile build-up on Canadian life, its aims and achievements, The more modern the show, the better. Let us hope there will be a minimum of mocasin- ed, befeathered Indians shown trap- ping wild creatures, and a maximum of present-day features depicted, for example, radium-mining in the North- west Territories; tobacco farming in Southern. Ontario; fishing 'in the Maritimes; airplane 'transportation' development everywhere; summer tourist activities. For after .all, it's our own fault that people of the United States and Canada as Our Lady of the Snows, a 'land given over to Eskimos, snow- shoes, bears, wolves and half-savage customs, FRENCH JIG-SAW PUZZLE: Every- body but France seemed to be wor- ried last week by the parliamentary |-* crisis in the course of which a Cab- 'inet 'resigned' and 'several high men of 'the land 'tried in vain to form a Government. | Reason other people were worried was that they feared thé outcome in France. Reason France was. not too horribly concerned over the whole af- fair: the French government system' 'is 'built' that way on purpose so that opinion is reflected in the parliament- ary setup. 'At any particular moment the government knows pretty. 'exactly just how the conntry feels, "Which" makes for. greater eventual stability than our forms of. government can ever hope to again, was urged recently by Malcolm Mor-: ley, 'English actor, playwright, pro- ducer and critic who arrived in this country 'to: adjudicate the Dominion Drama Festival, finals 'of "which. will be held in Winnipeg. "It.would bé a very big thing for the Canadian The- atre and I believe it is. coming," he said. "Russia did it and their sys- tem can be duplicated without inter. fering with or belonging to politics." The Drama Festival each year is a big step toward the development of a natiohal':theatre in 'Canada; but . suffered is tremendous. there is a long road ahead yet. "Pis. a pity that the Canadian peo- | ple 'do not display as much interest 'in the drama as they do in musical development in the Dominion. Last year in Toronto the Promenade Sym- phony drew more than 4,600 people to the Varsity Arena every Thursday | night during the summer season. Fancy the same number turning out | each week to a series of drama pre- sentations! ™~N THEIR IRISH UP: Mr. Eamon de Va- lera, Irish-Spanish head' of the goy- ernment of Eire (formerly called the Irish Free State) goes to London last week and asks Mr, Neville Chambgr- lain, head of the British government to step in and end partition in Ire- land, the division between the north and the south. Mr. Chamberlain is adamant in his position that the con- sent of Northern Ireland (Ulster to you) must first be obtained before any move is made toward reunion of the two Irish states. Deadlock results, as there is no likelihood of Lord Craigavon's Nor- -thern Ireland Government consenting to link up with Eire, Meantime Lord Craigavon dissolves the Northern Ire- land parliament, hurries on an elec- tion. It must have been getting too quiet and peaceful over there in the Em- erald Isle, Somebody had to start something. d se ALCOHOL TEST: The considerable prominence given in the press of On- tario to the war on drunken (or drinking) drivers has led to an inves- " tigation 'of methods of testing such drivers. for alcoholism, L. Joslyn Rogers, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto and Pro- vineial 'Anplyst, declares that final and conclusive evidence of the degree of alcoholic intoxication or the ab- sence of it can be determined by a .single blood test. 'Such a test may be made by distilling blood and then titrating the distillate with a di- chromate solution. But first of all, you'll have to catch your driver, er | 'STRATEGIC LOSS: The important A NATIONAL THEATRE: Establish! - ment of a National Theatre in Canada point about the capture of Teruel by the Spanish: Government army is not that the "hunger tactics," starvation methods (of :General Franco, insurg- ent commander, have been beaten out, but that the General has "lost face." . The psychological defeat he The loss of prestige may be a large contributory 'factor 'to his 'ultimate downfall, if such it is to be, ; Deserters from Franco's army re- port: that already there is uneasiness and widespread dissension in insurg- ent territory, that a rift in the ranks is. imminent. uated thirteen' miles west o Winni. peg. Official investigation into the. dis- turbance, worst in the institution's history, started when ringleaders of the rioters were confined to punish.' ment cells. They. were placed on jra- tions of bread and water, Sr -- Egyptian Royal: Wedding CAIRO, -- Bevors youthful "King Farouk I, who was 'married Thursday to the 16-year-old commoner, Safinza Zulticar, before the ceremony: receiv- ed a foreign delegation bearing wed- ding gitts, The British ambassador, Sir Miles 'W, Lampson, brought two sporting guns and a sporting outfit' sent by King George VI. Proposed 12,000 Mile Flight LONDON.--Three Royal Air Force 'planes will leave London in the near future on an attempted 12,000-mile flight 'to 'Sydney, Australia, with a #ingle stop at Singapore, the Air Min- istry announced this week, ' | | - Ror ,.,,. its igi § Jstton four onthe plo fiminary eranin, followi _ Cambridge Vanity Crew Opens Season' s Training -- or to "a 1 race with Oxford University, th ng Which the oarsmen will work out on the light bh blue. of Cambridge sends its rarsity crew out on the - "said, "back and face the music. Hall of Justice in Sacramento and Say IY Confessed Murder 'Walks Into Newspaper Office and | Reveals 'He Killed Friend: 12° Years Ago 'Timmins police last week commu nicated with authorities of Sacramen- | to, Calif, to check the story of 42- year-old Andrew Moroz, a lumber- Jack, that he killed a man more than twelve years ago in Sacramento. Moroz made what he called a "con- 'fession' in the office of the Timmins «Daily Press after saying: "I've gone to the ends of the earth since that time, but the..memory. of the thing has haunted me until I had to come and make a confession." According to the story, taken down 2 a Daily Press reporter and Police 'Chief Leo. H., Gagnon, Moroz killed a friend named Miller, Aug, 30, 1926, during: an argument. He: sald both had been 'drinking. 'Miller was shot and/ died the rext day. Travelled 30,000 Miles "My friend -and I had been drink- ing," Moroz related. "We came out of a blind pig on Second street when we began an argument." Moroz said he took a gun from his pocket: and when Miller grabbed for: it the. gun discharged. "The bullet got him right in the stomach." "I guess I've travelled about 80,- 000 miles. since that time," Moroz "But that thing has been both- ering me all the time. I want to go Wire the you'll get all the details." Cows From Cana WASHINGTON, lady United States Customs Commissioner has an- nounced that 6,762 head of, dairy cows were imported from (anada in 1937. This was 33.8 per cent. of the quota Imports of cream were 137 850 gal lons, or 9.2 per cent. of. the quota, In December, 2,610,730 pounds of white or Irish seed potatoes, amount- ing. to 6.8 per cent. of the quota, were imported, v . under the trade agreement with the | (Dominion, 3 lower than the or with and birds, be! Jom: Wirkenin of the Univer- of Rochester, reported to the ean Bayeholegical Asspciation Anti at Minneapolis. Acuity of vision is usually e ed in degree of arc, a meas i . responding to size of type yempending tu sist of 1108 BA | can be distinguished at a standard distance. . Ls Comparable to Man's Vision - Cats, ottontail rabbits, chickens, woodchucks and pigeons have a keen-**" ness of eyesight expressed by-30 sec- onds of are, a figure comparable to man's. vision. Contrasted with this the aliigator' s score is 360 minutes. Sin : with arcs, as with time, 60 seconds make a minute, this means an enormous difference in ability to distinguish find®* details. Objects must be of cousid- erable size for an alligator to notice them. Despite the excellent vision of the little wild rabbit, the white (albino) rabbit tested 'only 100 seconds. Nazi Catechism Affirms Goal Hitler's Austsian an Aim Is Declared Unaltered -- 1936 Accord Said Just a Blind VIENNA, --How the: Nazis really in- "terpret the Austro-German agreement of July, 1936, was interestingly re- vealed in-a frank 'Nazi catechism" published in the December issue of the Aufbruch, one of the jllegal Aus- trian Nazi organs, which are general. - ly printed in Germany. It states that Chancellor. Adolf Hit- fer does mot desire ithat the 'struggle Jn Austria against Chancellor Kurt :Schuschnigg cease and sees the July agreement only as a. stepping stone to Anschluss, The following are some of the questions and answers. 'Wants Struggle to Keep On LY "Does the Fuehrer desire our strug. gle to cease in view of the July. agree: ment?" : 3 "Certainly not." 3 "Has the Fuehrer any interest that p-- peace and' order should prevail under... -§ Schuschnjgg's dknout?"' . "Not the slightest." "Shall we don kid gloves, "regard Schuschnigg as" an honorable person and express loyalty to' him?" ~#No. Until every trace of him and his system has vanished, every refer- Fu" ence to Austria's German mission i A bitter irony." "Does the 11th of July mean final peace - between the two German states?' 'Never. There is only one German----- State--the Reich." "Then why did the Fuehrer make the 1936 agreement?" Wants Union With Austrian Nazls "To promote Germany's interests 'and' those of the Austrian Navi'move- ment. The Fuehrer expects National: Socialism in Austria (to attain of its own volition the unalterable goal- he hag . set before it--liberation and Anschluss." 4 It is suggesfed among loyal Aus." ° triang that, if the above misrepresents:4, Hitlers policy: toward 'Austria, it is ble 'that such - an open declara-_! ot Germany's aim, of the annex- at n-/of Austria and of; her degrada- on to "Gau No. 8" of the Third Reich 'be disowned by an authoritative statement from Berlin, Lake Huron At New Low Level Lowest In 77 Years Records For December Show The water level of the St. Lawrence! River in Montreal Harbor during Deg cember was 12 3-4 inches higher th the previous 'month and 5 1-4 I ' higher than December, 1036, fdccording 'toa report fgsned by the Mines Re- sources Department. The! water level was 160 inclies highest December (1875) since 1860, 33 inches higher than the lowest December since 1860 and 48 1-4 inches lower than the aver- age level of December for the last 77 years, Other (Lakes Lower Algo | Lake Superior was 2 3-4 inches lower than November, 6 8-4 inches higher than December, 1936, and {hrea inches higher than the average level for the past 77 years. Lake Huron was three fnchod er than November, 1-2 inch lower! mn : December last year and 30 lower than the' level for the last AT years, Lake Erie. was four fnbhes Iower that November, 7. 3-4 Inches higher than December, 193¢, and: 16 1-2 in. ches lower than the average for the past 77 years, Lake Ontario was 2 1-4 {néhes log or 'than November, 13' 8-4 ifrches high- - an'than Decomber, 1986; and eight in. ches lower than the average for the past 77 years. ; Florida has approximately 4,0 manufacturing plants, which produc 500 commodities. inches Sig