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Costs Of Living In Canada Down By One Percent Jn Past 11.-Month Period -- Higher Rents, Lower Food And Fuel Costs. aio The 'cost of living has decreas- ed in the Dominion by a little more than one per cent. in the past eleven months, These differences are indicated fo the monthly report of the Do- : "minion-Départment of Dgbor, on "the costs. of a list of ite taken to be'a standard wéekly budget. The statement shows that this standard budget would have cost in the Dominion as a whole, $17.17 at the beginning of this year as compared with 21 cents more 11 months ago. Rents, on the one hand, show an increase which more than counter-< balances lower food and fuel costs, On January-1 of this year. they averaged $6.75 a week;-which sum is 63 cents a week--or bet- ter than 10 per cent. higher than on February 1, 1038, _Surgeon-M.P. Passes On: SRE KEW CT 4 ol EE 44 an -- Trade Decline foodstuffs. Seriously injured in-a motor ac- cident, while campaigning for re- election to the House of Commons in 1935, Dr, J. W. Rutherford, 'M.D, for Kent and widely known surgeon of Chatham, Ont., died - recently. Dr. Rutherford» spent 'montls in the hospital following the accident, in which he suffered a fracture in the region of the neck, and from which he never fully recovered. e Reich Suffers EE 12 Per Cent. Reduction In Ex- - ports From Csiang Shel For January. ral --sell-out-to-take-place: ones LY ¥) sd L 6] AS 2% wo Xr lvgt whdininin Parade By Elizabeth Eedy SPRING IS COMING: It may not even be in the air yet, but we know it's just around the corner. Premier Hepburn has returned from the south, The robins will be next. LJ . THE "ARM REARS OUT: "An unimportant-looking little despatch in the daily newspapers. last week | =: "mentioned that German-born resi dents of the Province of Alberta, of military. pge, are being asked by the German Governmént to relurn to Germany at once under threat <ot reprisals against relatives In "the Fatherland", Can the Canadian Government do nothing about this sort of thing? Or has such a net of terror been thrown 'around our German-born citizens that they dare not speak? We know of one German woman, resident here for a dozen years, who just looks at you dumbly and. shakes her head if you ask any questions about Germany, the. plight of her relatives there; or her opinion of the Nazi regime, * * . PROMISSORY NOTES: _ Vincent __Sheean, noted American-author-and--{-- foreign correspondent, who has just returned from the European scene, says that if Premier Mussolini de- clares that the Italians will leave | Spain when victory comes, he means only the. Italian -infantry will get out. Mr, Sheean explains that Franco owes Mussolini $2,000, 000,000 or $3,000,000,000 in promis- sory notes, and that Italy will be in a position to demand a military alliance to cut France's life line to her cotonies in Africa. "The next crisis will be-in the Mediterranean between France and Italy, possibly. in Tunisia." , * * * SQUEEZE-PLAY: While Britain: - and 'France were rushing last week 'to accord recognition to Franco's regime, General Molesworth, head of the International Commission evacuating foreign troops from Loyalist Spain, was declaring that there' was still enough' "food in Loyalist territory to carry on tho war for another two years; enough man power to hold out indefinitely against the Nationallsts, Munitions only were lacking but the Loyalist Government, with the third largest gold reserve in the world, was un- able to buy them. First Czechoslovakia. Then Spain. It's another case of being "sold down the river". Democracy all ET EEE R=, AES $422 > 2% BE a cana ge Better Not Ty It If You Get Cold Feet Nearly 1,000 skiers swarmed down on Huntsville, Ont., as the northern 1 summer resort officially opened its 1,600 acres of These two pretty lassies brought their bathing suits out of moth balls for the occasion and reported that they "Were not cold n-case-you-should-adopt-the idea for your own ski- -ing expe- blame us if you don't fee: as comfortable as these two Ontario winter and trails and jumps, --much "ditions don't lassies look. Vaccination Introduced By Englishwoman Turks Had Practised It For Centuries--Dr. Jenner Per- fected The Process. Who discovered vaccination? Nine out of ten people would prod- ably say it was Edward Jenner, but actually he only perfected the process and overcame the supersti- tion and narrowness gf outlook that had for a half-a-century prevented It from taking an invaluable part in preserving the health of the community. The practise had been known to the Turks, probably for i centuries, but It was a woman who introduced {it into England, about half-a-century h2fare Jenner per- fected the process. At the timo of her discovery, one . of the most jmportant inh medical' history, Lady Montague was living at the British Embassy in Constan- tinople, where her husband Amb: was . PUCK ~ CHASERS NEWS OF O.H.A. DOINGS "CANADIAN AMATEUR HOCKEY There Is going to bo a real old. » fashioned dog fight among the senior championship teams of East- cern Canada before a winner is de-. clared for the grand final wind-up of senior liockey [in the Allan Cup series, No doubt the fact that this year's. winner qualifies = for the Olympic games of next winter has - had much to do with the general strengthening of the senior hockey situation in Eistern Canada, L] . . "Two Ontario teams playing in Quebec leagues may cause the big- gest upset of all, The famous Corn- wall Flyers, who won the Eastern Canadian Senior championship last season and went into"the Allan Cup finals against the Trall Smoke Eat- . ers, are leaders in the Quebee Pro- vincial League, having completed _their regular season with a com- "mend: able margin over the.rest of th iy if: TisT; ~daya-oa--the~ Temir~ Concession "final play-off series VOICE OF THE PRESS WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Now Is some confounded partisan going to ask Hon, lan Mackenzie what the Bren gun looks like? -- Hamilton Spectator, p= "WHEN SNOW WAS WELCOMED It cost Detroit §70,000 "0 remove the snowfall of one week, In our heavy snowfall was considered a splendid co °ring for the winter wheat, and also good for the clover. ---P Bterboiiieh Examiner, SNE Q NOT INSOLUBLE With more ca:3 on the roads On- tarlo had '451 fewer motor acdl- dents In 1938 than in 1937, 135 fewer persons killed, 607 fewer in- Jured. It is not great progress, but it Is something, and. shows the problem 1s not insoluble.--Ottawa -Journal, --q-- FOR WOMEN ONLY This is to be the season of frilly blouses and here and now it must be stated that it's about time, For it there Is auything that will turn tho attention of the adult popula: "--tot-away- from the grim and sorry [~ business of wars abroad and politi "cal difficulties at home, it is a gay and lacy blouse.- Dally =Timmins Press. » E ir FOR SIX CENTS A WEEK There are 2,000,000 workers in the United Kingdom who pay six cents a week to provide hospital" treatment for themselves, it and when needed. for hospitalization has reached $30, 000,000, What a. blessing alike to patients as well as hospital auth; orities such a system would be for this province? And there is a le- Het that it will come to that some day.--St. Catharines Standard. ------ HAZARDS IN HOTEL BUSINESS I, is not edsy to make money in the hotel business, Even the own- ers of more modest hostelries have been unable to show very encounrag- ing returns. They must maintain es- tablishments for a sort ot hit-and- run patronage and-are never sure whether they are going to encount- winning 16 games and playing five overtime tles, are engaged in with the Men of Oshawa. a im- proved G.M. of the final best-out-of- by n=3-t-store. over the world will _--suffer im- measurably for having allowed the During one of her Journeys about tho country Lady Mary saw an = I---etreutts Like--everybody 'the Cornwall Flyers are engaged In. their league play-offs.. They lost * Ld * FIVE CENTS A WEEK: There's no denying it, we've been_ getting good entertainment out of the C.B.C.'s new radio programs, Typl- cally Canadian material, attractive Germany's foreign trade shrank - sharply in January--the month at. the end- of which" Chancellor Hit ler told the Reichstag "we must export or die." Official figures made public, Te- . cently showed German - exports dropped 12 per cent., chiefly in in- dustrial products, "and imports sagged 13 per cent. compared to the previous month. The import decrease was chiefly in vegetable "Trom Décember to January the adveyse "balance of . « a 1,000 Pelts Disposed Of imports increased 'by 31,038,000 marks (about $12,100,000.) "Export or Die" Since Hitler spoke Nazi propa- gandists' have been engaged in a vigorous nation wide drive to stimulate exports by reminding anufacturers "of 'their 'national uty" to sell abroad. Not long - baclrelors and spinsters? Answer: of married couples, ething we've never had be- fore, Why kick at paying a nickel a week for a radio license when we're taxed that much: for every packet of cigarettes we smoke? .. * * » THE WEEK'S QUESTION: How does the new income tax in Ger- many affect . childless. couples, Bachelors and spinsters begin pay- ing tax at a $386.40 annual income. The amount of tax on that income is about $3.60; 45% of the income | childless for. five years, can be taken up by the state, even though their income be only $720 a year, Finds Br, ngo-- Walther Funk, Minister of --Economits, threatened to penalize those who neglected spportanities 110 export. Ontario Sells Beaver Pelts $20,000 Received For Furs . Seized From Traders ° By Province Deputy-Minister D. J. Taylor of the Ontario Department of Game , and Fisheries announced this week that approximately $20,000 worth of confiscated furs have been sold by the department by public ten- er, : Half of this amount came trom *sking illegally taken from the Sud bury-Long Laé¢ area last sumnier by J. I. Glick and confederates. Glick, whose alleged efforts to run a large consignment of furs into Quebec Province by airplane, was a feature of .the department's 1938 war on illicit fur traders, is serving a reformatory sentence, There were more than 1,000 _ beaver pelts: in. the. sales, Mr, Taylor said, some of them bring- Ing as much as $27, It is illegal 0 hunt beaver although & short eason might have been permitted last year but for illicit Bunting. A short season might be permi ted, however, this year, he sald. Raising of horses is being re- vived in Latvia. --af holding up a St. Thomas butch." Resembles Thug | pivareFromes London Man Feels His Face Grow Red In Police . Line-Up One London (Ont.) reporter went around with the red face while authorities cast glances -of sug. 'pleion 'at. him, After two London men had been arrested on charges er shop, a man and:-a' woman came to London from Woodstock and asked tolook, at the prisoners. The Woodstock couplg had been held up two weeks ago and thought the London pair might have been the bandits. . Looked. Like Bandit: There were not many prisoners in the police cells at the time go authorities asked a group of re porters and a photographer to stand in line with the two prison- ers, When the newspaper men and the two prisoners were placed in a line along the. wall at the police station, the Woodstock couple wére brought into the room. The woman was immediately attracted by the looks of one dazk chap in the Mline- "up . "That one looks more like one of the bandits than any of the oth. ers," she announced, The man she pointed to was a reporter, * North York school children are "Vigger than their Ontario parents were, says H, M, Brownlee, town- ship school administrator, Desks in the lower forms have constantly: 4s %a vaplaced by Jarger ones. * babies to him. + & needle into some liquid at his Arab doctor surrounded by a group of mothers who were handing their The doctor dipped side and then jabbed it into the in- fants' arms. . Puzzled and interest- ed;-Lady Montague made inquiries, and learned-how these children were being infected with _cowpox 80 that they should be free from the -danger of small-pox, Arab Doctor Practised It The Ambassador's wire knew that in those days small-pox out. breaks held a most important place among England's health problems, and she. spoke of her discovery -to the Embassy's official physician, Mr. Maltland by name, who was, of course, extremely interested. He soon discovered how the vaccine but nine games during the past sea- son and several of those setbacks camo when the team was riddled with llness and Injuries. The Fly- ers lost about elght players from-- last year's team, but to the credit of Coach Don Penniston they have done. a flue job of rebuilding. te LJ * In Ontario there are two senior teams that are likely to go Places, Right now Toronto Goodyears, who > won their regular Seénfor "A" O.H.A. schedule without a defeat, Ma! * 1 got my name in the ) paper! While Toronto Goodyears--are- fave -- = is still very much i the Petre orites to win the Senfor "A" 0. 1. Al «crown, they hardly expect to down the Oshawa opposition in Jess than five games, - LIPTONS THE TEA THAT IS NEVER INSIPID! = "experiences abroad, went overseas from Toronto. He came out of the 1914-1918 conflict wo + {tion I'he income per year To- ronto Goodyeéars won the first mune er a sellout or a washout, The automobile has had the effect of rendering the hotel trade unsteady, The travelling public has gotten away from any standard routine ot its movements. It is here today and gone tomorrow, with the result that hotel proprietors never know how many patrons to" expect. -- Wood- stock Sentinel-Réview, reeset The {BOOK SHELF} . By ELIZABETH EEDY DAYS OF OUR YEARS By Pierre van Paassen . Of all "the .bpoks written by ° foreign correspondents about their their observa. tions bt current history fn the mak- ing, this is one of the most absorb. ing. "Days of Our Years™ is the autobiography of a. man of intense feeling, acute perception, who has been on the inside of world-shaking events, eye-witness of almost -in- credible happenings, in intimate contact with the great and glamor ous figures of our age. Pierro van Paassen is a Dutch. man who came to Canada in his youth, attended Victoria University, with a profound loathing" of war and the armament-makers, a pas sionate belief In peace. After the war his work as" correspondent. took him pretty much everywhere, from Abyssinia to Spain, Francd, Germany, Syria, Palestine. R When [It comes to present-day ovents, van Paassen's interpreta- is authoritative. "The man seems to be a prophet, "Days of Our Years" ... van Paassen. . . Toronto: J. "McLeod, Limited. . . Pierre George: $3.75. California fisferies produce more Wealth than her gold mines, 'the proper position, posture, ----------i Romance Is Shorn From Movie Kiss Kissing on the screen is far from being a romantic affair, John Pitt, former screen actor and director, told members of the Ca- nadian Progress Club in Montreal last week. 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TIN 55¢ : LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher was obtained and inoculated all the. members of the Embassy, and on his return to London in 1721, four years later, he set up as a special ist in the process for the compara- tive few who believed in vacein- ation at the time. Only Newspapers bring the fiews of vital interest to you Headlines may scream of death and disaster without causing you to raise an eyebrow. But if your son gets his name in the paper-- that's real news! ) "It isn't by accident that this paper prints so many stories It's pretty easy to ruin the ef- fect of a fine picture by choosing the wrong frame. The more sim- ple, the less conspicuous the frame, the more distinctive the art itself will be. It should har- monize with the color tones and character of the room, us well as the picture itself. Exceptions to this rule are Japanese and Chinese prints, which may always be fram- ed in harmonizing lacquer, : With SEY iAterest you your neighbors. News of remote places is stated briefly and inter- preted. Local news is covered fully, because. all goad editors know that the news which inter- ests the readers niost is news about themselyes. Now _igTa" good time to learn ""more about this newspaper which is made especially for you. Just for fun ask yourself this ques- tion: How could we get along ~without newspapers? KNOW YOUR NEWSPAPER Lipton's 1b, and packages, They aro ex- {han eth for, beautiful . WONDERLAND OF 0Z . Unele "No, sald 'the, "Witard, of the Fuddle 8, most peculiar people in way?" asked Uncle Henry. "I don't know, , sympa "Who are the Fuddles anyhow," asked Aunt Em, "I can't say exactly, Aunt Em, That they are," Dorothy replied, laughing, : x ATR 4 the Wizard knows," suggested en, as the 1 am sure," sald the Wizard. rod along a pratty ple." auggested Aunt Em. "Dod-Hoo -.. - Boo- 100," walled the Kan. green lane toward Fudaiecum| garoo. "I have lost my--mi--mi--mi--Oh Henry. pose goal "had i he In . The Boo-Hoo, Boo-Hoo! "Poor thing," sald sald the Kangaroo, will fiid out when wo get there." tel ws and was crying so bite the Wizard, "she's lost her mister, It's tha Fite tears Sout ed d qwh its probably her who's. dead." "No, lief, - Why di Ive never been there," cheeks ahd trickled across th Ne tana Lw. ire no, no," sobbe angaroo, "It dant "oo-Hoo, couldnt, "But I have often heard formed a pool in lisHow. that" "I know," sald Omby Amby, "she's who are sald to be the Sas y.Hor 0 Siobped.. aor at t-thia.plt Sitio lost hor mirror." "Noj its ty---mi--mi-- ho 2 "In what Mg t an 010 or th ready Oh, Boo- Hoo," and the Kangaroo cried h, athy: "What's. the matter, anger. harder than ever, "It must be her mince hor sobs and takin ~facs to look at the "Or her milk toast," "I have lost my---fil---~mittens," Joh cried Biikina, with a cackle of re- dani: "But sce here, "sald Dorothy, "you \ or ant need. mittens this warmwenther, ~ don't I?" asked the pail, proposed Uncle getting {t out at last, you say so before." ' answered-the Kane stopping ng het paws from fer Fi ttle girt fn surprige; TT