voice canada the empire the world at large of the press canada forgotten hero among the forgotten heroes is the stork in the millar will derby ham ilton spectator or grapefruit an exchange points out that the trouble with too many ambitious men in the public eye is that they are in the public eye like a cinder cal gary herald undisturbed canadas gold nickel copper and lead mines are yielding more than ever before in our history evidently havent heard the tales of the ticker- tapes ottawa journal absolutely essential unless a larger spirit of goodwill is built up between the provinces of canada this dominion is certain to face troubled times it should not be difficult for any provincial govern ment to achieve at least a measure of understanding of the viewpoints and problems of other provinces af ter all it is very doubtful if the peo ple of any province as individuals harbor illwill toward their fellow canadians who happen to live in other parts of the dominion edmonton journal no holiday for death the shadow of ontarios traffic toll over christmas had been deepening in repeated- warning that it would be an- alarming one it was an alarming one more people were killed in the province than in the state of new york an appalling number injured that is one of the most sinister ele ments in this neverending tragedy of the roads it is worked out like a business chart the shattered lives and sorrow that follow in its wake are down now to a numerical proposition ills a chilling commentary on care lessness and negligence hamilton spectator rights of the people it is well for the people to remem ber always that the freedom of the press is not a privilege enjoyed by owners publishers and editors of newspapers tor their own exclusive use and advantage as a matter of fact the press has no special privilege before the law freedom of the press was granted not to newspapers but to the people without it democracy cannot function newspapers may be irked at suppression ot news but it is the people who are injured when a right is enjoined the people who are slat off from facts about their gov ernments or news of nations or peo ples are the principal sufferers brandon sun canadas tack in 1938 make canada one nation that is canadas job of the year it is a job to which every citizen must put his hand to leavoit to selfish narrowmind ed provincial politicians of the type that have been particularly vocal in recent weeks is to jeopardize our fu ture as a nation tho job will require a modernized constitution it will require the best wisdom and judgment the rowell commission can bring to bear on our complex financial and taxation puzzles it will require elimination of over lapping services and of tho vexatious confusion and waste that bavo crept into our governmental system since 1sg7 it will require encouragement of every unifying force such as our na tional publications above all it will require tho active cooperation of nil canadians who be lieve canada should go forward as one nation and who are prepared to mako sacrifices if necessary to achieve this end this is canadas job for ims to ronto financial post war diet kills madrid elephant pancho tho retlro park zoo olo- phant who thrilled generations of madrid children died last week a war casualty pancho ill for months from under nourishment died in his bnowflllcd pen without having tasted a peanut or any tidbit except coarso black bread for 17 months what is left of tho fat of his body will be converted into grease for war purposes the bungling oversentlmontal or wilful handling of tho parolo problem still remains one of the greatost dis graces america has evor knwon bdptr hooyer x0 the empire loves autopsy the acting chairman ot the aus tralian wine board has asserted that lack of knowledge ot cooking is per haps the most proline cause of divorce the statement is provocative in this compressed form but when it i3 ex panded it sounds quite feasible bad cooking means bad indigestion bad indigestion means bad temper bad temper leads to the death ot love so the autopsy reveals that love died of wounds inflicted by a a blunt in strument such as a fryingpan and b a shart instrument such as a can- opener but bad cooking does not al ways lead to divorce many a husband proves longsuffering in more senses than one although he speedily learns that his lass with a delicate air is also a lass with a delicatessen flair he forgives her melbourne argus stimulating migration for some years british migration to australia was in the doldrums in fact the flow of migration ran back ward with a loss to australia of near ly 30000 people of british stock dur ing the period 193036 now the tide has turned at last and the flow is in the normal direction outwards from britain to this country in tho nine months ended in september ot last year our population gained 117 peo ple by migration for the same period this year the gain was 2438 a rapid and gratifying increase which is also a natural indication ot the change from depression to economic recovery with better conditions too there has been a recent psychological change in the attitude to migration both here and in great britain it is felt and felt rightly that the time has come when pracical plans for stimulating british migration should be worked out and put into action sydney australia herald lawyers offer services free four young winnipeg lawyers have been appointed to hear inquiries from those unable to pay persons unable to pay for legal ad vice will be assisted by a social ser vice to be set up in winnipeg and to be known as the needy persons ad vising centre r b maclnnes of the law society ot manitoba announced the new ser vice being sponsored by the society it will be carried on for a year in the winnipeg judicial area after which decision will be made as to whether the service should branch into all judicial districts of manitoba meet for consultation mr maclnnes said a committee of four young lawyers has been appoint ed by the society to hear inquiries from those unable to pay for legal advice this committeo will meet regularly in the law courts where consultations will take place without fee payments after hearing the cases and making necessary inquiries the committeo will mako recommendations to a cer tificateissuing committee and a gen- oral chairman for final decision the general chairman i3 john kelly and the certificateissuing committee in cludes r m maclnnes e g phipps baker and w p fillmore no criminal cases if the certificateissuing committee considers the cases within their juris diction and they point to a possible successful verdict their recommenda tion is passed on to the general chair man who supervises the operations of the agency mr maclnnes said tho law society would stress the duty of every prac tising lawyer in giving his services free cases outside tho scope of tho service would include slander libel small debts cases against the debt ad justment hoard or any other such boards and appeals to the court of appeal unless the committeo decided there had been a miscarriage of jus tice and considered an appeal justi fied the agency will not touch criminal cases as the government supplied a lawyer when the plaintiff or accused was without means await new japanese moves london with the sessions of tho japaneso imperial conference the fareast situation is believed hero to be entering a now and more danger ous phaso it is recognized thnt jap anese strategy continues to bo direct ed against tho western powers tho decision of tho toklo conference re garding tho actual war in china being relatively meaningless it is learned that british cabinet ministers have been notified to hold themselves in readiness for an emer gency session if toklo developments follow the expected conrso and japan formally declares war on chlno transportation increases in northwest territories 8- ottawa reports important addi tions made to facilities up north daring 1937 lend and water traffic at new high transportation activity in the northwest territories reached a new high in 1937 when the four principal transportation companies using steam and dieselpowered boats carred 23- 000 tons of freight from and to wa terways alta at the end of steel the federal department of mines attjl resources reported last week in addition two main airway com panies handled 600 tons of freight and supplies and due to increased mining activity the transportation companies are looking forward to an even heavier liovement in 1938 new boats launched the report stated that an import ant addition to transportation facil ities of the northwest during the past year was launching of the diesel- powered steel boats radium queen and radium king on the mackenzie river route the tugs were built at sorel que and moved to the north in sections by rail another noteworthy development the report said was construction of an eightandahalf mile pipeline with storage tanks to overcome navigation difficulties at st charles rapids on great bear river tlvs is believed to be the worlds farthest north pipeline a fleet of tanker barges was con structed at fort smith to aid move ment of oil between wells 50 miles below fort norman and the consum ing points oil during summer months now moves on a regular schedule in the northwest tractor road built the repott said that completion of a winter tractor road from yellow- knife bay to the gordon lake area speeded up movement of heavy freight brought to yellowknife bay during the water navigation season freight and supplies are reshipped 75 miles by tractor at much cheaper rates than the former method of aer ial transportation the airline continued to play an important role in northern develop ment the report said with the num ber of planes in service in the north west last year varying from 16 to 20 operating from edmonton prince al bert and fort mcmurray indications are that this number will increase this year canada imports more us coal 2000000 tons for year is ex pectation voiced by anth racite institute exports of pennsylvania anthracite to canada in 1937 may exceed 2000- 000 tons for the first time since 1931 the anthracite institute said this week during november 1937 the export total was 232517 net tons according to dominion bureau of statistics fig ures the highest tonnage for any month since february 1931 the total for the first 11 months of 1937 was 1825199 tons and compilation of december figures was expected to push the tonnage above 2000000 a year ago pennsylvania supplied canada with 475 per cent of its anth racite but tho percentage now has in creased to 552 tho institute said tho united kingdoms anthracite ship ments to the dominion have dropped 12 per cent hitler to visit duce in spring committee starts work on plans for colorful reception plans to welcome chancellor hitler of geruany with fanfare rivalling the greeting of premier mussolini in ger many last september were discussed this week by an italian government reception committee htler will visit italy next spring returning mussolinis trip through germany the exact date has not been fixed but he is expected to ar rive in rome on may 9 secord anni versary of the proclamation of the italian empire the committee sought to arrange for hitler the most spectacular en trance possible into rome newspa pers already have urged that he leave his tran outside the city and ride ceremoniously past the coliseum the arch of constantine the basilica of masenzio the roman forum and oth er vestiges of the glory of ancient rome j news in review new jap conscription law tokio the japanese war office has called for a new conscription law to mobilize additional man power for the war in china while emperor hirochito presides over an imperial conference on the conflict the ministry of war announced that the conscription bill to be sub mitted to parliament would swell the ranks of the armies by restoring the old 24month term of service instead of the present term ot 18 months tho former term was in effect until 1927 when the conscription law was revised unemployment insurance proceeds ottawa although faced by an opposition blockade of three provin cial governments the federal admin istration will proceed with plans to provide for an unemployment insur ance measure prime minister macken zie king intimated last week follow ing a meeting of his cabinet younger men appointed london further high army ap pointments were announced last week end as additional proof the policy in itiated by leslie horebeiisha secre tary for war of bringing youth and ability to tho fore is being aggress ively pursued the new appointments are a direct consequence of the sweeping shake- up of the army council dec 2 when the minister passed over fifty senior generals to make majgen viscount gort chief of the imperial general staff and by wholesale retirements reduced the average of the council from 33 to 52 supreme soviet foregathers moscow newlyelected soviet deputies gathered in colorful array in moscow this week ready for the first session of tho supreme soviet many of the deputies coming from distant regions had to start their journey in sleds drawn by reindeer or dogs in some cases it took 15 days to reach a railway several had never seen a train before pope warns hitler berlin a dramatic warning by the envoy of pope plus to chancellor hitler that mankind calls for peace and a reply in which hitler pledged they threw a madman to the sharks robert home left and george spernak the sailors who admitted throwing mad jack morgan to the sharks wait to tell their weird story to the court in los angeles w fltebde commentary on the highlights of the weeks news by peter randal unconquerable an inter esting article by frank illlngworth in an english magazine discusses the ex ceedingly timely topic can china ever be conquered drawing les sons from chinese history the writer comes to the conclusion that the jap anese will detach more and more ot china that the chinese will fight des perately and probably lose but r soon as the conqueror set tles down tho chinese will go back to his fields back to his books ot wis dom back to the cities and villages where life has not altered one bit for centuries and the japs theyll be come chinese china has already been conquered successively in the past two thousand years by the tartars the kitans the juchens by jenghlz khan and his mongol hordes by the manchus but all these invaders have sottled down and been absorbed amongst the chin ese two thousand years of history have by now accustomed china to the thought that any conquest of her 400- 000000 people can only be a tempor ary affair were all crazy scientists and psychologists are telling us now and apparently no one is daring to say them nay that insanity or tendency towards it exists in a largo number of people who look to be perfectly normal two specialists speaking be fore the american association for the advancement of science went so far as to declare that a great many sup posedly normals should trade places with insane patients in mental hos pitals they based their remarks on tests made of fortythree patients in an ohio mental hospital and of another group of fortythree college students which shows you never can tell as the old saying goes all the worlds a little queer but thee and me and sometimes i think thees a little queer think of the children if loving parents bent on giving their firstborn a beautiful name would pause a moment and reflect on how that name is going to sound to the bearer of it twenty years hence there would be far fewer foolish monickers disguised under variegated initials in the world today and the number of sheepish henpeckedlooking individu als slinking about their daily- rounds would be considerably less think ot the effect the precious name is going to have on your sensistive child be fore you make the decision irrevoc able best rulo to follow steer away from the exotic stick to common sense it takes all a man has to rise above a name like cyril or elmer heavier policing motorists of ontario were given a chance to be have themselves on the roads at christmas time and look what a mess they made of it the blackest holi day toll ever a wave of protest has swept the country and indignant let ters have been appearing in the press now the attorneygeneral of ontario is doing something about the situa tion ordering an immediate and sub stantial increase of the motorcycle patrol force of the provincial police instructing them how to prevent vio lations of the traffic laws we motorists have failed to act like adult human beings on the streets and highways of ontario it for a change we are treated like the children we evidently are better road behavior may result balance of power when ital ian fascism in the person of musso linis soninlaw count ciano crossed into hungary last week on a diplo matic mission it met with a sharp disappointment hungary and aus tria refused to say yes to the ital ian suggestion that they quit the league of nations and recognize the regime of franco in spain neither would they join the antlcommunlsm pact recently signed by germany italy and japan the democratic powers had reason to breathe easier following this re buff nevertheless the new rumanian setup with octavlan goga as virtual dictator under king carols wing is viewed as threatening to reverse the balance of power in southeastern eur ope and the democratic governments tremble reason why rumania as ally up to now of czechoslovakia has been helping to block hitlers pro posed march east through czechoslo vakia to seize the oil and grain fields of the ukraine it is our fervent hope that rumania will continue with her former allies in spite of governmental changes and not line up with the fascist powers birth rate falls in the first half of 1937 births decreased in the dominion of canada 07 per thousand at the same time deaths increased 06 the figures raised by a higher dis ease toll and a larger number of auto mobile fatalities looks as if the population of this fair country may shrink to nothing before we know what its all about himself honorably and confidently to cooperato with all nations marked a new year reception to the diplo matic corps this week when brilliant ly uniformed foreign envoys and a little group of high nazi government officials were grouped in the fueh rers chancellory in the historic wil- helmstrasse tide has turned madrid president manuel azana declared in a decree tils week the victory of government forces over spanish insurgent troops at tho pro vincial capital of teruel 1c0 miles east of madrid changed the face of the spanish war ozana awarded tho laureate insig nia of madrid to general vicente ro- jo chief of staff ot the governments central army and commander ot the teruel offensive rioting in austria vienna disorder raged through out austria this weekend as monar chists and nazis clashed with clubs stones and stinkbombs at sixty mass meetings called to open a campaign to restoro tho 25yearold archduke otto to tho hapsburg throne the worst disorders occurred in vienna where eleven meetings were held in tribute to tho handsome and exiled youth who is hailed as aus trias savior fifty antimonarchists were arrest ed in vienna and at least 200 in oth er parts of austria numerous sus pects were released after they were taken into custody for investigation flying classrooms four big planes will carry six to eight student flyers and instructors in the r c a f refuse to recognize him washington tho united states refusal to recognize king vic tor emmanuel of italy as emperor of ethiopia has resulted in suspen sion of the italoamerlcan negotia tions for a commercial treaty informed sources said mussolini re quired tho new treaty to bo made in the name of victor emmanuel as king ot italy and emperor of ethiopia and that stato secretary hull re fused arrested on fraud charge chatham ball was set at 5000 oach last weekend for two london ont men who allegedly obtained 300 from a raleigh township resident by claiming they were members ot a syn dicate which bad sold a patented chomlcnl formula to lawrence du pont for 4000000 the two aro sam uel willis 69 and thomas agnow 57 flying classrooms will lighten the tedium of learning for royal canadian air force student fliers construction of four big planes will be started soon in a montreal air craft factory at a cost o nearly 10coo each of the four sturdy noorduyn norsemen will have accor for six tc eight instructors and stu dents and will be used to teach em bryo iiers such sciences as bombing map reading navigation sketching radio communication and spotting for artillery supplement ground teaching the aerial classes will supplement the usual theoretical teaching of ground school under atual flight conditions canadas yorg airmen will learn the science of aeual war fare under the firsthand guidance of expeiienccd instructors the big canndandesgned trans port pncs will have attunircnts for bomb sights groundtoane radio removable ports and mounts for aer ial cameras and gun mounts monoplane transports used to aid teaching navigation especi ally under adverse weather condi tions latest navigation instruments will be installed the classroom planes will be built by noorduyn aircraft ltd at suburban cartierville quebec they will be monoplane transports of metal construction and powdered with a wasp engine of 525 horsepower giv ing them a high speed of nearly 170 miles an hour in keeping with canadan flying conditions the new planes will be adaptable to skis for winter flying and to cither wheels or seaplane floats in the summer there can he no real prosperity in stato or nation for either tho indus trial city or tho agricultural country without tho other being prosperous herbert h lehman a year ago a discarded cutting from a pineapple plant was thrown on a rubbish heap at torquay it is now bearing fruit and growing rapidly so although it refused to thrive when pampered with care and attention it manages to enjoy life when left to its own devices on the rubbish heap modern medicine borrows potent witches brews of mediaevr times snake poi son helps to cure colds the days when witches brewed po tions ot such weird ingredients as spi ders toads beetles and serpents may seem very far away tet queerer ub- stances are used in modern medicine than ever before astonishing cases have often been- reported in which people apparently dead were restored to life by an in jection of adrenalin asthma suffer ers know the almost miraculous relief an injection of this drug gives during an attack from ox glands and adrenalin which ha3 brought relief to millions is extracted from the glands of oxen and recently from tropical frogs many a twinge of lumbago or rheu matism has been eased by a canthar- ides plaster cantharldes consists merely of a certain kind ot dried beet les victims ot a bite from a mad dog rush to a doctor to be inoculated against rabies but most of them do not know that the injection is made from the brains of infected rabbits snake poison for heating snakebite which annually took an enormous toll of human life in the tropics has lost much of its terror since scientists discovered that it could be cured by venom milked from tho faugs of thesnake snake venom is also used for haemophilia the bleeding disease in haemophilia the blood does not harden to form a scab and the suf ferer may bleed excessively from a trivial wound x even the extraction of a tooth may have fatal results hardening ot the blood is definitely hastened by cobra venom the common cold is now treated with a salve containing the venom of the viper this salve which has been prepared by a scientific institute iln austria is rubbed into any part of the body and headache and running nose promptly disappear as a pain killer snake venom has been of great benefit and it establishes no drug habit 43 shots taken from his body amazes doctors nova sco- tian fights death suspect arrested shelburne ns royal cana dian mounted police last week laid a charge of attempted murder against dennis ross 24 of stoney island as the man he is alleged to have shot amazed doctors with his fight for lite the attempted murder charge was laid after ross was taken to yarmouth hospital where warren brown 41 stoney island storekeeper and taxi driver lies with more than 50 shot gun wounds police refused to say what happened in tho hospital room after they brought ross into it penetrate stomach intestines browns 17yearold son warren heard a shot outside tho familys dwelling and then lite father scream ing ho was wounded brown was admitted to hospital and physicians said they expected him to die in a few hours but he still fought for life the no 10 shotgun pellets more than 50 of which entered his body penetrated his stomach intestines bladder hand and arm fortythree of tho shots wero removed from his body new technique restores sight toronto surgeon transplants cor nea tissue front eye of still born infants three years research after more than three years of research a new technique for the delicate operation of transplanting cornea tissue has boon developed by dr a l morgan member of the de partment of ophthalmology univers ity of toronto and assistant eye sur geon at the hospital for sick child ren the corrca is the transparent film over the eyeball which pdmts light to the interior of the eye without which sight is not possible the cornea it was said is the only part of the eye which surgeons have been able to transplant dr morgan working with rabbits has found a new method by which it is possible to graft healthy tissue taken from a foreign eye in place of the injured cornea not yet applied to humans for clinical work human tissue is necessary ths tissue is removed from eyes with the cornea intact but which have been removed because of other causes from stillborn infants and from corpses the new operation has not been applied to humans because of the lack of suitable patients and the un certainty of a supply of cornea the operation to be successful must be performed with tissue from the same species animal cornea grafted otii humans becomes opaque