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r-: I VOICE CANADA THE EMPiRE THE WORLD AT LARGE ol the PRESS CANADA What Else It There? CoUfCtions uf MpeecUea by Earl Baldwin, former British Priiiio Min- ister, and Franklin D. lloost'velt, Preslflerit of the United Stales, have been baimod In Oermauy as "undesir- able literature." What DO tho Nazis read anyway? â€" Stratford Beacon- IleraM. Snow as Tourist Lure Viiuriat orgunizatlons In all parts ol Ihf! country use tho snow .is a lure, write elo.juenlly of our unparalleled facilities for outdoor sports, of our outdoor Switzerlands at home. We have sent around the world the game of horkey. and the ski almost has earned a place among our national emblems. Ottawa Journal. Farmers' Profits In all the discussion that is ensuing la regard to higher milk prices, it seems to bo overlooked that the dairy tB.rmcr, as much as anyone else, is •Dtlllcd to a reasonable profit upon his oiieratlon, and that, moreover. It la Iho urban manufacturer and mer- chant who benefit to a good extent from tlie existence of such a profit. â€" Brockvllle Recorder and Times. Forget It: In the past, stock prices have re- flected pretty accurately business con- ditions. Today they do not. In these chanKinK days It Is foolish to make any prpdicti(m8 as to tho future, but the outlook, for (Canada at least, is so briRhl that our own advice is to for- get the stock market. â€"London Free PreH-4. Arrest the Car The iniimundlng of a car for three months is not a calamity when com- pared with the results of tlie improp- T operation of the vehicle. There can be (10 valid argument aeaiii.st Im- pounding the car of the drunken owner-driver. Nor la thera much room for sympatliy for the owner who has carelessly allowed his car to get into Improper hand'" If he is denied per- ml.HSidii to ii.,e ii himself for three moMili.-*. - -Toi'i/ii!ii ToleKi-nm. What the West Has Done Nobody would say, of course, that wheiitRrowiiit; in tho v/mL of the lakes wan the only reason for present-day Torcnio or Montreal There were oth- er causes foi- their ri.se, notably the flourl.^hlnK itiiniiii? indualry. Hut that the western exp.iiisloii was one cause, and a major one, cannot be denied by any c-uidlil piTson. Mc. l)ii|)le,iHls, who says the Ka.si cannot be saddled with the l)iird"n (jf the Wesi, may reflect If he ihoo.ses, thai Moiiiri'iil would not b« half the city it Is if no wheat had been Kiown on these [ilaiiis since HlOO. â€" Wifniipet; Kree I'n-.ss. Win Over Diphtheria Amioiik fourteen (iii'-s of Canada with population over .'in. 00(1. four had no deaths froni diphtheila in IH:i8, foiir only one death, one had two. two had tliiee .mil one lind four. The re- maining two had IK and '!'< deaths, or together nearly three times as many as the oibfi- twelve cnnil)liie<l. Atcaln amonj; the sniHilur cities three have liad no (le.iili.s from thi> illsi'H.se in ten years, two each havo had none In nine, tdght anri neven years, thiee none In all yeui:.s ami two none In live. There are niiiny other smiller cities and towiiH with lio ralallties foi- lesser pel- lods. If the iDtold campaign be stead- ily coMlliiO'il and If it were extended gonei.illy lo villaf.es and rural ureaH, diphtlierin 'voiihl soon become iin- know'i ill ('.iii.iila. - Kii'Kston W'liig- Stand Ii (I. Pressures Up To 1 500,000 Pounds THE EMPIRE Copy the Judges - Why are Judges iwrmitted to live and work till well over 60 while ordin- ary mortals are olllclally and very often altogether finished at 65? The reason seems to be almost entirely psychological. The judge In England Is generally appointed after 50, and can, like Tennyson's brook, go on for- ever. He naturally feels boyish and buoyant, being on (he threshold of a now career. He has still the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords to look forward to. On the serene heights 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- ciety should take a leaf from the judge's book. There Is a needless hur- rying on with life In -modern civiliza- tion. â€" Times of India. A lie" ! which (;i'. poll Ik's a i)P"d at I of 111.- ,\i- ill 'he any pie'-- The ,]<-, fields If pher, i,i> II llie j-'ri" i lielo'..- I ii.- Ulil.il'p -'I atom. It Jia.-. under p! glass eiiii Vllllire <|ll •ool for K< ienlific reRcarch es pieKslM'S U|l t() 1,5110,000 â- ^inare Inch ha.-) Iiein devel- lie new rese.irch foundation •Ml â-  lu'liiiil" of Tochnoloi;y 1 I !ie iii.ixliniiin fur exi-i"'d9 n • previoiiHly attained i'" m:;k"s av;ill;ible wide iiive:-!!«.Hie,n Into pressure . v.livliif; fioiii sludieH of ii:i' of III'- i-ailh L'OO miles "urfafe to !li<' liehavioiir of r:-.irty in !!â- <• liil<-rlor of the a fd .11(1 I li:ii atoms licnd • â- â€¢<;,Hi« and lliiit iiidlnary bn bent lo a spherical cur- ving a radius of four Inches. "Too Much For Impleir.sntt" (I'l'TAWA. - Canada's $50,000,0011 a- ypar farm Implement outlay will be glvn early conalderatlon In the House of (lommons, with the roport of a Parliamentary commltteo forming the basis for a discussion left over from lant year. Women In the War The womenfolk in China are taking their full share of reRponsihility In the present SIno-Japanesa conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow pen- cils, they have now taken active parts in the front linos, and have been en- .Wged In militia duties In the rear. It is even said that some of them havo actually seen service In some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai. Throughout the country, girls are pelltlonInK the Ooverntnent for enrolment Into the women's flt^ht- Ing forces, but so far only those ivlth previous military trainiiii? have been drafted. But those â- Â» lo havo been re- jected are trying to ke 'hem.selves useful In other wa^.., i. ch as hrlni;- Ing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red diss work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines. The former Red Army, subse- quently renamed tlic 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops. â€" llong-ICong News. 26-Mile Counter At British Fair Canada Will Be Well Represented This Spring By Exhibitors and Buyers at the British Industries Fair. X shop counter of [{lilish goods, '26 miles long, will be displayed at the London and Birmingham sections of the forthcoming iiiitisli Indu-stries Fair, February 21 to March 1. The total area occupied by the exhiliits will be 845,000 siiuaie feet, which is well in excess of the 11)37 record, the London tola! already being 10,- 000 8(iunre feet greater. Kight and threeiiuarter tons of catalogues of the fair in nine lan- guages are now on their way to (l.'t countries. Show Card> in 17 Language! .\ new idea in London thi.s year will lie cards on many .stand.s an- nouncing the various laiiKnagPs .spok- en by exhibitors. The Oeiiartinciit ot Overseas Trade has already been asked for card.s in 17 foreign langu- ages, including Ku.ssiaii, Czech, Hul- gurian, Turkish and (iieek. One ex- hibitor has lieen given a card in I'ls- ^leiantd. Two firms have assistants who anionjj them .siicak eight langu- ages. Canada will lie well i epresenteil at the fair by cxhibilois and biiycis. In fact, the Dominion holds first place among Kmpire buyers' representa- tions. A Canadian oHicial and com- mercial exhibit will be organized by the Canadian (loverninenl Kxhiliition Conimis.don in Ihe I'lnpiic section of tlie fair, located on the ground (loor of tlio Fail's Court rtuilding. Life Span Has Increased Twelve Years Since 1900 New-Bom Child In U.9. MavEx- pect a Longer Existence Than its ParenU Could â€" Longevity DaU Studied. «- Today a new-bom child la the Unit- ed SUtes may expect to lira twlevQ years longer than its parents could have expected to live at their birth. The parents had a mean expectation ot lite at birth ot 49.24 years in 1900, whereas the expectation of today's baby is 61.26 years. 3,964 Centenarians â- yVe 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. Such is the general conclusion reached by Harold P. Dorn statistician of the United States Pub- Pllc 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 is an overstatement. It is incredible that 2,847 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 present state ot the nation's health with their aid. But It Is hard to com- pare our longerlty with that ot our ancestors. There Is reason to belleTe that a Roman In Narb's time had an expectation ot life at 1>lrth ot no more than 20 to 25 years, and possibly twice that in Northern Africa. "The first life table computed from deaths and the population of specific ages exposed to death was published by Mllhe in 1815," says Dr. Dorn. 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 â- 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 Dfs. 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 67.9 years, the average boy 65 years. I Sporting Comment Br KEN eOWAROS IV -'I It seems that the champion feather- weight, Henry Arm- strong of Los Ange- les is hard after Lou .Ambers' lightweight title. The boy must do some hard slug- iring and take it on he Iamb from more lough boys yet, how- ovei, .\inisUong has knocked out 27 of his 28 opponents in 1937, which isn't bad, either. Kven with all this snow and cold weather the baseball moguls arc 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- ton, closing about Oct. 2. Did you know that Pedro Candioti holds the world's record for non- stop swim? Pedro swam 258 miles in 3 days 15 '4 hours. He swam down tho Parana River in South Am- erica. To keep up his spirits a band was placed at his disposal in an ac- companying boat. Thoy played until e^'nausted, Ijut still old Pedro forged on alone to complete his 258th mile and .snatch the world'.s record. So long. Early Dominion Election? HT CATHARINESâ€" Prime Minis- t-r Mackenzie King plans to call a Dominion election next spring or aut- iimn bocuiiso of the split in Liberal unity between Ontario and Quebec and the FeUeral Government, Malcolm UoKs, Secretary of tho League for I'eaco and Democracy, said here at a meeting -Ihl.* week. Mr. King would seek .1 vole of Confidence In his Ad- niiiiisljalion and seek to unify the Provinces, he said. rCANADA-l938;>| C^ IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S A ^ LISTEN , IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S INSPIRING PROORAM EVEt^.Y FRIDAY NIGHT On n INational Coast to Coast NetworL j News In Review | Rumanian Parliament Dissolved BUCHAREST. â€" King Carol dis- solved Parliament last week and or- dered new elections to enable Uu- mania to express approval or disap- proval of the anti-Semitic, seml-Kasc- ist policies of Premier Oclavian Ooga. Tho Premier, who controls but 9 per cent of the votes In the present- Parliament, thus will havo a chance to strengthen his position at the eslec- tions .set for March 3. New French Government PARIS. â€" Camille Chautemps last week formed a new French Qovern- meiit composed, with two exceptions, of members of his own Radical-Social- ist Party â€" the most moderate group of the nineteeu-months-old coalition of Left parties known as the Popular Front. Whether his success In ending the five-day political crisis precipitated by resignation of his previous Govern- ment meant tho doom of tho Popular Front Itself was not immediately clear. It was certain, however, that support of the (Jommunlsts â€" one of the three main groups In the coalition -had been discarded. Urges Closer Ties With U.S. ST. THOMAS.â€" Describing the sit- uation In a world supposed to be civ- ilized as having developed Into a state of International piracy rather than of International diplomacy. Premier Hep- burn told inembera of the St. Thomas branch of the International Associa- 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 loavB Canada and the United Stales alone. Narrowly Escape Bombing MADRID. â€" Insurgent bombing phuu'a, extremely active along Spain's oast coast these days, narrowly mlBsed harming a party of six Labor mem- bers of the British Parliament at Val- encia this week. An exploding bomb damaged one of iho party's automobiles during a raid on the city, but occupants escaped In- jury. Prison Riot WINNIPEG. -Tear gas bombs wor.' 1I-.IMI to drive unruly prisoners from llendliic;ly Jail dining-room last week. lleadingly Is the Provincial jail sit- ^k^s 9d(A^s Commentary on the mgUixhta of the Week's News by Peter Randal DUMMY LEADS: Thing.s have come to a pretty pass when a ventrilo- quist's dummy moves up to first place on the list of current radio fa- vorites. Jack Benny who has held the No. 1 position for the past three years may well ask, "What has he 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 1939 World's Fair, to be held in New York. That should give plenty of room and scope for a worthwhile build-up on Canadian life, its aims and achievements. The more modern the show, the betttr. Let us hope there "/ill 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 other countries continue to think of 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. FJeason other people were worried was that they feared the outcome in a wobbly Europe of a shake-up in France. Keason France was not too horribly concerned over the whole af- fair: the French government system is built that way on purpose so that tho least change in public political opinion i.s reflected in the parliament- ary setup. At any particular moment the government knows pretty exactly just how the country feels. Which makes for greater eventual stability than our forms of government can > ever hope lo again. A NATIONAL THEATRE: EstablL-^h- ment of a National Theatre in Canada 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 be 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 .. national theatre in Canada, but there is a long road ahead yet> 'Tis a pity that the Canadian pe<^ pie do not di.splay as much interest in the drama as they do in musictfl development in the Dominion. Last year in Toronto the Promenade Sym- phony drew more than 4,000 people to the Varsity Arena every Thuisday night during the summer season. Fancy the same number turning oat each week to a series of drama pre- sentations ! THEIR IRISH UP: Mr. Eamon de V»- ^era, Iiish-Spanish head of the gov- ernment of Eire (formerly called the Irish Free State) goes tol.ondon last week and asks Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, head of the liritish governmeHt 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 beforo any move is made toward reunion of the two Irish states. Deadlock results, as there is flo likelihood of Lord Craigavon's Nor- thern Ireland Government consentingf to link up with Eire. Meantime Lord Craigavon di.ssolves the Northern, Ire- 4and 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. ALCOHOL TEST: The considerable prominence given in the press of On- tario to the war on drunken tor 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- vincial Analyst, 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 havo to catch your driver. • STRATEGIC LOSS: The important point about the capture of Teruel by the Spanish Government army is not that the "hunger tactics," starvation methods o€ General Franco, insurg- ent commander, have been beaten out, but that the General has "lost face." The psychological defeat he suffered is tremendous. The loss of prestige may be a large contributors factor to his ultimate downfall, if such -it is to be. Deserters from Franco's army re- port that already there is uneasiness and W4desprea<l dissension in insurg. cnt territory, that a rift in the ranks* is imminent. uated thirteen miles west ot Winni- peg. Official investigation Into (ho dis- turbance, worst In tho Institution's history, started when ringleaders of the rloteiB were confined to punish- ment cells. They were placed on ra- tions of bread and water. Egyptian Royal Wedding CAIRO. â€" Bgypfs youthful King Karouk 1, who was married Thursday to the IG year-old commoner, Saflnza Zulflcar, before tho ceremony receiv- ed a foreign delegation bearing wed- ding gifts. The ilrltlsh ambassador. Sir Miles \V. Lampson. brought two sporting guns and a .sporting outfit sent by King C.eorge VI. Proposed 12,000 Mile Flight LONDON.â€" Three Royal Air Force planes will leave London in the near future on ri\ attempted 12,000-mllo flight to Sydney. Australia, with a singlo slop at Singapore, tho Air Min- istry announced this week. Cambridge Varsity Cs cw Ope-is Ssason's Training Say Lumberjack 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 .-Xndrcw Moroz, a lumber-' jack, that he killed a man more than, twelve years ago in Sacramento. Moroz made what he called a "eon- • fession" in the office of the Timmins Daily Press after saying: "I've gone â-  to the ends of the earth since that time, but the memory of the thing] ha.s haunted me until I hud to come and make a confession." .'\ccording to the story^ taken down by a Daily Press reporter nm'i Police' Chief Leo. II. Gagnon. Moroz killcih a friend named Miller, .Aug. 30. m2.5, during an argument. He sail both- had been drin-ldng. Jlillci- was shot and died the next day. Travelled 30,000 Miles "My friend and 1 had been drink-., ing," Moroz related. "We came out' of a blind pig on Second street when" we began a:j argument." Moroz said -he took u sun f'om his. pocket and when Miller gia'.i! ed for it the gun discharged. ' "The Inillct sot him rii-.'-.t in the. stomach." "I gue!5s I've travcllcl j-.'ocut SO,s 000 miles since that time." .Moroz said. "Put that thin.-r has boon both- ering me all the time. 1 v.ant to go' back and face the mu.sic. Wire the Hall of Justice in Sacrami'nto nncf you'll pet all the details." Cows From Canada WASlUNCn-ON. - The fnlled States tUistonis t'onimissioner has an- nounced that fi.T")-' head of dairy cows were Importcil from Canida In 1937. This was ;i(;.S per cent, ot the (luoti* under Ihe trad,' agreement v.lth th* Dominion. « Imports ot cream wore 137.850 gat Ions, or 0.2 per cent, of the quota. In December. 2,G10.7;!0 iM-.inds oTf white or Irish seed potatoes, amount- tn'T to 5.8 per cent, of tho quota, wera imported. iik^iitM^isi^i^s^^.