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News Parade By tlizabelh l:edy THE LAST SESSION: Eyes focus on Ottawa this week as the 1939 session of Parliament opens. It may be the last session before the next Kf"<'i'al election â€" and important things arc happeniiiR in Canada. There are sure to be fire- works in the House when the Do- minion's attitude toward the Em- pire durinfc the Czecho-slovak cris- is comes up for discussion; and when C.C.F. members start a.sking fiucstions of the Kovornmcnt. Hon. Dr. 15. J. Manion will appear for the first time as Conservative leader. The scsion may have to adjourn, if woik is not completed in time, to make way for the lloyal visit in May. SOCIETY NOTE: From a Cana- dian Press dispntch we learn that an Ottawa debutante can be launched for a top cost of about $1,500 compared with the $50,000 spent on some New York debbies' coming-out parties. And you can't tell us that the New York girls have $48„'iOO worth more fun! On the contrary. This year Canadian debs may even be presented to royalty, a privilege that their American cousins can't buy. â€" o â€" EUROPE, 1939: One British official in London this week look- ing forward to another critical year in international politics said: "If we can get through 1939 with- out war, I think the danger will be over for .several years." Right you are, sir. The whole thing in a nutshell. But how to get through 1939. that is the ques- tion, without a major war break- ing out in Europe. There are two ways to stop a war (brewed by Hitler, Musso- lini). One way is to give them all they ask for and let them go ahead (that's been the method followed to date). The other is for the "have" countries (Great Britain, France, the U.S., etc.) who hold the money-bags to refuse financial aid to Germany, Italy. We know the regimes of Hitler and Musso- lini are perennially near collapse. ' A little less support from the democracies would cause them to topple over. THE YEAR JUST PAST: In- terest taken by Canadians in Can- adian politics rose to its peak in 1938 with the international crisis, fell with the approach of Christ- mas and the New Year festive sea- son Now we're looking about us again to sec what is happening in the Dominion. It's worthwhile, however, to check up what has gone before. During the year just past, tha chief interest on the (Canadian political front was furnished by activity in the Conseivativo Parly (letiremcnt of lU. Hon. R. B. Ben- nett, choice of his successor, selec- tion of a new Conservative leader in Ontario) ; the controversy be- tween Prime Minister King and Ontario's Mitchell F. Hepburn came to a head at year's end; the visit of President Roosevelt to Canada during the summer was a milestone in the history of Cana- dian - American relations ("the United States will n(jt stand idly by"); during 1938 Canada decid- ed to go in for defense (army, navy, air) in a bigger way; the Royal Commission on Doniinion- ' Provincial relations completed its investigations, early in the spring to make its report. In the foregoing events of the past year are contained the seeds of political happenings, trends in Canada during 1939. â€" o â€" THE WEEK'S QUESTION: Why is Poland important at the present moment? Answer: Ger- man ambitions to penetrate the Ukraine â€" repeated of late in Nazi newspapers- would have a grave effect on Poland, which includes 3,000,000 Ukrainians in the re- gion adjoining the Soviet Ukraine. Poland is bcgiiiiiing to believe that co-operation with Russia is the best safeguard of her interests, and is turning a cold shoulder on Germany (who needs Poland's aid if further expansion eastward is to be made). I.ast week Poland •nd Russia signed a trade treaty which is expected to multiply thirty-fold the trade between the tw(, nations. Bottled History Workmen cMgajjeil in excava- tions for a new building in South Melbourne came aross a bottle of Dublin stout, believed to be eighty years old. How it got there is n nystrry. The River Yarra once flowed over the area. Its histori- cal value is greater if left unop- ened. The Hilllih terrlloilal Hrniy will â- pake Its antiaircraft units DO.OOO •trong within a year. Because no wolves are known exist in South Africa, the game |k|horities are investigating re- ihat tha animals have ap- ti in tha Nambi Desert. Ontario's "Main Street" Looked Like This Scores of Ontario towns were completely isolated following the worst blizzard to hit the province in recent years. Hundreds of citizens began digging themselves out from under the blanket of snow which, driven by heavy galea formed drifts similar to these in the main street of Orangeville. In isolated sections of the province highways were im- passable and train service disrupted. More Canadians Use Electricity It Plays An Important Part in Our Home Life â€" Towns and Cities Enjoy Most Bene- fit Low-cost electricity, developed principally from abundant water- power, plays an important part in Canadian home life. Apart from bringing relief and convenience to the housewife, this widespread and substantial use of electricity has created a large and compara- tively stable market for electrical power and appliances which is of marked benefit to producer and consumer alike. The domestic ser- vice consumption or the electricity used in residences in Canada has increased steadily, even during the worst years of the depression. Our Water-Power Resource! This general use of electricity is not confined to urban areas, as electric transmission lines now range far and wide bringing cur- rent to the farms of rural districts where water pumps, feed chop- pers, cream separators, and other such machinery is electrically op- crated. Klectric power is cheaper in some parts of Canada than else- where in North .'Vmcrica, as the Dominion is richly endowed with water-power resources which sup- ply about 08 per rent, of the elec- trical energy produced. Less Music Being Played on Radio Canadian Broadcasting Corpor- ation Test Shows 45.12 Per Cent, of Programs Are of Other Types Start Northern Highways Soon Construction Projects To Be Carried Out With Aid of Do- minion and Provincial Gov- ernments A tenth of the $2,000,00 recently appropriated by the Dominion and Ontario Governments tor highway construction in Northern Ontario win be spent in the Sudbury area, James M. Cooper, Liberal member ot the Ontario Legislature for Sud- bury, says Cooper paid a visit last month to Toronto, where a tentative list ot the projects was discussed by otti- clals of the Ontario Department of Highways. He said most ot the money would be spent on the sec- tion ot the Trans-Canada highway between Sudbury and Hagar. about 20 miles east of Sudbury. Conserving The Trumpeter Swan Canada Maintains A Special Winter Garden Service for the Protection of North Am- erica's Largest Waterfowl Time devoted to bioadcasliiiK music la dlminshUiK. and "popular" music is also glviug way before the classical productions, Brooke Clax- ton, Montreal lawyer and counsel for the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poratioti, told the CopyriRlit Appeal Board at Ottawa last week. A test undertaken during ilio first week of November by the eight stations of the C(!C showed that ot the total broadcasting time 65.88 per cent, was devoted to mus- ic. This represented 7,4L',"i hours out of a 1S.7 hour broadcasting day. Holland's partial mobilization In the recent war ci'isis cost $55,000,- 000. A London expert estimates that there are more than 32.000 differ- ent coins in the world. OTT.\W.-\. â€" Canada maintains a special winter garden service for the protection of the trumpet- er swan, the largest waterfowl in North America. Sometimes, when the wintering grounds are frozen over, the duties of these officers include the feeding of the swans. To prevent the starvation of the birds in severe weather, ij is necessary to supply them with barley or other grain, and at one wintering ground in Hritish Col- umbia a supply of grain is taken in l)y pack-horse from tne nearest settlement, a distance of seventy- five miles. Mottly In B.C. At one time this magnificent l)ird was common from the Pacific Coast to the Middle West, but it now has disappeared from all cx- cep; the mo.;t westerly part of its former range in Canada. At pres- ent most of the trumpeter swans in existence in Canada are found in British Columbia, and the num- ber which assend)le on the more important wintering grounds is es- timated to be about live hundred. Provided Swanidown In the early days the trumpet- er swan was hunted for its plum- age, which helpc<l provide the valuable swansdown of commerce, but now both the trumpeter and the whistling swan are protected at all times by the Migratory Hirds Treaty. VOICE OF THE PRESS ONCE IN A-LIFETIME Somtt^iiqjYwrong! Hogs went (it> 60 cents just when taxes were due. â€" Farmer's Advocate. OUR FAVORITE ROBBER A snooty bandit refused to take $100 from his Intended victim, de- claring that It wasn't enough to bother with. If this thing keeps up, most of us win be quite safe. â€" Chatham News. LET THE MOTHS HAVE IT James Brown, a weather prophet ot Port Stanley, says we will have nothing more than ten below this winter, so It's hardly worth dusting off the heavy underwear. â€" Peter- borough Examiner. SHEPHERDS AND THEIR CROOKS Quoth the Woodstock Sentinel- Review: "It had nothing to do with the festive season that political shepherds In Ontario are watching their flocks by night." But keeping one eye on the falling stars. â€" Stratford Beacon-Herald. WHY NOT BAN THEM7 Has it occurred to the Dominion Government that some good might he done by prohibiting the impor- tation or manufacture of pistols and revolvers except by special permit and tor certain specified purposes? There would, admittedly, be some smuggling and some "boot- legging" done; but close watch at border customs offices and strict inspection of manufacturing plants would keep breaches of the law to a minimum. â€" Owen Sound Sun- Times. SPORT â€" AND SPORT Is sport sport any more? This is a question that not a few Sooites who have interested themselves in the promotion of sport are beginning to ask them- selves. What is the use ot providing playing fields and rinks, they ask, it in order to get teams to use them it Is necessary tor a business con- cern or a few private individuals to put i:p the money to outfit them? There is growing feeling that the youthful players In a variety ot sports, not only In the Sault, but elsewhere, are being spoiled by the alteutlon that is being lavished on them and that all to often sport for sport's sake is being lost In sport for advertising's sake. There are even stories of a Toronto ama- teur football team whose members would uot turn out for practise un- less a motor car was sent around to to pick thoni up. â€" Saiilt Ste. Marie Star. Indians May Make King Their Chief Six Nations Indians Plan to Confer Chieftainship on King George V During His Visit Here King George VI may be initi- ated into a lineage of rulers older even than the monarchy of Eng- land when he visits Canada next summer. Plans to confer a chief- tainshii) in Canada's Six Nations Indian tribe upon the King are being considered by the Toronto Indian Coundl. Dr. J. J. Sussmuth, assistant sachem of the council, said the honor will he conferred upon King Cieorge if the royal itinerary per- mits. If pos.sible, the ceremony will be held on the Si.x Nations r.eserve at Ohsweken, near IJrant- ford. If not, the Indians will come to Toronto and go througli the an- cien' ritual. The ceremony will be identical with that by which the Indians honored their rulers long before wliite man ever set foot in Can- ada. The procedure was almost universal among them, and varied but little among the different tribes. Dr. Sussmuth said. WONDERLAND OF OZ t'»p,r.tmMl 1912 RMn, A LmC* ^ _^ r :â-  -H ^ IJ ^^&i _ ) w%^ ^^r ^ ^^ ^@ Says Five Basic Elements Mak| lality Phjrsiqiie, Intelligcace, Emotion and lastincl, Alao Habit â€" First Four Inherited, De- clares British Columbia Psy- chiatrist In these days when so many people place responsibility for character on other things than the home, it is interesting to read the opinion of a British Columbia psy- chiatrist on "Personality Develop- ment of the Pre-School Child." Writing in the December issue of the Canadian Nurse, Dr. Arthur M. Gee of the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale, says that per- sonality is derived from five basic elements â€" physique, intelligence, emotion, instinct and habit. The first four are inherited, the fifth acquired. As to habit, he says: "We are born without habits and we spend the greater part of our lives acquiring habits, good or bad. The baby spends his first years learn- ing habits of nursing, habits of hygiene, walking and talking. Slowly the personality begins to unfold as the child begins to feel his security and realizes he is an individual within the family con- stellation. With increasing emo- tional maturity, he is gradually weaned away from his complete physcal and emotional dependence upon his mother. The day comes when he must step out from his home and its security to enter a new world at school, where he is thrown more or less on his own resources. Here he learns new habit patterns. The foundation that he has received during his pre-school life will to a great ex- tent form the pattern to which his later life will conform. Give Opportunity For Learning "The problem of personality formation and character building is not a matter of specific teach- ing but of offering children at each level of their development Factory Per Cent. No. 1 .\ provlucial record la believed to have been established by Cook'a cheese factory, Marmora, Oatarlo, this season aa records reveal that every cheese made by the factory during the past year received a .Vo. 1 grade. Hugh Moloney is president and Roy Colby is cheesemaker. Average Price 13.9c A Pound The amount ot milk received and the number ot cheeses produced this year is lower than many of the Other factories ef Haaliasa county, but records ot the grading office at Belleville show that grading per- centage I3 believed unequalled by any othef County factory. Average price for cheese last season was 13.9 cents; 11.4 pounds ot milk were required to make one pound of cheese. Ignorance Still Rampant Today There is a boy in Great Britain who thinks Queen Victoria is still on the Throne; boys who cannot tell the time, name more than two or three months in the year, or even give the year in which they live. The Governor of Feltham Borstal Institution says: "The aby- smal depth of ignorance from which 7 or 8 years of State edu- cation has failed to rescue many of the lads received here â€" or to which they have reverted after two or thu-ee years of complete mental vacuity â€" would be incon- ceivable and probably incredible to anyone not in touch with this problem." appropriate opportunity for learn- ing, through direct participation and experience. Parents cannot hope to live one way and instruct their children in another. 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Two of Ihn rnrdbOKrd houiica hnil ^Ino hnd tlieir porch«n i1ninii]r<*d and ths llttld qtirpn nald iih* would hi«v« til repair lliefn and pnile them In- Knther licrnr they rnuld b* lived In HKuln. And now fi;arlnic they Bilsllt do nioro dimitirA to th* flimsy. PM- pla, llity decided to go aWSF. Iliif flr^t tli»y tli.iiikoil Ml«s ('in- |i>m'llp for her oonrtesy. ".Viiy frlond of riliieesa Oxmn W welcome hfi« iinli-!>H he ancciex," on id the oik'i'M with n Kevere look at I'nole Henry. "I like to have vlsltora admire my vlllHRfl and I hop* you will rn ' on «ia aKiiln." Mia* t^ultenellp h. solf led thoin to the door In tha wall, imd aa thpy pa.iaed along the afreet lh« paper dolla peaped at them half fearfully from tne doora and wind- ows, l^erhapa thay will never fniRct Vncta Henry's powerful sneena. On leavInK ">? Crowley woun. (!en- ernl (!uph hnd to recroSK the mppla l..ind. and he did not find It a pleHS- nnt Ihlna to do. Torhapa hnvinfc hia whi.ikers pulled out one hy one and heinit used aa a pin ruahlon for tha Innot-ent amuafinent of a Kood-nat- iired Jailer had not Improved the rolleellon of the wrongs he had unonie raved and raffed at the r«- rolIiTllonn of the wrona* he ha4 •uffered and vowed to take vena- »ance up oa tha Orowleywogs aftir he had tiaetf tham for ixls purpols anda Oa had baaa o«h«usr«dt Me went on tim m ,> c,,!, <., u ,^ half acroa.i liipple Ijtn.l. when he became arn!«u-k a!ul ihe rr.*! of the way thia luiiiKhly Kiiome i\ »<• al- moat aa miMerMbtc n-t ht^ (U-««-rved to be. But when he re.'ubpd the pl.tina ntrain and tho isronnd wn firm un- der hit feet, he ti-U heiter «nd in- att'ad of Roinit home hi- liiiMfd dir. •1 tty to the wei»i. .\ miulrrei perch- ed In a tree saw him lake Ibi" r<.;id and called to him "l«ok out;" but he f>al4 ao attention. i\ bird p.tiiaed In ts nifht to look at hint wondcrlna- >r %nl sax "lA>ok out"' but on ka waaid i