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WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER l1,

"Unity" At All Costs

Our contemporary refers editorially to the vote of confidence in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's leadership “unanimously passed at the caucus of Ontario Liberals." This statement is somewhat misleading. As will be noted in the Canadian Press despatch, the caucus was at- tended only by Ontario Liberal Senators. mem- bers of the Dominion Parliament and federal candidates defeated in the 193,5 general election. It did not include Liberal members of the On- tario Legislature, many of whom are openly behind Premier Hepburn in his anti-Mackenzie King crusade.

The caucus must have been a bitter disap- pointment to Mr. King, notwithstanding the resolution indorsing his leadership. Something more was expected of his federal followers after the “conspiracy" charges voiced at Port Arthur by Messrs. Howe and Rogers, in which a definite and seemingly irrevocable party split was declared to exist.

Instead of reading Premier Hepburn and his warring faction out of the party, as was antici- pated. the caucus of Mr. King's supporters fail- ed even to pass a resolution condemning his re- volt. Indeed, they went so far as to declare that there was no split at all in the Liberal party in Ontario!

Our contemporary, however, while indorsing the views that “Liberalism in Ontario remains united." concludes its editorial with the follow- ing statement: “If every one of the provinces assumed the attitude which Ontario has offi- cially displayed, it would be impossible to get anywhere in the great task of governing Can- nda and we should be in constant turmoil."

The attitude of “Ontario”, of course, refers to the attitude of the Ontario Liberal Govern- inent.

According to Prime Minister King himself, this objectionable attitude is endangering the whole framework of Confederation. It has be- come a matter of the “gravest national impor- tance." And he seems for once to be in agree- ment with Premier Hepburn that there will be

i “no compromise whatsoever."

Whom are we to believe, Mr. King or his party caucus? Their views as to the importance of the Hepburn feud are entirely at variance. It is useless to ask our contemporary, who with sublime disregard for logic indorses both views. It agrees with the caucus that there is no “split" in the party, and with Mr. King that the On- tario Liberal Premier's antics are disrupting not only the party, but Confederation itself!

The Toy Parade

No industry is more sensitive to modern frends and fashions than the toy industry. No sooner are new inventions on the market than toy dup- licates appear, though we suspect it is primarily for the amusement of grown-ups, rather than

children, that the more expensive novelties are

produced. Some of the newest toy gadgets are

listed in the current issue of the National Revenue Review. There is, for example, the small tele- vision telephone set, making it possible by an in- genious arrangement of mirrors for the users to see each other. Ventriloquism, of the old music- hall variety, is in the forefront of modern en- tertainment, and replicas of the talkative little dummy with the silk hat and monocle are to be

seen on many toy shelves.

Industrial and transportation toys bulk large in the I938 pack-streamlined, pint size motor cars humming like real engines; electric buttons with melodious honks, instead of horns, for velo- cipedes; headlights which can be dimmed or brightened; speedometers on bicycles; free wheel- ing on juvenile carts; and doll carriages equip-

ped with safety brakes.

One of the most popular toys today, on this continent at least, is a mechanical construction set invented by a young English clerk. who one Christmas eve, forty years ago, while travelling from London to Birmingham noticed a steam crane at work and conceived the idea of-making construction kits to reproduce practical machin-

ery on a small scale.

Among the many innovations are roller skates with foot grips and noise-muffling devices, rail- road trains with illuminated passenger ears, two- deckcr observation cars, authentic whistles and complete freight car equipment. Scale models are procurable for reproducing famous ships, while trains and automobile racers, and airplane building sets and airport sets are in great de- mand. By means oi a new version of the electric

_ eye an electric train is controlled by a wave of the hand. A boom is on in toyland building equip- ment, which includes eompletelandscape garden- ing sets.‘ A B C blocks are made now with groov- ed surfaces so that when they are made into tow-

There is

j ‘also a new type of gun which instead of shoot-

_ ‘in; holes in the windows, shoots-designs on the

The toy piano which children have al-

has been augmented by a reed organ,

; 4 _, __ to playing scale, with authentic

musical tone and a scope of three or four octaves.

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principle of the projecting miscroscope. Bril- liant explosions are accomplished with safety by magnifying the reactions of such simple house- hold staples as lemon juice and soda.

Then there are the parlour games the adult de- mand for which has sent them up greatly in the sales rank. and there is a great increase in edu- cational play sets, dolls, games and books spon- sored by comic characters and film stars. And lastly, speaking of dolls, they now walk gracefully, boast finger nails, and have longhair for expert coiffeuring. They are dressed in up- to-the-minute styles,

Scottish Oversight

An unexpected discovery of oil in commercial quantities is reported to have been made in Mid- lothian and Fife, Scotland.

The Winnipeg Free Press wonders whimsically how Scotsmen will get over the shock. The dis- covery “is mournfully thought to reflect on the people of those counties." They all along had something good in the ben without knowing it, and will be held “as much to blame as theiab- sent-minded crofter who brought home the skin but threw away the rabbit."

After moralizing on the subject, our Winnipeg contemporary concludes sagely: “Of course there is excuse for the Scottish people's neglect in this instance. They feel they have been too busy look- ing after affairs for the English and the rest of the world to have had time to pick up every little thing lying unseen in their own country."

1-" ‘Editorial Notes J‘

U.S.S.R. established this date, 1922. a m x s

Merchants are reporting busy times and good business. Advertising pays all the year round. w s i: a

The Unhappy Family of Ontario Liberals failed to find full agreement at the family caucus. Bad omen for Christmas and the New Year.

m a a x Eight Wolf Cubs, eight Boy Scouts and eight Rover Scouts formed part of the Guard of Honor for Queen Elizabeth when Her Majesty opened an extension of the Brixton Town Hall, South Lambeth, during Lamhetll Civic \Veek_

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One strange development of recent days has been the repeated declaration of Prime Minister, King in press conference that the defence policy and the refugee policy would be left fbr Parlia- ment to discuss and, presumably, to decide. But obviously the defence policy will be decided be- fore Parliament meets for the very reason that the defence estimates and the defence program will be passed on by the end of this year by the Cabinet. \Vhat the Government proposes to ‘spend on defence is this country's defence policy. So the suggestion that Parliament would be left to decide was only another attempt to ward off j more questions about the Government's possible

change of attitude as a consequence of swiftly

moving world events,

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Ten of Kansas State College's unique white poultry’ have been sent to Sweden, where they will be used in genetics experiments, according to letters just received from Dr. Gert Bonnier, geneticist at the Institute for Hufajursforading at Wiad, Sweden. The unusual poultry have white plumage, frizzled feathers and crested heads. They are said to be the only fowls in the world that combine these three characteris- tics. Dr. Bonnier wrote Dr. D_ C. Warren, Pro-‘ fessor of Poultry Husbandry, that he was un-l able to find poultry with these three character- istics desired for his genetic experiments any- whcre in Europe. “The birds are not of any recognized breed," said Dr. Warren. “Their coni- bination of characteristics makes them admir- able subjects for research in the field of genet- ' 3| ics. i’ i ‘ ‘i

In one of his poems James Stephens, express- ing the desire to free his mind of everything else and wait for the murmur of the winds of song, wants to be as “lonely as a tree.” Is a tree lone- 1y? They are sociable in the forests. They can hear each other talk. The eye marks a solitary tree with a. sort of compassion, but who knows how sensitive its hearing is? Perhaps it can al- ways pick up the gossip of a distant fellow. In some of the Santa P_al cases you feel the extreme of loneliness. You see people who are about as lonely as the first, tree in the world. There is the boy of four whose father is in a public in- stitution, whose mother deserted him. The woman who was supposed to take care of him gave him the feeling that he was “unwanted.” He wouldn't cat any more. He cried by the hour till the neigh- bors heard him. He knows what loneliness is. So does the five-year-old tongue-tied girl whose father's in jail and whose mother, has no use for her daughter. There are other little ones in the all-alone list. There are grown-ups, too, with no relatives, no‘ friends, no money. Shall they not find friends and gifts in this friendly season?

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When Premier Mitch Hepburn goes to Aus- tralia to study the financial situation, he should include New Zealand in his itinerary. The New Zealand Government announced early this month its decision to control imports and to licence ex- ports because of an "excess of imports." It also suspended redemption of Reserve Bank notes in sterling, stating it wanted to conserve its sterling funds and to ensure bond debts would be met when due. Explaining the measure at that time Wil- liam Jordon, New Zealand High Commissioner to London, stated that "concurrently with inter- nal recovery (in New Zealand) imports have also recovered. They have in fact recently increas- ed on a scale that even British exporters could

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NOTES BY TIIE WAY

An berawnmnaooumbuynwund of steak for a dlmo but forieu he had to work m hour to earn the dlme. —Dot-ro1t Non.

Deaths have Increased more thanfortwWl-cmtlnCanndaln

Depdrunent

National Health at Ottawa. Heart dlseaao baa become the chlef cause o! death ln this country. Over mne- typercentotalldeathsfromtbls cause occur ln persons over forty years o! age. -—Calgary Dally Herald.

A Tomaso annulus c‘ oom- pany suppwln: the bulldm: tn- dusury has gone into bankruptcy, lts tax bllls of $8,000 a year belng one of the chief reasons. Over- taxatlon ls not peculiar to To- ronto. It exists ln every city, town and hamlet throughout the nation. As individuals and as a. nation we are heading towards bankruptcy by taxation. -Sherbrooke Record.

The mm who first Introduced the saxophone to America ls sorry about it now. He ls Edmond Hardy, an slghty-yesr-old Montreal or- chestra conductor. He'd have left the saxophone severely alone, hs says, l! he had known how the ‘swlng" orchestras were going to use lt. Theyye “swung" 1t on hlm. —Montreal Star.

There was a tlnu when Canada plald good money to attract set.-

ers. But not tn-day. We wlll not even let ln Brltlah grants. The reason, of course, ls tragically plain. We cim no longer say to new settlers: "Make good on the land, as your pioneer redecessora dld or go hunlfy." We ave set up a system of’ "relief" which tempts these settlers Into the towns where the various governments combine to keep them in degenerating ldle- ness. -Montrcal Star.

Thoulh In war-time the British Isles might he vulnerable from aerial attack, depending upon the effectiveness of the Royal Alr Force. lt should not be forgotten that they are ln no more danger of invasion by an enemy force than they were ln 1914 or in Napoleonic times. Probably not as much, and while a lot of danger might be done by alr attack, lt would be impossible to knock out Britain without an invading force; and no enemy army could cross the Chan- nel ln the face of the present over- whelming supremacy of the Brit,- lsh fleet, to which in war-time would be added the French navy. -Toronto Telegram.

Representative Joe Blames of Alabama (a member of the Dles committee): - “Christopher

Marlowe? Isn't Christopher Mar- lowe a C mmunlst?" Mrs. Hallie Flanagan i (director of WPA Fed- eral Theatro ProJectsM-“I want ft put lnto the record that. Christo- pher Marlowe was a noted play- wright o! the day of Shakespeare.” Which recalls the one - time Governor of_ Oklahoma, Jack Walton, who. incensed because a newspaper editorial about hlrn had quoted Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader," ordered his henchmen: " ‘e this guy Browning and brln him/in! I'll teach htm to write poetry about me." And the lady of literary pre- tensions who said she considered Scott's ‘Emulsion the best thing he ever wrote-New York world- Telegram.

Slr William Muloek, former Chief Justice of Ontario, ls a lover of trees. Hls devotion to them has made him a mllllonalre, quite apart from his other investments. Nor did he create fortune by slashlng down forests, denud- lng land of its wealth ln timber. He made it. h the reverse process. by th¢ plant ng of trees. At. his Summer home 30 miles north of Toronto Sh" William has a black walnut grove which ls valued at $1,000,000. Three decadse ago the trees were but sapllngs. Now they are quite good sized and bound to become even more valuable with

a. hobby with Sir Wllllam, and he has made of lt a profitable one. He has planted on his Bummer estate several types, all of which wlll develop into wood which ls much ln demand. The available world sup- ply of black walnut oak, etc, ls constantly diminishing. thus m- dlng to the value of tho remaln- lng trees of Windsor Star.

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treasury branches" A slmllar ic- quest-or perhaps demand would

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The Road To Bethlehem

(By the Right Rev.‘ John w. WOOdSIdsB. D. D. Moderator, The United Church of Canada)

When the shepherds ln the Judean fields first heard the glad tidings and listened to the $118615’ 54mg, they took God at His word. In swift and glorious decision they said one to another, "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing whloh ls come to pass." The generations have been fol- lowing that shining trail, The artists. the poets and the story- tellers, the philosophers and the theologians, the common folk and the children have been journeying to Bethlehem in expectant. faith.

And yet there have been tlmes tin vtvylhlph CIhIl-Sblfl-IIS must have oun t we -nlgh impossible to make that pilgrimage, moods 1n which they must have felt that lf they went at all lt. would be with clouded vision and heavy hearts. For many of us the pres- ent may appear to be one of these. We seem Just now to be “in the bleak mldwlnter”—the mldwtnter ofdlsllluslon and discontent, Fears of the unknown make llfe miser- able fcr millions or people in l1] lands today, The stark tragedy of war leaves its horrible trail of death and suffcrlni; even acres the road to Bethlehem. Hymns of hate too often take the place of the angels‘ song. Class is being ln- clted against class, race against race, ln a. discouraging and de- Bmdlng spectacle.

But we who believe ln God know that there ls another slde to the picture even at this moment. We know that the spirit and ideal ravealed to the shepherds at Bithlehem ls allve and active, and steadily gaining ground in our day. We know that over against 'he man-made tlde flln‘ hreatens ‘.0 overwhelm all the finer things of llfe there is a tide of God, deep and strong, which will surely carry this distracted world out of the darkness lnto the realms of amlty and peace.

We see ln the Dlvlne Clilld who came to Bethlehem an incarnation of the Good Wlll which lies back of all the frtghtenln, elianglnz scenes ln which we pay our part. And lf men ask a reason for the faith that ls 1n us. we have con- oof for our belief. ’l‘he the world are towards unlty. Beyond any doubt dawtilng on the mind of humanity that there ls no hope or prospect of stability or prosperity which la not based on a common loyalty ‘embracing all mankind. War la not ‘inevitable; nor ls vlolecit over- throw of the social order. The "home-sickness of the human soul for justice, liberty and brother. lhood" la not merel the slrn of a unlversal demand or fer-rewhlnc changes; ls also the slgn for I. hope and n. belief that the changes may be brought about ln an at-

of peace and not of

righteousness. As never before, the Churches are comln to have one conscience; and the conscience ls uneasy over everything 1n our so- cial or polltlcsl systems that ln- fllures human personality.

Peop an friendly, llvo and let llve. No one wlll ever -' us that the majority of fihe cltlum, even ln my of the lmllltarlstlc states really want war. We know that they do not. Nor wlll any one persuade us to believe that all rloli men want to Irlnd the faces of the . or that the are but we in; the oppor- ty to ‘espoll th more for- tunsto neighbours. The winning

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