ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUL NEWS Wut THERE'S something about cutting your own tobacco right off the plug that makes it taste fresher— and it smokes longer. - The Prospect Of War If it were not for-the tragic potentialities involved, the conflicting re- ports on the kaleidoscopic European situation and the daily prognostica- tions of authorities, and others without authority, as to the eventual out- come of international misunderstandings and disputes, would be entertain- ing and amusing. Unfortunately so much is at stake for the whole world and the possible consequences of the ever-shifting misunderstandings among the European nationals are so fraught with risk that one cannot afford, even at this dis- tance, to treat the subject with levity, or even to contemplate conditions Overseas with complacency. Both visitors to this continent from European countries and Canadians and Americans who have returned home from a visit on the other side of the Atlantic, appear to be quite ready to voice freely their opinions on the causes and trends of international difficulties and even to predict the out- come. Many go even further and venture to assert with confidence the approximate time when these quarrels are to culminate in open conflict and general conflagration, The opinions which these people convey might at least be informative and their prophecies might have some value, if it were not for the fact that no two of them agree, and readers and listeners who are sufficiently inter- ested to absorb everything that is printed or spoken on the subject, must be befuddled in their efforts to straighten out the tangles of conflicting im- pressions left on their minds. With or without data to support their theories, these prophets an- nounce that there will be no general European war, that there will be a War some time, that there will be a war within six months, that there is no possibility of an outbreak within the next year but that it is inevitable within the next eighteen months. Some of these prophecies are couched in commanding and authoritative terms with a degree of positiveness that brooks no hedging. Others are conditioned by “ifs”, ‘unless’, “perhapses’ and “most probablys.”” : Further than that, many of those who are sponsoring an outbreak in the comparatively near future are quite ready to, and do, announce what the line-up will be, and why, and who is going to start the trouble that everyone shudders to contemplate. Here again there is so much conflict of opinion that even if the student is prepared to accept the dictum that there will be a war, he is nonplussed when it comes to an effort to diagnose the cause, or to group the opposing nations. That there is a conflict of opinion on this absorbing topic is not sur- prising when one considers that the social, political and economic affairs of the majority of the nations on the other side of the water are in a state of flux, and that national viewpoints are changing with such rapidity that it is not only difficult to follow them at long range, but this difficulty is accentuated by the almost impossibility of sifting out facts from propaganda. However, from this welter of conflicting opinion and mass of tinged information a few truths have emerged. One of these is that most of the talk about a European war is being freely ventilated on this side of the Atlantic while very little is being said or published on the subject in the European countries themselves. It cannot be gainsaid, howeyer, that if the peoples of Europe are not talking very much about or predicting war they are at least making very active preparations for it, if it Should come. Practically every country from the smallest to the largest is strengthening is defences and is rein- forcing all branches of its military services. None of them proposes to be caught napping, it would seem. And back of all this activity lies the germ which has caused the fever and which can be variously labelled—suspicion, mistrust, fear—precisely the Same germ which has done so much to retard economic recovery from the general world depression. For all close observers must haye come to the conclusion that every country in Europe is afraid of its neighbors, Each is afraid that one of the others may start something which cannot be stopped and that the innocent may be drawn into the maelstrom that is likely to ensue. Wach is sus- Ppicious of the actions of the others and each mistrusts the others’ motives, There is also reason to believe that the rank and file of the common people of most, if not all, the countries across the ocean are not anxious for war, but, on the contrary do not want it and would be prepared to go a long way to avoid it. Hence, we have the incongruous spectacle of peo- ples who would: like to devote their energies to commercial progress and who dislike war bending their efforts to the perfection of costly and effici- ent machinery of destruction, because of fear. . Until this attitude of distrust, suspicion and fear can be dissipated there can be little hope of the European situation improving and this is a task which might well be undertaken by a remodelled and rejuvenated League of Nations. It is not unreasonable to suppose that a League of Nations with modi- fied covenants whose chief function would be to bring the nations closer together in frank mutual discussions of their problems around a table might achieve more than a League bulwarked by convenants which recent history has shown cannot be enforced. It is only when people get together in frank discussion that they lose instinctive distrust of one another, Wild men of Borneo are becoming modernized, Instead of head-hunting, their chief hobby is collecting pic- Seeing in the dark may become a fact, An apparatus with which it is possible to do this is claimed to have tures of film stars. Travellers re- port that trophies hung round the Dyak tribal huts, in addition to enemy skulls, now include the por- traits of glamorous Hollywood film actresses torn from old magazines. After stealing $1,000 from a Cairo, Egypt, safe, an absent-minded burg- Jar forgot his tool chest, bearing his} name and address, been invented by a German electrical company, it was stated in a lecture at Berlin, given by Dr. Bruschs. It is accomplished with the aid of infra- red rays, he explained. Waterloo, Neb., has an ordinance, passed in 1910, which reads: “It shall be illegal for any barber in this town to eat onions between 7 am, and 7 p.m. Recovery In Canada American businessmen were ad- vised by Colonel L. P. Ayres, busi- ness statistician and vice-president} of the Cleveland Trust Company, to compare United States recovery with that of Canada. 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Stubbornly refuse anything else. 25< Long-Lost Textile Discovered Thread Known As Bissus Yields Fabric Similar To Wool A textile fibre dating back to bib- lical times, whose manufacturing secret had been lost through the ages school teacher, The ancient thread, known as “bissus” is extracted from a tiny shellfish, the ‘“Pinna-Nobilis.” Ac- cording to Miss Rita Del Bene, the discoverer, bissus yields a fabric similar to wool by means of a simple chemical process. The ancients, however, wove a silk- like fabric from the marinemollusk which though more beautiful was not as strong as the “fish wool’ produced by the school teacher. To Mark Coronation Memorial To Be Erected In Capital Of Malay States What is claimed to be the empire's first memorial to mark the corona- tion is being erected in the market place at Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States. It takes the form of an ornamental tower 30 feet high and 11 feet wide, and surmounts an electrical sub- station. At the summit of the tower will be a four-faced electric clock, Under the clock will be a bronze plate with an inscription - the Royal Mint. The change, if it} has been rediscovered by an Italian} | Programme. This programme as | planned, is to be a 32-page book, and | @ notable specimen of the printer’s art, worthy of keeping as a perma- | ment souvenir of an outstanding his- toric event. The cover will bear the Royal Coat of Arms in colours, and the fly leaf will carry a photograph | of His Majesty, the King, facing a message to the Empire from the King himself. A photograph of Mary, the Queen Mother, faces pictures of her |four other children—H.R.H. The Duke of York, H.R.H. The Duke of | Gloucester, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent and H.R.H. The Princess Royal A poem by John Masefield, the poet laureate, follows and then an article entitled “The King's Majesty” by John Drinkwater, and one by Rec- tor Bolitho entitled, “King Edward the Eighth.” * Five pages are given to the detail- ed order of the Coronation proces- sion in London, including a map of the route. His Grace, the Lord Archbishop of ‘Canterbury contri- butes an introduction to the Order of Servi¢e, which latter is given eight pages of full detail, so as to supple- ment the radio broadcast, to which millions will be listening in through- out the British Empire, the United States and many other countries. By help of the programme the service may be followed with fuller appre- ciation of its historic tradition. 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Sale of the Coronation programme will be in the hands of the stationery trade, and, during a period of some days immediately previous to the date of the Coronation, in those of the Canadian Boy Scouts, of whom His Excellency, the Governor-General will act as honorary chief of staff. No copies will be released for sale prior to April 23. SELECTED RECIPES ROSE WHITE FRUIT CAKE 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 3 eggs & cups flour 2 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder 4 teaspoon salt 1 lb. raisins 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup chopped nuts and candied cherries mixed 4% cup warm milk Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder and salt, sift together. Cream butter thoroughly, gradually adding sugar, beat the eggs till as ating the crowning of King Edward Vii. Entitled To Place The Bishop of Birmingham thinks that General Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, should be in- at the Coronation. 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In a proclamation on his 25th birthday, the Maharajah of Travan- core threw open all state temples to all classes of Hindus without caste distinction. The proclamation decreed: “Henceforth there shall be no re- striction placed on any Hindu by birth or religion from entering or worshipping at temples controlled by the Travancore government.” The prohibition against worship- ping in the temple with the higher castes is one of the worst indignities suffered by the depressed Hindu castes, and has engaged the efforts of Indian reformers for many years. The cause of the untouchables was championed by Gandhi. Travancore has a population of about 5,000,000. It is hoped the Maharajah’s decree will have a wide influence in India and especially in neighboring Cochin and the nearby large state of Mysore. The Hon. Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, a noted Indian political leader, said the young Maharajah’s emanci- pation of the untouchables “marks a unique occasion in the history of In- dia, especially in Hinduism.” Self-Serve Barber Shop Customers In Russia Can Shave Themselves For Nominal Sum Moscow, Russia, has opened a self- serve barber shop as an experiment. In quarters formerly occupied by an old-style barbering establishment comfortable chairs have been lined up before washstands and long mir- rors. Customers are invited to sit and shave themselves for a nominal sum. The only barber present is Nina Saveilyeva who is called an “in- structor.” Her duties require her to | see to it that patrons wash their | hands before shaving and receive the ; necessary supplies, and to act as in- | structor to the inexperienced. | Sun Is Shrinking The sun is gradually radiating | away its substance in the form of | light and heat, and is doomed to | shrink to half its present size. 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Two attendants in knee-breeches brought in two great silver goblets, to which were attached sprigs of lilies of the valley on either side of the lips. From them hung long fes- toons of white silk. One was present- ed to Lord Hewart and the second to Sir George. The lord chief justice took a step forward and raised his goblet, “To the lord mayor-elect.” The cups were ceremoniously ex- changed, and Sir George, in his turn, took a pace forward and drank, “To | the lord chief justice of England.” Afterwards the goblets were passed round and everyone drank to the new lord mayor. ~ i German Officer Buried Canadian Soldiers Form Guard Of Honor At Ceremony In British Columbia f A former German officer and holder of his country’s highest war- time award, the Iron Cross, found © his last resting "place Armistice Day. Lieut. 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