December 1, 1937

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HUMOR

Parade

PEOPLE OF pacifistic views have been doing a lot of worrying lately for fear Canada’s increased defense appropriations are designed to turn the nation into an armed camp, but doubtless the following item which appeared in the Brandon Sun recently set a good many minds at rest.

WOMEN AND THE HOME

Cutting Up!

Director Chatelaine Institute REGULAR cut-ups, aren't you? Not referring, of course, to your playful moods, but to the paring, coring, slicing and carving that goes on in the kitchen. For the serious business of housekeeping, a good knife is as important in its way as any other piece of equipment around the place. By HELEN G. CAMPBELL6 min

Maclean's Editorials

Reconfederation WHATEVER ELSE the Rowell Commission on Federal-Provincial relations may do, it certainly cannot report that it got no concrete suggestions from the West. A Moose Jaw municipal official, H. W. Bromwich, has sent in a copy of proposals submitted by him to the commission, and they must have left its members breathless.

In the Editor's Confidence

TWO YEARS AGO we went out to Alberta to look into Social Credit. We wrote what we thought was a fair appraisal of the situation as it then existed, and wound up by venturing the opinion that Premier Aberhart couldn’t do what he had promised the electors he would do.