JUST GLEANINGS

10-CENT PAY INCREASE TO FOUR MONTH TRAINEES

National defence headquarters at Ottawa have announced than an in- crease of 10 cents a day in pay of re- serve recruits training under the four- month compulsory plan will be put in force, bringing the sum to $1.30 a day, the same as privates in the Canadian Active Army service,

Dependant allowances will also be in force, although this will be mainly to mothers or others in support of the 21- year-old class of single recruits,

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FEDERAL SHADE OF RELIEF TO BE BORNE BY PROVINCE

According to an announcement by Hon, W.W. Cross, Alberta minister of health and relief, the Alberta govern- ment hag decided to take over the 40 percent of the provincial direct relief costs now contributed by the feder:! government which will be discont':ued March 31.

This will mean that the province will pay 80 per cent of relief costs and municipalities the same as before —20 per cent, Cost to the province was estimated at $800,000 in the next year,

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THE HEIGHT OF PATRIOTISM

“I have been saving this up to di- vorce my husband, but I think I can stick him better than I can stick Hit- ler,” says a woman giving money to the Edinburgh War Savings Fund. Are you making such a supreme sacri- fice? Think it over!

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NEW CORVETTES NAMED FOR FIVE ALBERTA TOWNS

OTTAWA—Names of 5 Alberta towns and cities have been chosen for source of the 54 corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy being built in the Do- minion under the wartime ship con- struction program,

A list of the names for Corvettes showed the following: Dunvegan, We- taskiwin, Camrose, Lethbridge, Drum- heller,

Mr. Merchant: If your stock of counter sales books is getting low why not order a new supply now be- fore prices advanee? Delivery can be made at any date up to 30 days and the placing of your order now will protect you against a price rise, You save nothing by ordering through a

travelling salesman—our™ prices ure positively the lowest and express charges are. prepaid.—The Carbon Chronicle.

“What are you doing?” yelled the foreman,

“I’m just sharpening a pencil,” call- ed back the bricklayer,

“Well don’t let anybody see you. That’s a carpenter’s job, you know.”

A member of a Ladies’ Aid Society in a smal] town went to the bank to deposit, as she told the banker “some | aid money.”

Unfortunately the banker thought she said “egg money,” and replied: “Remarkable, isn’t it, how well the old hens are doing these days?”

Then he couldn’t understand why | the woman gathered up her pass book and hurried from the bank!

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VOLUME 20; NUMBER 5

CARBON, ALBERTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941

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14TH ARMY TANK BATTALION IN NEED OF TRUCK AND TRACTOR MEN

Major C.E. Page in Carbon on Monday

Major C.E, Page of the 14th Army Tank Battalion (Calgary Regiment) was in Carbon Monday and called at The Chronicle office in the hopes that we may be of assistance in bringing to the notice of prospective recruits the openings in the regiment for young men who can handle tractors and trucks, Those with experience can join up at materially increased pay over regular army privates, and the possibilities of advancement are great for experienced men.

The Army Tank Battalion consists of 580 men of all ranks, and has 147 vehicles, which requires many men, At present the 14th Army Tank Battalion consists has about 275 men, so there is still plenty of opening for recruits, although the ranks are rapidly being filled,

Major Page stated that if ten or more local young men wished to join his Battalion a Medical Poard would come to Carbon to give them neces. sary examinations, Otherwise the re- cruits will have to go to Calgary where they will be given immediate examina- tion when they make application to Lieut.-Col. W.K, Jull, Commanding Of- ficer of Calgary Tank Regiment.

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THE WORLD OF WHEAT REVIEWED WEEKLY BY MAJOR H.G.L. STRANGE

Recently I had the privilege of visit- ing the States of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa and Minne- sota, looking into agricultural matters. In each of these States ™ found the Governments and Colleges of Agricul- ture, the Grain Companies, the Millers und Bakers, all concerning themselves with the improvement of the quality of their wheat.

The Canadian “Crop Testing Plan” I found had been adopted as the basis of the Crop Improvement rojects, The American people are proposing to li- cense by law the varieties that farm- ers can grow, They are growing and testing samples of the farmers crops to determine their trueness-to-variety and are making good seed available at cost to those farmers who need it.

The work is being actively pursued, and these States, each of which ex- ports wheat in normal times, are de- termined that the quality of their wheat shall be acceptable. to World’s buyers when peacetime comes.

The activity of our Amevyican friends makes it all the more necessary, it seems to me, why we in Canada should i{ possible, even increase the efforts we are now making to improve the cuality of our own Prairie wheat; for after the coming of peace our wheat producers wil] certainly have to face some keen competition on the markets of the World,

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RUINS— This Fiat fighter was one of the thirteen Italian planes destroyed by British Air Force

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RED CROSS SOCIETY NO

The parcels of food for British pris- oners of war in Germany which the Canadian Red Cross is shipping over- seas, will soon be increased from ten thousand a week to 20,000, The British Red Cross has requested the Society in Canada to double its shipments, To accomplish this the Red Cross in Mon. treal is preparing to pack 10,000 par- cels a week to keep pace with Tor- onto’s figure.

The first allotment of 8,000 parcels, despatched last month, has reached Lisbon safely according to a cable re- ceived from the International Red Cross representative there, These will be forwarded immediately to Geneva via Marceilles for distribution in Ger- man prison camps. The number of parcels packed in Toronto to date to- tals 48,690 and this figure is being in- creased at a rate of 2,000 a day,

DUTIES OF CURLERS

Duties of the various members of a curling rink are outlined below, These are published so that members will know just what their duties are when they tie up with some of the skips of the local club.

The Lead—A Lowly Person—This is a very lowly person who throws the first pair of rocks, He is supposed to thank the Deity once a day in his prayers that he even exists, let alone being allowed to play at bonspiel time, He always addresses the skip as “Sir” and the third man as “Mr.” This lead person is expected to see that the four pairs of rocks belonging to his rink are on the ice and cleaned five minutes before the game starts, He must do no less than 75 ver cent of the sweeping; he is expected to keep the skip fully supplied with cigarettes. His curling must be perfect or he is blamed for the loss of the games if his rink suffers defeat, He may tell the second man what he thinks about the skip, but no one else, After many years of curling he becomes a skip if he survives the sarcasm of his asso- ciates,

The Second Player—‘Mere Man”— This person is but a degree removed from the lead, He is expected to do 15 per cent of the sweeping. He also, as the lead, is expected to keep the skip supplied with cigarettes and the third man with matches, He must on all occasions get the rock he is to pick out, otherwise he is blamed for loss of games,

The Third Player—A Gentleman— This gentleman is in a class by him- self always, He could skip the rink in fact he always could skip it far better than the skip doing the job now, He assumes an air of superiority over all leads and seconds and of mere condescension to his skip, He does the remaining 10 per cent of the sweep- ing. He holds the broom for the skip to shoot, and invariably tells the skip that he should have tried the shot he the third man, had chosen, and not the one he, the skip, had just missed

The Skip—The Ideal Curler—He is a gentlemanly sportsman who gets up the rink, often sacrificing valuable time to the interest and entertainment of three other curlers who wish to play in the bonspiel, He does none of th sweeping, he merely holds the broom and his own temper while the rest of the rink miss the one and strain the other, He has to knock out shots wher he can only see an eye brow, He must draw to the button, making it by just eighths of inches, He must play a run. ner shot and a draw the next. He must take out four rocks with one shot and then lay on the button and generally make himself useful, knowing that if he loses he alone bears the blame, He must have the patience of Job and thc aggressiveness of Napoleon, and must never complain or he will be classed as a poor sport,

AMATEUR PROGRAM AND DANCE, FRIDAY, MARCH 14

The Carbon Junior Red Cross will sponsor an amateur program and dance to be’ held in the Farmers Ex- change hall on Friday, March 14th, the program to commence at 8 p.m.

First and second prizes in the ama- teur contest will be $5 War Savings Certificates, and the third and fourth prizes will be $2 in cash each,

All entries in the amateur contest must be sent to Miss Marmie Ritchie before March 13,

Following the program a dance will be held with Velvetone orchestra pro- viding the music,

CARBON AND DISTRICT :: NEWS NOTES :: Mr. and Mrs, Wilfred Poxon of East

Coulee, who spent last week in Car- bon, returned to their home Friday.

Rev. Hinchey fell last week and in- jured his arm, thus keeping him out of the bonspiel,

Mrs. M.J, Elliott spent a few days in Calgary last week.

Miss Isabe] Summers spent Sunday at her home in Craigmyle.

A regular blizzard came up Mon- day, but fortunately the wind abated late in the afternoon, About six inches of new snow has fallen this week and Sunday night the temperature dropped to 20 degrees below zero.

Mrs, J.H, Oliphant spent the week end in Calgary and returned home on Sunday evening,

Walter Johnston of McKibbin Drug Store staff, left Sunday for his home in Calgary and will return to school to complete his Latin course,

Francis Colvin, one-time resident of Carbon, but lately of Newcastle, pass- ed away last Wednesday night in the Drumheller hospital.

Ten C.G.I.T, members attended the conference in Calgary last Friday, Sat- urday and Sunday, Local girls attend- ing were Mary Ward, Olga Kapaniuk, Lucia Kalapaca, Helen Madgesi, Mar- garet Cameron,*Annie Shyjka, Alma White, Jolayne Milligan and Helen Gablehouse,

Miss Iris Laing arrived Sunday from Kelowna, B.C, and spent the day visiting with Mr, and Mrs, Ross Thor- burn, Iris was bridesmaid at the wed- ding of her sister, Joyce, in Calgary Saturday,

We understand that Toby Webb is ill with pneumonia. in the Drumheller hospital,

Mrs, Jane Anderson left last week to visit with her daughter at Mirror.

Thos, B. Laing returned from Calgary, where he attended the wedding of his daughter, Joyce,

There will be a special service for Carbon curlers in the United Church on Sunday morning, March 2nd.

Fire early Tuesday morning destroy- ed the three-hoomed house on the “is- land” belonging to the Stroski family, The firse apperently started from an

overheated stove and had gained con- | siderable headway before noticed, and , the building and contents were a total |

loss, Mrs, Stroski and child escaped from the burning building through a window,

Vernon Alf is sick with Corea, and |

will not be able to attend school for a month or two,

Sunday |

RED CROSS GETS LETTER OF THANKS FROM JACK EVANS

The following letter of ‘appreciation was received this week by the Carbon Red Cross from John Evans, of the R. C.N, now serving in England:

H.M.C.S, Ottawa, C./o, G.P.O, London January 26, 1941

Dear Sir: (or is it madam?) I must plead ignorance this time of even the knowledge of an existing branch of the Red Cross in Carbon.

You can imagine my surprise there. fore, to receive your parcel of cookies. I can only start to express my appre- ciation and thanks for such gifts and really a treat—a rare delicacy over here, and all the more appreciated be- cause they come from home, |

In closing let me thank you again and wish you every success with your good work,

Yours sincerely, JOHN EVANS

Dr, Wm, Kuhn of Chicago, general secretary of German Baptist church of North America, was a visitor in Carbon last week, the guest of Rev. and Mrs, F. Alf, Sunday morning Dr. Kuhn preached at the Zion Baptist church,

A disasterous fire of unknown ori- gin broke out on the Karl Schuler farm Monday noon, burning his valu- able pump house to the ground, By the prompt action of the one-man hucket brigade the wooden water tank was saved from complete destruction. We understand no insurance was ¢2r- ried on either, Sabotage was suspect- ed.—Contributed,

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FIRST MEETING OF THE 1941 SCHOOL BOARD

The first meeting of the 1941 Board of the Carbon School District was held on Friday evening, February 21st with trustees Flaws, Thorburn and McKib- bin present,

Jas, Flaws was elected Chairman of the Board for 1941, and Alex Reid was elected secretary,

H. WOODS WINS ONTARIO LAUNDRY EVENT AND W. J). NESBITT THE PEERLESS

Final of Blue Ribbon Will Decide Winners

The annua] bonspiel of the Carbon Curling Club was completed on Satur- day with the exception of the final in the Blue Ribbon event, bringing to a close the most successful ‘spiel in the history of the local club, 24 rinks were entered, and play continued from 7:00 o'clock in the morning till long after midnight for four days before the fi- nals were reached in the three compe- titions.

In the Ontario Laundry event H. Woods took first, with Nesbitt of

Swalwell second, Gimbel third, and Downey fourth. In the Peerless Carbon Collierics

event, Bert Nesbitt of Swalwell wos first, McKibbin second, Leiske third, and Wolff of Swalwell fourth.

The Blue Ribbon final game between the Len Poxon and Alec Poxon rinks was to have been played Wednesday to decide the winners in this event.

The Bert Nesbitt rink of Swalwell won the grand aggregate, having won the most games during the bonspiel.

During the week the Carbon Ladies’ Aid served lunches and we understand that nearly $150 was cleared by them during the four days.

Following is a list of the games played in the various events:

ONTARIO LAUNDRY

Priebe 9, Leiske 8; A. Poxon 12, Wolff 8; L. Poxon 7, Nesbitt 11; Akre 9; F, Tricker 14; McKibbin 12, Gran- berg 9; Wright 7, Powers 9; Garrett 11, Bob Tricker 10; Woods 12, Barker 3; Skerry 12, Fred Poxon 5; ‘Downey 10, Olson 4; Leitch 7, Cannings 11; Priebe 11, A, Poxon 10; Nesbitt 11, F. Tricker 5; McKibbin 18, Powers 8; Garrett 5. ’Gimbel 18; Priehe 3, Nesbitt 18; McKibbin 12, Gimbel 15; Woods 13, Skerry 10; Downey 13, Cannings 7; Nesbitt 11, Gimbel 4; Woods 10, Dow- ney 9; Nesbitt 7, Woods 9.

PEERLESS EVENT

Frank Tricker 9, Wright 10; Leiske 18; Skerry 10; Granberg .2, L. Poxon 13; Fred Poxon 5, Gimbel 13; Barker if Leitch 11; Olson 8, Woods 9; Akre 7, Powers il; Nesbitt 13, Pricbe 7; Wright 4, Leiske 13; L, Poxon 15, Gimbel 6; Leitch 8, Woods 7; Powers 8, Nesbitt 13; Wolff 12, Downey 4; Wyndham 12, Cannings 13; McKib- bin 17, Bob Tricker 7; Garrett 7, A. Poxon 14; Leiske 12, L, Poxon 8; Nes- bitt 14, Leitch 9; Wolff 16, Cannings 15; McKibbin 11, A, Poxon 10; Leiske 12, Nesbitt 18; Wolff 4, McKibbin 13; Nesbitt 14, McKibbin 4,

BLUE RIBBON EVENT

L. Poxon 16, Garrett 5; F, Poxon 10, Wright 9; Leitch 8, Cannings 6; Powers 12, Granberg 6; Priebe 8, A. Poxon 12; Wyndham 8, Akre 7; Bark- er 8, Bob Tricker 12; L, Poxon 14, F. Poxon 11; Leitch 8, Powers 9; Skerry 5, A. Poxon 10; L, Poxon 14, Powers 7; A. Poxon 14, Wyndham 4,

RED CROSS DONATIONS

The following donations to the Car- bon branch of the Red Cross Society

Passing accounts for payment was| are acknowledged:

the only other business transacted at the meeting,

3.50 4.75

J. Kopulos, Three Hills E.D, McKeller, Hesketh, .

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Equitability Of Sacrifice

Never in Canadian history have the people of this country been so united in the prosecution of a national objective as they are at the présent time in their determination to bend all their resources to the winning of the current war; never before have they been so willing to make great Sacrifices in & common cause as they are at the present time.

When the issues at stake in this conflict between the democracies tnd totalitarians are given the fullest consideration and their due weight, the desirability, nay more than that, the utmost necessity, for complete accord and unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is apparent if our heritage of liberty and freedom is to be conserved,

The torce of the Canadian war effort is going to be determined by the extent to which the present high morale of the people is maintained. The maintenance of a high degree of morale, so essential to give full effect to the blows we deliver at the enemy, will be decided by the extent to which we are prepared to make sacrifices and the extent to which we are willing to equalize the burden of these sacrifices as between the east and the west, as between the producer and the consumer, as between one industry and another

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from the contribution of man power to the armed forces for services overseas on a voluntary basis and for home defence as a compul- sory measure, the Canadian war effort is confined to the provision of the sinews of warfare in the form of fighting craft, arms and munitions and foodstuffs to maintain British and our own fighting forces and their civilian populations.

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Our Special Contribution

For various reasons which need not be entered into here but which are well known, the task of creating fighting craft and the manufacture of munitions and arms is of necessity largely confined to the industrial east and in a lesser degree to British Columbia. The war products which are being turned out in the factories and workshops and shipyards of eastern Canada are required for immediate use. Hence they are immediately con- vertible into cash which has already brought and is continuing to bring to the east a high degree of prosperity and an increasing purchasing power to the people of the east. / |

For various reasons, and equally well known, the war task of the prairie | provinces is confined to the provision of foodstuffs for the fighting men and the civilian populations. For much of this Western agricultural produce, and particularly wheat, there is no immediate export demand and may not be for some considerable time. Hence, the prairie provinces, while making great sacrifices in the national effort are not only not sharing in the pros- perity which the east enjoys, but are sustaining losses occasioned by con- tinued production of commodities, much of which must be stored for future | use and for some of which there is only a limited demand in a restricted area and of doing so in the face of rising costs of production. |

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The situation was fairly summarized in a brief recently submitted to| the federal government by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in the) following words: |

“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifices. All classes of our peo- ple will be called upon to make sacrifices and the agricultural industry is | ready and willing to bear its full share of the heavy load which Canada has shouldered. It is vital, from consideration of national unity, that no one} class shall be called upon to carry an undue share of the burden and that | there should be equality of sacrifice by all classes,

“As the tempo of industrial production is speeded up to meet the urgent need for munitions and war supplies, there is a grave danger that the pres- | ent disparity between agricultural and industrial income will increase. More} than three million Canadians now live on farms and engage in the produc- | tion of food supplies. Another two million live in rural areas directly de-| pendent the their livelihood. But, while there has been a tremendous rise in the national income, agriculture’s share of the national income continues to decline, in the face of steadily increasing cost | of production.”

The brief refers to the necessity of continued agricultural production as an important factor in winning the war and to supply the needs of hun- gry countries after the war and points out the need, if agriculture is to continue to play its full share in this effort, of the following two policies:

“1, There must be an immediate and substantial increase of farm in- relation to the national income; and A properly co-ordinated national policy for agriculture, including as well as production, must be instituted.”

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A United Voice never in the history of the country has Canadian agriculture united in its representations for removal of inequalities as_ evi- denced in brief of the of Agriculture, which co-operative and producer organizations of every province of the} including British Columbia and the Maritimes,

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Contributions, Great And Small, Com- ing From Many Quarters

Nine more veterans of the Great War have added their names tc the growing list of pensioners making monthly free-will contributions to Canada’s War Fund. The contribu- tions range from $5.00 to $37.50 per month. One pensioner, resident in Toledo, Ohio, returns his total pen- sion received since August 1940,

Students in schools, small com- munities, societies and ¢lubs all join in offering to the war fund. An In- dian, away in North West Territory, sends $10. From Almirante, Panama, come $500 in American funds. In- stead of making Christmas gifts, pupils in Room 28, Herchmer school, Regina, forward $2.25. Three doctors send fees from medical examinations. A resident of Dugald, Manitoba, con- tributes a five dollar gold piece, gift of a golden wedding anniversary. A schoolboy in Great Falls, Manitoba, gives a dollar won at school for re- citing. An anonymous gift of $3,000 represents “profits made by a com- pany.”

Wellwishers across the Dominion and scattered over the United States add their contributions.

Likely To Be Popular

Various Colored Yashmaks Will Be Used In London Shelters

London stores are featuring yash- maks—yes, yashmaks.

Yashmaks, as old as the reticence of Mohammedan women to show their faces in public, have been beautified and are being made in various colors. Yellow, pink and green have top billing.

Ald. Charles Key, chairman of London air-raid shelters, said 90,000

ter use. They are primarily designed to snuff sneezes and prevent infec- tion.

Fashion designers say they'll be! popular. If a girl has nice eyes the | veils will add “allure,” they said, and,

| on the other hand if her face is not | So nice, a yashmak will help.

The veils are designed to fit over the nose and are'tied at the back of the head.

ow Use

Improved Vicks Way

To Relieve Misery of Colds

Mothers everywhere are discov- ering how easy it is to relieve misery of colds with a “VapoRub Massage”—relieve coughing, muse cular soreness or tightness.

With this more tho: h treat-

ment, the poultice-and-vapor action of Vicks VapoRub more effectively irritated air

passages with soothing medicinal vapors... STIMULATES chest and back like a warmi ultice or plaster... STARTS misery ht away! Results delight even friends of VapoRub.

TO GET a “VapoRub Massage” with all its benefits — massage VapoRub for 3 minutes on IM- PORTANT RIB-AREA OF BACK as well as throat and chest — spread a thick layer on chest, cover with a warmed cloth. BE SURE to use genuine, time-tested VICKS VAPORUB.

Persecution Of Poles

Russia Has Moved Thousands Into Infertile Areas Of Siberia

More than 100,000 Poles from Rus- sian-occupied parts of Poland have been moved into infertile parts of Si- beria where they live in vermin-in- fested hovels, Victor Podoski, consul- general for Poland in Canada, said on his arrival in Toronto.

Of German-occupied Poland he said:

“It is definitely proved that 200,- 000-men and women are actually in concentration camps, 100,000 more are in prisons, and 2,000,000 are util- ized by the Germans as forced labor.”

How It Works

The movement of the core of the earth, which some scientists believe to be fluid, resembles “the motion of a bowlful of jelly when you rock the bowl a little bit, but quite fast,” David Rittenhouse Inglis, of Johns Hopkins University told the Ameri- can Physical Society.

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Proposals to fortify white flour by adding thiamin to increase the vita- min B-1 content met opposition from the Canadian council on nutri- tion and its advisory committee to the Dominion council of health.

At a meeting held in December these bodies discussed the whole situ- ation, officials said, ‘and were of the opinion that no such policy of rein- forcing flour should be countenanced in this country.”

“They are of the opinion,” one Official said, “that all of the essential helpful ingredients of whole wheat can now be milled into a white flour that will bake a white loaf contain- ing, in the required quantities, vita- mins and other nutritional necessi- ties.”

Those who support fortifying flour by adding thiamin have contended that the modern methods of milling take out of the flour the “vitamin B complex” when the germ and husks of wheat are removed. Accordingly, since most people insist on white flour instead of whole wheat flour these people are not getting sufficient of such vitamins in their diet. By add- ing thiamin at least one part of the vitamin B complex, namely B-1, is added.

The position taken by the nutrition council, its spokesman said, was that thiamin added only one of the eight members of vitamin B group and that by a new process of milling wheat, leaving in the germ and some of the outerskin, sufficient vitamins of the B group could be retained in the flour when hard rust resistant wheat is used.

One of the common difficulties to retaining the germ in flour is that it causes fermentation when flour is held. for any considerable time. Dr. L. H. Newman, Dominion cerealist who is inclined to favor fortifying flour with thiamin is conducting tests to ascertain to what extent by new milling methods the germ may be) left in the flour and yet have the product keep long enough for the customary processes of marketing.

He said that until this research had been farther advanced he could not say how successful it would be.

The danger of fermentation is avoidéd in whole wheat flour because

since the demand is small the flour}

is ground only in sufficient quantities that it will be baked soon after grinding.

The department of pensions and) sypmarines the tiny corvettes, fitted |

national health, however, seems con-| fident that the new milling process will overcome germination difficul- ties. An official said that last Oct. 3 it informed the British ministry of health “that we had been able to pro- duce from rust resisting strains of Canadian western wheat, of which there was an ample quantity avail- able, a white flour producing a light) creamy-white loaf containing all of the vitamin or other active principles in sufficient quantity to meet nutri-| tion requirements without re-addition of any synthetic agents and a flour! _ which would not spoil within a rea- sonable period of marketing.” a

In Royal Air Force

Hon, Wm. Buchan, Son Of Late Lord Tweedsmuir, Is Pilot Officer

Hon. William Buchan, son of the} late Eord Tweedsmuir, former gov-) ernor-general of Canada, joined the} Royal Air Force last summer as an aircraftsman (2nd grade), lowest rank in the force. Now he is a pilot officer in a fighter squadron,

P.O. Buchan was selected as officer material several months ago, took an air training course and was granted a commission,

He is married and just before the start of the year a baby girl was born to his wife. Lord Tweedsmuir, a brother and a captain at Canadian

Corps headquarters, attended the christening. Hon. Alastair Buchan, another}

brother, is a lieutenant in the Cana-)

| a large number of corvettes in a few | months. |

}such an enemy, very much as the,

; got a little fellow like yours at home, |

| he spoke.

dian army and has been on duty at Canadian Military headquarters in) London. He is returning to Canada, shortly to take a new appointment.

Rural Telephones Saskatchewan has more rural tele-| phones per capita than any other province or country in the world, with the possible exception of Sweden, It is estimated that for every 100 pop- ulation, there are 8.4 telephones in the province.

Both the ultra-violet ray of day- light and fresh rain water are fatal to earthworms,

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| Britain, subject to approval by the | United States government,

ssary Vitamins

The Corvette Comes Back

Useful Little Boats Used Before Advent Of Armed Crutser

In the days of sailing ships, says the New York Times, the eyes of the fleet, the scout spying out the move- ments of the enemy, the guardians of merchant convoys and the harriers of enemy shipping were the corvettes, swift, lightly armed war vessels capable of tackling anything less formidable than the mighty ships of | the line and able easily to outman-| oeuvre and outrun those. With the; coming of steam and the advent of the arnied cruiser they vanished and their type was almost forgottes. Now the exigencies of this war have brought the corvettes back again.

Canada has led the way in repro- ducing this old type.. The Dominion needed coast patrol boats in a hurry and was none too well equipped in the matter of shipyards for building heavy warcraft. A type of ship, Somewhat analagous to the sub- marine chasers of the last war, half the size of a destroyer and needing @ much smaller personnel, could be constructed quickly and seemed likely to fill the bill, The Canadians began building these with great success. In rememberance of the old-time vessels they were called corvettes.

Almost simultaneously Great Bri- tain herself began similar construc- tion with a different purpose. The shortage of cruisers and destroyers |, was leaving the convoys on which the kingdom depends for its existence al- | most at the mercy of ocean-going | submarines far out from shore and air bombers nearer home. Armed | merchant vessels did not fill the bill. They proved to be easy targets, slow | in manoeuvring and tempting to) bombers and surface rdiders. But it} takes time, a year, to build a de-| stroyer—to bu'ld a_ cruiser even) longer. Mass production can produce

|

The corvette can scarcely deal with a surface raider of size and gun- power, although precedent seems to) indicate that several of the little) fighters might not hesitate to tackle |

Ajax and the Essex took on the Ger- | man pocket battleship von Spee. Such surface raiders, however, are. comparatively few. The submarine is | the greater danger and to deal with)

out with the same gear as destroyers! and presenting an even smaller tar- get to gun or torpedo, are ideal .

Just One Of Hundreds

Story About Norwegian Soldier Could Apply To Many | It is almost embarrassing to have a young child in London these days. I took my boy, aged 18 months, to} the May Fair, for a quiet lunch. In! the lounge afterwards I noticed a! man, in the early twenties, six feet! tall, looking at him with insistent in- terest. | At last, unable to contain his feel-| ings any longer, he came over and| asked permission to take the child in his arms, “I’m Norwegian,” he said,

“T've

but I’ve had no news of him for over | six months, and the sight of this chap...”

There were tears in his eyes as)

He made no excuse for them, but said simply: “I’m a flying officer. Next week I’m going out to Canada to instruct fellow Norwegians who will soon be flying with your R.A.F,”’ | — London Daily Sketch.

Release Danish Ships

Expect That 38 Vessels Lying Idle In U.S, Will Be Used As Cargo Vessels The New York World-Telegram | said that 38 Danish ships—totalling 250,000 tons—now lying idle in United States ports soon would be! released to carry cargoes for Great

In addition, the paper continued, it was believed 20 other vessels, total-| ling 200,000 tons, in South American ports would be similarly released,

The paper went on to say that it had learned through “a_ reliable Norwegian source” that a group of Danes in Britain had been working with Prime Minister Churchill to set up @ temporary Danish govern- ment to be known as the “National Danish Council.”

This body, the paper related, would assume responsibility for the release of the vessels, * 2399

HOTTER THAN HE IMAGINED

-—Elderman in the Washington Post.

Diplomatic Relations

| | Awarded The George Cross

Reported United States And New Woman Drove Petrol Truck Through

Zealand May Collaborate

The United States and New Zea-;| land are planning to, establish direct diplomatic relations in a move char- acterized at Washington as presag- ing closer and more friendly collabor- ation in the increasingly important south Pacific. |

Viscount Halifax, British ambas-' sador, is now conducting conversa- tions with the state department, it was learned, looking to establishment of legations and exchange of min- isters in the immediate future.

New Zealand is the only British dominion not represented in Wash- ington by its own minister. The country’s interests heretofore have been represented by the British em- bassy.

New Zealand's strategic import- ance in the south Pacific is enhanced by its possession or administration of islands and territories which stretch from just south of Hawaii to the Antarctic. New Zealand administers a number of Germany’s old colonies in this important naval zone under mandate from the League of Nations. Japan has mandate over some of the others. |

i cia ae ar a amg | Former Governor Of Bengal | Had Reputation Of Being Most Shot At Man In World

The News of the World says: Sir

John Anderson, Lord President of the,

| Council, who has taken over the task

of straightening out the coal trans- port muddle, has earned a name for himself as “the most shot at man in the world.” While he was Gov- ernor of Bengal he had numerous at- tempts made on his life,

During his period as Governor, Sir John had a very strange pet. It was a young Himalayan bear. It lived in Government House stables among the horses, and was allowed to walk round the gardens. It wore a special “pass” round its neck.” |

|

Many Books Destroyed London book dealers have been hard hit by the city’s bomb fires.) About 25 publishers’ premises have | been ruined or badly damaged. It was estimated 6,000,000 books have, been destroyed.

, and clerks into makers of munitions.

Burning Streets In Leicester

War's spotlight was turned on the women of England.

Leicester, centre of the hosiery in- dustry and now in the doldrums, went under survey to determine the number of women workers who can be transferred to war industries.

Every manufacturer has been ask- ed to release a quota to employees. It is expected that this will result in the immediate conversion of sev- eral hundred fashioners of hosiery

The hero of the hour was Gillian Tanner, comely 21-year-old Glou- cester member of the Auxiliary Fire Service. She was awarded the George Medal for driving a petrol lorry through streets studded with large fires.

She raced from blaze to blaze re- fueling fire pumps. Nazi raiders were raining high explosives and incen- diary bombs over the area at the time. But white the petrol was un- loaded at scores of pumps she cooly knitted socks for other members of the A.F.S.

“Knitting is soothing,” she said. *Meantime the Auxiliary Territorial Service appealed for 20,000 recruits. | Some of the khaki-skirted girls are| wanted for hush-hush jobs. Others will operate teleprinters, drive lorries, | or cook for the troops.

Approved By Admiralty

Standard Ships Will Soon Be Con-| structed On Large Scale

On the Home Front, an important item of news is that standard ships— made in sections in steelworks and put together in shipyards—have been approved by the Admiralty. Their construction will soon be resumed on a large scale.

Old yards, closed for years, will be reopened. Many steel constructional firms will be engaged on the produc- tion of these “fabricated” vessels which can be turned out on a mass production scale like cars.—Overseas Daily Mail.

Much more light is required when one is sewing than when one is read- ing, especially when a dark thread is being used on a dark cloth.

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Covers Land That Was Once Garden Spot Of The World

When the British advanced toward Derna from Tobruk, where sand)

| storms delayed the assault, they left}

the desert and came into one of tne! pleasantest and most ancient garden| spots of the world. In fact, says an| article in the New York Times, it was in this “evening land of the| westward sun” that the old Greeks! located the Gardens of the Hesper- ides. There Hercules, as one of his | labors, seized the golden apples of | Hera from the dragon of the hundred | heads.

The whole Mediterranean promon- tory that swings from Derna around to Bengazi and the Gulf of Sidia is a fertile crescent of rolling tableland bordered only well to the south by waterless wastes. Derna, now in the hands of British forces, is watered by never-failing springs, and the

rain- fall over the rest of the region is so| heavy that irrigation is required only about once in five years.

The climate and the prospect sug-| gest Central Italy. Indeed, Italy in a single generation has made Cyren- | aica the showplace of all her colonies. Vineyards and olive groves dot the landscape. Cypress, juniper and ilex grow luxuriantly. One of the chief crops is a superior type of barley much in demand by Scotch distillers. Derna is no longer the dilapidated Senussi stronghold over which Gen-| eral William Eaton raised the Ameri- can flag for a brief interval in 1805. It is an attractive modern town, Bengazi, farther west, is a handsome} city with a peacetime population of more than 65,000. Its mosques and minarets indicate that it is still con- sidered a holy place by the tribes- men,

In ancient times Syrenaica was even more prosperous than it is to- day. Then the coast had neither sunk nor silted and the fertile plain ex- tended much deeper into the desert. It was there in the seventh century, B.C., that the Greeks founded the city that was to become the greatest of all Greek communities overseas. Indeed, Cyrene was known as “the Athens of Africa.” At the peak of its power it was the metropolis of a vast granary that fed the homeland in famine years. It had a population of more than 100,000 and among its

}famous citizens were Erastothenes,

the geographer, and Callimachus, the poet. Most of its ruins. still buried in the coastal sands behind the port of Mersa Susa, but the Ital-

eed

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Feast For British Tors , |

Larder Well Filled While Battleship Was In U.S. Harbor

The 1,500 men and 80 officers who

Halifax, British

new

away a good big taste of the United States,

Loaded onto the George V., before

battleship it

King headed back $5,000 worth of food, including such delicacies as eggs, fruit and fresh vegetables. The supplies were not ex- pected to last long, but they at least gave British tars a series of feasts such as they have not known since| the blitzkrieg began, |

First thing the ship's officers asked | for when they landed was a dish of fried eggs and some onions. The lat- ter, they said, they had not tasted in six months,

Purchases made in Baltimore, Md., and Annapolis markets, with

advice

| of supply officers at the Naval Acad-

emy included; One ton of carrots, 1,200 pumpkins,

19,000 apples, 160 gallons of tomato | puree,

2,000 cans of tomatoes, 600 cans of cooked ham, 24,000 tins of beans, 60 tins of blackberries, 6 tins of loganberries, 400 pounds of maca

| roni, 200 pounds of tea, 1,000 tins of | apricots,

1,000 tins of pineapple, 2 tons of onions, 1,200 pounds of beets, 8,000 pounds of cabbage, 1,100 heads of cauliflower 1,200 pounds of toma- toes and 5,000 pounds of Brussels

sprouts, Also 3,580 oranges, 1,440 lemons, 2,000 grapefruit, 35 pounds of ba-

nanas, 14,000 eggs, and one ton of butter. }

Medal For British Farmers Farmers R. H. Blunt and Wiliam Harris were awarded the George Medal for threshing corn while un-

der direct fire from the French coast, | Put these | and machine-gunning from

the air well as anti-aircraft shrapnel falling around them.

One tree can make a _ million matches, but one match can destroy a million trees.

‘to the {of the Department of Mines and Re-

jans have done much excavation and unearthed some of the loveliest Statues of antiquity.

Two strange plants are associated with ancient Cyrenaica. One was silphium, to which Cyrene owed its prosperity more than any other pro- duct of the soil. Silphium was a medicinal herb regarded by the whole Mediterranean world as a sovereign cure for almost every ailment, from croup and open wounds to the bites of venomous snakes and mad dogs. So great was the demand for it that it became literally worth its weight in silver. Finally the Romans taxed the crop so heavily that the natives systematically destroyed the plant. It is now extinct. A weed that dis- tantly resembles it still thrives in the pastures, but it is poisonous and camels have to be against nibbling it. Not long ago an Italian physician was reported to have found genuine silphium in valley

muzzled

a near

| Bengazi.

The other plant was the Lotus for Cyrenaica was the fabled land of the Lotus Eaters. It was here that the mariners of having tasted the mysterious fruit, were content to remain “with half-shut eyes ever to seem falling asleep in a half dream.” Herodotus declared that the lotus had a sweet taste like the fruit of the date palm. But nobody to-day is cer. tain what it was. It may have been the shrub lotus, which bears a more

Ulysses,

;or less palatable berry, or a kind of

clover.

Bengazi, the Berenice of the Ptolomies, is an even older site than Cyrene and perhaps was the first capital of the Lotus Eaters, Its origin is shrouded deep in myth, It was in the country back of this town that the Gardens of the Hesperides were supposed to lie, the goal of all happy spirits, It was at Bengazi also that the River Lethe poured its waters of forgetfulness into the un- derworld. “Here Lethe's Says the poet, “from secret springs below rose to the light; here, heavily and slow, the dull, forgetful waters flow.”

The legend of the oblivion con- ferred by its waters may be connect- ed with similar qualities attributed to the lotus, but the river itself is no myth. A stream, believed to be the original Lethe, rises near Bengazi to- day and is finally lost amid under- ground caverns. It is not certain, however, that its waters will help the Italians forget their present troubles.

stream,”

silent,

Wood Has Many Uses

Canada’s Forests Yield Range Of Products Apart from their

source of

A Wide importance as a raw material for the lum- ber and pulp and paper industries, Canada’s forests yield widening range of products derived in whole or in part from wood in which this material is not apparent. According Forest Products Laboratories

sources, the largest group of such from wood pulp The modern package of cigarettes is a striking example. In getting cig- arettes from the factory to the con- sumer no

articles is derived

than different grades of wood pulp are used in the

making of

less seven

cartons, adhesive paper,

packages, transparent wraps, tissues, excise stamps, and cigarette papers Rayon

of wood pulp, but

is a well-known derivative at

one stage in

their creation rayon stockings, ties or drapes might equally well have be come movie film, artificial leather, cordite, or the glossy finish on an automobile

Wood is an important, though rarely noticed, element in automobile batteries, and is also an ingredient of many floor coverings, explosives, and plasti products such as electric switch buttons, radio cabinets, and all sorts of novelties. It also provides

1 number of medicinal products and

is likely to become an _ increasingly important contributor to man’s diet through the production of sugar and possibly other substances, Already wood is a valuable source of vanilla flavouring Idea Ts Original Since the outbreak of the war

| more than 6,000 inventions and ideas

have been submitted to the Aus- | tralian army headquarters for coun- | ter-checking the enemy. One of the most original, if not the most prac- | tical, was to solidify the clouds, thus intercepting bombers

A newspaper dispatch read as fol- lows: “The Greeks captured 600 Ital- ians and 300 mules. The sisted gallantly.”

mules re-

THE OHRONICLE, OARBON,

ALTA.

Italy will send 40,000 more workers | for employment in German industry, making a total of about 110,000.

Netherlanders the world over preparing to pay a “voluntary” come tax to help arm the forces.

The Royal Canadian Air Force} made known that Americans enlist- ing in the air force no longer get a) written agreement exempting them from overseas service,

are | in- | Dutch

| Great lakes steamship authorities

said they expect a shortage of ex- perienced seamen on the lakes this year to the number of sailors who have joined the armed services.

due

Sugar beet from

acreage will be reduced 99

23,964 to 22,600 in southern} Alberta in 1941 because of large Sugar stocks in western Canada, it

was announced.

A plane recently completed to be} used in anti-aircraft is) radio-controlled,

practice, powered with a 80- horsepower engine and is capable of a top speed of 150 miles an hour.

Construction in Halifax harbor of a floating drydock big enough to ac-} commodate the largest merchant and | fighting ships afloat was possible in} the near future, the Halifax Chron- icle said, |

Postmaster General Mulock said} mail moving through the office and addressed to Canadian sol-

diers abroad in 1940 totalled approxi- |

base post |

mately 5,600,000 letters, 596,000 | pounds of newsprint and _ 3,260,000/ pounds of parcels, °

The labor department reported a total of 10 strikes and lockouts dur- ing January involved 1,453 workers | and caused a time loss of 3,238 man working days. In the _ preceding month there were nine such disputes | involving 903 workers and time loss | of 3,360 days,

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

FEBRUARY 23

JESUS CALLS TO PRAYER

Golden text: Lord, teach us to pray. | Luke 11:1. | Lesson: Luke 18. H Devotional reading: Isaiah 62:1-7.

Explanations and Comments

Men Ought Always to not to Faint, Luke 18:1-8. And he! spake a parable unto them to the} end that they ought always to pray! and not to faint. Recall our lesson} about three months ago which also sressed persistence in prayer, about] the man who came to a friend's house at midnight and by his importunity | obtained what he needed. Dr. Jowett suggests that the counsel that men ought always to pray and not to faint | should be turned into a promise; men | ought always to pray and they will not faint. “When a man faints in the day of adversity it is because a line of communication has somehow been cut, and he has lost touch with his base of supplies. He has become sep- arated from his spiritual resources, and in the heavy demands of the campaign he has begun to lose heart. The heart retains its hope and cour- age as long as new forces and new supplies arrive. . . Now it is prayer which keeps open the road between the soul and its resources,

Pray and

Prayer Should Be Humble And Sincere, Luke 18:9-14. Jesus now turns in thought to those who trust- ed in themselves that they were

righteous and in their pride of self-

satisfied attainment set all others at | nought. To them Jesus gives another | parable, or rather, more _ strictly speaknig, an imaginary incident. A

Pharisee and a publican went up into the temple to pray at one of the reg- ular hours for prayer. |

Standing in a conspicuous place (Mt. 6:5), the Pharisee recalled his virtues to God's attention; unlike others, even this publican, he was not an extortioner, nor unjust, nor an| adulterer; he fasted twice in the week | (the law required only one fast a} year, Ley, 16:29, but many Jews fast- ed every Monday and Thursday); and he tithed all that he had (the law requires only a tithing of farm pro- ducts; the fruits of the field and of itie cattle). The Phariseé’s fault wast that of self-complacency and of con- tempt of others, which a Pharisee of recent years paralleled in his prayer,

O Lord, the more I of other people the more I likes myself,” t

In contrast to ine Pharisee, the publican stood affar off smiting his breast and crying, “God, be merciful lo me a Sinner

sees

Saskatchewan Coal

Coal for the 132,532

mined in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan 1940 totalled

all the coal is in the Es-

production in

third quarter of

tons. Practically

tevan district, and is of a lignite variety. |

Contrary to many popular story writers, bear tracks do not resemble

those of humans There are 14,534 miles of railways in the Union of South Africa. |

Every particle of the earth,

A dog that can

“hear a bomb}

| overhead is boasted by an English,

friend of a Galt, Ont., | letter telling of her air raid experi-

;ences. The dog, she says, pays no}

resident, in a

| attention to AA fire or roaring planes,

but all

of a sudden he “gets up and)

| Two artificial means of dissipating } leave" when an enemy plane is flying | fog above airports have

been de- Sverre Petterssen, Institute of Tech-

veloped by Dr. | Massachusetts nology.

Dr. Petterssen said a system where- by the airport was heated has been | successful in clearing fog from the

scoots under a large heavy table in| runways by evaporation.

the hall. | wrong.

calmly

Colonel

British

a famous | Newcomb | brothers could not possibly fly.

from chalk to diamonds, once was only | gas, according to scientists. 2399 |

I go after him. He is never When the bomb lands we emerge, pick up the knitting

| by the fire and carry on till the next | time.”

Lindbergh

natural scientist, “proved” that the Wright

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may feel that) cannot win the war, but then | Simon |

The second experiment was to spray a solution of sulphur chloride into the fog above the airport. «An area 150 feet wide, 30 feet in height }and 1,500 feet long, was cleared by | this method, he said.

Some people are comparing Hitler with Napoleon—but there is one dif- ference. Napoleon fought | front line with his troops.

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EXPRESS

Thousands of posters with a jlarger-than life size portrait of Prime Minister Churchill are being made for distribution throughout the Empire.

Mr. Churchill, wearing a black hat and smiling grimly, is shown against a background of the Eng- lish countryside with a column of tanks moving across it and a squad- ron of fighting planes overhead. Posters carry the phrase, “Let Us) Go Forward!” translated into every language spoken in the Empire.

The Brazilian pygmy marmoset | is the smallest known monkey in the |

world. It weighs four and one- -half | }ounces, or twice as much as a ‘mouse.

Common People

It is the Man in the Street who is fighting Britain’s war. A distinguish- ed American visitor, with all govern- ment doors opened to him by magic, can do his fact-finding at Whitehall and Downing Street and in the grim defences of “Hell's Corner” on the Channel coast. But it is behind hum- bler doors that the real strength of Britain lies. The measure of Eng- lish courage must be taken in the bom!) shelters, and the corner stores, and among the free-speaking patrons of the pubs.—_New York Times.

It now turns out that Italian sea | power has presented a problem to the British. The problem at Tobruk is clearing away the hulks of seventeen

\ — ane ~ Another Clever Dog Ideas Have Been Developed New Poster For Empire Real Stren Of Britain Ra WORLD HAPPENINGS Knows Difference In S ie i Prof Demonstrates Methods Of| Shows Winston Churchill With Cap-| I = iomes New Air Base nows erence In Soun ween | Professor Demonstra ethods ow 's To Be Found In Hi Of The BRIEFLY TOLD Bombs And AA Guns Dissipating Fog Over Airports | tion “Let Us Go Forward” Newfoundland Base Will Not Be

Finished For A Year

Col. Frank Knox, Secretary of the United States Navy, told a press con- ference that construction on the navy’s new base at Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, probably will not be finished for a year, but that the base can be used in the meantime. Col. Knox said naval planes already have operated from the bay, although none is based there now. The construction contract of $4,860,000 is held by a Boston firm.

A Fair Question Junior: “Daddy, are you sure that the world is round?” Daddy: “Yes, I’m positive.” “Well, then, how can people go to

sunken Italian ships from the harbors.| the far corners of the earth?”

a

THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, K.T., G.C.M.G.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, 1878-1883

GO YEARS AGO

A Charter was signed

On February 15, 1881, the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor-General of Canada, signed the charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway. That signature consummated the vision of great Canadian statesmen — Sir John A. Macdonald, D'Arcy McGee, Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier, and Sir Charles Tupper—that the new Dominion of Canada should be linked from Atlantic to Pacific by a trans-continental railway—and implemented the pledge under which British Columbia entered Confederation,

So began a new era‘in Canadian unity...and Empire solidarity... for the Railway expanded into a system spanning two oceans and linking

three continents.

Today —as in 1914-18 —a proud responsibility

rests on our transportation and communication systems — railway;

steamships, freight, express, telegraphs and engineering shops. Canadian Pacific officers and employees everywhere are co-operating —each in his own fleld—towards the common goal... VICTORY. When that goal is reached —and it will be reached —this will be due, in no small measure, to Canada’s contribution, and to the vision and foresight of the men who, sixty years ago, planned the

construction of the first

HOTELS

Canadian trans-continental

COMMUNICATIONS

railways

sHOPS

THE CHRONICLE. CARBON.

ALTZ.

DIRECT RELIEF CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE DISCONTINUED

Ottawa. — Dominion contributions for direct relief will be discontinued March 31, Labor Minister McLarty announced.

On the present basis of a 40 per cent. contribution by the Dominion, 40 per cent. by the provinces and 20 per cent. by the municipalities, it is estimated direct relief in the fiscal year 1941-42 would cost the Domin- fon government $7,000,000 as against an actual outlay of $13,200,000 in the present fiscal year, the minister told @ press conference.

Relief rolls had been so reduced however, that the estimated expendi- ture of the provinces and the muni- cipalities in bearing the whole cost would be $2,800,000 less in 1941-42

than they were in the fiscal year end-

ing next March 31, with the Domin- ion making its contribution.

“The provinces pledged their desire to co-operate with the Dominion in matters essen- tial to the prosecution of the war,” said a prepared statement issued by the minister.

“In the Spinion of the government | this co-operation can be extended |

and will be extremely helpful if each of the provinces assumes the re- sponsibility of such unemployment aid as may be necessary in the com- ing year.”

Immense Dominion expenditures for war purposes and on social ser- vices in other ways, coupled with a shrinkage in the number of unem-

ployed due to war activities, were |

given by Mr. McLarty as reasons for the step which will bring to an end

10 years of participation by the Do- |

minion in relief for unemployment and agricultural distress.

have repeatedly | by wadis (dried river beds) and ob-

Italian Rout

Electric Whiskers Blames General Tellera For Defeat

—General Annibale (Electric Wises) Bergonzoli, captured by British troops in the sand dunes of

Libya, laid responsibility for the final Italian rout gt Bengasi on Gen. Tel- lera, commander of the 10th army who died of wounds suffered fighting south of that fallen port.

Gen. Bergonzoli said he had ad- vised the immediate evacuation of Bengasi when straggling Italian troops arrived there from Derna, but Gen. Tellera believed there was ade- quate time to retreat and decided to wait another 24 hours.

The British and Australian troops) from the north

struck at Bengasi

and also trapped Italians attempting | oq only to Sir Perey Vincent when |

to flee to the southwest.

Gen. Tellera was wounded fatally)

when an Italian anti-tank gun back- fired, Bergonzoli said.

Gen. Bergonzoli escape from Bardia,

With 25 staff officers he said he!

, walked for five nights in the retreat, | Sleeping by day in hideouts afforded

|

taining food from Bedouin tribesmen. After reaching Tobruk he got out

|of there by airplane to Derna. From

there he said he retreated with the last Italian contingent before the Bri- tish forces entered.

He was among the Italians stream- ing out of Bengasi toward Tripoli when captured,

Call For Service

Imminent Call-Up For 19-Year-Old Youths In Britain London.—Britain announced youths 19 years old will be called for mili- tary service almost immediately. In the house of lords, Lord Moyne,

| government leader and colonial sec-}|

retary, disclosed the imminent call- up for 19-year-olds. Oldsters of 37

The system of Dominion contribu-| to 40 will be summoned soon after- tions to unemployment relief started | ward, he said, to swell the 4,000,000

in 1930 and while changes occurred men Britain already has under arms) from time to time Dominion grants | for

were paid each year to assist prov- inces and municipalities in support- | ing people who were unable to ob- tain work or were otherwise unable. to obtain a living.

Dominion government expenditure |

Since 1930 amounts to a total about $400,000,000. At one during the depression more

the defensive—and offensive—

| campaigns to come.

These, along with 18-year-olds, were registered Jan. 29, but it was indicated the youngest class would be the last called yp.

Men from 20 to 36 who are fit for)

of | | military service and whose skills are) lare here with the local time | [not more useful in other work, have| functioning. Shops are reopening. than | been enrolled in successive stages for

1,000,000 persons were dependent on military training. relief to which the Dominion was |

contributing.

From the first the contributions were made on the principle that the relief of unemployment was prim- arily the responsibility of the muni- cipalities, ‘secondly that of the pro-| vincial governments and only in the last resort that of the Dominion.

Dominion contributions were made}

| |

The call-up total will not be known | until registration, but the age groups average from 200,000 to 250,000.

Seeking Refuge

Refugees From Nazi-Conquered Coun- tries Pouring Into U.S, Washington.

-Fleeing from Nazi-

when it was recognized “unemploy- | conquered central Europe in fear of ment had become a national problem | persecution because of their religious and the relief bill reached a volume! 0r political beliefs, more than 4,000

beyond the capacity of the munici-|’¢fugees a month—mostly Jews—

palities and the provinces.

The Answer Is No

War In

U.S. Aid To Britain Washington. — President Roosevelt

forced into war in the Pacific it would not have to curtail deliveries of war supplies to Britain.

He said also he thought there was

no danger of getting into such a war. | | pied France.

A big bloc of refugees seeking ad- | mission is made up of 85,000 Span- |

A reporter at the president's press conference asked this question: ‘If the United States should hap-

pen to get into war in the Far East, |

would that affect our Britain?”

Describing the inquiry as “awfully iffy,’ Mr. Roosevelt said there still was no reason why he should not an- swer it. asserted, that the answer is no, that it would not affect the deliveries,

deliveries to

Seek Barter With Russia

“Moscow.—A trade delegation of three Germans and five Belgians rep- resenting Nazi-conquered Belgium arrived here to negotiate a barter agreement with Soviet Russia, It is understood to seek food in exchange for industrial equipment.

German Art Treasures

London, — German art treasures worth at least $8,900,000 are en route to the United States for sale, the warfare declared, The ministry said the Nazis hoped to gain foreign ex- change.

Entertained By Royalty London.-Members of the home guard and air raid precaution unit of .Buckingham palace were entertained recently by the King and Queen, at- tending the showing of a film in the dining room of the palace,

It is perfectly obvious, he}

British ministry of economic)

are

| pouring into United States with hope | of finding freedom as American citi-

zens.

State department records show

| that since last July 1 more than 32,-

Pacific Would Not Affect | 900 immigrant visas had been issued

| to such refugees.

|

| 000 requests-

An estimated 600,000 applications

said that if the United States were| fr visas are now on file in United

States consulates throughout Europe, officials said. mostly from Jews—in Germany or German-occupied coun- tries, and another 200,000 in unoccu-

iards in France, some of whom are}

held in concentration camps as Com-|

munists or undesirables.

De Valera Warns People

Prime Minister Of Eire Expects Country To Be Attacked

New York.—Prime Minister Eamon de Valera warned the people of neu- tral Eire that war is near, and said in a broadcast that compulsory evacu- tion of Dublin will be resorted to should voluntary” evacuation prove insufficient.

A summary of Mr, de Valera’s ad- dress, as broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation and heard by Columbia Broadcasting system here, said the prime minister warned that “the first attack on us would be our capital.”

Mr, de Valera said that already 200,000 men of the population of 8,000,000 had responded to the gov- ernments’ appeal for volunteers to the Irish army.

Will Resume Mail Service Ottawa.—Mail service from Can- ada to Greenland will be resumed shortly after temporary suspension due to lack of steamship facilities, the postmaster-general’s department announced 2399

also told of his)

There have been 300,-|

A Real Westerner

Well-Known narvipes Dies In A Toronto Hospital

Toronto. — Lauchlin Alexander Hamilton, 89, internationally-known surveyor and last surviving member | Of the original Vancouver city coun- cil, died in hospital after a lengthy illness,

Hamilton was one of the men credited with the growth of the west as general land commissioner of the Canadian Pacfiic Railway, for whom he supervised selection of the 25,- 000,000 acres of land granted the |company by the government,

He laid out the townsite of Van- | couver, then Granville, 56 years ago and in 1938 was made a freeman of | the city, an honor previously accord-

|he was lord mayor of London, and | Sir Edward Beatty.

|to be cleared and where Vancouver ;was to rise and laid out the city’s | street system. He was Vancouver's senior alderman for many years be- fore moving to Winnipeg, where he | took an active part in public life.

Winnipeg Rugby Football Club.

THE UNION JACK IS NOW FLYING

Bengasi, Libya—All Cyrenaica is Mussolini’s Roman eagles still perch upon the pillars of this lost jewel of | Fascist empire.

Mottoes on the buildings extol the new Roman empire, but the Union Jack hangs from the Bengasi city |hall and British and Australian sol- {diers walk in the streets.

Proclamations on the walls an- nounce that the former Italian prov- |ince, which the Fascists incorporated gto Libya, is under British military rule, with Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Mait- land Wilson as governor.

| All 40,000 natives and some 7,000 | of the city’s 20,000 Italian civilians government

The main problem has been to stop looting of Italian property by natives, | and orders have been given to shoot. |

‘So far shots have been fired only as | warning.

British patrols are striving to re-

|store order in the countryside where | | natives have killed a number of Ital-!

ian agricultural colonists and _pill- |aged their small homes.

He surveyed the forest that was|

He was one of the founders of the | Manitoba club and a president of the |

OVER BENGAS!

|

lpdactetnenan F.D.R.’s FEDORA

Roosevelt has

President away the battered gray fedora which

given he wore—for good luck- three presidential campaigns. Actor Jean Hersholt got it—to raffle off for the benefit of the motion pic- ture relief fund in Los Angeles next

during his

Movie |

Expansion Planned

Addition Will Be Made To ment Plant In Toronto Ottawa. Construction work on a $5,000,000 expansion project at the Inglis company's armaments plant in | Toronto will get underway April 1, a munitions and = supply department spokesman said. Howe announced the plans addition recently

The additions to the plant are be- ing financed by the crown.

Some $800,000 is spent to further the plant's Bren gun produe- tion program and something $4,000,000 will go into plant sion directed at stepped-up output of anti-tank guns.

Pilots Like New Fighter

U.S. Tomahawks Make Hour At

Arma-

for

to be

830 Miles An 15,000 Fect

Somewhere in England- In a 10- minute mock air duel, a Curtiss Tomahawk fighter out-manoéuvred

and outsped a British Hurricane over

month. | this production station where the - - — — United States-made Tomahawks and ° ° ° | Mohawks are assembled for the

Deal With Soil Erosion fear air rovce The Tomahawk pilot said the ship Millions Of Trees To Be Distri- wag ¢q dream to fly.” He said he buted In West This Year put it through the battle with only Ottawa. — Dr. E. S. Archibald, 10 minutes of rehearsal, Tomahawks director of the experimental farms have a speed of 830 miles an hour)

service, said that between 7,000,000, at 15,000 feet.

and 8,000,000 trees will be distributed this year as part of the program of} giving the prairie trees to fight off! drouth,

In 20 years nearly 200,000,000 trees

jhave gone out from forest nursery |

settling down under British rule, but |

stations to fight soil erosion and give shelter to homes on the plains. Under the prairie farm ng eth | tion program, trees are being estab- | lished near many thousands of dug- outs and more than 2,000 dams now completed, Stout tree growth,

where water reservoirs are establish-

|ed and make possible the growing of

| |

protected gardens and other types of trees which would not flourish if exposed to prairie winds when newly planted.

Dr. Archibald said ash, maple and carragana were being used, with trees less adapted to prairie condi-

tions often planted within the protec-

tion of hardy carragana.

Military Training Period

'Is Now Tentatively Set For March 20 As The Earliest Feasible Date Ottawa, Defence headquarters

said March 20 has been chosen as the

“earliest feasible date” for opening

of the fourth compulsory military

training period under the National

Resources Mobilization Act, first

A 6:30 p.m. curfew has been im-! period of four months’ duration. posed to prevent violence or sabotage, |

but the Italian population remains | kenzie King said March 15

docile.

Those Italians remaining are mostly! officials emphasized the “big job”

Previously, Prime Minister Mac-

» would be the opening date,

but department

pre-

anti-Fascist or indifferent to Fascist| paring for the revised training pro- gram schedule prevented an earlier | Axis planes have hammered at Ben-! opening.

politics. Ardent Fascists fled.

|gasi every night since the British}

{troops established themselves here and began converting the erstwhile

board for } and Italy. | They have been | scant damage done, | The value of the lira has been set at 400 to the pound sterling, making it worth about one cent instead of

chased off with

| the official Italian rate of five cents. |

This rate, the British say, is based

on “black bourse,” or unofficial, |quotations which British authorities accept as a better indication of the: |lira’s real value. ing steeply.

——_$ $=

/ nouncing | Fascist base into a formidable spring- 1 forthcoming training further attacks on Tripoli’

A spokesman at national defence

| headquarters said a proclamation an-

details of period will

the be

complete

issued shortly.

Extension of the compulsory train- ing period from 30 days to four months was announced by Mr. King Feb. 3.

Meat Stocks In Storage

Ottawa.—Reported stocks of Cana- dian meat in cold storage through- out the country Feb, 1 showed an in- crease of more than 13,000,000 pounds over total Canadian meat stocks on

Prices are mount- | the same date last year, the Domin-

ion bureau of statistics reported.

YOUR CERTIFICATES NEEDED NOW!

like carragana, provide shelter’in sections |

PASSAGE OF THE “LEND LEASE BILL IS NOW ASSURED

| Washington

By March 1 or soon afterwards President Roosevelt should have complete power to lend, lease or give Britain any military chooses, Pass: ' dented lend lease

supplies he the bill is now

ge of unprece

assured

All that remains is an atte mpt to get as large a senate majority for the bill as possible so as to present to

the world phrase “a

To that ers in the senate are amendments to the bill | lines suggested by Mr. admittedly would make | tion less flexible but might Support for it. His only significant proposal was that the lease lend prin- ciple be confined at to Bri- tain, Greece and China with congress empowered to add to the list of bene- ficiary nations.

While the bill should be the United States night this does not ehange in America’s

in Mr. Wendell Wilkie’s acle of national unity.” end, lead- considering the which

Spect

administration

along Wilkie,

the legisla-

present

the about

law of fort- vast

In a

mean any immediate aid to Britain and that better than the British government The administration has steadfastly refused to indicate what. it with its new powers at the start, the plain fact is that this ‘the moment has little or giye to Britain.

Already Britain of America’s fighting they come off the assembly will continue to get them, reg of the lend = bill, Mr urged the United States to tain

no

one knows

would do but country at to lend, lease

is getting most

airplanes as lines and rardles Wilkie Bri- bombers

s lease- give more of the existing but, if this is done, they must come out of the scanty stores of the army which has than 700 first line planes and few of them up to British standards, or from the navy, has about 2,500. The steady, small stream of bombers now flying across the ocean to Britain sug that the government is sending |} can afford,

Mr. Wilkie’s proposed gift or ten destroyers

less

which though

gests

all it

of five a month may offer some hope of naval aid, but it is

known that the United States navy feels it needs all its present ships. The belief persists in Washington, how

ever, that another destroyer deal may yet be made and meanwhile new de stroyers are being rushed to comple- tion here,

It is now reognized everywhere Washington that the lend-lease must be accompanied by rapid increase in the pro gram which, as already explained in these despatches,

in hill a large and

armament

is not yet for the job of beating Germany one doubts now, that this will be ordered as fast as

j industries can be | The mechanics of the lease-lend | legislation not widely under- | stood. Once this bill becomes law, the | British and American armament pro- {grams, in this country become one | Britain's former orders for about four | billion dollars will be filled, of course, but Britain will order no more. The United tSates government will order

adequate No speedup America’s mobilized,

are

everything it needs for its own pur-, leather

poses and for tain,

lease or loan to Bri-

Munitions Minister | the | @nnounc ed

| shortly

MOTOR VEHICLES CONTROLLER WILL BE APPOINTED

Ottawa Finance the

appoint

Minister ,Ilsley government — will @ motor vehicles to safeguard war produc- against civilian for

controller

tion demands

| automobiles,

over | expan-,

| December, | number

The minister also announced that the total prohibition against importa- tion of new passenger

in the War

cars, imposed Conservation Act last will be lifted and a limited of imports allowed quota basis

It now that this

creating

on oa

was apparent, prohibtion, in hardships, to manufacturing “ata labor The March of the average 1938,

however, to some setting up in Canada when machine tools and extremely quota for the 31 next will

addition has led companies consider facilities time “are scarce.” quarter ending 20 per cent. value of cars imported on the the same and 1940,

Firms not

be

for 1939

quarters in cars in Can- 1940, will not be more

producing to Dee, 2, permitted to produce they

ada prior cars than

could under = import

obtain

| quota

she

jloward German

increase |

ns a prepared statement said a motor be

Hee sumed

the min- controller

It importing immediately

er vehicle “shortly.”

for

aeais named was

permits cars but indicated pending the

details of the

lw ould be available

this was not

issue of full new measure

Purpose “direct the

highly

of the automobile

to in

is industry and successful production on which the and to s¢ against automobiles.”

change

important war indus- ifeguard that

civilian

try is engaged,

war production de- mands for Prohibition of

lished last

imports was estab-

December as a means of conserving foreign exchange and it was then hoped that any further control would be unnecessary.

“That prohibition,” the statement said, “in addition to imposing hard- ships, probably greater on the whole in the automobile business than in other businesses affected by the act, has also had the effect of leading

some companies to consider setting

up manufacturing facilities in Can-

ada under conditions which cannot

permit of economical production and

at. a time when machine tools and labor for tooling plants are ex- tremely searce,”

“Quotas will be set up for each succeeding quarter after investiga- tion by the controller and the de- partment of national revenue but it is not anticipated subsequent quotas

will differ greatly from the initial one the of war work further of the of new cars for

except as pressure

requires restriction provision motor civilian use.”

US. Daatiaran

Auxiliary Naval Vessel Is) May Potential Source Of Aid To Britain The des between Navy Secretary Wendell L. some informed the 45 auxiliary naval vess further to their auxiliaries

Be

Washington, pute

dis Frank Wilkie led to mention

troyer Knox and persons pool of recently converted els as a potential aid to Britain,

source of

Prior these of the traded

pointed out,

conversion, were

the but now,

destroyers

sume type as 50 already Britain the destroyers ed

strength of

it was

ships technically are no longer

not count- fleet's destroyer

and hence the

are of

160, statement that no more could

aus

part

de- “without

Knox's be our fleet” apply noted

stroyers spared did not,

auxiliaries,

depleting strictly

speaking, to these SOUPCOCS The statement an Wilkie's that

American destroyers be

the lo 10 sent to Bri-

navy made

in

secretary

indirect reply

plea from five to

tain each month to meet her “des-

perate need,” Wilkie, in New that “high in

administration had told him that

York, authorities’

retorted at the “we any injury national defence, to effec- ad-

Once

are in a position, without

fo our navy or

Britain immediate by furnishing

mal destroyers,”

give Great

tive assistance her

ditic

Holland Berlin)

Disorders In Amsterdam (Via official agency inquiring into disorders which Amsterdam within the days. From The Hague of the arrest of a merchant and several other for “a attitude

The press reported police were occurred in last

came

few a report

person provocative

soldiers.”

Stories Coming Out Of Germany Are Not All Hearsay

Ludwig Lore, columnist in the) New York Post, says: I cannot vouch for all of these stories. They}

were told to me by a teacher who has just returned from Germany! after several years of uninterrupted residence there. He is an American He has seen some of the things he tells.

hearsay.

I retell them here, because they show what the Germans are think- ing, and what they are saying to

one another. The German people are far from content with things as they are. They are obedient. They have accepted the war, stoically, without enthusiasm, almost without hope. But they talk to those whom they can trust, and the stories they tell reflect the sentiments of the! population more accurately than all of Goebbels’ propaganda,

When the German farmer needs help for the harvest he no longer hires it in the open market. He applies to the proper authorities and | on a given date reports at the local! railway station, The train arrives, | packed full of Polish women and girls, whom German. soldiers drive | out of the cars as if they were cat-!

tle, and line up before the waiting | farmers. The latter inspect the| frightened, brutalized people and|

make their choice. Often they are so weak from hunger and Priveicny that it takes days of rest and feed- ing to put them into condition! again.

German newspapers contain little! real information regarding the war. Since there are no casualty lists, no- body knows what Hitler's Blitzkrieg has cost the nation in terms of life and suffering.

But there are stories and rumors --the more persistent because they cannot be published and therefore are never officially denied. Every- body in Germany knows—or has) heard—that the German army left! 100,000 dead in Poland. Everybody has heard the story of that advance,

how the army moved so fast that there was no time to help the} wounded; that officers ordered their)

soldiers to lay boards over dead and) wounded alike, over which the tanks moved forward, crushing living and) dead under their weight, while special sanitary corps brought up the rear spreading thick layers of chloride of lime over the bodies, They know that the German army has twice attempted an invasion of | Britain and that each was repulsed | by the R.A.F. with huge losses, They

tell each other that these invasions cost from 50,000 to 70,000 lives and that the suffering was incredibly | severe,

65,000 German attack on Nor-

They know that soldiers died in the

way, most of them by drowning in} the great sea battles which marked the first week of the invasion. |

They whisper to one another that | British anti-aircraft fighting has

been so effective that German pilots| are refusing to fly back into the in-|

ferno from which they have been) fortunate enough to escape. There} is indisputable evidence, my inform-| ant says, that the German army is beginning to feel a growing short- age of skilled pilots, although air-| craft production is increasing.

The average Nazi never hears! these stories, Those who tell them risk imprisonment and torture. Even| among their friends, they rarely ad-| mit that they believe them |

But they spread, from house to| house, from village to village, from | city to city, and lose nothing in the} telling. And slowly there is grow-| in 1 the hearts of the German peo-| ple that cancer of disillusionment and unbelief which will finally un-| dermine the morale of that crushed | and unhappy people |

ee | Sheep In Canada |

In view of the improved market in Canada for mutton, lamb, and wool} it is likely, states the Current Re- | view of Agricultural Conditions, that there will be a further expansion in sheep raising during 1941. The price of wool, unwashed at Montreal, has shown little fluctuation during recent months and present indications are that prevailing prices will be main-| tained throughout 1941

Elephant tusks grow from the up-| per jaw. They are elongated and specialized upper incisor teeth, grow-

downward from of the eye-sockets,

ing a point in front

Some of the larger airplane manu-) facturing companies are now using! X-ray machines to test the me@al parts used in the construction of their planes.

Firewood is for disposal from de-,

molition sites and dumps in London, }

-| his getaway.

Most of them he knows from)

| thing to do,”

| gets. |do” in any emergency.

Learning Cost Of War! Helped Their Countrymen

|Prenet People Aldea Aviators To

Escape To England

Eve Curie brought back to this | country some stories of how French- men aided some of their aviators to escape to England. In one village in | Brittany, where an aviator had hid- den his plane, the villagers contri- buted all their rationed gasoline for But still that wasn’t sufficient to get him across the Channel. He therefore waited for a stormy day and took off, knowing that the wind velocity would speed him there. When, at last, he saw England beneath him he searched for a suitable landing, place and found one—a golf course—but there were too many people playing there. He found another place—a playing field. But it was mobbed with spec- tators and football players. “Only the English could do such mad things,” mused the pilot—and head- ed for some level ground, into which workers were driving long spikes to prevent landing. But he had no alternative, for the gas tank was | empty. “That’s a Frenchman,” the workers agreed. “Only a Frenchman would do such a mad thing.”

Trained For Emergencies

Boy Scouts Taught To Do What)

Seems Most Sensible

A German bomb that fell in one |of the suburbs of London, England, happened to break the gas main.

A few minutes later a Boy Scout appeared on the scene and gave a good sniff. “Gas,” he said,

In such circumstances, the major-|

DEATH CAME TO 12 WHEN LUXURIOUS AIRLINER CRASHED

| and a T.C.A, plane at Armstrong, Ont.

Safety was within 400 yards in space and two seconds in time as Canada's worst air crash claimed 12 lives

It was the worst disaster in Canadian aviation history. Above is shown

| the type of Lockheed plane involved in the tragedy. One of the victims (left) was F. J. Freer, of Winnipeg, as-

sistant treasurer of the Great-West Life Assurance Co., while second in command of the plane (centre), was First

Officer C .E. Lloyd, Winnipeg, formerly of Ottawa.

| University of Manitoba.

(Right) is another Winnipeg victim, Prof. Robert McQueen,

Are Being Well Fed

ity of the people would have run for African Troops Get Glorified Hardtack

help, but the Scout knew a better way. He dived into the crater made!

by the bomb and with the clay made tive service.

so plentifully available by the explo- | are part of their diet. | sion,

plugged up the hole through | which the gas was escaping.

When the members of the gas com-) war industry.

pany made their appearance,

And Orange Juice Envy South African soldiers on ac- Orange juice and rusks

Manufacture of army rations is one | of the important features of Natal’s Army biscuits, rusks,

they | orange juice concentrates, milk pow- |

congratulatd the boy on his fine piece der, condensed milk and pork saus- |

|of work, and asked what had made ages

are among the commodities |

him think of using clay to plug the | manufactured in this province.

hole.

The Boy Scout seemed to be very to be lyrical over. ;much surprised at the question, and first great war's

looked it. “It seemed the sensible he replied. That is the training a Boy Scout

He sees “the sensible thing to

Valuable Craft

British Admiralty Says Corvettes Meet Urgent Requirements

A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the} Admiralty, told the House of Com- the corvettes, many of which are made in Canada, have shown ability mons the Admiralty is sat’sfied that to meet “the urgent requirement for which they were designed.’’ These small craft are carrying out valuable anti-submarine and convoy service, | Mr. Alexander said in his written re- ply to a question.

The new Howard DGA-125 trainer

| cruises at 108 miles an hour and is| powered with a 125-horsepower en- gine.

Benjamin Franklin attended school

only two years of his life-time, and

| that between the ages of 8 and 10,

Even the army biscuit is something |

It resembles the product in shape ; and color only. Made from a recipe | prepared by expert dietitians, it in- cludes wheat meal and _ straightrun flour from South African farms, sugar, full milk powder, salt, bicarb- onate of soda and baking powder.

The orange juice concentrates will | be particularly valuable in territories | where green vegetables are hard to} obtain. They are rich in vitamin C, | without which the soldier would run | the risk of scurvy.

When Florida Scored

California Had No Ready For Miami Grocer Feud of the resort season is that} between California and Cuba-Florida! axis, with both of them doing break- | neck business. Reminds of the anec- | dote of the California who stepped in- to a Miami grocery, picked up huge green winter squash and in- quired patronizingly: ‘Is this as big | @s your alligator pears grow here 2 The grocer, noting the California | number plates on the outside, turned and said acidly:

”

that grape!

Answer

car

/tion into the Dornier as

Was Well Named

English Gunner Called Trigger Has Been Awarded Military Medal

Nineteen-year-old Stanley Martin (“Trigger’ to his mates), of Down- ham, Kent, wanted to be a Lewis gun- ner in a trawler. Instead he joined | an A.A. unit on the East Coast. He has just been awarded the Military Medal.

A colleague of his writes to tell how it happened. He was on spot- ting duty when a Dornier came over about 75 feet up, machine-gunning | everything in sight. “Trigger” turn- ed to his officer and asked if he might | use a Lewis gun. Permission given, he dashed across to the Lewis gun! post and pumped a pan of ammuni- it roared across the gun sight at an angle too low for the A.A. guns.

Guns on the Dornier ceased fire and the machine crashed on a river bank two miles away. The under- |

| clusive

Slave Labor

Nazis Using War Prisoners On Industrial Production

Germany is utilizing a foreign labor force estimated to. number 2,- 000,000 war prisoners and civilians from occupied countries and is con- centrating her industrial production on airplanes and ships, reports to the Washington department of com- merce indicated.

An earlier Unite@ Press Berlin despatch quoted authorized German quarters that’ 3,400,000 foreigners,

including war prisoners, are now em-|

ployed in Germany. Approximately half the 1,390,000 war prisoners plus

| 1,400,000 civilians are employed in | agriculture,

it was said, and some 670,000 foreignérs are employed in factorise. The foreign laborers, ex- of war prisoners, these quarters said, were Poles, French-

,;men, Danes, Italians and Slovaks.

The emphasis in German industry,

|carriage was presented to the A.A.|the department said in a weekly re-

}mess.—London Daily Sketch.

Played Safe Private Clyde Ross, at Camp Shel- by, Miss., fled into the woods when! an army convoy sped up to his com-|

;pany and the commander shouted:

“Bear to the right.” Found later, he explained: “I’m scared of bears.”

Parts of the New England and} |New Jersey coastlines a/sinking. At the latter spot, it sinks| j}at the rate of two feet every hun-

are

dred years.

view of international trade factors, has “tended to shift from munitions industries proper to airplane and shipbuilding industries.”

A prying tool does not become a ‘jimmy” until it is used for unlawful purposes, so @ burglar cannot buy a

| “jimmy” in a hardware store.

Cosmic rays can be detected one

slowly | mile below the surface of the ocean.

In some sections of northern Africa, date seeds, or stones, roasted and used as a substitute for

Said an Irish physician of a patient | coffee.

“if he lives till morning he may pull

“Put down|through; but if he doesn’t, there is

no hope for him,”

Nearly half of the 92 known ele- ments are used in an automobile.

BENGAZI FALLS AS BRITISH OFF FENSIVE CONTINUES

IN HIGH GEAR

Through Bardia on the double these Australians went when the Italian fort fell, and they have added more ea to the heaies forces under

General Sir Archibald Wavell, who are taking the brunt of the British advance.

The Italian retreat beyond Bengazi included many panic-stricken

Italian settlers who emigrated to Libya in recent years. Terse communiques of the British command reveal little of the tremendous handicaps faced by the British successfully in the maintenance of communications over the desert, but capture of much war material as the British drive continues

; has greatly aided the British forces.

are |

4 The Maginot Line Is Practiealy Dismaatied And Every- Thing Beiag Used By Natis

Berlin announces the dismantling of the Maginot Line. Some of its heavy guns have already been set up along the English Channel. Tight thousand of its coal stoves are now heating Berlin air-raid shelters, which are also equipped with its bunks and mattresses. Its supplies of food and ammunition (enough to last 250,000 men for a year) also proved useful. Tinned goods, oil, electric light bulbs, machinery, steel plate and copper cables have found uses in the Reich or have gone into smelting furnaces. Once the tank traps, entanglements and other de- fensive devices have been removed, the terrain in front of the line will be turned into fruit and vegetable farms. Like the Great Wall of China, its labyrinthine corridors and con- crete chambers will remain, anachon- isms to awe tourists and recall out- dated military conceptions.—Sault Daily Star.

Early Surveyors

Hazards Attending Early Western Activities Of The Craft

Surveyors were reminded of haz- ards attending early western activi- ties of pioneers of their craft when H. E. Beresford, Manitoba director of surveys, recalled that a survey party was involved in the start of the first Riel rebellion.

Mr. Beresford, addressing the an- nual meeting of the Canadian Insti- tute of surveying at Ottawa, said that Manitoba became a province in 1870 and surveys were the first re- quisite in development. Lieut.-Col. J. S. Dennis drew up a _ system of townships divided into squares. Be- fore this was approved, a Major Webb, while running a survey line, was stopped by Louis Riel and a party of half-breeds, first incident in the rebellion.

In 1871, Col. Dennis recommended a system of townships six miles square, containing 36 sections, thus initiating the dominion land system of surveying, said Mr. Beresford.

Spitfire Fund

Northern Trappers Decide To Collect Muskrat Pelts

Northern trappers have decided to collect. muskrat pelts for a Spitfire airplane fund to be sent to Prime Minister Churchill from the Church- ill federal constituency.

Post offices in the vast northern Manitoba area will be asked to for- ward the pelts to the War Savings Committee at The Pas to be dis- posed of through fur trading chan- nels, The money for the pelts will go to make up the Spitfire fund.

At the nearby Summerberry game preserve some 400 trappers will be asked to drop their gift pelts into a fund -“kitty.”

The muskrat opens in the spring.

trapping season

Famous Race Cancelled

Grand National Steeplechase Will Not Be Run This Year

For the first time since its incep-

|tion 104 years ago, the Grand Na-

tional Steeplechase will not be run this year, it was disclosed by Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary. Ques. tioned in the House of Commons by D. L. Lipson, Independent Conserva- tive member for Cheltenham, the Home Secretary said he had con- cluded that a substitute race at Chel- tenham was undesirable. The Grand National over the Aintree course is the world’s greatest test of stamina and jumping ability for horses. The course is four miles, 856 yards long. During the First Great War a sub- stitute race was run at Gatwick.

Reason For Cheerfulness

Jones was exceptionally cheerful. All day long he had been whistling and humming at his work, until at last Brown asked him what was the matter.

“Well, you see,” explained Jones, “my wife has lost her diamond en- gagement ring.”

“Well, what's cheerful about Brown,

“I'm waiting for her to tell me. You see, I found it in my trousers pocket.”

there to in that?”

be so asked

Alberta set a crude petroleum pro- duction record of more than 8,000,- 000 barrels last year, compared with about 7,600,000 barrels in 1939,

The Douglas 8A-5 has a top speed of 265 miles an hour, carries seven guns, and a large bomb load,

Germany's Minister of Justice is dead. This is one post Hitler doesn’t 2399

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AGENT IN SABOTAGE

BY CRAIG RICE (Copyright)

CHAPTER VII.

The Monday morning street car seemed a little less crowded than) usual. Nancy Thorne found a seat, in the corner and huddled there, star- ing out the window with unseeing eyes.

Through the long afternoon and night one thought had run through her mind like the chorus of a song. She was alone now. There was no one she could trust. It had seemed to her as though impenetrable walls had sprung up between her and the people she loved most.

She held back the threatened tears with a heroic effort. No use in mak- ing a spectacle of herself on the street car. Holding her chin high she took out her compact and pow- dered her nose and brushed back her coppery hair, with a convincing air of calm.

The situation had to be faced, that was all. Tom was in this terrible thing, and so was Pat. No matter what her own feelings might be, she couldn't give them away. She'd) have to manage some excuse to| Hugo Blake for not doing his work. Maybe she could leave the Bristow plant and go away. A dozen pro- jects, all impractical, ran through her mind.

A passenger getting off the street car left his folded newspaper in the! seat beside Nancy, and she picked it up and glanced at it aimlessly.

“STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR

ESCAPE DEATH IN CRASH”

The black headline was like a blow. Quickly she glanced through | the rest of the story. There were) few details given, only that no cause had been assigned to the accident, and that by some miracle the in- structor and student pilot had es- caped with minor injuries.

Tom had_ said—‘“a lot- of plained accidents—”

Pat had said—‘There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for money—”

Tom had said to your neck-——”

She closed her eyes and saw that tiny training ship as she had seen it! yesterday, circling so gracefully against the sky. She remembered groups of student pilots as she had geen them, their bronzed smiling faces looking into the sun.

By the time the street car came to a clanging stop before the John Bristow Die-Casting Company, she knew she must keep to her resolve, | regardless of what it might do to! Pat or to Tom Cantwell. |

She climbed wearily up the con- crete and iron stairs, punched her card on the time clock and placed it in the rack, and went to her desk.

It was a little before 8, and the other office girls were congregated in small groups, laughing and chat- | ting of the week ends they had spent. One or two of them glanced at Nancy, nodded briefly, looked away again. Annie Burke, with her bright, gamin face, did come up for, @ cheery greeting, but then the 8) o'clock bell rang and work began.

“Good morning, Miss Ellis.”

|

unex-

—You're in this up

She loked up. John Bristow, his round, ruddy face beaming, looking down at her.

was appeared to avoid her.

It seemed odd, |

... for the Childrens School Lunehes

warning her to leave her job, he had

She went slowly down the stairs

having him call her by her assumed to the lunchroom, now almost de-

name,

“Oh—good morning, Mr. Bristow.” “I haven’t seen you since you started work here. How do you like

it?”

She smiled at him. “TI like it fine.”

“That’s good. I hope you get along splendidly.”

He nodded to her, spoke to several of the other girls in the same friendly fashion, and went in into Grimshaw’'s office. For just an in- stant Nancy felt faintly hurt at his cool impersonality. In the next in- stant she realized that he was being tactful and in her heart she thanked him for it. She was unpopular enough now with the other girls without the added disadvantage of being a favorite of the boss.

The office fairly hummed with work, with the added impetus of the big boss himself being on the prem- ises. Nancy’s fingers fairly. flew over the keyboard as she tried to keep up with the work Miss Fletcher piled on her desk, realizing as she did so that the added work was being given her in an attempt ‘to make it appear she was getting behind.

“File those right away, Miss Ellis.”

A frantic moment at the filing cabinets,

“Get those copied iff a hurry— they want them downstairs.”

A rush back to the typewriter.

“Take those reports. into Mr. Grimshaw as soon as you have them done. He wants them right away.”

She finished the last one in a breathless rush, gathered them to- gether and knocked at the door of Mr. Grimshaw’s office. Through the glass she saw him nod to her to come in, and opened the door,

“.. , at least the attacks on our trucks have stopped,” John Bristow was saying as she entered. “That

| takes a load off my mind.”

“Just put those on the desk, Miss Ellis,’ the office manager said crisply. He went on talking to John Bristow. “There probably won't be any more attempts. This place is entirely too well protected.”

Nancy stole a look at him as she laid the reports in a wire basket before him. He seemed to look ill, very ill. Frightened, too,

“That’s what I think,” Bristow said. “Now about this other busi- ness———-”

That was all she heard before the door closed behind her,

“These orders have to be copied quickly, Miss Ellis. All of them have to be out before noon.” It was Madge Fletcher again.

Nancy nodded and started back to work, her mind filled with what she had overheard. The attacks on the trucks had ceased, John Bristow said. He believed it was because the protection was so great.

Hugo Blake had said something about new methods—nothing as crude as overturning a truck filled with valuable dies and patterns, That was why the attacks on the trucks had ceased, There was some

|new, more frightful way. She wish-

ed with all her heart that she could warn the friendly, white-haired man who believed his plant was safe. “Finished with those,” Miss Ellis?” She shook her head, “Almost. I'll be done in a few minutes.” “Well, finish them before you go to lunch, and leave them on my

desk.” Five minutes after 12. Ten min- /utes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes past

and finally the last one was done.

| She made a quick check-up for pos-

sible errors, found none, and laid

\the orders in a neat pile on Madge

Fletcher’s desk. Her head was fairly whirling, her fingers still tingled, Mr. Grimshaw, she noticed, had not left his office. She could see him through the glass door, still sitting at his desk, his head in his hands, She wondered if she ought to go in and ask if she might do anything for him. No, perhaps it would be better to leave him alone. Since that morning when he had seemed to be

serted. Hugo Blake stood by the door; evidently he had been waiting for her to come down, “You're late.” She nodded. work to do.” Oh. Well, I have some extra work for you too.” He smiled down at her, his round face friendly, his sharp little eyes beaming at her from behind the thick-lensed glasses. Nancy managed to smile back.

“TI had some extra

“That's good. When?” “Tonight. Will you be home?” She nodded. “Good. I'll telephone you. I want

to talk to you something very important for you to do.” He smiled once more and left her, going on up the stairs.

She went on into the lunchroom and ordered a glass of milk, too ex- hausted with work and anxiety to think of food. She sat in the almost empty room sipping the milk slowly, trying to make some order out of the chaos of her thoughts.

Hugo Blake had something im- portant for her to do. That might mean she could learn something im- portant, something she could take to John Bristow as evidence. That was the thing she must do, no mat- ter who it involved. With that ac- complished perhaps she could leave here, find a job in some new place. Not that it mattered very much to her what happened now.

She went on back to the office wearily. At the door Tom Cantwell passed her, going in the direction of the machine shops. He barley nod- ded to her, his lean face looked an- gry, almost pale. She wondered if by any chance he could have learned what she planned to do, Well, that didn’t matter now either.

It was a minute past 1 when she entered the big office already busy and noisy. The clatter of type- writers and rattle of papers seemed

tonight—I have

stepped in the door, was was con- scious of Madge Fletcher stopping what she was doing to look very slowly and deliberately at her, up at the clock, and back at her again.

Not a word was said, but several,

other pairs of eyes followed those of the head stenographer. Her cheeks burning, down at her desk, “Another set of reports, Miss El- lis. Hurry them, please—Mr, Grim-

shaw wants them as soon as pos-|

sible.” Nancy nodded. against time.

Again fingers flew Not as rapidly now,

however. The morning’s activity had drained her of strength. “You're finally finished? Take

them to Mr. Grimshaw.”

If she hadn't been late with the reports, Nancy thought a little re- sentfully, she wouldn't have been asked to deliver them to the office manager,

She opened the door of the inner offic eand walked in. Mr. Grimshaw still sat at his desk, but now he had buried his face in his arms,

She wondered what she ought to do. If he were asleep, he might re- sent being waked just to be told that the reports were finished. Or, if there was really an unusual hury

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Nancy sat)

| Hawes. to slacken for a moment as she}

for the work, he might not like it if he weren't waked.

“Mr. Grimshaw——”

There was no response to her timid voice. She laid the pile of re- ports in the wire basket, hesitated

a& moment and then tried again, louder.

“Mr. Grimshaw——”

Then she screamed. On Grim-|

shaw’s head was a dark red stain, (To Be Continued)

Comforts For Forces Abroad

Special Parcel Post Rates Extended |

To All H.M. Forces Serving Overseas Postmaster General William P.

Mulock further facilities the sending of comforts to our Forces abroad. | Through arrangements with the Bri- tish Postal authorities, all His Ma- jesty's forces serving overseas will) now benefit from the special reduced rate of 12 cents a pound (weight limit 11 pounds) on parcels mailed to them from Canada, according to an announcement from the Postmaster General.

The low .rate of 12 cents a pound (limit of weight 11 pounds) applies now on parcels for overseas mailed from Canada addressed to the fol- lowing:

Members of British, Canadian, Do- minion or other Colonial troops serv- ing in the United Kingdom or in places outside the United Kingdom.

Members of the official Auxiliary Services in the United Kingdom.

Members of the Forces of General de Gaulle serving with the British Forces in the United Kingdom.

Members of Belgian, Polish and other Allied Forces serving with the British Forces in the United King- dom.

Members of the Canadian Army on duty in Iceland.

Members of the Canadian Army on duty in the West Indies (Limit 20 pounds).

Personnel of H.M. ships and H.M.C. ships abroad.

Note: The. rate on parcels to members of the Canadian Army on) duty in Newfoundland is 10 cents a pound (Limit 20 pounds).

Nurses attached to units of the| above Forces are classed in the same} category as soldiers for postal pur- poses and are entitled to the respec- tive special parcel post rate.

[ GEMS OF THOUGHT |

CHARACTER

When the late J. P. Morgan: was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, ‘“Char- acter.’”—-Ramsey MacDonald. |

Character is the result of two. things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.—Elbert Hubbard. |

A good character is, in all cases, | the fruit of personal exertion.—Joel

As in the floral kingdom odors | emit characteristics of tree and flower, a perfume or a poison, so the human character comes forth a blessing or a bane upon individuals | and society.—Mary Baker Eddy.

To be worth anything, character

;must be capable of standing firm, upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and

able to bear the wear and tear of actual life.—Smiles. |

Let us not say, Every man is the| architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.—Boardman, |

|

All Have Contributed

But Some Indian Princes And Chiefs Are Not Wealthy

The London Evening News says: | Not all the Chiefs of States in In- dia are wealthy, nor even all the Maharajahs; yet by this time I think | every prince and princeling, great or | small, has contributed in some form to the Viceroy’s War Purpose Fund.

I hear of a gift from the Chief of a Western India state who is’ known | to be very far from rich. He has| sent 180 rupees; he suggests that the |

|

Rs 100 will buy a rifle, complete with |

bayonet, and that Rs 80 will pay for 1,000 rounds of ammunition,

He gave the rifle and bayonet, his| subjects the ammunition.

It is a contrast to the gift of the Nizam of Hyderabad and his subjects, which now amounts to £290,000 for} the R.A.F.

—_

The eight-hour working day was} inaugurated in Germasy by regula-

tions passed in 1918 and 1919,

Laboratories and their scientific control of oil-well drilling are mov- ing directly to the oil fields,

Canada’s mineral output was $500,000,000. $137,000,000.

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Prizes His Freedom

Son Of German Exile Escaped Being A Hitler Barbarian

A Harvard sophomore who sald he once was close enough to Adolf nit. | ler to call him “Uncle Adolph,” de-; clared that he was joining the United | States Army to “help defend the way | of life that is directly opposed to the | ideologies of Hitler and his shirted | gangsters,” |

He is Egon L. S. Hanfstaengl, son of the new exiled Dr. Ernest Hanf- staeng!, former Nazi press chief. He celebrated his twentieth birthday on leaving for Alabama, eventually to become a cadet in the Army air ser- vice,

“If T hadn't been accepted by this country,” said young Hanfstaengl, who is a native American and a citi- zen. “I would have tried to get in the Royal Air Force. While I real- ize that this country’s measures are all preventive, I believe we will) eventually slide into the war in some | way, and I want to be ready.”

The six-footer, who spent five years in the Hitler youth movement while his father was a confidant and | adviser of the Reichsfuehrer, said in| an interview he finally felt “purged of the ideas which were on the way to making me a Hitler barbarian— | and I feel swell.” |

“It's wonderful,” he grinned, “to be-living in a country where you can sit on a park bench and read Heine! and other authors barred by Nazis.

He said it would be ironic if he ever became an air pilot engaged against Germany because “when I was a youngster living in Germany | Marshal Goering congratulated me on my marksmanship and said I'd make a fine soldier.”

“If I ever did,” he said, “I'd be a) good one to bomb Munich because I know the place so well. I'd bomb | everything but the art galleries, the churches and the breweries. No, on| second thought, I would bomb the) breweries, because if there's anything | to make the people of Munich revolt, | it would be to deprive them of their | daily liter of beer.”

To Keep Britons Warm

| Industrial Waste Product Is Being

Made Into Blankets

An industrial waste product is be- ing put to a new use in keeping | many.a Briton warm and dry during stretches in an air-raid shelter, In the last two months the Maple Leaf, Fund, Inc., Canadian-United States | relief organization in New York, has | sent close to 8,000 giant (90 by 72) inches) pure wool blankets to Eng- land. <A $1 contribution sends one blanket. The fund plans to send a} minimum of 50,000 blankets this | year. |

How this is possible is explained by the organization’s president, Victor Goggin, a civil engineer. The cloth from which the blankets are made is | a waste product of the cardboard in- dustry and is contributed by about 100 member firms of the United States National Paper Board Asso- ciation.

In the making of cardboard, Gog-|

and spread over a screen, through which water drains off. The soft, wet pulp sheets must then be picked up and run through rollers. Manufac- turers have found that the most suc- cessful material for picking up the is a 100 per cent. pure woolen material with a rough nap. Because the material must be sub- jected to great strains and immersed in water of all temperatures, wool that is used costs as much as $14 a pound and the cloth must be immacu-

lately woven, Goggin said. |

Scientists have discovered that by doubling the amount of chlorine added to drinking water the chlorine taste disappears and the water then tastes quite pure and fresh.

The cash income from the sale of | Canadian farm products in 1940 is estimated at $714,700,000 compared with $702,800,000 in 1939.

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The removal of the hulls from oat horses and are not wasted, “Naw; the bloke wot lives here is a Ee Ae bd (ANGLICAN) chop for young pigs is reeommended Everyone rais'‘ng hogs would do well lawyer,” replied the other in disgust. by all competent authorities. Hulls to cmploy a sifter, Plans for a simple “Hard luck,” said the first, “Did you C RBON TRADING CO possess no feeding value and are use- | sifter illustrated below, will be mailed lose anything ?” t *é SUNDAY SCHOOL, .nesscccseseseseee 12,10] less except for the bulk they provide. on request to the Agricultural Exten- |

Ghoir Practice every Tuesday, 7 p.m. A.Y.P.A. Meetings every second and fourth Tuesday.

REV. S. EVANS, Rector

Editor and Publisher

“T PLEDGE”

The following editorial recently ap- peared in the Rocky Mountain House “Mountaineer”: }

“LT pledge”’—what intriguing words!

1 pledge is a mott) h rd to improve ipon in the curr nt War Savings cim- | vaign, It is so full of mean’ng that one | stops to think about it, one finds that | t covers everything, and is an appeal in itself,

At a banquet one gives 9 toast or a ledge, It is an expression of good vill, What a banquet we can have vhen we've “licked Hitler.’ And we ‘an have it all the sooner if we give

Stamps NOW and Often and Regular- ly, We can not show our loyalty as nrivat» citizens ‘in eny b tter way than toasting the success of our boys on land end sea and in the air, than with War Savings Stamps.

“T Pledge Myself’! Why not, If we don’t pledge ourselves to spend less and earn more and use our abilities ‘s pawns, how can we expect others to protect us If we don’t carry our fair share of the load and encourage others to do the same, if we don’t buy War Savings Stamps and invest in War Toans, how can we expect to be considered an example of 9 good citi- zen puiling our weight with those in the front lines.

Think of it! “T Pledre”—doesn’t it intritue you? Then nledge yourself to do all you can to win th's war, W'n by saving. Save by investing in Savings Stamps. Now and Rerularly,

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Avoid useless talk, Some convorsa- tion isn’t worth a nickle—except to a| ‘phone company.

North-West Line Elevators Association

Soil Mining

At the Annual Conference of the Manitoba Agronomists an interesting and challenging paper was presented by M, J. Tinline and H. J. Siemens. Its title is “Changes and Readjust- ments in Manitoba Cropping Prac- tices,” but it has equal significance for residents of Saskatchewan and Alberta, The following is an abstract of the authors’ introductory state- ments:

In view of the present wheat prob- lem, this is an opportune time to encourage seeding down grasses and legumes.

Manitoba farmers have been grain mining their soil too long. Older countries have had to maintain a high percentage of their land in grasses and legumes in order to pro-

. ( ledge, make our toast, express! tect their soils. Manitoba farmers faction. ae <6 dwill and Buy War i must follow this same policy or their re , rs °" soils will be ruined. Serious drifting

over much of the province, sheet erosion and gullying of the undula- ting lands are only foretastes of more severe erosion yet to come.

Here endeth the quotation.

It is an interesting fact that, until quite recently, lectures and articles on crop rotations were considered to be of academic interest only. We be- lieved that our prairie province soils were so abundantly fertile that they would never wear out, Now, we know

better. Vitamin B,

Much publicity has recently been afforded vitamin B, as a stimulator of plant growth. Dr. E. J. Kraus, of the University of Chicago, in an ad- dress before a joint meeting of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America, on December 5, stated that most of the publicity was “just plain bunk.”

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Among the strange things in this world are bald birbers, skinny cooks and lazy married men,

If the race to the ends in a tie, you lose,

aan | (Agricultural Extension Service)

Until growing pigs reach the oge of |

partment of Agriculture has prepared plans of a s'mple home made sifter which any farm r can make with vory | little cost or trouble, The sifter is re- commended by the Live Stock Branch of the Department of Agrienlture,

On most farms the material needed to build this oat chopper ig available, but even if it is purchased, its cost will not exceed a couple of dollars.

The pig, however, and especially a very young pig, needs a concentrated

made to handle bulky feed such as is fed horses and cows, \ good ration for young pigs up to

To this should be added skim milk, buttermilk or a protein supplem>nt.

The ont chop sifter may be used to remove hulls from oat chop, and by so doing the farmer not only improves the feeding value of the chop, but he also removes the hulls which are use- less as feed and highly dangerous to the health of the young p‘gs, The hulls so removed may be fed to cattle and

sion Service, Dept. of Agriculture, Ed- monton,

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—_—o— — She wears no socks in winter Re of asonably Priced For CARY GRANT SIFTED OAT CHOP FOR ration with little bulk or fibre because| _, That needn't cause alarm. y eae YOUNG PIGS SAID ESSENTIAL | its digestive system is simple and not} For she has a pair of kno. k knees, Quality Goods

And the friction keeps her warm.

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e Gillett-- Did you ever kiss a girl when she wasn’t looking? Terry—Not when she wasn’t good looking! ®

“Did yer get anything?” whispered the burglar on the ground as his pal emerged from the window.

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A clergyman visiting a hospital,

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you like?” asked the clerryman, “The langest in the book,” was the reply So the clergyman read the longest psalm, “That’s guid,” said the Scots- man, “Wull ye read it again, sir, and wull ye come a wee bit closer?” “Cer- tainly,” said the clesgyman, and he read the psalm a second time, “Thank ye kindly, sir,” said the patient, “Ye ken ah’ve no had a drap for a fort- nicht and the verra smell’s 2 Godsend”

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