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Mineral Output
•
.AI1-Time :High, Reached '.in
,1940-Dominidn Nelda Strong
World Position as Producer,
• 'Especialle' ' of Gold; „choked;,.'
Zine
:Accelerated by wartime de-
' minds; .mineral production in
Canada- during 194'Q' exceeded a
.value of :$500,000,000, adcording
...to the Department of Mines and,
Resources. This is. an all-time
'high, and compares', with the Oa
vious record; of '.$47002,000 •in,
1939,.
and -with ' $457,33.9,000 -in
1'g$7:
' GULD•'RECORDS, -'• •
ESPABLISHEl3
• New records 'in leath quality
.and:'value of.,gold have been, es
tablished, with the evalue of the
° 1940 production of the Precious'.
rnea'a1 estimated well in • excess Of .
$200,000,000 •aa' • compared , with
$184,000,000 in '1939. Most of •
• Caeada's gold is exported, prin.:
cipally to .the 'United States, •arid
the increased"output • largely 're-
flects thepolicy of : the• mines to
produce the metal • at a; rate es'
high; as seund mining ,practtee,.
Will allow in order to provide for-
eign . exchange for the. -purchase
'of war, materials •
Bases-met-a1-p3eductio --figures .
• cannot be disclosed; but' the out-
+' putreti -copper; .ifieekele read and.
zinc were .greater'' than in 1939;.
Canada holds an•exceptionally"
strong world position as a giro r•.
• duces of these metals, r••anking• .,
first', in n.ickel, second in zinc,.'
thirdin copper, and fourth in..
_..lead,;.. In:.additlon--to-meeting eche-
• inereasing., demands "of . wartime
industries in the Dominion, huge
tonnagesof 'Canada's 'base metals
are exported to the United King
dam. •
Canada also produces large
quantities of silver, ;platinuin,. as-
bestos, gypsum, coal, salt,: petrol=
eum and other "• tinerals.'';The list
ofMinerals- produced in commer
• ciul' qualities,, includes 23 Metals
and "20 non-reetalli'cs;, as well as :
clay .products, structural mater=
leis and fuels.'
,He Likes' Mad. 'M usic',
Lew Ayres tries his ha d at some
iniad Music. Playing th : xylophone •
' is one of many hobbies which Mr
Ares •keeps, himself 'occupied be.
• tweet picture assignments. _
Longevity Said,
Just Hereditary
•
•
Doctor of 74 Says' Kind of
• 'Life One Leads Not Govern:
• ing Factor in How Long One
Lives . •
'e' 'Pi�'hether a man wil•1 live to a
ripe old age is determined before
his 'birth and does not hinge' on
the kind of life he leads, says Dr. :
L.F. Barker, professor emeritus
of • medicine at• •Johns •fopkine
Medical • School.. •
"Longevity ' is exquisitely here- r•
ditary,' he .said. in'a paper recently
read at the New 'York School 'et
Social Work. "The best insurance'
of long personal existence. Is de
Ovation from -long-lived ancestors."
,Dr. Barker, 74, was too fll toreed
the paper litrnself and a physician
in his early thirties: was scheduled
• '' *ask deliver It. •1#ut the substitute.
becaiime 111, too, and it was finally
• read by George, •Lawton, 40, who
' kept hie fingers creesed • while ;
'reading. ,
Japan Itis a buget of $81;2,000,-
000 for '941, and 40 per cent.. of
that is.for'war, Which ineaiis
about $140,000,000. But the war': ,
. ' with China and 'elsewhere is cost-
ing $235,000,0'00, so• at the start'
there' •is a deficit of $95'000,000.
•
Prof. J. $, S gldane', ;oiitie.
everfinenti air
of the British g . ,air
• raid shelter policy, has designed
a ,Shelter which he.claims,is,e'ap•
-
able of Vitthstandng a' diect hit
from a ' 500wpound boinb%''
aving ntario s
a• ,Natural
Resources
C. C. TONER, • ' •
Ontari•Q Federation of Anglers
S'
(NO•.26)
• EXHIBITS TELL'STORY
It was not long ,before the -.or-
iginal' Royal ..Ontario' Museeent
building.'•'Was 'found. to' be inade• .,
quate for the rapidly expand'in'•
exhibits• and research material.
A new linilding was projected
:and !gem, pleted in' 1933. • The old
part was used;..as; a .wing . and the •
• main `' 'entrance now. faced• on.,
•Q een's Park. • 111,a • Museum of •
'-Zoology was • given' "the coiplete
upper floor of the east wing" and
'laboratories and, workshops •on.'"
the gr'dund floor. These eaten- . .
cions of space enabled the inti-
'tution to, organize as -a 'properly,
constituted museum..
In 'the development of the
Royal Ontario • 1VIuseum. of Zoo:.
logy, it has always .been the aim
to keep a proper balance between.
exhibits and research that' •is, be-
tween the popular` and the scien•
-
tific ; phase",''' of, museum . work:'
• On the exhibition side, the aim
has been. to -make the exhibit tell.
ifs story .with 'the • minimum ; •
;off descriptiv,er...label-.:,.This is -se-.
. cornplished in „part by. .the' provis-
ion of accessory material design-, ,
ed -to suggest =seething-ef ,the:,
habitat in which animals live.
This trend : in museum • exhibition
has culminated. , in the habitat
group which depicts\ an animal
amid a 'r'epresent'ation 'off i£s': na= :
tural surroundings. ',Usually such
a' group includes•• a panoramic
picture as a •background:.Only
two large hab:itat;greupshave so
far been' attempted, these illus-,
trating .the Meek bear and the
passenger' pigeon; but ,a. series pf
twenty-four smaller exhibits: 'of
the same type :illustrate the.' ha
bitat of IIa number of.., common
Ontario Mammals; birds and •reps
tiles. •
Not . all the museum's : specyi-
7 O Ili
mens are on exhibatr n every
large natural • history '.:museum;
there .are hundreda•of specimens,
Preserved in the research collec-
tion for every' one . on • exhibition
ii%, the publih: galleries. • `One. of
'the, primary `functions of a mus-
eum. of Zoology is .'be study the
animal life, particularly. • of, the
region ' •it' serves. •The specimens
on which such' studies are. based
are ` secured chiefly . by field spr-
veys. carried out .by. the :Museum's
own staff, but sone material is
obtained , by ' donation, luy pur-
chase, and by exchange. The •
need that existed prior to , the
establishment' of the Royal On:
tario • 1Vhiseum for 'aninstitution
to- investigate the .animal. life of
Ontario is ' shown by the 'fact,
that, since its inception, neariy -
sixty species of . vertebrates riot
previously known , to occur. in On-
tario, have:: been fount within our.
limits.
e Book Shelf:.:
"CONFESSIONS OF 'AN
iMMI'GR'ANT% DAUGHTER" •
by `Laura G. Saiverson . •`
This is the tale of a stormy life;, .
the eutobio•graph'y of a great •Can-.
adlan.
: Mrs. Salverson is descended from'
.the last -of -tire Vileirtg..•nt bblles: Herr
,parents -Icelanders who made the •
voyage tri Canadin 8r -Were
'settlers who ,never settled down.
The account ' of their' wanderings
over the North American contin
'' ent, from one city and pioneer
' ' •settlement to' another, • and'. as far
'south as the cotton country- of the •
Mississippi, Is a book in itself. The
• :writer was a delicate child; brought•
tip , on the old Norse legends, Who
was taken in hand' ;by • iii extra-
ordinary • woman, Aunt . Haldora. ,
• There follow her eap `riences as a
profes Tonal• dancer, her Bret love
affair .end .s`everal years of gruel-
ling work in Canadiariehouses 'ante
factories. Finally she ie happily,
married• to a compatriot and she .
herself becomes . one of the •most.
successful, of Canadian novelists,
winning the Governor -General's.
gold medal last year. .. .
• 'fOonfessions 8f • an Immigran't's
'Daughter... by Laura G..Saiver-
son .. Toronto: Ryerson Press;
..'.. $2.50.,
•
'He .Who Flies . ;
May, React Neils
:On an , .overnight • trip by air,
across Canada, a T CA: passer-
ger 'can read the :nevi's .in °tt• dozen' ;
daily newspapers if he chooses,
,all. in , the`spaee of 16 • hours; ,all
published the same day ,in nine
' different cities. • TWelive- magas • '
�... , -i . _.....,
zine, Canadian, British and
Amer...lean-areaboard eachair-
•
• • cfaft:to keep the travelletwabreagt
of his current, reading. T:C.A.
places 16 ' bseri tions. fdr . each
,.the
P •.
to meet' the requireiiients• of its
various services, it enhetribes
to 20 newspapers: ° .
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Quiz Klids: Quiz q ts' Doctor
•• . Dr. A11'an, Roy Defoe, who 1 ronnght the: Dionne' quintuplets :into the
world and is -their medical guardian, looks, unccn ifor able at: the reeeiv-
ing• end of a- barrage of questions at the N B.C. studios_ int. Ypxk_•.,
when `he a i
City ppeaxed� as guest observer.With the Quin Kids; ,•The Quiz
'Kids; whose.program ordinarily'originates in Chicago;:, were in New
York making a moire short.
THE. W
A R W'.E E' K—commentary on Current /Events.
War Awaits Spring � . Drives, -
S..i _•r -)-is ..Report._: II _.
s . Ou�-ted • -
"Do not regard the 'present.
ull ,in 'operations as. meaning
that, Germany does • not know•.
what to do next,, The • present
.pause Iseecreative•" and, only ap-
parent." -German. Propagande
Minister Goebbels. ,• '
' "A' final • victory over. 'total •
Itarian' Intolerance' depends up-
on Anglo-American co-operation
-British, Prime 'Meister Ch:urc•
-
hilt.
"A spirit of : mutual' 'under-. '
standing and confidence ,is Char-
acterijstic of the friendly rela-
tions .existinb` between the U. S.
S. R; and • Germany "-Tess, of.;
ficial Soviet news agency.
• 'The war will move to •a clim
ax in the next few months .
perhaps in the next''few weeks:"
Hugh ','Dalton,, British Minister
of Economic Warfare:
"My ' personal and private op-
inion is that, on Jan. 1 Britain
stood'a 55.45 chance to win the
war:" -U. S. General G. C. -Strong.
• • • •
Read: together; .these five utter -i
nieces depict for; us in broad,'• gen_'•
eras outline thie..stage,,,World' War •
II" had arrived 'at last, week. 'Both se
parties to the 'conflict were taking '
stock; feverishly preparing'for• the, '
climax spring was ,sure'. to .bring.
• Nazi. OIi jeptives'
GERMANY. The • whole • world
.• knew (said "Time," Jan.'13):that it
would be to German advantage to
strike, hard•. and 'quickly, .for iiiany`-
..'reaeons; , to ;relieve p-ressure 'en
backtracking Italy, to batter down ..
• the last resistance in the'Balkans,
• to bring France and Spain solidly'
into the German orbit, to smash
the centre of the ,British.Empire
-rand its No: 1 fleet base -before
.e-Amei1icap -help to• Britain could •
• reach decisive . proportions. '
• Several of these moves were for
the moment stymied• --Yugoslavia,
•fulgteeri" (with the tacit backing
et: Russia), Turlieywere as firm.
In their., stand against the Nazis
::their relative . strength ;would
,allow; ' Spain for' the moment
,"wasn't having any"; •the `-French '
Cabinet held too many trunep cards
(the fleet, and Weygand in Africa
and'` Syria) .to lose so early the •
game against. Hitler. With regard
to .Nazi chances of successful,
vasion of the British. 'Isles, official
circles in Washington were of the
opinion the odds were ' defi'nitely
agaicst •it. •
Offensive and Defensive "
'BRITAIN: The' British were'. still ..
In the onain fighting a defensive
war .with Germany, awaiting the
hour when they: would .have the
full weight of Americanprod e:
'tion . • behind them, -Against Italy:
they were ' coriductin - a highly
successful. offensive which gave
6p1•omtee of broadening out..4o ,wipe
:Mussolini's African Empire •off the
mag; .and .weaken iris ;position in
Europe 'I ey4n.d repair.
°Choice' of Twb Campaigns
In the Battle of the Mediterran-
e7an, the .British had the choice`•
.of two major moves, of, pressing
the offensive in north,' and ` east
Africa; or of waging war in the •
' Balkans •in • earnest -perhaps gain-
- ,ing Turkey's. adherence. The first
...of these trio planned campaigns '
• would ' be the more .'likely to. de •
velop. -
• Bread From Russia,'
• RUSSIA: The new trade pact.
signed last .week under which the •.'
Soviet Union undertook to in'erease
. her : contributions lo•. Gernany's
wa.itinre • breadbasket ' was brewed
, as of tremendous' international im-
po'rtancb. Besides broadening trade
.relations' ••between . the two. ooun•
tries, the agreements were said to
have fixed mutual bottndaries• in
newly -acquired territories 'and set-.
tled' resulting ,re-patriation. prob-
1ems (50,000 Gerhiaes in Soviet
held 'lands' would , return to .th'e
Reich). The signing sof •the 'pact"•
followed 'weeks of inereasing ten-
sion _lit the ,Balkan's where, the
matsing of troops and reports of
disagreements over coritrol of the' '
mouths of the Danube gave 'rise:
to.speeulation that German -Russian .•
relations might be badly strained.
With .China, the ;Soviets 'signed
a new • barter •agreement exchang- '
,ing Russian military supplies and
machinery. fqr • .•Chinese • tea and
menufeetured1products, . •
in Legislators' Hands -
UNITED STATES:. The d•Presi-
• d'e t '1 -le l of ai• �ut
n s ens. .. nd bit ...1.0
aid to Britain, .wee in process_ of '
Passing • the . 1- ou�se of Repr�eaent
A.tixe trim where it wnUiij„go to;
the g'enete Debate, in • the 'Upper
House was expected tb 'continue
another three weeks. at least. '
Suck• delay in legislation would
, daelirttlee;harm•-•to-•the British
cause, it, • was thought, since by
practical; standards American war
aid to' •Britain was going :Ahead
•about as.;feet 'as facilities- permit
'';ted, and past British "cash orders
for planes, ° mutUitions, Were.: mean
time being,,fille.d.
• , The Convoy.Q•uestion' * .'
• Stills .considered' of paramount
1mportanee, though not talked
,'about _freely- in the,.open, Was. thee
:question'~,of 'the' LT. S, strengthen-
ng, • the° British convoy system.
•Edereene. knew that, the'Anierican
aid ,program. would bee futile unless
the good produced :could• be de- "
• .livered:•safely .to. Britain. It.,was
expdcte•d that mn,ch would be done
.temporarily to relieve -British ship=
• ping for war hauling, but the •use•
of American warships' in' convoys
•• , would become a hot .,issue very
• poen., •' •
*.•,x
Shelved
CANADA.: • The mountain . gave
birth tp a mouse -stillborn. Three
eyearsafeworke-nA l-iens- of -do liar
in cash, hundreds of •volumes of
research,, material, ,months .df.`pub
licit', appeared to have 'gone far;
,naught_ when the conference of Mee
proviiic.ial premiers Meeting in '
Ot-
tawa last week threw out the
,Rowell-Sirois report (with its ree-
;..'ommendations 'for • reorganizing-
''Canad�a'•s••finaneial structure+- after
only, a few hours' consideration.
'V. -I C.
44, G..
PRESS
FIRST :BOTTLE NECK
e origina'7ottZen.eck problem
'started with the •.catsup bottle.= •
-.. Brandon Sun
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BETTER UN '1941
Unle s you are -a better man In'
1941 than you weee he 1940 ti►:eate
is not much chancetiIat your reso-
,lutions will Icing. survive•..
Beter.bariiuh° Examiner.
SHIFTING r ES:fi'QNSIBiLiTY •
Most of us are really- sincere
When we, ask heaven, to help the
,poor. We .feel :thee it relieves Ns of .
:the reeponstliiii,ty. of helping thein
: 'ou'rsel'ves.:• . h
Quebec '_Chronicle Telegrap h .
LORD HALIFAX
A .contemporary, hopes that cen-
sorahip•regula.tions' will not require.
us to allude -to the new British.`am-
bassador 'to the 'United States as
"."Lord•.: Eas•ternq Canadian pert." . • •
-Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
FORT "ERIE DID' IT
Chief Constable 'of Fort Erie' is
justly proud : of the ,town's •record
-=se•ven years without a fatal mo-
toteaccid•ent, on• its' streets, Which
:shows; •whaeten ba -done.
Queen Sound_Bun`Tirnna�_ .
Time alone could tell what effect
-.this rejection would have upon,
the, future, •of the Dem stun Per•-
haps- notas mementbus as. we
might now thlnli:. ilany'wondered.,
who was right -a -Mr. ''Kung, .who
maintained that • the adoption of.
• the report, would assiet.,in the war ..
• effort; 'dr. Mr: 1ielpburn, who '•viol=.
ently 'opposed it, saying' that the
time was altegther inopportune: •
Nov•that the ,report had been.
shelved, the •machinery of . our
government's would doubtless, eon-
' tinge • to• fumctionas in the past-'
until a, worse'.crisis forced the re-
vamping of.•our'set-up in`its 'entire-
ty
e ,. Unappeased" .
tA crowd • of •angry .farni folk
axed : London, 'Ontario's, biggest
hall to 'capacit'y last 'Week and
heckled Dori inion Minister of Ag-
i'icuiture Gardiner 'when he en-
d'eayored fo.;explain to 'their. saris-
faction the policies. of the 'Federal
Government regarding wartime lit-•.
ficuities� of Ontario' farmers; 'Un-
appeas'eee was the gathering which
asked, for. a bonus on • hogs (now
being raised at. lees •than, produc-
tion .costs);. an increase in :the '
priceoff': cheese;,.removal of 'the
peg on the price. of .butter; chip- �1
' ping et IOW -grade grain from the
west as feed for eastern live stock.
The reaction to • r. .M•Gardiner.',s..
a
small concessions ("floor" for •
butter,•slight increase in The price,
of eheese)''from Ohtario•farm lead=
ei•s• was not favorable. The provin-
cial M'ini'ster. of Agriculture was
"considerably disappointed." The
•president of the United • Farmers'
Co-operatiye said Mr: Gardiner's ,
recommendations were "very un
.satisfactory." The president of the.
Canadian Federation of Agr'ic'ulture,
sald,the.whorle farm situation would
;be threshed out at the Federation'
Toirventiatr--eh1 eek fir Torrdtu.'
Toei•n•crease. -Army'
' A report issued at Ottawa .last
Week by the InterDepartmental
•. Committee' on' Labor Co-ordination'
revealed that' the ,Government is
plapnieg an Increase: of 117.,200
men in 'Canada's armed services '
during 1941. 'Canada's ' munition-
makingarmy during the seine One
•would be increased by 76,006 to. ,
225,000. More• than four new di-
visions (8d,000) are to be added
.to• the army this year.
World'.,Hockeyy
Meet Planed'
' Dr.• • W. G.. Hardy of .Edmonton
old the seftir=arinuale'coilV htiony
of the • Canadian Amateur Hockey
'Association that plans are' under'
consideration°'for 1staging world,
hockey--- championship' in anada
afte-r the war,
Even..before -.the -..'war ends,
world :tournaments might be held.
on a `smaller scaie, said Dr: Har-'
dye past, president of :the C. A H..
A.
He explained ..that the ,chief
purpose of the International Ice
'Hock'ey Aseociation'was to;trap -:
fer'•the • centre of world ,hockey
from Belgium to:Canada.where it
rightfully belonged. Organiza-
: there of the I.1j.H:A.:was prompt-`
ed., by .the` outbread: ;" of . war' ,in .'
Europe and 'virtual • collapse of
the . Old World body. Ligue In-
- ternationale
n---ternationale: de Hockey Stir Glace,
Great Britain, Canada and the
U'hited" States makeup, the ne.W.
world body and Dr. Hardy said
that "the • Olympic committee
- henceforth must take us on our
own •terms."'
Canadian. National
-Rail ays Revenues.
T}in
gross. revenues of the all- . ,
incrlusive, Canadian National 'Rail-
ways' System for the week ending •
January 7, 1941; were ..:.;.$4,422,8:89
sn-p.e ".ted. -,.:;deco eeee- 3 s 6'..---
, for the' •correspondiek •
period ,of.. 1940,' an in-
crease of •.,.,, 802,725
Fishermen=Farmers
Harvest Eei-.Grass
E grass in •errand ' for in.
sulation and packing -is furnish:
ing a mar4cet'' for' great quanti-
ties of this• -marine plane which is •
strewn along the beadles after
every high wind. Tli.e_ fisherinen-.
farmers df the, sections, of the
South shore .•of Nova Scotia near
Shelburne . have been • harvestiet
the , plant Wand '• obtaining good
prices.'.. The Canadian National - ,
Railways line. follows the A.tlan-
;tic Coast along ,this sough -shore.
from Halifax to Yarmouth, an
area .which annually , attracts
large. numbers '.of visitors Shele -
burne;;posseases .interesting links
With the . early' history of. New
England • and during its early
settlement provided • 'accomrnoda- - ..
tion for Loyalists . who had left
•-3Vework.
Add to 'Milk -Serve'
-o rix Pu d ding s—Sp re a d
On Bread and Butter.'
LIFE'S.` LIKE` THAT
By Fred Neper
"Let me have $500,000.:.. My girl 'friend is coming down this noon.
and t want to ;make an impression." - ,
WINSTON CI-IURCHILL--f
His Boyhood and Youti
John Chbrchill
theDuke ofMa
il
-
:boroug , E1and's greatest i�eseral
,
le Was. the ilu trioNs ancestor o • rime
Minister WinstonChurchill.' -Since
Marlborough's
day, the Churchill fa►n-'
• ilk has given. England many- soldiers
and btatesnieri.
°
Winston'Leonard Spencer ,Churchill,Wits born Finsschool daYs • at }arrow ''were t e 'des air'
Now, 80,'4814, third 'son of Lord landolp}, his par e1ts. Winston ton.Was last in is Clays.•
Churchill and Lady' 'Churchill,. the' foi'nter Miss After•twoeuiuecessful .tries' he finall was ad.
Jennie Jerome 3eioae of New York Ias grandfather mitredto Sandhurst. and�immediately showed a
Was t� `e ......t' Duke af. Marlboro's ._,h. • great n ` iasm or m' it _ '
he n veli h o 8' g e e tltusras f r il.taly life.
WEE114hutlkill 'in India. -Captured` by Boers,' Escape. Politic% and romance, '
7'.
Entertn+ the: British ,army iri 189,;,
..
Churchill first saw, a�ytron whenhe
ran away to +Milia and joined` the $ an,
Y St
illy ' ioi•ces as' an , officer' in a i•Iussar
reg'niP7't. ; . During 1'896-1999 Chu.rchl'l,
served 'in lntiia, played much,rpolo: '
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