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Typhoid Rapidly •
Is Disappearing
Ap A' Disease All' Across the
North American Continent -
Only One. Per Hundred
:thousand Contracts ft
•
, ,AU .across --the North American.
Continent Typhoid. Fever is a els-
• .appearing disease. At. the 'begin-
ning,. :of the: 'present ; century the
rate •of .mortality for this disease
T•,
in: the United States •:averaged 24
in every hundred tfq_usand. of pop•
• .Motion; it drapped' to less :tbapiµ
or.,e ,per ;hundred' tiious.and
In many'.places`it ,Was much 'high-
' er .than this. If the conditions pre •
• vai• in • Were i • g•, _ e 1900 'had continued
the United,, States? would tow ''tre'•
,having ' 44,000 typhoid,, deaths an:
uually instead :.of '2,40.0 •
.ONCE WAS: PLAGUE,.
The situation in Canada .is ' in
. part better than 'that recorded for,
our nearest neighbour? At the be-,
ginning of the century the •typhoid-
deathrate ' for. • this country .ryas' '
about. •5.01.•,per, h.uudreci'thousand
of : �aopulation: In 1938,, 'this' rate
' .had'• dropped. to 1.8: In"`Ontario, it
Was, but oz e • in every hundred
thousand . while .'in • Saskatchewan •
the rate. was 09. - .
This. improved-; condition in re- •
gard to what 'forty years ago was
•a• plague may be ascribed to a
combination :of tactors:: better gen.
'' oral education In ,health matters;
better recognition ,of, 'the'princlples
-.._<op...tty'gicue, °and1mrsEit.'oP all lo tNe-
use of pure water and pasteurized
milk.
In they present ',war the • example
' of the last war is: happily . being
followed With -regard to the inocu•
lotion of soldiers, against • typhoid `
and;"para typhoid" fevers:-, inocula, •
.aga'ins't the:,; maladies• was so
ii€cessfui in t e . •w.ar of 1918
that' very few r 4-1
our B4',1.ish de-
fenders succumbed to them. -4
Pilot: of Death;, Plaine
A successful quit xi
at theliome'..of' Mrs.. 0.-F
,Miss Dorothy "McKihn
das Is visiting with, fri
Mr's. W. R.Hamiiton is
. few days with ' her mot
Pow, -
Mies' Dorothy McGuire
a week before going
•
P
Joseph . C._ Mackey, ,pilot who
flew the military' plane carrying
Sir 'Frederick .Renting, which was
wrecked in the - bush country of
Newfoundland, last week was
brought • to hostiftal at Montreal
• suffering from head wounds and
shock.
•
20,000 'Uses Arc.
Known For Plastics-
Crowding .other' materials from .
the field, plastics now range in
, form from toothpicks to tele-
phones, from li'pstick's •to light fix-
tures,'. from - ash trays to air -7,
Planes. They have 20,000 definite
• indestrial and- corninercial • ages,
-with new: odes being . discovered.
And the lending plastic is
thetie •resin, compounded from the
physician':; friend, •phenol (car-
bolic acid), and the 'undertaker's
standby, formaldehyde.; Both are
derived from the distillation of
coal
Scientific Experiment
•
In Long Beach, Calif, a 3$-
'year-old ehiropraetork 'named Wil-;
fred C. Blair locked' himself in a
closet with a 25 -Ilia cake of '•dry
ice. Aim t a "scientific ,experi=
innent" • with carbon.. dioxide.' .As
,.the '.ice melted. it ,gave 'offCO2
funises. In 20 minutes, the' chiro-
praetor was dead. Next to his
body. police' found a,• notebbok
containing his pulse, temperature.
and respiration , record.
«,.,.s.moi..wo.......-..,...w....,ri...o:
•
aving Ontario's
Natural
Resources
4►-ss-0-�+++- .- •
G. C.; TONER
Ontario. Federation of Anglers.
(No. 33)`
THE OW1,S' FOOD'
The short -eared owl should
have a real .welcome from eve'iy
farmer' since it is one ofour-most
- pote it--.destroyers;'-of --mice --dt-
is. a:. bird 'of the open fields or
Marshes. The only place where
f have ever seen; it was Cataraqui •
marsh,. near Kingston, where' Ed-'
winBeau re found., it breeding.
A
many years ago: These Qwls. have~"
late winter •or, -spring 0 roosts in
groves 'of evergreen trees. 'They
bolt their food ',entire, regurgintal
ting the skin and bones as ,a• per-'
let `. when digestion is completed:,
• So, When a roost, is found, r ex-
am'ination of the ground . under
the trees will often show' many
pellets arid these, if collected and
.sorted, give a definite picture of
the recent food of the owl.
'What They . Ate
L. •L 'Snyder, and C. E; 'Hope
of the Royal Ontario IVIuseuym of
:Zoology have 'been studying .the
food of this owl for .some time
past. On a golf course near
Toronto they found • a' roost :of
these owls in' some ornamental
... eve3greens,,=to_._w h eh :they='resort-_
year after year. •In' 1936 during
April the observers collected a'
half bushel- of the pellets from
this roost. From ,other evjdence .�
'they assumed that about 18 . owls
were . present and that the pellets
'represented •about-•1,000meals of
these birds. •
Th;e next step was to 'sort out
and find what animals. were rep- •
resented in .these remainsofthe
food:. ;They did this by coin ar•-
ing the hones that they found 'in
the pellets -with - bone specimens
that they have In, the museum:.
As each :animal has characteris» '
tic skullor.•teeth''it was a fairly,
.inple job for'
.how:
. Mostly 'Meadow .Mice . .
They , found 1-,181 • meadow
Mice, 459 deer' mice, 1 'house'
mouse' "and the remai;.s . of 15 . .
birds. • •Figured -,.iii percentages
• the oats took, as 'food, during the
month' of April 72% meadow•
inice,:27';'0 deer mice, the .remain
der making up tens than 1%. 'To
my, mind, it shows that the short •
eaz•edow 1' is definitely bene-
ficial. The m ce taken by these
birds had" been . doing • consider --
ably. damage to young trees and
shrubs. , Property owner's . told
the authors that mice .were . a
veritable : plague " fn' the : vicinity
that year, :The -owls helped con •
-
trol this plague 'without, cost to
mann'
Maid of'Erin
,
1 P. .
`')utstan ding Movie Actor and Actress of 1940
By HOWARD'' L. TERRY
h eanie..f`rom the •land where the
shamrock, green. 'growing;
Is the emblem of cove in the
homes • of the Isle;
Where free %was my youth as 'the
wild waters flowing •
Through highlands, through low-
lands, through green -walled
' defile. .
I've 'k ssed the blessed stone fn'
o '.' dear Castle Blarney,
I've paddled my • boat on the
Waves ' of Killarney,
of Fingal'svast cave;
,I've' Climbed the high mountains,,
I've .Swum 'the .'blue:_wave. '
I've scaled- the steepfpeaks which
the boldest'decline, •
The wild beasts subdued by• these
• dark .' eyes of mine,. • . •
My father had castles ant1 "hos
untold -
cared 'nor" for riches, Mitt lt`fa
they uInfold:;'
-And; many a •one Who • had courted -
me long, -• '
Must, needs be co .'ent, with a
.
smile and a pow '.
I Ioved but the mountains, the
- moorlands, the :zea,
The roar of the ocean was music
'.to, me,
The shadowy ;wood and the pin-'
heeled height,
The • fast -racing waves' arid, the
bright stars of night.:
Oh, to live in the love of 'this
freedom of mine,',, •
' TO , gaze on earth's beauty,, to
drink o'f, its wine.
' And so all untamed the sweet
• days peased • away, •
But now, far .rani: home, are the
raven lacks grey;
.And memory nurses the sorrowful
strain;
-at give me my youth and fey
Isle •again." , ' •
.Retail sales nf, gasoline' in Gan
arta during the •first nine months
of,1940• •a iouinted• to 660405,000
gilolis Compared »ivith. • d01,191, •
000 gallons in• the corr'eponding
period of 1939. ,
!Y.
Ginger Regeis, crowned the outstanding 'actress of 1940, is shown,
LEFT, arriving for the annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and. Sciences, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Lela Rogers. •James
• Stewart • was awarded '•the- "Oscar' . for the best actor 'of 1940, at the
same banquet, and Jimmy is shown here' accepting the award.
•a
Ttl E W. A'.R •; W E E',K . C:ommentaf y -on Current Events
TURKEY'S
. , STAND KEY
.:.,.-TO B LKA .1 N...
t`]1 �+�'U_�T
"The position taken *by the •
Bulgarian government does not
lead to 'consolidation of peace,' .
but• ito'extension of the, sphere
of war and to Bulgaria being
involved in it: In view. of this,
the. Soviet ; Government,' true
its-lml tcy-�of , peace, ba rrrtot
• render any support to the: Bul
.garian governtneiit in the "ap-, . • .
::plication of its present .policy." •
.•. --Soviet Note to Bulgaria. •
"Turkey will oppose •by arms
any aggression directed against
her. territorial:' integrity or, her
independence: a. -foreign Min-
ister• Saracoglu .of 'T4r,keY.,_
• The diplomatic: sensation' of the •
week . eame • •when, " for • the' first
time' since 7anuary 15, the Krenilin
in Moscow_.blade a �.prononncenieut
relative to the •war in Europe which
could, be. termed official,. The' long
silence was 'broken with' the hand-
ing of a sharp note to Bulgaria,-
incidentally
ulgaria=incidentally an indirect' slap et Hit-
• ler- containing the , inforthation
`that=Russia'etuced to give sup-
ptirt.:ot_ nri_��_v lrinc teela•uigavia'sane
Axis -dominated poliey
Ankara Gives Closest "Ear
• The ,Soviet' reproof, tea Bulgaria
had . a variety ,of repercussions • in
-fh'e ;capftaisl :of. the' world,' London
was inclined to discount. its ' value'
as a factor in the tense Balkan
,situation. Berlin- inferred that Mot.
cow'(didn't understand:", In Ath-
•ens the ateeCow move •appeared to
have. been, timed • carefully' to co-
incide with British -Greek negotia-
tions taking place there. (It Could
not fail to stiffen Greek, resistance
to the German- "peace": offensive).
But . in'. Ankara the closest atten-
tion Was'•pafd to the Ruesien• note.
It,.,. eeamer'strongly evident that
Turkey. 'was • enncoura:ed •to tak
measures against any further Ger-
man niovep, feeling that it could
count on _at .least .passive- -Russian
appy vai should ft make • a, firm' .
•
Would Turkey, Fight?
Turkey's , recent pledge to "hon-
or All -her obligations" still did not
make it clear' ,what action Turkey
• Would take should ,German troops
not geweep. towards • the- Darden-
- ekes; .should ,German or Bulgarian
armies not attack the borders of..
"Turkey-in.Etirope" . . . ; biit'solely
' were concentrating on the Greek
frontiers in order to force a peace
upon •Greece. Would' Turkey fight
1f Greece went under? In the .ans-
wer to that gitestioli lay the 'key to
' . the outcome of the Balkan} situ-
' ation.
•
Nazi Aims In Balkans
The 1lazi, press last week declar-
ed that. the, Militaryoccupation
of Bulgaria . was t0..... prat: eat. any
British effort ' to "disturbs the.
peace" in the' :Balkans, that is, to
open ,up a ,new war front in that
zone. The indications 'were' that •"
Hitler desired at all costs to ?avoid
an upheaval there^arid that he ex-
- pettedta-ac-htevu-his-o-bjectives-
without threatening: Turkey direct- •
Hitler's .•immediate .alta,' ' as . n•e..
have pointed• out. before was to•
• bolster the flaTging.Italian war 'ef-
fort at ,as little cost as possible' so
that Mtissolinl, ' Gerold continue' to
keep `a large' section of ,the ' Bri:
ti'sh ' fleet:.:busy'. in the 14iediterr an ,
ear, plus formidable British laud
forces, 'far from the scene of the
Battle -of Britain: (His occupation
of Bulgaria seeondarii'y served;; to
give idle '.divisions of the .German
army sonething;to de; andadded
considerably, to Axis prestige-: in
`southeastern• Europe and th'e. Near
East).. For, the.' present ,the Dar
danelles And Suez could • wait; Hit
let's actions, indicated. But the Bri- •
tisn Might move first, from Sal
allies,: and- scotch• -'hie- plans -1iy
forcing him to accept the reality
of a two -front .war., '
Supremacy At Sea..
• 'Unless she Cali -maintain supremo•
icy atsea;.,Britair must..suecumb.
Such supremacy 'involves 'ability •to •
keep the sea" lanes open (the Anis
.presented a strong challenge in
the .Mediterranean .ahn9. the North
Atlantic)'and..particularly to trans-
port in , safety 'the indus tial, out=
put, sof the Unit* States. The
Roosevelt administration in .Wash-
ington 'last week wasthought to
have readied plans to give the Bri?
• fish, following :the passage .of the
Irease-Lend bill, what they se vit-
•'ally needed; repair. facil•itiee In Un-
ited States ports; 'a :supply •of ;mer-
chant ships; and, convoys. ,
U. S. Takes Risks''
• The United States hi the -opinion -
of most . experts was . expected to
adopt a full war economy for the •
nation immediately after enact-
ment .of the bill, sluce each and;
every 'provision made to, aid . Bra •
tain could bring war to the west.-
ern
est. -ern hemisphere, The • U. S. would
have to be ready for anything.
• • Nevertheless a war incidentwas
deemed much- More likely to oCCu1'
in the Pacific than the Atlantic.
In. the Far' East 'American, nai*al,
and air power had been mobilized
with due consideration for even-
tualities. And there, the U. S: was
ready to fight:
•
"The question • of what !find of
world our children will live in •is
being asked us now." . ,
' Mrs; Wendell L.' Willkie. .
erti 57.•„•:}4.x:
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St Patric'k'$
Day Games
' Many Are The Re.q•uests. For
Suggestions ,For Games Suit.
able For St; Patrick': y
-Front+• A Number of Sources
_..3'.ate_._..F4ttlowing-_.H,a-va_.Been__
Gathered,
$1 TGr TOSS: On a good .sized
piece of board 'draw and paint a
:green shamrock at least a' .foot
'.across ;Ati ' each cf the leaves
Ivo three ails, longs ones` With
large. heads.. Have them' well
separated Paint beside or under
.each •nail•.a figure; to be the value
of the ringtossed'. upon .that nail-
Proviide,.each player " with three
rubber • jar, rings from the kit •
-
cheu.. Give. a -prize :for the, high-
est' 'Score ' made-. when the rings,
are tossed• from : a . distance ' ofr:
:three .feet 'cr more.
SLIPPERY SNAKES:' For '.bis
have •a •supply of long macaroni,
cooked and drained: Provide each
player with a -silver fork and a
,piece of macaroni. Line them
all up, to ,race. across • the. room.
When • a .p,iece ' of macaroni slips •
from 'a fork, the ' player carry-
ing it is out of the race. First
ode at the goal wins..
ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN,:
Gilt out of wrapping "paper or
cardboard small and .large; ir-
regular pieces: 'Lay thein on the
floor. in as big a ring. as_possible
and fasten each to ',position with
a tiny bit of- melted candle wax
underneath. On.. linoleum -'-flour
paste will do the trick and is eases
il'y removed 'afterward, The Pay -
erg in turn try to run the "rocky
road,"; without missing ; a single
piece of -paper or stepping' oil .the
floor' around the bite. •"The one
who':completea the circle without
error in th'e fastest time wins.
FAIRY ,RINGS.:: _ .Each._ :p1a'yer.
receives ten small brass 'Curtain
'rings and a knittingg', needle. The.
ri s are laid, flat ion the ,- Peer.
ng
At a signal, each player stoops
and tries to' get the rings en .the
.needle without, touching :Ahem 'or,
"-the floor with the liands -First-
player with •all: rings on needle
wins. Any player whose 'hand.
•touches. floor., is 'disqualified•.
• 'PADDY'S PIGS: Green ' plaisti-'
cine is provided for each player,
and green • toothpicks; are passed
aroand.'Each one tries to model.
a pig For variation, brown '
_ .plasticine.-ixiay:be used, for model=
ing potatoes. • -
-IRI•SH .SONGS: -From a.r.pt;ug
hat: decorated' with •.clay, pipe,and •
bunch of shamrock, each player,
draws .the -'name of an' Irish tong
or of a person mereiior> •d.. in an
Irish song. When .called upon by
the leader, •each • player is expect-
, ed io .sing, play or' recite 'One.
verse . oijchorus Of ':that song
befort•-the .count of nine. • ,Failure•.,
i estiltt in paying a for. f ei-t for ire-
c-idud by thc, who -le= greatp.
1940. Grain Crops
The -'third estimate ef: the?940
Canadian grain crops in ''bushels''
is as follows, with the • 1939 pro-,
dtiction• shown for cornparisopt
1940. 19319•
Wheat' 551,390,000 520;623.000
Oats 380,526,000 384,407,Q00:
Barley • 104,256,000 103,147,000
Rye ' -13,994,000 1.5,307,000
Flaxseed .:,.. ,3,189,000 . '.2,044,000
Peas ...,. ,.:.;: 1,355,000 ' • 1,307,000
Beans 1,477,000 1,527,,000.:
Buckwheat : ,6,•69:2;000 • 6,848,000
Mixed grains 43,13'3,000 44,072,000
+Corn• for •
o tring .,, ,, r'r �,•.,+•.' iii
Should Test Seed
Then. Plant'.` It,
That's the First Step In War
Crop :Production For 1941--
. Pamphlet Outl.initio Methods
of 'Home Germination 'Tests'
Can Be obtained 'From Ont.
Dept. of AgricUlture
With Ontario• being • geared for
the greatest possible crop: produc-
tion this year, the first step• inl'farni
iyar production effort • is to make
sure the seed•y.ou plant tests high
in' ge'rm'ination, dtherwis.e you inay`.
harvest; poor crops despite-• favor
'.able 'weather. conditions. ' .' • .
Unfavorable harvest conditions
in, Central and Western' Ontario
tact year, have increased the,ne.et1
•of testing seed before planting.
• Tliis has been demo .stra'ted re -
Gently at the Ontario �Agricultura. l
.College, GueiI,h; where. it , • W.as
found that some plump Beed of
satisfactorya color germinated .pawr
ly While some badly weathered lots
germinated much better than their
appearance- would indicate. •
. CAN B•E DONE' AT-HOME
' The•'only: Sure way to make posi
tive your seed grain will give maxi-
muna crop returns, is to have it
tested for germination and, a this
CO be done at• home -hy evei'y''
Winer . in 'Ontario.,
Full directions for. germination;
tests: are • contained- in .a 'small
.pamphlet: written by pr. G ,. P.•;.Me,
Rostier- Ontario Agricultural
lege, Guelph, ;and can be obtained '
from your •Agrieultural, Represent-
ative or. by • writin•g direct to the '
Statistics' and. Publications Brandi,
Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto.-
, Seeds•of the following crops can
be, satisfactorily •tested at -home:
oats, barley, wheat, rye, buck•
wheat, field corn, peas;' beans and.
soybeans. •
VOICE
O' F THE
PRESS
°4v with boast, Muffins,
' Tea Biscuits, Waffles
i-Ril and Pancakes. 44R,
BIG TIME PROSPECT
The- finance, companies that '
Otter . loans u,1.to,.. b0:0_._.on ,_easy,_..
repayments might be able to in-
terest the Dominion 3overnment.,
. •Woodstock Sentinel-Re-View.'
CN'T BEAT PIO.NE'ERS
The' enthusiastic golfer is still
-face_ to -..face
.• hwiththefeet. that;
gereaxfeorsotdisbuccokusnawryhathvaendotnhee.
niblick ever •will, ---• Guelph Mer-:
IT'S .EXPE'NSIVE, TOO
Owing to seine' oversight •a' man
was. recently appointed a judge: ,
. Nicaragua .Who has ben dead •
for four years. that. habit of riot •
tarrying -the dead—lids • cause -4
•sone strange 'a.ppoinxments .'in
Canada, too, - • Toronto' Satur-
', day Night.
FIGHT FOR THE MARKET
Ontario farmers . had better
Iook to their laurels. In the first'
six weeks • of 1941.Ontario farm
ershave d'eliverec� to packing
plants 225,000 • hogs. Alberta
'fa'rmer's have •: delivered" 176,000.
Last week Albertans ,delivered
31,0e00 ; against :Ontario's 33.,000:
Competition ,for .'markets for
farm products ;within Canada has
never been ,great while the west
could rely on selling its. wheat
crop. With the wheat ' market
badly clogged western . farmers'
+are turning`tiintfxed_ifagining,
products' which Compete more dig.
redly ' Within ;Canada. What: is
happening in hogproductio4i;"
shows what the west can do when
forced :to, it. -Lethbridge Herald.
Safer •To Fly
Than To Walk
Air Fatalities r -Are' Fewer
ha;n Those--Which..FTake___,= x
Toll. of, Pedestrians' •
-No--mede of •travel- carries an ab-•
solute guarantee ;of safety,- says:the
Galt . Reporter. Probably snore
people meet their ends while using;
the aim lest f rm o
ocAa ti
' provided by nature, Walking,—than
by utilizing' swifter nodes of traV
el,• such as 'ah -planes. Death' comes'
to them individually. A pedestrian.
here,'• knocked down° • and- killed by '
an automobile. Another, thousands
'•of miles away,.siips enan icy pave- .
meat- and receives.. fate., inju( ies,,in
:the fall. These isolated incidents of...'
death attract little • . attention. TA
'few' paragraphs in the local papers,
a n that is alt, unless the. person
enjoyed national prominence. .•
it
• • We accept these 'fatalities as the
logicalconsequence.ef the hazards'
we must continually meet in this
riski' business of
Fatal train wrecks, and airplane
Gnashes receive a prominence :out
of'.;all' proportion to the.reafly"few .1
fatalities directly attributable .to ,
'.•hese' modern modes of travel- The` •
ingenuity Oman has made it safer
to fly than to jay walk across the
ice -encrusted street at a busy city
thoroughfare: •HoWever,`certain.
hazards''remain, and one of -several '
possible ones turned the westbound
flight' of the Trans -Canada. Airlines
plane. into 'a' tragedy at Armstrong
the other week, a• tragedy
12 lost -their -lives,
Previously.,• 81,000• piiss,engers had: -
been carried •by-T.C.A, without in-
jury of any. kinu. A total of 8,165,
000 miles had, .leen flown,,id 'creat=
ing this . splendid record.
LIFE'S LIKE 'THAT,.
By; Fred Neher
"Let's' organize a
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bridge .club, girls, then we can sit down and taik!'e
REG'LARTFELLERS ---- Just Practice
J: GOTTA GO DOWN '
TO me' BANK ANO
5TRAIC�HTf N «t„
'MY' ACCOUNT! ITS
IN A MUDDLE!'
YOU OUGHT TO
BALANCE YOUR BANK .
BOOK AT LEAS (VICE -
At MONTH f TH'A15 THE
•ONLY WAY TO KEEP'
1T STRAICrl-IT "
By GENE BYRNES
-A®tt,
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