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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-03-09, Page 3777 a• it if You Oet 'Cold Feet in • 'roll. Past 1,1 Month Pearl Higher Reps, Lower Food And • Fele/'. Costs. , '' • The Bost of riving has decreas- ed in 'the .Do ©inion by a little more than one per .cent. in ' the past eleven months.. . • `These differences Are indicated. in the monthly repoltt of the Do-. minion: Department of La1or, on •the costs of'a.,list of 'items taken to be a standard weekly'¢audget The ,statement shows that this` standard budget would have . cost in the Dominion' as a whole, $17.17 at the beginning of thisyear 'as compared with 21. cents more 11 months. ago. • • : tents, on the one hand, show an increase which more -than counter.- balai'�rces ,lower food.. and fuel • costs. On ,January :1•: of this' year' theyOiveraged $6,45 a week, which , sum is 6:3 cents a week --or bet- • ter thar:. 10 per cent.' higher than on February 1, 1938... • - Surgeon-M.P. Passes, On . .Seriously injured in t rnoter•ace cident; while 'campaigning' for- re- ' • election.•to the :H'beee of C'ominone: • in' 1935, ,Dr J. W. Rutherford,' M.P., for Kerit'and Widely • known .surgeon, of Chatham; Ont., died .recently.;, Dr,'Rutherford .spent . • 'monti-s in. +lie hespi.tal following• the accident.,, in which 'he 'suffered a. fracture, izi the region •of the• • neck,.. and from which he •never. fully', recovered. Reich Suffers Trade Decline 12 Per Cent.. Reduction; In Ex- ports From Germany Shown For January. ' . - Germany's foreign •trade shrank. sharply in January -the month at the. end of which Chancellor Hit- ler told " the ' Reichstag "We must export or die." Official figures made publle re- cently showed German exports : ' dropped 12 percent., chiefly in in- dustrial products; and imports, -sagged 1.3 Iger -cent. enzupared .to the previous month. The 'import. decrease Was .' chiefly in, vegetable foodstuffs, •Trom December to January the •adverse balance of imports increased 'by '31,038,000. -marks' (about $12,100,00.0.) "Export 'or, Die" Since Hitler spolt�e Nazi' propa- gandists have been engaged in a, vigorous; nation wide drive.: , to stimulate •e.xports by ' reminding , manufacturers .of .then' "national duty'.' to sell abroad. Not long • • ago Walther Funk, Minister of . . Economics, threatened to penalize' those •who neglected o_pportunities to l,expolt. Ontario Sells - Beaver Pelts $26,000 Received For :'Furs Seized .From Traders By Province Deputy -Minister D. J. Taylor of the Ontario Department . of Game • and Fisheries announced this' week that approximately $26,000 worth •of eonfiscdted furs have been sold'.' by' the department' by public .ten- der. ' Half of this amount came from ., skins illegally takert•from tlie,'Sud- bury -Long Lac, area last summer 'by J. 1." Glick *id- confederates. Giiek, whose alleged efforts to .run a large' consigninent of furs•. into ' Quebec• province by airplanes' Was' a " feattire of the -department's X938 war on illicit fur traders;:: is 'serving a reformatory sentence. 14000• Pelts Disposed Of There were more than 1,000 beaver ,pelts- in the ' sales. Mr.• Taylor said, some of them bring- ing as much as $27. it is illegal t� hunt beaver although a short i asoh might have been permitted' last yeah„ but for illicit hunting. ' A short season might be permit- ted . however , thin year, he said. ship ,,school` adinlnistrator. Desks • SPRING IS ;COMING; x't iQgay not • even:he.'in'the air yet, •but.sie know . it's just around the :corner.. Brander . Hepburn " has returned frown the • south., The :robins will be next., *. * * TH'E ARM REACHES. •OIJT: An tiiiimportanti,00king little despatch in the :dally newspapers last, week • mentioned. that. German<borb" resi- • dents of the Province ox Alberta,'of Military ages . are being asked by 'the German..Giovernmerit to returns to 'G•errnany at duce ' under threat of reprisals against, relatives in "the ; Fatherland". • • Can. the Canadian;,•Governreent do nothing• about this '•sort of• thing? ,Or. has snail a• net of: terror been thrown 'around our German'born citizens that they dare net, speak? We .know of One.; G main woman; resident here ,for azeii'. years, . who just lacks- at `•you dully ".:and ' 'shakes her head 'if you ask' any question:i about, ' German 'the plight of her.'relat'iveg there} or. her opinion of the Nazi regime. • PROMISSORY "NOTES: Vincent' Sheean, noted American author and foreign correspondent, who has just returned from the' European' scene;' says that if Premier Mussolini de _eieres.-that..the-1111'iarrs`velli—led ve Spain ' when victory conies,; he means only the 1 Italian infantry will get out. Mr. Sheean explains that.'Fran,co' owes Mussolini $2,000,- 000,000, or $3,000;000,000 in promis wiry notes, and that Italy Will he in a position to demand a' military Albanoto cut France's life line to her colonies' is 'Africa: "The next crisis will be in the Mediterranean between France 'and Italy, possibly in Tunisia. SQUEEZE -PLAY: While ,Britain and la lance wei•e rushing lest'Week to .accord recognition to Franco's •regime, "Gener=al Molesworth; head` of. the International', Commission •etacuati'ng foreign'' troops from Loyalist Spain; was declaringthat there • was ' still enough food\ in ,Loyalist territory to carry' on the war for another two •years; enough man power to bold out indefinitely against the Nationalists. Munitions. only were lacking but the Loyalist' Government, with°the thlyd largest gold reservd in the world was, un- • able to : buy them. First Czechotlovakiar. Then Spain, • • It's another ,ease •of being "sold' down the river''. Democracy all'. over the world will • suffer ten measurably` for having allowed the sell-out to take ' place. • • * s * FIyE, CENTS A WEEK: There's ' no denying it we've been getting good entertainment out '-of' the C.B.C.'e 'new radio prog;rams. Typi billy Canadian material, attractive'• —something we've never had be- fore. Why kick at paying a nickel a : week for a radio license when•' we're taxed that 'much for every packet of •cigarettes we smoke? ' * * * THE WEEK'S Q'U:ES.TiON: Hew' does 'the new income tax in Ger-: • many affect childless . ,couples, bachelors and. spinsters? .Answer:' Bachelors' and siiizisters• b'egin'pay-, . ing 'tax at a :$386.40 annual income. The: amount of taxon that income is about $3•,60; 45% of -the income of married couples, childless .for •• Jive years, can be taken up by,the state, even though their income be. only' $720,a, year.! Fiinds• Reporter Resembles, 'Thug, London Man • Feels His Face Grow Red -in Police One London (Ont.) reporter. went around with the red 'face while authorities cast glances of sus- 9picion at him. After. two London ' men had been arrested on ~'charges , of holding up a St. Thomas butch- , er shop, ainan And a woman came to ' London train ' Woodstock " and asked to look -at the, prisoners. The Woodstock couple had been held up two , Week's' ago and thought. the : London pair might have been the bandits. Looked' Like ,Bandit There were no'+t.many prisoners in the police; cells ,at the time so authoritiesaskedea group, of 're- porters ' and a' phbtograpber to stand in line, with the two prison- erg. When'the newspaper then and the two prisoners Were placed in a line along• the wall atthe police statidn, the Woodsfock couple were . brought into the'room, The woman was 'immediately attracted by the, IoOks of one dark •chapin the line- ul. , "That olio looks more like one' ..of the bandits than any'of,;the oth- ers," she announced. . • The than she pointed to wItte a reporter. . • North York' school children are bigger than their; Ontario • parents were, says 11. M. Brownlee, town- via'ed in Latvia.. h In the lov,?er form hhave Cansta� tly aril et • • • Nearly. 1,060'skiers swanned down on ,Huntsville, Oat„ as the -northern Ontario winter• and surnnner..,resort officially 'opened its 1,600 acres •of, trails and • Jumps, grhese two pretty lassies brought 'their bathing suits out of moth balls for.the •op.easion and reported that they "Were not cold -=-mush:” In case. you should adopt the idea • for your, own ski-ing 'es:pee •ditions- don't blame us' if you don't feel• as comfortable•• as. these two lassies-I000k, accinatiou Inti duced By Englishwoman. Tur-Ks Had 'Practised... It tor '' Centuries—Dr.Jenner Per- fected The Process. Who discovered ,vaccination? Nine out of tea people would prob- ...abiX'sayl it was Edward. Jenner,• bat actually he 'only .perfected :the process and owercarue the supersti- tion and narrowness of outlodk.that had for a'-halfa-eenture prevented it from• taking An in'valuable part in preserving' the, health • of the community. The, practise had been known to, the Turks,'protialily for centuries, but it was a woman who introduced it • into England, .about half -a -century,' he:forc Jenner•. per-• fected'1h'e 'process.. ' Al' the time of her discovery,' one • of ,the most important • in Med'ical' history; Lady Montague was•living. at the. British Embassy inConntan- tinople, Where her. •husband was 'Ambassador. • - During, one of her journeys about the country Lady 'Mary 'saw. 'an ' Arab doctor' surrounded, by a group • of; mothers who were ha'n'dingtheir' babies to him. The•• doctor .dippeii a needle into some 'liquid aG iris,• side and thenjebbed it. into the in- fants' arms. Puzzled 'and Interest= ed, Lady Montague made 'i.nttuiries, and learned how these children' were 'being, infected with' cowpox. so„that they ,ahotild be ,.free from the 'danger of small -pox. ' . Arab Doctor Practised it'., The (Ambassador's wire knew that, in those days small -pas ••out breaks held a most:important place among England's health pro5leins,' and. she spoke of her. discovery -the Embas'sy's • efiieial •:.phy-sleieu Mr. Maitland by name,who was, bf course; extremely interested. He soon discovered Iidw„ the • vaccine was obtained and inoculate'd..all,the members '•of :•the'. Embassy, and on. his return to •London in, 1721, four .• years.; Iate.r, he 'set up'as a speciate ist in the 'process for the coling ra- tive,..•few who believed in , vac'c t •.' ation at -the time. ' :lPictuire.' "rain ,It's pretty easy •to ruin the ef- " �ct o ,aJtie�liactui fiy c b,osing '; . •ple, the „Jess.* conspicuous• the. 1 frame, the more distinctive . the art ..itself will be. it should• her monize . with 'the' color, Alines' and character ofl, the rooni,'as• well as the picture itself. ,.Exceptions. to• this rule are Japanese' and Chinese • prints, 'Which may al gays be flan= ed in har'moniiing .lacquer,. ' . IIII• IPUCK CHASERS . NEWS QF O.H.A. DOINGS CANADIAN AMATEUR HOCKEY There is. going to be a real. old- fashioned dog fight among the ' senior championship” 'teams• of East- ern Canada before a wio•ner' is„ale 7. • • Glared for the grand final wfnd-up of' -senior hockeyin the Allan Coup series,. No doubtthe fact tbt this •yna-i ii wnrnmi'"'ttuaiYfi2W 'fog roe; Olympic' games of next winter :has, bad •niucb.. to do with the.general ; strengthening of the seniohockey • situation in • Eastern'' Canada. . Two Ontario teams playing . in Quebec"leagues ,may cause the big- gest upset of all.' The famous Corn= Wall Flyers, who :won the'Eastern. .Canadian; Senior championship last, . season and Went.into the. Arlan Cup.' ,finals against the Wail Smoke Eat-. ,;ars, are leaders in' the Quebec Pro.... vinci'al League, baying completed their .regular'4season with'' a coin- Mendable':margin over the rest of'. the circuit, Like everybody else, the Cornwall Flyers are •engaged 'in OW league 'play-offs, They. ,lost Thut•nine games during the past sea-' s�n and several of those setbacks came when the team 'was riddled with illness and injuries., . The Fly - ars lost, about. eight players from last -year's team, but to the credit of Coach Don Penniston• they Nave'" done a 'fine, job: of •rebuilding. In Ontario:•there are twd' senor • teams thatare likely 'tie go places. Bight now .Toronto Goodyears; who ..won their regular Senior• {°A" O'"li.A. schedule Without a' •.defeat, I .got my name M the d ! :Only Newppaatpperers,bring the.' news of vital.interest to you Headlines may •-scream' ofw death' .and disaster without causing you. 'to raise an, eyebrow. But if your: son 'get's his name in. the paper— that's real news!. ' - • • It isn't by' accident that this •paper .prints so many • stories which,: vitally •.interest you and' your neighbors. News •of remote' places is stated briefly and inter= _preted. -Local' news is covered, Uli,y,_.diecaus;e . g dot ,s: �4.a.. -.rtlh� 'went s �fn+�aa,�i ar�tificn;- ,t ests the readers most is , news about themselves. • Now in • a good time to .learn more abou•t'this newspaper .which ie, .made ;especially for you. Just Eons fun , ask•, yourself this •qu'es- - • , tion: 'Wow coti•1d;,,vve • get along , •without'• newspapers? KNOW • YOUR NEW'PAPER ,WHAT -•DOE$ i:r 1-D0'K ,LIKE? New is some confounded partisan going, to .ask floe. ran Maekenzie what the B'ren gun /oohs like?' Hamilton" Spectator. • • • -o-•, WHEN SNOW W.AS WELCOMED it cost Detroit $70,000. 'o, remove the snowfall of 'one week. In Our days . on t..o Tenth Concession . a heavy snowfall was considered 'a splendid co":.ring for 'th.e'. winter wheat, and also gotpd forte clover. --ePeterborough Examiner. • NOT INSOI:UBt,E , With more cava 'on'•the roads. On- tario, had. 451'•fewer motor acct.'. dents, In 1938 than in '1937, 1n feWerPersona, killed, 607 fewer- in jured.',It.is not great. progress,4ut it is sonlethin.g, and • shows the problem 'is• not in.soiubl'e.-Ottawa' . Journal. ' , - f." —4—•= " FOR WOMEN ONLY" ' This'is to be the seasdn of frilly bi•ouSes and here -ad .now it must be, stated that it'$ about time"' ..For • if there' is anything that will.;turn the attention of the adult poula- tioe away frora.,the• grim and. sorry •pusiness'of wars, abroad .and •poltti- cal difficulties 'at hone, it is a gay and lacy blouse Timmins Daily • ' Prd`ss: —.o— FO.R SIX CENTS A WEEK There are' 2,000,000 - workers in •the United • Iciugdom who pay six, cents a week -4o provide . hospital ' treatment 'ter themselves, if and when .needed. The income per•; year for hospitalization ha.s reacted $30,.: OOl),0Q0, What a blessing alike to • patients a well as hospital •w th- •:orities sucli a, sy§t.em would be'for ibis province? And there is a be-• lief' that: it wi71. dome to that so.nke ' ,Catharines Standard. • . N) - 'A'i'm 7it7 litri'EL `BUu1NEvuS'" it is not. easy to.•sna;ke, money in the .hotel. business. E'en the'oWn- ers of more modest hostelries have.' been unable°:to.show, very encourag-., •Ing returns: They must, maintain.es. tablishments for 'a sort of hit -and=•' run patronage and are never sure • whether they,'are• going to eodount- winning 15• games.. and playing five overtime ties,, are engaged in a final` play-off .series with the im- proved:'G.M:. Men of Oshawa. ,To- • ron•to Goodyear's won ,the'first game' .. of the final best-out-o.fehl•ee, games by a '34 S'co're. However, .Oshawa' is •stiil very •much fir the picture: While Toronta:Goodyears are fav, orites to win ti e,Senior "A” O.H.A. crown, they hardly, expect ,to down the Oshawa 'opposition in less. than five'games.. . • THE :TEA THAT iS NEVER: INSIPID!, ��Ya FREE.; S11VERPLAT Sade ,tds Coupons ,from Lipton's• 11b. and 3i lb. packages. They are' ex. changeable for heautiful Wm. Rogers 8& Son Silver. plate. Write forremium bookte Thus J Lipton -44isnitetlni illtok t3is"oxowto TO '-7 T1 ; er a sell -Ant ,ora WasbOUt, The' automobile bar lad tare effect of ' • rendering the hotel trade uzri;eteady,�,, t 'he irave1Tng i?ub'lic 'has getters away from any standard rdutine of ibe Movementes. It is here today and . gone tomorrow,with the result that • hotel propri=etors never know .how' many patron to expect. stock •Sentinel-Pei*iew. • .he . BC)(11‹ SHELF By' ELIZABETH EEDY DAYS OF .OUR YEARS • By Pierre van Paassen Of ale, the .books written by' foreign correspoadents:,about their experieneee• abroad, their• :obserya' tions of current•histery in the mak- ing, this le one of the most absorb- ing. "Days' ofoQur Years`' is :the autobiography. ofa man of intense feeling, 'acute .perception; who has been on the, inside 6f world-shaking. events, "eyegwitness" of. ' almost jn- lcredtbl.e • /Openings,' , in- Intimate... contact .with tfi.e `great and glamor- ous' figures: of our age. , Pierre varaassen tis a Dutch- man who came. ;tb Canada in )lig • youth,, attended Victoria University, • went overseas.• from .Toronto.: He came out of the 1914-1918 conflict with a .profounii• -loathing of 'war and the armament -makers, a pas- sionate beliee in peace. .After the War his work as corres • ondent.., • took • tire pretty 'much Lev.erywhere, front' Abyssinia to- Spain, France, ' Germany, Syria, Palestine. When, it comes to,, present-day, " . events, vaq. Paassen's ,in.terpreta- tionis.,. authoritative. The, man. seems to be a prophet.'` "Days of.Our• Years" ...• Pierre van Paassen.,. Toronto: George Js McLeod, Limited... $3.75. • California - fisheries' produce . moxa wealth than • her• geld mines. Roma c:e Is Shorn Movie. -Kiss Fran Kissing on the screen is far. from being *•a romantic . affair, John Pitt, former screen actor and director, told members of the Caw radian Progress Club in Montreal last week,. The screenzzle of a singlekiss was often, he said, pro- ceded by, hours of effort to secure. the proper position, • stance and posture. "It is a wonder," he a4- de.d,-,"that, kisses appear 'as real as they def on the screen." TNEHANDY p.DURINC•SPfUT for th toRipowu tin , Itisofreo-7nrite for one NOW • • Vita the epeclaI.top,ot;the 2 iib. . tin of Croton Brand, Lily Vl!iit;e end Karo syrups. • Is easiiydeaned'and caa'b,e used . over,pnd aver again. • Pours without.a drip. • Provide, means .of accuratsr • measurements.. , • Maker the 2111,. an an ercelient • :tabre.container,."..... _ ... • • The protective cap pprov'1dea 11 . • sanitary OW.; Tell the boys that portraits of famous . - hockey stare can still be obtained for, "CROWN BRAND" labels. .. [RONIN BRAIID CORN' SYRUP The Fannpas Energy.1'pod The CANADA SplARCH -.CO„ Limited, Toronto: • 8 • P$I�A'GE alio in ass Tins` •'r/2 LB.,TIN SS;o LIFE'S Ir!KKE THAT 00, 0 PIPS: DIARY`' By Fred Nehei 50 (0' 'teopyrkort, task b1 ?red Vaberf . r'I. "Now count tern first,' officer." .' WONDERLAND' OF OZ aU By L. Frank Baum. 40A "•tVho are the Fuddles' anyhow." asked Aunt Em'. "1 Can't say exactly, Aunt PM, what they are," Dorothy replied, laughing. • r We 'will, find out' when we 'get there." .Perhaps' the Whiard know':' suggested Uncle Henry. "No, Ive never .been• there," said the wizard. .i1 But I have often heard of the Puddles, • who 'are said to be the most peculiar�pl.e' in 6z." "In what 1- ani sure' '' **nwn/ ar4-4e,. e , Haid the Wizard.. Just then, es' they rode 'along:' a pretty green lana toward Fuddlecumifg, they„ ,,spied a, kangaroo' by the roadside. The poor animal had .its fate covered with both its front paws and was crying so bit- terly that the 'tears coursed down its eheekn' (Led trickled across the. road Where they formed a'poo1 ill a•smail ho11oW. The' Saw=Horse••s'topped short at thlte pitiful 'sight and 'Dorothy cried out with ready. ,00?' "Boo -Hao —. Boo43oo," wailed the Tian- garoo. "1 have lost illy- rnI—nii--,ins-soh Boa -Hoo; Boo -Hoo,"' "Poor thing," said the Wizard,, "she's 'lost :her mister. It's probably her, husband wh'o'a dead," . !'No, no, no, sobbed the. Kangaroo "It isn't that." "I know," .said Oniby Aniby, she's lost her mirror,. No, It's mY—mi-.-mi— Oh, I#oo-Boo, and the Kangaroo c'ried tc r'--WrirnyeretrTAIrtit-Iplt— "Or her nvillt Oast," proposed t'n In HEliry. "I have lost my—mi.—mittens." Said the Kangaroo, getting it out at late • "Olid" cried 13illina; will a cackle of re- lief. "Why by didn't yeti 5liy fio ' before." ",T#oo-/Fico,�l ooti.idn t," answered <t•he Ral - "gltroo, `Brit see here," said Dorothy,. "yr' dont need', m!ttens this warm weather. ""Oh,?^ don't Iasked the animal, stopping he sobs_aud.aa.ktia ,u au f bri_ face 'to"'tcoic"gt" tire Pirtle girl do su°'prise. •