The Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-04-20, Page 7Az
500,000 Die
' War In Span
Cost Races, Ina Telles Of Bil-
lions--- 20,000' Foreigners
Killed Or Wounded. •
;With Spaii in the halide. or the
Nationalists, estimates of the cas-
ualties in Spain's 32 -month 'civil
• war run ' to • more than .1,2.00,000.
Ont of these the dead were be•
c"lieved: to number alaoiut • 500,000,
.many of whom died by erxebution, .•:
'Of the casualties it, was belioy- .'
ed"20,000 foreigners had been 'kill-
ed or wounded on .both sides...
'It ' was estimated 'that • ,1O,Q."000-
.o.'
foreigners •it .one /time or, another -
had nerved :Ohl General k'ran_eo's
side, and 49,00 in the ,Republica.n'
Many' Executed
hie -cost . of., t'be War,-tncit(ding,
loss. in ..toreign trade, wealthex=
pended ,for munitions and •mater••
dais 'of war, anddamage, one. by
shells, bombs and other liar 'de-
+� etr'uctio.n mounted into the tens 'of
billions of dolla'r's.:. ° ''
One oflicial•of the Spanish Na-
tionalist Treasury 'Department pri-
v,ately estimated the war had cost
-Spain "a.bout $40,000,000,00f",.
Queen Of'Albania
•
Albania's Queen Geraldine, wife
of .King Zog, was. 'forced 'to flee
the' country Easter . week -end with
it three-day-oldson just before the
: 'Italian 'invaders reached' the capi-•
lal, .Tirana. . .
Radio!', Discourages '
Amateur Efforts
Music Superintendent Tells Us
To Sing For .Toy—Don't Try
To Copy Nelson Eddy. ,.
There should be more commun-
ity singing ,and amateur choirs in
Canada, .' Kenneth Madill, superin-•
tendent of muslc in Windsor's.pub-
lic and secondary sohgols, told. the •
"Sarnia, Kiwariis Club last week.
"The standards.of •c0mparisbn in
usic are too high,"Mr. llfadill '
smaid.. "Ask a • man if he can' sing •
and he thinks. • you mean 'can he
sing like Mellon. Eddy. This has a
tendency to discourage amateur.ef-,
fort:
Community Singing Urged,
Adults• should sing., when they'
get together for thefun of'it, the
speaker believed. To refrain from
"musical express]- of aro/sort be-
cause it. would compare nnfaVorti'
I. ably, with'' professional 'talent . is •
wrong: -.Mimic' is net only- for. ,the
experts; it is for the great mass of
•people., „
Folk music, t.Iie siknpli'st.and.the
.oldest type •of inusie known to
roan, is, being taught hi the» •pu.blic
schools 'today, the speaker explain
ed. •
Artificial means of producing
music have alsb done much to Cls- ,
:o.urage amateur •efforf, the'speak-
er, believed. Radios; and ,phono-
. • graphs. have taken the place • of ,
heirs and quartets. '
Ploughing, Sowing
Now Proceeding
Secret Of Good Till;ag a Should.
Be Learned For Best
Result* .'
What is good tillage?.'First-to
plough thoroughly; •secondly6 -, to
plough, andthirdly to manure.
'rhe other part of tillage is to have.
good seed, to sow plentifully, and
to take up ail the tweeds .whic'h
_may grow,dirring the season. This
lnforTnation. is not new. It Was gjv-'
• by Cato, a tl'omatn Statesman,
thousand years ago.., •
Cleri Seed la Best
Tills is %time of year 'when at-.
fon•4ion is being given to -seed sun.
plies. If growers' are using their.
own seed .it is important to have it
well ••leaned and graded, • 'to reg
'move'small, shrurnken, itn'mature or
broken' kepis, inert .]natter and
• • weedsee& it it not to6 early to
--b7''*g •-blie-m€auni ggwaall.oilt .ri�i�fin„..Ity,e,��
•"�"irketw"•tf�=t[c�,� nY"F'/E 5.
pairs to the m'1ll• And sereens, and,
commence cleaning operations. Lt
is well el. n of t`o 'urry the'clean;ing of
seed. The seed'. shouId.••be, fed even
h into min and
1i i
ly' and. slov�ly, into t e, i ,
cleaned ft second or. third time If
"•lbceeSsary,
Pail ismen ry
Deities
•s.
With couturiers 'Leigiadatorta
tut •E riD. r
u•.
"ere.. we are all fresh and fair„;
curly eyes and 'bright blue hair'''
Ontario's' Legislators are back
at work' following' the Easter re-
cess.. . casualties 'few, • general
air angelic . Grits and Tor-
ies •and Mr: .•Oliver
Third Party. tneniVret'r) •loSk as if
"they mean .business.,” ° •
•
The House has voted that when
enough' -is. enough itr is enough,.:A"
'340w rule just' put into force clamps
dawn , on 1VLL A,''s. •whe like ; to
talk , and talk, a Measure pro-,
vid•ing that if a majority of nnenm»' .
hers.' decide they have.•listened to
enough., debate on any question
:they may. vote for its termination.
Mr: Macaulay. '(Cont..) ;.Speaking.•
agojnst, the adoption of the rule
,pointed but that great danger lay
in the feet that "the leader of .the
House. could put'sueh u, motion at
any timeand carry it with his ma
jority, thus closing off debate be-
fore • the Opposition ' could ' be,
heard . According to "another
new . rule of:: procedure, if mem-
hers of the. Legislature become Un-
ruly, the Speaker: will be allowed
to adjourn'• the House till the next
day..
•
Heard iri the. House: W.T.• St'ew-
art (Con., Toron•.to-Parkdale)
suggest that 'Welfare Minister Eric
Cross and myself dress in .‘old. •
clothes for a few days. and . live
)?, Siztgle •,,. ,,.gym
Toronto Coliseum and.' other
places.; .'Then the seriousness of
,the unemployment .problem might
"• be brought home. to`the:il2inrsier:'?
Col. "Drew ' .(when 'members of the
Government :sought. to embarrass
'him by tittering at' his remarks)
:"Iaiugh, clowns, laughs" r .
Last' week *e talked, about the •
.• Budget . , . To the onslaught in
the budget debate came the Op- •
positior.'s. financials critic Leslie,
Frost (Con:,.Victoria) tvh,o sle;lar-
ed that the, Municipal'.Act •should.
:he revised and the whole setup of.
provinciaj and municipal adminis-
tration and taxation in ' Ontario'
• should he recast "shift the
burden of taxation from real es-
tate" . . ,"„inaugurate an "honest''
debt retirement.' scheme" . • .
, (Premier Hepburn invited the Op-.
:position to "go to ";.tpwn" on his
estimates).
•
During.'the ,corning year Ontar-
io's tree population will be increas-
ed . . . Provincial. Forester an-
nounces that 22•,000,000 'trees wir11
be planted iii the province dtiring
'1939, more than twice as many as
have. been plated in any year
since •1.934. Said the Forester:
"The public is becoming reforesta-.
• tion -Conscious" .: thanks, we,
'Opine, to the' Government's .admir-
able Conservation :policy and ,the
good . work it has ,.been "doing the '
past couple ,of years. •
Should you wish to change your
name „(no, not • get married!) the
facilities of Ontario's judicial sys-
tem are at your disposal . 'a
new "Act Respecting :the . Chang-
ing of"Names," now under can=
sideration, ,puts it somewhat that
way . . The only trouble is.you
aren't alloweli to change your
,name idly, for nt reason at all
:. you hale to be Prepared to
tell in detail why ,'your present
monickeris distasteful . . . • On
second , thoughts, we'll keep ours.
Helpful hint: Next time you're
visiting the. Queen City, drop in at'
'the Parliament Buildings and see
our Legislators in the flesh.. . .
' and in 'action. •
One 4Quarter 'On
• Relief.' In '-Bask.
282,009 Persons In That West-
ern. ?rovince: Were ,Receiv-
ing Government Aid In Jan-
uary, ,1939:•
Statements in the •Saskatchewan
Legislature by flen.'R.. J. M. Par-
ker, minister of municipal affairs,
as to.the extent of :relief in 'Sas-
katchewan, are of pertinent inter-
est in • the light of situations, also)
referred to .by the 'minister:; eon'
cerning alleged relief• frauds, says
the Regina Leader=Post.
gr. Parker cited that as At Jan -
nary Si of this ye which istdlose
'up to date, there re .282;009 Per.
sons on relief in this rovince. This
Is 'Well over a quarter of the popula-
tion ,of •.thb province. As to possf-
b,1e trends under the relief system,
the minister reportedthat•' there
were investigations• luta relief ad- ,
trrimstratioit in six-nunicipalities
last year. Seine alleged frauds Un-
der .the _relief SYstem
n-der;.,he._relief»stem hai!e •beet•
v. °
' 01
o ": •tvei liin� ons Wet thr it
F1 es g g t
as much as 16 feet in' the air at
• Medieine Hat as the ice in the
South Saskatchewan river broke
...k
up" Many: •of the char} S were •
throvo against bridge piers.
York County Jdbless.Pirotest ,110. '% • Relief Cut
•Holding, a mass meeting in pr,;test •over the recent 10 per cent.. cut in
relief,• York townshipoble;:s. I .led ed •.themselves • to' • win.. their relief •
J P g
.strike with every legal means within: their . power • and to.avoid any acts
of, violence° Tom Montague, .president of the York township union .of
unemployed is shown addressing the 'meeting. York township borders.
• Toronto.',
�• The,
BOOK• SHELF
By ELIZABETH: ED.19
"THEY WANTED 'TO LIVE"
By Cecil' Roberts
ous novel, "Victoria 4:30" a popu-
lar best .seller will 'recall"that the,
only, character who. did , not' em-
bark • on that momentous trip
across Europe was James Brown;•
railway porter. Now he goes, ,o•n.
his honeymoon.
Paris, Vienna,. Budapest are 'on
the ,iitinerary, and in their night -
Clubs the couple see life at its gay-
est. But .in each city, . and on the
• estate., of a Hungarian noble,- a
developing drarna darkens the rp-
mance until it brings. a 'crashing
climak.• Like'its, predecessor, this
is a 'story to'enthuse any reader.
C
"They . Wainted to, Live" . . ,' by
Cecil Roberts Toronto: Mac-
millan Company of Canada
-'.Poul'try Guide •
A. greatdealof valuable and
seasonable information on the cafe
and feeding of poultry is contain
ed • in. the' handsome combination
Calendar; catalogue and poultry
guide issued : 17', the Tweddle„
Chick Hatcheries, Limited, Fergus,
Ontario. It is. to be 'had for the
asking..
,
Ontario, Gold-
Output
oldO.ut •ut Rises
Increase Of 12.6 Per Cent. • Re-
corded, In 1938
Dividends paid. 'shareholders' of
'Ontario mining c'onipanies 111.1938
anrounte to $64,800,000, the• On-
'tario L stature• heard in tht bud-
. get ad of Premier Fie burn. '
ss P er . ,p
"The` figure was* .lover thin 1931' -
•because•ofa drop in the price, of; -
base metals. •
• .Total value of all mine product '
tion in Canada in 1938 approximat-
ed. •$455,000,000, ,of . ithich Ontario
produced $221,000,000. Gold.: 'pro:
.duction in Ontario. was $101,900,- •'
000, a gain. of 12,6 percent. and
almost. 60 per cent. of • Canada's
gold 'production. .
Considerable progress was, re-
ported in' the eohstrr^iion of the' '
plant at: the Helen Iron ore mine
in the Michipicoten district: and it
was anticipated this . plant would
be producing iron, ore' suitable for
furnace treatme at the rate of
300,000 tons a y ar.
Approximately 34,000 •men were
'employed . in mines In • the` past
year, ':all drawing ' go-od wages:'
M1 tor<°ists Scare
- •
Train Engineers.
s. Raii,wayrnen'S Hair Is Made To.
Stand On End BY Car Drivr
ers Racing Across Tracks. At. •
Livel Crossings.
The thoughtless motorist.: n.,
sends his car speeding ,right up to
'‘>the . railway. crossing ` probably` is •
'more responsible for thenervous
condition of many railway engin-
tiers .than is all the shaking and
hard usage the engineer 'gets in
his regular duties 'of handling thou-
sands of tons of live Steel;
Canadian. Pacific Railway -
Engin=eer' Harry -Vines; of Goderich, told -,
a, Stratford 'Beacon -Herald r:.•art-
er last week that he 'would "like to
take some of those .Motorists with'
him for a week en daily runs. .
"Can't '•Stop. Quickly"
"It would make their hair stand'+
on. end and their •hearts. stop 'beat-
ing:.and. that would ,.probab,ly.. tie
enough 'punishment. At least the
car.: driver. Weald remember ;the.
'hel'plesa engineer in his can who-•
can't eop his train as quickly 'as
they can atop their 'cars."
"It's •an, •'awful experience," tie
said. "You never"ttiio* .when. they •
•are•goihj to stop and when they're.
not. I've 'seen some of them ;est
racing the train• to the. crossing, -
and get over by a thin margin.
Others haven't been able, to matte
it and that's the part that. hurts."
fl .
On Getting Along
With, . Other- Peole
And With Oneself r-- Essentials
For Successful Living
r---
• To • be abla to face the daily. r-
quirements sf life with equanimOy
. and. a confidence that one is equal
• to the challenge of the 'day, or at
least capable of accepting' t1-0eat
philosop mically�. , .
To be able to face realities; not
riin away. ?rani then• tiirouglr'sub-
: tyfugc s. • ,:; •
• To be able to take one's 'Place
in .everyday life :without more than
occasional friction i•r relationships
With other ;persons. •
• To be able to look with reason-
; able tolerance. upon the annoyances
which aro inevitable in every ,life;
' To want to win, but to be able'
to lose •gracefully, .
To cherish no grudges.
To seek advancement,. but with-.
Put' feverish grassing for. inore
• wealth, power, 'fame or success.
than one has capacity to win. or to,
'use. • •
To be able to laugh• , at onesE..,
perhaps the greatest evidence of a
well controlled mind. •
o'accord tc oth rs a r
right to
their 'own view•pointh and ideas..
•
•
•
ONTARIO MORE ACTIVE IN
HUNTING AND FISHING
It's great sport to go a -fish-
ing and pleasant relaxation to
turn from our. labours to rod
and gun whenever the oppor-
tunity presents, itself. Onta-
rio's•.eitizens• seem to realize.
this •sim,ple'truth more than any'
other group . of 'Canadians be-
cause 'tb st province is listed as
one of . the ,most active :in; hunt-
ing and fishing sports in Can-_
1 Indications of this pet :were
• given reeently (March (9) • by
Ontario's iVlinister of Game aid
Fisheries, the e Hon 'Harry C.
Nikon;'whentold.'tii mein -
hers. of the . Ontario •Legisla-
ture's'' Fish and Game Commit-
tee that interest in thet Province•
in hunting and 'fishing was in -
Creasing by '• leaps arid. bounds
eachyear; particularly among
Women. 4 '
Mr. Nixon •also' told the or-
ganization meetinf, at which -
W. L. Miller, Liberal •member
for Algorna-Manitoulin, was el-
ected 'chairman of this year's
Committee, that a record was
reached In 1988 in the distri-
�bntion .of game birds in Ontar-'
io by his Department. " Twenty
thousand mature birds we're. dis-
tributed East' year and : about
30,000 would be handled in
1939 most of. which would be,
,pheasants,
• Not' Public :,Property
'Sportsmen. should never fort'
get '•that while game is public
property', the land upon Which
it 'Is 'found is, in most eases, •
privately, ' owned. • Therefore;
there'muisktbe co-operation and
goodwill between hunter and'
landowner, or. posted Lands • will'
result and hunting . b'ecome•
. greatly restricted. ,•
Restricted hunting and a "
large measure of control
ough the"isng of a li'inited
number .of special licenses for
• each .regulated area have had
the effect of, eliminating a great
deal of illegal taking and de-
structit a 'practices, and. Have al-
so resulted in creating a defin- •
itely 'better feeling between '
farmer and hunter. •
V0:1'
OF THE '.
■�it) 'RESS
L1E.-1939 MODEL o' •
A. new definition of a lie is the
disagreement of a democracy with
a dictator:—Hamilton Spectator;
THE WORST OF. FREE SPEECH
Of course, one trouble with free
speech is that it means letting 'the
other fellow express his views: -=
Edmonton Journal:
DON'T MIX 'EM • .
The government gets its princi-
pal revenues from gas •and. •alto-
hol, which should be kept definite-' •
ly at different ends of the car''and
not mixed near the steering wheel.
Pol.t Arthur•;News-Clrronie']e.
WU:I: SEE ONLY FLAGS •
If all the schoolchildren who go
• to see'•the .King and Queen' are
,given flags to wave., • most of the^
kiddies wont sec itnything but a' •
mass of fiutterng, Ilas, before
their eyes unless they 'are in the
front Thomas Times-
. Journal.
• KNOWS HIS DAIRY FARMING
Ontario's farmer -premier 'not
only knows his onions but 'evident-
ly 'also his • dairy farming: In his
budget speech he 'emphasized .the
need fort more and better Cheese
rather than butter.—Kingston
•Whig -Standard: '
WILL THEY FINISH IT?
The Leadership •League 'has been '
turned over to the doctors and
\, 5
.WONDERLAND OF OZ
A
r.
Foresees New
Arctic Nation
Fusion Of White And ,Eskimo..
Blood "To Secoeed Present
Natives. Of •No nil.
rd; al ,E
ea' •ane
,,a
ne•
w
the primo' s)cimo
doomed to disapp. e, except
in books and films • Arctic'
raee will develop from a fusion of
white. and Etsle,i'mo blood, and this
will play animportant' Part. in the.
development .'of Canada's • Arctic •
regions, believes Richard .Finnie,
F oC.G.S.. Arctic explorer. • • ,
„Speaking ' in Windsor last week,
says the Windier Daily Star,: Mr.'
Finnie deelaied old, 'Eskimo , cus-
terns: and'
folk:wvay`s. have now"disap•
• 'peared, : "They are; being wiped out,
by .advancing ciollizatlon, 'and the,
lived
Of .the Eskimos have been
revolutionized.
• The only salvatign is a. hybrid-
izatioil,. and the infusion :of .white.
blood to build up•,their .resistance r
the ministers,. who ' are evidently,
going to' do 'battle against the law=
years who monopolize most of the
seats in Parliament. We wonder
when"it•wi'll be time to call in the.
wide
MOTES' AND BEAMS
Of course, there IS a small dis-
ruptive , minority in Quelaec, as
there 'it a small disruptive, minor-
ity in Nova -Scotiaut the Que.-
beck minority is no more • represen-
tative .of the thought •: and attitude,:
of that province than the Nova
Scotia minority -the Nova "Scotia
handful is : •of the ' 'thought 'and"
attitudeof the Nova Scotia citi-
zenship.—•Halifax Herald. ' ,�•
to otir diseases and to make. •them .
adaptable :to our customs: In thie •
' II/Otero Arctic 75 per cent, of the
Eskimos naw. ' have . some whine'
'blood, Therein lies their salvation_ -
White Eskinros, •Hybrid Race
"They •w" thc-t survi• and mui
tiply and work for ps`and with us
in`the Arctic, They will be'import-
"' Ant to us economically, able to live
Comfortably in ^n area •where pure •
white Men do not care • to • ,Civet
They •txilLconstitute the . "'white?'.
Eskimo, rather • than the "blonde" •
• Eskimo, an Arct.ie race. ° '
" "They will be herders of reindeer
and •trappers; and the Eskimos now
• , take $1,000;000 in•white fox furs
alone every year. That shows the
wealth. . they. can 'eontribu'te to 'file
et:Wirt:T. A
°Jared Licenses.
For. o• r
�' . o Drivers,.
•
Those ; Who Have' Coim'iliitted'
Several Infractions Of Tlic
Lav In Saskatchewan Will
Be 'Given Red Licences.,
Under a hew• section of the Sas-.
l:atchewan Vehicles. Act • put
through conrmsttee in .the Legis-,
'attire, motorists committing 'fn.
fractions of• the. act •will be issued
licences, in 'various: colors.
General •Licence, White•
• The general licence , willbe op
white paper. 'After' one conviction;
the white licence must be suriten-
,dered for a blue one. If the mo-
torist commits further infractions
he `wild be.•', issued 'a red l'icen'ce•.
If°he then has 'no .:trouble for a'
year he may Work • back from red'•
to blue and up: the scale again.. 'to
white.. .
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LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By •Fred Neher
1
"That's so.1 won't miss Mr: Pip while,he's away on a trip."'
. oZsaysIslitsd 1SSt, ri•tit7 i Levee. Co. •
i• •
P..:' Frank .Baum
Liammar
t;\
41.
"G,la.t- aauiti3saN,%«-17,itratlaaas+gin%m�tko-w
tz .people 'for theta• triaver.;''"'s"ii1ti l'Gtrpit. .:
u d that. he a .
,1%e dill not tell it gee o tha Grow-\
leygogs demanded twenty thene:and slaves.
.3 Itwould, be tithe enough for that when
• Oz was conquered. ".Avery rea,sOna.ble re.
quest, I'm sure,' remarked the King. I
"nust congratulate you, Guph upk4u.tine
•
. wonderful ,sueoess of your iottrney. But
that net all,
sa.111 the General, protid-
ly. The igng seemed astonlah'eclf .
•
•
y
llteh` the 1•italYCasttixr•`6f t'iY'aG 2rni'tt'rrt'YR'i'Y:`:d'i:`,'
Phan astico and •they 'will assist
rr •,
Xing; tti
a't cried the1Kin `rho Phaitfa ms.
You ddn':t mean it. Gu` h." "'1 do,"sde'-'
elated. the ,General" proudly. .The Iing''s
Wrinkled,. am afraid" h said
Brow edf "1' . a ,.
anitiously, "that the First arid' Foreninst
Mn Drove as iia erotts to its as to the
Ott Y` eo -le. if. his terrible hand comes
down from the mouritnin theymay decide •
t0' . aon(iui r the ggnontes. ' • •
r,•"up1i,it:l nblY.
but wn '
ieaa"Nrdt
that theXing; Wit as right '71e' �irfi
rorernefit• Is ai particular' friend ot- tnin'e
and wilt 46 us no harm, for when I was,
there he even invited Inc into his house.'
The .General neglected td tell the king
h been dragged into th •tut
that he,, ad gg .... e h
of the First and Foremost by means of n
brass hoop, and •that he had been treated•
other..thati couIrteo'nsl.y by that creature.
{
Isitriy „3tirt +chit ieccWird"�Yi;'-.. irt:
rigid rrrem,ti:r-•ciettinnd^ '"No hullo at
ati'aii•,em•ed t;r�tph, .".All he wis es is to•(t(
(;n
oh,
the •c7•2 people. This tlr:C$u*o
nfn ly teeny Niro. How thr funnol
rt,�•ri.il.l
niong4'° "We 'are half. ei•ny ttttdrr' tli'r
desert now," said the• Kinn•. It ha,1 to
do driil•ed• through amid rank, but nfi,.r•
we have passed• the.derert it will tlot•tnk.e'
its tong to extend t'he turinrl to ilii llre-
erald.l`ity.
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