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Toll f Roads
652 Last Year -
Highway Deaths In Ontario
During 1939 • Show Increase
Men Chief Victims. Be.
tween 4 aend. 1p m Wotet
Ontario's death toll front highway .
tltcsidents during -1939 was . 652, ac-
oording to • the annual summary of
itatistics on motor, vehicle traffic ..
-accident's issued by Proirin-cial High -
'ways 'Departa.ient 'officials., :•
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' 13,716 ACCI;DENTS . '
.here were 43,710 accidents dui”=.`
'ing the ,year and • 1i 6.39 pe assns,
were injured. ' Theaccldente coat
1,860,264. in damage to' vehicles
and property.
Pedestrians, topped •the • list•'ot••
clashes: of Persons :killed The fig-
u'res"showed 40 per cont., were ped-
estrians,a19.2 per cent Were drivers
l', +i a ars s ow pan increase
of 12 in the number of deaths over
the 19.38 figure and a, marked •in -.
crease of 21.6''per cent. in -'the non -
collision type eif accident, -
MORE PEDESTRIANS. KILLED
Men, nuin,bering 480,;. were the
'chief ,victims. of the fatal accidents
during. the year. ' ' •
The' hours betwee&4 p.m, and l0•
''pan. were the most dangerous on
the highway with ,the largest mini.;
ber of accidents taking place then.
The safest hour on an average
was between •5 a:m. and 6 a.m.
R rk ttna�ty whirir�jric]1r{laq Tn:
ronto, had. 4,193 accidents during
the year. Ranking next were Went-
• worth ,.with 1,057, /Middlesex 840
• Essex 752, ,Carleton 49.3 and Wel-
land 328'.
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.'ByG.C.TONER -
LUTHER SWAMP
The ; highest point hi southern..
Ontario is' the Dundalk plateau, ,
situated • yin • Wellington and . »uf'
feria counties; ..Qn .the southern
'edge ofelhe plateau, • 17091 feet,
above sea level;. is Lu=ther Swarat, i
a great beg ltf more -than'• 30,0017' •
acres. This swamp is probably .the •
,greatest 'natural- resource • We have • .,
•Iri. •,soathwestern• Ontario. for it
is ..the .storage•, 'basin ;from`'. whish "
'all the gBreet'rivers receitte their
Water. ' The' Thames;.. the , Grand,
the :Credit,.. the H:uniber, the• _1 Tait-.
tawasaga; all have' their humble'
beginnings on the:.slopes, of the
Dundalk . plateau.' .Some of •them :
have direct surface flow from the
swamp; others are" fed by • Ithe•
Underground. . spring's and • the
'deep seepagt,. , •
The District' Suffered
About a generation °ago Luther
`svvain'p was drained„' .into ., the
Grand - 'river in the hopes' that
good farm land..would be' une'ov-
ered. The promoters of the drain
' age: scheme were disappointed,
for .tha 'lat,dr bi j -
•has .proven unsatisfactory for ag
riculture. But the worst loss was
to the`people'of 'the Province for
Nature's. ;laws and • schemes for •
flood contro-l.,were set aside. .This
great .swa.mp.' in its natural..:tate -.
was a • barrier against floods. It.
held the dater for' :deep .seepage,:.
preventing it • from going down
the rivers.' as- wild, spi'ingtim•e ,.in-
undations. ,Springs, of course, are
fed . from ;the underground: seep-,
ate : and. Dtitlita1 :'swdnip 1ie1'ped 'to
maintain ;these' as. well as the un1
derground. ' water table • that. fed
the. farmer's wells. '
Since. the, swamp was',' drained
thewhole .district has 'suffered.,,.
At, one 'time the wells were shal-
low for the water table was plose,
'to •the •surface, •how„ the'wells
ate ' being . driven de,.per' :and
d.ceper each year-, as the water
.table drops. And in . the spring
time •the .Grand river; the prin-
cipal • stream to •' receive water'
• front 'the swamp,- goes on . the
...rampage, 'destroying .property and
damaging the farmlands, .through-
out its course. • .
• The Dam Will Help'•,
, .Qn• .the other hand this river,
has suffered • tremendous shrink-
age in• the past' generation. Frilly
fifty-five • miles of its upper
reaches dry up each .summer as
a direct result of • the draining of
•the 'swamp... Formerly; the. upper
Grand -.comprised one of t1 e fin
• est speckled' trout waters in• the
region; . Now, trout 'are •virtually •
non -.existent,. Floods in the- spring-
' time, drougLts and low water in
the summer' 'and early fall, .these
_-•ha-ce,follawed. the-un-wiee-drain -
age of the headwater 'swamp .
However,-:tliere seems to be -a
determined effort at• the present
time to. stop t
he dmage froma.�
,
floeds on• the. Grand, .1r
ver,•
nd
the restoration of Luther swainp
to 'itsoriginal• 'Condition is now.
being considered as an aid to this
flood..control. By building ia, dam
across the outlet• of the swamis,
to • hold .hack the water . in the
spring, .a vast reservoir will, be.
•created that. will' rio much towards
replenishing theunderground'
water of the- 'district as' •well as
help in flood control.
Opens Postal Conference
• Hon, William ; P: Mullock,
Canada's ,new Postmaster -Gen:
eral, spoke at'the opening in Lon-
don, Sept. 4, of. a .postal con-
ference . of Ontario Postmasters:
His • chief topic -.was War -time
measures ,• and how they . affect
postal 'regulations.
No Publishing
Victims' Names
•
British Air Raid Casualty"
Lists Are Posted -Outside the
Town Halls
kesi alln 'foo the �rlt'lsh min sPo
isti•.y af. home security 'announced
late in August, that lits of casual-'
ties in London , air raids wduld be
. posted outside local town halls bit
Would• not be allowed to b'e'publish-
er>'
' 'There are regular monthly totals
published. for victims throughout
all Britain. • '
• He 'said that. lists of London cas•'
realties• are• being sent confidential•
.ly'to, newspaper editors to stop the
alarming rumors . concerning the
number•of persons killed or injured
In German attacks
• As soon' as possible atter an at-
tack, he said, the names are post-
ed at the town halls. While be ad-
• m4tted that a German Agent could
inspect these lists, he said the min -
ac.,, • istry hoped to make It difficult to
get the names to Germany.
(If .German]+ got tithe names 'it
could, by checking postal director;
les, work' out roughly the localitiei
where bombs -struck),
Purpose, In Life
Urged On Boys
'Family Court Judge Speaking
at C.N.E., Gives Valuable Ad-.
vice
Every boy should have a purpose
in life hi order tb avoid 'pre narrow,
vicious circle °of, mere existence,
Faintly Court Judge .Hawley.. E.
-Mott, suggested., in an address at'
':'U1.340 1940 C:N.E.
Among hie hearers were several
adore "junior directors"• .ot the big •
, lair, boys selected by their `teacberS
to represent their schools -on the
&h bibitton beard for the day. They
„L-411156 iii ultra' i unit deaf" 'toy offer tug- •
g'estions for Exhibition itnlir•ove-•
went, particularly with regard to •
features appealing to,youtb;
DEVELOP' A TASTE
Judge, Mott- advised the' boys to
ilicguire and develop a taste fee, real
good Vienne,. Meade and books, as
three Of the finer things in life.
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'Ching's Pigeons
Have Enlisted
Royal Birds Are. To Be'Used•
In •Event , of, Emergency .—•
•Acting As Air Mail •
• W:
Pigeons 'from the King's loft at
Sandringham have been' added to
a
'pigeon post organized to operate
in the event of a national emer-
gency in Great Britain The iiigep
post was inaugurated in July last
year,by the Duchess of' Kent when
she visited Fort Dunlop and releas-
ed the first flock of pigeons from:
their baskets. -
DISTANCE FLIERS
On the eve of the otitbreak of the
War a pair of blue checks ,arrived
from B. W. Steele the. King's pig-
eon keeper. They are long distance
birds, four or five years old,, of the
Stock which has won the big races
from Lerwick in Shetland and 'Boa'
ldeaux.
In addition to the pigeon loft at
headquarters, lofts are being open-
ed in ether•parts of the country for •
tire' service, which is: -the only or-
ganized pigeon post 'In Great Bl•i
ta.in. '
By <educing messages to facsint-
ile on a special thin film, the,birds,
don take 35,000 word in an alumin-
um terrier fixed to theft leg. Each
e'entre has apparatue for reducing •
the messages and for i iageifying ,
there foe a readable script when re- •
ceiVed. •
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VICE -R& -CAL PARTY VISITS ST. CATHARINESAND NIAGARA FALLS
continuing their -tour 'of Centra Ontario;"the Earl ,and Countess. of. Athlone .accom. an`ed byPrinces li
d
a munitions: plant. et St. 'C'atharines and *then c i •• .r p • i e s.ne s p of The (left)Nets she was Pre-
sented: out nue' on to visit • .Nia,,ara Fails. • The •C•ountess of A'thhone, is; pictured as she was pre-
sented with a bouquet • during the 'trip.. In the. centre, Bis 'Exce•llency' shows great,interest in the Work of the munitions. plant. Princess Juliana.
is .shown•.. (right) getting a close-up view of the falls.
TB E W kit W E E K-Co•Inmentary on C;ifrrent Events
Destroyer ::• S w 'a p Gives
3ritainWarA n •
dda rage
"The.. nasty shock for 'Hitler",
recently foretold by' the` London...
Daly Mail came last week with
president • Roosevelt's, ' li'raroati
announcement that.the United
States' was handing over to Great
Britain 50 destroyers. for : use 'in ,
the war against;' Germany.
'In more' than cine Way, this, was .'
bad news for •the Axis:' Hitler
and 'Mussolini saw' the British
navy, -strengthened' thereby, • its,
forces . bolstered ,for an early
Near ,Eastern ' offensive; ,knew
their own b'lotkade ' of the' Brit=
ish • Isles 'weakened; realized the
extent of , the co-ope•ation be- '
1 :tween. )3rtiain, and' I thea United
States ' (fbr' the U. S. came close
to "an act of War" in irnplemcnt-
ing the deal)•:
,Atlantic ,Sewed: Op
Played up less than any other',
angle was U. S. satisfaction • at .
•.having pulled off 'a' major diplo-,
matic •and .political coup. The
securing of naval . and. air . bases
stretching up, in a 'chain froth`
South. America to Newfoundland
meant that the United States had
the North Atlantic tied% up in a
hag, Was on its way to becoming
quietly, master of this whole hem-
isphere. (A major feature of the
transaction with Britain was .a
c'onculrrent pledge. from Prime
Minister Churchill to • Secretary
of State ' Hull . that the . British
fleet would never be scuttled or
siirrehdered and' thus jeopardize
U.S. 'security' in the Atlantic).'
"They Can't Do it".
Great Britain still had n•ot..
been •invadedlast week. n sup -
.port of the theory .that Germany
never would be 'able to accom-
plish'n r it,. Masa 'ori • Ito one of
JaP
an s
hes ^known
�
vol corn-.
-ginentators,4' declared that =Hitler
could not land troops, in Eng-
land-while
ngland,while the British iwmmanded
the sea—and the German Air.
Force was insufficient. to •.Win
away that command.
During the "week • the Germans
were obviously Concentrating on
destroying all the important Brit-
ish. itirfields`in the southeast cor-
ner of England, so that . British
fighter6 would be unable to .de-
fend London add hold the air.
over, the southeast coast. Plans,
for . an invasion could only then.
go forward.
Grave disturbances in the Bal-
lets, a new. Tine -up in Africa (all
the French colonies there went'
over ' to the side , of Britain)
worked from other quarters last
week to give Hitler'and' Mussolini
serious pause in their campaigns
for world conquest. The embroil-
ment of Rumania and Hungary
meant the cutting -off of 'vtial
pnoduetive activity ' (agricultural, •
industrial] in the Balkans, so
badly needed in .the German• wrap
effort, ' , •
• Would Russia March? • •
Russia :remained' the big ques-
tion mark ,in European politics,'
Evidence was„, abundant: that
Stalin had prevented any •Italian
move through Greece against •
uoir.ui- t # '-cols
Hitler's •'march ;,through Russia?
Would he. step • in himself and
take ' over Carol's 'kingd.em? A,
clash .between Geriiiany and the
Soviet Lnion 'was ' seen as . ine-
vitable, •sonie.time; 'would Stali
seize the mordent when Hitler
was engaged• in the Battle • of
Britain, to catch' his -ideological
opponent at a disadVanta e arld
attack boldly in the east?
Crisis in the -East,
In- the Far fast loomed . an-,:
other crisis'of international. pro-
portions: • Over Indo-China: • The
Japanese, • fleet • was ' reported,.,
Cruising outside Indo-China
Waters; blockading the ,entire,
northeast , c'past: i the; chief'..
of the; Japanese : 'mission' to
French: •Indo-China had sentan
ultimatum demandinr. the :right'
:•to transport 'Jap 'troops .across
the ;French 'colony-t:aineh had,
'• bee:n'• refused..- - The Chinese
Government (against' whom the
Jap troops would be moving):' had
• formally declared its deterinina-
tion to act 'should the Japanese
enter' le
Indo-China ' "under ,
any. pretext ,or under any condi-
tions with a view to attacking
.China, ..”
J.
• •t•S. Notifies Japan •
From 'Washington, . Secretary
State Cordell Hull publicly no-
tified Japan that any change !n
the• status quo of French Indo
China and.'•the Netherlanda_East
Indies; due :to Japanese military
operations,; . would hat*, , "eau un.)
fortunate effect upon public •op-
nion .in the United States.'; . . .•'
The •first move, of a new civil
'-+tl^siiiiedie•rrce ,�_t'x'mj3argn :i--si'gainst <;.
Britain for refusing to grant
'Indra independence was begun •,
last week .at" Cattripore, home • of
the Indian Nationalist, leader,
Nehru. • Mobandas K. Gandhi
had 'previously :declared 'that the
Government of India was."invit- '
.• ing civil disobedience" by arrest- -
,ing certain of its men'bers on
charges of making seditious:
speeches.
Enough '214
At home the National War
Sei-vices Department announced
that. the 21 year-old elass of
Canadian young merr would pro-
vide almost enough personnel for
the first two draft's for military
training ... Several million :Can-
adian .,youngsters started beck 'to
sc'hool; in Ontario, only twenty-
eight of them tvere stx'kkeo by
they
now
infantile pibrniysis
ow raging across the borJcr in
Michigan ....
A salnien, • tagged 'and. _released _:_-
in' •.Nova 'Scotia. was •captured
orty-two days later at Moisic
Quebec. By the most dir-
eet route this• is a distance of 80b'
miles,
REG'LAR FELLERS Good -Night' !
There Are Plants
That Kill • :Humans,
Several Are Known Tel Nat-
. uralists — Cannibal Tree of
Australia is Exam
Apart froplantsthat '• poison•'
there are ,se eral known to natural
ists' which can kill a man , who
comes within: thetr.eiurehes.• • One ,
horror 'of. this kind is the Cannibal
Tree of Australia, the powerful
leaves of which can. close in' like a'
trapand crusli'.;out tha, life Of 'the •
unwary investigator.' .Another•• un;
pleasant forest: fiend is the Tele, -
graph•, Tree of India; which has
looter
that 'move 'about curiously;
but anyone who' ro•uches them is
• liable to get a Sev'ezre electric shock•
7-7quite..enough.•to kill a man with
a a weakeheart. • •'
The Worst of these killing plants
is the veget.ahle octopus'that.grows
.neat Lake 'Titicaca, in South Anier-
•leas This.'.was. d'iscovered by an'ex-
• plerer who, be-aring the agonized
cries of a' dog found ..1.1.1c aniriial -en-
• veloped .in a network of rope -like
fibres He•m.anaged Eo.free it — but
riot 'before man a r g had been
blistered and' bi••it s ,r,2•d by•the
monster growth..
Y 0IcE .
OF THE•
:PRE•SS
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Anyway, those railway, -car con-
versat}ons between Prince Minister
King: and President Roosevelt were
along the right •tras•k;
Stratford Beacon -Herald.,'
ADMIRE ONTA'RIO,' •
H=er••--Roya•1••• Highnese;-~f'rizrces
Alice, expressed amazement at the
beauty shewas finding in Ontario..
Evidently we have been ladling
downails
in f to stress the
beau-
ty u
ty and grandeur to befrll dam n$
.
Our":.hilts : and.cal1eys, ;along oar..t
rivers' and on the 'shores of our '
lakes. •
• —Niagara F+rjls Review,
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NO THOROUGHFARE
The fact that Canadians desiring
to• cross. Canada by motor cannot.
do: so except by securing ,a- pass-
port to enter the United' States to
overcome the, Lake Superior shore
.gap' emphasizes the value that
would attach to a completed Trans;
Canada Highway:
• ---Sault Daily Star.
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CAN,•S'OU MILK?
Surprising it is how many" people
know nothing at all about the milk-
ing ofa Ow. They can play a good
game of golf; they boast at times
of• their knowledge .of bridge; they
can bring home prizes from bowi-
ing tou•rnatneirts. At tennis they•
are good and in s wi'tnn:ing' and div-
ing they are expert. They pray.• the
piano, and at tittles may be inetin-
__. -t, g.ing; -th,Ei `.-discuss petit let
and world events; on occasion they
nia.y make spe•rhe.s. But they can•
not 'milk, a cow. Perhaps some •of
'them have rather turned up their•
nose at; the thought of wo;•kiog on'
a farm, but they can tell 'the milk-
malt. off in a hurry when things
look . a little thin. and .the ' cream
line finds its point of registration
too close to ,the top of • the bottle.
'But they cannot milk' a -cow and
therehave been cows in the world
for a long,: lona time: Even lo_
than that. • '
-Peterborough Examiner:
The. 0O She1 ® .
"THE MINGLING • OF' THE
CANADIAN• AND .AMERICAN.,
PEOPLES''
' Byr Marc:u.Lee Hansen .
• No ,•more timely work than this
first volume,-of;a-'series •bein.g plc='.
pared:` under. the Carnegie , En-
• dowment for InternationalPeac.i
could • appear at • such a inonient
iii the history I of .the /North Ani
erican• continent, when, after•'the•.
epoch-making talks at Ogdens
'burg, the United Sates and Can-
ada,have joined in .a ii utual de:
fense agreement, , climaxing , long
year ••of good, neighborliness .and
:tentative • co-operation..+
'In this book Professor' Hansen
und'er•.took., the difficult task of.;
.' filling the great gap in .our
• knowledge • of how 'the peoples of
-:the •United • States •andCanada
. working in unison have :woven.
• the new• pattern . of.'•North An.-
. ercian Culture. He does it by,•trac,
ing the' exchanges in populations
between the two 'countriessi.nce
17Q0,. pointing • out that there are •
millions .. of 'North A nericans
whose families have branches. on
'both' sides of the boundary.
"The Mingling, of, the Canadian,
anti American Peoples," Vol.., • 1
..by Marcus' Lee Hansen .' . .
Toronto: The Ryerson Press .
$3.00.
Thansgiving Day
Set for Oct. 14
. Thanksgiving Day this' year
has been fixed for , October
l t e •Aec iri onda that
Wim.• ,•a�M«•si ,
Secretary of • State ,hes an
nounced. A • proclamation - •ap-
pointing- that day as., -a day Of
general' thanksgiving would be
issued• shortly, the announce-.
ment • added last week. .
'Double . 'Theatre's
Doule Feature
• West Coast. Movie House Has
Twin Auditoritirns'
one picture or'two;at a new .theatre
just opened in Alham.bi•a,„ Calif• .
The Alhambra Theatre has, un-
like others, two, -auditoriums: A• dif-
ferent picture is shown, in each.
After• each showing, the films then
change auditoriums. Those who like
"double bills" just stay in their
seats.
But those who like only one fea-
fur.e' at a, ti•me .are, if they haven't
•seen the ' full picture, to
move to the other' auditorium.
Manager James Edwards, , Jr.,
whose idea the experiment is; says
the admissionprice, for one or two •
pictures, is'thesame.•
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Swcrdfish are taken ' in Canad-
ian waters off the Atlantic Coast....
The fishing season, :oens.d• :u Jure
'andWill continue .until Septemb-
er. •
Bee . Hive
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Syrup•
5` KBTI AT • . ' By ,Fred. Neher
.,rte
"He got hold of some buttermillf last night and threw a party:."
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