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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-11-23, Page 3v „ 1, '14EleCs 0et Beef :Pudding . U Boat'Crews le' British. Prison Camps Also 'Play Football •r Roast .beef, Yorkshire pudding .• and football are not exactly what"' Adolf 1litler ordered for .:his • tJ- boat crews.;, but many, of thein are getting it in British .prison camps. A glimpse of one camp in a' dis- used mill in the north of England • iho.. s German prisoners have to run the kitchen and prepare their own' midday meal, 6f roast beef, 'veget'ables and sweet. They • serve , table and •wash the dishes., Dig Soil, intl. Sandhogs • After morning: parade they 'dig " In. "the fields. -?-the', irony • of "men .. ,cent ot}t,to, stai:ve:'Bri.taTn now till, ' ing th'e -soil •to bele feed .Britons.' They. • aisq fill .sandbags. .During•','; their spare time football watches, are organised. • Pris:on.ers not playing .sit,'on . the -'sidelines: Ail the roan-:are•well°c1ad and ap- pear in '.good 'h'ealth. They • wear civilian .clothes with. a distinguish- ing circular mark sewn • into the 'backs ot;th'e coats and the knees•of e 'pants: ' Britain Wants Canada's Bacon Will Take All She Can Get, in Opinion of Packing Official ' ' Great Britain wi11, buy all the•. Canada=can shin, le tine-ogi ion of J..A. Law, ' Wiisii' Ltd., who was questioned by the'_ Montreal Star last week giiout Canadian ex- . 'ports of bacon' to the 'Belted King [lost. He ,said 'that' .lousiness was eootrand getting better. "De _paid: think .Eritain all Canada's bacon?" ;he 'was ask- "That is my impression," .he said: I understand thatBritain will buy all -the bacon Canada can pro-.:; duce:,, . For Army Purposes, It was alsolearned that Cana - pan packers are 'no .longer expbtt- Ing Canadian• • bacon to. private firms. The British GoVernment has requisitioned 'all imports of bacon; , and s'o the' Dominion today is 'ship- . ping her bacon to .the l3ritish Gove ernm•1nt exclusively. • ;What' bacon 'the' Government does not use for. army'•ptu•poses, is sold to the retail trade. ,• Child Should Play To Prevent T. B. ;t• 'Outdoor Play °and Exercise Widens the • Chest • ]?hysici ins exanitiing ' recruits . have found; that'th:e youth', whose • -chest was too• small to be .accepted was usually a boy who .had not:-. played much. as a' youngster be- cause lie disliked play, or was .del- icate, or his mother was: afraid he would get hurt, It is not only because play en- -larges •or widens the chest that physicians advise parents to see . . that their children pias outdoors, but becauso, .other things ' being equal; the boy or girl with the wide. or normal chest — proper proper- - tien of width to depth - is less likely to develop, tuberculosis. • Tuberculosis Chest U.ridevelpped • Some months • ago, says 'Dr: 'las, W. Barton, doctor: columnist, I quoted Dr. S. A. Weisman, Minnea- polis; in the Journal of the Ameri- - �: can Medical: Assotiation, who re- ported, `his investigations 'showing that "deep": chested children, that is deep in,propor"tion to the width, weremore likely to develop,. tuber -cuiosis:• This .is 'because the tuber- culosis chest is not a mature chest, It is, a baby chest. These children, • 1,324 girls and 1,399 boys; .tvere' all tested with tuberculin, and the - nui her of positives (likely to de- velop tuberculosis) was .greater among the narrow. but deep . chest- -ed Children. Another fact di§cover- ed was that the naredvv and deep chested children were more .num-, numerous in the poorer districts of the • city than in better districts, due, in part, to lack of 'fresh air, and proper food. " Gadgets To Keep You W.arnc>i In Bed With the approach of winter,. in ventors have turned their talents. to keeping mankind mirth: • The United States patent of- fice has recently sent out patents • for the following: ' A bedclothes adjuster—a 1•gad- get' which promises to keep thein straight. It is the brain child of Herman P. James . of Los An- geles. A coverlet with flaps --device which makes' kicking the covers Oft orlosing them hi the ' night impossible: - "An electric ' hotwater bottle heater—eliminating .that horror • of the middle of the -night • when rho -•bctttiehas: _lnat Jtc. �vurinth patieiol�eme f . Larkey of Kansas! City, Mo. • • 4.• iW S BRAD ... The Big 'Pugh That pidn't•- Co. rn'e overshadowed in-drarmatle interest' all other European events in • the tenth week of the ware. B.elliger-. ant .or neutral, each 'one armed to ,the teeth, the nations stoo.d tense with apprehension wanting for a smashing Germon .attack to Come from some quarter, nobody knew where. • But day after day passed and- no ' offensive 'began. It was still a :"war of nerves." ' - • • • What' Was behind the `delay? ". Reports continued :to pour •in of great. concentrations of . German;,. • Poops inthe..Rhine-M.0011e 'sec- tor; and .along the Dutch :border: ':Was '.a double push .being planned -by ;Germany 'eouplirx clic invasion'' .'of Hollandwitb a swift blow at'th'e .-Maginot Line? •.Or,was Hitlen`in- deed the "cornered maniac" --Which British First Lord.of the Admiral- ty. Winston Churchill labelled him • .,caught in a 'trap of his own mak- , leg, seeking in vain for a way out? • Again, was Hitler using a psycho- logical strategy never tried before, whereby he would bold off his ex-• pected;offensive for weeks, months, perhaps years, leaving the Allies to stew in,their own • juice 'and ; forget .all bout Poland, Czecho- Slovakia? now long,'could such ,a "war of nerves" ,lie,• successfully waged? ' • Bide. For Peace During the week important bids ur •a - ca 0 lielmine. of 'Lifland and King Leo pol,d' of Belgium, neutral sower-.„ . eigns whose territories were di- rectly irectly menaced by German ap•gres-• • sive purposes. The ' heady of the. warring powers listened politely. to their i ; plass, '.bn.t i?. v_e ,lilt.±.1E . •1 e -n-'. tion, of willingness to consider the ' calling of . e 'conference at this time to":exaniine the bases for peace.. • • President .Roosevelt' from his. • coiner warned that the world needed, a "new and better peace" than .that which followed the first Great War. : ' ' The most 's.^nsat i nal • single event of the week 4s the sup - „posed attempt on. uolf Elitler's1 life in the "shrine-, of `�azidoin 'at Munich.' The mYs;ery surrounding the explosion led to a number of interpretation§ . and , questions: Was it he work.'of anti -Nazi Ger- man patriots? Was it the result' tf":• internal „intrigue among the Nazis' themselves, one . faction try- ing to kill off 'ni'emli'g`ms •of the: other? Was the explosion perpe- trated in'order to enlist the flag-? • ging sympathy of the masses , for. the 'Fuehrer? One theory the ex- Plosion did substantiate: 'all was` • not well with the Nazi regime. Bulgaria Wooed The most courted nation of the • week was Bulgaria, long regarded• as a strategic "doorway" to south-, ern .Eip ope. Simultaneously Wooing her were the 'Allies. Ger- many, Soviet Russia and Italy. Ger- Many. offered economic •' conces- sions; Italy signed a trade pact with her (striving t°o• stem • both , Soviet and, 'German onr ansion in the Balkans) satisfaction of Bul- garia's •dreams of getting back Do- bruja from Rumania was held opt as. the Soviet. . hire; while Britain. took.steps to improve Turkish- Bul-garian relationships. • It remained 'to be seer, which wou]d be..the ,successful • "' West, East' .. .14 • • In' Canada, preparations began for the regular session. of Parlia- Ment in January. .Financial ap- •propriations were being 'planned With the object in view of devot- • ing the large part of all expendi- tures to the .prosecution of; the • war. T'he St. Lawrence Water-• way scheme nevertheless was slat- ' • ed for consideration by the House. While the interest of 'the west- ern world was centred on Europe's theatre. of war, new plots were being hatched ;in the Far East, and coming events cast their shad- OWs before. ,Japan • threateningly predicted that- during or, after the ittropean war a conflict to acquire • territories and resources in the South Seas would be fought in the Pacific, and the United States would be expelled from Asia: At the same time rumors flew that Britain would support a peace in the . east based on a• division of China into spheres .of influence,; ' Japanese, British, Chinese. • • Queen Elizabeth /sues Appeal To !. pu s Women •VeOlarearlitAttetteete F • Issuing.an appeal to • the women of th'e Empire to "keep the home front stable and strong," Queen Elizabeth is shown seated beforethe micro-' phone in Buckingham Palace as• she' made a Remembrance' Day. broadcast. Buy Certified Seed : Potatoes • i T wts Tire. Time To Make Pur- chases If You Can , Store All Of Them Throughout . The Winter It is not too early for •Canadian • potato grpwers.,who can store ''Po- '. tatoes throughout they winter to Consider the advisability of •buying .` certified seed potatoes at' once.' Before They're Shipped Abroad Potato 'dealers- and growers. in•. ,many other countries appreciate • the , value of Canadian certified' seed. 'fors they make„ no delay in buying up a• large part of the Can- adian crop every year.% Generally • they take the seed' as soon' as it is ., •ready to ship,•and store' it in' Heir ew'n •countries. From the 1938 cer-. tified seed crop;` for instance, .well over 1;717,006'.'bushels, were 'ship- ped to 17 different countries; while only' just over 466,000 bushels. were' sold in. Canada. That means' only, about one bushel in .every twenty bushels planted in Canada' was of qualified seed standard, and. that is one very-ryimportant reason why more ' Canadiangrower's.: are not. producing bumper, crops of those fine mealy potatoes Which easily .grade No. 1 i size and. quality: Produce Grade No:. 1 Canadian potato growers should maketheir reservatio• s now. The address of the 'nearest certified seed potato grower; if. it is .not al- ready known, may be obtained 9. ' MICKIE SAYS -- WE CAt.%.i1i` .\VANI' ADS OUR"MIGH"V MIDGETS I BECUZ ` 1-eiRE SMALL Burn-iE1f GET RESULTS BENEFITS OF 'OUR B(G CtiRCCU'LA-flON 'reo, 'A EIV NietiteLs front the office of'the local eiricul. Lural representative, or the .near- est Dominion Experimental 7 arm, or from the Plant Protection: Di- vision; Production Service, Domin- ion' Department of Agriculture, Ot taw'a; - Building.. contracts', awarded throughout • the Dominion ,in the first 10. months of the year :total- led $165,010,000, compared with $161.;572,700 in the corresponding period' of 1938, a gain of '2.1 per 'cent. 'The. October total was $14,- 228,100 according to.'figures coni - piled by McLean Building Reports Limited, Toronto. • Totals' for October by •provinces were:, Ontario': $7,033,390, Quebec $3,257,000; British Columbia,. $1,4: 61$,200, brew4Brunswick 000, Nova •Scotla $548;100, Sas katehowati $346,600, Manitoba $298,5Q0,.'Albei,* .$154,100 and Prince Edward' Island $23,700.. 1 NEW WAR •COMING • - We .hate to renirnind you, but even if • this war of n:ery . ends, there is that other war of J nerves approaching. - - "Christina;; Shop- ping,—Saturday Night. • =o— NEWS THA "`S 0 NEWS Dr. Dafoe says'the Dionne girls • know4.6thing of the war,. If the' little ciiears• could ,read the eensor- ed•:aispatches, it would .be prac-.• tically -tile•same•—Stratford • Bea con -Herald. 't ' , I ERE'•DS BEA ROW! ; . • • In:. Canada^ `there.. are . 1,380 , teaehers,,recetving less •,than '$300 a .year. If that .many factory workers or 'salesgirls ' reeeived as little what a 'public. outcry would •.—Ottawa Journal.. •BUILDING GOES .AHEAD • • .. ' Despite the "war of . neeVes," the building permits issued in 58 Canadian cities during :• the .first nine months of this year approach- ed $44;000,000, the highest figure since 1930. There are good times ahead and there is no reason why the, building industry should, not ' prosper , With •' the rest. --Toronto Star. • • • ADVERTISING ,FOR CANADA . A --woman tourist, `returning• home from Canada to New York State, writes The Christian. Sci- ence Monitor an advertisement, for, Canadian c'our'tesy of very, • great Value to this . country's tourist, . imlitstro Iiifty, miles back had left her purse, • tickets .and ., car, ownership cards, and"only dis- covered it when site went to, pur- chase some cherries • at a .roadside stand. • • She told the 'owner '•she' could;•not take the cherries as she, had left•her money behind, some III. stiles back: He provided 'her . With a. dollar to hut enough gas, also the eherr"ies, And.'he found his reward on the _prompt return of ' • the •, grateful woman. Here was a good deed which will shine forth iivniany places.=St: Cathar- ine's Standard. .•- Hot Tempers May Mean Cool Hands Anger ip not all heat, for it aisq rakes the fingers cold. . rE,periments in .which riot one exception of gals cooling was •found were reported to the Ameri- can Institute• of, Ph3 eic's• eimpos- • ium:on temperature by Bela Mittle- i mann and H. G...Wolff of the Coun- • eil Medical Centre. . [' Tension; -Anxiety Accomplish It Tension, • Year, anxiety •. and de- .. pression, also lowered the temper- ature of the bands. ' •Sonia persons showed, forge' drops in temperature, others small, but. those who "caoled"' only a lit- tle with emotion never went''�`�o;'th.e •opposite extreme. The finger'tip coaliog seemed o be fixed'.like per- •.sonality.. . , ,'..The ' largest '. op in. tetnpeiratfli e s of, fingera•in •roo,ls r• . ';g from 66 to 65.' was .20' degrees: In ane ease the emotie s' • took the finger- ' heat' down t nearly four degrees under e den tis 'Cool'room.. • In aii•ooin just above freezing' emotions. cooled the fingers:of one person by'36 degrees. • •7 Exports of Canadian.' fisheries pr o•duets • totalled '$14,860,60.6 in the first seven months of 1939, an increase of. .alrnost, $741,000 over the corresponding period of 1938. High Canadian Officials Attend Arinistice Service in .Ottawa Colleagues Pay Tribute To Former Canadian Minister Of Justice, 7 S•Tyfk••nrv3#s. • High government officials gathe'red.to pay tribute to..a former colleague at the funeral of Hon. Hugh Guthrie,. •chairman of -the Dominion Bar of Transport Coniinissioners and former minister of justice, who died ai the age of 73. Premier King and Rt. Hon.• Justice Lyman Duff are showy; 'leading the procession of distinguished personages from St. Andrew't Presbyterian church, Ottawa, following the: funeral . service. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Nehei In the village of 'Bullendorf, in -Germany, . a hen has adopted, twelve baby mice, and was. die covered sitting on her nest, warm- ing• thein with her feathers. U'n- natural adoptions such as this are nat,so rare as one might imagine. Recently a black -and -white. cat at Rock Farm, Nettlestead, England, was found curled up in the farm - barn watching otter her five kittens and two niice. • Yet, in the past, she bad proved herself a ruthless, killer of rats. Stocks of creamery butter ,in Canada at the beginning of. Oen tober amounted tQ 57,418,639 lbs., ss$',ychir3a�: .6,8181839 lha were . a e-erag'e air "fi�' ; ° s: in prat Way transit. r�. O Thousands of persons assembled on. •Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Arniis- • tice Day to honor -the men who •fell in the great war and pray for .the men who will soon take pp the torch once' again. Premier Mackenzie King Lord Tweedsmuir are shown' here. during the two minutes' silence. el ,"My mother wants to ku'ow the address of the, store that Sold lades° hats for 590 in yesterday's homework." ' • REG'LAR FELLERS --A Bargain i/ • By GENE BYRNES 7;lh.'or .' °. YNW fRTf 1 C>EA • Cist42 IA V's 6.