The Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-01-04, Page 3• • • • • ••••
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• BBC Sends News ,
In 12 Languages
• Can k Reach 4(‘0,000,000 Ik4;.
' smut Cannot Be Jammed
.The war of Words, chief 'differ,.
• enee between the first and second
great wars, gathers. force almost• '
daily as epeech-Makers and ra,die
announcers of belligerents clutter
the ether with alitibl :of prop-
' agandist .tongfies.
. • Among this confaion rise the
•vOices.of•British.Broadeast'ing•Cor-
poration announcers, speaking in
12 languages of Enrope and •the
-Near East, soberly broadcasting
Itara ,as it is reported • by the
warld'setgreat s -gathering.
. encies, pr setting forth atithorita-
tvB
e. riea islviews on. world ev-
flts
• t} • . • .
Teeice Daily News Bulletins
NeWs bultetinseereeput, 'out In. •
• Wench, Germane -Italian, 'Spartieh,,,,
' Peettiguese0.Arabib. and six rang-°!.,
• sieges eittled 'Since; he wee start-
• e Serbe:Croat,Tehmanian,,
Magyar, Polish". and Greek. The
former news btilletiii in Afrikaans
bag become • twice-daily .feature.
Before 'the trar t wes estimated
150,000,000 persons were able ..to •
hear 8.13.C: broadcasts..Sine hog- •
• , Odes began the number Of reach-
able persons has. inereasedto 400a
• 0041,009. B.B.C, engineers say their.
facilities are so good' that they
.cennot .be jammed eff • the air.
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Canadian Honey
Popular Abroad
- Since.. Tariff f. Lifted,' There'S
. Continuous Flo*„..Of 'It 'to the
•United.K.ngdom
.Canadian honey, is floWing rap,
fostlekIlleited Kin'g,doin Market
eineca.irtiport .i•eatriceioneebn •the '
• Canadian".'produet. were lifted in
•..„ November, Dominion egriculttiree
' department officials repart.'. •
.While it is too earlyto give fig-
- Sires. foe the•exPort becauee. of the• .
slowness of returR of .eustonis cera.
.• tifitiates4# is estirriate-d that ex-
ports i1l be ."considerably high-•
' er" than, last yeeia-witen .honey
' from, 'producers ir Quebec.; ' On- •
• tario ..and Manitoba provided
•'500,•000 naiads. of . honey ,Con.etim-
ed in the United Kiegdem, about
• 25 per 'eenteqf the. total,• , ••••••. •
.Avetate Yield This Year
• :Canada's 1938 hotray-produetten.
• • ..set a.. now • record ..:at
4.e!t-ex•-• •
•
• •• pected. to be . about. . • flv( •
at •
' • from 25,0Q0,00 to 2e.
Price of the' Canadien honey. on
British 'market has•advahced about
15 shillings' for each 112 :.peundse
competed • with prices ..cniTent
abbut the • same, time last year.
•u1.
. Wars used, . to . he ,comparatively
simple agaire in the old days when
two.coPitries got madat each •oth-
er, went to War with tangible Wea-
pons, imight on actual 'fields of bat-
.. tle. In these days you could tell
which:side Imel, wen which. engage,
meat, and who was likely to come
out on to In the end. But in the
twentieth century, .with •. the intro -
,duction of the economic battle-
ground. and high-powered prepagan-
'da.weaPons, wa.rfarie Dee bene a.
' thing of•Infinire, complexity,'fiought
with ideas; . threats', diplomatic'
'caups ,few can tinderetand.
and .interpret the' to•tiese. takes
Small waderethen.tha, 4s tire .
.seeoeir•Great 'War • came to . the:
. close:Of° its fourth,•inotith, noleody
. knew whicJi eiclea-.Cletanany,oF the
t
...Attlee • was .eVianin.o. • • •
• .. Naval •ObjeCtivei .
TOmany,' however, it seemed
' during the sixteenth week ,that
• G.Mena,ny was lasing. met. on the sea.
The ecuttling-af the. Columbus and.
the clear Sege, the sinking. •oe a
large number of subinarinee,
• doubtedly".weakened, Germany as a
s'ea 'power.. Mt' let us look at the •
situation in tete light •oe the. being-.
eyeets' n&val Objectivee! The. Al -
.lies are Nvorking for the complete
domination of the se, cutting Off ,
all traffic by sea, to and from Ger-
inanY ambitious Undertaking; '
Germany's naval objective -.•the
.eripplieg. of the ,Beleishniereentile.
Finds Radium
. • ..Worth 440;000
.•
In Laid FOuk. Years Machine
•Sairea. Ontario • Government
• $8,000 Per Year in lour -
Hance . • ..
More than $45,005•woeth of lost.
radiune. has been found it the:last.
four years ,by . a little . machine
made by De: John D. Leitch, the
young . physician 'revealed in •• an
address before the Royal .Catiadian
Institute. In, addition. the detece
ter. has saved the Ontario govern-
ment at least $8,000 eentially in
niseeance. premiums, • be. said.' . •
a.
, • Lott In Garbage •Sometimes
With his .instrumerit. Dr. Leiteh.
:hag found radium lost in Ontario • ••
en several oceagionse other, vio- .
Vista recalled following theiaddress. '
itadium,has been lost in haddages.
•eneee.than once, and has been .tak-
eneaway in garbage', to be. recov-
ered later from a dump. •
Canada's Leading
Minerals Listed
•
Asbestos, Coal, Copper, Gold,
• Gypsum, Lead, ,Petroleuni,
• Silver, :Zinc Are Chief Pro-
tiuCts'in 1939—,
'The DoMinion Bureau of•Statis-
. tics .bas issued. the following
• bctical list showitigthe production
• of Ca.nada's leading minerals dur-
ing the nine months ended Sep-
., •tember, Withfigures fer .1938; in
• brackets; asbestis,. 246,888 (.208,-
1132) .torist -cement, ..41,425,•5-35
(4,234,238 )barrels ; clay pro-
., elucts, . • $3,124,539. , ($321,877);
coal, 10,535,930 (9,887,2g3). tons;
•eapper, 451,41.0,179 (428,875,538) '
• feldspar, 7,453 (10,43.8)
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tons; gold, .8,803'4202 (1,464'0398)
' fine • Minces; gypsurne • 907,130
.731,28.9) tons; lead, 283,031,661
319,405,741) pounds; Hine, 863,-
842 (.355,525) tons; natural gas •
26,074;482,000e (23,446,907,059)
etibi;,1 foot n 175,161,7/ 1.
'( 1'60;0974162 ) panicle; •
proleem,
•'5,787;11,7 ( 5,341,5.69 ) ba rrels;••
i-ommercial ealt, 17(3,557 .(1•81:1,- '
,
. • • 071,810). tine aiiinc(s; zinte: atria- '
•,030,901). 285.575229), pounde. ' f
neutral ships to the mid that• sup-
• Bee reaching Great Britain by sea.,
. may .he seriously curtailed
more .modest, its attainment
woad be no leas (Ian -aging to the
A.11.1,e; than attaiethent of the Allied
oneeetive wetil.d•teeta Germany.. nee:
cauSc of, the .grenter elependence of
the Britieb I4Ies )4yn Seaborne. trat:
.lnthe air, tee,. nettling coneiuse
five had .been proven un.tothe end
Of 1939. Air operations . em, both
side.siaave•-been defeesivee or ueed •
at an •aid in:pbtainine naval ohjece •
tives; or in reconnaissance.
',Hod?. long would the warela-Std,
Highly -placed staff ofieearg of ' the
•Prench army' ventured a predictio• n
thatit would continue another 18
• mouths, (the Gei•mans, •they said,•
iuust makeasoineePeetacular move,.
probably. in the.spring, to keeti up
.eheedelazi inerale. ethey a -en • beeee,
some blunder. and the. War will be
•'ever"). On the Western Front per-
haps; yes, But sin:Mid the *filet
become; wider, assume new. shape
' and scope; °W hp 'could guess then it
Might end.? • ' .
. • ,
"On Christmae. Day" in the niorre
• :Ma," King • George .,spoke to . the
Empire . . Helsingfors wasbomb-
' ed agahr ...' Canadian troops Woke.
up in liospitabie .British• households
. . „ Prime Minister de•••Valera., of
Eire urged a peat& conference gow,
iiistead,•of af the end of an •ethaust-
ing war ... all leaves were cancel
led from the .NOrweglan aetnye
Italians throughout Italy thronged
. churches giving thanks for peace
• in theireeitn country ....Pope Pius.
XII' read a letter from President
Roosevelt, pledging his aid in early .
.peace moves . . • Stalin foi'mally.
• thanked Hitler for birthday eipn-
gratu1atitins
. .
Ia Ottawa, preparations were un-
der way for the opening of the Par
liamentery session,. January 25,• :••
when a progeam..eflaxation to fin-
ance Canada's war effort will be In-
.
trod.uced. A. war loan .will be
launched, but in addition increased
reireeue.'wili•haVe to come froth a •
rise it the sales tax and in' income
• tax rates, from restoration of the .
• old sugar taxa levying.of "nuisanbe"
and luxury taxes that *ere employ-
ed in the last war. ,
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Stalwarts of Canada's Firlit Div/090 Lapp La England,.
Arriving. at an unnamed. port in the British Islessoldies of Canada's first division dee shoWn a ehey
stepped ashore: The .ships that carried them slipped into their docks' and theCanucks .diSembarked. before
• news of their arrival was made public.
Thinking Lags
Behind Science
• McGill Expert .Urges 'The
• World to Catch ' Up With.
• New Scientific Developments
Hope for Civilization Lies,In
Knowledge
. Small Number
.• • Actual Fliers
•Many More Technicians Are •
• Necessary
•
•
, .
There's more to- thiflying geni• e
than Pilots'. This is being well ill-
ustrated as 'intensive training of
men in the',Royal 'Canadian Air
Fierce swings intohigh gear. As a
matter of fact, the.namber. of ac-
tual, airmen.in 'the .torce is. a clef-
' finite minority.' • •
The R. C. A. F., to put'mee
•• fighting 'planes,, needs hundreds
'of skilled .tradeamen. JtISt a few
of: the typesthat goeto make •up
the' force are aero engine tiled-
airfreme 'Meehan/es, '
arrna-
rnct artifieers, clerke, cooks, die-
• • ciplinarians, electricians, fabric
'Workere ••taid tailors.
•• Marty Never Off Groused e
. Many, . of these aircraftsinen
."•have »O'er been off the gfound.
• Many of them never will be.
ing is the job of the pilot. Their.
work. is to make' this job .pessible.,
These men are being
'• put into fine physical- share, given
elementary training and then mov-
all to air 'lieges in ntliet Ontario,
• 44.144.' 4,4i4lro A, • rip; a 1..1,04ti. `
fieieneY.' •
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a a
e One of the reasons for .•the
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,froubles •of the •world tOday is
that weare div,ing in a scierigfic •
civilization and and we don't live" or.
• think scientifically in Prof. C.
• :Leonard Huakine, head of the de-•
• pertinent of .genetics at McGill
University, lest. week told a Min-.
'•teral 'audience: ' •
.He 'urged that there Should :be• .
a more general adeptiOnof the
scientific attitude:and. a• vider ap-
preciation of the value of ',pure
science as a method ,of trainingea
eme'ans of obtaining knewledge, and
as an end to the development •of.
• g balanced philosoPhrof • '
Implicadana Clear •.
Quoting Sir Richard Gregory,
Prefessor ,Huskins said that "The
• view that the sole functiote. of
• seience-is the discovery and study
of natural facts . principles
without regard regard to. the social impli-
• eatians of..elee knowledge • gained,.
Can no longer • be Maintained. It
is being widely recognized that
science cannot be 'divorced , from
.ethics, or . absolve • itself
from theihtunan responsibilities in
• athe applie tien of .its .discOyeries
•
tee destructive purPoses in war or
economic disturbances in times. of
• Peace- • . . . .
. Man, Shauld Know. Himself.. '
• Whatever hope there is for the
•future of civilization, he, said,' lies •
in tnowledge,, the scientific met
od of •getting it, and •particalarly
'• in' bia108,44'al. science Which will
ultimately . teach men. •to know ..
himself. , • .• , . • •
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SHUCKS! 11-i' GOSS IS
SErdi.14 LO2Kini
xr•ASTACkt OF i3 -S
• FER, PAPeR )114K, 'TYPE
114 R-1ii'N1F ,1_l
FOLKS NIA() 0WE 1-tttO
WOULD PRI UP, t-ts •".
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Army's Biggest Feet,
• Located In Montreal
A claim of having, .the soldier .
with the biegest. feet •ip the Caii-
clan 4.1 "Iii$ pass
• lento to Montreal. •
. .
• The: new record .holder
•C. • A. Mallette. of the 'Ceriadian,
Dental Corps. Hehas been in the. •
. twiny nearly two -months, and -a:
• tinifoenn . te lit him • has yet •tp: bo
fou 4-te. was e sneei ally ineeine; •
, •
'edefdr hi bots ---size 15. Sapper...
Rob.crt Barnes of the • Royal Can-
adinn at Toronto,': took •
Freak Accidents
cause -Laughter.,
.1i; S. Safety Council Reports
• Odd Case •• •••
..: Each year' the •Natioeal Safety'.
.Cauneil ,of abe. United State S Makes
•••a• -roam:a...up. of. orld, hat het Eatal., .
• aceidehte and 'publishes 'them 'in •
• it meggee e: '"Public - Safety."
This year hrought the usual bump-
er ..caopo,t feeak eTertese,
areseree'sampfes.•• . • •
• Joseph 1.7ayiler; Jersey City, N. ,
J., serubbed his.teeth to .enthes-
iasticaliy ene..dey..that he swal-
lowed hard in. sheer .exhaustion.
. Suddenly he discovered the tooth
brush 'was missing, Ratite/ X4ays.
revealed' the: regulation -size brush
repOsing in his stomach.'
An Embarrassing Experience.
. Then there was theembarrass-
ing experience .of Frank Miska,
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• Finland's Ski Warriors Await Calf For Action In IThe Field
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,A, detachment of Finnish ski troons is shown somewhere in northern Finland as they wait the :call for,
action against the Red invader. ,Armed with light machine-621ns, rapid-fire pistols and deadly hunting knives,
these men have .spread, terror and confusion •in their swift and deadly raids' on. Russian patrols. This .is one
of the first phots to to reach Canada from/the war . zone near the fertile circle. It was flown from Helsingfors
to London and radioed. to N QW 'York. . - . . . . . . , .
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d'ILAR FELLERS—Wry International
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•Temple, TeX. is he, stepped off
the curb' to aroas the street, a car• -
whigged 11,7,00 13P01100,111113 off.
Isliekte 'took inventore't. e didn't
suffer a -scratch,. but there he was.
Standing in his' long underwear.
• The car had ripped his pants off.
P.S. The , driver provided a new
_pair and all was well..
New Radium Mine
In Ontario k kid);
Will Soon Ile Producing In The
• Wilberforce Area
• • Canada is soon to have anothe
er Producing mine. Definite init•.; •
'illation that a nine in. the 'Wilber-.
' force area of Ontaribe will soon
he producing the world's richest
lemeat. was given in Toronto.
.
• ConetrOction of a•1004on mill
•b&Idig Is"eenipleteci and the•bal-
ao:Icrieff, alfri4.tthaem Lcdru,As'hui nh,,goeqe least p�s
sible"dela.y; The aMp,any •hakbeene
informed that the separation 'Un-
it, 'which . empleys the, electric). -
'chemical process ' for.. breaking
flown the ore, and extracting the
' Varioba 'metals. and •oxides in com-
mercial forni, is -rapidly neaeing
Completion. •
Other Rare Elements
,• laboratory tests and analyses
on samples front: the prorrty it
is reported reveal the pre ence of
.tantaltim,'" beeyllium; gold, • tang -
sten, 'and some of. the other rare
elethenti; as well as ueaniuna the
Maternal ancestor of radium:
• "LAND BELOW THE WIND
' By Agnes Newton Keith ,
• Agnes Keith is.: the Ameticata•
ti;ife of an English official in one
•of the •furthest outposts of the Bri- '
Einpiee, The story Jiciylife
in that Far Coin-it/7, Bernet), is
told in 110...prize-winning autobio-
• graphy, "Land Below. the Wind."
She has il;&e.ed in Sandakaw, _the
canital, .she has accquipanied her
husband on his, expeditions deep
into the.,jungle and far up the riv-
ers. In this book she makes her
readers enjoy the timeless. •days,
the eXotic nights 'ef .Borneo. We
gee her hOuse in the beauty of a
• tropical moonlight and. also when
it ie. drenehed and leaking •in-
• mer.soen. tAi.'e see her compound •
vitl4 is Chinese • cooks, its . Merut
hougehdy_s, and its assortment • of
monkeys and mongooses. We s,ee
•:e1::at, the -Innen can' :do to %reek
down • the fortitude of a woman
Who. is betl'i curious ..andegoursig"::
'Nora Walee (fanfous author of
"Reaching for the Stars," "House
of Exile") says: "Land Below the
Wind" is one of those happenings
ehat make life worth whiled
"Land Below .the Wind"
b4y, Agnes Newton Keith To-
ronto: McClelland and Stewart...—.
$3.00., ••
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ICE
of tile
PRESS
SECOND-HAND IieUREAUS'
With all these bureaus being ee-
tabliehed at Ottawa it looks as it
the Gievernment will have a lot .of
aecond-hand furniture on its heads
galhe eeid•ef the war.---Meatreal
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WCTa tie At TLe THE TOURIST WANTS
• Pleasant ' g and sleeping
places; offeringservice at reason- e.•
able rates, are portent in at-
teecting ur interesting toea..tinsssee—iii.nNasi
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country and' god&
ton Jeurnale. . • •
,ELOQL1Ek 'TRAFFIC SIGN
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Something .new. epad eives
'which hasea • deep eignifidanee is• ' .•
.orie".that ie found in a small O.n•L•
tario town. The Sign reads: 'Slow;
• No liespizal." Not a ba4 traffic
• sign at thateeeFort Erie eq-*
Review: '
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RAISE MORE SHEEP ,
When the Hon. P. M. Dewen •
spoke recently in Brantford he
POinted out that farmers could
make no mistake in raising more
• sheep. Now the Canadian wool ad,-
ministrator declares ,thet Canada •
is 8,009,000 poutds short of wool •,
• to 'fill her requirements at the• ,
'present thee. The needs of the
war offer a, fine opportunity to ..
et .p • "ustry
n Canada-e-:rantferd :Expositor'.
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end the careers cif 131
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LIFE'S Lncg THAT
By Fred Neher
• (eweisteserese ere ge)
•'•Good Waning,
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the Lady of the. Ido...aer."'•
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THE ECYPTIANS
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AS WE DO/ THEY CARVED
THEIR V.,RITN45 ON
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YOURE Ti-tE F.1145Y
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