The Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-02-01, Page 3• c
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Clflticizes Federal G(v't,
• 'Premier Mitchell F. Elepburn of.
'Ontario who caused . a 'flurry in ..
tanadian affairs"over his Goverrt-
n' ••. ment's • condemnation ' „of "Prime
Minister .Mackerizie King's war ef-. •
forts. `
Impossible To..
Cure Balcdness.
Science Offers No Hope — °It's 'In-
herited, And •There's Nothing •
You Can Do About It '.
. The young man of 25 whose .hair
oegies •to -recede 'at. the temples or
' • to disappear .from :around •spot • at
•;,the back is'llkely to' give himself
.a great 'deal of unnecessary. dis-
nne-.
cessarily'and- indulge. in' all sects •
of. queer pe{•gormances••to ..save his
hair,sineI
•e' there is not•really very
tench ,that •he can do. .
The reason ,lies'• in the fact that
his loss et. hair was•,ife'terni,ined by.
heredity. • .
. • WOMEN SELD0g2 LOSE 1T
m
Woen. seldom lose• hair as do
the inen'and •complete baldness is
>' practically never.. seen .ii}' women. •
Most of the experts'•in the field•',o ..
• 'heredity are'likeiy to say that hair
• groxvth -i.s • determined 'by ,our con- •
stitutiou• and That the factor in the
con:otitution •which Is respensl,ble is .
in the. glands. They sa•y that ordin-
ary baldness can• .be inherited just
through' a single gene in Men and
tb.rough t vo genes in women.' •
• `Tho genes are those little elem'•
•ents in the cells .which (i:•termtne
our charecteri;ties. The explana-
. tion .seems to be that a Tuan with'
two 'baldness .genes• will have sons
all of thorn will be bald, and, if his
wife happens tb have two baldness
genes, some of their danghtctrs else
will be bald. if the man has. only
one baldness gene, 'One or ; two ' of.
his sons. will. be bald.' If,'however,
the genes "for baldness are absent,
none of•fh.e children will be bard.;
Form Original
"D•eatu•re'-Club"
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Mont7real Workers ' •Needing •
Co-• • False Teeth .Join in
oper-ative Effort. to • Get Them •
A. "rood club" :is the newest.._
twist to ' the papular co-operative
‘movement in Montreal, and if y'ou.
,ask any of..its 30 members they'll
tell you it's a success -though 10
of them, have aching jaws and a•
set of false teeth or the way. •
A. year ago, (a group- of Iverley
r'.� 4,.4iF..T„b9av rA.Tim+x�'.•.�i'�ta�'31t�i:C3'�'•?Vow.•Ga•L�e"����11L:4E:W���te�+LLU$!;i'
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they sorely needed false teeth.
They -laek.ed• sufficient money so
.deoidea on a co-operative effort.
Their discussion of ways and
Means to obtain the teeth on mea-
gre 'incomes led to • organization
of the Denture Chit).
':1lenibers agreed to. deposit 50
cents weekly at a centre' office.
When Dr., Jatiles Dance heard.. of
'the silienie he colunfeet;ed to' pro-
vide sets of dentures for. the'niem-
bers at basicb'cost. He. went fur-
ther. and gave. centre clubs a ser-'
, ies of lectures' on dental health '
.and -cart! of the teeth,
• An Extraction Party
It looked just like a Christmas
party when the 10—nine Women
and- a .man—.gathered at thine o'-
clock one 'morning.
• • But there was a lin of hospital
-cots for the ,patients while they •
carne out of the.•anaesthetic., The •
venerating , r:ooni" was behind .a
screen 'at ,one end "of the room.
• The' first 'patient, a woman,
came out of the, ether and asked
through puckered lips: "Are my
teeth, really • out?" •
This Book's Alive
A new type of book has been
produced by Mr. George Olin, a
collector of cacti, at Los Angeles.,
nig book is different, because it -
lives! Gouged into the pages are
pockets . and compartments con-
twining lichen', cacti,,, and other
small plants. Each pocket contains
the right kind of ndurishfient so
that the. la t can flourish, and .
•.:S:.N.Iainti.P�ww..�....::Wn+.'.r.;..:tnke.....r ..
you.eitt l riwc%her c . =ilt
See the living 'organism on the
same page.
The tempest in our own Ontario
Legislature . bade fair lastweek
to rival the European war in sig,
it ficanee as far as Canadians were
concerned . ; . Damned: by soinet.
praised by •others, the Premier
Hetburn-sponsored resolution
surfing Prime' Minister Mackenzie
King's war .efforts' made the prime
topic of conversation. here :
Theaction threatened on the erie
,'hand, . to, split :,the ,Likleral paith"
t .on the other, -to. get Mitchell.Hep-
burn; arrested under the,War
11easures" Out, a wag suggestd .
'(see section on''statements•4fpre--.
• judicng 'recruiting") , , •
During ttie twentieth 'week of
the watt, . between Germany and
the Allies, the Italian Gdvernment
approved 'the largest military bud-
. get, $532,000,000, . since Great
War days. Italy's armed forceh
would be made. ready, 'a Cabinet
,statement .said,; for any eventual-
ity a 'tremendou's explosion,
in a London, England, 'gunpowder.
factory killed half a dozen, in-
jured fifty ... the Western. Font
-grevir.,active for a time' when. the
Germans began bombardment' of
the 'area west of the Saar . :
Stockholm; Sweden, readied air -
raids precautions • . the Italian
liner Orazio caugklt fire and sank,
e: Briti, I`•�destro.ycrs
went down, and many neutral mer
chant ships were mined or torped-
oed, . . Great Britain acknowh•
edged the loss of three submarines,
the affair. of .Hor'.Belisha's res
ignation .blew over , , First Lord
of the Admiralty Winston Church-
ill Made 'another of his vivacious,
pugnac, ous radio siieeches ... 21
Germans escaping.from the
aboard a Japanese ship were taken
off its by the British . Swiss,
living in areas bordering on the
Reich were given, notice toexpect,,,
evacuation at ,any time , .. . Ger-
man treeps.-were'reported massed •
along the frontiers of' Hungary , .
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Sir William Mu1oek, grand old Iran of Ontario, and'one of the fore-
most figure's, of the ,Dominion, celebrated his. 95th birthday, at his home..
in Toronto. by. receiving a stream of :friends and visitors_, who flocked
to,,theMulock residence to offer their 'felicitations'.
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SLEIGHING NOT''SLAYING
Fortunate Canada! Sleighing
par ties .instead of slaying parties..
.—Toronto Star.
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ANY OTHER . SUGGESTION?
. 1'-I. G. „Wells>, says this war is
either the, end of things as -they
care now or the beginning.. of, some-
thing ,different.' Had. anyone else
any •befter suggestion? . •
-Lsi2llon Free•..I'ress:,
• EASY,i. KUT TO LISTEN.
Getting on';the an. and taking it
-f granted that thousands
t.ening is an; error. 'Thr "thousands
May : ,e listening—but,' to ''sonic,,
thing., else. 'Or they may not' be'
listening at all. '
-Peterborough Exaixiiner.••
.IRON.^ORF•'IN CANADA • ,
The year 1939 was notable for,
at :leant one thing -Canada began
to mine. iron ore. There have been
previous activities but the Heleti •
Mine at Michipicoten looks like the •
first permanent operation.. The ore
is sintered and a train load of .this
arrives at the Soo daily. •
—Sault Daily, Star.
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"PUTTING OVER" A NEW ,FLAG'
mune as• no Objection
to a •Canadian flag;' as 'such; pro- •
vided that the people want. it. But'
such a flag would have' to' be duly.
authorized by the people's. repre-
sentatives in Parliament.. Thi; pa-
per ' would .object to a :"national
flat' being "put over",by hole -in=
the -corner 'methods: ' •
-Winn'ipeg, Tribune
Grain of, salt .Needed
Fifty -below zero temperatures
'caused. frightful suffering to both
soldiers and civilians In, the Arctic'
theatre of war . the Russians
were drivpen, hack• on. the Saiia sec='
• tor, on `the Karelian' isthmus. and
north of"Lake Ladoga. (.If a count
were .made of ,all the Russians re-•
ported at different times to h:£Ye
been killed in this conflict, `the
staggering total of tivo. million.k"
would he reached news mag.
azine "Time" warns: that figures
are grossly exaggerated) . Bri-
tish. officialdein lest. week advanc-
ed the belief that given 39,000 -
more men and 200 more airmen,
plei.?;ty of armed equipment before
.May, the_ Finns could hold the Rus-
'sians 'indefinitely' .: '
- • •.Prognostications '
. Outstanding., theories' . of • the
week: Hanson W; ,Baldwin, military
and naval correspondent of the
New. York Times;, Said Germany •
probably will adopt', a policy of a
•"war of waiting" during 1940, sit -
,tight as long as she can. be
assured of supplies front Russia;
a .political writer. in 'the • 'Paris
"Temps" advised that # the A1=
lies would • undertake naval ai.'tion
in the Black Sea:(wpicti_a.:lRussia.'s.:;Y,
' tender spot' gni' account of the oil •
wells in that .region) Soiriet rein-
forcements• could be kept • • from:
going to the Finnish fronts; Karl
von Wiegaild, one 'of the most ex-
perienced• war correspondents in
the world, staked his reputation
.on the prediction that Italy' will
get into the,war on t the side of
Germany; a tustworthy •Polishob-
server,declared that Russia is like-
ly to cede the Galician oi]'fields .
to Germany in return for a large
sliceslice of Central Noland, 'including
Warsaw., •
MIGKIE SAYS=
WHA1 lF I ERE ARE
sizkiESSEgArrOON
MAK? i'•MORE MOiJEY
rn4AMUS' WE• air
A ��.p�r o' GATISFAeTio,J
OUT a', BEIM' Asi„E Tis
HELP FOLKS, AM',1;N
MAK%.fi' lime A:
SETTER
TO\VN
... kV>
Puck Chasers
TOPICS OF TIIE.GURRENT
•: HOCKEY SEASON'
4011•0111•1,0111111..,...00.....1101110•1000, 114.111111.1110.11110s
• ',Congratulations are .in order to •
•Bob. Crosby and his •Mclltyre Mine:
.team. They are the first "Canadian
club to go into' New • York after a
week's to'lir a:nd"com:e•out.u.ndefeat-
ed. They held theRovers ,to a 3-a11
tie. Brothers .Lockhart, .Thornpeou
and. Mise Mulany,Secretary of the
;Rovers' Booster Club, haven'•t got:
over it 'yet. • , •
LIMIT.STICK LENGTH
The C:A.H.A. rule on veer—length.
hockey sticks is now in effect. Anil
that means strict enforcement' . of
the rule limiting the length of hoc-
key ..sticks
oc-key'sticlis and width of, the blade.
The rule "is, as .follows: • Hockey
sticks shall ,not exce^d ;53 inclies
from the heel, to the end Of the
shaft and 1.4%.'inehes from the h'el
to the .end'of the blade.., The blade
of. the stick shall not exceed three
inches .in height, except in the, case
of. the goal -keeper's stick, whidh "
Shall not exceed ai4 inches. •
SENIOR -'.`A"! NOTES
Hamilton''gare Goodyears a .real
scare id the . oulosing
ntain City,
out by a 5-4 scare '. M. J. Redden,
veteranofficial, made his first Sen-
ior appearance' of, the season in
the O.H.A. as referee at St. Cath-,.
Brines .. tt . Galt signed` a new, cen- •
tre.player, McCaffrey, from- Ottawa
....Jack •Astle returned to Niagara
Fallis after a four-week .absence : .
Geodyears, signed 'Joe Start, one,
time• professional, as spare goalie,
NTARIO
MOORS
_By VIC BAKER
WAR' AND WILD LIFE. '
Daring a r'e'cent discussion on.
'Ontario's annual, fall classic, the ..
',pheasant shoot. at Pelee Island, wel.
learned With. great interest Alin. the
'pheasant is playing a part in''Eng-
laud's Air Raid Precaution system .
by :means of '%-kith the heart of the
Empire is protected during', these
war times.•
• A lett4r appears in a British' out-
. •-
•door' publication as •folows: . •
"1u; these -day's of substitutes,
,why, not •a• fe'w pheasants instead
•of the much -Maligned A. R. P. war-
den?, AS one of the latter and a
keeper .of' the former, 1 am relying
0n nl,y birds,' both by day and night,
to warn ,me When it is time to stop
netit:Oiling the Village and to take
t.o' •cover. By way of wear work the
pheasant farms, instead of closing'
down, •could be turned on to pro-,
d ting vast numbers of these •tat-'
uilaf sirens. A cock, with, a lieu or
two o for company,, penned' at •say,
half -mile ,intervals . in the:gardens
of our towns, i'buld cost the. rate-
payer less.- money' than wardens, .
and •Aossibly have; 1+es brick's,,
• thrown at .them."
HEAR SOUNDS- .INAUDIBLE TO
• :During the World War '1,. we are
told, parrots ;kept iii French fon-
tresses and on the -Eiffel Tower, in
Paris. -gave wut.aing,oftie approach:
.of aeroplanes thet 'they, cotfld not
possibly hare seen,' before 'they ,-
were discovered .by itunian beiiles,
At. night,: during • .that per.iodr
when enemy planes Were wont to
fly overhead and• drop bombs at
random„ the pheasants' in the tor`-
erta inland'tyere the first to discern. •
the eiplosions of the bombs, orae.
fendiirg anti-aircraft guns;` and• to
hasten to issue- 'a' warning of ail
4tproaching evil;, In this way; .their
behaviour • had. :helped to throw '
. light Upon. 'the..1pi;oblern. of.= • h'
."zones • of : silence ,arthuld great •
.detonations', which, after. skipping
these zaties,- became. audible, The'
"inaudible" soundivayes were evi •
;d"ently "picked up" •by the pueas-•
ants,• for they acted a:s if. 'great-
ly. agitated. Al.', of which' adds to
oua' store of knowledge concern-
ing this intel•est'ing.game-bird.
"Coal Butter" • is
German.... I d e a
Exile • Tells of Progress in' Mak-
ing, Edible Syntietic . Fats
Germany is prepared to inake'ed•
ible fats from coal and shale. Quite
literally, iu a • pinch .she -can mak'e-
her batter from •coal. • ,
• • Details of this .discoveri• were
given to the American A'ssociiation.
for the Advancement of Science by
a recently arrived German creat-
riate,• Dr.. Willy Lange, , who was
Fd'a rY1;652%1'.,S t firliar zletit'rtir' )Z,isttM.3: 4'i3rriz •
the. University of Berlin,FHis fig-
ures covered developments •up t'o
Midsummer, shortly' .before start
of the liar. ' • •
Synthetic Chemistry
Fats and copper are. the 'te'o '
Materials n leh informed' scien=
.tists *here s � d Germany was tu•ost
likely to run short of in Rat.:Tris
inon;h there' have been news re-
po'rt.s, that Ge:'tinrny was pi'ogres•
•sing crit the fa't pt-ttble:n with• new
synthetic. clientist.ry.
Tho;coal fats, Dr. Lange. sstid,,are
made by plowing • steam .throu, i'
,burning: coal to prodt:•ce carhO:1
monoxide and hydrogen. This pois`
onous gas 'is the stat'ting•.snbstaac''
Which, with subsequent. chemical
treatments:, iietOmes first Indust-
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ndu.s,t-1•ia1 fat, •and :hen edible ,fat, • .
. Shale Also Used
Shale, of which Germany has a '
larger supply than of coal, is tui-
other starting material for. butter
substitutes.. Tho_ shale is first con-
verted int oil.
Wald Horses' Go
When . War Comes
B.C, intenei,fies Round -up". in Carl- •
• boo Ranchlands-1-Range .is
Needed arid Foxes 'Fie-
qufre Meat:. -
T'he,nor ipc•a'ns' deat;t "for -thous•
• ands of wild horses t.;;lith roam
the. Cariboo ranchlauds.'in British
Columbia's interiol. • •
. •.h.rovincfal government: officials
have ordered an i;ttensification-of.
•.the• 1940, roundup,:'af, the an'rtna:s
whose forebears.', es.capel • from the
ranches•tttid •begame•as wild as tae
•moose or' deer.,I3unters. Were urge•l
to. clear: the range roc every wild.
•ito.se, if possible. • .
• The roundup .is an annual', graz-
ing control measure in the Cariboo'
but officials =said It should be inter;•
Sifted 'this year to preserve as
much grazing land as passible •,for
livestock that, will produce, food-
stuffs. •
Hunters taking part in the rauad.
..up Can receive $2.50 •• a `pead .from
tho owners of branded horses, 'or,
slaughter the animals for Afoa meat.
Luxuries Now
Coming 'Higher:
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Canadiansi-1Nho Like Their .Caviar
• And Paris}Perfuniies Will tHave
'"MS...C; �{��w Y.:1MKYL�'. N:iS•'.,WY•.'YiFi4Y`CS •... es.J'h•<'.1
•'Tle,..luxtiry-lot'lug ('.i'ia.didii has
had to economize on his purchases
since was was declared. . •
' Caviar will likely be scratched,
Off swanky hienu,S since the cost of
this luxury: 'imported from ?Russia
• ^.nd FinlaitJ, ali•t'ady'ltas trebled in
price. Sone itupotiteil cheeses
harder :o get•!han before the t;tr,t• '
and. -special jam. ntarutalat!'s and
.sugared fruit., aro higher. on the
lnxt1!' :1it. .
• CHINA, GLASS, SILVER
Perfumes. art etit:ing the higher
'bract,' s: and inaify imported'
French scents ere beco.mug scarce.
Jewellers believo their businete
will • not suffer materially, during ,
war, time. New sources in neiittraj
countries' have beendiscovered t'o
replace the • novelty and jewel
ware's usually 'irnport.ed frond Euro- •
pean countires now at n-ar. But •or-
ders of china,,.glass and silver are
filled mere:slewly because of trans- •
•sortation difficulties.
ro uce Better
Cream, flutter
,Ontario' Dairymen Told of Govern-
ment Plan to Improve Products
J, L.. Baker,chief creamery'• in-
'structor for Ontario, ,told the re-
cent' W estern,Ontario Daiirymen's
convention that a..provincial gov-
ernment program to improve' the
quality of cre'am aid butter Jill
be continued with g,'eater ' effort
this year.
"We plan to do more work with ,
the producers in 1940," he said,
noting that in 1939 theinstruc-
tionbranch con(ren:trated More on
operations fn .creameries.. •.'
1'it.Q•PERr GRADING OF. CREAM •
'Among _suggestions be offered
4
;r daifytneri- in a cezeperatfve scheme
to . better quality of • cream and
••butter were proper gfading..ofall -
ereanl with' payment to Abe.-ma.de
• accordingly '_and ;the holding of'_
'short eeui°ses . for cream. ,haulers
to educate them as to proper meth-
ods of caring'for cream on the.
farm..
' .
In, connection. with licensing of .
creameries; Mr. Baker said • the
dairy branth "did not feel inclin=
• ed to hurry creameries into mak-
ing 'improvements, but necessary
changes must • be completed before
1940 licenses are granted." '
During inspections for 1940 cher-
tificates, . approximately 57 ' per
cent of creameries. were approved.
without having to makeimprove
stents, he said. This compared
with 'a figure of 11 per cent in
—•t-'e�,-illus.:�-r. - ' .
Liver Performs
Sixty Functions
It's An Important..Organ. in The
Body..
. Every' -organ: .of. the body has
one, or two joks.to•dp.Dr. Robert
',G. C.ontrell, Englev, obd,, :y.J., in
Clinical Medicine a'tid . Sufgery, '•
• says:, '
. 'Not so • with the liver. 'for there
is hardly.a part ,of the body that•'
not' directly •or indirectly affect-.
ed .by the functioning or. working
'of this large
••"It is conservatively stated that
the rliver _has •frena sixty, to ono"-
hundred,
nce
hundreddistinct arti�itiesi • .and •
that every oc'h'er iinporfantt system
,--circulation, digestive, . nervous
,and• others --is definitely •influbr.-
ped 1Jj' the 'activities; ,of the liv-
CLEAP,S• QF IMPURITIES
All the blobd •from. the. digestiye
pparatus—stofriach and 'intestine.
'carried. to •the liter to be •fit-
tercd and cleared _Of .hariniful• sub=n..
stances before it .goes `back to the
. heart to be' . sent to lungs and
• thence to. the heart to be sent to
all parts of• the .body: The blood
must not only get rid •of' carbon'
dioxide and' be enriched with oxy-
gen •by means `of the lungs but
• before it .can do all its work of .
• The appointtrient of li.enry • S..
- Gage 'to ,the pdsiti,on of General .
' 'Sales ` Agent • sof, the ,: Delawar',e, .•
Lackawanna, & WO"stern Coal Com- - •
pany, has just..been .announced.
Mr. Gage was. formerly • Sales
• Agent for the company in Ontario
and Western New York and is a.
well' known figure in the. coal. bus=
iness in. both taut}tries, having
spent much' of his tithe ,in Canada
before being appointed' to his pre
sent executive" position with, the or•
ganization.
building ;and ma!ntaining, the var-
ions tissues, it is made fit by the
liver to destroy harmful products
in' other fluids of the body.
KEEP IT MORE ACTIVE
• dependsupon 'the liver; it• might
v<We11' be' said that "your every=day. . .
health depends'
onnimals' f•OrAJ ._
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LIFE'S LIKE THAT
14. • By Fred : Ne Piers
''Wanner' Buy' A Good Watch Dog,
REG'LAR FELLERS—Bird of a Dog
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BET THAT MUTT
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SW'iPS 1'b MAKE ,
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LOOKIT WHAT WE
DID TO OUR CUCKOO
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