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Brains Needed
In Democracy
Queen's Principal Declares Child-
ren Must Learn How to •
Think
Children' must be taught to think
fat• ,themselves, it democracy is to .
.survive; Dr.. R, W. C. Wallace, prig:
cipal •of .Queen's University, King-
Ston; Ont., told the American Mi-
nion's Club,' at Montreal last week..
Children today must be taught to
:think independently and ,express
their convictions, rather• than ac-
cept, as their views what,they read
or hear, said Dr:Wallace..
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT,
Democr•acy,eait be successful'only
• through independent • thinking, he
suggested. It becomes� a dictator-.nhip when the people let others d
their 'thinking •forthem.
"Democracy depends od you : and
;pp," he- raided , ' By .that 1 do' not
mean, that you and •I• need complete"
knoWiedge' of tkie intricate 'prob. •
]ems .with whielego.veitxments haves
to contend, but • we ; should. know.
thoroughly -those whorepresent pis.
We should have been intelligent •
•'enough to have an opinion and
• courageous enough to 'express• it
even though; it may be an opinion
contrary to the majority."
Diary -Keeping
Regains Favor
Letter.-Writirlfl Also in Fashion
Again in Britain..
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of the Carnegie. Endow-
,meat for , International Peace,
last 'week saw the, conflict in Eur-
ope assuming ,a definite shape. As '
the warame to the . end of ite.
sixth month, he was able. to'pro .
diet the developments likely .
manifest .themselves during the
next fest weeks: '"The Allies will
not 'attack on the Siegfried tine,
which is almost impregnable, so
etong • as the present . policy lasts._
Neither • will they 'violate the nen=
trality - of Luxembourg, ' Belgium
or Switzerland••to, .turn' the Ger-
Mari :defences. on the west. There
fore Hitler Will be able„ to 'main-
tain Alis position 4n the west with
reduced, forces, and turn' hisj, > t-;
tention to taking. over Hungary
and. Yugoslavia,"' Russia's next
sphere of influence,. he opined,
would 'include . eastern -Rumania,
Bulgaria and Turkey: Should It-
aly decide, to enter this combin-
ation as a third, party, she would
have to be satisfied •with Dalma-
tia and some form of protector-
ate over Greece. To stop theGer-
man advance through the Balkans,
•
the Allies .would have to trans-
port, and maintain in high effic:
'iency,'their troops and materials,
throughout . Albania; Macedonia; •
Two Victorian `habits.liave..been
-revived in Britain by. the war: the
`keeping of 'diaries and lengthy cor-
e
respondence. Stationers interview;a
ed by The Daily Telegraph in Lon-
• don report a twenty-five per
c xit
rise -.in the demand, for diaries
or
1040 over 1939, 'and nearly a fifty
• per cent .rise. in 'the demand:.for•'
double -sheet eiote •"paper,, whereas
•a single sheet or a 'Card was suf-
ficient, -for holographic. cone-auri,
cations,' a year ago:
'The• •latter , vogue, ,'the ,paper,
Says; v;i11 be received;With joy. by
. those, persons 'who have."prattled
about the lost art of letter writ-
ing,".. but, it. dilates _more extens-
ively on the revival of the diary:
DIARIES WITH LOCKS
.this
"One interesting feature
season is the request for diaries
:with. locks. More hooks . of •this
,,private nature ' have'been sold thane.
ever• before, owing•• to' the• number., '
of• people .new engaged.• on' *elk
of -a confidential :nature. •
•
" *hire th'e pocket diary will ale.
:'ways.'be popular and required for.
• the short note of 'appointments, .t •
is the ,larger• siies that are. being...
. bought in bigger numbers. . .
"An itnpol•tant entry for , the
housewife already' appears inmost
'• diarles: on Jan, 8: 'O•ffic'iel' ra-
tioning of- butter, bacon and ham,'
due to. beteir ' "
"Flowing Gold" Vitali to Germany's War Machine
•• A view of a railway yard beside one of the• many : oil refineries in
Rumania is..seen above.• The oil is piped down, to the large tanks from •
the wells• in .the Bills (backgreupd )' . andle refined andher ale pumy. ped it tot.hee
tank cars on the siding:. Rumania has or ta
preparations ,speeded up, fallowing,.auth.oritatide reports that Germany.
the •gowernn1etlt's. bars on export of aviation gasoline
,Rumania: and Asia. Minor. • 1 was challenging
To prea or• read --'.1 e Reich.
According to the Ciano family
newspaper, Italian: higher-ups be-
lieve that Allied military. inaction
' on the Western Front-, ie all to; '
the advantage of : •G'ermany —
spread of the c'bnflict would help
• the Allies. Therefore, this •'news-
paper theorizes, ' the Allies are
seeking, a• struggle with, German
forces in Scandinavia or the, Near
• East:
• Possibility of 'a general Europ-
ean conflict •spreading'to include
Scandinavian nevertheless became
more remote •las't week when Nor=
way and Sweden definitely ruled-,
out expeditionary aid ';r the',Finns'
. in 'their death strugg,c'. with the.
Russians . Whey chose to
inainneutral at ,all costs .. • the•
eternal • oil triangle between- Ru-
mania, the. Allies and .Getxnany re-
niained .unsolved last' week .
e. Rumania ordered military, prepar-
• edness boosted to the utmost .. ,•.'
•Russia reported' the Turkish army
fully • mobilized • . • the. week's
Shipping losses • at sea 'were the
heaviest AO date .of the war'; the
'Germans claimed 496 'Allied and
neutral vessels sunk in the ,• past
five • months . . . German war-
planes raided Britain's east coast
. •the crews of the Exeter, and
Ajax {who .crippled the,Graf
'Spee•)' were feted and, decrated
in London •-. Allied warships off
the eoa t'near Murmansk, Russia,
sank" tvo 'German:: vessels • • ' •
Speeches by Chamberlain and Hit-
ler pie�9eented the two nations' con-
trasting war aims . '.. Great Bri-
tain advanced a loan to' Iran.. . '
Mystery ' Mission
• An important development'
'ing the week was •the • visit Of •
• Sumner Welles, U. .S. Under -See-
retary..of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, to Mussolini, Hitler, Chant- '
berlain, Daladier.4 His journeys
were fraught with mystery. Was
. he in Europe on +a peace- aniesion? ,
• Whom would .he meet. and talk '
with in Switzerland? ;What was in •
the personal messages from• Presi= ;
dent Roosevelt• that could have .a
bearing• on the immediate• future
of Europe? . •.
Economic War
Declaring that modern war
longer afight' merely'between
armies, but in reality a struggle
between :ntaeufataut•ers and shop-
keepers on both sides, in which ex-
ports were "the new British. ex-
' peditionary force," 'R.. S. Hudson,
British Secretary for ,'Overseas
Specify Ideal
Ocean Airliner
Dream Ship of Airways Company .�
Will Do 5,000 Miles Nafestop,
With• 50 .Passengers, 5;000' Pay
Pouhds
Pan-American Airtenys; seeking•
an ideal plane for over -ocean op-
• erations the year 'round, across
the. North .. Atlantic, : announces.
''these specifieations: •
General: 5,000 , miles' non-stop
with 50 passengers anti 5,000 pag
pounds. . .
Speed' 300. miles• an hour at the
"practical" cruising • altitude of
15,000 feet, 337 miles an hour at
the "necessary .storm ceiling" of
25,200 fecte-•all against head= .
winds up to 50 miles an hear: •
Range: Measured on • the '3,600-
'
,600-' mile great circle distance between
llmerich and/Europe, and allowing
for detour and reserYC fuel; "it,
must be 5,000 miles. •
A LAND PLANE'? • •-
'Altitude: With three-quarters•
of the oc'ean's nasty weather ,be-
low 15,000'feet, ,,the 'ideal ship
must range' above that and .up to
••25,000 feet. Cabins would- be
•supercharged for 9;000 feet, the
maximum altitude determined ,by
the Harvard Fatigue •Laboratory
for .humans wishing to 'avoid ill
effects. from; lack of oxygen.
Judging by the • industry's air'
parent requirement of a round •
fuselage to 'seal a cabin for super-•
charging, and also by what seems
today to be a high speed require-
''nint for commercial operation this
drelini sleie will .be a land plate.
Bounced ,200' Feet
Bounce, ,a small, black 'spaniel. •
•dog, of 'Niagara Falls, N.Y., has
dived up to his. name, shaking o,
Off,
without apparent injury, a
foot fall to the ice -packed gorge'
me= icanfalls near the
'Trade, last, week prepared the 'Bri-
tish 'public; forfurther, sacrifices
in the new drive' for. world mark= '
ets ... "Frankly," he sad, "there
will:have to he 'further restrictions-•
In' many cases they .are, bound, to
'be drastic . "
Puck Chasers
• TOPICS OF THE CURRENT•
HOCKEY SEASON
OFFICIAL FINAL. STANDING
St. Catherines finished the Ont-
ario Sehipr 'A" schedule, this year
with two wins' over Port Colborne.;
defeating the Sailors 4-2 in Port
Colborne on •Monday,' February 19,
and :repeating theirsuccess with a
• 2,-1 decision over the Sailors in .St.
Catherine* on "Wednesday,• Feb• 21.
•Toienatto Goodyear* 'defeated Var-
• sity.. 4-0: in their all -Toronto chal-
lenge game for the Dr. •R: G. Jack-
son Trophy. The game was played
id aid of the• Finnish'. Fund; and it
drew 11,115 fans, the largest crowd
to witness an amateur game in the
Maple Leaf Gardens this season.
Official final.standieg follows:
• • P, L Pts,
_.
Goodyears `, • • 29 25 4 60.
St.. Catherine* . • 29 21 8 42
Port Colborne ` • • 29 1.9 -10 38
Hamilton ,• 30 14 16 28
Niagara. Falls' ' •27 6 21 12
Galt' '26 , 0. 26 0
ARRANGE ,FOR PLAY-OFFS
As soon as the .semi-final series is
.concluded in both brackets,the fin-
al round between the tivo. winning
teams••, will get under way. The .;
team with the best rating. ,in the .
final standing has :the choice . of
dates and of course" the advantage
of 4he extr'a Heine, game:
...s..
ing from the. some on'fs'�w
Earl L. Whitford, for eight days,
was rescued when sightseers caw%
hies frisking ori the ice..
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MICKIE SAYS-- . • 1
ROSES Aits REt',
VIOLETS ARE U ►.
M40 SO ARE I
v)14Ei.1 YOU 'POW RENEWL
HOPE IT'S COMMON.
• And next year papadacomes to•
its census. — Brandon Sun.
• FELLOW FEELING
Any Canadian family riving over
a bowling alley would be able '..to
sympathize with some of the smal-<
ler neutral countries in Europe;ing beside a• battlefield that may
expand at any moment, - Edinon-
'ton Janina?.
• ,ONTARIO POTATOES
• .There is one thing Ontario can,
not _boast:adroit, and, that, is " the
yield of.potatoes. This Province haa
the smallest out -turn' per '_acre of
any Province, in Canada. Surely,
it can't be the'soil. Farmer's Ad=
rotate. •
• IN BETWEEN .ELECTIONS •
Most of us show a certain mild
interest in •public affairs• about el-
ection time and at other times we .
remain indifferent,• even though we
know our ind,iferenee'is costingus
money. Thele are • so, inany things,
,to think about besides taxes, and
• most of the other' things are More
- pleasant. — Vanegtiver Province. •
' KEYS `IN CARS
The purpose of,'requiring drivers
, to reinoi'e their.keYs from the 'gni
• tion is not tq ' protect the 'property
- fete& tie
trowel or • rake- are 'all the tools
necessary. Other • equipment',. con-
sists of • a • few peeleets of. seeds;
', perhaps a . shrub oe tWo. As our •
interest develops we can add more'
plants and flowers., e Rules . are .
•simple' to mater, the ordinary,
Canadian seedt: catalogue, , sup'ply-
'ing 5'11, the- essential' data. : As :We•
become more ekperienced we +eats
add to. our :garden Library any of •
the many excellent government
'garden bulletins that are available
in .any province of Canada.
Gu•rdening'..
DOOR GARDENS.
In the •garden at ' the kitchen
door it is advisable of course to
keep a plentiful s\upply of salad
materials like head and leaf let-
tuce, onions •and possibly' celery.
,The latter is set out in the gal d-
en as . well started usually • after
all danger •of frost is over.
Turning g Watch
Hands . Backward
is Not' Harmful To Your Timepiece
' Unless It Has Complicated
Attachments
Some ' books and •articles' state
flatly 'that, any', watch' may be set
back as readily .and harmlessly• as
it 'May be set forward. While. this
. is quite true „of a great many
-watches, there are exception's to
• the rule.
For instance,' watches with com-
plicated attachment. • (such, • as .
striking, chiming, alarm, or citron
• ograph attachments) should' not
• .be,. set back. Such • itches, of
• course,,are 'quite rare, and the Av-
erage. roan-on=the-street would'
'need -no cautioning about 'turning
the hands of his watch backward -'
if •a• certain number of ever -
watche:5, were not hrciuded 'in t
ban.
WATCH SECOND-HAND •
• An • easy w•ay• to tell if ',yowl
watch is on the, "should. not" list.
isle look at the second hand .when
you set the watch back. If the sec -
and hand hesitates, estops, or (in
extreme cases) imoves back, yours •
is a 'watch the hands of which
should 'Rot be. turned in a vaunt:-
er-clockycise .direction.
"Sitzkrieg" War
public from the use of stolen cars
in other 'forms'of crime, and to re--
move, temptation ,Prism yet:nesters.
who •may graduate from the: steal-
ing of ears to moreserious offens-.
-es. •-- Toronto Telegra'hrl,.
Finland Uses
• Two Tongues
Little Swedish Is's'poken But Bi-
lingual Signs Are C.omme.n
Despite the fact that less than 10
per ceee. of Finland's 3,800,000'peo-
ple speak' Swedish, the traveler in
Suomi _- 4nternationally known as
Finland• ---finds his way poiated out.
to him by bilingual signs. If he has
mail from the capital waiting for
him in Tui•ku it will bear a post-
mark with "Helsinki" at the, top
and the Swedish "Helsingforl," at
the' bottom. And his',outgoing t-
ters will bear • •'bot4 the Finnish
';Turku" •and the Swedish "Abe."
BOTH NAMES ON STAMPS
Evep. in:Lapland, Bilingual signs.
Persist on post offices and stores.
.Swedish and Danislf are. spoken in'
the Diet - parliament -- at Helsh-
Stamps of the: compiler .•bear • the,
legend '.'.Suoini"•'at the top ane Fite
land at the bottom. Maps show cit
ies designate'd,eas both Viipuri, and
Viborg, ;,Pori and • Bjoineborg; Hans'-
eenlinna'and Tavastehus, the latter
alternatives beileg: Swedish. l3ut• in
the north place;naines are marked.
in Finnish only Utseeki,'hautsi,
Virtaniemi. .
•
Hydro's 1.3,000'
New ' Customers
Wert Added During Past Year
Through , Development, of.
.Northern Mining
Industry
•
.Development . ;of the...northern
• •, • .ustr' Was res,pens•iblefor
an increase of 16 percent. in .e
prinfarye load of•the Northern Ont-'
:• ario. Hydro -Electric Power Cornelis- .
'*ion, Premier Hepburn reported .hi
his •budget ,;pee.lt in the Legislyat
ure.
Dutieg'. the ••fiscal ` year ' to •end
March 31st, niore than 13,000 cu*
tomer* •were' added 'to existing die- .
• . tricts, : neces.sitating •construction.
df 2,300 miles, of primary, lines: See- '
cial,atteritiou was also given to the
serving .of new rural 'territory. in •
• Northern ,Orita rio. , • •
•
• • 113,000 ALTOGETHER.,
The Premier. said "the eomntis-
sion''s • 13,000. miles of rural lines --
serve abou.t.113,000 custom•eese.more
than half Of' Which •represent ser-
vice to' individual- fetus.,
i'oi• the coining year 'it was esti-
mated '1,3110' miles .of primary line
will be constructed at au expendi
ture of "about' $4,500,000• Of this
',amount, the pe evince will contribute
52;250,000.. Jn addition 'to the grant-
in-aid, ,the ,province • has advanced
-*to the H.e•dro Conienisslon $:l20,J00
• to''enable it to make loans to farm-
ers for wiring premises and obtain-
ing electrical equ.ipment.••
., 'One war for home gardeners to
5
make sure that enough:vegetables
'are grown to . meet the family's
• needs. is to write : or ' sketch plans
for .the garden in ,advanc,'o of
plan ing. ,
•
T'ARIO
iru 00S
EY VIC BAKER
•.LUTHER.`t,SWAMP
' The:rivers. 'of Southern Ontario
are :reported. to be ,hying up° par- ..
tially ' because• the Luther. Swamp
;area - the natural e se weir ofefee
number of i•ivei•s in,. Southwestern,
Ontario — has been .drained, Tile -
Ontario Federation et. Angler•.s •is'vi-'
tally .interested in. this- Pr'ojeot end
a committee' under the .leadership
of a well .known •eeuservation auth-
ority, Dr, Norman K.' Dottglas, re-, •
Gently: inspected•, the'meesli and the .
dr•airiage ditches to see the possible•
effect on the wildlife of that part
-of, Ontario. The following is culled
frt m their report..
About .•a generation ago tnis
swamp was drained:lace the Grand
River for farm lands .but the land,
being a peat beg,'ha.s proven unsat-
isfactory fol• agriculture. Here Na
tures laws and: schemea for flbotl;
control were interfered with. be, ,
cause the swamp in its natural
state was almosta. complete'barrier
against ,floods. it actually held wat-
•
er for deep se:epa•ge rather than let
it go es flood water on a Wild earn-
, page down the Grand River in the•
spring' of ..the year, with its conse-
quent devastation to agriculture,
industry ;and game avis fish life.
The deep seepage water •esrerged
"nio:•e- slowly and 'more • era -el -tidy
Into' the springs to make. cool, even •
flowing streams* the year round -aid
to.•maintain: a hig::er underg:•ound
w • rtable. •
WANT AREA' REFORESTED •
• The Gilled River Conservation
Commission, composed largel? .of
representatives firom the muui,;ipal-
ities throughout the Grand River •
Valley; has recently been organized
to develop sciuie scheme to prevent
the damaging floods of spring; with,'
lie' consequent water shortage in
the summer. and fall. Their reco�n
niendation 'was' to have two dam's
built, one below Fergus and ,another
•at the main outlet of the swamp to ,
restore the marsli to its natural
state. The Fergus dam is already
under construction• while the prove
incial government bas proteised to
-buil* the upper dam next s, Miner.
• The Ontario .Federation of Aug-.
leas, hare' also ,recommended goat
the Provincial Government" have
this area rewee•stee where feasible,
and,set apart • as a. wild. life' sanct-
•
nary and Provihcial Park,
SIMPLE,HOT BEDS
A . hot bed for starting' garden
'Seeds early is usually prepared in
early March• ' It consists of a bed
of, fresh. manure,. which supplies
the heat, 'about 18 inches deep.
On. this,,rtwo or three inches of
'fine soil is placed and after the -
.
bed has heated up and then cooled
down again (a lnatter. of three or
'four days) the seed is sown 'i'n
rows a few inches apart. The bed
is protected by, rough 'boarding
along tine side and on top, and slop-
ing towards the South about 10 ,
to 18 inches above the bed is p1acs
ed a window• sash well glassed.
Gardening is a universal hobby
or recreation open to both. sexes,
to the old or young• • A 'spade or
The Royal Air. Force last week
was poking fun at Germany's fail-
ure to wage a Blitzkrieg --,-light-
ning war—against Britain.
In a'meinorandum painting out
that the Allies had- obtained -time
to carry 'out their air development
program, the R. ,A. F.,, referred to
the...wai: as a "Sitzkrieg", . which
is translated as , "sit-down ever."
G'LAR FELLERS—Stand-Up Strike
•
•
DON'T THINK
Z R EVER WANT r
TO BE A SAILOR,
i
i'D WANNA SIT
DOWN SOMETIMES!
i
' :Wealth in
Our Peat Mos
B. C. Diggers Look For Big Year as
German Supply Cut Off
•
There's a million dollars waiting
to be dug up from the rich 4oil of
the -Fraser River delta — but don't
• grab ''ou'r shovel . and start off •ori
a prospecting expedition, • warns
Stuart Underhill, Canadian Press
•
staff writel•.•
Only .establisiaed companies are
expected to ejoY .the current :de-
mand fol= North American peat I,ro-
uets brought about by •the fact taste-
-
om• the c•iiitsd States' main sources' of •'
:supply in Europe have been cut off
- by the war. ;
U.S. fMPUR'TS MUCH
American peat imports iii 1935 elk= "
seeded ,$1;.00.0,000 .in value, about 50
per cent. of which dame from GO
-
..many. Now British J(,olumbia. peat'
•:companies are expanding pro'd-ue-
tion in hopes .of cornering tali, rich •-
inarket.
Peet moss is ''greatly' in dere-ad :
ea United' States, iagriciiitu•e as. a.
soil conditioner, :poultry hitter and
as eapacking for : plants ' and vege-
tables.
• BIG DEPOSITS L:: CANADA
Before it is.,p;rocessed, peat' .is •
sodden and' the extraction of .this
Moisture' provtdesthe biggest prob-
lem for producers. • Digging takes
place-in.late winter 'and' a ' wet
, spring and summe. is .just one. of
•
the hazards of the beisiness,
British 'Columbia probably Iias -•
gone farther' than any other isrov-
ince toward development of its peat "
moss industry.• There are'laege de-
•
posits- on the prairies and in the •
Maritime • Pr0' 1nces, but as
tlo headway has bepn'm.s,de lit their
development.: '
•
Add My
Praise to
Your
Grand
Tattin
ee 'Hive $y.rUPF
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
•Ry Fred Nehe11+
q, -i •4.
•
"Stay where you are, dear 111 push the garage over you! !"
'By GENE•BYRNES
sy,
NOW WHAT KIND
'\
OF A SCREWY IDEA
OF SAILORS RAVE:.
'YOU cOT THAT THEY
DOPI.T EVER SIT
DOWN! WAS YOU •
EVER ON A
SHIP
AAT
•DOPE
1DON'T NEED YO.
GO ON A SHIP /THE
PiTCHER,S IN MY
i{ISTRY wok i8
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