The Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-03-14, Page 9Seaway Scheme
To Cost Canada
$45f000,000
pr__Hogg, Chairman of Ontario Hy-
dro, Figures Exp.eniee'On
St. Lawrence, Waterwiay
' Canada and the , United States
are in substantial: agreement 6n,
the: development or the St. Law-
enco waterway and th :Way to
signing of a new treaty. is open,
declared T. H. Hogg; chairman of
the •pntario'.Hydro El'eetric Powe
Commission, .when he addressed
-.delegates.* the annual conven.tien
'of the :Ontario •Municipal ElectricAssociation. -and,. the'Association • '
of Municipal Electrical Ufilitie.
Electrical: engineers partfrem 'ev.ery •
of the 'pr•oviince were present
and heard Mr. •Hogg's review c.d.
,the •prospects', before ,the -electrical
indust.ysf,or th coming ming _year.
U. S. TO SHARk. COSTS.
•He said that assuming that .the
division •of costs under •:the neW
• agreement would.not be' .materially
• different, from that in, the old
•' treaty which' failed to receive rati'
fieatron in the United. States Sen-
• lite, a total cost .of $45,000,000
may be taken to' •represent; Can-
ada's''odt-of=poe.ket expenses under
the new agreement.'He. said "t"hat
in 'event of a new agreement -now •
the work in Quebec need not, he
.,undertaken until after the end of
the. war' ' '
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This Welcome's.
Enthusiastic
As the seventh month of the .war
between Germany and the ;Allies
got under way, the long-awaited,
spring offensive, was still , in the
offing . but events were speed=
lag pp, and -the linos . oY , conflict•
tautening . °:', . German .troops were
reported massing along the Swig
border, men poured into' the'Weat•'
*all.. •., the B.el'gian-German, the,
Dutch4Gerinanfrontiei'a•w.ere order-
ed' closed , . increased .patrol act-:
ivity stepped up 'Allied. •vigilance
on 'the. Western Front.. . . mass,
flights of German Blanes 'took place
'over all . parts, hof Francd•.. incl
when•`Sunhner Welles, U S. Under-
secretary of State,'calling on Bitter
at
id. Ribbentrop in,Berlin, he,
sva:s 'told . (�wty� heard -'semiofeicr 1 Y.)
that the German army was already
pbised far .a decisive blow "that
will put :in the shade. all previous
ideas;: of inilitary penetration •and
power."
W.HENCE'THE SLOW
L$1i&Is„ 'i.w.i,,,y gess ati en-
thusiastic welcome as he arrives
home' in London on, leave from the
• western front. . • •
Discover Noise
Helps, Digestion
Whether the blow would come in
'the form of .crushing military ac-
tion (in the West, in. Scandinavia
or the Near GEast) ; of : bombing
raidson civilian centres; or an un-
restricted air and submarine .cam-
paigu against Allied shipping, vie
were .still in ignorance at week's
`end,.•.. '' '
The fate of Finland .continued to
°' be in doubt '.. ; it was reliably re-
,ported that 'Russia •had submitted
definite terms for ending the under
Blared war.... Chicago, News cor- -,
respondent, E, 'Mow r•.er, cabled that
heavy German "pressure en Fin-
land had blocked Allied plans to
send an expedition via Norway ' .
' Germany,, he reported, threatened,.
to assjst Russia in corigUering
Finland, . should the Finns make
formal .application :to Britain and
France for the dispatch of • troops:
If'• a loud enough noise is made
• while it is taking milk, a' baby
will digest it more easily, it was
reported• at the American I Dairy
Science Association.
Dr. Chambers,the discoverer,
has made many experiments in
altering the curd -forming charac-
ter of milk, using an electrical ap-
-. paratus consisting of a heavy steel
' diaphragm driver! by in oscillat-
• ing -electric. current. Over the dia-
phragm' he flowed a thin stream
of Mille while he made it vibrate
very strongly at different' rates,
the Jowett ,being of 3600 cycles a
second,' the highest of 3000 cycles
a second. '
'The effect was that milk which
'normally formed a hard curd, .dif-,
ficult' to digest, after treatment
formed the soft .and easily digest --
ed curd which is necessary for Ira,
bies and people with weak stom-
achs • •
Eastnra Snowbirds Entrain For Western Skiing
Montreal pinned"- its Ski hopes on' this representative .`group 'of
>Ea stein Snowbirds, shown 'above in Windsor . Station. just .before en -,
ie °
training, for •Banff, .Alberta, • where they .succtessfully comPeted•rn
D'oininien.'Ski Chairrpioriships. They, were joined en route.by.:a:gro.p .
Ff
Toronto participants.
The above group includes: (L to R) Lorna Meagher, Jimmy'
Houghton, • Dorothy Michaels, Punch ' Bott, . Madeleine St. Amour,
Frank Reiffenstein, Alex:.. Casgrain,. Walter Houghton..
Miss Dorothy Michaels was crowned queen of. the Senior Ladies'
division while •"Punch" B'ott finished • second in "combined" result's, ••
and, third in men's open downhill. C.p.R. Photo.
WHITHER ITALY?
►A showdown on German coal ex-
:ports .to'Italy came during the week
with.what future results, it remain- '•'
`ed S. matter for conjectin•e ... the •
most serious, of course..wnuld. be
Abe antagonizing •of. Mussolini• to
the •extent that 'he might enter the
war' on 'the 'side 'of Germany .••.
virginio Gayda, 'frequentlY the
Duce's mouthpiece, said in an in,
terview that Italy would' enter the
war if it spread to the Balkans.
•.1)tiring "the ' same week, France
began rationing oil, alcohol, and
certain 'foodstuffs ... Japanese dips
lomacy made gestures showing wil-
••lingnese to. come to an understand-
ing with Britain •and France .. • •
rumors'of an early drake -up in th''e
•
'British •Cabinet gained credence . .
..Norway •• protested to Germany
the sinking of 50 merchant vessels
.since the war •began .:.,Pope ,Pius
made -a new: plea for peace . the
British, steamer Domala was bomb- •
ed by a'German Heinkel flying over
the Channel , ', . a ,shipment 'of oil
from Russia . to Germany: passed
through .Bulgaria .. the , Finns
withdrew to new' defensive .posi-
tions . Russia 'prepared. to sign'
a non -aggression pact with Ruritan-
is ... the "Queen Elizabeth •iiiad'e
a 'suprise crossing of the Atlantic.
Buck Deer Trees
Three At Sawmill
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WORTH. POLITICALLY .149
Chemically a man's body is worth.
90 cents. • Politically it is rated at
14 cents, seven' cents for each of
the 'enumerators. Kitchener. Re
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cord'.... •
• .WASTED SCHOOL -DAYS
Nowadays, we wish we bad spent.'
riiore time learning geography and
less • throwing wads • around the
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school-r•oom. Q•uebpc Chronicle
TeegraPh. •' •• •
In Ontario, movie -going residents
'woke up to the fact that they. would;
have to travel down to' Quebec pro-
vince, or out to Manitoba to see the
"March of Time" film on Canada's -
war .effort. `.
A big . buck deer, an' ornery
cuss, "treed" • Chad Swick and' his
two boys ' in a boiler house for
twenty minutes, .near Port Rowan;
Ont., last week. -
Chad Swick' and his sons .were
walking near ,:the ancient Backus
saw mill in •South Walsinghatn
When they saw the "gentlest . of
beasts" ambling down a hill. Their •
dog ran at the animal, yapping;
but tame back yelping when the
deer turned on it.
'MSheo, get out of here!" yelled
the 'two boys. I30t the deer look;
ed at them red -eyed, pawed
he
*now; and charged. The boys ,ran
and clambered to the ,roof of the
:�.11 w.ts 5twic
got inside,
The rnanhuntiee dtaye tresis
for a while, and finally_ trotted
off.
Exhibition Will
Einpbasize' Music
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'T..HE ONLY INDEPENDENT,:
' The farmer is the•only •independ-
erit•• worker in Canada •.today. ' He'
mayof have a great deal of cash '
'to shbpv for his Taber,: bust he does .
not, have to call any man his boss,
nor go through, his. days with an in-
' fei-ionty ' complex " — . Bowmanyiile
Canadian. Statesman. .
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• 'WHAT PEOPLE WANT
• Possibly some ,lay, our politicians'
will discover that what 'the people
are 'longing for in public men who
will keep "closely in toueh'lw;ith pub-
1ic'feeling and .public. interests —
not • nerely'public as centres about
party questions, butpublic feeling
towards matters`, that have no ref-
erence to party politics whatever.
— Guelph Mercury. „
--.DOGS AND SHEEP
There are several obvious rea
sons why sheep -raising has, not so
great an appeal for the• Canadian
farmer as the raising of swine. One
reason wait stressed recently by' the
department .et agriculture. 'It is the •
menace of the'prowling dog. •
Many sheep breeders in Canada
,are of the opinion•that.it is practic-
ally impossible to raise. sheep prof-'
itably on account of the large num- .
ber of dogs •which are allowed to
run at large. . - '
• As 'a result of the "menace !rem
dogs there has been a reduction of •
75 per cent: in the nuuibe.r of sheep
raised in one district in which the
sheep are regarded as the Best pay-
• ing class of livestock:
,C. N. •E. •this Year Will
Award The Sum of $1,500 In
Cash In Vocal, 'Violin and
Piano Competitions • :
Cultural and 'educational 'phases
o$ the Canadian National Exhibi-
tion Will be given further empha
si'. this year especially in the music
competitions, The. Exhibition pian -
agement has decided to award, the
Sum of $1,500 In cash in, vocal, vio-;
lin and piano classes. ,
' $500 EACH
In each. of the aforementioned
classes the sum of $500 will be
awarded" to the ,most outstanding
contestant, The tuition for thole'
scholarships may be secured froM
any accredited teacher approved
by the Canadian National Exhibi-
tion.. Competitors for, the scholar-
ships shall :be selected in the
course of the ordinary competitions'
and the tests' 'for the respective
$500 awards will 'bo conducted at
' the'conciusidn of the regular class -
ds: Special outside ° adjudicators
will .be engaged for • the' scholar -
hips. Of the total of each of the
-)500 awards the Canadian National
Exhibition may allocate an amount
not exceeding $150 for living and,
other expense's w`lrile securing -the.
tuition provided far the winners.
Gold ,medallists of former years
in voice, violin and piano at the i>;x-
tiibition will be eligible to .compote
for the scholarships, but they must
NTARIO'
!MOONS
BY VIC BAKER..
l 1 R. Revenues
Up 36 Per Cent-.
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The grossrevenues o.•,•the all-
inclusive Oanadian ,Nationa) Ra l -
ways ystem fo`r the 8 -day period, `=.
ending February 29, -
i940, were $4,854,995 -
as compared with= 3,547,823
for the earr'esponding
period of 1939, ap in-
crease of 1,307,672
or •36.9%
Tractor Trains,
Planes Serve
Gold Fields. ti
CRACK RIFLEMEN
Only a spiell number 'of :expert.
rifle' Shooters, in Canada• have. eti`er
' accomplished the • feat of scoring
the, required number 'of points to
'attain the ' coveted Dominion:
' 1\?larksme•n Expert Shield '-Award, '
but Ontario can boast having '23 •'
crack .riflemen who; have' captor-.
ed this prized award . in' the last -
yecr.• " •
lt requires outstanding marks-
•..manship to ,po'st'a,.score " better
than 5860 points' out ..of a pos.: .
• sible6000 in this ..competition in
which each 'marksman. must shoct
.20 targets from each of •the .stand- '
ing;• sitting and, prone positions.
To gain , the, expert shield the
shooter must shoat 'twenty ,pus-
• sibles,, that is a 'perfect score, 'in
the prone position, and •twen•y•
`'98's or better in the kneeling. or
'sitting • Position,, and '•tiventy 9.5's
. or better in t ee:stgiiding .offhand
stance. This is no easy 'job under
the best of circumstances, yet 'all. ,
23 Ontario marksmen shot above
• 5900 in the competition, and the
highest :scorer only dropped .53 '
. points to' end with •5947 out of a
Possible 6000.
The honour Qf .the highest in-
diviilual ecor e • went to the well-,
known Ontario rifleman, E'llwQod
Epps , of the Clinton Rifle 'Club '.
of Clinton while the largest num
ber of expert. awards was wort ' by '•
.shooters from Toronto.. '
- The Only Woman
lThe , only, woman among the 23.
expert winners .was Miss M. t S. •
Aldham of the Ormond .Marksmen
Club of. Ormond.. She not only
placed fourth in scoring among'
the men but is the only woman in
the provine-a of Ontario to have
captured this coveted prize which
means so much to the outstand-
ing shooter.
..Wthdsor and Port Hope had.*
next largest ,representation' .among'
the group of experts, each of them
claiming three winners..
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Drury Asks Right-
. To • `Shoo' Hunters
A ' private property owner
should be given complete jurisdic-
tion over his property so far as
' wild life and 'fish are concerned. '
So E. C. Drury, former Ontario
premier, told the Ontario Anglers'
Association convention in Toronto
recently. I.
Under the 'present' system, he
said; • a property, owner could
"shoo any ordinary person off Or
sue him for 'trespassing. But,"
he added, "if the 'trespasser' car-
ried a gun' or fishing rod he could
• say 'go chaae . yourself' 'if •told
there were i.o placards up --and
you couldn't do a' thing aliebt if."
'New.Gol9-Mining Area North
of Transcontinental • Railway
Gets Freight by Modern `
Methods a..' •
:This winter. is roving to' -be a
bumper: season for the freighting •
business in Canada's new gold -min -
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31 Nations.. Plan e" -
Showing -,.At Fair •
Thirty-one' nations,. including
Finland, have accepted President
Roosevelt's ,invitation to partici •
-
pate iti •the 1940 Neve York.World's•
Fair, Grover Whalen, President of
the Fair, . has announced. Last •
year there were 61'. -
' An 'acceptance also has been
received from the Czechoslovakian
Minister in. Washington.
.Participation of Turkey, Lithu-
.aria, Siani, and the French Man-
date, 'Lebanon, is• doubtful, he ,
said. Argentinia, Albania, Chile',.
Denmark, the Netherlands, Rus-
sia, and • Jugosinaia have ,wit;l- ,
draicn. •
ing area, north of the trans-eoatla..
ental railway line, says the .Chris-
tlan ,Science Monitor.
Aerialtransport operators report •
one ,of their, hest years, and now
tractor trains. are running across
the frozed lakes, freighting theme
ands of tons• of mining machinery
io properties which have proven to
iiiIvorthrof cievelonmZzrt "`"'--
,ldudson, Sioux I.crokout, and Ken:
ora on the' railway line 'in northern
Ontario arethe starting points of
the air and tractor .freight trains.
MACHINERY FLOWN IN '
Here the heavy machinery and
hundreds of tons of other supplies •
needed at mining camps'are'unroad-
ed'trom the freight cars tinter heavy
sleds, ,and powerful, tractors .hitch
the :sleds together. into strings of
three or more, Hien tie on in front,
and
and •start their run of several hun-
dred miles _over frozen lake, and'
s'nowcovered bushfan6.
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." ;Airplanes, are :=:°tjYing;.in•eon-
siderabl:e 'freight; mail and express,
as well a s,pas`seugers;,to the carting
which remain in"'ops ation ail win-
• ter Northern Canada , seeing; :a.'
.busy, winter, ''3vith,
the' transport
Port
companies busiest of all.
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HOCKEY
CRESTS
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I MAPLE LEAFS • CANADIENS
, RANGERS• BRUINS• AMERICANS
BLACK HAWKS • RED WINGS
7 N,H.L. aresta like the 7
• big-tinie..hockey teanie .
war—they'dur$ble—
the eolors,arere feat! They
'� look sa•jaor
sweater.psart Xou'oncan own.*ket as
many as you like abs.
lutely free. Here s.aU you
do: -send one Bee, Hive
Syrup label along with one.
;Durham.,or Ivory, Starch'
la ,elf or each crept desired
,—spcify bredt. or' Cr ate
wanted, your name and
address, - ' enclose nee` ea) nary'
labels . . "mailto the
'.address .on•, the labels. ' PS16.
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BEE 1� ,I�V E 5
t an Acciileut
but an Achievement
The REALITY' of Canada's unity in this day of great national effort is a, source or dis-
ma}' to our enemy
-- and a factor of strength to ourselves and to' our Allies..'.. What'.
Canadians• should realize most fully is that their national unity does not'eS•ist through
accident • ; . It Is the direct consequence of. resourceful, determined, and painstaking
administration during recent years by 'an experienced and .nationally -minded federal
government ... During the past five years the peacetime policies -of the. Mackenzie
'King Government with respect to both domestic and external affairs have been
designed and. executed: with one ,main purpose in view -7- strengthening of:Can
iida's bonds of nationhood .... Because those' policies were sound; because thn-
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-creased the measure of contentment throughout Canada; . became . they avoided
clashes betweenl?rovinces and racess and creeds';' because the were •equal1j• considerate
of agriculture, industry and labour . , .. a
,because those policies.. ,have ' been truly
national in scope, Canada is today putting forth a great, united, national war effort.
•'These -.are the:sort .of things .which ha V•e P'arrliariient's.Right: to Decide on, War —•
contribilf to unifying: our nation:- `. • :Mackenzie King 'promised. the people of
'A Program. of -Trade Treaties — lowering • all Canada -that the Eountry would not be
Canada's tariff barriers and 'opening •new'• comlriitted°to war without 'the sanction ..Of
Market ,opportunities for citizens of every parliament He held to That .pledge
province . , . achieved by,the Liberal; ad- Honorably and steadfas.tly,: in spite of the
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• .ministration in spite .of the opposition of : personal abuse Which ,was heaped upon
Conservatives, and :the indiffere-ice .of hint and'his government by hot -heads who,
C. C. F. and Social •Credit. 4I ' did not represent the 'collective views of •
Developmentof the, Trans -Canada Air- . Canadian people. ,/• •
.ways bringing ,the people of East• and No Prior Commitments the •King 'Gov -
West into over -night contact .., • created ernment— wisely interpreting the wishes
by the Mackenzie' King Government from • of the Canadian people-- refused to co.m-
the. ashes of the 'first .airway attempt •nlit this 'country, in advance,., to a poli y
sabotaged'by the Conservatives. • "of fighting wars at'unpredictable times, t
• Support'for the Canadian National Rail- unknown • .places •and fbr, undetermined •
ways System --= Liberals have been stead- causes. • • '
fast in' standing behind .this great. national The Quebec Election — i 'hen certain
enterprise of . tile Canadian . people ... political opportunists in the province .of
while. Conservatives have Worked assidu-' Quebec, attempted to disrupt Canadian un-
ously for'destruction. of, the system: ity and seriously halt our national war ef-
A -National Agricultural' Policy —*a new fort the men Of the Mackenzie _King Gov-
• conception. of, federal .encouragement, for ernment were the ones who went in' situ
•the farm families of every pt ovines: fought to, preserve national solidarity .
Publicly' Owned Central Bank—the Bank
...Of Canada, foal point of our: natioflal fin- IThe Conservative, national leader. remain-
;ancia1 ..problems, . was. changed t,o publi' ed silent during this. crisis. .7 -when hi.
ownership by the Mackenzie King Gou.erll- voice should have rung out "on behalf• of•.
ment ... reversing the Conservative poi- national unity .. , Because the courageous
icy of a central, bank owned by private actib.ri of Mackenzie King and his Quebec
stockhol�ters: ministers helped the. electors, to keep the
Co-operative Action on -.Unemployment only true issue clearly. in grind, Quebec
.Problem — the Mackenzie is ltg`fS,ov'ern-•- was able 'to reaffirm her 'proud position•
ment has co-operated ' willingly and con, • • • • squarely and loyally and w•arml}
'tinuously with the provincial govern.: .--liefind Canada's'national war. effort. • ,
mems in efforts .to overcome the .unem- On March'26th show your faitk in Canad-
ploymmnt problem . .. the Conserv'ativ'e ian Unity; Vote for the candidate support-
poaicy of'denying all federal responsibility Isig Mackenzie King and make sure there
this matter was rejected by the l,i1 er- can be, no break iii' -Canada's Steadfast
als,' staind.
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FORWARD,WITH
HCKENZIE ,KING
National
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