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Coffee Doesn't'
Harm Tissues -
Any Changes Caffeine Makes
. In' Human Body Are Merely
Functfonai and Temporary -
Introduced in Europe in the sev-
enteenth century, coffee drove out
most alcoholic beverages. It had
popular appeal and coffee ' houses
were established where, the „bevel.;
•agewas taken incessantly. Some •
of the 'modern coffee -drinkers who
acgUire •a reputation for consuming
30' Mugs. a .day would have .been 'con
eidered amateurs '.in • those days. .
The •effects Which the ancient •I•n•
tm (typo was the 'first man to else
coffee)'• neticed are still the ,ones
'which mike it popular -- a sense
of }ivelY .ii>Liellectuation, .roller o.t
tetigue, increased, `•.muscular. tone
and s;treagth'of•'the heart'beat,
IN EXCESS, HARMFUL. '
•Of course, the exctiseive use of
any medical:bent• is more or less ,
• lharmfui; but caffeine probably ne-
ver causes anything but,functional ,
changes — no permanent tissue da-
mage,, no matter in what .quantity
it is.taken.
A prominent writeron the effects
et drugs says, "It is important 'to
remember 'that caffeine, has, no ef-
fecton brain protoplasm except to
• increase its.tunctional activity. Cat-
feine does not...produce brain ,ex-
baustion unless it 1s tak4 in such
:a manner. and in such large' (pan-.
' titles .as to 'Interferewith sleep,
rest and the taking of food 'in 'ord-
: teary quantities, 'this been shown
that• an individual is enabled to do:
more Mental, work in a given apace
of time with affeine than lie is ca=
pable of tieing without it; and that'.
this increased w,ork is net -followed
by depression or "exhaustion., In
' other words, itacts as 'a lubricant
does in machinery, Increasing abil-
, ity -without, causing ,exhaustion."
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Allied Supreme
Commander
•
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Canadian Soldiers i "Blitzkrieg" Tia,
FAD FADES
One thing to be thankful for: •
that "Confucius say" stuff has.
come and - gone.—St. ` Thomas
Times -Journal.
A RARE. INDIVIDUAL'
We met' a • man 'yesterday and .`
he interested us greatly. 13e , did
not profess , to know what Musso-
lini had in. his mind` and, ,he had
not the slightest idea of what
. Stalin .intended. •to. do P.eter-
borough. �Extniner.
amoo_:
• .CHEESE FROM DENMARK
Canada., it is announced., 'im- •
•porteli :8,543 ='pounds, of 'cheese
front Denmark, during the :month
of March. That .is one branch of
competition, if it may be so call-
ed, that the dairymen can wipe'
off the slate for some aiionths
to' come.: ---Brockville- Recorder
and Times. • .
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LURE OF THE ,SOIL
A'love of 'the soil • is ingrained
in'the very 's'oul of some 'people.
, Particularly is this true of the
Canadian people, whose. forefath-
ers were; for themost part•, pion;
eers 'who' hewed forthernseives
• and their families•''•homes out .of
the virgin forest and•sought their.
livelihood, from the land. •
—Guelph. Mercury:
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LONG .BLAST HELPS '
For more than a year now, the
'fast toot of the' locomotive
• whistle. on approaching crossings
•
,has been a Icing bleat instead of
short, as forinerly. _The':. Trans-
port Board .notes a decrease last ,
year in th'e number of meter v'e-
hieles struck by trains, '.'indicat-
ing • that . the changing. of the
whistle signal is showing :ntine-
ficiaf • results." •
.An understudy of the, late Mar-
ehai Foch, General 'Maxime, Wey-
gand last week 'was called upon
to direct the Allied forces in their
,f'.ight against •Germany. Formerly
:commander-in-chief of the :Allied'
forces in the Near East, General
Weygend took over supreme con-
mend of• the Allied armies suc-
•
ceeding General Maurice Game -
lin. ,
Sedan Was Scene-
Of
ceneOf 1870 Defeat
When the German Armies
Gained 'A Victory over the.
French' • T•ro ops of Napoleon
111 '
•
Ancient.Sedan, 146 miles' north-
east of Paris, was the scene of the
climactic fight of the Franco Prus-
Stan war in 1S70, in which the
French troops of Napoie'on 111 were
crushed. It brought about the fall
of the second -empire.
And then,•in the Woriti War, the
Germans .advancing toward Paris
entered Sedan August 25th, 1914,
and held it four years: It fell into
the hands .of the Allies November
6, 1918 after a joint attack by the.
American Rainbow Division and the
French.• '
GAVE NAME'TO CAR
The old city probably gave its
lime to the sedan: autonuibil
Sedan' chairs, easy riding con:
veyances which carried the gentry
on -peasant. shoulder& in the ,18th
century tirst were Made ,in Sedan,
legend has it.
The town has a population of
around 18,000. Major- industries are
cotton mills. eo<al and iron mine's.
Over • Three -Million
In • Quebec Province
Quebec Province's population
in 1938 was 3,1100118; eceot'Yling
to a report tabled in the Legis-
lature by. Ilon.• Oscar Drouin,
Quebec Minister of municipal a f -
fairs, trade and' commerce,
•
'The population of urban muft-
Canada Has Made
Great Advances
In Air Transport
Progress Over Past . Decade
Has ,Been Phenomenal'
e. One of thepioneers ofair.mail
in Canada teii years ago, J. 13,
,Corley, District Director of Post-
al Services,' Calgary, Alta., a visi-
tor in Montreal recalled ' the•
changes that had token place in
the past •decade and described
them as . "ainiost. ' unbelievable:"
Before 19.30, there had been ir-
reelilar services, to outlying' cant.
munities in Eastern C'anada,'• Mr.
Conley said in an interview, but
•
the first sthedule inter -city oper-
ation cam,, ,into effect on the
Prairies- As far back as 1926,
Calgary was agitating •for .air
mail. Test flights were made con-
necting Calgary and • Winnipeg;
by way, of :Medicine Hat,' Moose
Jaw and Regina, with a saving of
24 hours, and -in 198'0 contracts
were -awarded. ,
In the sante year, an inter-
national' service was' established,
from Montreal. to Calgary via To-
ronto,. Hamilton, Detroit, Chicago,
St. Paul, Pembina and Winnipeg.
Two years afterwards, the gov-.
ernne.nt discontinued the • inter-
city air mail forlec.•onomy, but•the
Prairies Were alive to the advan-
tttges' of wings. Mr. Corley said,
and •when the Trans -Canada Air
Lines began service the response
' was eager. "The "business people
of the West are enthusiastic
about the ' service that brings
Montreal, Ottawa and 'T'o'ronto
-closer," he added, '"I know that •
in Calgary air mail is increasing',
in volume ,ail the time. The far-
away places benefit the• most."
' Reach Outlying Areas
Speaking of the.. faraway Ode -
es: Mr. Corky said that in North-
ern Alberta and the Northwest
• Territories, dog teams,. horses
. and sleighs and steamboats ,had
• been superseded by the plane.
Mails to the outlying areas were
f1oWn at regular postal rates.
Walter Hale, District Supervisor
of Postal Services . at Edmonton,
• had promoted air. snail to the
north for years. ' •
• • Contrasting flying ,. in Canada
• with 10 ye'a'rs ago, Mr. Corley
compared the big T. C. A. planes -
'with the old • opdn-cockpit Fok-
kers.,and referred to the develop
merit of the ah -way with its • radio
beam and its 24-hour weather ser-
vice, said .to the shelter.snbre o'er
silt' route aerOss Canada.
•
The bayonet charge of the infantry' still plays an important part
in the art of wardespite the mechanization of moog the armies.rn earn Ithe nfantry-
men of . Canada's modern army
are shown herey
r
points of conducting, a bay..charge.
THE WAR- 'W'E E. K- Coromnlentary•Current Events
Darkest Hour. For Allies, .•
When `.Germans Reach Sea
•' Eleven 'days after the 'German. • out thinly the. troops were. poor- •
launched their, big o
through' the Low' Countries; .ad-, •
vanc•e Nazi, ,units in lightning
thrusts through northern, France,
reached - the English .Channel,
separating the main French ,and
British armies and •trapping the
entire British, .Expeditionary
Force. • The `darkest hour. in their
histories was upon the . Briti�lt
and French empires'.• •
For • France, the situation was'
seen by' military experts to be
not • altogether hopeless.. 'The
Frehch , army. had a chance at
least to hold on if they, could
hold the Germans for a. month;
the tide might turn in' their favor.
'
But if. •Italy came .into ,the war
on the side of Germany arid 'at-
tacked in the • south. the odds.
against .France ' v: ould be • almost
-,insuperable,
Britain Fears Worst - ' 'I
• While the British people work-'
ed '. fraiitically • to defend theme
selves against what threatened to;.
be the • first ,invasion • of England
in- 874 years a German. blitz-
krieg through the air , across the
scant, sixty-five miles of water
separating ,the 'English' east coact '
fromd,France. _ the • British •Ex-
• peditionary Force on the Con-
tinent had the choice of • attempt-
ing evacuation under a rain of
German bombs over th'e entire
Channel area .or facing the en-
emy in a last-ditch effort to hold •
the Channel ports the only
avenue of escape left to them.
•
How It Happened
Speaking before the French
s Senate, Premier ' Reynaud par
tially answered the, question, rais-
ed in the minds of the,., entire
world last week, How •did • the
Germans:get through the Maginot
and peril , the entire Allied dr
. fense • systerit on • the Continent
Without • mincing words, he ' e-
• yealed that a ' series of "in;on- -
ceivable mistakes" en the part. of
the French High Command had
it possible for •the Germans •
-to ,blow up the I hinge' of the
French Army, and walk through
s breach in the French -front 62
miles wide.
(The left 'wing of the French
army, he said, left its fortifica-
tions' between Sedan and the sea,
and pivoting on 'Sedan, went into
• Belgium. The enemy launched a
formidable 'attack then against
the hinge of the French army be-
hind the Meuse between Sedan
and Namur. Th Meuse River had
been considered a redoubtable eb-
•aacle for the enemy, and the
French divisions charged• with de-
fending it were -few, stretched
Pigs .'Preferred
By Mosquitoes
The next time .you are bit-
ten by . a mosquito, don't think
you naturally attrabt the in -
.sects.
Entomologists of the New
Hampshire ' Agriculture De-
partment report that in' choos-
ing a victirn,.the reesquito.pre-
fees a horse' or a cow` to a
hareem being by about six to
one. Pigs and dogs, they say,.
also ..a?e • more .popular that
man-. ..
powers . . :•- the announcement
was made by the • Central Chinese
•.Coaet'nment that the main' .Jap•
anees force to:^Central -China had
been '.crushed with the rec'aptiire
of Tsao-yar}g, width had been• a•.
;:,Japanese:• base in: Northern Hupeh.
province :' .
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ffensice';' ly treated.) ' '
, Humanity In Agony •
- During the week, the hearts of ,
all civilized mei were wrung ,by
• "the. stories ,that leaked out from.
the' battle .areas of . Europe, bf'•
'refugee wemen 'sand children • by
the hundreds of thousands .driven
from o-ne place to another, every-
where . pursued by botnbs,. fire,
•destruc.ton and death: • Of the
slaughter and carnage. on the
battlefields, little was' said. So
much had to •be• taken, for 'gr•Rnt-
• ed in one of the,. bloodiest and
most gigantic 'engagenients of all"
time. •
One.Man Army
John Petrie hag' appointed hint-
self • es the one -titan Defence
Corps' of Brecghou Island, 8 mile$
from G'tternsey, in the English
o Wend ', sic miles
iciri " it:t eirerixereel
trots it daily on hie dori'key,
ing for enemy 'planes and sub-
marines. He wears a tartan kilt, ,
sporran. tunic, and tt fdrage cap,'
and carries a Crimean rifle. Only
tr • di►seii yeople live on the island.
atat of rural` nun dpattlt •a it ,
321,499. Farriers numbered 146,-
085. Total nuinbei of municipal,
Kies was 1,560: The report an-
nounced the establishment 6f 11
new • iiiunicipalities flt'ring the
year.
::U- S- Cornes Nearer '
• Chances of the .I.Tnited 'Stage '
corning into • the -wax on the site
of the Allies • were increased) 100.
,per cent during the week as pub-
' lie • feeiin'g the: a .was fanned fo
fever, heat. by the news from Ear •.
ope, and by fears that. 'the • Nazi
war machine Would •neat be, men-
acin.g the Anmerican continent.
The, large mass of the • people ral-
lied ' behind• President, •Roosevelt
in his. drives to strengthen' IL • S.
defenses; keep Italy out of the „
War. • In his defense message t -o •
Congress;. fir. Rodsevelt• said:
"Our •ideal, our 'objective is still
peace -=- peace at home . and
peace abroad,' Nevertheless - we
stand ready 'not only ' to spend
. millions for: defense but to give
our service and even our lives
,for . the maintenance of our Ant-
erican liberties."
:: The Doaniniop "of Canada had
its •busiest week since 'the Fed-
eral election • ; in March.. Parlia-
mentary leadersmade speeches,
stock -brokers ran from ,pillar to
post, •farmers 'rushed to, get their
crops in, housewives'. "blitzkrieg -
ed" on their . spring-cleaning,,,
military men worked at 'top speed
.preparing to, :set up the- Third
Canadian Division, municipal au-
thorities strained at the I'eash, to.
go after "subersive elements" . .
Developments to Be Watched
While the eyes of the world
were turned. on' "Western Europe
they were nct seeing events in
certain other 9uarters that might
• figure as. impor'tan't factors fin
coming situations. In the 'Balkans,
the Rumanian •'government .order-
ed ',cancellation of all .army 1ea'-
es, as Nazi "Blitz" troops, mar' -
ed on the Slovak frontier. of ,
Hungary facing Rumania ,
Yug;slavia menaced by fres't
• Italian droves in Albania consid-
ered plans for general mobiliz-
ation ,n, . Rumors emanated front
Lithuania ' that ' Russia , shortly
would stop ail oil exports to Ge-
many ; and Soviet Prentier Molo-
• toff informed Great Britain, in
cutting off British -Russian trade
talks, that "Russia cannot sub-'
ordinate the trade 'policy. of the
U. 'S. 8. R. to the war aims of
any foreign State" ---• meaning,
undoubtedly, either Germany or
Britain . . '. in the Ear' East,, a
nasty situation 'existed in the vic-
inity of the Dutch East Indies,
'rich possession of conquered Hol-
land, coveted , by the warring
Gardening
goPREAD OUT •
Experts not 'ply caution against„_
too early sowing, but they also ad-
vise not to stop• too soon, There is
no'reason why •plantings cannot be
continued in mesa parts of Canada
right through until July. This will ,
.spread the harvesting season over
an: e•qutiliy long period with' vege-
tables always fresh,. just, coming to
maturity. `.
Much 'nose tun and much ,moi e
satisfaction resultswhere garden-
ing is thus -spread over the ••entire
season. While, ,the whole plot ipay
ee.,planted in ti single afternoon,
usually about the -middle of .May,
. thea' inevitable co.nssduence is• ,a
rush et flower oat -•vegetables f.i1-
.7Iowe0 by practically. none at all, On, .
.:the other hand; •by' :MeV ,sassing a • :
`pert of the 'stet' ;of each' packet at'
ope time,. by using short cut meehe-
eels :in'the, evay ' of:started plants,
by providing' a little protection ,ag-
ainst early ..frosts "next Fall, 'the
amateur garden 'can be nead.e al -
•most continuously productive. •
It. has been proved . from ancient
Chinese archives that seaman-
• adveraturct's 'from the .Celestial.
Empire crpsseit, the ',Pacific be-
tween A.D. 458 and 576,' explor.,
ing the Western American coast,
and compiling reports on the geo-
graphy of the • country and the
' habits of its natives. Alaska was
called Wan .Shang, British. Col-
umbia was named Ta Han, and
Mexico the -y called Futang•
Later,' but some 500 years be-
fore Columbus, the . Norsemen
were 'credited with forming co'-
onies in. the New World:
The ' Week In . Parliament
• In Parliament, the Speech frolm
the Throne declared •that ' "tragic
event" in ' Europe "have but'..
served to intensify, our determin-
ation toshare in th'e', war effort
of '.the • AIlied powers, to the ut-
most of 'strength Prime
•Minister King : renewed the as-
suranee to Great Britain of Can-
ada's full',aupport "in these grave, ,
clouded hours" . . Finance Min-
ister Ralston told the "House Of
Commons that, although Canada's
War 'billhad mou'nted to an es-
timated $700,000;000 a year (al-
most S2,000,000 a day), with the
possibilt:y . of .'further , increase,
no change was contemplated ;}in.,.
t.:h e • Government's: established
"payas-yolitgo" . program. Taxes
first, then: loans, .continues to be
the 'war policy . . . a .rising de-
wand that Canada's war` effort
be speeded up .'was reflected" in
the Government's' declarations 're-
garding our participation, but
little . -evidence' of a concrete :na-
ture was seen, that Canada would'
enter more fully into the, war .
it Was • announced that. a ' separ-
ate Ministry : 'of. Air., was being
created, with Hon: C." G. Power,
Iatt'erly appointed Postmaster-
' General, at the head' of it . . .
the • mostdramatic moment of
the week came •when the voice.
• of the new woman member,. Mrs.
Dorise Neilsen, in her :maiden.
speech, was raised. in behalf of
the forgotten`, unfortunates 'of
Canada. Making no apologies for
turning'., the subject away from
war, she pointed out that in times
of crisis,'partitularly, the fate of
those living in poverty could not
'be overlooked: `.'Though death
stalks through the . world and
knocks at "the door . of every na-
tion," she said, •"life • rieust go on'.
The time to considerthe life of
the .people of Canada is not' when
war is finished, but' now." ,
CULTIVATION •
Cultivation not only kills v;•eeds;
Which disfigure beds of ,flowers',
and vegetables and rob, these res-
pectable
things of •moisture• and:•
food, but it 'also keeps soil, open so
that it will .remain sweet and ab-
sorb necessary chemicals from the
air. Bacterial action beneath is also
assisted.. .
While ' a small , hoe is almost. an
essential implement, . there 'are to-
day other things• which , will •re-,
Iieve .much of the' drudgery which
the hoe still represents in the eye
•
of the growing country boy. 'A little
three -fingered wirecultivator` will
worm wonders 'around and under
growingflowers a d' yegetables. A
Dutch hoe which • is shoved along
about an inch under the soil will
cultivat .. a hundred feet .or so ee
perennial bed in ,thirty minutes..
Has Good Word
For War, Horse
.Australian Military Man Says
,Antipodean Type Are Invalu-
able -- Go Waterless .84 Hrs.
c;cner::l Sir Harry Chauvel. who
led the Australian forces in Mc•so-
potantia. fit the First Great War
and aero is new retired. believes
Australian horses' should be used
in the present conflict if it devel-
ops on a large scale in. the middle
east. j ' '
General Chauvel ;points 'out the
previous war record of Australian
"Wafers" — se -called because Ahoy
ordinarily were bred in New South
Wales. In the Beer War, It was not
unusual for • the S7alers to carry
loads 'of from 250 to 280 pounds
over yielding sands ,,for 48 ' hours
on one watering, '
In some cases, these ' A tralian
horses' were known to go waterless
for 84 hours,. covering long dletanee
while 'carrying troopers and fight-
ing kit.
RE 'LAR, FELLERS --Tender Memories
Sere Years
Said.. erage
' Foe `M.P...in, Canadian Haute
ofeCommOriea Many T,'l ings
Occur to .,Change _Course of
Parliamentarian
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Mouse: o. Co amci'ns' .officeadsat
Ottawa estimate• the "paeliamen-
tary .life' of an average member of
parliament—that is, ,the average
' length of time an individual re-
mains a member — is seven :rears:
A me.m,ber — ..manor woman —
tmay cease 'to be :.k, member for a
varietyof reasons, far any one of
10 or more of: them in fact. A' mem-
ber' may, die iu office, may' be ele-
ratedto the Senate; may be ap-
pointed a provincial lieutenant-
. governor or to, some...high, govisrnv '....
went :post -.- just to name a te;ve. y
TEN REASONS FOR 'QUITTING
Officials •agree it is a precarious
and strenuous' existencebeing a
number of parliament. There are
many pitfalls" on the . way and the
public 'can • be fickle. Each perlia-
ment there is a batch of 80 tie 109 '.
new omers and, Occasionally. when
then. is a'big upset of a 'strong gov-
ernment, as occurred in the, 1935 '
election, there are more than 100
parliamentary neophytes.
Says the Chinese
Were Here , 'First
The Chinese discovered Ameri-
ca about 1,000 years before Col-
umbus was born, according, to Mr.
B. A. McKelvie, of the . British,
Columbia 'Historical, 'Association...
PRECRIOUS LIFE
During the last parliament, from
October',' 3.935, to January' 25tb, of
1940 the number of members who
die"td, in office' Wes: 21 and two of
the ' members elected to the ,pre-
sent parliament died ;a few days
after ,their election..Nine members
of the .last parliament,wiere elevat; ,;..
ed to'the .Senate.
GOLDEN"
CORN'41i, .od
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LIFE'S ,LIKE THAT
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