HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-08-08, Page 7Tobacco Crop
Said Lagging
' Ottawa Reports It's From 10
To 14 Days Behind Schedele
The 'tobacco crop as a whole In
Ontario. • •is from 10 days to two
weeks behind normal.growth sched-
ule, the Dominion Bureau 'of Stre
tistice-reported, in its second 'sea
eitual report on the 1940 comm!er-
efa1 crop of leaf , tobacco.
Excessive rainfall and cool wea-
ther
eether 'during most of • June and the
early part of July.resu1ted •tn ,con-
eiderable rootro.t and stunting in •
the tobaceci crag. •With . weather.
conditions more• f rvorable during
the past fornight, most fields of to- .
bocce now are showing marked re-
covery but the 'crop is. still below,
or steerage:, •
• TOO MI CH RAIN, COLD
Plan•ting was unusually delayed
bay the late cold eking in Quebec
and.; growth was slow oaviti.g to Iow
• temperatures, dell either, and Ate,
heavy rains i'n.June Resulting from
warmer weather during the -past 2'
weeks, the crop has shown much
itapravement but is ritiWF arboist two
Weeks later than normal.
Cutworms have inflicted heavy
damage, especiellg to the tluescured
crop and several fields of • clue -cur•
ed tebaceo. were destroyed by . the
sarong winds' in June:
t
le •
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• Lan* Tarsier finds that milk mited
wide cold cream mattes one of the
Lest home beautymasks. It is ex-
celren' for smoothing tired lines
and leaves the akin soft and glow-
ing.' Here we fend Miss Turner
drinking a large g!ass of cold milk
(Jos mixed with cold cream). This
proves thatit is just as good inside
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How Groundwood
Pulp's' Produced
THE WAR -WEE K,Commentary on Current Events
,F
DeterMination One of Britain's
Greatest Weapon s: Canada's
Training Plan
GREAT BRITAIN: The Germain
offensive against 'Bri'tain became
somewhat ,stronger la -at week and•
bombing in streets, and •congested
areas resulted in many casualties
in the south of-Edgland. Reports.
say that• the Nazi have cleared
••zones across •the chap-n.el along the
coast of ,France as military opera-
tions..extend' some hpndred `miles '
inland. This zone of activity ex-
tends.. , from, Dunkirk to• Brest,•
opposite Plymouth, and the -se -utile
east, corner •of England In .spite•
Of heavy bombing, raids Britain.
are prepared to • deal. with the
enemy and anti-airetaft batteries
and Ehe R. AAF. have been "in eon -4
stent combat with effectiveness,.
. downing 'satisfactory • percentages
in every encounter.
• NAZI UNEASY
Brritain's blunt rejection of .Hit -
lei's `uneace" advances were fol
lowed by the ,°preparation of an
"eight -point peace program" by
• Hitler ,end , would • indicate that
• Nazidom .is more anxious to end
hostilities than it cares :to admit.
The best offer Hitler can make
therefore, is, a return to the pre-
Septembers. status . quo, , perhaps.
with some coneessions to the
Czechs. This, though. a far' cry
from the eiight peinte'which .would
leave his boundaries .as ,they .are
at present, would assure Herr $it-
ler• of continuing as Fuehrer..'It
is not .rash. to assume that he is
ready,. if . not eager, . to strike ' a
bargain • with .Britain somewhere
between 'those extremes. •
However, the determination of
Britairts to rid E•uroge- of the
Nazi power will not tolerate such
' ideas. .•
to report when their classes are
called. The first clots is , to. report '
about October 1st. • •
RECRUITING FOR 0 V E R=
SEAS SUSPENDED Mr. Ralston
indicated that during the .period
when Canada was- nnobolizing a
new .army fdr defense, recruit-
ing for overseas service would be
stopped. "It" rust be • remeember
ed,"-' he said; "�
present morn
THE,' BALKANS -The Ge_reen.
e warning to . King. Carol of `Ra-
'mania leads us to., wonder whether
he is or is not King. He has been
playing both ends ' against the
middle for so long that mere . is
little left •fcr him -to attempt fur-
ther., He must se:tle .differences
'wih Hungary and d Bulgaria before
,September 15t, so ay the Axi4
Powers. Failure to meet this dear'
line, a.uthorita:ive• quarters say,
may result in interve.tition ' by
these p•lwers to inipo<e ,theit'o-•n
settlement- • '
• . Reports . of • the German . warn-
ing .were circ:ulated . as • Juliu
1#ianiu, leader of Rumania's pow-
erful peasant party, arrived at
Bucharest from his home in Trap-'
syl'ania . •to c•ppose any'..conces-
sions to . Hungary . or .Bulgaria.
Soueves close to ' the govei )merit
. had indicated that Ruinenia Might
try a.' eompromi•e, sotu ion of
Hungary's' claims ransylvan-
ia by offering to eede the three
border cities of Satu-flare, Or-
adea arid. Arad, and arranging an
exchange of populations :n other
districts, Mania pointed but that
Rumania's chief strength in op-
posing Hungarian and. Bulgarian'
demands lay • in Germany's desire
to maintain peace in the Balkans.
Nearly Two -Thirds of .Can-
ady s Wood •Pulp Production
Is "Groundwood" — Used in. '
Meking Newsprint Paper
Groundwood pulp is obtained by
thee rubbing action of wood held, by
pressure against a rotating grind-
-stone
=rind,ston •which has a pattern imprint-
ed
mprinted in It by a burr. Thi quality of
the palp produced depends on the
moisture content of the wood. the '
Speed of rotation cif the stone, the
pressure of the wood against the
atone and the temperature at which
grinding takes place. Spruce, bal-
sam, and, on the Pacific Coast, the
western hemlock ,are the principal
ttanadiatL woods arced for the manu-
facture. of groundwood puilr. East-
ern hemlock and jack pine are used
to a limited extent. and poplar is
also ground to make a bulky sheet.
The total production of wood
pulp in Canada ' has reached as
^much' as 5,000,000 tone per hear and
the value often exceeds 310,000,-
000. 1<te arty two-thirds of this quan-
tity is groundwood pulp, and about
90 per cent. of the groundwood pulp
is used In making neWspri tt paper,
one of Canada's moot imperrant ex-
port materials.
VisilItns Great
Food Shortage
U. S. Red Cross Official Pre-
diets Europe to Sutter •
1
Iselin. W. Maloney. an American
Red Cross representative, returned
from war-torn Europe Iasi week
with a declaration that "EuroDe
*lees one: of the . greatest shortageeti
ad' food In modern times."
d4faloney Itoured 19 European
countries since February,
CHAOTIC CONDITIONS
"The situation in 'Europe today
gc,td5 more apPalling by ' the week.
sea far as food le concerned," Mai-
d °•Couclitioki5 are very bad.
at there is Iii: the
t • no shortage ,of•: •
,thar%power iri1 England;. the teal•
demand' is • for equipment.: .
OLICY ' TO 'CAUSE, 1`HE
IMUM DISLOCATION TO
_INDUSTRY:. There are k.diffirult
les in withdra*ing' so many men,
fresh") the normal life~ of the gem- •
tenuity' even.for the •comparative
ly ' short period of thirty , day's
training, but difficulties cannot
be allowed to' obscure the' goal
• to be reached. The plan has been
worked .out so • that • it can be
speeded-' up -or- slowed . down as:.
events require,.
NO DISTINCTION • • TO BE
MADE BETWEEN NEW RE-
CRUITS • AND REST OF MIL- ,
..ITIAS It is important tliat . from•
. the outset of • this' training :plan
these men drafted be' regarded
members of the Canadian army. •
As recruits, they will nese ee t=
ly into, • the militia regiments. :No
distinctions shall be made :except "
'than the • men called under this
plan .' will - not be available for
';duty • outside , of ' Canada unless •
"they volunteer for such service. •
As, part of a • - mighty Canadian
•arin.y 'which • will be ,available to'
.defend the county, they will hare
•.its traditions' and • .be ; the 1 cu_-
todians • of he: honor.
•
THE MEDITERRANEAN—The
hard -handed briskness' with which
Hitler and Mussolini are extend-
ing their domination down the
Balkan- •feni.nduta increases. the
• threat to Britain's great interests
ifi the Near East and makes ,it
more than ever imperative. that '
she should maintain her• control
of •the Mediterraneaii which Italy
is challenging. 'Bombs. over Eing-
•
land tend to obscure the. fact that
the Battle of Britain reaches •far
beyond the British shore., Gibral-
tar ••(gateway to the Atlantic),
-Malta and the Suez ' Canal• are,
vital, to the. existence of the•
tish Empire.
The British are guarding the.
Suez canal' as zealously hs they
are their own home shores. In-
deed. if it 'weren't for the net.-
• essity of maintaining such strong
naval and air forces in Egypt,
Gibraltar,'and A'{alta, the home de-
fenses
would be much •mightier•
than they are now.
• • •
CANADIAN D'R A F T FOR
' HOME DEFEN5E: The details of
Canada's Home Defense ,Policy
• were outlined in the Douse , of
Commons on Monday, July .29th
by the Hon. I, L. Ralston: One of
-the most important of our war ef-
• forts is rapidly taking shape and
the present plan is to train 300,000
)ten for home defense yearly at
•the rate of about 30.000 a month
Iiir. Ralston explained. These, me 3
will be trained lin. thirty or )•lore
twining centre' acro=" Canada,
each of which wi 1 hend,e about'
1,000 men each n'e'ttb.' The 300;-
000 -figure for a Bear se"t I.y.Mr.•.
Ralston is apparently pretlit,'.e,l
on doubt whethee•training 'can
• be carried 'on during the two mist-.
, q U ' tt lil elq fiat
'THE'. AMERICAS. TO PREVENT
AXIS POWERS . FROM CO°N-.'
TROL IN COLONIES
Students of history wilt .: no :v
have another date to. memiirize
• in the future. The plan to ' pro-
tect territory in the Western
Hemisphere ' now belonging :o
European powers,' was embodied
in:e. draftresolution last' week,
called "The Aet : of Havana" and
protides that The American Re-
publics may . establish -"regions of
provisional administration in any -
areas nowheld by non -American''
nations which are in danger of be
coming the subject -matter of es: -
Change of territories. or 'sovs-
ereignity_ Thus the 21 American
Republics have prepared to back.
'up the ' Mortrie, Doctrine with
whateier force is necessary. , to
prevent American territory ruled
by . European powers falling into
the bands of Germany or her
'friends. '
Its implications mean that for
the first time in' history the arm-
ed Torres of the.United States can
be used to protect any part of the'
hemisphere without incurring any
, liability -or charges: of imperial-
ism, since the United States Gov-
ernment would be acting on be-
' half of all other republics. Since.
the United States is the only Re- . f
public in ' this hemisphere with a
navy strong enough to prevent an
invasion or to prevent any power
from taking over the French and
Dutch possessions, ' the resolution
was considered. 'to nominate the
'United States as. the hemisphere's.
defender. •
es lot of people in Europe wondering
what its going . Cly happen this wfri=
tore
.'France rooks as thnttgh a bunch
at locusts bed genre a irPr sho sand"'
marrie' . tried wrt
ing the first year," he stated.
There are to be no eeiemptrons
from service. Physieally fit men,
regardless, of their' oceepatiore, are.
•
THE FAR EAST •
CHINA; Foreign quarters close
tit the Chungkin goceruinent as-
serted a few days ago that China
had rejected unconditionally ' re-
cent Japanese overtures to halt
hostilities and conclude an all- •
embracing settlement between the,
• two nations — largely 'at the ex-
pense of third powers' jpterest in
Eastern Asia. These informants
said the Japanese )proposals in-
cluded the *following: •
1. Outright cession by China to
' Japan of, five provinces, Hopei,
Charhar, Shartung, Shansi and
•Suiyuan_
2. Recognition of Wang Ching-
[Wei,'Japanese sponsored. puppet,.
as president of a Chinese repub-
lic made up of the remaining •
Prince. Bernhard •of the
Juliana, and children are at
ing hands with the mayor •of.
eommunity...Prince Bernhard
resentet ves •of the Dutch' go
ly valuable help in. the'matter of the .
choosing of the'wost suitable fer-
• tilize'rs. .
•
Netherlands,,. whose wife, Crown Princess
present in Canada, is pictured . here, shak
Falmouth' 'during • a good -will visit to that
is actively engaged in Leaden, with rep -
cerement.. • •
provinces and also British Burma,
French: Indo-China and Thailand
(Siam), in which China and Ja-
pan . would ;share economic op-
portunities. . •
3.• The . status o•fManchukuo
would be left in' abeyance in-
definitely. •
.JAPAN:'In the meantime some
dozen Eritish subjects, were , ar-
' rested in Tokio by Japanese police
and are being held in connection
With :Japanese military 'secrets.
The reply, to Sir„ Robert Craigie's
protest said the arrests were "the
first . step" against a British es-•
pionage network entering the .en-
tire country: Authoritative sours- •
es • said they undersiood that
Craig:e in .protesting‘ against the-
arre- is had touched '`on the^fact;'
that a strong German Nazi party
organization exists ' • :in Japan,
-well instructed" in propaganda
and . palitica1 activities. ,
Indienati:n is •being expiesseJ
hil Lond: n and demands are being
rade for the re -opening • of l the'
' Burma r Road' whereby China re
ceived many , tf her materials for
carrying on her war .against Ja-
pan.
"The most effective reprisals,"
suggested the Daily E .press, own-
ed ,'ley 'Lord Beaverbrook; Min-
ister for Aircraft •' Production,'
"Mould be the arrest pf fourteen
Japanese .citizens' in Britain. A
ban.on -trade wi:h Japan' Would' be
even snore effective and the Jap-
anese deserve it."
Farm Notes `.
•
SHOULD CHOOSE
'BEST FERTILIZER
Tlae 'best- ' fertilizer for Fall
Wheat is not the sani'e for all the
• sails. and conditions. writes 'Prof.
Henry G. Bell. of the 0.4.:e.. Guelph.
The most suitable. fertilizer is de-
termined from. modern Rapid' Soil'
Tests supplemented with a record
•ef previous cropping and. manuring.
All- Ontario Agricultural iRepre-
sentatives are equipped' With in-
strtiction 'sheets as to Hold .TO
Take Soil Samples. These may be
obtained either from the local Ag:
ricultural Representative, or from'
the Division of Soils. O.A.C., on re-
. quest.
TAKE SOIL SAMPLES
Soil• samples should, be taken as
soon as'summer 'work will permit.
• Thee, may be forty arded to O.A.C.,
or to any of the other testing sta-
tions. The test will show the level
of phosphoric acid, potash, • nitre -
gen and whether sir not the soil is
In need of limes With the aidL'of
brief notes as to previous cropping
(which ate called far on the soil
sheets) soil -chemists, can give high -
Potato -Tomato
Plant Discovered.
• U.S. Grafting Expert Gets A
Single 'Wine to Bear Double
A single fruit tree, anda,scrawny
one at:that, beeomes a veritable or-
chard when Thomas .Glover, of
Stonington,• Conn, a gardener for
30 years, gets his heeds • on it.
HE PERFORMS MIRACLES
Clover, •whiff has conducted many
esperimends in grafttns and• bud-
ding, has for, example. taken one
tree''and ,caused it to produce• 20
•
different. kinds ,of apples. as Well as
a quantity of Bartlett pairs.
Back in 1925 he began notching
• stcks cf various other, trees on the
trunk of a Balde-ea apple.Teday:
the iree produee•s.Bald%vius.•Gr,een-
Ings, Gravenstein_, McIntosh, Gol-
den Sweetinga. Denison Reddings,
Gillyflowers: Kings: Russets and no
l ss than •elev.en ohhtr •popoular
kinds.
THEY'RE. OF SAME FAMILY.
.The .basic • principle of grafting,
Glore r explains, is to keep the dif-
ferent fruits of a family toge4her"
A pear might do satisfactorily on•an
apple tree for a few years. while. •
"a peach or a plum is not likely to
do well. In other wn ds.',fruits .of
• sled are of one family and should
be kept together. while , those with
:tones are of another family and
should hot be croesed.with a seed '
species. ,'
•
• Potatoes and' tomatoes are of the
same family and Glover has gone
nature one better by having a
and the acid fruit above the er• und.
single cine produce "spuds" te'ow
college to' Montreal Star reporters.
While in •Regipa he foraged the
Argonaut Boys' Club and after the
Archbishop's death, decided, • to.
found Ibe college. ,
It took shape in 1930. Buildings
worth thousands oe •dollars were
picked up for a . mere song, and
two former bank buildingswere re"
quisitioned.
• • •
Today .the school -lies 200 stud-
ants, 75 of theme being girls,
BOYS DO ROUGH WORK
The boys do all the rough work
around. the school, ,including .the.
•'heavy household chores, and, they '
have just completed a $4,000 bun-
galow for the Arts girls.
• The boys livein bunkhouses, once .
'Used by wheat threshing gangs.
He considers sport as important
as academic training, and in hockey,
'and baseball °the college has an
enviable record. Last yeerethe hoe -
key team travelled 30,000 miles and
• it has already -given 11 players 'to
the' National.Hocke? League., .
College Is Opened
For "Ghost" Town.
Big Educatkonal Achievement
In• Western Area Scouth of
Regina•
,
in a derelict Rho§t toren of the
west, •once a historic • .centre of a`
wealthy wheat -growing area until
drought and the depression wreck-
ed havoc, there has sprung up a
college which is the envy of the
educationalists from coast to coast.
The town is Wilcox. 23 miles
south of Regime in Saskatchewan..
and, the school is Notre Dame Col-
lege with a Catholic padre as its
dean, but wi:h a non-sectarion out-
look.
IN DEPRESSION DISTRICT
The -dean, short. twinkiing-eyed
Father Athol Murray, recently told
the story of the founding of the
VO10E
O F• ' ' T
PRESS
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• WHERE'S THAT SUGAR
In all eonseience, what' happened -
to: all that sugar. which -was :hoar _
ed in the first Week or two of last
September? — (St. Catharines
Standard. ,
SAiD E.NOUGH .
•
Politicians say, columnists,,, say,'
radio commentators say, experts'
say. No wonder Confucius quit say-
ing.
aying. — (Brandon Sunil.
•
FAIRS MUST CHANGE OR DIE
There is na good reason yet for
Cancelling a fair, but ' there arei
plenty of reasons why the small
township, fairs should be reorgan-
ized, rejuvenaied and , rinade. to re-
•
fleet the agricultural activities or
thein constituencies. 9 Times have
Changed tremendously. The: town-
ship f irs must change or die.
(Farmer's Advocate).
Intii
Prefer
Canada's Cheese
They're Crazy About Our
Cheddar increased. Pero-
' duction for Export Is Looked
For Here
•
The beleaguered United King-
dom will take all the cheese Can-
ada can supply, Government dai:'y
officialsesay.
' Cheese it is explained, is in its
way just as valuable for fighting
as guns. A man can survive on
cheese for- a• long' time. The Un-
ited ,Kingdom wants it in: quan-
tity because' of its high •nutritive
value, because it, is comparatively
easy, to ship and will. keep and be-
. cause' the • Britith like .Canadian
c:reddche9e
Productiaron
-
ia.. believed 'to he •
stepping `u'p a . hills in Canad i,
bet it is still ,far`' below -what it`•
was 35 years ago. In 1940 Can-
tide, 'shipped ,234,900.,000 'winds;
.of cheese, to' the' United Kingdom.
'In , contrast 'to � .this, figure ' the..
whole production of the Dominion
.• in 1939 was not more than 122,-
772,000
22;772,000 pounds. " '
Early, in the , year the • dairy'
products board made a deal with
the, British food ministry .to ship
1,500 long' tons in May and 3;000 •
- long tons rn June, but" upon re-,
presentations from` the Ministry
moved June shipments toward- the
6,000 -ton raiark. "'
• FARM LABOR SHORTAGE
• 'One of the pressing prbblems:.at,
the present time is •a shortage of
farm'2abor throughout Ontario. ;Ac- '
cording to anebfficial of the Ontario
Department, of '• Agriculture,. many.
'hired.men have enlisted in the army
thus leaving their employers wide-
out
ithout adequate. manpewer :at a very
inopportune tinne. Farmers' sone
have alsodeserted the farm for the
army. The department' is 'endeavor-
ing irt
endeavoring';to •meet the situation' by rush- .
ing school boys;, registered' with the
department as available for farm '
work, to the localities most •in ti'te'
need of .help. All along it has been
contended that it takes longer to
train a man for,, farm work than for
soldiering, so that the seriousness
. of the situation 'facing the farmer •
should not be minized. =(Simcoe
Reformer). •
Wants Bridges'
With "Oomph"
Woman Expert Claims Spans.
Should'., Have More Beauty.
It's accepted in the best engineer-
• ing circles that bridge building is
a job for men. but: .
Sarah Ruth Watson, 30, and pret,
ty and abridge expert with a Ph.D.;
' . is out to make some changes: '
Cantilevers and trusses, suspen
slobs aNi,d bascules '- they all need
more "dbmph" , She's . confident that
she .can give it to them.. '•
Dr. Watson has taken her ideas
on bridges and beauty before en-
gineeming _groups, over the entire
•U. $: and is' a convention speaker
muchhi demand. A petite figure,
wide blue eyes -'and long Alice in
Wonderland bob: don't make her
task any harder.
` In between times' she does. his-
torical research at Western Reserve
University and writes .poetry. Next
fall she will teach "the history of
structural .engineering" at Fenn
College, the first course of its kind.
Daughterof a prominent 'eiigin-
eer, she wants to "bring aesthetics..,
into bridge building and makes it
!an 'integral factor;. to make the big
spans of the future as much a" mat-
' ter 'of beauty as . of . stress and et
strain:' .Her self=appointed taskis
to induce engineers to give up the
"standard practice of calling in the
architects for adornmrnt'pnrposes'•
after the plansarse all drowns
By Fred Neher
"Oh. please. I'm Lavin company this afternoon !t"
REG'LAR FELLERS—Traffic Problem Solved
•
By GENE BYRNES
EVEN • WHEN THE LICsNr
CI-IANcEfi rr NEVER
GET$ CL> AR # watt;
NEVER CtET ACROSS
'ME STREET Z M
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THIS 15 LIKE
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'THE ICE!
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s•
Jur-
either
;.apes de-
nar'vesting.
• seri have been
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itt, , • I • f
.. a a a ing p ace
number of then • who Will
be • employed...
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