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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-08-22, Page 3War's Influence On Agriculture Greater Interest Than Ever In Livestock Subjects Is Evi- denced by. Agricultural Class- es at C.N.E. — Bacon -Type Hogs, In Limelight War's influence .on Canadian ag- riculture will be reflected in heav- "' ler• dealing in livestock and greater interest in livestock subjects, at the. Canadian National Exhibition this' year, In the opinion of officials who Stated last week that information on agricultural exhibits is being sought to a greaterextent than in any previous year. FARMERS SEEK KNOWLEDGE Collapse of- normal sources of supplies have .created, opportunities far other countries, they stated,and Canadian farmers. are seeking .a, ., ,knowledge: on what products. and Standards •might win markets for 'them, iti was stated. Typical of this trend, the interest in, bacon-ype hogs .far surpasses ,other years, with''every indication that the Ex- Libition this year . will became an 'important point of exchange of the .purebred breeding stock. Breeders • who had not concentrated on Yorl„R„ shire bogs, it was stated, will be the market, and breeders with sucovmg' into their new home and will stock will be more heavily reprove to the house owned by Mr. vented than ever before: . J. Durnin,� which has been newly Similar interest exists in da1nnovated and. decorated.. products and "dairy ;cattle, it ws Miss Melba Fowler spent the week - stated. In every branch of agricsird with her aunt, Mrs, Jack Me - ae World's Largest: Exposition Opens: Business -as -Usual" 840 Canadian National Exhibition Fills A More Important Role in Promoting Empire Trade Than It Did • in Peacetime --Agri- cultural cultural Show_his fear of Prime Significance—Royat Air Force Quarters Can Be Seen on the Grounds When the Canadian National. Exhibition established a record in 1939 for vacating the buildings whichbad housed every ,branch of its exhtbits, administration and entertainments, to make way, for arrival of thousandsof newly -recruited soldiers, .speculation llwrrounded its future. And,. as 1940 got under way, the question became' even ;snore audible.: "Is the 61- year-old unbroken pattern to be interrupted?" One elance at the biz exhi ition now would answer .any question. To - and Mrs.. Clen Oris re arc th,e time bas suddenli become leadership n•ter to reach the eyes and, ears of Caned- 14blic; have been represented to a greater S'oent officials proved eager to see the Clan industry and commerce ire giving facilities. • tural 'cl ses;' evidences at the Prronald, Toronto: ' • sent time • indicate that the Exhi1 Miss ' Margaret I Dickson has been boon will be more representatil than ever before: mployed in the house of Mrs. Reuben hewer, Goderich. Relatives visiting recently with Mr. end, Mrs. W. A. Culbert were M.r. tad Mrs. Chas. Congr•am and son Clifford, .Holyrood, Mrs. Abraham. Culbert', Dungannon,: Mr. ,and Mrs. Meh in Tyndal. Carlow, • and Miss Ol- ive Shaw, London. SUMMER HOLIDAYS Mrs. Minnie Jones is expecting •any day her=4niece's children from Eng One advantage in taking land to arrive at Goderich and will short vacation isthat it 'woseniain with friends for the duration take so long to get rested of the •:war. They are Mrs. George afterwards.—Kitchener Record.Bell's •children, Morris 15 and Norina. • —'o— 8 years. They, were formerly of Strat, THEY MUST TELL ford 'but have been living in • England The women of the Unites "^''RS t kg".i eALMds Ivr use .till States and of Canada because tion this year fit into the program of the census and of national reg- of the military, Royal Canadian Air istration have one thing in .corn- ,; Force quarter;s,' alone now remain morn this year. They have to tell in the park,: and this is being seiz- the government their age. ed by that colorful branch of the Toronto Star. service as an opportunity to show _c— how airmen are trained, It forms BANS WEDDING NOISE ,• a n important exhibit or display of. the exhibition roster of wartime presentations. Elsewhere, ,although rendered sombre by the times, the show follows - the usual patterns: Muth of it is seeking to present .to the public the importance of war- time economies and methods of conforming to wartime regulations' and practices. EXCHANGE OF FARM IDEAS As an economic factor, the exhi- bition will fill' a more important role than it did, probably, in peace- time. This is reflected most vividly in , the livestock and agricultural' spheres!. Entries for hundreds of classes (in fact, every class) are ahead of previous Years and en- quiry reveals that this is because agriculture faces new standards and new requirem ants caused by revision of overseas demands. In bacon -type hogs, for instance, buy- ing of purebred animals promises to be heavy, with study otypes of hog -raisers rousing more interest than in 'any other year. Thus the exhibition serves as an exchange of ideas and materials which affect Canada's war effort. In countless other departments the same prin- ciple is plainly seen. VOICE OF T H E. 'PRESS M ac r f• M • r4 tli Tt al Hand a bouquet 'to the new Chief of Police of St. Thomas. There are to be no more wedding ' parties racing through the city, tooting horns. Konk the honkers is a good slogan. —St. Catharines Standard. SHOP AT HOME SAFELY Young lady from Woodstock lost her purse containing $109 when shopping in a.Toronto store. We feel sorry for her, but can't help remarking she ' could have shopped in safety in' Woodstock. —Peterborough Examiner. —o— KEEPING INFORMED An eminent glass ' authority working on an exhibit for. the. Toronto Fair gives the expert ad- vice that windows are highly .im- portant' in a home, and cites a whole string of reasons. He av- oided the one about their being such a handy contrivance for ph - serving what's going on among the neighbors. —Ottawa Citizen. Children .Watch Animal Nursery • Baby Monkeys and Their Mothers Are Taking 'Part In, Beauty Contest at C.N.E. Unique 'among •beauty .contests, this year brings a competition at ' the C.N.E. in Toronto to fdnd the most bearitiful baby monkey. The baby monkeys and their mothers are pare of a display of 75 animal mothers and their children brought together to show Canadian kids how the nursery. days of the animal world functions. CHILDREN'S ZOO ' The children's zoo, under the dir- ection of Dr. J. A. Campbell, will ask every visitor to oast a vote for the loveliest baby monkey. Mre. Mona Monkey and her daughter.. Florence and adopted son will' be • present, but Dr. Campbell believes top honors May be taken by Shir. ley, youngest offspring of. Mrs, Es- • ether Monkey who will bring with" her two other youngsters, Vallee and Maud. i BABY SNORES. POO Snakes and reptiles from all parts of Ontario are being shown and Dr: Campbell urges that a visit to the children's zoo is the best way to overcome a fear of snakes. There are baby Snakes, both the kin'cethat ' x hatch from eggs and those born olive.l`n Cil©•`"hurnl'tCi,:'West -titEt-tr.�ti pre babies that are urn naked. anis` ' blind, others able to jump wi.th•i'n a few minutes after. birth. . INTRA -EMPIRE TRADE Most, oiniportant, however,is the exhibition's role as a focus through which • Empire plans and ideas and methods can be seen by Emp1.r•e citizens. Empire trade has become more vital to Britain's ex- istence. Foreign trade means valu- able exchange far purchasing war needs. This has been the theme of British exhibitors in their discus- sions with exhibition officials, and it is obviously their goal in the quickened interest they heave ,now shown in the exhibition this year. To exhibition officials and direc- tors 1940 bas -become a' year for greater service. They hope the ex- hibition will play its greatest role this year. IXHIBI TION PROGRAM 23rd FRIDAY—Opening Day— First official public appear - glace of Earl of Athlone. 24th SATURDAY -Warriors' Day. 26th MONDAY --= Children's Day. 27th TUESDAY—Automotive Day. 28h WEDNESDAY— Food Products & Merchants' Day. 29th THURSDAY Women's, Music and Art Day. 30th: FRIDAI — Press and Graphic -Arts Day. 31st SATURDAY—Manufact- urers', Athletic and Floral Day. 2nd MONDAY --.,Labour Day. 3rd •TUESDAY --International and Service Clubs. ,4th. WEDNESDAY Agricul- turists' Day. 5th THURSDAY—Transporta- tion and Commercial Travel- lers' Day. 6th FRIDAY — Livestock Re- view. 7th SATURDAY - Citizens' Day. Heat . Wave Hatched Chick Inside Cabinet Farmer John' ,!Start, of Golds- boro, N. S:, could not account :for the plaintive peeping coming from somewhere in the house and he knew he hadn't any baby chicks. But when he opened a door to a cabinet, out hopped a chick. He says the heat wave hatched one of the eggs stored there. • ' 44104 BEE HIVE s Earl of Athlone Opens 1940 Exhibition Here is a 'recent :photograph of the:Goeernor-General of Canada. His Excellency the Earl of Athlone,, shown with his wife, Princess Alice, -shortly before . they came to •Canada. in June. On Friday, August 23rd, the. Earl makes his first official, public appearance in Canada when, he declares the 1940 Canadian NationalPDthibiti'on open, THE WAR -WEE K -Commentary on Current Events ``THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN" BEGINS IN REAL EARNEST The Battle of . Britain began last week, less than ' twomonths after the capitulation' of - France. Each day,wave after wave of German planes crossed the Chan- nel' to bomb England; each day, 'hordes of British planes soared to battle with the enemy. , Whether or not .actual invasion by Gersten land forces was short- ly to follow remained the 'big question of the hour. Military experts were in disagreement. Watching the ;targets , at which the . German bombs -were• aimed— advanced bases of the Royal Air Force, and strong British coastal positions — they declared • that the Nazis could be planning any- thing from a simpleattempt to break British civilian morale, up the scale to an all-out air attack ' on the country as a whole which would precede or coincide with the 'attempted invasion by sea. Would Isolate Britain! Several . neutral commentators of note expressed the opinion that, the Nazis' chief target for • the present was Britain's sea -borne ' commerce (ports, clocks, ship- yards, harbors, ships and convoys ware bombed) ; and that the Nazi objective'was to blockade Britain, isal ate it, weaken . it by destroy- • ing its commerce and its con- tacts with the Einpire and the world, starve it into submission if possible, or in •'any case weak-, en it by battering its ports and entree and breaking up its lines 'of naval communication. "The • Last Obstacle" • Mallory Brown e, Christian, Science, Monitor correspondent in London, called the . new turn of events "a sort of interim phase of the war" • during which, while .Hitter and' Mussolini continue their attempt to organize the con- quered portion of the Continent, • they, prepare more drastic action' against the (remaining' European obstacle •to •their .domination of the world — Britain and its em- pir e. Farther , south, Mussolini ap- geared to be coaling into his own as a first-class trouble -maker. All signs pointed to an early grab at Greece's Adriatic coast, and per- haps a try for -a slice. of Yugo- slavia. "(The Italian Government cnarged that Greece was supply= , i:ng. oil, , planes and' other mater- ial. to Great Britain; that; it was cruelly oppressing Albanian min- orities in the country),. In Africa, Italian forces, Spun out from far- off supply'- bases, moved slowly deeper into British Somaliland, were engaged in sharp conflict with the British defenders of Ber- bera, Somaliland capital. Surprise For Italians That the R. A., F. could spare sufficient planes to bomb many strategic points in Italy and to intensify the air attacks on Ger- many, came as an unpleasant sur- prise to Fascists and Nazis alike last ,week. They • were obliged to realize that the R-' A. F. was able not only to cope with the German "skykrieg" on Britain on a 3 -to -1 basis but also to carry on an extremely effective air offensive on, the Continent. Spain On Her Ear ' No. 3 trouble -maker (Hitler, of course, is No. 1), General Franca, irate at British super- vision over Spanis`h imports, sent a note •to London demanding re- taxation ' of the blockade on oil, gasoline ani other contrabanpro= ducts: The' Falangist newspaper in Madrid,. Arriba, ,after announc- ing that Spain was now a "moral belligerent", declared. that British action ii'i shutting off Spain's; sup-;. ,plies of gasoline from the United 'States., and Rumania constituted - an: ".aggression and an act of war." .:. Would Drive. British Out The Japanese parliament voted last week in favor of taking all ;' available and effective measures to drive the "British influences" from East Asia . . , , following Which Britain announced: the with- drawal,of troops from the Shang- , hai.area-'along with forces from northern China they ' were • sent "elsewhere" (to Hong Kong and • Singapore, presumably) . . in, London Chinese Ambasaador• Quo. Tai-Chai received a sympathetic hearing when he asked for Bri- tish assistance in preventing com- plete penetration of French..Indo- China , by _ Japan (Britain fears that once Japan has a strong foothold in Indo-China she .can- not be ousted from the French colony, but will instead expand her activities into Siam, and pos- sibly into British Burma) • .. . U. S. Senate Split In the United States Senate de- bate, continued on 'peacetime cern- pulsory military training. That body was 'split on the question, ' and President . Roosevelt's Admin-, istration faced the hardest fight • since the days of 'the Supreme Court contest .... The two major political parties were seen warm - nig up for the November elec- tion and clearing the decks. for action; the broadcasting compan-• ies were preparing to allow Wen- dell L. Willkie to "fireside- chat" as well 'as Franklin D. Roosevelt• . Disturbed by Japan's "Great- er East Asia" policy, the • U: S. appearedduring theweek to he • seeking friendlier relations with Soviet Russia,.signing a new trade pact;—Moscow, on the • other hand had some. 'interesting things to• say about the United States: that the U. S. is;,preparing to occupy the western hemisphere colonies of European nations as a prelude to armed intervention in the war, and that the. war in Europe has actually increased An g 1 o -American cross-purposes, with the United States trying to exclude Britain as well as other ' competitors from South Ameri- can markets and England thrn- ing toward Compromise . with Ja-; pan . . 400,000,000 Questions Sack home in the Dominion, eight million Canadians were get- ting 'ready -to answer four hun- dred million questions during na- tional registration' week . members' of the House of Com- mons were on holiday, but the ,Government, among other press ing matters, was occupied with the problem of Western wheat grower*/ forced by lack of elevat- or space to store on their farms 1'ie bulk of this year's harvest :(a cash advance to farmers was be: Ing considered) . ,. Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply,. declared that Canada's output of planesj,l;should reach ' 300 per month . by the end of ° the year . . . news came during the week that thousands more Bri- tish children seeking safety from the war zone might be expected to arrive on our shores in the next few months . Criticism of the Hepburn pro', • gram to place ;,boy students., on farms and set back the date of school openings in Ontario to September 16 was so widespread that the provincial government REG'LAR AR FELLERS—The Racket Buster. .-. WNAT 5 THE MAITERMATsS two coos WITH THIS DARN 1 PUI 114 THEM THING, ?' NO CUPS VIHA S 11-0S- A WILL COME our! RACKET 9 • By GENE BYRNES • agreed to allow decision on, this matter to rest with each individ- ual board in the case • of second- ary schools. . See hew the Nary. do Ariry,tlq Air Force areheing supportedby the whole Domhion—indnstrles, sciences, agriculture, women's work. A dramatization of Canada atWar. Famed throughout the world is the big Goldman Band froa9, the United States. Playing each night from the modern outdoor Band Shell you hear it Without • charge. . Direct from the 'San Francisco World's Fair, and presen'.cd through the. courtesy of Inter- national Business Machines"... "Art of 79 Countries"—no iae- pressive contemscrary s hoer: • • Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Iiimmy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye, Eddie Ducbin; Al and Bob Harvey, with their Canadian Coster Band, bead the list of big-time dance bands that -will be featured in this year's vast. cool Dance Pavilion. Don't miss them. A brilliantpre'sentation of latest advances in the automotive in- dustry including 'a preview of Many 1941 models. Ona of the mt l. said daring Norse Shoosws enbrilthe on- thsent. Many special feator.iante,, harness and bunter classes. Sept. 2 -7th. Women's war work dramatized in a huge Red Cross Exhibit. Learn there how you too can help the national effort. ai