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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1922-10-12, Page 21922 AN EXCELLENT FISHING SEASON Six MONTHS’ CATCH WORTH MILLION DOLLARS. IS for some time. The of the catch of the first six Known Edible Varieties Total Six Hundred But Only Twenty Are Marketed in Quantity. All indications tend to the conclu­ sion that Canada is experiencing one of the most sucessful and profitable fishing years value months of 1922 was a milion dollars in excess of tihat of the corresponding period in 1921 in spite of a slight de­ cline in prices. When* it is considered that approximately one hundred thous­ and people are engaged in the catch­ ing and processing of fish and at least fifty thousand more in fish merehan- | dizing, it is clear that the bountiful- ■ ness of nature in the sea and fresh- i water fisheries is bound to have its j effect in hastening the return to nor- l mal conditions of Canada’s economic situation. ! The success of fisheries and the bright prospects for the remainder of the year seem consistently spread j over the whole Dominion and to com-1 prise every variety of the commercial catch. The Prince Edward Island lob-I star catch is estimated to amount to something like ten thousand1 cases, or to be about thirty per cent, greater i than last year. The smelt fishery of the island and also of New Brunswick has given returns much in excess of past years. The same excellent conditions pre­ vail in Quebec. The Minister of Col- j onization, on his1 return from a tour of j the province, is quoted as saying, “The salmon fishing this year has been mar­ vellous and is considered by old fisher- men to be the best in the last thirty 1 years.” Cod have also been exception-1 ally plentiful. There has1 likewise! been an abundance of mackerel, some 250,000 pounds1 having left in the first j seven months of the year from the fishing grounds for Montreal, New York and Boston. The fact that Que­ bec now has complete control and ad­ ministration of its tidal fisheries is ex­ pected to result in yet further stimu­ lation and development. Many Blue Nose Vessels Out. i Nova Scotia had a larger number of deep-sea fishing vesels engaged in the spring fishing this year than in any since the war, and their anticipations' of a good season were not belied. This year they have engaged in what has been the best mackerel fishing season in fifteen years, the run of the fish be­ ing in such volume that a total value of something like $2,000,000 is expect­ ed by the conclusion of the season. In July more than one hundred Sail left the port of Louisburg for the sword­ fish fishery in the confident expecta­ tion of a catch in excess' of the mil­ lion pounds shipped from Cape Breton to the United States last season. Fishing in the inland lakes of the North-West is exceptionally good this year, according to government authori­ ties. Lake Winnipeg alone is expect­ ed to produce l,5vu,000 pounds of ( whitefish this season as well as large quantities of pickerel, jackfish and tullibee. Saskatchewan’s inland fish­ eries are expected this year to exceed in value the $300,000 which was the value of the marketed product of 1921, whilst unprecedented activity prevails in the lakes of Northern Alberta and their product maintains its favor in the cities of the United States. At the Pacific extremity of Canada there is the same happy situation. All indications tend to the assumption that the British Columbia salmon catch this year will exceed those of 1920 and 1921 and be about equal to the banner year of 1919. The volume of the halibut catch in Pacific waters is reported to be about three times that of last year. The provincial her­ ring catch exceeded 50,000,000 pounds, of which 45,000,000 pounds were dry salted for export to the Orient. Whale hunting off the British Columbia coast was resumed this year and the fleet is reported to have met with consider­ able success. Expansion on the Pacific Coast. There ai e many signs that the Cana­ dian fishing industry is due for more prosperous times and is achieving a permanent expansion. Greater atten­ tion is being paid to improving the conditions of the industry, whilst new development is expanding actual operations. Certain matters have oc- cupied the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, one being the “rust” in codfish, and the successful discovery of a ready method of pre­ vention is expected to. result in the saving of millions of dollars to Mari­ time fishermen. On the Pacific coast there is con­ tinual expansion to the industry to be noted. A shark tannery is to be oper­ ated on the west coast of Vancouver Island this summer to utilize the hide of the shark and to. extract- the oil for medicinal purposes. Near Prince Ru­ pert another fish by-products plant is being opened up for the manufacture of fish fertilizer and meal and the ex­ traction of fish oil. The plant will operate the year round, and this year will turn out 1,000 tons of fertilizer and 100,000 barrels of fish oil. Further I innovations in the export of fish are i to be noted, and the experiment of ■ sending frozen fish, to New York, via 1 the Panama Canal, has been so suc­ cessful in every way that it is confi­ dently expected a substantial trade will be developed. The Canadian fishing industry, after sufiering a severe slump in the years : immediately following the war, is ex- i hibiting vigorous' indications of re- I vivification, and is on the way back to I the steady progress it exhibited in the i past. | When it is considered that with a production valued at about $30,000,- 000, exports of fish and fish products : of about $60,000,000 and an importa­ tion of about $6,000,000 per year Cana­ da has the most expansive fisheries in I the world, and that of about six hun­ dred known edible varieties merely twenty or so are commercial factors on the market, the practically limit­ less possibilities of the fish industry in Canada may be realized.-------w----— The Study of Human Height. Unless we happen to be discussing a prominent sporting person it is very rare that we are informed of the height of the subject of the conversation. Biographies do not make a note of this item; very few persons can tell the height of their favorite statesman, preacher, or novelist, and yet we have a science closely identified with this matter. Anthropometry, the height, is of intense plays a great part human races and the man. So important is this science that there exists an Anthropometrical Com­ mittee of the British Association, simply to work wholly and entirely on this subject. But despite this acknow­ ledged gravity, how many per ons could tell what are the heights of, say, King George and Mr. Lloyd George? Very few would be able to answer the question definitely, and this is not strange. It is sometimes, hard to dis­ cover what is the actual height of a prominent person. Even the great Napoleon Bonaparte has been variously suggested as 5ft. 2:;., 5ft. l%in., and less than 5ft. 6in. But the captain of the Bellerophon, where he surrendered himself, on measurement found him to be 5ft. 7in., proving how very wide casual notice may be. Napoleon was one of those people who believed in the outstanding abili­ ties of the small man, thinking him the brainest, and, having the courage of his convictions, went so far as to select the shortest for the greatest tasks. What are the heights of our pro­ minent men? King George beats Bonaparte by half an inch, but he is not the shortest ruler, the King of Italy being only 5ft. 2in. King Albert of Belgium is, of course, the tallest, being over 6ft.— 6ft. 2in„ to be exact. Sir J. M. Barrie is 5ft. 5in„ Earl Beatty 5 ft. 7in., showing in great dis­ tinction against such stalwarts as Earl Haig at 6ft. and Sir A. Canon Doyle, who is 6ft. lin. study of human importance, in the study development It of of i Cr Happiness. By Grace M. Frame Happiness comes from within; Money cannot buy it Nor chains confine it; Its source is service Its outlet, humanity. It is free as the air we breathe To rich or poor— It is heard child And in the aged. Open wide heart let it in ; more you give more you shall receive; ■e' * • % I QUEBEC BOOSTS FARMING One of the cars of the “Better Farming Special Train,” organized by the Department of Agriculture of Quebec pro­ vince, and the C.P.R., with the co-operation of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Demonstrations are given in the cars from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 there are lectures illustrated with moving pictures. The car show is devoted to displays of farm engineering, drainage and field crops. NOTED BOOKS NOW BE­ ING FILMED. Numerous Societies and Cor­ porations Are Springing Up Throughout the Dominion. Some time ago Canada was chal­ lenged for its statement, that having no production activities', it could not claim a Moving Picture Industry. The fact that Canadians built theatres, with Canadian capital, operated these theatres, bought pictures from ex­ changes, which had taken out Cana­ dian operating licenses, did not appear to be of sufficient weight to carry the Moving Picture Industry premise. However, our claim to this dignity must now remain unchallenged. From all parts of Canada the information comes of production activities, writes Ray Lewis, Editor, Canadian Moving Picture Digest. Th© publicity bureau of the Board of Trade and Commerce at Ottawa have been producing and are producing pictures in various parts of the Dominion. The Filmcraft pro­ duct, with the co-operation of Cana­ dian Educational and the Star, intro- I duced “Camera Classics” and regis- ; tered picture production in the pro­ vince of Ontario. The Maritime Film Company is starting operations on its second pic­ ture. A company has ben formed in I “The by Alli- of Van- Canyon, already garry School Days.” Henry MacRae is the director and William Colvin production manager for Earnest Ship- ' man, who controls the rights to all of the Ralph Connor stories, marketing them throughout the world. The com­ pany selected to produce Alan Sulli­ van’s much-discussed book, “The Rapids,” passed through Toronto on the 10th of this1 month en route to Sault Ste. Marie, where this stirring romance wil be filmed under the di­ rection of David M. Hartford. Kenneth O’Hara is company manager for Mr. Shipman. On the Pacific Coast. Leading citizens of Vancouver have voted in favor of producing Chivalry of Keith Leicester,” sen Hood. This is a story couver and the Frazer River and a world “market” has been serured, it is said, for this pro­ duction. A committee has been form­ ed at St. John’s, Newfoundland, to make a series of feature productions which will be enhanced by all the pic­ turesque and quaint locations with which Newfoundland’s fishing industry abounds1. The rights to Frederick > Wallace’s stories of sea life, “Viking Blood” and “Blue Water,” have been secured as the first of the series. The Associated Screen News of Canada un­ der the direction of Mr. B. E. Norrish, who organized the Exhibit and Pub- i licity Buresu of the Dept, of Trade and i Commerc..1 Is rteadily producing pic­ tures in all parts of the Dominion and has a most up-to-date plant and labora­ tory in Montreal, climax of (panada’s we are to pave a made in Toronto, story of Toronto’s political life, the ac- Vancouver, B.C., to film Mr. R. G. Mac-i tion of wh|ch takes place in Toronto, Beth’s popular book “Policing the ■ locations Plains”—the company ‘The Canadian Historic Features, Ltd.” under the personal supervision of Forrest B. Cornish. “The Man From Glengarry” lias finished so successfully at Ottawa that Ottawa Film Productions has voted to continue right on with the present organization, making “Glen- Canada under the already mentioned Trademarks; and that off-shoots of these organizations will branch into their own .producing centres. We must not forget to mention the pro­ ducing activities: of Winnipeg, “God’s Crucible” and “Back to God’s Coun­ try,” “Cameron of the Royal Mounted” registering success. - Canadian Authors’ Opportunity. Canadian authors are getting their opportunity in Canana’s picture pro­ duction, so are the many independent Canadian Exchanges -which are spring­ ing up without U.S. affiliations, and concentrating on the idea of handling Canadian productions. We must not neglect to mention the formation of various Canadian Syndicates, which have brought pictures into Canada to market; and this idea, appears to be one which will be very much repeated and elaborated on. Canadian invest­ ors look up the finished picture as a buy for Canada, a safe investment and conducive of satisfactory returns. Canadian Screen News Reels have been adopted by the majority of the leading producers who handle this kind of reel. This year saw the formation of the Canadian Cinema Arts Society, The Laval Photoplays Corporation with Mr. L. Ernest Ouimet as president and managing director. The purpose is. to produce stories in California special Canadian interest and The Crescent Films, Ltd., was ganized at Montreal' and will “Talking Moving Pictures.” Ian Film Syndicate of Montreal p-ans to erect a studio in that city for the production of Several U.S. have travelled scenes on particularly desirable loca­ tions. Ottawa reports a real “film colony;” and if production activities continue to be as active in the com­ ing year as the past, we will have film colonies throughout the Dominion. with a appeal, also or- handle The Lel- Mental Hazards. Interesting Items Often a man alters1 his. face after he faces the altar. No one is so empty as. the man who is full of himself. Flattery is the bridle upon which you may drive meet men. Jumping at ccnelusions is about the fly mental exercise, some people take. The word “psychology” was formed soul and 1 • I taking life it hard’ for from the Greek words science. Seme people’s idea of easy stems to be making the rest of us. Glasgow University, founded in 1450, is the oldest in Scotland, except St. Andrew’s. Rust and corrosion' of metal is re­ sponsible for an annual world wastage cf $2,500,000,000. The fact that it is easier to do right when the others are doing it is one reason for choosing good company. I A camel, when burdened', can travel twenty-five miles a day; when un­ burdened, as many as sixty to seventy The crowns of the former Imperial family of Ruslsrla-, valued at $350,- 000,000, are to be sold by the Soviet Government, it is said. Most of the nitrate factories in Chili are now in British hands. Before the war Germany took 40 per cent, of the exports for use in her beet fields; A woman is like a book written in at least a do-zen languages, and a man who can read them all is calEed a misogynist. miles. The largest newspaper in the world is to be found in Aix-la-Chapelle Mu­ seum, although it is of American origin. Its pages measure by 6 feet. No sitting accommodation gregations was provided in before the fourteenth century. People sat on straw or rushes laid on the floor. In the Polar regions conversation can be carried' on with ease at a mile to a mile and a quarter. This is be­ cause the air is cold clear, and extra­ ordinarily still. —--------—--------- Autumn. Autumn, autumn, give me of » crimson, Give it me for curage, for the^year has left me meek, And your crimson banners flying, as the sign of your defying,’ Shall dare my heart’s denying the patience of the weak. 3 feet for con- churches your i And to cap the part in producing, series of pictures The first stirring Janlon’s Point and the Har­ bor. The febory is by Hopkins Moor­ house. Th| rights to this story have been secured by Ernest Shipman, and he promies; that this is but the first of a which Other other series of feature productions we are to have produced here, information reveals that many productions will be made in * NO SAFETY spuds are white and mealy, I like them smoking hot; eat them freely my doctor cries, “Great Scott! You rcipplingRhume The but if I weigh too much already, yet such things you will chew! gain in weight is steady, in spite of all I do! Your face hectic, your pulse hits up a gait; a spa<sm apoplectic will get scon or late.” The roast is large and stately, the gravy rich brown, and I am longing greatly to pour such victuals down, says the learned physician, “Cut out such grub as that, or soon the pale mortician will bear you from your flat. I have to watch and guard you throughout the weary years, you blamed old bonehead bard, you, to save you from the bier.” Such is the fate of fellows who do not toil or spin, who ply no blacksmith’s bellows, or make cars out of tin; in gilded ease reclining, their lot seems far from hard; but when it comes to dining, all goodly things are barred. I watch the toiler plodding, as homeward he repairs from ditching or from sodding to eat five Belgian hares. I think his lot’s a daisy, no doctors round him lurk; but I am too blamed lazy to go outdoors and work. Canadian scenarios, producing companies to Canada to “shoot” We Hope So. He was only seven, but they allow­ ed him to go to school by himself. His little suit was brand new when he set off, but when he came back in the afternoon the entire trousers tad gone. His mother met him at his return. “Oh, Willie,” she said, didn’t walk home like that?” “It’s all right, mother,” Willie. “No one saw me, for I all the way backwards.” seat of his the door on replied walked for the glaring Found at Last. A dear old lady, in London first time in her life, saw a sign on the front of a high building which read: “The Smith Manufactur­ ing Company.” “Lawks a mercy!” she remarked to her nephew. “I’ve heard of Smiths all my life, but I never knew where they made ’em.” Autumn, autumn, give me of your yel­ low, Give it unto me for hope, the hope I could not hold, For where your gold is burning I feel the dream returning, The darling pain of yearning whose passing left me old. Autumn, autumn, take me to your heart so, The bold heart, the singing heart whose strength- shall strong, Send my healed life foring of your wearing, Your gold and crimson against a grief too long. —Theodosia Garrison. make me in colors bearing, Something Saved. Mary’s mistress, awaiting tea, heard loud crash in the next room. lady shivered and rang the bell to Mary in. “What was that?” she asked. “I tripped on the rug and the things fell, ma’am.” “Did you manage to save anything?” “Yes, ma’am. I kept hold on the tray all right.” a The call tea- Ce Any golfer knows that it makes a lot of difference, when he comes to a hazard, if he heartily believes in himself and in what the club in his hand will do to the ball. Perhaps as he locks from the tee he sees before him a shaggy down­ ward: slope and then a stream, ruffled by the breeze, and on the further bank a small patch of green-sward, with trees close to it. He knows that everything depends on the one first shot, the drive,' which must land the ball on the turf beyond the water. Can he do it? Whether he can or not, he must believe he can. He must tell himself he can. His mental atti­ tude before he makes the move is everything. All through.life there is the parallel of the experience of the links, the dia­ mond, the gridiron, the polo field. Many a man comes short of the suc­ cess that he might reach because he yields to a sapping fear in his own nature. It is the structural weakness in his character that he takes counsel not of his intent and untried capaci­ ties, but of his doubts. It is so easy to stay put, in the same spot year after year, cautiously on the defen­ sive, voting to make no change and to do nothing. This vegetative sloth is even easier than to take the line of least resistance, for it involves no action at all. We create bogeys readily. We tell ourselves and others that there are lions in the way. The mental hazard becomes as formidable an obstacle as any physical barrier. In fact, it is the most serious impediment of all, for it prevents even a start. The mental hazard is often a mir­ age that disappears when you move nearer; a mist which the bright sun of the morning dissipates. Half the time to face a difficulty is to put it to flight. We are like timorous hunt­ ers, screwing up their courage to at­ tack big game, and then finding it is more alarmed than they are. Worry is more murderous than war­ fare. It slaughters peace of mind as warfare shatters the peace of nations, and it counts its victims by the thou­ sands in settled communities. We must give battle to our own nerves, sometimes, as soldiers fight a crafty and unscrupulous foe. Our minds were not given us to make us afraid of the plain duty that lies before us; they were not designated to point out to as the futility of struggle, and compe­ tition, and ambition. They were meant to give us good advice, to tell us how to live, to bid us go ahead, in good cheer and confidence, unafraid. ----------<»---------- The Value of Singing. Let everybody sing as much as pos­ sible every time the opportunity offers. Troubles melt away before good lusty song like the blizzard before the blaz­ ing sun. If business men only realized the po­ tency of song there would be services of song to begin the day’s work in thousands of factories. If things look blue—sing a little, cheer up, take a fresh start. Nothing can be made bet­ ter by worrying. Song in the heart makes the mind and the muscles a hundred times more willing, axiom workers e.d their Have saved a interesting of the mediaeval stories. When that terrible plague the “Black Death” swept over Europe in the four­ teenth century, whole cities were wiped out and thousands of homes be­ came pest houses. In the Town of Golberg, one of the citizens remained in his home and gradually watched all human traffic in the streets cease. It was a city of death—not a soul stirred in any of its avenues. Finally this man decided that he was not going to die like a rat in a hole, especially since it was Christmas Eve—the gladdest time of the year. So he bravely put on his hat and went into the streets singing “For Unto Us a Child is Born.” His action was duly rewarded, and the result was that , many lives were saved, including, of course, his own. That is as true as the ages. The of all centuries have lighten- labors •with song. you ever heard how singing town? It is one of the most Duty. Earth sets a task to every soul That in her realm belongs; For one, to dig her ditches; For one, to sing her songs; One thunders in her forums; One makes her forge fires glow; One lulls a child to slumber, With music soft and low; To one, she hand, The bauble While others tasks For laborers’ pay—or less; Yet when she’s had her way with us, tier glory’s net the test; They only fail, who labor here, Who fail to do their best. —Waldo T. Davis. holds with partial Athanksgiving of the Athe portals of your A A Oh, called Success; ply her hardest And The The Its quantity is immeasurable, Its quality is the fineness of Your soul. in the laughter of a A New Attraction. A man who had been engaged to write a circus poster suddenly found himself at a loss for a fresh adjective. “See here,’ he said to his employer, “I don’t know what to say about this panther. Have you a thesaurus?” The manager of the circus looked at him with suspicion. “No, sir, I have not,” he said, “and I don’t think I shall do anything about getting one this year. I never heard of a circus having one, either, and I’ve known some good shows. Where are they raised, anyway. I’d like to know?” My Home. tiny hamlet, nestling ’neath God's protecting arms; priceless jewel of nature's lavish­ ness— fragment of God’s beauty transform­ ed into a spot, breath of the Divine in its creation, those whose eyes are surfeited with artificial lures, Whose souls are stifled with all earth­ ly dross, Should come apart and on these moun­ tains gaze With eyes from which the dust of Life is brushed And souls stripped of all that is un­ real To pierce the clouds that hide Eter­ nity. —Mrs. J. H. Cruickshank. Help and share with others. The real test of business greatness lies in giving opportunity to others. ----------.>---------- A company in Brazil is preparing to produce paper from straw wood of a native pine tree, turing chemical wood pulp first time in that country. and the manufac- t’or the little flame that you could crush between your thumb and finger if given the opportunity, in the hands of a careless person, h^.s the poten­ tiality of devastating ths city.