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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-12-25, Page 6WEDNESDAY, A1)C', 25th, 1929 THE B R U S ELS POST CANADA'S NORTH IS LAND OF PROMISE U. S. Writer Advises Youths to Seek Fortunes There --.Big Things Done —No Other Development in His- tory Can Compare With It. Basten, Dec. 9,—"Illimitable de- velopment in Canada's Noxthle.nd" Is one of many striking phrases ta• ken from a book just off the preen on the Dominion's new era of ra- pid development, A. Canadian should have written the work, but it was rum American who did so, And poi. ,heaps it is better 'thus. A Canadian author aright have, been' suspected cif booming his own country, An nutsider limiting of Canada may be conceived to have written dispas sionately,' states the Christian Sci• sin e:e Menitor.. ADVICE TO AMERICANS In "Go. North .. Young Man (M,;• Clelland et Stewart, Toronto), Co- urtney Ryerson Cooper has some, what altered .••Horace Greeley's ad• 'vice of two generations ago. 4ftet giving much study to his subject, he thinks that young Americana should seek their fortunes in this Dominion and ,its steadily marching frontiers. He is fascinated by the. •big things he has lately seen being done in northern 'Quebec, northern Ontario, norther Manitoba., northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and the northwest Territories even to the Arctic circle and beyond. Mr. Cooper repeats the f,orecast that Canada will some day be dom- inant state of the )3ritish Empire, and he proceeds to explain why the new country is. making giant strides after being quilescent for so long The reason, he says, is the New North, crammed with minerals, thundering with possibilities for' hydro -electric development, suf- ficiently tillable at intervals to as sure small fortunes to hard-working pioneers. And everywhere it bristles with the spires of soft woods which will return almost ton for ton in newsprint and sulphide patters, to say nothing of the development, to of cellulose fibre which produces the silky rayon and kindred pro- ducts. This is the land which lately belonged only to the Indian trapper and the dogsled driver, to the wan- dering factor of the Hudson Bay Company. and the lone French -Can - 'Italian pioneer. g The area unsier development ra- pidly spreads and, says the author, "As the sten pour in, so pour the millions of dollars, hundreds upon hundreds of them, money from the United States, from elder Canada, from England.. , . Twenty-five mil- lion for this; a hundred millions for something else ; twenty million_ more for a. year's railroad building ten million for the development of a single mine, another million for prospecting —just to find out if apiece of ground is worth spending a real sum of money anon." SPRANG UP OVERNIGHT So suddenly, overnight seemingly, the North .Country began to crack wide open. A crevice is extending across t)•' north of the whole Do. minion not+:, widened more in the last three years than in all the his- tory of Canada. From Labrador, across the Ungava country, into northern Quebec, across the New North of Ontario, and through thu Patricia district into Manitoba:, and •F, CANADIAN JUDGE RETIRES Judge Choquette of Quebec, who has announced his intention to re- tire fiom the Bench. It is expected that he will continue to act in an advisory capacity. northward into the Barren Lands an beyond ecrosss the Saskatchewan and Alberta, and British Columbia, and into the Yukon, the northward push is going forward like the skirinishing lines of a tremendous army. The westward flow of empire ins the history of the United States its puny compared to it. In fact, there is no comparison ; the dramatics of the ,Alaskan rush were easier to de- scribe because they were concen- trated. But they were no more pre- valent. . As the 'writer points out, this northward push, incidentally, is not one which merely quests for gold or other minerals, like the chase al 98.. It includes agriculture, and the opening up • of farming districts, but it is not solely concerned with that, as was the opening of Okla- ltonra and Cherokee Strip. It con- cerns railroad building, under al- most as many hardships and priva- tions as those of the buildings of the Kansas Pacific and the Union Pacific but that, too, is a compon- ant. For there is everything in the swing to the north, manufacturing, agriculture, Haines, water pollee; the hope of oil and coal smelters, railroads, opening of new steamship lines, cities all that these are the Impulses of a country which has been, until the last few years, n frontier in every sense of the word, As might be expected, the auth- or deals with the great Laurentian Plateau or Pre-Gambrian Shield, which occupies most of central and northern Canada overlapping for a few miles into the United States south and west of Lake Superior. Starting with this slight extension of the Canadian shield extension of the Canadian ghield into Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Ise poirittt out that is,hns given the world the the Michigan copper mines and the fllesaba iron range, upon which is based most of the industrial pros- perity of ane -half the republic. In Canada, the same mineral forma - Hone have provided most of the widely distributedmining camps of all the central provinces. VAST WATER POWER As already indicated, CLnadn's rapid development in tare last few years is mused in great measure it Ute aboundant wide distribution of her water powers, which provide ample motive energy for the utiliz- ation of her pulp forests and min- eral resources. The "Duke -Price' interests on the Saguenay River isminalenarlepeffiert There are a great many ways 'to do a ?ob of printing ; blit quality printink is only done one way—THE BEST, We do printing of all kinds, and no matter what your needs may be, from name card .to booklet, we do it. the quality way. P. S,—We also do It in a way to save you money, 7hePost Publishing House are developing more than one mil• lionhorsepower for one project' alone, the control of the world's aluminum market, One unit is in operation. sand the rest are under construction. To gain a true idea of the water powers available, all one has to do is to visualize an in dustrial map of Canada .from the east to the west, It is an incessant string of pulp and paper mills lo- cated between the Atlantic end the prairie provinces, 132 in all, all 01 then running on water power, and some of these power plants develop ing as much as 100,000 horsepower After ane finishes with •the paper mills, one can turn to the smelters and mine millswhich are clottiltt Canada from the Rockies to 'Quebec —and 'again it is the muskeg water that is turning out the copper, the gold, the silver, and the lead and zine to keep a nation busy with manufactures, Tito writer does: not overlook the early part played by the Gentlemen Adventurers Trading into Hudson Bay. The Hudson's Bay Company has, within the last eight years, es ta.biished more posts within the ar- ctic circle than existed in all ;its previous history. The romance of the Hudson's Bay Railway and Fort Churchill are touched upon, but even thea, do not approximate to the Farthest North. NO LAST FRONTIER There will be no last frontlet for Canada until the arctic cirelt has been reached and crossed by a workaclay world, until business men talk as casually of going there aro as they now speak of going out to Denver in the United States, across what once was the great American desert. Nor will the frontier stop -with the passage of the arctic cir- cle. In these days of 100 -mile -an - hour airplanes, which have replace - ed the slow canoe and plodding covered wagon in the work of ex- ploration and development, it is just as logical to think of a route to the northern por- tions of Europe by traveling across the roof of the world, as it once was to think of crossing the continent with a railroad. As the writer puts it, what silt happens in the next five years is. of course, a conjecture, but one niusf naturally gauge the future by the Past. A year and a half ago there was not a gasoline cache or an air- plane base north of Fort Churchill To -day there are 40 prospecting bases, gas and food caches between Hudson Bay and the Rocky Mount- ains, most of them established be the N. A. M. E. organized by Jack Hammell, of Dominion' Explorers, Ltd., organized by Colonel MacAl- pine of Ventures, Ltd., who was re- cently lost for two months in tie arctic, and by the Lindsleys of New England. The Only Hoare She Knows Little blue - eyed, auburn - haired Gracie, was born in the Toronto hos- pital for Consumptives, where her mother, not yet in her twenties, is a Patient. The only home Bracco has ever known, or Is likely to knot- for some time to come, is the Queen Mary Hospital and Yreventorium. No, she has not her mother's ailment, but constant care is needed that she m•.y not develop the disease. Sometimes she goes to see her mother, but can only talk with her at some distance, for It would be dan- gerous for mother to take her In bur arms as she longs so to do, Such are the dramas, the tragedies and the rescues daily enacted at these hospitals, In their never-ending, life- saving work. Your help is urgently needed. "ill you please send a contribution to College CStroet,n Toronto 2. Ames, 223 Ittlalre-LOOK AT YOUR LABEL ♦ .. INGHAIVI Monumental ' WORKS Has a large and complete stook of Family Memorials in newest designs at very reasonable prices. Call and see us before pia°-' ing your order, R, A. SPOTTON PhonoCofuee2Ge Wingham r -� AGENCIES HEALTH AGENC S PLAN CO-OPERATION Canadian Associations, with $2,000,- 000 Annual Budgets Meet in Ottawa. Very quietly, and without benefit of publicity, agencies that expend annually 32,000,000 in promotion of Canadian health met at Ottawa the other day to discuss ways and means of co-ordinating, their efforts and eliminating overlapping. So successful was this effort to bring into the field of national health the same spirit of co-opera- tion that is snaking giant business merges ene of the signs of thej times, that the fourteen ageneiec participating are considering adopt- ing a set annual date for regularly' pooling this wisdom and mutually arranging their programmes. The meeting was called by Dr. J. H. Icing, Minister of Pensions and National Health, and presided over by Dr. J. A. Amyet. A list of the organizations represented, follows : Red Cress, Canadian Tubercul- osis Association, Canadian Hygiene Council, Canadian Council on Child and family welfare, St. John Am- bulance Association, Canadian Dent- ist Hylene Council, Canadian Nur- ses' Association, National Council of Women, Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Federation of French Canadian Women, and Victoria Order of Nurses. Discussion revealed the pleasing fact there is very little work that is being covered by more than one agency, and what slight overlapping there •is will be eliminated by .lose co-operation. Pen for More Vegetables next Yecsr Vegetables are so much tastier and more wholesome when fresh from the Barden, that every farm home should have home-grown veg- etables. A good garden still eave money, improve the health of the family, and provide more -eat) pleasure than any other acre • on the farm. Plans should be nmde in the au -1 tumn for next season's vegetable; garden. Locate it near to the farm� buildings is possi'ile, but arrange it so that many of the vegetables can be grown in long, straight rows with mince enough between for a horse and cultivator. Select a rich,' warm, sandy loam soil as this will meet the requirements of most or the vegetables to be grown, On many farms the potato or root field will most nearly meet the require - ments When the site is chosen, make a definite plan with so many feet of rows for each sort of veg- etable ; one hundred feet is usual- ly enough for the average fancily for many kinds, and much mare than is required: for radish, lettuce or parsely, but .much longer rows should be grown of vegetables that can be stared for winter. Deep autumn ploughing should be used to cover a heavy dressing of barnyard manure for most veget- ables, with the exception of toma- toes for ripening, which do not re- quire extra manuring. For the best results tit- soil should be worked to good tilth early. To insure the fertility well rotted manure can be dug In with a digging fork. The following seeds are some which can be sown early in the open : beets, crrots, lettuce, onions, parsnips and peas ; seeds to be sown in the open after danger from frost is over ; beans, corn, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkin end squash ; seeds to be started in hot -beds ; cabbage, caul- iflower and celery. Many other veg- etables can be added if there is land and time to take care of them. 73• ++ 4' ata. r. 47.4 •w:' �%' &1� LADY'S COLUMN. .46 BOW YOKE Green, brown and white fleck it tan tweed suit with peplum flare is its coat. The black yoke is cut so it looks like a big flat bow. PALE ROSE BLOUSE A dark brown skirt and cardigan suit of jersey has a charming nate rose jersey blouse with crystal but tons and is lined with pink. LEFT -OVER POTATO Mix one cup of left -over potato with two tablespoons of tapioca, one cup cooled, scalded milk, two teaspoons grated cheese, one cup crumbs and one ,slightly beaten egg, mold into croquettes and fry in deep fat. PUFF SLEVES Party frocks for those under 28 use puff sleeve occasionally with great success. A purple net, very long gown has a wide, square do- colletage and full short sleeves. PINE CONES One of the nicest Sunday night supper attractions in the world is a crackling pine cone fire in the fire- place. The children can gather cones on their hikes. The Chris turas tree should be saved for this use, too. EXTRA DECORATIONS When there :are children in the family it is worth while to have a' few jars of surh decorative extras ' us fancy chocolate ehevinzt, pink smear and colored caraway- ,,i,t to sprinkle over the tops of cookies white ce c s and puddings for an extra appetizing touch. SEAT -STICK UMBRELLAS England has invented a neat ant- j Leena which is also a seat -tick. It! hoe a leather hammock :eat and a metal stem covered with pigskin, crocodile or lizard, which un -:rein at the top to reveal a silk uml,rrlla. It is a novelty which will be much appreciated by folks who follow the horses in any and all kinds of wee: Pl1BLIO CSE LYd AIVUI)IiNDS. People of Cantukt Own 92 Out of !,!very 100 Acres of !sorest Lattd, pew people in, Canada yet realize that ninety-two out of everyhundred acres of forest land. In Canada, are owned by the people of Canada, says !forest and Outdoors: These are crown lands adnttnistered by ilovernmeuts for the benefit of the people. Owner- ship entails responsibility. It remains l then for you and ale to husband this forest land of out's first by protecting the forests train flreaand insects, and ; secondly by treating the green tim- ber as a crop .and managing it as sttclt, says this writer. There is hardly a school olcild but recognizes that Canada's wheat crop spells to thousands of Cauadian !lies each year prosperity or the re- verse, according as the wheat crap 1s a success or a !allure. B".1 d•, oven aislisi.:::":: rt t t':':. it b• ,•quail, important? Igor the Dom- inion tot r whole the forest is second only to ,tea ianfiar,• 121 the value of its menthe:s. In primary production it tura/Baal in 1938 one and a half (lines tat- value of the products of the Introit and seven times the value of thu fisheries. There is invested in tike lumber and pulp and paper In- dustries alone some $676.000,000, two-thirds of this in the pulp and Iaaser irtaustry. In Cat:adathese in- du..tries employ 100,000 nun in the hush, factory and mill, while arnci- sattde are: cmpioycd in other moan- faetories dependi nt on wood. The salaries 1.atl wag's paid at„t:u:ily in the forest industries amount to over 1100.eo0,000. Add to the above the fact that20 p r cent a of the entire freight linl•age on Canadian railways is procid:d by tree crops and tha.. tour at mantes, widely distributed to merchant and settler, amount to 310 tact year for every man, woman and child, and it should not be hard to visualize the tree crop as a golden ell•tam forever flowing into Canadian pockets—if we keep our forests productive. oown a savings neelt, The relative, do not know what the book 'valoids or where the account was opened, ; They write, giving no elms at all. We have more titan 10,000,000 'live' ae- counts, but wo frequently succeed in i tracing the money left-hy decease! persons.. Several times our experts have spent days in tracing accounts, only to find that they amount only to about 2s.” d' The Dual Purpose Cow TOEST PURR LOVER. Few Birds Are Smarter Than a Bride- groom Partridge. Farmers say the partridge is the beat bird that flies. Whether sports- men or not, they like to see the coveys on their land, and they know the partridges lead blameless lives !n the master of harming their crops, says Marcus Woodward in Pearson's. In the first mild days of the new year the partridge coveys break into pairs. Then begins a long courtship of five months or more before they settle to nest. Naturally, there are quarrels and duels. Since the June before, the covey has been an harmonious fam- e ily, the birds acting as one, day and . nigh:. As they begin to drift away into pairs, there may be odd bachelor birds, sad they make trouble for all. A cock and hen, having agreed to a mate•h, the two birds will be in- eeparable through the summer. No bird is a more gallant courtier than the cock partridge. . On the morning when the covey finally breaks up for the summer, the birds are in high spirits, chasing one another, sparring and cutting all manner of capers. A pair of birds take their time over nesting, and examine every likely spot in the hedgerows of the small area on which they have settled them- selves. Many dangers moat be faced, in the form of stoats, weasels, foxes, crows and hawks. Side by side the two roam their little domain, and as spring goes on the cock makes ever more fuss over his mate, calling to her constantly, and Muting har food, while his plum - .n .tut$ more chintua Few w birds an., smarter than a bridegroom partridge. When they have a brand, if my accident should b•'fall the hen, the cock will take over all her duties. }lc can do everything for the chicks as well as the. hen—exit,pt. lay eggs. SAVINGS BANii PROBLEMS. Pass Books are frequently Lost by - Patrons. Forty thousand pass books are said to he lost annually Lt patrons of the British Post 011ie:t Savings Bank, tetys a eorrespondent to the London Mail. ther. Au ,.til:iai stated: "se regularly- do we receive these appeals, and so steady is the annual to.al of lost hooks, that we Ira; e had to set tap 11 special branch to :meal with tin tn. IUut the ingenuity this branch luta to show Is not ncae•ir ash -.:rt as ivat ueadod i;y sn,t.;,,1 stet fait of our in- ves.igatot•s. We fri.quea,lp rtseive letter's front ilio relatives as ades eared coutrihator wh.t may it t' Montreal with Pen and Pencil ' a One of the oldest most picturesque end historic cities on this continent—the city of it/entreat has ballad a worthy biography in the wort: of lute•! Iviorin and the wellknown Canadian Academi i..tn Charles W. Simplon, who have letween them pro- duced, under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Ralhtiay, a description in words and drawings bearing the above title. Written originally in French it has been rendered into English m aj translation that convenes i-? rye. .to.3 attruti.hurtr of tis hook.Tn "oricl.eir r, ttl', tel t at fS✓r h ,1 'meg tr,•e-,:ttifiants of 1 „tri:, t bat tire in tuenistl.t, '5.,rt, a rt the tory of she city is told for the past three imitated tears. Lay out shows two contorted and typit'al scenes: the famous church of Notre Dante, second largest .on the continent; and Bonsecours maritet that resembles a scene taken from a city of Normandy. Some have questioned the exist- enc° of such an animal as the dual purpose cow. However, the fact re- mains that many Shorthorns of good bee'. conformation • produce sufficient milk to return a profit to their Owner, -side fen+n the v'i'le of their collas which make good feeders. These qualities constitute dual purposes stock and by reason of such qualities many farmers »re- fer this strain of Shorthorn to any other class of cattle. No intellicnt breeder of such stock pretends to compete with the aairy breeds ill average production of milk Per head, nor as a rule does he pretend to compete with the straight heef breeds in the show ring but he is a strong contender for highest poi. ition as measured by net returns' 1t the end of the year. The Shorthorn herd at the Do- minion Experimental Station, Scott, Sask. was started in 1921 with no outstanding producers. During the eight succeeding years two cows have made records approximating 1000 pounds ; six cows have over 0000 pounds to their credit, and eleven have made records of over 5000 pounds. The herd has been inspected by great many visitors and no person has questioned the suitability of these animals for beef and waiting lists are on file centirrua.11y for breeding stock. The records referred to were made without undue forcing. During the winter months the meal mixturo used constituted of 500 pounds of oats chop, 100pounds bran and 100 pounds oil cake meal. From six to ten pound- of this mixture was fed -per head per day supplemented with prairie hay and sunflower silage. When on pasture in summer, a light feed of oat chop was give,' at the time of milking. The meal mise' Lure for 1929-30 has been altered for winter feeding and is made up as follows : 300 pounds bran, 300 pounds oat chop, 150 pounds bar- ley chop and 200 pounds oil cake meal. Since the autumn of 1927 the herd sire has been Red Marquis 156496 sired by Thanet Marquis (Imp.) which is the sire of White Molly having a record of 18,346 pounds of milk. The dam of Red Marquis was Rc ebud 12 (Imp-) with a record of 11,629 pounds of milk. Messages by Heliographs Heliographs have been successful- ly used for the regular transmission of me sages between Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. and a station in the Prince Albert National Park over disture of 30 miles. More than halt the population of Dutch Guiana is composed of not ive Indians. Chile is more thn 2600 miles long while its breadth nowhere ex- ceeds xceeds 250 miles Each of the huge steel doors of the Bank of England vaults weighs 12 tons. The so -caller English walnut is not English at all, but comes from Clans, In Germany each year about four' thous::ad persons request (Alicia' permission to change 'their sur- names. Holland has almost Ls many miles of canals as of railroads or roads. ti *In trAP14 ,t. ante We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per ib. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited