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The Brussels Post, 1924-8-6, Page 6OUTDOOR RECREATION CONFERENCE lmport;ance of Recreation Frew National Health Standpoint -*Canada Participates in Washington Meeting. A great forward movement in a on- recreation. The crowding oY people aetvatton, and one that affects Canada into great urban centres on the one proAandly, was tnaugeratod by Press- hand and the development of the ante, dent Coolidge in the convoking at mobile on the outer have changed the Washington, May 22 to 24, of the first outlook of the people of North Atneri- Natkonal Qntdoor Recreation Confer- ca in regard to outdoor recreation in ence. M this conference, whloh em- one generation. braced national and etas organize- The great majority of the people ne tions, Canada was repreuented upon hanger have, as they had thirty eeara the special invitation of the President ego, open spaces near at band for ro- ot the United States. It was intended creation; and the automobile has pre-. that Canada should be represented by vided the means by which they may Mr. W. W. Cory, Deputy Minister at escape into the forests, the meuntaine, the Department of the Interior, and and along the watereattrses. The hold - Mr. J.' B. Harkin, Cominlsstoner of ing of this conference indicates that Canadian National Parks; Owing to people have suddenly awakened to the unforeiso0n circumstances Mr.' Har- fact of which leaders in both ("tends I in was prevented from attending and and the pnited States' have been to Mr. Cory fell the duty of acting for aware for some years that the health Canada at the various meetings'' of the an dtl�pociency of the in no small ation re oneare going conference. , to e Canada could not remain aloof from maintenance of national parks, game a conference of this kind even should preserves, game sanctuaries, forest she desire to do se,, because outdoor reserves, and other open areas, and recreation, in the broad termsin which upon the wise administration of pro - it was dealt with on this occasion, in- per laws respecting the protection of valves the international guardianship game animals, game and Insectivorous of fish, migratory birds, boundary birds, and fish: The view taken a few waters, pollution of streams, intorno"; years ago was that national parks tional games, and lnternatioual recroa-1 with their beautiful scenery and their tional travel. The Dominion is al-' wild animals living in a state of na- ready In touch with these subjects at ture ministered only to the sentiment - a dozen points and the chief work of . al side of life, but it fa now seen that the conference was to emphasize and t the very stamina of the nation is de - organize the activities they involve, ;pendent upon these playgrounds, and The personnel of the conference in- y Canada has shown that sbe does not d any part of the d! t e the important place the sub- intend to be behln Above aro shown the Duchess of York, tho Prince of. Wales, and Gni Duke of York (behind Prince), Photographed in a moment of fun on one of the roller -coasters at Wembley. BEAUTIFUL GEMS ARE F �1 a BUTCOMMON MINERALS pest as the dreaded eipsy moth has trees .have been killed outright in THE MENACE OF THE GIPSY MOTH A Forgotten Colony. A. few yoare ago mere than tease hundred, lair -hatred, blue-eyed people The appearance et the gipsy rnotl III dogllnir with the present eituatlan were dllt Covered on a 1iidio is#ttttd east (l+ortbetria d1epar) near Alburg, Vel'- the Dopnrtmont of Agriculture wilt of Java, All their nelgbbore belong to Mont; about Nall .a n410 00ntlt of the else place a domestic quarantine on the Malay race, and they themselves Cameda•United States bnandery hue , the sante area. • Iu addition to the area speak only Malay; Yet each new-born elven rise to conditions affecting na- upon which the embargo will be child in the colony le as. pinit end tura! resources and their utilization placed, ,there will, it le expected, be a white as city baby born on the Hoer of which the Government of Canada, restricted area, alae about 10 miles engraeiht of Amsterdam. Ilow d14 as well as that of aha province of Rue- to width, lmmedtately adjolniug• IJai they happen 10 bo living theree bee, ever on the alert to protect the dor the proposed regulation Christeate it was not envy for them to give an interests of citizeue, baro taken cog- trees and Christmas greens may be aocount of thebr origin, but 1130 roeords nlzance. As a result of rho discovery moved from m the reetrlotee arse pro- of this infestation, the 'United States ',ided the shipments are accompanied being• investigated allowed what moat Government intend to place an em• by a Dominion certificate of origin have happened, In 1885 the company, barge on that area of southern Quebec which states teat the trees or greens which in those days conducted its in .general about 10 miles 1n width int• were grown at' some point within the business as it it wore a governmeut, mediately, adjotning the International restricted area or outside of the landed on the little isle of IUsse eight Boundary to prohibit the ehipment of quarantined area. Dutch soldiers with their wives, Un- Ohrletmas trees and Chrletmas greens The Eetontological Branch of the der a sergeant by -the name of Kaffyn to tbe Uuited States. The shipping of Department 00 Agriculture will this. they were placed. there to guard soh trees or greens front the Ver- summer and 001umn, in close Co -opera• against the peachinga of the Porta- moist area to other parte of the United tion with the Department of Lands guess, from whom the Dutch had States hoe already been prohibited by and iroresta o1 the Quebec Govern- taken many poseesalons in the Emit state leglsiati0n. hn'eat conduct intensive scouting Indian archipelago,Then the little The consequences which arise from throughout southern Quebec. Federal colony apparently was forgotten; the We situation aro important. In the and provincial officers will combine to records of the ,company show nothing first place there is the danger to our form 'small. crews to examine trees, further concerning th.ent• resources should the peat really gain fences, posts, eta, along made, rat]- The story of the original settlers has 'a foothold in Canada and there le the` ways, in orchards, as well es scout been brought down from one genera - immediate stoppage of the sale of outer places where it is thought the tion to another! since their landing Christmas trees and Christmas greens gipsy moth may have become estab• more than two centuries a 'half ago from this part of Quebec No ship- tithed. only four generations have been born went' from such area will be allowed. Pow inseotes have been so castle as on the !eland. Kaffyn, the preaeut entry into the 'United States of the bee the gipsy moth• Millions' of dol chief of Kissa, is the great -great -grand - following: sprues, fir, hemlock, Dine, lare have been spent In its conttoldur- son of the original Sergeant Kaffyn, juniper, and cedar; and holly and ing the last' fifteen yeas in the New who was 1n charge of the squad that laurel. are,• !England Stator; and It would indeed landed there, The importance of protecting ohr,be serious if infestations are found in ea the little group had eaten It - forest and other trees from such a Canada. Important areas of woodland self out of provisions and found that no ships wore likely to lana there any more they turned - to cultivating the rather •barren soil. For two years tbey had a hard tight for life. Fortuuatte ly, they had some corn and potatoes from their little e•tore, and they did well with irrigation.. Tho few cocoa- nuts that they found were also plant• ed and cultivated. The climate is mild, so' that the need for food and clothing was not so urgent as tbat of the Pilgrims, who reached our coasts earlier in the same century. In time with economy and industry the plots surrounding the little dwellings looked almost like Dutch gardens. Thesoldiers and their wives had been trained in'religlpu at home. Cast` upon their own resources, they chose one of their group to be their teacher and preacher, They elected another Chief. In time they came into con- tact with the natives of the little isle and with those of surrounding islands too. They mastered the foreign tongue.; and so well did the children take to the native language that pre Aatly they forgot their fathers' bang - nage altogether. When during the lat• ter part of the nineteenth century the forgotten colony was redlscorerod not one of the inhabltanta was able to re- spond to the inquiries that were made to them in Dutch; in Lour generations the old tongue had been'completely lost, The people hap° readily taken up with their cousins from, Holland and are now regaining their knowledge both of the tongue and of the customs of the Dutch. Many of the young men have left the island to serve tbe gov- ernment of Holland• in some capacity either in Java or in one of the ether Islands of the East Indies. e Is Your Character Worth a senappreciated by the Departulent ureas where it has gained a foothold. ! of Agriculture for many years, and ill' Apple, oak, birch, alder, and willow ca e1 addition to introducing into Eastern are the favored trees upon which the jeot occupies in the minds of the lead -'continent in developing these safe- ing men of the United States. It was ` guards for her people- This has been G rnet Pines s its Chief Use as All abrasive—Found in Many I. Canada large numbers cf parasites of caterpillars fend. Other trees such as called and opened by President Cool- evidenced by what has been done in Parts of Canada. ache insect, collected in infested areas beech, poplar, hickory, etc., have been eige, and tbe executive chairman was 'the establishment of national parks, 1n the New England States, Dominica seriously lnjared, Tn the New Ping- oosevelt Aesiatant' in the creation of game preserves and many of our ma-' hcantiful ane Cain-' two inehe5 01 more mage in diameter, which bn rhes have earned tater, thug to a ,land States too, vino and other cont- Hon. Theodore Rable limited extent in the province of Qua fermis trees mixed with deciduous Secretary of the Navy. Other mem ,sanctuaries, both Porn the settled rotectlonparts of parat�velystrcunnon tmtn�arala, Tho pinhead as the contacts are apof a proach- bee , Without going into ddtaile 1t may growth have suffered severely, f C d p took part were: Hon, J. W. We° na well as t knotvst, and the wadi highly -I At hers of the United Staten cabinet wbo•e Canada an be explained that insects like the gip- Citizens who dealro to receive fur• ks I tives in the far north in the pre- diances one of the hardest sub- ed. Chogoggin Paint, near Yarmouth, Secretary of War; Hon. Hubert Work,' servation of the buffalo as stances es ltack aay nd destroy have ]them,r sandsthe b e d-' should noommnnieate either with ing this post Secretary of the Interior; Hon. H. C-, other large and small game animals prized of the prerimts s ours --}s a Nova Scotia, a 35 -foot dike, with a Secretary of agriculture; `and migratory birds, in the estahl}sit farm of the cnmmcn snit b'nclt graph- garnet content of apn thetmato5 40 ing of those parasites and the release ',Dominion Entomologist, Department Wallace, S rY went of national forests, and In the its. which occurs abundantly in Na - 'per cent„ out*.: s on - sea shore to of them in infected areas is oneofAgriculture, Ottawa, or the Provin- gg Hoa Herbert Hoover, Secretary of of the means used in fighting these offal Entomologist, Department of Ag - Commerce; and Hon. 3. 3. Davis, Sec- holding of Empire and National Can- tire. Emerald is a rare variety of { and has been traced inland for severs rotary of Labor, 1 ferences on the conservation of fora the not uncommon mineral beryl, and:utiles. utiles. Several. other deposits are pests i riculture, Quebec. Arrangements were completed by gists, wild life, and public health. Ac- owes its beautiful green color to , known that are both rich and suitable 1 tracts of chromium ; for abrasive purposes. L which the people interested in the finite in these different spheres tea 1 { The market for garnet is limited, various forms of outdeor recreation' never been as great in Canada as it is, Two of the common abrasive min-' however, and ooncenUation and pre - will he fully represented on the per- at the present time, 11 is intended that scats, etuunhtm and garnet, when paration aro important factors. The manent organization by their acknow-`there elrall be no slackening but an clear and flawless, give us beautiful alines Branch has paid considerable ledged leaders, These details need increase of effort, and that the work gems; the ruby is a red variety of attention to the preparation of Cana - 001 be gang into bars, the paint being already begun shall be extended and „minion. ani the sapphire a deep dian garnets for market, and hoe made this: that people everywhere now re- made more far-reaching and effective blue variety of the same mineral, tests to determine the hest processes cognize the importance to the whole by further organization and co -opera- while many of the variously colored for different classes of ore. cont f properly directed sport and ' lv used in jewel - tion, garnets aro erten 11 e 1 - ' If a steady demand for garnet should , ry and are e'as-e'1 as none -precious' `develop many new deposits of suitable Bath corundum and garnet', n ry o Old Home Town Week t tones. material will probably be found, as Hymn ar a Household. occur in Canada. but no material of Lord Christ. beneath the starry dome Various villages, towns and small ; there are large areas in which the We light the twinkling lamp of home, cities have been, are or will be holding geuh quality has yet been mound. t egformations give promise e f And where bewildering shadows old home town weeks this summer.. In recent years the us cf bothall kids natur al their probable occurrence. Old boys and old girls, who have been of abrasive materials, throng • ti i and artificial, has greatly in teased, C About As Usual. Uplift our prayer and evensong, , away re the place which saw t e r Dos* thou, with heaven in Thy ken, , birth, which attended tte their school• 1 and there ,are now very few articles, m 1 Uncle Tybalt and Aunt Pretty Ied a Seek stili a dwelling place with men. I ing or gave them memorable years In factory or borne, other than textiles, regular and normal We. They guar great business of 1reled steadily and, you might say, me -I Of Course They Have Wheels, get bo it. The one s, turn tPter absences th t have not bean subjected to the. Johnny — 'Dad have baseball Parents and teachers is to see that our habits are what they should be, and with all the mighty effort and cogita- tion that are put into the task how of- ten they turn out to be what they should noti How immense, how rigid The Garment of Habit. Our lives'are a masa of hibits. It it were not so, we could not live at all. We wake and get up and dress, we eat and walk and work, we speak and think and love ' and hate and fall sleep again largely by habit. If we were forted to perform all this inde- pendently, originally, the effort of liv- ing would be intolerable, A merciful- ly small part of our action depends up- on voilition and deliberate reasoning. In the main we de what our, fathers did, as they imitated• their fathers, and so hack to the -beginning of time. Educatdon le the terming of babes. They begin in the cradle, or before we Wandering the world in ceaseless their ear y day re, u n varying from one to sixty years and 'action of abrasives. On account ot; ehanically, for many years, and doubt-!' coachea.got wheels?" quest? this increase in demand, the Mines 0 Man of Nazareth, be our guest: ,from distances running in some cases less loved each other devotedly all Dad --"Most of 'em have, John." 1 to thousands of miles Those wile Branch of the Department a AllinOes is the time they were doing so, Of the havebeen a long time away open their =king family some mem Lord Christ the bird leis nest hasd+ abrasive minerals including gar hi d with her, andperibliity, this encompassing mouldin spite of the constant drain by large mineral, and occurs in several varie- I endeavor to thange it or break it or- But dost Thou still ties dark of habit Is we realize only when weest works of art in metal yet known,'"apon you, appreciate its badness, setslightly different compose., There throw it off. Get a bad habit fastenedall the energe you have to geting ridof it, and you learn the might of habit.We have ell tried, and WO have allfailed, and we e.II know,The intensity of each an effort andits too frequent futility 'Impress; uponus the terrible danger of habit. Pt Isa fine thing to be on your guardagainst it, to keep your life and clan:toter as fluid as possible, responsiveto outward calls and stinauli, ready toanswer in an inetant to tee controllingdemands , ot the Intelligent will.. Manypeople preach . against habits, andsome seem to have a far better mas- tery of them than others,All the same, habit is a beautifulthing, and above all, a restful. Mr.Pepys's mother itad an old dressinggown, which ahe oiled her kingdom,becau,se the took so much oomfort init The garment ot habit is one of 1.112 - Only It behooves us to see that It bemade of spbetantial stuff and that its for example the question of sebooling,cut and fashion be such. as will eau- How many boys and girls drop outWorld's F—a:t-est Trains. °this algebra do me anyway?" Or,Whatle the UBO of studying ee hardThe highest train speed, 120 miles on this itistory? 1 geeseHow Much better off he woulcl be If hean hour, is said to have been made bydecided to go through with tils similes___,,z) 0, train rithning from Pleating lo Jack- .sonville, tea the uleatt aystene In the I no matter how distesteful they were(so he teethe li is tree, learnUnited States, a Mateo° of five Miles,: Ill "dugIn 2 minutes 80 sonde, revese„ting . little Algebra or 'history, but he wouldaecomplish what is more raluable--hea speed ot ov,er lig miles an hour.tregg.then.his will, harden hisway wile a nal on t110. Gl'Otti Westera, would sWhen la S. Giant. lettifortnly Sue - The reeord epeee for it British rail - special investigations o dna- here habitually sidedi i oldest Handwriting of Man. eyes with surprise at what they see.' dein. . with man o. arsOne small temple has• been found Pound, In the years that have interveued the : thus aided in keeping the rovr going' net The fax is sheltered in his ground, , __---- .....-. --- +,,.e never t "e" idle ,,,,a Garnet is really a very COmm0n whenever uncle or aunt seemed likely in "Ur of the Cheldeee" (wheace tread And have no place to lie Thy head? Shepherd of mortals, here behold A little flock, a wayside fold, ,That wait Thy present° to be blest nlcletl ai aa rugLlgtlql lf1V4 VA +++�+++ ----• - -- kava either maintained or increased tion and color, and varying consider-; in-law who lived with them the most says their population. More than that the able in hardness, toughness, and i of the time for several years and for mblet, 1." There is also a marble macadam roads and board sidewalks' method of breaking. For abrasive par-; some reason took sides with neither--, tablet, in the old Samerlan language, 1 should be very rat giving a chronicle of kings and deems - O Dian of Nazareth, be our guests I have given way to concrete pavements 1poses 01 rderi than quart or sand; !but he died rather young, ties suggesting the date 4500 B.C. The and cement walks, the back -yard pump h They went on thus till thelr'reoes —Daudet Henderson. and shabby stahss to waterworks syr -•and it should break into sharp angu- •were run and they were laid away, report adds: "Even it that chronology - tenet anal garages. The trees, which lar fragments without curves, or! whereafter in due course their sorrow- hos to be modified, we have now the were always beautiful, have grown rounded edges. so that if will easily : my relatives erected a handsome stave oldestdated example of man's hand - The Bird -Bands. ! higher, and as the old fenocs have . cut or abrade the articles under treat over them, on which it was proclaim- writing and the oldeNt known triumphs The Canadian National Parks gone with many ether old things, life went. Approximately 85 per cent. of ed that they had enjoyed fifty-eight of .the art of Tubal -Cain." The mar - tarter, of the Department of the In- • in the old town apps Ira to the jaded the Barnet mined throughout the world neverble tablet records the building of the tenor, which is keeping the fife of ayes of the n:d•dmer as a much bet. is used on paper or cloth, and the yearscoud of pdi cordy :darkening their', temple of the goddess Ntn, in the time Canadian Bird Banding Records, 'has t thi th anything he has come term "sand paper" is often applied, horizon. of the third dynasty of the kings 00 recently received a band of a kind 410- cross outside it. .But be recognizes 'generally, to papers coated with sand, tering from the official bird -bands the horses and hysiodraphical tea- emery, corundum, or garnet.. Destroying Predatory Flah. Ur, after Noah's deluge, Tubal -Cain was "the man of might in the days when the earth was young" who "fas- hioned the first plowshare, • as Charles used in Canada and the United States, 1 p tures of the old town better than he Little is yet known about the exist- Tho destruction of nearly 211,000 and an endeavor is being made to !does some of the old boys and girls. trees its origin. It is made of alums. It is hard to discern In the etout body num and has the number "67" stamped ' and rubicund features of one man the ton it. Mr. Arthur Shuttleworth, of ; flint stripling one knew at school. Plummer, Ontario, found the band on; hide trees have grown In the town, a young teal duck which he shot on bair has fallen off or grown white on Cariboo Lake, District of Algona, On- many a head. Yet it makes no differ• tarin, on September I2, 1928, The; ence. The years fall away as though baud wilt be lent to responsible per- by magic and old times walk again sons wbo consider that they may be for a space, able to furnish information concern-'' It is a goad idea—a beau. geste, as ing it. Application should be made to the French say- and blessings on the the Conimlrsioner, Canadian National man who first thought of it. Alto - Parks. Ottawa, gether aside from the sentimental side —• ----,D of It, I do not thing most towns and small cities could employ their money better in advertising tbeirmanifold at- tractions than in calling back those with most reason to love them, be- cause these, seeing how much the old town hoe accomplished in their ab- sence, will bruit it abroad without pay or thought of R. These occasions have brought, home to many people from the large cities i that the small towne and cities !have overtaken them in the matter of ad- vantages. Except far theatres and concerts and 1110 University these small towns offer to the dwellers there- in every advantage that the city can and for lase money. Land costs are lower and therefore rents and building coats aro not so high. Taxes; act a con The Reason. sequence cu industries are lighter ' 1V1a1 Gee, I hate t' alt my fare and workingmen with better houses and !rands and feet 'noverything and larger gardene are more content dfr y." ed. From Saturday Night. ' l'nt glad you do child, and why?" "'Cauee you always make me gin in Fully Equipped. the tub." A disabled soldier had been so long in one hospital that 1t seemed like Immo and be eves anxious to impress City In the Abyss, its merits on all callers, '!'here is a quicksilver mite io Perth "Why," he exclaimed, "it's the most 170 fat'ttome in eircunlforrntca and 480 complete 1n the country. They ]rave feel deep. to this profound abyss are an eye apeelealiel., a throat apenialist, streets, squares end a chapel where a nose specialist, and they even haye relig}nua worehlp Is hold, Internee for internal dieeasoa:' ence of commercial deposits of abra- coarse fish, principally squawlish, by sdve garnet in Canada.. In Ontario, the staff of the Cuitus Lake Hatchery,] Mackay points out in his commentary the Bancroft Mining Syndicate has• B,C., is announced by the Department on Gen. lv., 22, been producing a good type of garnet of Marine and Fisheries. This work. Kind Boy. from a rich vein near Bancroft, A promising deposit 'of larger extent but lower garnet content at Parry Sound has been well prospected and will probably become an economic pro- ducer. Near Sudbury, Ont, there is another promising exposure, about 60 feet wide, and traceable for a con- siderable distance. The 'centre of the deposit contains well -formed garnets, was undertaken as a result of the in- vestigations that were made when the sockeye yearlings were migrating from Cultus lake to the sea. It was noticed that the goldfish were feed- ing on the young salmon and an ex- amination of the stomachs of a num- ber of those caught gave an average of three yearling salmon to each squaw - fish. Acable Visitor -"Well, and do you do a good deed every day, Tommy?" Tommy --"Yes, sir. Yesterday I visited my aunt In the country, and she was glad. To -day I carne back home again, and she was glad again:" If Londones soot for ate year could be collected in a pile it would cover Westminster Abbey. Competitors are shown In the hand -drilling contest at Cobalt, which was one of the ninny features of the 01d Boys Reunion held in the northern mitring town recently. Quarter? One day some year:,' ago while two gentlemen were 'walking along a plank sidewalk one of then happened to drop a quarter. The coin roiled for a shortway add then slipped into a crack, The man pulled up a hoard at what he thought was the right place, but the quarter was not there. He lift- ed another board and another, but saw• nothing of the coin, For some Rfteen minutes be crawled round, reaching and looking. Finally his. companion .became impatient and said, "Come, John, you're wr :ting too much time. looking for that money. Surely your time is worth -Mere than a quarter," But his friend on the groan.' re- plied, "It Isn't a more question - '- ing that quarter. If I give up, I'll have to admit that I quit. No, sir, flu ,.,e Ing to tend that quarter!" And he did. There in a nutshell is the answer lb many a perplexing question. Telco In clay, .h,yv'r, wean, Clear passing ,ccesful Grant,.,soree�;,calle�i liint-•-came Plymouth 'rho Whitehall 01511, r the to fight the goeet Be:ttle'uf ths`Wi19on- Plymouth to Paddhhgtnn innll, train mess ho said; "I•propose'jo fight t ant fora bate ran tit a speed 1 e 102.3 t miles an hour, en this tine if It takes uli .summrrl" Tele run wee properly *looked--- And he did fight it cul nn `that line, that 1:e,, it was recorded by an expert and he wont Yott cane:;; beat such a taking ,the time with tt split-second chronometer, whish giyee ilio exact speed within. a decimal, British rflitvays hold the greatest Member of habitually high speed rune over short ditttanres, regularly elect: - ed by experts. Corn Gr0vue 1-11011, man. What are "Cates?" The 'Word "settee," meaning dainty food, ie. probably never used esoopt !n poetry, and seldom there, yet WO call the perste) olio 6atera for nur teed aperste) caterer, and in that form the word to 15 of everyday 000u>v'cnce. C'Ur,i FC4wa }I•FfiY La Ntta,+iiallVtil, -00 ........ttf.....-...,-._ elevations of 12,000 feat alcove sett' Xeoetebiea on Mountains, level, The 111414.6 of the high Andes Moen- talus ourntalnts ]lave developed 1110117 We.ftablee Thousands of fur seals aro killed au capable 00 groWin,g Ina yore berth deb neatly by hiller tvhelea plate, Whales K111 Seals,