HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-12-27, Page 6NEWS
PARADE ,..
The Second Great War broke s'
record In its fifteenth week — for
excitement. Two events, ape of un-
excelled drametio interest, the ath-
er world-shaking to importance,
held the 'spellbound attoutton of
newspaper readers, radio hounds,
of all countries. We refer to. the
"suicide" of the Graf Spee, the ex-
pulsion of Russia from the League
of Nations.
What a wealth of speculation
hinged on these 2 bailee/dugs! Bad
Hitler himself ordered the seattl-
ing of the Spoe? Was it a gesture
of great bravado, of was she
blown up in order that the aeerets
of her construction might not fall
Into enemy hands? With regard to
the action taken at Geneva, many
thinking people felt regret and an-
noyance that the League had not
seen fit previously to do something
about the aggressions of Hitler,
the rape of Albania by Mussolini.
(The League had never even dis-
cussed the disappearance of Aus-
tria, Czechoslovakia or Poland
from the map). Looking ahead, too,
the world wondered whether Rus-
da'o expulsion would not throw
the U.S.S.R. and Germany closer
together.
Italian Foreign Minister Count
Ciano's speech to the Fascist
Chamber embodied the first clear
and comprehensive statement of
Italian policy since the beginning
of the war. He asserted, first oft
all, that the Rome -Berlin Axis re-
mains strong as ever despite Italy's
neutrality. Extenuating Hitler's
pact with Stalin, he declared that
Italy knew of the accord in ad-
vance. Further, ho said, Italy in-
formed the Reich last May, that
owing to the effects of the cam-
paigns in Ethiopia and Spain, she
would not be prepared to. engage
In warfare for three years. Such
statement appeared to end for
'^'znent any hope that Italy
fat be induced to come in on the
Vi' side. (Same week: Virginia
iris, one of Mussolini's mouth -
nes, in a radio address declare
z`that Italy must have sea outlets
at Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and
Suez).
During the. week U.S. unbassa-
r' dor Kennedy returned to Washing-
ton from his past at London to
give a report on the war by word
of -mouth to his chief. He emphat-.
'scally urged the States to atay ^ut
'lot the conflict at all assts. "ma
Ss not our fight" he said.
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.. At home in Canada, the final
•-„, draft of the momentous Empire
U
'4.ir training plan was completed.
ghlights: estimated cost of plan
for three years, $600,000,000, with
Canada's bare, $350,000,000; re-
quired establishment in Canada of
67 schools of all types; nearly 40,-
000 men required to carry out plan,
exclusive of students; about 60
new air fields to be constructed and
20 existing fields enlarged; United
Kingdom to supply most of air-
craft, including engines and spares,
as her share in cost; Canada, Aus-
tralia and New Zealand to contri-
bute to total cost in proportion to
use made of plan by pupils from
those countries; excluding coat of
aircraft supplied by Britain, Can-
ada to bear cost of initial and ele-
mentary training in Canada and
about four-fifths of remaining costa
of program; program to be admin
istered by Dominion Government,
with supervisory board composed
of representatives from four coun-
tries involved; great majority of
pupil will be Canadians; pilot
training to take about 26 weeks,
many thousands of pilots to be
turned out each year.
The War at the end of 1939 teas
not one war, but three: between
the Allies and Germany between
Russia and Finland; between Jap-
an and China Western, Eastern,
Far Eastern,
Will Get View
Of Six Planets
Astronomer Says Unique
Grouping In February Dis-
play Is Seen Only Every
Few Thousand Years
The people of today will be
privileged to witness something
which neither their children nor
their great-grandchildren will see
—a grouping of six planets in
the western sky next February,
Dr. Frank S. 'Hogg, professor at'
astronomy at the David Dunlop
Observatory, Toronto, told the
Royal Canadian Instituto in an
address last week.
"It's only every few thousand
years that you find as many ea
rix planets in the same region of
the skies,' he said. "Along with
earth, there will appear in the
western sky during the latter days
of February the planets Mercury,
Jupiter, Venus, Satarn, Mars and
"trams,"
Pretty Canadian Girl Is Instructing Future Pilots of The R,C.A.F.
Determined to show the air force that women instructors can turn out as good a pilot as male instruc-
tors, pretty Helen Harrison is busily engaged in giving instruction to pilots who have their eyes on the R.C.
A.F. 'She is teaching flying at Kitchener -Waterloo Flying Club after being turned down when she applied
for work ferrying military planes. Her record includes the instructing of military pilots in South Africa
and test pilot for a Canadian aircraft company, Pictured with her is Provisional Pilot Officer Paul Hender-
son.
Grand Titles Go
To 8 Canadians
At International Hay and Grain
Show, Chicago — Winners
In Live Stock Section Also
William Rogers of Tappen, B.C.,
was awarded the grand champion-
ship for rye at the twenty-first
international grain and hay show
Rogers' victory brought the to-
tal number of grand champion-
ships won by Canada this year at
Chicago to eight.
The other grain grand awards
were wheat, field beans and eats
to Alberta; alfalfa to Saskatch-
ewan; soy beans and field peas
to Ontario and timothy seed to
British Columbia.
Ontario Boys, Best Corn
Two youthful farmers, members
of the Canadian Boys' and Girls'
Farm Clubs, Gerald Hessenauer of
Rodney, Ont:, and Garnett Iinist-
Film Hero Dies Suddenly
Douglas Fairbanks, great star of
the silent screen and renowed for
his acrobatic ability before the
camera, died suddenly from a
heart nttack at his home in Santa
Monica, Calif. He was 55.
er of Ruscomb, Ont., won awards
in corn. Hessenauer took first in
Region 1 and Knister first in Re-
gion 2, These youngsters won
against a big field of entrees from
a wide area in the United States.
In the live stock section Ed-
wards Brothers of Watford, Ont.,
sold at good prices eight of the
thirteen head of Aberdeen -Angus
cattle brought to the exhibition
F. G. Todd, Lucknow, Ont., who
showed at the international for the
first time this year, scored twice
in the Aberdeen -Angus class. Lin-
coln sheep class championship ram
was exhibited by H. M. Lee, High-
gate, Ont.
Eastern Canada Winners
Other Eastern Canada winners
were:
Breeding shorthorns — Two-
year-old heifers, F. H. Deacon and
Son, Unionville, Ont., third; sen-
ior year -Ad heifer, T. A. Russell,
Downview, Ant., second; junior
end; senior heifer calf, Douglas
yearling heifer, James Douglas
and Sons, Caledonia, Ont„ see-
and.Sons, first.
Makes Tomatoes
O. A. C. Lecturer PIans to De-
velop New Types — Takes
Seven Generations to Fix the
Variety
C. E. Mighton, of Guelph, is a
young plant wizard who has set
himself to perform a real feat of
legerdemain — two of them, In
fact, He has determined to be the
Burbank of the tomato.
This young lecturer at the Ont-
ario College of Agriculture promises
to reach into his scientific hat and
'pull out a bigger, redder, juicier
tomato than any now grown in Ca-
nada, and present it to the catsup
preservers and tomato juice squeez-
ers
queezeers of Western Ontario.
"Small, Round, Firm," Wanted
He promises to reach into an-
other hat and pull out a little, firm
round tomato, more prolific than -
any grown in Canada, and to pre-
sent it to eastern Ontario canners
who have been looking for a tom-
ato that won't go squashy in the
can.
""There'll be no hocus-pocus or
'abracadabra' about it," said Migh-
ton, in a recent address at Toronto.
"We are working along strictly
scientific lines, and I think we are
meeting success
Strictly Scientific
"Once you have found the char-
acteristics
haracteristics you want, it takes from
six to nine generations to fix
them," he said, "At O.A,C., we
grow two generations a year, one
outside and one in a hothouse, so
it will talo 'brae to five years to
fix our variety o -0 we find it,"
Will Regulate
Hog Industry
Ottawa Acts to Prevent Scand-
als Like in Last War
Blanket regulation of Canada's
hog industry,,- designed to guard
against any repetition of the bacon
scandals' of the last war — is to be
an immediate result of the arrange-
ment now concluded with the Brit -
bah Government for large-scale pur-
chases of. Canadian bacon last
week, ..1d a story in the Windsor
Daily Star
To Supervise Industry
A bacon control board is being
set up by the federal government
to supervise all phases of the na-
tion's hog industry. It will regulate
not only the price to be paid to the
primary producer, but also the op-
erations of the packing plants. The
spread that the packers will be al-
lowed to earn will be rigidly speci-
fied by the federal bacon author,
ity,
So far as the farmers are con-
cerned, it is likely that the scheme
will return them about an average
price of nine cents per pound or a
little better over the year for their
bacon hoes.
Called Adequate
The hog population of the Dom-
inion at the present time is four
and one-quarter million animals.
This is adequate to the productive
. requirements of the new British
arrangement.
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Urges New System
-Of Ontario Relief
Norfolk Children's Aid Society
Superintendent Says Prob-
lem "Big Business"
A call for a complete overhaul-
ing of the province's relief sys-
tem as it affects the rural areas
was made in Woodstock by Thom-
as Phillips, superintendent .of the
Norfolk Children's Aid Society ad-
dressing a meteing of the Wood-
stock Rotary Club.
"This question has now enter-
ed the realm of big business,"
said Mr. Phillips, "and it is time
to take its administration away
from the municipalities that aro
ill-equipped to raise 'the necessary
taxation or to appoint persons
skilled enough to administer such
a problem, Federal and provincial
participation have made the lot of
municipalities easier but the mach-
inery is creaking badly."
Mr. Phillips advocated that out-
side of the large urban centres
no unit for relief should be less
than country -wide and the admin-
istration placed in charge of spec-
ially •trained persons.
I VOICE
of the
PRESS
INTERESTED SPECTATORS
Ethiopians' will be interested In
Italian indignation over Russian
barbarities in Finland, — Brandon
Sun.
SUPPORTING 1HE:TOWN BAND
Interesting is She result, the
passing of a b3''law at Fort Erie
. to spend a quarter op a ]hill ampule
1y' for the town band and that is
not a big price to pay ter hand coil-
oerts. 1't Is possible Fort Erie may
set a fashion elsewhere In the
Province. -- Niagar'a Falls Review.
PRESERVE SPIRT OF
DEMOCRACY
If there- is to be 'democracy after
the war is over, democracy must
not be abandoned while the war is
on. The spirit of democracy must
be reepeoted, not suppressed, with -
3n the democracies themselves.
Tho thing for which the war is
2ought abroad must not be lost at
home. — Toronto Star.
WARNINGS UNHEEDED
Another case of poisoning/, by
monoxide gas has been ropo'tod.
It is regrettable that, in spite of all
the ,warnings that have been pub-
lished for years regarding q Eeldan-
ger of this deadly gas,
ies
ati11 occur to those who thought-
lessly tinker with their motor ears
in closed garages while the engine
is running. - Brantford Expositor.
MICKIE SAYS—
SOME SUBSCRIBERS Czar
-TH' iD5A T1 -IAT WE MAKE
SO MUCH AO /40.1 014 ADS
AM' JOB WORK,WE D014Y
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Nobleman Gave
"Sandwiches" Name
The origin of sandwiches is in.
Wresting. In the feign of Icing
George 11I thele lived a famous
nobleman who was very fond of
gambling, He passed whole days st
the earsi table and would not leave
his gatno even for a meal. Nat-
orally he found- playing on an
empty stomach uncomfortable
works, And so bevisod a plan by
which he might eat with us little
trouble as possible.
Be ordered his servant to cut
two thin slices of bread and place
meat between, The meal' proved
satisfying.
The famous nobleman wasthe-
Earl of Sandwich, and so popular
did his slices of bread and meat
become that they were .called by
his name;. ,, - 4
- Sell Buffalo Meat
AIV' -Across Canad$
Juicy steaks and roasts of buf-
falo meat about 35 cents a pound
are available all over Canada now.
As a ,war measure there has been
a slaughter of buffalo at the Do-
minion Government park at Wain-
wright, Alta., and 3,000 buffalo
are being dressed to provide ap-
proximately 1,000,000 pounds of
I meat, which will be distributed
nationally.
Big trees. of California are said
to have no natural enemies and
none of these trees has been
known to die or insect or disease
attack.
4s, o4 BEE HIVE
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
BUBBLES.
By Fred Neher
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"I Want You To Tell Me How You Managed to Get Into the House
Without Waking My Wife."
REG'LAR FELLERS—Get the Broom
POP DROPPED HIS
MEERSCHAUM PIPE
AN' IT SMASHED
iN SMITHEREENS!
you coUL.DA HEARD
IM UP IN ALASKA/
Bl1T HE
INVER ED AH
FOR HIS NEW PIPE
FALL,OW IT AAHE DO SIFT
MARTA
PICK It UP
By GENE BYIZRNES.
MY POP SMOKES
CLAY PIPES
A14' WHEN THEY FALL
HE DOESN'T NAFTA
PICK T4E14 UP
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.woe Rpm.
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