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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1941-11-26, Page 6Canada Builds New Airports Labrador and Fah Northwest net New Operational Aire ports Disclgsure that Canada is con- structing airports an Labrador and along the northern British Columbia coast has been made hi the House of Commons by ¥unitions Minister C. D. Bowe. "Operational airports;" said Mr. Howe, "now aro under way in Newfoundland and Labrador, be- tween Edmonton and the Alask- an boundary, and along the north- ern coast of ' ritish Columbia, hi areas far from haman habi- tation, involving unusual engin- eering problems." These new fields, when com- pleted, will provide valuable new links in the chain of air defenses being established by Canada and the United States. It has been known for some time that construction of new bases was going ahead rapidly in Newfoundland and in the North- west. A chain of seven airports is being made to Alaska, provid- ing a short -hop route by which Canadian and United States fighting planes could be rushed to the north if the need arose. These northern bases now are in ase, "The Air Services Branch of the Department of Transport, which now operates under the dir- ection of the Minister of Muni- tions and Supply, had up to the end of September completed 108 new airports for the use of the RCAF and (British Common- wealth) air training plan and had 31 additional airports under de- velopment, Mr. Howe said. Included in the above are 18 airports now occupied by the RAF in connection with its train- ing project in Canada. Britain Launches First Concrete Ship It is reported that Britain is building concrete merchant ships similar to those built by the Un- ited States during the World War to meet the shipping short- age. hortage. Designed by Sir Owen Wit - /lams, the first vessel of 4,000 tons, with a carrying capacity of 2,000 tons, has been launched and soon will be ready for ser- vice. The designer said he had to solve the problem of keeping the ship from cracking in heavy seas—a fault which characteriz- ed concrete vessels during the Last war. Saving Ontario's Natural .r. Resources G. C. Toner (Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters) No. 65 DEER ARE BROWSERS Last week I spoke of our deer and this week I want to describe something about them that the average hunter may not know. Game managers who have worked with the deer tell us that each of these animals need so many acres of forested land if they are to thrive. I have forgotten the exact figures but our purpose will be served if we say that each deer needs twenty acres of range. Re- i member deer are browsers, they feed on the growing tips and twigs of the trees and other brushy i plants. This is limited in amount I and if a deer is confined he may be able to eat the browse in his pasture faster than it grows. Thus we can see that the num- 1, 'ler of deer that can live and find food in any area is limited even ! when conditions are at their best. But, imagine conditions that oc- casionally occur in our woods, Deep snow piles up, the deer re- treat to the cedar swamps in num- leers and soon, if the snow con- tinues, they have eaten all avail. able food. Starvation is the re- sult, not because the deer lack food for nine tenths ofethe year but because they lack food for a critical period of maybe a month in late February. So, the number of deer is lim- ited by the number of cedar swamps and their size. This is an important point to rememnber. 1 Nearly every animal has some critical period in its lifetime. And these periocls are the limiting lac• tors that prevent the animals from overflowing the whole coun- tryside. In the case of the deer the critical time comes when the hunter is not in the woods. Ile sees plenty of food in the fall but he forgets that before spring most of flus kill he covered in deep anew, Yet the deer must eat timete 'u,ut the year. So, more e must have rc re v'ater ge curds. CANADIAN TANKMEN VISIT BIRMINGHAM The first Canadian Army Tank Brigade recently visited the city of Birmingham in England. The tour included a visit to a plant turning out large Army tanks. In this photo the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, whilst inspecting the Canadians, chats with, Sgt. Major N. Kirkham of Red Deer, Alberta. THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events Revision of U.S. Neutrality Act Assures Britain of Arms and Food The United States has pass through a period of historic d cision. Last week Congress gas final approval to abolish practical! all that remained of the Neutraiit Act The arming of Inerchantme will now proceed rapidly; guns and trained crews are in readiness. These merchant ships carrying food and war supplies may now sail right into the ports of Great Britain. These ships will no longer have to stay out of the combat zones which, under the terms of the 1939 Neutrality Act, prevented Ameri- can ships from getting into the western approaches to the British Islee, says James B. Reston in the New York Times. As a result, the British will not only have the advantage of a great number of our ships, but their own convoy system will be much more efficient. Until this week, and since the President's shoot -on -sight policy, American warsbips have been convoying Bri- tish merchantmen to the waters off the coast of Iceland, where Bri- tish warsbips have picked them up and protected them the rest of the way into the Western British ports. This system bas been inefficient because, in the first place, the con. eons went out of their way to go near the American base at ice• land, and In the second place a great deal of time was lost at Iceland, where it was difficult for the British and American ships to keep their rendezvous in wintry weather without the use of radio, which the presence 0f enemy sub- marines made dangerous. Allotment System Eased In the past each nation has used its own ships to the best ad- vantage, but in the future the mere want and naval shipping of these two great powers and Norway will ha allotted in accordance with whatever is most efficient in car- rying out the war aims of the two countries. That more merchant vessels, protected by more warships, will be thrown into the Battle of the Atlantic by both Is obvious. gnat the addition of American power in the Atlantic will also enable tate British to strengenen their position iu the Mediterranean and the Peale is also certain, The half -way convoy system was aefiicient because American ships ed were not permitted to go to Hall- e- fax, the Nova Scotian port from 'e w^hieh most convoys started east - 3, ward across the Atlantic. For y months British &hips bad to travel n 1,000 miles out of their way to go to American ports to pick up the lease -lend materials, which can now be shipped in American ships straight from. United States ports to the dock -sides in Great Britain. Changes Shipping Strategy The action of Congress in revis- ing the Neutrality Act will cbange the Allied shipping 'strategy all over the world. The British now control 16,806,- 378 tons of shipping (ships over 2000 tons) and the United States, 6,794,000 tons. The American destroyers may help in the Western approaches to Great Britain, more perhaps than in any other area in the world. It is no secret that the British pro- tection of convoys against both submarines and long-range bomb- ers in this vital area has been less than adequate for some thee, but these defensive cordons are likely to be strengthened when the redistribution of the two navies is put Into effect. The redistribution is likely to ac- complish four things: (1) reduce the effectiveness of the U-boats in the Atlantic; (2) increase deliver- eries of essential supplies. to Brit- ain and Russia, (3) strengthen the British position in the Mediterra- nean and the Pacific, and (4) free more warships to protect Allied convoys coming up from Freetown, Africa, to Britain, The average little man in the streets of London has never fully understood the extent of American material aid to Britain. lie bas read in the papers that it was ar- riving, and be may even have seen one or two of our guns or destroyers. But none of this has hareeeed hint as would the arrival 0f an American ship flying the Stars and Swipes or the actual sight or sousu of an American seaman. There is scarcely a town of any size in the whole British Island. that is more than sixty miles from the sea. The Presence or these American ships will be tangible evidence to a great many people of our avowed inten- tion to help defeat the Germane. The ships won't convince anybody that the war has been won, but they will colloince a lot of doubting people ;that it can be wen a•nd win bo won, 'National. Unity Vie repeal o± neutrality, says the New York Times, was just, eonsistont and wises just beeause we shell now rislc our own snips in waters where we except other nations, engaged in the Same task, to risk their ships; consieteut be. entree otherwise the lease -land poi - icy would beeomo a mockery; wise boeause it enables up to keep the 'war at a distance, It wa•S an act 00 national unity, and ought to bo understood as such, boar within the country and outside, both among our friends and among those whom we Sam now without hypocrisy 0411 our enemies. It was a fresh commit. meet to an undeviating purpose,` and none the less so because of the circumstances which out the vote in the house of Representatives W a seemingly .dengerous mina mucor. Let no one, and especially ;to one in Berlin, be misled by We size of the House vote againet re- peal. Taken at its face value, thie vote might represent an inpregs- ively large Congressional sentiment in favor of the souttio-and-run, appease -and -compromise, live -with- Hitler -and -like -It policies so vigor- ously advocated by a minority, in Congress. • But om• enemies will make a mistake it they so interpret the 194 votes cast against repeal. A large though ludeterminate num- ber of those votes were cast, not against repeal, but against a Gov- ernment labor policy which appear- ed to encourage strikes in defense industries. Why, it was contended, endanger ships and crews to de- liver goode in war areas 1f there were no assurance that the goods would be produced? There are diehards in American industry and polities who will fight to the last against collective bar- gaining. Their votes, direct and indirect, would not have bulked large in the House that "memos able day. They were reinforced by the votes of man who know that labor unions are here to stay, who hope that time will give then a sense of responsibility cohimean- surate with their strength, and who believe that the vast majority of their members wish them to be honestly, democratically and pa- triotically managed. These men, with the unquestioned backing of a large section of public opinion, demanded an assurance that hence- forth no private group of any kind should be able to blackmail the nation in its boar of need. Behind our political, industrial and labor leadership stand the great, nameless mass of Ameri- can men and women. We believe they have accepted the two great decisions of the past week: first, that we shall take our cargoes, under own own guns, wherever they are needed; second, that the goods that make the cargoes shall be produced without interruption. Owd Harry Lauder Gi'es A Braw Spiel Cams Oot Wi His Plaidie, His Kilt, Stick and Sangs A stubby man with a thick body and an inextinguishable' gleam in his eyes, his doughty legs stiffen. ing into a Victory V, moves to tho front of the stage, and with a mix- ture of merriment, mischief and serious purpose, rallies bis listen- ers; "We on this island of Britain are beleaguered. D'ye understand what that meaus? Beleaguered! No- body can leave without an escort of boats or flying machines. Think of that! 'Are we going to stand for that? You bet we aren't. What are we going to do about !t7 We're going to dig down into our jeans and hand over more money, that's what we're going to do, Might just as well do it now. If we dbn't, the money aright not be any•good to vs later on. Now who's going to be the first to contribute?" Thus does Sir Barry Lander, now 71, again serve his country in war tame; rousing people to greater awareness of British needs, and once mere entertaining tee troops with t,.e songs and stories long identified, in many lands, with his name. At a three of lire in which he had expocted_to enjoy absolute repose, REG'LAR FELLERS—Trapped 01-1, MISTER NOODLENADDLE! BUT, MISTER NOO DLE IIADDLE ee"4 15AID wavri %.I 0,49 SL' Harry, taxes hie poWere heavily in tine cause, Wine war broke out Sir lIarry tereook the tranquility of his neW home, Lauder Ma, to beguile the seldiers and bele raise faunas, He bag been on tlt,e'go.-ever fierce, In recant months he lias given ` as many as fold' g0neer'te a week, besides other personal eMpearane 0s, It la clear, as one watches'tho re- sponsq, to his showmanship, that there still is magic 1n the name .qf Harry Lauder, • Lauder Ha Lauder Ha, the "hall or "big house" Into which Sir Harry moved nearly rive years ago, je the realiz- ation of the borne be started to build in his dreams 25 years ago, Today it is a landmark. Few per. eons visit the region without hear. ing of the handsome stone house with. its spacious rooms, tasteful furnishings, personal museum, painting and statutary, musical at- mosphere, and conveniences of the owner's inventiveness. From the tiniest gadget designed to avoid needles exertion, to the selection of a site, 700 feet above. sea level, ennobled by proud and historic vistas, Lauder Iia is, in Sir Harry's worsts, "the way I think a house should be," Strolling amid the natural and man -created beauties of Lauder 11a and its surroundings, Sir Harty. asserted: "You'll get something if you work for it. If you don't work, you'll get nothing, nothing at least that really matters. The person who expects something for none, Ins' is a poor citizen." They Hustle Junk For U. S. Defense All a New York housewife needs to do is pick up her tele- phone, ask information for the wastepaper consumer industries conservation' committee, call, and as like as not next thing she knows there will be a handsomely uniformed woman with social connections at the door, driving a broken down junk waggon. If the woman happens to be M. Alletta Crump she won't say, "Good morning." After . she's said whoa to her horse, she'll pick up a megaphone and shout; • "Anti waste, anti waste Learn to save Better make haste." That's what Miss Crump said to Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, wife of the Governor of New York, recently when she and a half: dozen other women and a horse and a cart went to the Lehnian's Park Avenue apartment to pick up about 75 cents worth of paper (average price is 40 cents a hun- dredweight)- Mrs. Lehman, hoisting the big bundle of paper herself while the doorman stood by waving his hands in a dither, grunted, "Uh— I hope this is enough." Mrs. Lehman • donated herpaper to the American Women's Volun- tary Services, whose members are volunteer collectors for the waste paper committee. The Bosh Shell "BIRDS or AMERICA" riy John James Audubon Audubon Was the greatest pala- tal' of Birds the world has ever known. Ilse spent his urethra studying them in their native haunts. He was a great artist, o=ld a Mester-colorist, and 151 his draw. Jugs even a tyro will realize that he 1..e lookh}g at a reproduction of e, life, A, Hundred years ago Audubon made four.itundred and thirty-five drawings of the birds of America, He then colored some two hundred sets by hand, which were published in Loudon at a cost of a thousand dollars each, That Was a ceetary ago. Pour years ago through the marvel of modern Lithography the Maemil-'. Ian Company ok Canada, published a perfect reproduction of this art. ist's life's work for $15,09. Now Messrs!. Macmillan offer the identical book Which was .sold for $15;00 four .years ago for the still more amazingly small sum of 85,95, this having been made possible by the development of tile four-color lithographic proem; which enabled the plates to be printed at a single run instead of- haying' to be run twine through, a two-color press. The quality of these reproductions of Audubon's color -drawings is identical with that of the 1937 edi- tion, This new edition alto 0011- tains the text attaching to the pre- violis one Iry William Vggt, admit• tedly the greatest living authority on birds, who wrote it specially for the first reproduced set. The paintings which it offers represent 10 years of travel and exploration along America's from tiers of a century and more ago by the great naturalist, who prided himself on having taken ornithol. ogy out of the museum's glees showcases (he refused to paint stuffed birds) and with having made it living and dynamic. Ills paintings also have an historical value, immortalizing as they do some species now extinct, each as the Carolina parrakeet, which used to range north as far as Lake On.. tarso, Bird lovers, art connoisseurs and fanciers of fine printing all will cherish this volume. "BIRDS OF AMERICA" Published by The Macmillan Co. of Canada ... Price $5.95. The committee reports it gets about 2,700 calls a day tram wastepaper -rich: citiiens in Man- hattan, and twice as., many calls frau Brooklynites. Similar committees • operate in 34' United States cities east of the Rockies. It's .for de.ouoe. Parents of a New York baby have a shortwave radio crooked up to the infant's crib, anu when they go out for the even,ng they entry a receiving set which picks up any ofits cries. No doubt a "pleasant time would be had by all"! LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ') ,"•- t9`Z•' + o a u P w ✓ • „ 0 0 4 00 beeeee Ore 10-14 "All the men with the black jerseys are your friends—ail those with the white are your enemies—get that straight! 11” NOW, LOOK/ 1 WAITED ON YOU ONE' HOUR AGO! TAKE YOUR CAN OF APPLESAUCE AND BEAT IT -i'm BUSY By GENE BYRNES I BEEN TRYIN' TO TELL YOU a MY CAN OF APPLESAUCE IS IN THAT ROW OF PEAS YOU'VE BEEN STACKIN' UP TWE LAS' TEN MINITS!