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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1929-03-21, Page 6Canada's dweltld themselves on,, ehese whi h Familiar Leo Will Soon Be Heard Say "Hello FON.," Land of• • Tj tiji�]nl ht Sun means the people dwelling in the shel- 1 seta Med �daa gel �7 ter of the (Roclty) mountains.' . In contradistinctionto other _Northern Director °of Northwest "Perri- Indians,.whp were caribou eaters and traveled widely in pursuit of game, the tories Describes Vast Secy Etehareottines were fish eaters • and' tion 'Bordering Mac- kept to the l•rl es, c When the more' kellzie River warlike Crees went•"on the warpath against the,tribyii on the Peace River, Canada, too, has her "Land: of the they came from the south iii canoes to Midnight Sun/' arc the little that is :Lesser Slave Lake And, leaving:their. known of the Great Valley Of the canoesthere, proceeded overland. Mackenzie ':fiver and the. northern Finding that ' the lake -dwelling 'IA - coast of Canada, inhabited chiefly by : diens did' not possess their own war - Indians and Eskimos, is vividly de- like attributes and ideas, the Cress scribed in Natural History, journal showed' their contempt by bestowing of the American Museum of Natural on the lake dwellers the epiphet of History, by 0. S,' Finnie, Director of 1awonale or 'slaved.'- the Northwest Territorries arid Yukon "By way of Great Slave Lake 'the Branch of the Department of the In- traveller reached the land of the Slave terior of Canada. Iie.writes: Indians, and to the babel of tongues "One million three , hundred thou- is added still another, dialect. Revolu- send square miles of Canada lying tion, the nest' important 'settlement north of GO are known as the North- on the Southern shore, is;.tho meeting west Territories. They extend east- place of the Indian trappers from east erly from the delta, of the Mackenzie and . west, `north and south, The River to Baffin Isand, a distance of Southern Indians,' the Crees and approximately 2,000. miles, and reach Chipewayans, are: represented chiefly more than 1,430 miles• from north to by the imported servants of the trad- south, from Cape Columbia to ,lati- ers,.this point' marking the northern tude 50 'degrees north, inaiuding all limit of the influence of both these na- the islands in the Canadian sector as tions. Three• highways lead from far as the Pole', • Resolution—one to the northwest fol - "Neither ti,it natives, nor the fauna, lowing the:watersof the Mackenzie to nor the other rdeourees of so vast a Beaufort Sea, one due• north to the country can' -bo adequately described country of the Yellow Knife Indians, in a short,' article. From agricultural and the :'thir'd east'to the lakes :and. lands in the southern areas the comfy plains of: the Arcticprairies and the try stretches to the world's most home of the caribou and musk ox. northerly, headlt,zd; 'the 'natives 'in- FORT RcLIANCE, clude 'natal" and Eskimos ;speaking "To. the east. a `cruise of 200 miles 'three'dfstinct languages and living along the shor''sof real, ill Xrjld life covers' almost• every: species Under as many sets of condttiovs The Q au ave Lake -one of -the great, lakes df`the world 'of 'land., and sea mammal`:kttawn to with au approximate area of 11600 o the warlike attitude of the time Canada and the, other potentialsquare miles brings the traveller to 01 Hearne, • re= „ sources of the erritories :are found ForttrReliance.dre overland nthis pointehead-- The Dog Rib „Indians theNorth. one Lng under a variety of conditions t'.at cif- watersate rseads„ riversver'fl ungl the the o1ater•twith of h to Long far in climate 'and accessibility. .of, flowing to Hudson association with the white trader has clirnCT and aeACKENZIE. ' • Bay 'are reached.. Here are the -great advanced them to' a life of semi -cert- Arctic prairies,• a country well flower- lization, ' but, they still depend upon "The District; of Mackenzie, -the ed by nature except with trees. • the wild life of ,the country' for -an most important of ..the three: maim "From any point of vantage can be:existence. As they wander .over a divisions Of the .Northwest Territor- seen • an . apparently endless- endowed wide country of rocky hills, some_ of les, can be•.'most- readily approached with grass,. moss and.'Arctic flowers. which are timbered; though sparsely,, by the.'route leading- north by rail Sparklin-g Jokes nestle in the valleys, their harvest consists of fur, "fish, from Edmonton; Alberta, to the south and winding streams:: disturb .the caribou; and' moose, with rabbits to ern Watershed of the'Meckehzie River: 'quiet of: the scene is they tumble101 in Periods' when larger game is. .Fort Smith, the administrative centre their way, down their many rapids to not. aballable. Much of this 'area within 'the district, is situated .on the Pringle their -waters ;finally with:those has -been-•reserved by the government Slave River in latitude 60 degrees of'Far-distant .Hudson.Bay. of Canada as a huntingg and traeping north, where a series of rapids forms "The •rolling country is the home 01 ground for theexclusive use or the a barrier "to' iyer. -navigation. At this tete caribou, the: wolf, the. Arctic fox natives. • , puint we find 'ourselves in the hands and the remnants 'of the ,few remain- To the west and not tit of Rasoin ' of the Chipetvayan Indians. ing herds of mak os to be' found on tion lies the valley, of ,the Mackenzie Should -we lister' to the'casual con- the mainland. The streams -and lakes River. liay River, a settlement ly- versation of the crowd we -would' hear are plentifully stocked with fish, and ing near Great Slave 'Lake in the English, French, -(free and Chipewyan their shores are the nesting grounds broad valley of the river from which used impartially for, although the of many varieties• of water;,wl. The the cotumunity.takes its name, is tete language of the district is Chipewa- potential wealth. of this. Arctic homeof a well-conducted boarding yon, the Crees from the south are well plains area • lies in its undoubted school, -two missions and several trad- represented, and the traders and mis- ability to yield liberal supplies of ing establishments. sionaries are chiefly of 'British andmeat and hides- from caribou and "Providence Iles on a level plain on French extraction. other hardy animals, fish from its the. bank • of the Mackenzie. The 'Fort S aith,'situated .o: a high, waters' and fur 'from its bills. buildings • of the Royal Canadian sandy plateau overlooking the river, Mounted Police, of the mission with is typical of many of the northern Humanity ct but airriesy-repremal- 'posts,- its principal features' being °d on tho.Aretie prairies. A small its boarding school for trading ern - band of Indians, who Winton along dren, and of the several trndmg cam•. govarmnent Vices, a Royal Canadian the- northern fringe of timber, each mules are practically the only per- Mo'..nted Police Post, a wireless tele- Spring follows, thea caribou in their manent structures in the settlement. graph station, a missibn church and northern migration, and lives entirely At points further south the Indian house with hospital' and school, an -1 upon caribou meat and fish, Eskimo and .'half-breed trappers have built establishments of the principal fur traders of the North. To these should from the shores of Coronation' Gulf for themselves cabins from which be added the log homes of the natives to the northwest and coastal points they pursue their activities, but the and a host of dogs, which constitute to the eastward 'move each Spring • natives of the Providence district are the motive rower of the country's 'toward the Hhelon River to meet the still the itinerant people of a hundred Winter transport. In winter Fort films migration on its way to the years ago, Many of them are born, South is dark and bleak and wind- Arctic coat. The only permanent live and die in their native tepees swept, and in sunnier it is a noted residents are three bands of Eskimo and brush camps.. gathering place for all varieties of who base' their operations on the, NAVIGATION UNINTERRUPTED insect pests known to the northland, shores 'of iiasba, Sigoligyjusk and "Between Provindence and Simpson while for weeks daylight never fades Baker I sicca, from which points they p on the way north the river narrows entirely from the sky. eke out a living from the eastern and runs swiftly, but navigation is "Inunediately to the west lies a sections of these northern plains, uninterrupted. Simpson: is located on country of alternate swamps and low' WHERE, FRANKLIN CAMPED a largo island just below the conAu- sand ridges, difficult of aac.,ss, but "Starting again from Resolution, ence of the' Liard and the Mackenzie valuable be-ause it has given perfect another road lead to Rae, on a Rivers. It is one of the larger settle - protection to the only retnaining:herd. northern arm of Great Slave Lake nients of the Territories, and was at of American bison that has never and the land of the Dog Rib Indians. one time the trade headquarters for mimic importance, but the cost of a known captivity, In 1901 the Domin In 1921 Franklin and his party foe- the whole valley of the Mackenzie. Pipeline or •other means of tranapor- ion Government=pro:dbited the killing lowed their route to the North. A Originally a typical Hudson's Bay ration prohibits; for the present, its ,of these animals. -An estimate made Winter camp was built half way be- Company fort, dating from the early development on any major scale. It about twenty years Iater placed their tween Great Slave and Great Bear days of the last century, it has grown has given promise enough to suggest total at approximately 1,500. To these. Lakes, which was known . as .Fort to be a prosperous settlement with the establishment of a small refinery have been added recently 6,000, young Enterprise. From thismissions, hospitals, Schools, a Royal for the production of gasoline and oil buffalo from the Wainwright NationalPoint a' sea- o fuel to supply the local demands. g son was spent in exploration of the Canadian Mounted Police post, a goy- Park, and it is confidently hoped that Coppermiue River and the shores or erament • wireless station, a number "Further norm the river flows the next decade will see an increase Coronation Gulf. Part of this route of trading establishments and a gov- through a canyon known as the=Ram• in their numbers great enough to wag, also followed by Hearne of the ernment Indian agency. which con- parts, whose vivito limestone wails make them an important factor in the Hudson's Bay? Company, when from ducts an experimental farm. The rise 150 feet above the, water. From food supply of the district and pos- 1769 to 1772 he pioneered the valley aurrounding country, consisting of the foot of the Ramparts, Good Hope sibly to warrant licensed hunting of the Coppermine'Ri:'er, One of the Polling bills lightly covered with tlm- can be seen crowning aa high point on uncle: the supervision of offieial game great tragedies of the North was b°r, has up to cafe produced little the eastern sed° of the river. This wardens, enacted during this Wit, when the In- but fur, though it is not without settlement is elsteen miles south of FUR RESOURCES. deans who accompanied Hearne mas- promise for the future, The Rocky the• Arctic Circle and is a- large and "The fur resources of the Fort sacredalso the northemore than twenty defenseless Mountains are less than 100 miles to Prosperous farorad[ng centre It is Smith . area have been intensively /Islam° .nen, women and children, the,nortllwest, and far. back in' the rn limit of the, Hare Cambridge Talks mountain' lies a • valley about . which Indian nation, as at the next settle• gof Challeng- drawn upon for more than 100 years, camped ata point since known as meat (Arctic Red River their IAP• . ing Oxford to a Terrify-, , but still the trapper thrives. Each Bloody Fall, on the lower reach of the little is known beyond the foot that )y� winter yields pelts of beer, wolves, Coppermine, in it hot springs are so numerous guage will be understood only with ing Roof -Climbing " that its temperature has linen mate- diliiaulty, that of'the Loucheux tribe Contest lynx, colored foxes, fisher, otter, mar- "During the past "Winter a.unigne havinataken eta place. ten, mink, skunit;and muskrat—fox, event occurred in' the vicinity of Fort trolly affected, While the surround• . Cambridge, England—Young men ininit and ratpredominating. Itis pos- Enterprise, about 150 miles north of ing country suffers from a somewhat "The settlements of Arctic Iced rigorous climate, the 'sami•tropical' River and McPherson are the trading become famous at Oxford and Cam- sible, however, that the time is not far Great Slave Lake, the spot where Sir centres of the countryenteral apart bridge Universities' by becoming distant when fur 'farming will bring John L•ranklin, with Lietutenant aley,' as at has .come to. be known' y scholars; athletes, or roof -climbers, to many a better living than is to be Back, •spent such a terrible year of sees but .little show and is the Wiu- from the valley of the Mackenle to secured today from the taking of wild hunger and privation in 1821 and ter home of a great variety of wild the south. 'McPherson was establish - somewhat is as ostnblished, if life, ed early in the last century, And was somewhat furtive sport,; which is in- auunals. 1822. Two years ago,- while au offi- ed one time tee gateway to flee Yukon dulged in only on nights that are dry "From Fort S'tiiith, to the Arctic ciai of the Canadian Government. was "The Laird River is the highway aid moonless, for the Ocean, a distance by water of 1,400 making a patrol from the bottom:of serving the territo>y to the west. ' It Valley. An- eighty -mile portage . moss -covered boasts of a steamboat service, ace• :across a comparatively low-lying old buildings are slippery in wet miles, river transportation is uninter- Bathurst Inlet, 600 miles'over a bleak country leads to the headwaters of weather, and there are 'heavy penal- rupted, Large andmomfortable steam= and desolate territoif to Rae, he had quate to the- needs of the country, the Porcupine. River, which headwaters the ties for being caught. boats servo the, public, and already the with `him a. young Eskimo' youth from 'which each, soar -carries A wealth of j There- is. talk of ohallen in the excellence, of their service, the novelty Coronation Gu1P, They had. malty ad high-grade furs to the marketa of Yukon. at Fort Yukon, The delta of g g the world. The ripper reaches of the the Mackenzie: marks the northeast- ancient rival, Oxford, for intervarsity 'of the life of the; lower river settle-, ventures:. on the way, but, on.reach- ern limits of a group;oR Indian tribes roof•climbing honors. meats and the river scenery have popu ing Rae, , the young Eskimo Was de- Laird, penetrating far into the moue-, Great feats of pa et them among those on the out -lighted at what appeared to him .a fain ranges, connect through British which spreads eolith and west to the lest Cambridge roof - "i Columbia :with established routes of valley of the Yukon. climbers are being recalled, the most lands. net metropolis, although it can- "The •most Perilterrifying of all being the ascent of look for summer tours in little-known not boast of move than half a hun- travel leading. to ,the Pacific Coast, northerly -post on the the spires Gofo King's College chapel Two hundred miles of river, wind- died' People. , "Sixty miles !below Simpson the Mackenzie is on an. island in the river rise to _which rise a height of nearly ing Slowly through the country of the "So enamored with tete :place "was Mackenzie enters a' bolder and more delta that is known. as 'Aklavils, .200 slofeet; ' buffalo and Site moose, lead from Fort the youth that he wanted to 'remain, rugged country,'and for •many miles meaning,,- in the:Eskimo language To h Smith to Great , Slave , Lake. One the traveler is ; regaled with true`'Where tho•bear :bounds.' Here the layman, therh seems cent. 'forgetting entirely alio pretty wife he g $ the hiLely no possible method o legend of the source of the name had left in a.distant igloo, ,The'ofil. Western mountain scenery. When sitn in Summer is visible throughout > ascent. Great Slave' tells;, how, ;even: before the, river swin s back to the foothills each of the 'Cwajttyfour .,li0u s and, This climb has been performed only ciai, however, •hail no intention of twice.' The second ascent was made g the advent of the tinder, a white permitting the youth to remain Por, ` 1'igley, a fur post active enough in hero is another ,important boundary child was sold asbetween native races—the meeting alone by ri present fellow' of 'Alagda• a; sluve'Oo an Indian had • e -done- so, .the- lad's. tribesmen Winter but Presenting little, of inter- , & leu :College, tribe which had its home on the shores Would have assumed' -.that: est during the open season,, is passed, point of Indian and Eskimo, prig- ' wluld journey .• ictally this area was controller)" -.'en- ' of the lake.- The cleric grew to be a ensu lila ]tilled him; and- so wduid and theis .continued L•o Noe- - • man above the ordinary stature,, with man, This settlement stands on the tirely by the Eskimo, but the Indians. ve.tatton his _own life in � long fair hair and light blue eyes, who retaliation, s, high banks of, the Mackenzie at the following the white inn have ex- Peace River Settleunent u, lived a long life.. among his Tndian A PEACE AIL+IITO T mouth of Groat' Bear River. .Thd tendert their Hltnfiug ground^ to the Masters, . His preeence led to -the IvG usual essential . : north and the Eskimo Manitoba free Press (Lib,) : Those s of a northern e sic are y who believe that a direct western out- let Itnawn'as_the'`len'. ofthe great "When they, finally returned to aro here `fu. evidence,.; h post retiring to, the Arcticcoast gradually 'white slave' eventually The, country, g hue, tally abbreviated to Bathurst Inlet the;young,native must east and Yest for many miles' is trill ," "Aklavik ieat for the Peace River country is still have told his tribesmen how well s also the junction of far off on the Horizon of creno ho je Peat Slave. Tho story further states Mary to this post:' • two tranapoxta.fon rot•tes one of p that the child slave was the rightful they had been treated by the. fndiana' "The Cdreat Bear would do well es study the rctnarltable B a River Is the high- which EolloWS the Macltenzie Valley, figures - heir to the throne of Prance—ate in= and, as a result, the 17skinio. .in a Alberta homestead entries m North - way • to Great 'Bear 'Lake and the . while the other,.,is . the ocean route teresting'ab10 of the rumors spread body appeared shortly after Christ- countrybeyond bio Peacetaver,B the for 19 . e ;,b the devetee Y d he far as- Cot erland item gh 13ie Coast polls which leads bia sot Napoleon that the mos at ° Foxt Enterprise. Here, is Peace mist Bleck for at t The p Gulf, while to the .weer, an overland through Bheriug ;Sea and along, the total- he ' son 'of Marie, Louise had not really though face to face with their trade- trail follows the llof mestdrd entries at the e d- died at Vienna, but had beentional enemies, va ey of Gravel routes h.have coast :of Alaacke Both never l Grande Prairie d spirited es, the 'Indiana, a ten- River to the headwaters of the Stew. routes tltoii• drawiiacks; The . ' an Peace away by'thewily Metternich, day powwow of feast and dance tools art Riverandoi River land offices was xe takt and of Another legend, quoted b.. the the lace, of -bloc, d n to Yukon. The"cost uta the river route is excessive, these unts'ya11 `all were taken out in Geographic` Board Y „ p dY war, - Great;Bear River le shallow and swift, and on the ocean- route there is the P of'`Canada, is to It was the first occasion on record.the country north, north-west and the effect that Great and Lesser Slave*here rou ` tower ed b. suitably core• ever-present clanger of doss in .bout, north-east of an -rho oontry is is esti- but can be ascend i g 9s -of Eskimos and Indians greeted power boats.,' Great -Bear ship. sure cargo: Whoa ronirdiug :the Lakes and Slave ,River *ere named' ¢r'oin these -districts have• buried themated to moan Lha entry mto an Lake ig ,the largest lake In,the north• northerly copes of Alaska, bertit's north --countr of More than after a tribe of Indians -that once hatchet, and is .fn mar ked contrast land, covering an area of something "The shores oE Beaufert Sea ars 20;000 settlers. y 1 HOLD YOUR EARS, LEO 1S GOING- TO GO INTO THE "LISPIES" AT LAST Leo, famous trademark .of. Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer picture's. has become a familiar movie figure wherever pic- tures are screened. His well-known roars, hitherto silent, are now being recorded for talking devices, so 1t will be "Se1) ad Hear Leo" like 12,100 square miles ,but its use stilt the undisputed ` heritage of the as•a•traneport route is limited to not Eskimo. Between the Alaska boon - more than -three months in each sea- dary and. the `eastern end of the delta son, as -at is icebound for the rest of of the Mackenzie lie four settlements the -year. Demarcation, Point 'Herschel, Shin= "Much of interest centres around gee Point and. Kitttgazuit—whose in - Norman. Not only ie• It the trade habitiants, living largely: on the p- antoof a 'large 'and 'productive cis,-. sources of the country, draw their trict, but the scenic and_.minerai re- harvest, from both Ian can dsea. The sources are also outstanding. A few hills produce caribou, which mean miles from the settlement lie- lignitic both food and - Winter clothing; from coal beds of doubtful commercial im- the lakes and ,streams the'natives sib• patience, but spectacular, having cure fish, while, the ocean supplies -burned continuously atleast since the more fish and various kinds of seal first exploration of the river by Mac- and white whale,. which -solve the kenzie lir 1789. To the north of the problem for materials for -boats, tents post ]les a premiaent .mountain and footwear -and add to the food sup - known as .Bear hock, and along tbe ply_ While tree' life. '0 no longer in Western horizon lie the bold peaks of evidence, the 'heavy driftfromthe the Rocky Mountains. The burning Itlackenzie bas stored the ' beaches of the coal seams and the three with fuel adequate for many' years -.0 peculiar red stains, probably caused come, placing' the Eskimos of this by oxide or iron, which show on the. area in a different position from their face of Bear Rock have given rise to brothers to the east, who are largely a typical Indian legend. • dependent upon sea -mammal oil for "Many years ago, according, to the heat and light. story, both Ore peopib and the game "Both the eastern ' and western of this area were giants' of r their groups received their first impression kind. A giant hunter armed with of civilization from the whalers, while bow and arrows, tvhile standing on those of the central area are only now Bear Rock, saw a colony of giant drawing their first knowledge of the beaver in Bear River. With his er- world from the fur traders from the rows he secured three of these_, but south. The infiueeees prior to the several of his nrrows which had white invasion are still stamped on missed their mark remained em- all, in clothing, accoutrements and bedded in the river bottom, but one ]tome life, These differences are,. end still showing above the water. however, entirely regional; the lan- As in all the northern rivers 'sunken gunge throughout the Eskimo world trees are to be seen, the story -teller is basically the same; and a study of points out, the giant arrows without the folklore proves the common ort - difficulty, The hunter then skinned of hI ltimo people from Siberia three to the beaver and spread the t� gin Greenlandte . skins on the face of Bear Rock to dry; the blood left the three stains in the shape of the three beaver skins. Taking some of the beaver meat to the point where the coal now "The government; of Canada is con- fronted with a complex problem in tho administration of the Par North. but, in so far as it is possible, the burns, the hunter ' made a fire to various situations have been met as cook a meal, but the fire burned so they have arisen. Communication is fiercely that the ground became ig• maintained by a well -organized mail nited and has been burning ever service and an efficient system of since, wireless telegraphy operation Stations "Fifty miles below Norman there is at Edmonton, in Alberta; at Fort Alla- every anse of aoil field e eco- Smith, Resolute, Simpson. and Akla- vik in the Northwest Territories, and at Herschel Island, Dawson and Mayo in the Yukon, Schools and hospitals are subsidized, relief 'Is given to the sick and destitute, game sanctuaries aro maintained while wild life• is molested by no one, and: many thous- ands of square miles of territory are set aside as hunting and trapping grounds for Ole sole use of the native population. An Odd Sport for University Men 1 New Sources of Rubber Located by E pl,s;. atioiiSi 41a it^ t ldagascaPt Washington — Twenty-three plants, included in the collection, among thein a number of specilm,,,s of elephant's foot, several aloes and a rare bibiseue- like shrub. A duplicate set of the collection was left at Tananarive a a "nest egg"• to , serve for replacing in case of loss or injury to the collection 'during its long journey to the United States, Another - duplleato set was sent to the Univers• i1y. of Los Angles, Although Dr. Swingle was finding now rubber plants that may. enable the rest of the world to continue to "ride on rubber," he was not so for- tunate at all times in his own mode of travel. In' the southern part of the present time in Madagascar, Dr, island where most of his time Was Swingle says: Some of them have al• spent, transportation was extremely ready .been introduced into the United States and are being tested: in the department's experiment garden in southern Florida. Another plant which. promises to be of economicimportance is the .alone bora, a large leguminous tree which produces "leets," a gum used in varn- ish manufacture, Numerous ornamen- believed to be potential soorces,of rub- ber ,are among botanical epeolinens which Dr. ,Charles F:' Swingle -.of the U,S. Department of Agriculture re- cently brought front Madagascar: Dr, Snxingle is the first ;American to visit tbe island on a plant; hunting exploration, His trip was made pos- sible through the cooperation of the bureau of plant industry with the Arnold Arb'pretuin of Boston, the uni- versity of Algiers, and by the friendly interest of the French and Madagascar governments. Ten of tho r plants are being com- mercially exploited for rubber at the difficult, Although some of the trip was made by atitomobile, at times it was necessary to Pse the "Pilanzana," a sort of,.,sedan chair swung ou two poles carried by four natives, With the baggage 'carriers and guides the, party on the march consisted of 40 or 50 men and 30 miles was: a good avrs'i tyad .e' bis•Nngelesingsltrdnn tal plants, shrubs, rinse and trees are day's travel Clean Farming Kills Corn Pest The corn borer cannot be entirely exterminated because it can live on more than 200 plants other ,than corn. But clean methods:of farming can' check the increase of the peat" aye this editor' even if It is impartible to eiimnate t completely. The fact that we must. adopt a cleaner -method of farming in order toreduce the pest and to keep it in control. The investigators ,are finding that the borer can be reduced by pleating corn at the right time : to mise the moths. Get used to clean cultural methods- of farming. Plow under- all trash that might harbor tbe pest. Clean out the fence. rows and snow clown the rag weeds in the old pastures. • Less was heard of the borer this last Bummer than the season • before. In 19277 the good fields of •corn were badly infested and made a big show ing. This year there are more borers but they ,are more widely spread and -the damage is not so noticeable. 9:: 5 Liquor' Smuggling Manitoba Free Press (Lib.): There is a point of view fairly common in this country that there is nothing wrong with Canaan shipping to the United States all the liquor that the Americans will buy, especially in view of the faet that they appear to be will- ing purchasers. .Officially, however, the United tacos is under',rohibition, and it is a legal offence to import liquor into, the country. The Federal Governmet of the United State's (which has +u hand the ei:roreeinent of the prohibition law, has succeeded in making agreements with pr'actical- all' other nations that export liquor whereby these countries refrain from giving port clearance to #liquor ship- ments to the United :States. So far Canada has refused to accept the Am- erican viewpoint. Liquor is given clearance from Canadian to United States port, although it is known in Canada 'that the cargo can only be landed at a United States port by breaking the laws of that country. Trade With Newfoundland Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph (Ind.) (Newfoundland buys goods worth $12,000,000 from Canada each year, while Canada buys from the Ancient Colony goods worth $500,000. Sir Richard Squires has been visiting the Dominion for the purpose. of nego- tiating a trot,' that will ensure a bet- ter trade balance.) The chief diffi- culty is feund in the fact that Can- ada prodlyrces pretty much what New- foundland exports, and so there is lit- tle demand in this country for our neighbor's erinciple products Canada cannot be expected to accept pay for her exports in codfish instead of cash, since we already,-a,ve all the fish we need in our own waters, WA the most fris.idly feeling toward New. foundland and with a natural desire to :accommodate our trade arrange- ments to suit so good a customer, it will be difficult to discover means by which the trade account may be more nearly balanced, St. Lawrence Waterway Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.) : (T, L. Church moved in the Hesue of Corn• neons that immediate action should be taken on the St. Lawrence waterway project.) 11 s'. Ch,.rch is usually to be found on the ultra -patriotic, flag- waving side, opposing closer relations with the United States and critical of the Government as too friendly to that nation. On this occasion candor obliged Mr. Chuch, speaking as xi citizen of Toronto, to say that opposition to the Waterway on so-called patriotic grounds ' is undiluted bunk, nothing more than a smoke screen behind which Quebse power interests conceal their, true reasons for hostility to the waterway. If the Ontario Gov- erninent takes the same line as Mr, Church in. its negotiations with Ot- tawa, the path of Mr. Macken7ie Ring and his colleagues will be greatly smoothed. Unfortunately, .Mr. •Fe- guson, the Premier of. the province, shows no signs of giving a lead in that direction, The St. Lawrence Waterrway London Adver' kar (Lib.) . Mr. Fer- guson' and other politicians who talk of an all -Canadian channel into the stretch of the: St. Lawrence. between Ontario and New York Stator assume that the Canasdian people etre ignorant of the fact that the United States built and even today maintain deep channels ole the Canadian side of. the "Dad,what's `a' symp'slum n,6Its a sort o' meeting, my boy, so called `because •a ,lot of simpletons .usually pose at IW! NEW WRAF -AROUND You must include a sheer woolen in your wardrobe in smart wrap-around styling its Design No. 371, The bodice is ultra -smart with broad bands in yoke effect that taper to points to waistline. The skirt and bodice aro joined with shaped belt, The inset vestee can be of self -fabric or con- trasting. It is most fascinating in lus- trcus black crepe satin, using the dull surface for bands of bodice, brit, res-. tee and cuffs. 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' r The Divorce Bill Quebec EDvenement (Conn): Tho House of Commons vote against the institution of a Divorce Court in On- tario denotes that, on the fundamental principles of morality, the two old Canadian provinces are orated. Wo often read expressions of opinion in the Quebec press which lead us to be- lieve that in problems of a social order. the Catholic Senators and members pose their will on the Protestant ma- jority.' This is, certainly not the case in the project for a Divorce Court in Ontario, for the Ontario members vet. ed in a' great majority against tits bill, As the; press,' while talcing sides ,< on the opportunity of instituting a Divorce Court, it is unanimous in rep. resenting the pnoCended remedy as elti of the evil which it claim aggravation* - to relieve, ,