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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-03-27, Page 4Products Of Wood Are Al1APerr°vading They're Encountered as Car Finish and Rayon Stockings Apart from their" importance as a • source of raw -material fon the lumber aid pulp and paper industries, Canada's forests yield a widening range of products derived in whole or in part from wood in which the presence of (this material 'is not apparent, According to the Forest Products Laboratories of the Department of Mines and Resources, the larg- est group of such' articles is der- ived from wood pulp, The mod- , ern pacicage of cigarettes is ` a striking example In getting cig- arettes from the factory to the eonsemer no less than seven dif- ferent grades of wood pulp are used 'in the making of cartons, adhesive paper, packages, trans - ,parent wraps, tissues, excise stamps and cigarette papers. EVEN PRODUCES SUGAR Rayon is a well-known deriva- tive of wood ` pulp, but at one stage in- their creation rayon stockings, ties or drapes might. equally,. well Lave 'be erne movie _ movie film, artificial leather, cor- dite, or the glossy finish on an automobile. Woad is atimportant though rarely noticed; element in ante - Mobile batteries, and is also an ingredient of many floor cover- ings explosives, and plastic pro- ducts such as electric switch but- tons, radio cabinets, and all sorts oi; novelties. It also provides a number of medicinal products and is likely tobecome an in- creasingly important contributor - to man's diet through the pro- duction of sugar and possibly other substances, Winter Brings New Inventions Majority of Canada's Invent- oes Discover Brilliant No- tions in Cold Season When winter rind. hlow, Can- ada's inventors get clown to work. The commissioner of patents (I- nge at Ottawa Sir -14 the usual in- crease in number of requests for Patents was anticipated as a usual result of the winter labors or those `who tree t' the time for indoor ex- ' periments during summer, Trend of inventions is . studied atter the year's work is complet- ed, be" official's recalled their last report noted: "Improvements in machire grns, tanks, airplanes, small torpedo boats, explosives and other devices pertaining to war engaged the attention of invent- ors," MANY APPLY FOR PATENTS To prevent risk of publication chiliad of in Invention which might be of service to the enemy, all ap- plications to be filed outside . Can- ada have to be submitted, to the commissioner of patents. Applica- tions for inventions relating to war devices and materials may he, kept secret. Officials stated that an indication of interest in patents were the .200,000 letters received and sent out in a year. For patents Issued 10 1939.49, Canadian applicants re- presented only about eight per cent of the total, Empire residents 10 per cent, and the majority, 71 per cent, from the United States. The remaining. 11 per cent weredivid- ed among 22 other countries. In the year, 7,207 patents were granted' and 27 patents were re- issued. Applications totalled 10,- 413. ird Banding • Aids Rose:.. rch 1 le Into Habits 'of Migratory Birds.— Helps In Their Con- servation. Information gained through marking will birds with number- ed metal bands enables the Can- adian and United 'States Govern- ments to take co-operative mea- sures for the conservation of "migratory birds, states 'the De- partmnent'of Mines and Resources, Ottawa. An example has recent- ly.,aeisen in Connection with re- volts of the heavy losses sus- tained by the woodcock on its wintering grounds in the Gulf States last year because of. un- precedented cold weather; These reports were substantiated by in- vestigations' in the Maritime Provinees, which revealed that the birds were less numerous there than in 1939. Each of the countries concerned took prompt action, by reducing its previous open season for the hunting of these 'birds, to protect the wood- cock' and the sport that it af- 'fords. ' NUMBERED METAL.I3A'NDS Official aluminum bands found on 'legs 'of woodcock taken by hunters in the Maritime Prov- inces definitely: establish where these • birds spend the winter, In the ease of. three such bands sent in to. the Department recently, investigation, showed' that all of the woodcock concerned had been banded during the winter menthe, two of them ins Louisiana, and the other in 'A•Iabama. The history. of one band revealed that the. lvocdcock had been caught and banded on January 2, 1937, at Sherburne, Louisiana, and that it iiad survived shooting for at least four open seasons and a portion of a fifth, only to fall on October 28, 1940, near Wdlf-' vibe, Nova- Scotia. Saving Ontario's Natural Resources • G. C. Toner Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (No. 35) • PROTECTING WILD LIFE I, have been describing the na- tural history of Ontario • in .this column and now I want, to tell you something' of the Govern- ment agencies that. protect and replenish our wild' life resources, These :activities are of many dif- ferent kinds, the game . warden you meet while hunting or fish- ing, the :hatchery truck taking fingerlings to the little lake back in the hills, the conservation of- ficer speaking before your local association, all are part of the Provincial Game and Fisheries Department. ,}however, both Dominion and 'Province accept certain ;responsi- bilities in regard to our wild life. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police protect; the ducks and geese by enforcing the Migratory Bird Act. The Forestry .Branch takes care of much of the re- forestation • in' Ontario.' The Game and Fisheries Department looks after the •angling ,interests; the commercial fisheries, the fur - bearers, the deer and the upland game. It is mainly of this. De- partment..,I will write about in the, next two or three columns. First Game Law The present Department was founded about, 1906 but there* were, several forerunners of it in the late 1800's. . The earliest dame law as applied to what is now Ontario was enacted in 1821. It established. a closed season on deer between January 10th and July 1st. Six months and two weeks is certainly a gen- erous open season and there was no bag limit. You could shoot as many deer as you could get between July and January but I suppose even so generous a law was regarded in those days as too severe and no doubt there were plenty of grtunblers among the hunters of 120 years ago,. I was reading a book the other day, written in 1800 by Isaac Weld, This gentleman toured Canada between 1795 and 1797' and described the conditions of life in some parts of Ontario. He mentions dining at a friend's home, in Kingston, where they had a saddle of venison and a fifteen pound salmon frons Lake Ontario as the main course. The part that rather pleased me was the statement that both the veni- son and the salmon were bought from an Indian for a bottle of rum and a loaf of bread. Game and fish must have •been plenti- ful but apparently only twenty years later regulatory laws were needed as I have shown above. The hook Shelf "BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS" By Winton Churchill The British Prime Minister's public speeches delivered since May 5, 1938, have now been pub- lished' in book form under the tible, "Blood, Tears and Sweat" ("I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"). The earlier addresses constitute a striking series of warnings to the British Government, (before the war when Churchill was not in the Cabinet), that their policy was leading to catastrophe. The later speeches are those remarkable orations that have thrilled the people of the British Empire in recent months and, left a pro- found impression upon the citi- zens of all sympathetic countries. A permanent record of what this indomitable man has said on nmany'drainatic and historic occa. Bions, no library can afford to be "without the book. "Blood, Sweat and Tears" by Winston Churchill .. Toronto: McCIFIland & Stewart ... $3.75. To What Ages Do Animals Live? Despite Years of Scientific Research No Definite Results of Calculations Have Been Able to Determine Their Ex- pected Span There is no rule upon which can be based the expected span of animal life. • Despite years cif scientific research, no definite results of calculations have been able to set a limit to ages. The variation is too diverse for any set rule to be declared. The largest of all animals, the whale, growing to a bulk of about forty tons, .does not live so long` as the elephant, who tops the. scales at six or eight tons and , lives ordinarily to the ripe old age of 200 years. CATS OUTLIVE DOGS .. Size has nothing to do with longevity; the horse" outlives the hippopotamus by five years, but theobeaver beats both by usually attaining the half century and a camel doesn't begin to "break up" until past the human three score and ten. Cats, pigs and cows, with an average of :fifteen .years beat the dog by a year. Sheep have been known 'to live to ten . years, and rats have •escaped traps and ex. termination to die a natural death? at seven. Britain, Germany Blast Each Other in Spring Prorogue `;rloWhrerge Inverness Stavanger " GL4SGO /gig BURGH ;OAT BRITAIN' ? Newcastle LUhr: ' • North Sea Industrial Centers Shipbttilding,'Docics , ��1��q ►id German Bases a'7G,. W v • British Bases \, SWEDEN lborg •" Britain, assured 0f increased aid' from U. S., sends R. A. F. in biggest_raids on German cities, bases Sheffield Swansea Cherbourg AN wa r e"Havre Germany, with planes scattered to Balkan, Italian, African fronts, cannot risk great numbers of bombers on're aids' like last fall Europe on the brink of spring finds Britain and German tra ' age bombings of last fall. Map' shows bomber times between deac country, t :intensity equrial, a the•sav-' ping areas that are ubdergoing nightly raids with heavyh s indicating and industrial, 1iard� sad shrp- �arrows indicating cities hardest hit. THE WAR •WEE K—Commentary on Current Events U. S. IS AIDING BRITAIN IN `BATTLE OF ATLANTIC' "Never before In the history of our sea power have we had such need of many more ships and great numbers of men."-- British en."-British First Lord of the Ad, miralty, A. V. Alexander. "The Battle of the Atlantic must be won In decisive man- ner. It must be won beyond all doubt if the declared policies of the Government and people of the United States are not. to be forcibly frustrated." British Prime Minister, Win- ston Churchill. "The British people and the Grecian allies need ships. From America they will get ships. They need planes. From America they will get planes. They need food. From America they will get food. They need tanks and guns and ammuni- tion and supplies of alt kinds. From America they will get tanks and guns and ammuni- tion and supplies of all kinds." -U. S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, A 5 P First Lord of the Admiralty" A. V. Alexander last week warned the British people' that they were now witnessing "The battle of the At- lantic," a titanic struggle for mas- tery of the Atlantic shipping lanes, the outcome of which would un- doubtedly decide who would win the war. lie was optimistic that a British victory "will not only be certain -3t will be quick," if the Empire could bang on until Ameri- can. aid 14 received hi sufficient quantity. Prime Minister Churchill 231 - lowed him with a report on the Battle, which he termed "one of the'most momentous in all the an- nals et war," and declared that Britain and the U. S. must will a final mastery of the Atlantic or face separate attack. 5,080,000 Tone Sunk British shipping losses for the first eighteen months of the pre- sent war reached a total of 5,000,- 000 tons, more, than 000,000 greater than for the first two and one-half years of the last war. This was terrible news. Replacements would have to be found, and rapidly, if not is the shipyards of Great Bei- - twin, then in the :harbors and ship- yard, of the United States, (1,000,- 000 tons of merchant shipping could very sons be made available in the Western hemisphere), Last week President Roosevelt promised the British virtually everything they needed in the way of ships. The question remained whether the transfers could be made quickly enough to turn the tide in the next Phases of the Battle of the Atlan- tic. Guard Western Approaches Tho British themselves in the face of such a desperate situation began a concerted attack on all angles of the shipping problem. A All l3alkans An Armed Camp As New Front Develops Yugoelavlo staged signing with axis, has 750,000 troops' 0 RUMANIA. 00 0j 0 Suchar,cstS ©R Turkey also has 1,000,000 troops in other sections of the country, Each Symbol Equals Ono Dir s on (15,000 troops) 6RTISH eiGERMAN GREEK 0ITALIAN TURKISH With mil ions of troops. lining Balkan borders, sights trained on threatened foes, southeastern Europe 's today the armed camp mapped above.. afeanw rile, new action has flared in the.Italo-Greek conflict. REG'LAR FELLERS — Business Genius mission was sent to the United States to negotiate for more ships , Labor minister Bevin appealed for more and more workers in shipbuilding and marine engineer- ing. . . The Admiralty named Sir Percy Noble as commander-in- chief of the western approaches to Britain, (These western approaches are vital for -movement of Amerl- can supplies to Britain, illost of U. S. aid must enter through the west since Britain's big 'eastern and southern ports have been large- ly put out of action for trans- atlantic shipping). Urge Lane Across Atlantic U. S. experts, it was reported Iast week, were advising Britain to abandon the convoy system and establish a lane of destroyers, 60 miles apart, all the way ncross the Atlantic, to thwart German IT - Boats. In ,this lane, vessels carry- ing supplies to Britain would op- erate singly, at full speed, and would be given a clear go-ahead, U.S. Fighting By Summer President Roosevelt's speech in Washington committing the United States to a total effort, with the ob- jective of a "total victory" over the dictators, was so strongly bel- ligerent that in Rome it was said: "Regardless of juridical fiction the United States is now at war with the Axis.. - the twm' is no longer. one of Europe against England, hat of Eur'o'pe against-'tatserfea." At home in the U. S., Congressman Knutson of Minnesota voiced the general belief when he predicted that the United States would be at war within "60 or 00 days." Chances appeared definitely -to be on the side of the United States entering the war not later than this summer. The president evi- dently was putting off adopting the status of belligerent as long as Possible, at least Yea several months—American warships might be used In convoys, but American merchant ships would not go into the war zone for the present. Postponement of United States' entry into the war' could scarcely be long clelayed, it was thought in many quarters Last week, Wash- ington could hardly stand Idly by while costly war production is sunk lir the Atlantic, Where The Money Goes The °figure $7,000,000,000 asked for by the President Marclt 12, under the Lease.Leisd bill was brok- en down as follows, by Harold D. Smith, Milted States budget die, eetor: $2,054,000,000 for aircraft and aes•onautical material; 91,1148,. 000,000 for ordnance; $1,350,000,000 for Yarm and industrial commod:. ties; :9302,000,000 for tanks and ar- mored cars, etc.; $629,000,000 for ships and boats; 9200,000,000 tor military equipment; $752,000,000 for production facilities; $250,000,- 000 250,000,000 for repair's, testing, adminis- tration, este. * 4 * Other Theatres of War In the other theatres of war, the situation was n0 less tense last week that} it had been since signs of Spring 1941 began first to ap- pear. On the Balkan front, the pow- ers were "still aligning their forces (Canadians rumored to be amongst them) fer,the battle which was In- evitably to break out, for control of the eastern Mediterranean . Farther south a great British army was assembling for a final assault on the remnants of Italian Oast Africa , in the Far Blast, talk 0f the early siguiug of. a Russo Tapsnese nan-ag;i'esst°n pact gain - 'ed momentum with the visit te Moscow 'of Japanese Foreign Min- ister .Matscoita, and rumors ware heard that when he, visiterl.,Berlin 110 would try to enlist German aid to mediate the Sine -Jay' war At the same time word camp that the rehabilitation of China's rir force was well' in hand, and that Chinese torpedo and mine -laying planes were becoming increasingly active in South China waters . St. Lawrence Seaway In Canada the big news of •the week was the signing, after 89 years of negotiation between the , U. S. ' and the Dominion, . of an agreement for joint development 1. of the St. Lawrence aa a seaway and power project. The pact set the stage for Ontario ° and New York estate e'aclt to get 1,000,000 horsepower of electric power, and •ultimately for an ocean route from the head of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. The project will, of courses have to beratified by both the Canadian parliament and U. S. Congress, but when it does go. through, Canadians can look for tremendous changes to be wrought In the fact of their land. The ec- onomy as well as the .geography of the Dominion will have to under- go adjustment. Little Bit of Sunshine Interest In Ontario' centred on Premier: Heipburn's "sunshine bud- get" report which estimated a 912,300,364 surplus on the curernt year's operation, and announced ` no new taxation for 1941. Could, by any °hence, au election be near? Waiting pasarge by the Legisla- ture last week was a bill to pay $1 bonus on Ontario hogs. The Government's probable plan to ap- ply its hog bonustng policies only to rail -graded hogs caused a storm in Ontario farm circles last week and the battle lines were drawn between Small and Big packing in- terests. Mental Ills Here Exact Huge Toll 7,600 Yearly Enter Canada - Ian institutions—But Cures Increasing More than 7,600 new cases of mental disorder enter Canadian mental institutions every year, Dr. C. A. Porteous, medical - superintendent of the Verdun (Que.) Protestant Hospital last week told a Montreal audience, WOULD CHANGE PUBLIC'S ATTITUDE Dr. Porteous urged a greater public interest and a revision of the public attitude toward mental cases as an aid in their treat- ment. The usual public reaction to mental cases had been one of morbidity, fear, or even in some cases worse, that of considering the matter amusing. No one jokes about tuberculosis or can- cer, he said, and the deep and serious public interest taken in these diseases had been of great • assistance in helping to bring them under control. Prom the medical standpoint there had been a marked im- provement in the treatment of mental eases in the past 25 years and the percentage of cures was increasing all the time. In seI- ected eases it had been recorded that cures numbered nearly as high as 40 per cent, VOICE OF THE PRESS EDUCATION LACKING 'In Ontario, according to the registration, there are 646,370 men who cannot milk a cow. Our educational' system has long been accused of getting away from the essentials, (Toronto Globe and Mail) NEED FOR GOOD SEED Good ,seed and grain is very important at any time, but`in war time it may web be doubly 'so. The weather, of course, is beyond the fanner, but it is not neces- sary for him to gamble on the seed too., (Seaforth Expositor); FROM DAY TO DAY With' spring upon us, with the conflict gathering force, with the 'Ma:re hidden and events obscur- ed, it would be wise for all of us 1 to build ourselves a day-to-day philosophy of life and living, We should realize that we hold and possess today, that tomorrow is beyond us, the days beyond to morrow quite undisoernible. Let us content ourselves with what- ever happiness, comfort and, health has been given us. Let us end each day with a prayer of thanks for the benefits, accept with as good grace as possible the reverses, and look steadily into the future. It was such attributes as these which strengthened our pioneer forefathers who dwelt in times of trial, danger and the uncertainty of living, very simi- lar to those we are now about to experience. (London Free Press) Plenty of Coal In Cape Breton There Are A Billion Tons There Left to Dig --- Sub - 'marine Workings Go Four Mlles Under Ocean Thecoal fields of Cape Breton have a' commercially -accessible reserve of 1,000,000,000 tons, Dr. F. W Gray of Sydney, N,S., told the technical section of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at its annual convention. The submarine workings of eight shore colleries now extend alinost four miles out under the floor of the Atlantic ocean and are still advancing seawards, Dr. Gray said, BECOMING MORE IIIIPORTANT ' "This is by far the most ex- tensive ✓ submarine coal -mining operation in any country and will become relatively more important as this other coalfields of Nova Scotia are worked cut," he said. Sydney C. Mifflon of Sydney said that the Breton coal area was of prime importance to Nova Scotia, as it contributed 80 per cent. of the coal mined in the prvince and afforded a livelihood to 30 per cent. of the province's population. ' 40% OF CANADA'S PRODIUCTION The field has an ever greater national significance, he added, for from it is mined more than 40 per cent. of the coal produced in Canada, and 22 per cent. of all the bituminous coal consumed in the Dominion. • LIFE'S LIKE THAT • By Fred Nehiis ��•o .ver-rs� "We're safe, ilia water will never get hot ... He's our former janitor." BUSINESSTIS 1MACIM BODY WANTIN' TO' BUY THIS SWELL. CAR! r LET ME ONANC,E TWAT 5)GN FO YOU!TLI. SNOW YA HOW TO SELL 17! / WHAT A DOAe YOU. ARE TO THINK ANYBODY 16 GONNA BE SAP ENOUGH \\TO FALL FOR„ THAT SIGN , f By GENE BYRNES Irsrammormwmamormomerrrams