The Clinton News Record, 1935-12-19, Page 2!I'AGE'2
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Autumn that
.and appeal- thio g p
romance, Powerful
perhaps he had, for the agonizing'
cal' tic nee-
is
ing than her' previous z
els.
I
period just past, been mentally de -
Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed 1
in a moment of moon -lit mag t,
Looking into Bruce Landor's level
eyes, she knew that she loved him,
But 'love between these two was, h
seemed, a forbidden thing--aitel•
tage from her mother, Millicent O-
dell . . forever loved, forever lost,
The setting of this splendid
story is the Kamloops Valley of
British Columbia, midway between
the vast arches of the Rockies and',
the colorful Cascades. To this region
of great sheep ranches, Autumn
Dean returns from her schooling a-
mong the Continental mart set, to
find herself inescapably faced with
a fateful secret and a conquering
love.
As in the author's earliest nor-
els, the present story is :steeped to
the stark, wild beauty of the North-
west. It is intensely vital with ha -
men drama, •
Autumn Dean is puzzled by the re-
ception given her by her old freind
' m
'
He Cardigan, > and is 'ads un-
easy
g
easy later by the reception given
her, by her strange . :But she
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anged. His head, with its smooth
waves of white hair, rose proudly, a
half mocking smile played about his
stern mouth, but his eyes were wist-
ful as he came toward Autumn with
hands outstretched. tched.
his 1
She got up quickly and put her
arms about him, beating back the
tears that threatened. "Poor old
Da!" she said softly. "I should nev-
er have come if I—"
"Enough of that! You are here."
He turned from' her. "What's keep-
ing you, Hannah?"
"I'm coming directly," Hannah re-
plietd querulously. -
The old' man shook his head slowly.
"She's about done, that one," he
muttered. "She's more misery to me
than she is help, but there's nothing
I can do about it. I can't kick the
old dunderhead out. at her- time of
life."
"The more need you'll have for me
about the place, Da," Autumn observ-
ed archly.
Her father turned on her brusque-
ly. "It'd be a poor creature that
t
' ou
In better
with
get
along g
flier. I
couldn't
efa l
t g
d t coned to either of you," he told her.
or' this night," said old' Hannah as
e abouTilsoftly
after-
noonlanguor,Itknownolddaysherher
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DARING INN OVATIO
They were on their way to visit
old Absolom Peek et his camp in the
ravine. When they turned at last
from the. main trail and took a wind-
ing path that; led toward the camp.
Autumn remembered `a roundabout
and more picturesque way to' the
place, down through a gully where a
tiny creek ran. and where the white
birch grew in it dense wall up either
slope. Landor's Gulch it was called
locally, partly because one-half of its
length marked the boundary between',
the Landor and Dean acres; partly,
too, because it was down there beside
de
the creek among the birches the
body', of Geoffrey Landor had been
found years ago by one of his own
men. 'The years had dimmed the li
though
g
story, • is Y
de-
tails of that sag
they had served only to deepen the
legendary color that invested it.
Years ago, old Hannah had told Au-
tumn that sheep herders had encoun-
tered Geoffrey's ghost among ' the
white birches there, of a moonlit
night in spring, and had heard his
voice calling to his sheep -dogs when
the wind came up from the river.
Autumn had all but forgotten the
has come home, is a ort f it."That'll be enough.of that fool talk
stay. and to make the .best o
she entered the room and came to
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ward them bearing her loaded tray.seemed to Autumn laughed and placed a
The old man's body e of his small table before the fireplace as
sag, exhausted,nso to the depths her father sank once more into his
choir. "Your mother's hair—burnish- chair.
ed as October," he said absently, then Later that night, when she was in I tits memory smote her
lifted his head slowly. "Nothing is legend, bu
bed in the room that had been her now as she drew rein - and turned her
wrong, ofd, Hannah's
mother's, Autumn lay awake fo r
The sound of Hkenah's footfall on horse toward the gully.
the stairway broke the(moment's ]lours trying to establish in her mind "Come en, Dal" she called. , "Let's
the peace and serenity to which she
spell and Autumn got up as the old had hoped to return in this land o f go down this w
a
y
'short and looked
housekeeper hurried nervously into spacious loveliness. From the sounds Jarvis drew up
the room. that came to her from her father's back at her.
"Hannah!" - study, she knew that the old man was "There's quicksand along that
haltedsuddenly,-her about creek," he replied. "Don't you re -
The womanawake and moving restlessly �„
r.
She
member?"
hand clutching i her breast. S the room: As sleep folded about her mem
incredulously, then dread wove • Autumn laughed. "Come onl I
eyed Autumn at last, an unfathomabledown there.
Y
drew her breath in a quick gasp. Aui itself into her dreams, so that time used to to gold pebbles
there are any left."
I want to
Jarvis exclaimed under his
breath. Damn it, my girl, I. have no
time for such fooling) Are you Tid-
ing with me or are yon not?"
Autumn held her horse for a mo-
ment in perplexity, then followed her
father along, the trail of his own
choosing. One of these days, she
thought to- herself, it would be ne
•cessary to warn Jarvis Dean that his
remembered daughter was grown up and would
Hannah! Little old p not be spoken to as if she were no
more than a child..But there would
be time for that.
When she drew .abreast of him a-
gain, the old man's face was oddly
rigid and colorless. Hector Cardigan
had
had been right, then. Her father
changed. He was not the man she
had known in other years. He was
getting old, and the burden of living
had lain too heavily . upon him. Her
impatience with his mood melted to
pity as she thought of him.
"By the way, father, how are the
Landers?" she asked casually, when
they had ridden a short distance.
"Eh? The Landers? Ah—they're
well, I presume," he said absently.
"You told me at Christmas time
that Mrs. Landor had been ill," she
reminded him.
"Oh, yes, yes,'of course," he said
hastily. "Old Jane has boon. very low.
She's not long for this world, I'm a-
fraid."
"And Bruce?"
But Jarvis had fixed his eyes sud-
denly on a straggling bunch of frail
new weeds close to the trail. He dis-
mounted abruptly. and pulled- the
grasses up by the roots.
"Milk vetch," he remarked, and.
got back into the saddle.
When they arrived at the camp, old
Absolom was in his shack, brewing
coffee and frying bacon. While her
father went indoors, Autumn linger-
ed for a moment outside, her eyes
sweeping the rounded skyline above
her, where the morning sun was bur-
nishing the hills. The snug little val-
ley into which .she had ridden_was
filled with the bleat of ewes and the
tiny cry of hundreds" of newborn
lambs. On. the sunlit slope above her,
the main flocks grazed, ewes with
their lambs old enough to be released
from the pens; or ewes which had not
yet dropped their young. •
1n the corral, on the dry level of
the shelter behind her, her father's
men were busy at their work. A full
tender feeling rose in her throat a
this • spectacle .of the rich routine of
spring birth—the patient mothers
with their young, the delicate birches
in their, film of green, the creek be-
low turbulent with' the freshets of
May. A. feeling almost of anger
took possession of her at the thought
that her father had willed deliberate-
ly to deprive her' of all this, her in-
alienable birthright,
Dean's voice called to her
Jarvis
from the doorway of the shack.
There was old Absolom Peek grown
more wizened and gnome -like than
ever, his weathered face contorted in
a shy grin. He held the screen door
open and she ran up to him.
•
"Hello, Absolom!" ,she called.
He shook' hands with her,;his ,old
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CANADA WILL CONTRIBUTE TO jesty, seated in one of the rooms of
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EMPIRE PROGRAM will read his message. He will - be in
company n
of
all the
members of
the Y
Greeting to
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Send I
Ottawa Family to
the World
MESSAGE FROM KING GEORGE
His Majesty to be Introduced by
Small Girl in New Zealand
Ottawa, December 19:--A -globe-
broadcast 'that will bring to
circling ;broa
listeners the Christmas day message
to be delivered by King George, and
greetings from families throughout
the Empire, will be heard in Canada
from 9.30 to 10.00 a.m. EST, on De-
cember 25 over the national networle
of the' Canadian Radio Commission,
it was announced to -day. The pro-
gram, in which an Ottawa family will
participate, is to be known as 'This
Great Family," a phrase used by the
King during his broadcast last year.
I the Royal family who each year gath-
er there at Christmastide.
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International. Greetings
At this time the vast red' network
of the National Broadcasting Com-
pany will become linked with the`,
n since
miss
-Com o
'n
Radio
oat
Cau a
the programs to follow will be of
considerable international, signifi-
cance.
From Windsor, Ontario, an Ameri-
can family will be heard passing the
immigration office in their automo-
bile, They will be on their way to
relatives
in
Canada.
' it relatives vis
The Commission is now endeavour-
ing to contact the father of a family
who will be unable to be home .for
i it is
plan-
ned,
cal
Chisttnas. He will p P
ned, from Ottawa and his wife and
children, many hundreds of miles
distant, will reply in a two-way con-
versation. At Winnipeg, Manitoba,
on the River Park Slide, a micro-
phone will bring to listeners the ac-
tual sound of a toboggan chuting
down the slide, together with the
screams and laughter of the riders.
From the Canadian Club in the Wal-
dorf-Astoria in New York City, will
conte a four -minute: program featur-
ing the voice of a former prominent
Canadian. Several members of the '
club will be introduced and the pro-
ceedings will end with the singing
of "Auld Lang Syne," which will be
blended with the same song being
sung by prominent members of an
American club in Montreal.
A three-minute address by His
Excellency the Governor General will
be broadcast from Rideau Hall, Ot-
tawa, over the national network of
the Canadian Radio. Commission and
over the red network of the National
Broadcasting Comfyany, in the United
States, as part of an elaborate -two-
hour program to be presented by. the
Commission on Christmas day, at
3,00 p.m. EST. The presentation, to
be known as "Canada Celebrates
Christmas," will span the continent
from Halifax to Vancouver.
' 1'on people le
will'
mil s
hundred P p
Three
be on the circuit of this colossal
broadcast as it makes its way around
the world. ' Starting an London,' Eng-
land, where carollers will sing "God
Bless the Ruler of this House," it
then will switch to Canada where
members of a family, seated around
their Christmas tree in Ottawa, will
send greetings to relatives in Eng-
land, Ireland, and Australia and give
a brief description of how they' are
celberating the day.
Other "Sound -Pictures"
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'umn hurried toward_ her and p
her arms about the bowed shoulders.
"Hannah—don't you know me?"
The only immediate response was
a sob that shook the old woman's
frame as she clung to Autumn.
"My baby—my babyl" Hannah
said at last ,her voice thin and brok-
en and incredibly old. •
Autumn drew her close and sooth-
ed her with little words of endear-
mentbered from her child-
hood. "Hannah, anna h : 1
Muzzy-wuzzyl"
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Holly, Goderich; secretary -treasurer,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
Directors:
after time during the night her eyes
flew open upon the darkness in star-
tled fear as though there were some
presence in the room like a hover-
ing menace.
CHAPTER III
Jarvis Doan stood before the great
windows in the hall, looking out upon
the world where the light of early
morning was aflame above the spires
of the pines. He moved away once
and called u the stairs to assure
himself that Autumn was getting
ready for the ride she had insisted
on taking with him into the sheltered
ravine where the lambing was in pro-
gress. When she replied, he strode
back to the window and looked out
upon the softly lighted mosiac of the
world that was his, the rosy head-
land on the southeast, the cliffs stud-
ded with copper, the pallid swells of
grazing land to the north where 'the
new green had the delicacy of silver
the violet troughs' of the wooded ra-
vines, and the half -discernible, bone -
colored basin of a soda lake. He had
loved this domain of his with a fierce
and obstinate pride, and had sworn
that so long as there was breath in
his body he would notsurreuder it
t o any pressure o f circumstance.
But now as he stood, weary and hag-
gard from a sleepless night, it Cane
to him that it had been better had
he sold it last winter when he had a'
substantial offer for it. Why had he
not sold- it? He was getting; old.
Pride, pride! Pride and vanity. Van-
ity of 'possession, of power, of tri-
umph! - Yes—that had been it -tri-
umph! The triumph, as he had
thought,' of his 'own eonscience over
a catastrophe of twenty years ago.
That was why he, had stayed on here,
stubbornly, bitterly, when the world
had seemed ready to crash about his
ears after the death of Geoffrey Vat -
dor, and than—Millicent.
Ah, Millicent, forever loved, for-
ever lost! Her slender red smile, red
still as she died in fever, red in the
the undying love of' slender
in hatred of himself, seemed to pierce
the brooding east now as he stared
at it with vacant eyes.
"Tool, fool!" he muttered to him-
self. "I might have known—I might
Important innovations will be -at-
tempted by the Commission during
this program. In one instance, espe-
cially, may
eiall
su
success
will
be assuredY
Y,
f
o
o
n the
by split-second actionpart
engineers. The entire venture will
be an experiment and if • carried out
as planned, listeners will hear what
undoubtedly will be one. of the great-
est' achievements in radio broadcast-
ing. Large choirs, one each at Hali-
fax, St. Sohn, Montreal, Ottawa,
Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, and
Vancouver, will wait in readiness for
the cue which will start them in
synchronized singing of two carols,
"The First Noel," and "Good King
Wenceslas."
Five other "sound pictures" of the
same "nature will follow from Eng-
land, Is'eland, Scotland, and Wales,
alternating with one each from South
Africa, India, Australia, and New
Zealand. In South Africa a narrator
will describe the summer weather and
what festivities are taking place
there. Music from a native compound
also will be heard. From India,
where at the time of the broadcast it
will be late evening, will be heard
descriptions of a formal dinner par-
ty. Australia will contribute a word
picture of an adult Christmas party
and reference to the way in which
Christmas was spent there. The time
in Australia will be shortly after
midnight.
Jarvis Dean drew himself up pon-
derously in his chair. "Come now!"
he thundered. "There'll be time e-
heke
file
on
•
e-
noughfon that! Put t
g
the fire and make us a pot of tea"
Hannah drew away andAutumn
patted her affectionately on the
shoulder. "Yes, Hannah, make us
some tea. We'll have days and days
to talk.: I'm never going to leave
home again."
-The old woman pattered away to
the kitchen and Autumn sat down
again on the satin settee.
"So you are counting on staying
here," her father said.
"If I have to turn sheep and run
with the flock, Da," Autumn 'laugh-..
ed,
Jarvis Dean's head sank forward
en his chest.' "Were you not well
enough off with your aunt, then?"
he asked her.
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'to the 'Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of
'Commerce, •Seaforth, et at Calvin
Cutt's Grocery, Goderich.
Pertios desiring to effect Insur-
ance or transact other business will
be promptly attended to on applica-
-ion to any of the above officers ad-
dressed to their respective post offi-
,ces. Losses inspected by the director
who lives nearest the scene.
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"I have nothing against Aunt Flo,
Da. She has always been lovely to
me."
"What brings you home, then?"
Jarvis Dean's voicewas deep, his
breathing labored.
"I'sn fed up with all that meanings
less existence—and this is my home."
Autunm's voice quivered and broke
at the realization of the fantastic
heartlessness of the situation. Be-
wildered and appalled and crushed,
she struggled to regain control
of
her voice, "Do you mean—you real-
ly don't want me here, Da?" she
asked.
The old man shifted uneasily in his
chair? "Here What kind of a place
is this for a girl like you?" he de-
manded.
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Autumn's eyes darted helplessly
from one object in the room to an-
other, as though she were seeking
refuge from the overwhelming and
cruel stupefaction that had come up-
on her. "Why—whatever can you
haveagainst my being here—I can't
believe—" with
Her father held up his hand
a peremptory gesture. "What did 1
tell you in England last Christmas
when you wanted to come back here
with me?,
"I . neverbelieved' that you really
meant that I couldn't come back.
Why, it's—it's the most unreasonable
thing I've ever heard oi. We've al-
ways had such wonderful times to-
gether and 1—"
Jarvis Dean rose abruptly to his
great height and the anguish in hle
Taco wrung her heart in amazement
and mystification. "Let's . talk no
more about it," he said with an ef-
•
Around theWorld
The unsung heroes of the two-hour
broadcast will be the engineers be-
hind the scenes. And so it is plan-
ned that for five minutes listeners
may hear an informal chatting be-
tween two operators at different
points. They will be heard in radio
"shop -talk" and, by means of the
Commission's short-wave receiving
station at Ottawa, will endeavour to
pick-up such foreign cities. as Rome,
Berlin, Paris, London. The success
of this venture will depend altogeth-
er on atmospheric conditions.
Switching once again to British
Columbia, listeners will hear a golf-
ing foursome teeing off at the fam-
ous Oak Bay golf course, overlook -
mg the Pacific Ocean. This feature
will last about three minutes. From
Vancouver will be heard Pat Terry,
well known marine reporter, who will
talk with sailors of foreign ships rid-
ing at anchor in the harbour. These
Hien, theyisands of miles from home,
will tell what it is like to spend
Christmas in a' strange land.
Children to Speak
From one city in each of the nine
• i
provinces children ranging from four
to 12 years of age will engage in a
twoway conversation with a Com-
mission announcer at Ottawa. They
will tell how they enjoyed Christmas,
what it means to them, and what San-
ta Claus left for them. At Yama-
chiche, Quebec, at which place is lo-
cated - the Marconi Beata Wireless
station, a message will be sent out to
the world extending Christmas greet-
ings on behalf of the people of Can-
ada. It is expected that this message
will be picked -up by many operators.
The broadcast then will switch to Ed-
monton, Alberta, where will be heard
the landing of an airplane from the
Inc north, bringing mail and presents
from persons scattered throughout
the north-western hinterlands. At
this time a Commission "enquiring
reporter" will interview the pilot.
Small Girl to Introduce Ring li
To a small girl in New Zealand,
who will be allowed to sit late, will
be accorded the honour of introducing
His Majesty to the world. The time
in New Zealand, which is the most
distant of the Dominions, will be ear-
ly morning of Boxing Day, December
26. In England the time will be 3.00
o'clock Christmas afternoon. His Ma -
have known!"
He turned as Autumn, dressed for
the ride, came down the stairs.
"Let's go!" she sang out, and stood
before hint slapping her boots with
her quirt.
Two horses stood before the door,
Jarvis Dean's big black and Hector
Cardigan's hunter. In ,it moment
they were in the trail and heading
eastward over the way that Autumn
had cone the night before.
"I hope old Hector won't mind `my
'riding his darling over the hills,"
Autumn said "It's slightly more than
1 bargained for."'
Her fathergrunted. "Him? He
thinks of nothing .but the damned
gimcracks he's got packed into that
house of his."
Autumn sinned. "You mustn't be
hard on hector, Da: He's been very
;chid and he's getting old and he loves
every piece he- has stored away in
fort. "You stay—for come and you will' that funny place: I love it myself."
have to ya decent length of "You're a woman," Jarvis Dean re
time, anyhow—or people will have
eyes beaming and watering with de-
light.
"Welcome home, Miss' Autumn!" he
said, achieving a gallant little jerk
of a bow. 'You've -been gone a long
time. But a fine young lady they've
made of you, 1 see."
Autumn laughed and glanced at
her father who stood by, tall and ele-
gant in his riding clothes, smiling in-
dulgently down: upon his old herder.
"I've been gone too long, Absolom,"
Autumn said, "But I'm home for
good now, and I'll be over to see you
often,"
"We'll be makin' for the hills right
after shearht'," Absolom told her.
"In about another fortnight."
"Stay and visit with Absolom
while I go out and look over the new
family," Jarvis said, starting for the
corral. "Cone along when you feel,
like it."
Autumn entered the shack and
seated herself, while Absalom tended
to his coffee and bacon.
"It'll be like old times havin' you
back at the Castle, isliss Autumn,''.
the old herder said. "You'll be put -
tin' new life into the old place."
"Perhaps the old place could stand
a little new life," Autumn replied.
Absolom turned to her with the
frying pan in one hand, then glanced
quickly through the doorway.
"And I'm telling you it could stand
a lot of it," he d.isa "You never saw
such a place as that's got to be. The
Laird's a great man, an'still hearty
for a man of his years, mind you,
'but there's need of, . some one about
the house there besides that poor old
body that does the cookie and the
eleanin'. In the old days we used to.
have a bit of a dame now an' then,
or something to keep a man from
gettin' old before his time—but yon's.
a morgue, gestin' to be."
"Von give me an idea, Absolom,
Autumn said, "It isn't every day in
the year that a daughter conies home.
•I'sn going to celebrate. I'm' going
to invite the whole countryside to
a dance. Will you come We .could-
n't give a party without you."
"We'll be leavin' in another fort-
night," he reminded her.
"We'll make it next Friday night,
ght,
then."
(Continued Next Week).
Eastward again to Halifax the
broadcast will swing. From that
city will be heard an interview with
a family enjoying Christmas dinner.
They, too, will tell how they are
spending the day. A Commission re-
porter then will describe a skijor-
ing party on the St. Lawrence river,
near Montreal, and this will be fol-
lowed by a sleigh -drive up Mount
Royal. An announcer, equipped with
a portable microphone, actually will
board the sleigh and ride a short dis-
tance up the mountain side.
•
Sick Children and Trans -Canada
Train
The other side of Christmas will
be illustrated during this kaleido-
scopic view of happy Canada, when
an annotmcer enters the Sick Chil-
dren's Hospital, Toronto, there to
speak with the little inmates as they
lie '011 their cots: In an, informal,
friendly way he will ask them ques-
tions and get their reaction to the
day and what it means to them. Be-
fore leaving he will distribute dolls,
toys, and candies among the children.
Then just as quickly the scene will
change. This time, at Field, British
Columbia, in the heart of the snow-
capped Itoclty Mountains, another
"enquiring 'reporter" will await the
arrival of a westbound trans -Canada
train. Equipped with several hun
'tired feet of cable attached to a port-
able microphone he will stand on the
station platform to pick up the sound
of the approaching train, the shriek
of its whistle, and the grinding of
its brakes as it.cones to a stop He
tlsen will .interview the conductor,
porter, steward, ward and, if time permits,
passengers alighting from the coach-
es. The announcer will board the
dining -car where he ,will Have the
chef tell what is on the Christmas
menu.
Governor General Speaks
A Radio Commission microphone
at this juncture will pick up the mes-
sage of His Excellency the Governor
General, who 'will extend Christmas
greetings to the people of Canada
and the United States. A three min-
ute broadcast from Saskatoon Stad-
ium where a senior hockey match is
to be played, then will be heard. A'
sports announcer will describe the
game in the usual rapid-fire com-
mentary.
Concluding this ambitious two-hour
broadcast will be a message from
Santa Claus himself, as the jovial
gentleman makes preparations for
his long return journey to the north
pole. He will speak from Winnipeg.
During the evening hours the vari-
ous networks of the Commission will
feature special Christmas music and
other seasonal features, one of the
highlights being "Christmas With
Dickens," an hour-long radio drama-
tization from the Toronto studios.
Canadian Scientists
Honoured By Netherlands
Dr. H. T. Gussow of .Ottawa, Do-
minion Botanist, Experimental Farms
Branch, Dominion 'Departnent of
Agriculture, has been notified that
he has been nominated an honorary
member of the Royal Netherlands
Horticultural and Botanical Society
as a mark of appreciation fromthe
scientists of Holland of his distin-
guished work for the benefit of hor-
ticulture, not only its Canada but
world wide. Dr. Gussow has been
Dominion Botanist since 1910 and
was responsible for the origination
of the plant pathological service in
Canada. In recent years many hon-
ours have been conferred on hint
In 1910 he became a member of the '
American Association for the Ad-
vanoement of Science, and two years
later was elected a fellow of the
Association.
He is a charter member of the
American Plant Pathological So-
ciety; a member of the International'
Agricultural Institute at Rome; is
first vice-president of the Canadian
Phytopathological Society; a fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada; ,and
has acted as the Dominions repre-
sentative at several international
conferences.' He came to Canada with
a distinguished career. He was . as-
sistant to the Keeper of Botany. of
the British Museum;' a member of
the British Royal Society; a member
of the Linnean Soctiey; an honorary
fellow
of the Royal Horticultural So-
ciety; a member of the BritishAssociation of Biology, of the Societe
Mycologique de France, and corre-
sponding member of Vereinigung
Angewandte Botanik of the Societe
The Oldest House in Canada
From Quebec, in the oldest house
in Canada where, in 1759 14iontcalm
died, will cone a two -minute bi-
lingual broadcast:' An announcer saill.
draw a contrast between its present
occupants and their use of the house
and its ,original occupants. Again
the program will speech onward, this
time to. Sydney, Nova Scotia, where
a coal -miner, far beneath the level of Pathologic Vegetals de France.
will speak to the radio and
the sea, P