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HOCKEY
So you were born ,in Canada. How,
about teaching as to (play (hockey?"
Such a greeting has been extended
in every country where water freezes.
The 1mpres'siop prevails that every
Canadian , possesses this national in-
stinct to skate through a maze of
sticks and whip round tubber into a
cotton net, It is so anniversary that,
Ibe'fore next spring, !half a thousand
puck-chaeinLg Catruoks will earn a
milliom collars for teaching and -dem-.
onatrating 'hockey to a sport -hungry
world.
Where do these 5100 "do their
stuff"? In New York, 'Chicago, Bos-
ton and Detroit; he a score of smaller
United States centres /from Coast to
Coast; in England and Scotland; in
nearly every arpontant European
city. Even in Japan, war or no war,
some 'Canadian will, this winter, in-
struct young ',Nips" in the art of
skating and Sooting a rubber puck.
Thirty-five years ago the 'first big
trek began—when wealthy coal min-
ers ,in Michigan raided Canadian
rinks and era'b;bed a beam so good
that it averaged .more than ten goals
a Igaane.
Europe did not get its first "eyeful"
of hockey, as it should be played, ,un-
til 11920, -when the Winnipeg Falcons,
Dominion champions, competed in
the first world's championship at
Antwerp. In winning every game de-
cisively, their sudden /bursts of speed
and q•uicks'tops so inapressed the Eur-
opeans that the latter .actually search-
ed their boots and skates for the
electrical energy which they thought
made such skating possible.
During this period from 1920 to
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19,36, native professionals were find-
ing pots of gold. At the peak of the
rush, salaries of $"10,000 for six
months ,of hockey were not uncom-
mon. One player received $115,000 a
season, and some clubs :paid annsual'ly
more than $100,000 to fifteen players.
So keen was the (bidding for goal -
getters that a few outstanding pros-
pects received 1$110,000 for a promise
to /play; and one American team, in
its eagerness to win the old Stanley.
Cup, bought an entire prairie league.
to ensure suitable material.
While these salaries :have since
'cooled," the world'dentand for hock-
ey has remained quite hot. Recall the
happenings of 'last season. ,In six
American and Canadian cities, about
3,000,000 spectators. paids to see maj-
or professional hockey,
When the 1039 professional season
ended, Detroit Red Wings and Mon-
treal Canadiens barnstormed England
and France and, even though the fans
paid rep to $51 for one ticket, the
rinks were frequently sold out.
Up till now, Canada has been able
to furnish enough good hockey 'for
,horse consumption, and also supply
the markets of United States, the Bri-
tish Isles, Europe and some of Asia.
But isn't the game .getting too big
for us? Cats we continue exporting
quality and quantity, to satisfy the
world?
Fortunately for Canada, it requires
about fifteen years to !produce a top
grade 'hockey player.
United States rink owners knoll•
that this theory, of "ageing" is cor-
rect, Colleges like Dartmouth and
Yale have ,ptayed hockey for some
'forty years, and American university
athletes are well .endowed in ,nienitel-
ity and physique. But (titers isn't a
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':hockey team •representing a United
States edtsoation institution, that
couldn't ibe Ibeaiben by a ecore of Can-
adian 'jaitrior teams. Why? Because
the IU.. S. students didn't start playing
'the game until they were in their late
teens.
Contrast that retarded ,development
with conditions in Canada.
In Toronto, every Saturday morn-
ing
orning in winter, two teams of kids, not
one of whom is over ten years old,
pay hockey in Maple Leaf Gardens,
while an adult coach teaches them
'inside stuff," •
Several years ago, in Iroquois
Falls, a group of small lads started
playing together. They remained to-
gether, and by the time they started
shaving they were a nationally res-
pected team. Once, when the now
famous Conacher 'brothers were
youngsters, I saw thein shooting a
puok at a target in iJ:uly. "5ya1" Apps,
the starriest centre player ih hockey,
splayed in a league at the age of ten,
and in the 'Junior 10. H, A, at four-
teen. At an age when most American
university. students are beginning 'to
learn the game, he was a finished
player with a decade of experience.
Back of the d100I' front-line Canadi-
an 'hockey players who make a good
living selling hockey .skill, there are
about 215,000 other players registered
in leagues organized by the Canadian
Amateur Hockey Association. Rough-
ly, 700 of them play in the Thunaer
Bay District, 1800 in Britis'lr Columtbia,
about .11300 each in Saskatcln•ewan and
Alberta, 11600 in the Tlaritiene Prov-
inces, more than 1700 in Manitoba,
,and 2500 around Ottawa, About 4,-
000 reside in Quebec,and nearly
000 in Ontario.
Excluding university players, there
is a reserve of fifty candidates for each
position now occupied by the 5013 Ca-
nadian front -liners; and most of these
reserves would be stars in any other
country.
Does that 215,000 exhaust Canadian
resources? Not nearly, In Toronto
it is definitely known that during the
119318 season, 12,850 players played
(hockey in sixty-six city rinks; and, as
Toronto is no more hockey conscious
than any other part of the country,
there is evidence that more titan 180,-
000 Canclian boys know enough about
hockey to belong to a team tend play
games.
So our hockey army includes 500 in
the trenches, '35,000 in imnneiate re-
serve, and 1180,000 recruited and in
'training. INo general staff would quar-
re1 with this strength of reinforce-
ments, Apparently, Canada's ability
to feed, a pnok-conscious world is no
longer a problem.
The Ontario Dairy Farm Manage-
ment and Milk Cost :rutty reveal,
striking variations in the net return
secured by milk producers from their
business. Studies of a similar nature
in other dairying. section: of Canada
and in other countries have at other
tunes shown sintiler 'ide differences
in the farm business returns. As in
urban business, some farmers do tcell
wile other, have great difficulty in
!accumulating sufficient net revenue
to maintain lining standards.
The operator labor earnings i$ the
terns used in this study to express
the return to the farm operator or
his labor and management after de-
ducting from receipts all general ex-
penses, interest on capital values at 4
per cent., and wages for all members
of the farm operator'e famiiy for
such farm work as they do. except
the farm manager himself. The high-
est operator labor earnings for the
year ending June 30, 11937, amorist
460 shippers of milk to fluid markets.
was Valle? and the lowest (minus)
$1,879. The variation in operator -la-
bor earnings between these two farms
was more than $7,000. ',Vhile one can
not with accuracy gauge farming by
the net returns in any one year of op-
erations, this wide variation in net
returns is a characteristic which has
been revealed by all similar studies of
any competitive business. There are
several factors which are responsible
for the great difference in net income
as (between farms. Some of 'these fac-
tors cotne within and some are be-
yond the control of the farmer, such
as weather and prices. A ,farmer may
suffer a reverse in progress due to
unfavorable conditions of weather in
any one year, 'but over a period of
years, he may learn through experi-
ence the kind of weather to expect
and can make adjustments in the bus-
iness accordingly. Unusual condition
of ,weather do not :occur annually,
The hazards of prices, too, can be
overcome in a large measure by care-
ful study. It is true the farmer's esti-
mate of prices may be incorrect for a
period, but careful study of price in-
formation will assist greatly in 4tatrdl=
ing such handicaps,
"Now, darling, ,do 'tell me how you
first came to 'know of your af5gstiot
,for •eve.".. .
"Oh, stid4enly I ,noticed ,that I 'be-
came provoked .when everybody can-
ed you.a duntnty1"
Haase Nature Plays One of Ger distad
Joke. of Wltich-She 18
So 2tond.
No sooner does roan triumphantly
announce that he has harnessed' soot
great force for his own use than
Dame Nature playa one of her little
jokes of which she is so fond, saga
contributor to Tit -Bits.
Recently experiments in lone -ata.
tante television have been c'anduo5e,
between the United States and Atm:
tralia. So far ^as could be 'seen be-
fore the tests began, there waft ea
reason why success should toot las
achieved, just as it had been ove,.
shorter distances. But when 664
Images came through they were blur
red and muzzy.
Closer inspection disclosers that
this was due to the presence s1
ghosts! In the viewing lens the
image of the sitter appeared, but
close beside it was a second faint
image, and sometimes a third. Theae
ghosts come from the depths of apnea
The waves which amigo them have
travelled something more than tans
million miles out from the earth wag
back again.
The key to the presence of tele-
vision ghost's was discovered from
the experiences of operators on hong
distance wireless services, for they,
too, are very much troubled.
The ghosts that worry them arse
not visible forms, but queer eehoes
of signals. What happens is tbds
t3upposing that a Morse dash is see
out, it armies at the receiving end,
and at intervals ranging from one-
seventh of a second to as much ail
thirty seconds., echoes of the deeds
are received. These arrive on top e1
other signals and cause confusion.
For long-distance wireless, what is
known as the beam/ system is target.,
need, for, like light rays, wlreeee3
saves can be feaused int. ¢ beaus.
;goat, but not all of the 11EI eo, eta®
be directed'torwards towards tfat
eelving station; there is annals a 14410
tie leakage trona behind', Now, aerie
;Wee that a station !a 75nuIa11d 30
transmitting to America, theal ntra
duly spans the 5,000' odd miles ad
land and water, but about one-edee
enth_ot a second later there follows
an echo caused by waves which have
leaked from the back of the tae as.
matter and gone the other way roast{
the world,
We can tnndeestand these eebeesa
since they are canoed by waves wteleti
keep pretty close to the earth trig
travel round it- But what are the
echoes which oecur at longer War
vale and cause faint ghoetn?
Wireless waves travel at the dies`
speed of 186,000 miles a aeeoma
Some of the echoes occur at intervals
Just about long enough to :allow of a
journey to the moon and back. It
may be, then, that the moon acts set
a kind of gigantic mirror and that
some of the ghost images or iia
ghostly echoes may be caused be ate
reflection.
The moon, though, cannot be re-
ipoaasible for the echoes occurring at
'prenty-fiye or thirty seconds, or for
„'retest of the ghosts. In tblrte
seconds t •` ' :a- e' travel 5,580,-
000 miles, They muse, therefore, go
, frena the earth for over two and
a half m!ilio^ ^`l; -t auo tben be re-
flected bark.
FRINOE OF EL EP el ANTS. '
Has a Bouiy:;•uard o- f Females to
Protect &lila.
Somewhere in tike elles of the
East 4frI'an jangle there lives a
giant elephant, whose hedyauard of
female elephants meoere: him from
the prying e" •; of the v -hits bunter.
's'lie Crown Prince.: s he has been
named," states Frank L. Puxiey. in
hts recently pu1ii:=hed h' ok, "In APr1-
can Game Trunks," "tts become a
legendary figure. even during nis
Lifetime. He has never been seen b7
e white man, so far as I know, hitt
the natives chine for him a pair of
tusks that exceed 300 pounds In
weig"htn apiecea,
` elephnt's height is uearty
proportionate to the dimensions of
his feet. Thus a 19 -inch spoor
would point to an anlm.at approxi-
mately 12 feet in height,
'What insist be the size of this
monster? That he exists there is no
doubt whatever. I have myself meas-
ured these giant footmarks, and have
found that they scale 29 b4. .
They cannot be mistaken, for one of
the toenails is missing. Early this
year a well-known game ranger non-
Brmed my belief that no white man
has ever seen hire.
"And no white man ever will," he
added, explaining that the Crows
Prince maintained an escort of fe-
males, who encircle him at a distance
of a mile. They were there for the
purpose of giving his lordship time-
ly warning,^ lie said.
T$11VGS TO LEARN..
Learn to laugh. A good laugh le
better than medicine. When you
smile or laugh, your brain for a nae -
went is freed from the load that 1t
ordinarily carries.
Learn to tell a helpful story. 'A
well -told story is 8,s welcome as a
sunbeam in a sick -room.
Learn to keep your troubles is
yourself; the world is too busy to
Unger over your 1119 and sorrows.
Learn to stop croaking. if • you
cannot bee any good in this world,
keep the bad to yourself.
Learn to greet your friends with a
smile. They carry too many frowns
in their own hearts to be bothered
with any et Yours.
Wool.
The raising 01 sheep fol theta woe(
and mutton is as ancient as the early
Scriptures. They were the earliest
form of wealth. The industry has
Continued down through the centaur -
les. It never fails, because the de-
mand for woolis continuous- ft in
the principal industry of Austaa*ia,
and one of Canada's leading sources
of .reveetae. The romanee of sheep-
mading on the Mlle of Judea,
as it is with the star,Inter-
wovenss of
itavid,,01 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob;
of the shepherds who tended their
leeks near Bethlehem—all this has •
become commercialized into otoitare
".nd cents. Rai the gentle sheet Ira
sajpr the sarli.th-Alei. r4 T,tte.