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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-01-25, Page 3THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 034, , THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE THREE CONTENTIOUS BS'SUES 'Ottawa. --(Beginning with the Do- minion - provincial cofiference which :opened on Wednesday, and followed by the opening of ;Parliament a week Dater, on all sides it agreed :that the ,for !Ai coming session will he one of continuous 'debate with attack and ,counter-attack from the 'Opposition forces which will doubtless combine in an effort to induce the 'Government to go to the country during the com- ing summer. ilii the best -informed circles, however, it is believed these attempts will be in vain and that the general election will not come before .the early summer fat 4935. Interest of all the provinces will- centred upon r Ottawa when strong delegations from • every 'Provincial 'Government will sit down with the Dominion premier and his associates to thresh out problems common to all, !While the subjects already set down on the agenda are mainly coinvetnion- al, dealing. with unemployment re- lief and its kindred subjects, the- 'Com - panics Act, rfinances and the world wheat agreenient, :rumblings from the Maritimes, Quebec and (British Col- linable indicate that others matters will be brought up which are likely to give rise to lengthy debate, IPreriffer L, A, Taschereau, the vet- eran Quebec.Government leader seems likely to give the conference food for considlerable thought, par- ticularly in respect to the financing of unemployment relief and the policy of the governments toward lotteries. IHe would advocate a change by which the provincial governments and the Dominion would assume the en- tire cost of unemployment relief, share and share alike, leaving the municipalities out .of the picture so far as costs are concerned. hlr. Taschcreau has also promised to bring up the subject of lotteries, taking the view that properly 'con- ducted Dominion or provincial .lot- • -series would 'bring in enormous am- ounts, not only from Canadian stib- scribers, but from abroad, the pro- ceeds to be used for charity and edu- i' ,cational purposes. 'Under the present system, which makes lotteries illegal nt 'Canada, a great deal of money leaves the country to pay for lottery. tickets sold by other countries, the prettier argues. (Premier 'Pattuiio of ;British Colum- bia, with practically all members of his recently formed ministry, will :be in Ottawa for the conference and will doubtless have some fainly radical ar- guments to advance with respect to provincial financing and relief admin- istration. It is understood 1Ir, Pat - The Seaforth. News bargain suhscriptin offer - to New and :Renewal subsoil. uary 3i stn ers closes Jan - No matter when your sub$eriptien expires, you will save by renewing now. tunto seeks indorsement of a move to issue large sums of paper money over and above that which is now in circp- lation. The .premiers and ministers from the three :Maritime ;Provinces, Nova Scotia, New 13runswfck and Prince Edward Island, will endeavor to pre- sent a common front to the conference on the problems peculiarly their own. The old cry of "Maritime rights" will be heard again on Parliament 'Hill, according to advance informa- tion being received here, although the subject is not officially on the agenda, New Brunswick recently had as prominent St. John attorney prepare a report on the status of the 'Maritimes with Confederation, and - the finding was that while the provinces had no legal claims against the Dominion, there were strong moral claims which could be justified within the Confed- eration pact. :I11 Montreal on Tuesday the Mari- time delegations to the conference foregathered to study this report and formulated the case they will jointly Present at the (Ottawa gahering. The use of the Itntercolonial section of the Canadian National 'Railways, develop- ment of trade through iifaritinte Province ports and provincial subsi- dies form the groundwork of the Maritime claims. IIt would not be surprising if the conference ehard a debate on the wis- dom of amalgamation of the three Maritime :Provinces under one :Gov- ernment and the same treatment of the three Prairie Provinces. Associat- ed with this argument a suggestion may be advanced that lite 3tarimtime Provinces might seek freedom to se- cede in a measure from the Dominion and make their own trade agreements. The world wheat agreement, fn which Canada undertakes to reduce wheat production by 115 per cent., will be discussed, but not by the confer- ence as a whole, according to present plans. It will be taken up by a sub - conference of those from the wheat growing provinces and teh Dominion ministers, At the last Dominion - provincial conference efforts to bring a nte'asiire of harmony into the various pro- vincial acts respecting company -in- corporations resulted in' a decision to shelve the discussion until this year, with the Government in the mean- time prelparing a model act which would form a basis for discussion. This proposed legislation is now rea- dy, lnaw'ig been prepared in the of- fice of Moan. C. H. .Callan, secretary. of state. The intentionis to bring all the provinces into harmony on the regulations and conditions under which new companies may secure their charters, - Some hopes for the civilian blind securing aid from the governments in the way of pensions for those who are unable to support themselves are seen in the announcement that Premier Taschereau will take the initiative in advocating, such- a move. - irt has already been announced that Premier Ben -nett would like to see this subject :discussed at the confer- ence and plight bring it up himself if it were not placed on the agenda by one or more of the provinces. The three Prairie Provinces are already in agreement that something along lines should he done and the Dominion 'Government is sympathetic. ASIX. MORE YEARS - Ninety -four last July, hale and hear- ty—or at least as hearty as you would normally expect a man 20 years his junior to be John D. Rockefeller Sr. would appear to have a very fair chance of achieving his present am- bition, that of 'living 100 years—as he achieved every other ambition in life on which he set his mind. I•f supreme confidence counts, he will do it. Many years ago lie engaged a famous phys- ician of :his own then -age,' Dr. Hamil- ton Flake Bigger, to show him how he could live to be 100 anti made a friendly wager with his adviser that he would outlive him—which he slid, for Doctor Bigger died of old age in 401716. When winter creeps nearer and the leaves are falling from the trees of his vast estate at Pocantico Hills, New' York, John D. Rockefeller starts his annual ipilgrinaage to 'Flori- da, where the villagers of Ormond Beach have set their seal of friendly approval upon hint by the homely ap- pellation of "Neighbor John," !Here he comes because the sun shine is ;warm. The rays-1John IRrockefeller's professed health -giver and life-pro- longer—are with him all through the day -as he wises, as he breakfasts, as he takes his automobile rides, as be visits with his friends, as he lunches and as he dines, He rises with the sun and he retires with the sun. 1But Neighbor John does not de- pend on the sun alone in his deter- mination to reach 100 He has elimin- ated all worry, His gigantic business is now and has been for years in the hands of his son, The elder man has spared himself that ahunting ghost of the advancing years—grim retrospect tion. He looks forward only. That is his creed, The year he was born the child -Queen of England, Victoria, be- came legally of age. She was to reign longer than any other monarch and when she died John Rockefeller was operating a business which had then made 7150 millions for its stockholders. He was a successful man of affairs at the time the American civil war, And, more than half a century later, he was still active in business and the direction of his immense wealth when It17 million 'men went to war the world over. He has seen candles grow into electric lights. He has seen air- planes take the place of pony dispatch riders, He has seen his own vast oil holdings supplant the motive power of a sailing ship. Twenty years ago when people were beginning to think that Rocke- feller had already over -lived his span, the story was going the rounds that the head of Standard Oil suffered from incurable stomach trouble; that Ile could eat only crackers and milk: that he would willingly pay millions of dollars for a new digestive ap- paratus. This was the period at which Mr. Rockefeller had - definitely • We Pre Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get ' Anywhere, Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • The Seatorth New SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, made up his mind to live 1100 years and he wes merely going through a course of preliminary training as laid down by his longevity -physician, the same one who was apparently able to give him the correct prescription, hut was unable to follow those fam- ous words of counsel: "Physician heal thyself." :Crackers and milk was the diet, 1101 for days or months, but fur year.. 'Rockefeller at that time weighed 2011 pounds—too „heavy by far for a maul of his build setting out to be a cenen- arian. Finally his system was right— and since then he has eaten I..ader- ateyl of anything which takes .his fan- cy. Take his typical breakfast, that of any healthy man - one -halt or one- third of his age: Orange juice or grapefruit, a saucerful of oatmeal with milk and sugar. two or three strips of broiled bacon, an egg, a large cup of coffee, two or three different kinds of 'buttered toast or hot biscuits. His luncheon and dinner are lighter meals than breakfast, For the first, he usually eats fish or lamb chops, end- ing with rice pudding or an apple dumpling. For dinner, clear soup, roast meat or fish, fruit. CITY TREES Although- one might not expect it, Toronto has a forestry department. Figure that one out if you have been going around thinking that the city is made upon steel, brick and con- crete, sewers, a regular garbage serv- ice and a tax collection system. And if you think you can go out and dull an axe on the front yard tree that is ruiningthe lawn and stunting, the ger- anium been with too much shade—try it, that all I For Toronto is a jealous city about her trees. Just because the city owns enough trees to make a for- est fire makes no difference. Every one of the odd '170,000 trees are num- bered and if any one of them is to be cut down, the Parks Department is going to know 'how and why and then turn around and do it themselves. A Boy Scout has as 11111011 chance of im- proving his woodcraft tests in a prac- tical way on the city's trees as he has 1f being incited -by the Board of. Con- trol to carve his initials in the front door -of the City Hall. Charles Cham- bers, commissioner of parks, is large- ly responsible. A story is told that he winces every time she signs a tree - cutting order. But whether that is true or not, the names of people are legion who have gone into his office full of fire and demands for a major tree surgical operation and have come out antu•-e lovers and singing soft music. The man is uncanny, that way. You 'go into the department and say you want a tree down, You have a garage drive right behind the tree. The commissioner looks you in the face and says, "Oh, yes. that a re- markably fine soft maple." He will tell you when it was planted, some of its baby history, and how is survived the tussock moth. By that time, far from wanting the tree cut, you have begun to take a personal interest in the tree and wonder why you were such a fool as never to see that tree in such a light before. "Gad," you. will say; "why have I been so blind," and rush off and move the garage. Commissioner Chambers grew up in the parks department, 'His father was commissioner before hint and be- tween the ureic he ceased serving the` city in that office and the a•ppoiatt- inent of his son in 1191112, the latter was close to the department There is no exaggeration in anything that is said about hispersonal regard for trees But neither :he nor his offic- ials are exactly clairvoyant ,when they show an intimate knowledge of any one tree before any one lot in the city,' For in department headquartersis a record of every tree iowued by the city. It shows its exact location in regard to street and lot dines, its age, its con'd'ition and its variety, It shows, moreover, that the numbers of old forest -born trees are linniteB. .Strange as it may seem, there are few natural trees even in the new sections of that comparatively new city, There are a few up Dovercourt way, There are 0 few more in the 335 acres of 'High Park and in Sunnybreok Park, Even the great elms and willows of Island Park were tsarted as seedlings in the pampered and sheltered tree planting ns, Commissioner Chambers states that the natural trees do not like their feet uncovered. Fo that matter; they do mot like them buried between concrete sidewalks and pavements, "As soon as civilization intrudes;, the native tree shakes its head, droops and slowly dies,' he says. The natives are dying in the woodland sections of High Paris. They cannot stand the scuffing of thousands of feet and the disarrangement,of the natural forest. mould on the ground's surface. lien- dreds of trees are planted eech year in this parte in which sections are liv- ing kept as naturally wild as p.is-- sible. In all, 2,3317 trees were planted last year in new locations and in gaps - caused by the removal of Head er dy- ing trees. HOME-GROWN GRAINS FOR SHEEP (Experimental Farms 'Note} The solution to the problem of economical sheep feeding in winter nests on the use of good palatable roughages, properly supplemented with grains. - The grain part of the ration is usually the must expensive; however, with a reasonable supply of - home- grown grains such as oats, barley or wheat, the cost is much reduced and very satisfactory results can - be ch- ained. - 1Some grain is generally required for the maintenance of the ewes in lamb. For this purpose oats have no equal. However, if no legume hay is available, wheat bran should be add- ed to the oats in the proportion . of one part of the former to two o: the ;atter. The amount to be fed will vary from one-quarter of a pound to; three-quarters of a pound per head daily according to the condition of. the animals. For fattening lambs, Canadian far-. Iters have in barley and wheat two good - substitutes for corn. Feeding trials in the United States have prov- ed that these grains have a value at- mots equal to corn. A review made by the Animal T-Tnsbandry Division of tr Ceatrai Experimental Farm, Ot- taws, of the work dime by Canadiart Stations confirms this point. For in- stance at the La Ferme Experimental Station, barley was found as valu- able as corn when one part was fed with a mixture of ground oats 2 parts and 0;1 meal, one part, The lambs made good gains and were welt finished. A report from the Leth- bridge 'Experimental Station . in Al- berta indicates that with alfalfa hay. a mixture of barley and oats or wheat and nate in the proportion of two tr one has resulted in excellent gains and good finished lambs at the end of the trial. - These grains contain starch and` consegnently should be fed with Ie- gtine hay if best results are to be ob- tained. A half and half or a two to one mixture of barley and oats is to be. recommended in this connection, Wheat can be substituted for barley in the same proportion. - .,With non -leguminous roughages.: snob as mixed hay, low -land hay, etc.. bran or oil meal should be added. Ttvo parts of oats, two parts of barley - or wheal, one part of bran or one-- half part of oil meal substitute_ con,- stitute a good mixture. Care least be taken that these grains are not too 'finely ;ground. 'Sheep like something to chew and finely ground barley or wheat are apt to Form a sticky mass in the mouth. 1t is, therefore, recommended to feed these grains whole, rolled or coarsely ground: They will be eate' more readily and at the sante *hale the •cost.. ,of grinding will be reduced, Stop - the Cough, — Coughing caused by irritation in the respira- tory passages and is the effort to dis- lodge obstructions that enure from in - fl amatlaHen of the mucous membrane:; Treatment with Dr. Thomas' Ecicdr- ric Oil will allay the infaminat•fotr- and in co'nsequence the cough will" usually stop. Tr•yit'and;'you tr=flf bo satisfied,.