Zurich Herald, 1940-01-18, Page 7NEWS
Pl6;<ADE ...
Chas and 1\Te1v Year's ex•
eitements over, European war
news threatened to fall as flat as
the proverbial pancake . . front
page news here suffered from a
surfeit of diplomatic hearsay, un-
confirmed reports and false rum-
ors . , the Russel -Finnish affair
was magnified beyond all propor-
tion . . the newspaper- reading
populace were beginning to exper-
ience a let -down feeling when along
came that sensation, the "Mystery
apt the Disappearing Cabinet Min-
ister." Boredom was banished.
Was the War Secretary's resig-
nation due to ,his extensive demo-
cratization of 'the army, a conflict
with his generals, disagreement
with the ]?rime Minister, or inabii
sty to get along with Winston
Churchill.? Would pu'biio indigna-
tion at the demotion of this most
popular Minister grow to the ex-
tent of driving the government out
of power? Only a week previous, a
prominent British daily had called
for the clearing of all "deadwood"
mut of the Cabinet , . , Sir Oliver
Stanley's name was mentioned for
the discard, but now Sir Oliver
efts in Hore-Belisha's chair.
BUSY DIPLOMATS
In the eighteenth week of the
war the world discovered that Eur-
ope's diplomats had been spending
a busy Yuletide . , . Foreign Min-
isters of Italy and Hungary appear-
ed to have agreed upon a defensive
alliance between the two countries,
easeuring Hungary full Italian sup-
port in the event of attack either
by Germany or Soviet Russia, said
. pmt to be kept secret , , . Russia
signed a three-year commercial and
navigation agreement with Bulger -
lee ratified a trade treaty with
China, and continued negotiations
fora similar compact with 1•apan,
The Balkan pot kept boiling
throughout the week ... King Car-
ol shook his fist warningly at both
Russia and Germany, but it be-
came more' evident that should the
wan on the Western Front remain
deadlocked, southeastern Europe
would become the new battle-
ground . . Conditions there fav-
ored a war of movement, suck as
the Germans waged in Poland,
which -would give ample scope to
the speedy, mechanized armies of
1940.
PUSH IN THE SPRING?
Writing from Paris, New York
Times' correspondent Archambault
said: "At present the nature of the
.Allied campaign that will develop
in 1940 turns on the answer to the
question: Will the Germans at-
tack in the spring? There Is a very
general assumption that they will.
It is argued here that the Nazi
leadership might strive to defeat
France before the main British
army enters the lists, and before
certain neutrals may decide to take
tides."
In the .same week: Hermann
Goering became absolute economic
dictator of Germany ... President
Roosevelt recommended to Con-
gress enormous additional expendi-
turee for the U S. air forces and
coastal defences ... Premier Emm-
en de Valera :of Eire, sought to put
the kibosh on the Irish Republican
Army ... the Russian military ma-
chine stalled in Finland
Canada's ParIlement got ready for
a session which will doubtless be
filled with acrimonious debate and
lengthy inquiry.
Chatham Once
Had Fifty-two
Blacksmiths
That Was In 1885, Old Direct-
ory Shows; Autos Also Stole
Jobs of Hostlers and Livery
(Algiers
Invention of the automobile un-
aloubttdly helped 'expand Windsor
and Detroit, but just think what
happened to Chatham and its 52
blacksmiths liisted in the city dir-
ectory of 1885-86, when gas bug-
gies started chugging down the
muddy streets, says the Windsor
Daily Star.
;Stylish ;!figs, then
,When this rare "Chatham City
Directory and County Gazeteer"
was published and compiled by
;Values Soutar he that golden, pre-
aatztotnobile era, there were still
more than a half -hundred men
freaking a good living as "horse-
shoers and blacksmiths."
In the unttzechanizcd town of
that remote date, quite a number
of the nett were still .going to
daily work as hostiers, or in liv-
atry stables where "comfortable
end stylish rugs" were always at
hand, and commercial travel was
ascribed as "a specialty."
Only "lamp -lighter'° in Chatham
was Frank Hargreaves, and .Henry
R,tai:5jlal. uirt"r ilii h di
DM* tha'Cc'd
duties as the "bridge -tender;." No
editorial note gas added to the dii.t,
*dory to explain what it "tomb-
stone traveller" was, but one city
$101*as Ilasted atm Millin* stat post,
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Canadian Troops hi England Cheered pulping Route Marches
The arrival of the first division of the C.A.S.F., under the leadership of Man Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton,
has won the enthusiastic acclaim of the Britishers, who never tire of watching the Canadian troops as they
swine smartly past during route marches. Scottish troops of the first division receive a hearty cheer. BOT-
TOM, as they swing along an English country road. Wearing their battle dress, the Canadian "Sootties" are
shown lining up for inspection, TOP.
The Book Shelf
"MOULDERS OF NATIONAL
DESTINIES"
by F. H. Soward
Professor e.- „ear 1, well-known to
the Canadian radio audience
through his talk,; over the CBC,
has taken a score of the leading
figures in the world today, and, by
tracing their careers, explained
graphically events and policies in
countries at peace and at war.
This book will interest anyone
who wishes to review recent trends
in international affairs, and will
make a valuable companion to our
reading in the newspapers,
Interesting incidents and anec-
dotes are skilfully interwoven, and;
though brief, the biographies are
vivid, colorful, fully -rounded por-
traits.
•
Included are: Wilson, Roosevelt,
Hindenburg, Stresemann, Ritter,
Dollfuss, Mussolini, Poincare,
Briand, Masaryk, Benes, King Alex-
ander, Lenin, Stalin, Mustapha
nal, De Valera, 'Veuizelos, Chamb-
erlain, Eden, Pilsudski, Sun Yat
San, Chiang Kai-shek.
"Moulders of National Destinies"
by F. H. Soward ... Toronto:
Oxford University Press . $1.50.
Many Microbes
Are Evacuated
Froze Pasteur Institute in Paris
-- They're Not Harmful So
Long As They Remain in
Glass Vessels
Literally billions of microbes
have been evacuated from Paris
by the Pasteur Institute. Collet•
ed from every part of the world,
they represent all the known dis-
eases caused by germs, While seal-
ed in their glass vessels they can
do no harm, but a bomb could scat-
ter them far and wide.
Collected From All Over World
Even then they would be harm-
less unless some of the worst felt
on a passerby. It, however, they
fell into a fountain, they could do
immeasurable damage. The disas-
ter of their loss by bomb or shell
fire would 'be et a different kind.
They have taken years to collect,
and scientific men have spent
thousands, of hours to study, clue
sits and grow them.
If all this knowledge were lost
many years would be needed to
make it good.
Chine is one of the largest
wheat -growing nations.
Guesswork
Recently a banquet for gour-
ments was held •in Paris. .A. prize
was offered to the guest who
could name correctly the vintages
of the wines and the names of the
dishes served. The winner placed
five of the wines, but could only
name three of the seven dishes.
And the greatest food -specialists
in France could not differentiate
between venison and hare.
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THE SPORTSMAN AND WAR
The declaration of war created a
problem for most of the province's
sportsmen's organizations -who
were undecided whether to relax
most of their activities or increase
them to meet the emergency..i. re-
cent statement from the province's
leading conservation organization
.,the Ontario Federation of Anglers,
indicates in a very forceful manner
what stand should be taken in those
times and we report it in this cor-
ner as an example for other organi-
zations of anglers and hunters who
may still feel undecided.
At a critical time such as this in
the history of our Dominion an out-
standing opportunity is presented
in which organizations such as the
Ontario Federation of Anglers can
plan and Garry out a programme
for the promotion of conservation
of the natural resources of this pro-
vince with far-reaching and lasting
benefit to Canada.
,. Conserve Fish and Game
'Wars are now more than ever a
question of endurance and finan-
cial resources are a factor of the
greatest importance. Financial re-
sources are dependent on the main-
tenance of trade at high. levels
and continuous progress in all in;
dustries. The tourist trade of Ont-
ario is one of her greatest indus-
tries and, important as it has been
in the past, the closing of Europe
to tourists on account of the war
promises considerable augmenta-
tion of this trade in, the future, if
we see to it that the supply of na-
tural resources of fish and game
are not allowed to become deplet-
ed.
Canada's Radium
Industry Grows
Makes Steady Progress up on
the Edge of Arctic Circle;
Mines on Great Bear Lake,
Refinery at Port Hope, Ont.
Awak op on the edge of the Are -
tie Circle, Canada's radium Indus-
try continues to make steady pro-
gress, according to reports receiv-
ed by the Department ot Mines and
Resources, Ottawa. Production of
radium from tb.e property of Eldor-
ado Gold Mines Limited on Great
Bean• Lake, N.W.T., has passed the
100 -gram , mark, and the output of
uranium oxide and other associate
minerals has yielded a further sub-
atantial return,
Pitchblende — 135 Tons Daily
Reserves or pitchblende ore hare
been increased, and the capacity of
the mill at the mine has been step-
ped. up to 135 tons daily, with re-
covery improved and costs lowered,
The refinery at Port Hope, Ontario
has a productive capacity of 108
grams of radium per year with fae-
ilities for processing from 8,000 to
10,000 tons of uranium compounds,
and for extracting radio -active lead
and silver, also sulphide, and other
materials. Although the mine and
the refinery are more than three
thousand utiles apart, the output at
the two points is carefully corre-
lated, and an expansion program
VOICE
of tF::
PRESS
THE INACTION OF VIRTUE
The nicked thr'iv'e because they
go after what they 'want while the
good wonder 'why somebody does.
not do something. -- Quebec
Ohrenireie - :Telegraph.
HERE'S HOPING
Partial eclipse) of the sun is dui'
to take place on November 11 la
1940 and we can think of a coulee
of individuals in Europe who
should be in similar state bythat
time. --- Peterborough Examiner.
HELPLESS CREW
The whole population of eleven
million people are agreed that far-
mers should get more for their pro-
duct, but amongst the eleven mil-
lion people there is not one who
sen tell us how to do it. — Farrn-
er's Advocate.
GET A LITTLE AIR
Many of us spend almost alI of
our time indoors. We dash from
our homes to a closed automobile
or street ear and then to a stuffy
office. For days at a time we spend
hardly an hour in the fresh air and
,sunshine. Is it any wonder that an
outbreak of the common cold does
strike so many of us? It Is well es-
tablished that fresh air and sun-
shine are essential to good health.
Many ot us fail to get anything
like a proper quota during periods
of cold weather. — Halifax Qhron-
isle. °
recently completed now gives the
Industry economical processing fa-
cilities which can be geared to the
world demand.
Develop Uses for Radium
With problems, of development
and production largely solved, the
Canadian radium industry las now
directing attention to produet re-
search, market research and mar-
ket development. Although widely
used for the treatment of cancer,
the possibilities ot radium as an
industrial mineral are still largely
unknown. It is now being used in
luminous compounds and in radio-
graphy -- the "x-raying" ot heavy
castings and metal parts to detect
flaws — but these uses by no
means exhaust the probable field
of service of the mineral.
Canadian tobacco growers har-
vested a record crop this year
when the production amounted to
108, 7 70,100 pounds compared
with 101,304,000 pounds in 1938,
and 72,093,400 pounds in 1937.
About one-third of the potatoes
grown in the United States are
used on the fauns where grownh
Brueite Find
Help's Canada.
:Expected to Make Country In..
dependent .of Foreign Supply
Sources --- Diascovered
Ontario and Quebec,
Recent discoveries of brucite izt
Ontario and •Quebec and subse-
quent research by the federal
mines bureau may make Canada in-
dependent of foreign sources of the
high grade refractory materials,
the urines department has announe.
ed at. Ottawa,
From brucite magnesia is obtain-
ed for the making of basic highs
grade refractories essential for
use in the steel and other metallur-
gical
etallurgical industries so vital In time of
war.
Get Magnesia From it
Commercial deposits of. brucite
were first discovered in Canada in
1937 at Ruthevglen, Qut. by M. i+,
Goudge of the mines bureau, Subse-
quent field work has disclosed oth-
er deposits all within easy reach of
transportation.
At present Canada obtains most
of its magnesia from the United
States, Europe and Asia.
In Canada the brucite occurs eV
small crystals or grains in crystal..
line limestone and comprises about
25 to 30 per cent, of the rock. A
process b.as been developed where-
by a product of almost pure mag
nesia can be obtained and the pos-
sibilities of producing the magues-
ia at cost low enough to compete
successfully with that of the inn..
ported material is now under con-
sideration.
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Pop's Was."
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