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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-09-26, Page 2Saving Ontario's Natural Resources (No. 9) By G. C, TONER, Ontario Federation of Anglers IMPORTANCE OF BROOKS The headwaters of most rivers are little streams. These streams and the tributary feeder brooks are very important in the con- servation of the brook trout for they are the nurseries of the young fish. Here, the trout find cool waters, lots of the proper kind of food and, most import- ant of all, protection against many hungry enemies. Fishing clubs and anglers are so often only concerned with the main stream when they should be pro- tecting and fostering the tiny brooks back in the hills. Of course, many anglers realize the value of these streams and where they have control, oftentimes close then to all fishing. Our 'speckled trout spawn late in the fall, usually after the rains have filled the streams so that they can reach the spawn- ing grounds. The male and fe- male trout may go into shall streams that have only a few inches of water normally. Here, the male selects a gravel bar and fans out a depression. Next, he chooses a female and a few eggs are deposited. The male continues to fan out the depres- sion but on the upstream side, and more eggs are laid. The dig- ging of the hole the second time covers the first lot of eggs with gravel. And this continues until both male and female are ex- • hausted. WHERE TROUT LAY EGGS Ail winter long the eggs are developing, protected against hungry trout and birds by the gravel over them. Early in the spring the young trout hatch and wriggle free. For awhile they lie quietly but soon they start to feed on the minute life of the .stream. Two things are absolutely es- sential if we are to have normal reproduction in the speckled trout. There must be plenty of water in the small streams for nearly the whole year and there must be gravel bars in which the trout can build their spawning depressions. Without these the natural crop of young fish will be a failure and artificial stock-. ing will be needed if the angling is to be kept in good condition. If we are to maintain the trout n o r sc cams we inusE se'r`e ham"' the forest is not cut away at the headwaters of our rivers, and, if it has already been cut, we must reforest. This, I believe is the first and most important work in replenishing the speckled trout waters of southern Ontario. Famed Srn McGee Dies In Alberta Celebrated By Robert W. Service's Poem "The Cre- mation of Sam McGee" — Native of Lindsay, Ont. Sam McGee, whose name became renowned through a sourdough poem of Robert W. Service, is dead. The "Sam McGee from Tennes- see, who a.ctualiy was a native of Lindsay, Ont., died in the little southern Alberta town of Beiseker, early in September. His death came 80 years after Service wrote "The Cremation of Sam McGee." The poem told how McGee from Tennessee was always "cold but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell" and he finally admitted he was comfortably warm when his frozen body was being cremated. WASN'T CREMATED AT ALL McGee, 73 years old at the time at his death, wasn't spellbound by the search for gold, either, as his chief occupations in the Yukon were copper mining and road. building. And he was not cremated. He was buried in Rosebud Church cemetery, a few miles from Beisek- er. After McGee left the Yukon in 1909, he gave up his northland pur- suits and went • to Great Falls, Mont., where he lived for 28 years. Three years ago he came to Bei- seker, - McGee always found it difficult to convince people he was the "Sam McGee" of Service's poembut he usually did with a valedictory ad- dress presented when he left the Yukon. Two years ago he visited the Yu- kon and discovered that a two - room shanty he had built at White- horse in 1900 had been converted into a tearoom that urged passers- by to "have a cup of tea with the $hast of 5m nurse," Largest Library Largest library in the world is the Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. It contains 1,421,285 maps and pictures, and. 5,828,126 printed books and pamphlets. King and Queen Carry C n Despite 'Repeated Bombings of Buckingham Palace �,+' ",.i:>NSA°R�`YM'>.0R'..�"tc.T'A`a,.-rrws,•avwxucew.r.v+. .•...•R _ __ _ '.his photo -diagram of Buckingham Palace shows how the royal residence has suffered from repeated German aerial attacks. tearing majesties' private chapel (A) was completely wrecked by one great bomb. Two more bombs fell last week in the quadrangle (B), g great holes in the paving and damaging surrounding walls. The front of the palace, at TOP of diagram, was pitted by another pair of bombs (C) that fell between the statue of Queen Victoria and the front entrance, facing towards St. James' Park. The building shown at the bot- tom of the area inside the dotted lines is the swimming pool demolished in the first assault on the palace. „ Ottf THE WAR -WEE K—Commentary on Current Events "TO INVADE O' NOT ..." QUESTIONFOR HITLER The desperate battle for air su- premacy over Great Britain con- tinued last week. Upon its out- come and upon the vagaries of the weather hinged a colossal invasion attempt by the Germans. Would ould the R. A. F. retain its mas- tery of the British skies? Experts agreed that three factors would de- cide the war in the air: the num- ber of British pilots; the amount of aviation gasoline the Nazis had; the strength of the Russian air force (which potentially oppoed Germany's). "Yes" and "No" Should the worst come to the worst, superior Nazi air strength might break British civilian morale and bring victory without invasion. Should the air battle end in a draw, it was expected that Hitler, committed to produce something soon to pacify the German people, might order the invasion anyway with resultant•terrible casualties to his'�~own men. - w — Would he invade? Anybody's guess was as good as the next man's. Louis P. Lochner, Associat- ed Press correspondent in Berlin said "no." He foresaw the possib- ility that Germany's plans against Britain would concentrate ou air war with abandonment of the in- vasion scheme. "The German air force," he declared, "will continue its relentless acts until the British government acts" — presumably surrendering. "Impossible unless German air mastery is established within a definite and limited period" editor- ialized the Soviet Navy newspaper, Red Fleet. The article read: "Bri- tish air strength has been grad- ually increasing with the extensive aid of the United States. If the Germans do not succeed in reach- ing their goal - conquest of full air supremacy — within a definite and limited period, and the British air fleet is able to achieve numer- ical equality with Germany, then any German landing operations are out of the question." Bearing out the predictions on Axis strategy voiced from time to time in this column, the black shad- ow of Mussolini's legions began to move across Egypt last week, driv- ing towards the Suez Canal. It was obvious that the two dictators were working together, the Duce to pre- - vent the British from withdrawing warships and airplanes from the Mediterranean area for defense of the Mother Country; 'the Fuehrer to keep British ships and planes engaged at home while the Duce did his big act. They evidently be- lieved that by striking simultan- eously in two most vital srpots they could clean up on the British Em- pire. Franco, Too As if this weren't enough for the Government at Iiondon to be fac- tug, General Franco last week gave signs of wishing to join Germany aid Italy to get his prize, Gibral- tar. He sent his brother-in-law Ra- mon Serrano Suner to Berlin to confer with Hitler and von Ribben- trop following upon Axis pressure to allow soldiers passage through Spain. More War In The East The crisis in the Far East grew =ore acute. Japan had demanded troop transit across French Indo- China to enable her to strike at China along C-eneral Kai-Shek's southern 1}order, and a naval base at Haiphong, strategic port on the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vichy Govern- ment of Marshal Petain had agreed in principle to the demands, but China had declared that if they were granted, Chiang's troops would . counter -invade Indo-Chi:1 ,.The British and U. S. Governments' had issued diplomatic warnings .. . Would Japan gain her ends peace- ably .or would there be new war in the east? "Time" (Sept. 16) said: "The end toward which the Japan- ese Army had worked since 1937 was at hand: a direct challenge to the western powers to fight or pull their stakes out of the Far East . . . Few doubted that war was definitely in the saddle and headed south toward Thailand, Bri- tish Malaya. Singapore, and the rich Netherlands Indies." To safeguard their own rear, the Japanese last week were making special efforts to reach an under- standing with Soviet Russia. De- clared the newspaper Iiokumin (often a spokesman for the Japan- ese army) : ' The United States pre- paredness program is directed against Japan. We are the potential enemy they have in mind, not Ger- many. The leasing of British ter- -ritories in the Atlantic for naval bases will be followed by similar moves in the Pacific. Relations be- tween Japan and the United States are now fraught with the danger of war." Trouble In India Trouble for Britain was also brewing in India, The powerful Con- gress Party, headed by Mohandas K. Gandhi, passed a resolution last week rescinding an offer to co- operate with Britain in prosecuting the war (Indian independence had been asked as a price). Neverthe- less Gandhi expressed his deter- mination not to embarrass Britain at this time by pushing independ- ence claims, his desire not to order civil disobedience among the mass- es of India until he deemed it ab- solutely necessary. SCOUTING... Emergency Public Service • The effectiveness of Boy Scout training for emergency public ser- vice is impressively illustrated by a recent summary of 125 dif- ferent types of wartime good turns found by the Scouts of Great Britain. The list includes general assistance in A.R.P. work, policing air raid shelters, filling sand bags, acting as blackout guides to the aged, infirm, mothers, children and new ar- rivals. In some places they are relieving telephone operators. in the Thames River Emergency Service they are stretcher-bear- ers, signallers, etc. They serve in hospitals, make splints, collect spagnum moss. They assist the police in traffic control; older Scouts act as special constables. In the task of evacuating child- ren they are invaluable, their tireless feet running hither and thither doing a host of things, from acting as escorts to clean- ing out empty houses to be used as billets. They are orderlies for air raid listening posts and balloon barrage units. They are most alert coast watchers. On the farms they are helping with the harvest, repairing hedges, milk- ing cows, picking hops, collecting or chopping firewood. One of the strangest Scout jobs is gathering acorns, chestnuts and rowan ber- ries for animals in the zoos. They have found numberless ways of assisting the refugees from Hol- land, Belgium and France, meet- ing them at the stations, supply- ing them with food and guiding then to their billets. In a word the Scouts of Britain have met the greatest day -after -day test that has ever faced Boy Scouts, and have more than vindicated the aim and motto of their Scout training, "Be Prepared." The Bork Shelf BUILDING THE CANADIAN WEST By Prof. James B. Hedges This attractive book written by Dr. J. B. Hedges of Brown Uuivers- ity', Providence, R.I., gives us the first complete account of the part played by the Canadiau Pacific Rail- way in the settling and develop- ment of the great Canadian West. Based ou an exhaustive study of original documents, it adds a new chapter to the pioneer history of British North America. Without Dr. Hedges' work, perhaps, the story of that adventurous undertaking, the colonization of the West, might have been lost to succeeding gener- ations. The volume, most interestingly written, is divided into thirteen chapters—The Background, the Or- igin of the Land Subsidy, Locating ' the Land, Beginnings of Land Pol- icy, Advertising the West, The Land Boom on the Prairie, Launching the Irrigation Project, A Policy of Colonization, The Department of Natural Resources, Later Land Pol- icies, Promoting Better Agriculture, The Department of Colonization, Summary and Conclusion. "Building the Canadian West" .. By Professor James B. Hedges .. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. VOICE OF THE PRESS THEY'RE HARD ENOUGH Incidentally, couldn't a lot of those summer resort mattresses be put to a useful purpose in building highways?— Stratford Beacon -Herald. —0— GETTING THE FACTS The Ottawa Journal is right when it suggests that the "Facing the Facts" broadcasting series should broaden out and take in more ter- ritory. The country should be told about the wheat situation from the Government standpoint and the Western farmers' position. -Lethbridge Herald. _0_ OXFORD'S CHEESE Oxford has done more than any other county in Western Ontario and more than any in Eastern On- tario except Leeds, to increase cheese production this year. The July total was 895,322 pounds, Engine Baked 'Em Here's a new one, A tourist who halted has oar of 1025 vintage at Point Pelee's Na- tional Park and decided to turn back 'because of the ad, mission was not tempted by the offer of outside stoves in . the park. He lifted the hood of his car and displayed three cans of beans in the process of being cooked. i against 70,176 a year ago, and for seven months 4,197,360 pounds, compared with 3,51.5,800. —Woodstock Sentinel -Review. —0— TEXT-BOOK CHANGES One of the most annoying things 14 the world, as far as parents are concerned—and It is also a consid- ereble expense to them—is the hab- it of the education authorities in continually authorizing new text- books and discarding old ones. is it possible that they are secretly in league with the publishers or are they unable to make ep their ' minis from year to year about the books from wlhich schoolchildren. should obtain instruction? —Brockville Recorder and Times. Panama Folk Stay Horne for Census By official decree everybody in the Republic of Panama had to stay at home one day last week until the census taker called. The alternative was a $5 fine. Automobiles, trains and street cars didn't move. Even ships were tied up until all aboard were counted. Ten years ago the census showed 467,459 Panamanians. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "Hit me again! If I'm gain` home toniggt, 1 gotta get used to t ! p„ REG'LAR FELLERS — Preparedness By GENE BY NES PR.ESCRIPTIOMS DO YOU KEEP ANYTHING TO RELIEVE PAIN ? 11' HASN'T HAPPENED YET SOT MISTER HEINaoCIZLE IS JUS' El(PLA NU4' TO MY POP ' HOWL THREW A SNOWDAI..I.. THROUGH HI% WINDER T, E ()filen. A11 ,1RM. seeltel