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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-10-10, Page 2Saving Ontario's Natural Resources NO, 11 By G. C, Toner, Ontario Federation of Anglers Preserve Muskies In my last article a short re- sume of the natural history of the muskie was given, mainly as a background for the present ar- ticle. The most important point in the conservation of the muskie is the protection of the spawning fishes. They run up into shal- low water to lay their eggs andat such times are particularly vul- nerable ul- nera oachers. CRIMINp ALPOACHING Most of us would regard as very foolish any farmer who killed his cows just before they freshened. If this were a continued practice with him he would soon be with- out stock on his farm. The peocher when he takes the muskies on their spawning grounds is killing our stock, robbing the public just as surely as if he took money from individual pockets. Another way in which destruc- tion of maskinonge takes °place is through the lowering of the waters in late spring. When the spring floods are on, the adult muskies work well into the marshes to spawn. Here the water is wadl and ut far ggs oo deelop rapidly. of- ten these flood waters are need- ed to run the mills and they are allowed away through the sluices. The eggs of the maskinonge, or the young fish, if they have hatched, are left high and dry for the birds. We are still studying these fishes so that we may know better ways to conserve them and this research can be left to the sci- entist. However, every conserva- tionist can help to control the poacher and the water levels. They are the important matters at the present time. Incidentally, the finest fishing picture I have ever seen was shown at the American Fisheries Society in Toronto by Wm, Lang of fine Toronto Angles. s. It dealt with the muskie and was in full colour. Get your local fish and game association to invite Mr. Lang to show his pictures in your town. You will help along the cause of conservation and you will certainly not be disappointed in the pictures, The Book Shelf "Savior of Britain" Decorated by King ..::.:..................... . Hugh Dowding, chief of Britain's fighter command, RIGHT, has been made a Knight Grand Cross •of the Order of the Bath. Idolized by his junior officers who affectionately refer to him as "Stuffy," Sir Hugh is credited with Britain's stiff resistance to the Nazis in the air. In the face of severe opposition and criticism he convinced the air coun- cil to pu th st eighta ga ed forhthen a markednized esupeeioxity oveerBritish the Nazis.r planes "AS I REMEMBER RHIS" (The Biography of ) By Hans Zinsser The author of "Rats, Lice and History" here gives us the infor- mal biography of a physician by the name of "R. S." (in reality himself). who was also a philoso- pher, a poet, and a good friend. Medicine took B. S. to the far corners of the earth. Wherever there were war and infection, there he was found In Siberia in 1914-15, in the American Army in France, in Russia after the great famine, in Mexico and in China, he fought as a scien- tist. Last month as Hans Zinsser he died of an obscure disease, leukemia, after living for two years in the knowledge that it was slowly killing him. He tells his story in a fascinating y wawiy, with deep learning and his book now becomes a mag- nificent memorial to a very hu - ma man who led an extremely useful and interesting life, 'As 1 Remember 4i by Hans Zinsser . Toronto; by Mc- Clelland;;3cand Stewart . . Carol Carried Million Away OMILMWSI THEWAR-WEE K_Commentary on Current Event 1 On Special Train, When He Ea caped Into ex;Ie—Meta l Packed Into Three Wooden Crates JAP-AXIS PACT PLACES RUSSIA, U. S. ON S P 0 T Though many may have anti- cipated its signing, the momentous tripartite agreement entered into� last week by Germany, Japan, made the rest of the world catch its breath. With the an- nouncement of the pact, the con- flicts raging in Europe, Africa and the Far East swiftly became one. The Second World War was a reality. World War Begins Of the 'six great powers left upon the globe, four were already in it. The United States and Rus- sia, remaining, were now on the spot. Of these two victims of the Jap -Axis "squeeze play," the United States was already throw- ing its weight on the side of Brit- ain; and Russia, the uncertain quantity, held the balance of power between the two blocs, de- mocratic and anti -democratic. Russia Holds Balance Which way would Stalin jump? To join with Britain against Ger- many? If the U.S.S.R. were to enter the struggle, more than half the German air force would have to operate in eastern Europe, plus a tremendous mechanized army consuming vital gasoline supplies—the defeat of Germany would be certain. (Russia in the meantime, however, would have to be fighting Japan at her back door). Rumanian government officials allege that three wooden crates containing more than $1,000,000 worth of gold left the country special on abdicated King Carol's train. The gold was said to be in coins minted last spring to commemor- ate the 10th anniversary of Car- ol's reign but never issued. These informants said the National Bank was considering the ques- tion sof who holds title to the gold. IN GOLD COINS It was said that Carol had sp- countered difficulty with the Spanish government and that his passage through Spain to Portu- gal had been delayed. At the name time it was disclosed that the Rumanian government has taken steps to have Ernest Ur. darlanu, who was minister of static without portfolio under Carol, re- turned to $rtslfid trial. To join with the new Triple Alliance against the British -U.S. bloc? Very unlikely. It would be much more reasonable to place credence in the statement of the Russians themselves, that the So- vit Union would remain firmly neutral. Signing of a non -aggres- sion pact with Japan would be a definite possibility. Again, Russia might lend more and more sup- port to sore -pressed China, let- ting Japan bleed herself white trying to complex the Chinese. U.S. Accepts Challenge The United States, far from be- ing scared off by new Japanese threats, last week moved closer still to her . ally -except -in -name, Britain. Washington corridors buzzed with talk of "flying fort- templating, they said, an invasion of Sweden this winter to clineh his hold on iron ore supplies and to give Bessie something more to worry about; engineering of a Moslem revolt against Britain; and seizure of French colonies in Africa, from which to launch at- tacks on outposts of the British Empire, --although if the British made another attempt at Dakar, they might beat him to it. "Time" Newsmagazine, Sept. $0, declared: "If the Battle of Britain should turn adversely fol the Axis, or if it should become a long drawn-out affair of bomb- ings and blockade, the Southern Theatre might well be the deciding area of combat .. . If the Axis could gain control of the extremi- ties of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable bases in the. Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Bal- kans, Britain would be hard put to it to win." Whither China? China, in its fourth year of resistance to the Japanese ag- gression, last week faced with comparative equanimity the new- est turn of affairs whereby Ja- pan was enabled to attack her in the rear through French Indo- China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was determined to hang .on till the end. He still bad en- ough ammunition left formorale another year of fighting; the f the Chinese army was never highs er. But within the inner councils of the Chungking government it was felt that aid would have to come to China from somewhere outside. Were Britain and the United. States really ready tow help 1p in a substantial way? China turn in finality to Russia? These were her two alternatives.. "Escape" School Taught Nazis resses" to go abroad in exchange' for British bases in the Pacific;. loans of money to England; fur- ther. U-S--British--.eo<onerati,on in.. the Far East. Stronger hints were forthcoming that the United States might soon accept the challenge of Japan, now so badly bogged -down in China, The col- lapse of the Rising Sun Empire could be brought about by a strict American embargo on war supplies, aid to China, and a blockade of the passages from the Indian Ocean in the Pacific. But not until after the November el ctions, anyway . • . Indian Summer Invasion? Meantime what was happening in the Battle of Britain? A Nazi invasion seemed less probable than it had the previous week. British defense against air bomb- ings were obviously improving, while the R.A.F. offensive against the Nazis was growing stronger. But everyone was convinced that the air war would continue throughout the winter, with the Germans attempting to wear down the British air force and shut off England from food and war supplies from overseas while Nazi military operations develop- ed on fronts farther distant. Another big crisis this month was nevertheless expected by the head men in London. Predicting an Axis campaign against Gib- raltar in October coupled with an Indian summer attempt to invade England, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express said: "The most likely Axis strategy would be thrusts at Gibraltar (with Spain's connivance) and Bizerte (French Tunisia), in an effort to draw the British home fleet to the Medi- terranean and leave the English Channel less hazardous for invas- ion barges." Southern Theatre May Decide Also on Hitler's program, ex- perts last week agreed, were ex- tension of political, or possibly military, control over the Balkans; substantial contribution to the Italian drive towards the Suez Canal. Hitler might also be eon - Enemy Prisoners Were Taught in Advance How to Pick Lock and Dig Tunnels; Two of Gestapo In Canadian Internment Camp Leader Donald Jones of a Kentish town, acting as an Air Raid Ward- en. When a number of bombs drop- ped in his area he hurried to the scene, and found three persons trapped under a collapsed house. Jones wormed his way beneath the timbers until he gained a posi- tion where his body could protect the upturned faces of the victims. He held this position for no less than four hours, during which time he kept up a cheerful conversation to allay the fears of the trapped persons, and guided the work of the rescue party. * * * A unique wartime job under- taken by the Boy Scouts of Acton, England; has been the providing of "listeners" at church. The boys listen closely for air raid sirens (luring the singing of hymns, when other members of the congregation may not hear. The church also has its own fire fighting squad, which includes Scouts. Careful investigation of German war prisoners in Canada has shown that a number of them are grad- ual/an, of'A German school organized for the specific purpose of teach- ing eaching prisoners how to escape. Preparing in advance for their soldiers being captured, the Ger- mans held classes in lock picking, tunneling, and other ways of break- ing reaking out of camps. In one Canadian camp there are at least twenty men who have learned scientific ways of opening locks without keys. Two of them are members of the German Gestapo. Authorities are now able to ex- plain how a tunnel was completed for Gunther Lorentz's escape from a Muskoka camp without a pile of eamth disclosing excavation opera- tions. Handling prisoner's mail pre- sents a problem. An average day. brings 120 bags of mail through the clearing house in Ottawa and this has to be scanned for code nieesages, for invisible ink, for com- passes hidden in jars of preserves. SCOUTING r • • Third Set Teeth Coming At 80 When a train was wrecked near Blue River, B.C., and a number of soldiers and other passengers injured, two North Battleford, Sask., Boy Scouts, Jerry Asmusson and "Scotty" Buchanan, enroute to Vancouver, found.then' Scout train- ing valuable. With the excerption of • a few scratches the boys were uninjured, and were promptly ren- dering first aid to their less for- tunate fellow travellers. * * * Boy Scout training in fire fight. ing enabled two Scouts of St. Johns, Nfld., to master a fire which broke out at night in a summer cotta •n at Mount Pearl Park. So • success- ful were the boys' efforts that the services of a fire engine were not required wrier it arrived on the scene. * * * An outstanding story of. Boy Scout gallantry was that of Troop Calgary Woman, Now Teeth- ing, Has Already Worn Out Two Sets of False Ones 'Mas. Elizabeth Hope Ross of Calgary, who is more than 80 years of age, is getting her third set of teeth. After having used false teeth long enough to have worn out two pairs, and having started on her third, a new set of molars is com- ing through her gums. Mrs. Ross said she first began to notice signs of the new teeth about last Christmas. During the last few days the first of them broke through. Appearances in- dicate others will follow soon, as there are evidences of 12 in all. Amazed to be teething "at my age," Mrs. Ross said she suffered some distress but found relief in taking powders similar to those given to teething infants. Mrs. Ross, who has 10 child- ren, 23 grandchldren and two great-grandchildren, now has only one regret. It's in connection with a new set of "store" teeth. "They're a lovely set," she said. "almost new—and I won't need them." VOICE OF THE PRESS THEY ECONOMIZED "We must cut down everything by at least one-thrd," said a lec- turer on economy recently. At the conclusion of his remarks lire audience gave him two he - ty cheers. — Montreal Star. FOR EASIER TAXES Making the last day of every month civic tax -payment day would entail some extra book- keeping — but it would be a less painful method of financial ex- traction as far as the taxpayers are concerned. — Brantford Ex- positor. WOMEN DRIVERS' MILEAGE Women worse drivers than mien? Last year more than 94 per cent. of the drivers in all On- tario accidents and practically 96 per cent of the drivers in fatal aceiclents, were male. No one knows, however, what mileage was driven by males and what mileage by females — information which wuold be necessary to a real com- parison. — Toronto Star. WE ARE "DISCOVERED" It is only in recent months that, in a news sense, we have been "discovered" by our friends of the great republic. Not much news from this country got into the United States papers unless it concerned the quintuplets or the Mounted Police. Over here we paid our debts,. we did not go in for revolutions, from the for- eign correspondents' point of view we had a lamentable shortage of 'assassinations and intrigue, and the reader of the average Ameri- can newspaper found far more about Mexico than about Can- ada—Ottawa Journal. Canada is the world's largest producer of the platinum metals. Gasoline consumed by civil air- craft in Canada during 1939, to- talled 3,297,410 gallons compared with 2,857,847 gallons in 1938. (LIFE'S LIKE THAT (V;F. PIPS DIARY. > By Fred Neher F 7-29' .YcLJ 4 1098 by Fred Heber), "I'm going to turn so I thought I'd hotter signal." REG'LAR FELLE'` S — Is Pop's Face Red? 'YOU GO GET YOUR 'LECTRIC RAIN.AN' 7; ISL GET MINE AN' WE'LL PLAY RAILROAD .ROAD YEESIR, IT CERTAINLY a` FUL THE ETS T THEY MAKE. PORIDS NOWADAYS? Ery GENE YRNES HERE ('ARE.$ POPPA 1& TTER PUT ON MT I; ii.,GfssirSt,5 ' SO YA v;ct 1'T RUIN YOUR OWN CLOTItt"-5