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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-10-17, Page 2Saving Ontario's Natural Resources (NO. 12) SMALL MOUTH BASS More anglers seek the small 'moth black bass than are after any other fish. In this Province our northern lakes make an ideal home for these fish where they find suitable conditions and plenty of food. So, year after year, the angler returns taking countless thousands of these 'fish from Muskoka, Haliburton and other regions. In fact, I would say that black bass are the mainstay of considerable of the revenue we receive from tourists. The small mouth bass requires clear, cool streams or lakes, not too deep and preferably with shoals that almost reach the sur- face. Gravel bars or rocky inlets, protected against wind and wave action, are necessary for spawn- ing. The bass requires plenty of food. There must be plenty of minnows and crawfish, the crea- tures that look Iike miniature lob- sters. A lack in one or other of these requirements means a low yield of base. The spawning habits of the small mouth are quite different to most other game fishes. Trout or pike can be stripped, the eggs removed by the hatchery men, fertilized and the young fish rais- ed in tanks until they reach a size suitable for planting. But this cannot be done with bass for they must be allowed to pair and the male must remain with the eggs and young bass for a con- siderable period. When the waters warm in the spring the male bass clears a pro- tected spot over gravel or small rocks. He then finds a female, drives her onto the nest where she liberates a number of eggs which he fertilizes. This is re- peated until several thousand eggs are under his care. After spawn- ing the male stations himself over the nest, slowly fanning a stream of water across the eggs. He remains on guard until the young are ready to take their first food. This inay take several weeks and during this time the male will strike at anything that comes near his home. The law rightly says that we must not fish for bass before July let for if we do we will catch the males that are guarding the nests. If these are taken hungry enemies will soon eat up the eggs or young. So, the best conservation we can practise is not to go near the bass waters early in the season and to see that others do likewise. Rent Control Canada -Wide Government Has Appointed An Administrator to Investi- gate Complaints and Super- vise Housing Rentals A Dominion -wide program of rent control and appointment of an administrator with absolute powers have been announced by Hector B. McKinnon, chairman of the War- time Prices and Trade Board. Mr. McKinnon's board recently was given power to control rents after complaints had been receiv- ed that they were being unduly raised at certain points where the war has brought an influx of new residents to fill various new jobs. "A scheme of rent control is be- ing worked out applicable to all parts of Canada," Mr. McKinnon explained last week. The board chairman said time had to be taken for planning rent supervision because it had been found "that the problem of rent control is shot through with fine legal points posing a great equa- tion between tenant and landlord," Points from which complaints have been received include Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax and Vancouver, Needed A Duck Rather Than Boy A writer in the Toronto Daily Star tells this evacuee story: A small war guest in Toronto, not too used to baths, submitted in silence as his hostess bathed him twice a day, but it seemed a bit thick. Finally, one day, in an ex- uberance of spirits, as she bathed the little lad, she exclaimed, "My but I wish I had a little boy like you." Quick as a flash, he re - pied, "What you want is not a boy, lady, but a ruddy duck." Double Trouble Edward Green of Roston, own{ er of two automobiles, kindly dM a favor for his friend Janie, 0'- DonneIl by lending ono of his cars. Shortly afterward, as Green was out driving one day, an au -h tomobile crashed into his. It was O'Donnell, at the wheel of Green's other car. — They're Und srnayed by the Blitzkrieg Queen Elizabeth shares a joke with Air Raid Freeautions workers as the beloved ruler makes a tour of West London to inspect air raid dam- age. Hitler's aerial blitzkrieg doesn't seem to have had much effect on the morale of this group. THE WAR -WEE K—Commentary on Current Events 10, 110 retain, Co -Operate In F.. r Ea.stern Situation Last week's events in the Far East furnished new• evidence that the United States and Great Brit- ain had begun to act in concert to check the plans of Germany, Italy and Japan for world dom- ination. Step by step they could be seen working together in a series of moves that apostles -of - appeasement a few months ago would have shuddered to contem- plate. U.S. Risks War Things happened fast. At time of going to press, the United States had clamped an embargo on iron and steel scrap to Japan; Great Britain had declared the Burma Road re -opened; American consuls were urging their nation- als in all parts of the Japanese Empire to leave for hone;. Lon- don was reported to be consider- ing the evacuation of British subjects from "certain Far East- ern areas"; the Japanese navy had landed forces on Liu Dung, British -leased island off Shan- tung peninsula, China; the Do- minion of Canada had placed a ban on export of copper to Ja- pan; the Japs had declared they would close the Burma Road by bombing; diplomatic talks were being renewed between the U.S. and Soviet Russia; Japanese au- thorities were pressing French Indo-China with further de- mands . - . A Showdown, Now That the United States would enter the world war via the Pa- cific was seen as an ever-increas- ing possibility. Washington, of course, hoped to break the power of Japan by measures "short of war", but was risking the real thing, nevertheless. Commenting on the situation, U.S. Rear -Ad- miral Harry E. Yarnell, retired, declared: "The United States Navy now is equal to anything in the Pacific, and the British can be depended upon to take care of the Atlantic ... We may be better prepared for a show-- down howdown with Japan now while she is bogged down in China, than we will be six years from now . . when the two -ocean navy is com- pleted." Next American moves forecast were, progressively: an embargo on shipments of oil to Japan, ar- ranged with the co-operation of the Netherlands Indies and Mexi- co; closing of U.S. markets to Japan — refusal to buy raw silk, etc.; blockade of Japan in the Pacific. "Don't Forget invasion" Referring to the aid being re- ceived from "the New World", Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain in an historic speech be- fore the House of Commons declared that Britain was strik- ing back more powerfully than ever against the .Axis war ma- uhine. Nevertheless he warned that the danger of invasion was ever-present — Germany had massed 80 crack divisions in northern France, with enough ships to "throw half a million onto the salt water (around Brit- ain) — or into it!" Although the German Air Force kept pounding the larger cities of Britain last week (8,500 had been killed and 13,000 wounded since the "skyrieg" be- gan),. no one believed that the Na- zis azis would long confine their ac- tivities solely to the Battle of Britain. Everybody was waiting to see where Hitler would strike next, following his chin fest with Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. The war -scene was expected to ' shift at any moment to the Medi- terranean Basin, beginning; per- haps with a German drive through the Balkans to meet the Italians in Egypt. Germany Gets Rumania The groundwork for this type of mash was being prepared last weak, German troops were taking over the Rumanian oilfields while Brit- ish officials and nationals got ready to leave the country; Hungarian and Bulgarian troops were being schooled in blitzkrieg technique, re- ports said; six divisions of Italian troops were massed on the borders of Greece. A blockade of Greece was rapidly being put into effect by the Nazis, to prevent the 13ri- tish navy from using Greek bases for refuelling purpooses. Out of the question, apparently, for the time being was a push by Germany through the Bosporus or the Dardanelles, across Turkey to the Near East. The Turks were nat- urally opposing suck a move and were backed up in their attitude by Soviet Russia, with whom Nazi dip- lomats continued to bargain fur- iously, Everybody After Russia "Time," October 7, said: "Russia, long the ;most hated nation in the world, became by virtue of the Jap -Axis treaty the most sought- after oughtafter power in the world," Last week her favor was being courted not only by Germany and Japan, the U. S., but also by Britain who gave evidence of wishing to resume trade parleys, A despatch from Lon- don to the New York Times told the story that Britain had offered to increase its trade with Russia In the hope of enlisting Joseph Stal- ln's support in the new campaign to increase the now of arms to Seized Horses Taught German German soldiers and farm- ers are busy teaching the Ger- man language to horses re- quisitioned from I -Tolland, Franco, Poland and Belgium. The intricacies of German grammar have been making it difficult for the Germans to handle the horses. The Berlin Zeitung has urg- ed drivers to use "utmost eau- tion" in handling horses which don't understand German, and the Nazi Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is advis- ing drivers to spare the rod and apply patience. China: (Britain, it said, was eagar to keep Japan entangled in the Far East by supplying more war apparatus to Chiang Kai-shek, bat was unwilling to .release supplies needed for the war in the West). Canada's Army In Canada, 30,000 youne; drafiees began 30 days' military training. The Defense Department ;:rade a ruling that all land forces would be called the Canadian Army and that the term "non -permanent active militia" to describe conscripts would bee discarded (the change must be confirmed by Parliament), Almost at the same moment, Col- onel Ralston announced that a change would be made in the dis- position of men drawn into the army, Did this mean the idea of the "home defense force" was being abandoned in favor of send- ing more troops overseas? What, No Parliament? Parliament, scheduled to meet , November 5, will adjourn immed- iately until a date early in Jan- uary. No business will be trans- acted at this assembly and only sufficient members to constitute a quorum are required to be pre- sent. Discussion of the wheat sit- uation, t h e U.S.-Canadian de- fence board, the St, Lawrence sea- way plans (now believed postpon- ed.), problems of Canada's war ef- fort, will have to wait for the New Year. In Ontario, Premier Hepburn named Robert Laurier, nephew of the late Sir Wilfred. Laurier, as Minister of Mines; and promised that no new personal income or cor- poration taxes, or increases in tax rates would be levied for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 1941. Ancient Cures Now Out-rndid. Old -Time English Remedy Was Usnea, the Moss From the Skull of a Man Who Had Died Violently Jacques' Cartier, on his voyage of exploration up the St. Lawrence River, found. his crew seriously' af- f1lcted by scurvy. The ship's cap- tain got into conversation with a native of the country who said he had just recovered from the same pestilence. The captain asked him what remedy he used and he told him of a tree, the leaves and sap of which would bring about the cure. Some of the leaves of this tree were brought, boiled in the form of a tea and given to the men who promptly recovered. The tree was called the ameda tree, and was probably either sassafeas or spruce. James Lind, who introduced the practice of making all men on Long voyages take lime juice or lemon juice daily to prevent scurvy, stud- ied the account of Cartier's voyage carefully when he was malting his preliminary primitive communities in the United States .as a spring tonic. Other remedies of long ago have mercifully fallen into disuse. What our ancestors used to endure at the hands of their medical men makes us shudder today, An old time Eng- lish remedy was Usnea, which was the moss taken from the skull of a man who has died a violent death. It was easy to obtain in the olden days because the bodies of crimin- als who were hanged were left sus- pended in a public square or at the crossroads as a warning to others. Sympathy was a remedy much esteemed. The "powder of sym- pathy," which was nothing more than •,.upper sulphate, was used for healing wounds. For BETTER desserts Visibility Is Vital Factor in Modern Warplanes — Greatest Possible Field of Vision Is Necessary For Av- iators in Combat In modern warplanes, ranging the skies of Europe at thrice the speeds of their last -war ancestor's, visibility has become a vital fac- tor. An enemy craft, "sitting" in clouds far above, a low-flying bomber, can plummet to within machine-gun range in a few sec- onds. Lynx -eyed R.C.A.F. fighter, bomber and interceptor 'plane crews must therefore command the greatest possible field of vis- ion, from. pilot's cabin and from nose, tail and top turrets. Wind resistance — at six miles per minute — has become a solid force, Hence protection and visi- bility for the pilot of today must be built right into the airplane body. The chemical industry first made this possible a few years ago by developing transparent plasitics. TRANSPARENT PLASTICS Aircraft designers were quick to seize on this new material and recognized it as the substance they had been waiting for because of its lightness of weight and the ease with which it could he formed to curved frames. There was no more need for awkward wind -resisting angles and today the pilot's cabin and the fuselage have become transparent stream- lined affairs virtually a part of the modern "tear -drop" design. Optically clear plastic sheeting is today an essential material in air- craft construction and nowhere does it serve so vital a purpose as in affording protection and visibility to the crews of present military airplanes. This hard, crystal -deter sub- stance is shipped to aircraft build- ers in flat sheets about one-eighth of an inch thick, where it is cut to template shape, moulded to re- quired contours under heat treat- ment, and cemented into position in airplane cabins; turrets and bomb -aiming windows. ✓..MIC" OF THE PRESS COMPETITION'S THE THING Come to think of it, where will the city people get red -ribbon Christmas beef if we don't hold any winter fairs? —Farmer's Advocate. oOo ie PREDICTION Undoubtedly, next year, all of Ontario will be on daylight sav- ing time, by statute of the pro-' vincial government. —Niagara Falls Review. oOo INDUSTRIES OF THE WEST The assumption that Canada's prairies are almost exclusively ag- ricultural in their production is not borne out by the latest fig- ures available at Ottawa concern- ing manufacturing in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. These point to a manufacturing produc- tion worth $279,474,000 furnish- ing employment for 42,814 people receiving salaries and wages amounting to $45,551,000. West- ern Canada may be one of the great granaries of the world, but it is also,. apparently, developing from the standpoint of manufac- turing. —Brockville Recorder & Times. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher /L ---,,e2 4/ "Whaddya mean 1 stole the election . - - I paid cash for it, didn't 1?!!" REG'LAR FELLERS — What a Fahy! ameaeaareee.7e OH, NO/ 'YOU CAN'T TAKE , A KITTEN NOWT PINHEAD. THEY'RE TOO YOUNG 10 I•EAVE THEIR By GENE BYRNES TELL ME,,' Agq)E,, 140`34/ OLD A BABY cpAND HASTA I3E BEFORE, IT CAN LEAVE 1% mgcaszcon ,n15 BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS MAGNIFICENT PIANO tDlhiil.YSala Ova manwinmed sAaes >t'