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Zurich Herald, 1941-04-03, Page 6L' Sortie Do, Some make good thole Claim that they Don't—Science Seeks Answer oan nullify thole American aid for Bri- tain ey ton' and knock the latter out. His a h3' findings would without doubt essse strongly , "luence the decision of his government as to 'whether Ja- pan le to weave a tortuous course of non -belligerency or throw cau- tion to the winds and join in the attack on the Anglo -.Allies, One of Japan's greatest leave of course is that Soviet Russia might attack her in the north (by air, sea and land) when she's busy in the south, and what the JapaneSe government desires perhaps above all else at the moment is a Russo-Japanese nonaggression pact. Saving Ontario's Natural Resources +Ms•E- 2 • • v • s • • 1 O, 1 2 On. 2 52.:_ t 402 # a 2 1 Only 94. 1 Oni' Rea- r i Only slight' 1 Only - SEE 0000.114. DR While the :. dlifee here to stye *oldweather eke, which al :air colder. 11,- 1104104 y till gen O. C. Toner Anglers OntarioFederation of and Hunters (No. 36) FISH, GAME LAWS Last week I mentioned that there had been other government bodies concerned with our fish and game before our present Game and Fisheries Department was instituted in 1905 lbut e en before there were any ay or administrative bodies there were game la I enacted by the the Legislature. earliest of these last week, the Act of 1821. In 1839 another Act was pas- sed which was even more com- prehensive for it provided that no person "shall lhuntnor hootot, ragy a out with a a deer or other wild animal or non wild d fowl on the Lord's Da (con this Iy called Sunday) Province." The season for d rd 1st was changed to open August"Wil d and, close February1st, turkey, prairie hen or grouse; se; commonly called pheasant or 0artridge; or any quail or wood- ek," could legally be taken ';:,m Se}ieen,be:: 1st to March 1st. Ogen and. Closed Seasons When the P,,aiu1es of Upper Canada were consolidated in 1859 there were few changes. The duck season extended from ht August 1st to April 15th, f end one half months of shooting which should have satisfied most people. Even at that time they had trouble with wolves and the e Act mentions a bounty dollars. In 1868, the Province rov nceof laws, On- tario revised the cut- ting down the open season to snore reasonable length but even this did not prevent depletion, By thinking 1890, the anxiety among king people culminated in the appoint- ment of a Commission to investi- gate conditions and submit re- ocnunendations. One can find in libraries the old leather bound volume that Com- Mission the report of the Con - Mission of 1890. It is well worth reading, particularly for the pic- ture it gives of conditions fifty years ago. It was a sweeping and outspoken indictment of the various abuses that hampered the conservation of our game and fish. It had considerable effect for shortly afterwards the Legis- 1lature set up a Board of Fish end Game Commissioners under the nominal jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. This Commission administered the wild life for nearly fourteen years when it was dissolved and ,the present Department of name and Fisheries was set up its place. • Working hand nRlesea Researchth Councilof tOttawa. Alforces ready they have madef Canada and of the rnua7 numerous Empire highly important scien- tistson- bofcon- tributions the National by e tributions to the war effort, both in the industrial field and in the armed forces. In this photo one oft e research workers is shown as he subjects steel helmets to special tests. One has been penetrated a bullet and the other has resisted it. The scientist is trying to find out why. THE WAR .WEE K_Commentary on Current Events U. S. S. R. PROMISES AID IF TURKEY IS ATTACKED 'Willows Have Turkish Origin Britain and America have a very strong bond with Turkey, for every weeping willow gracing our river banks owes its origin to e. single cutting brought from that country, This is how it hap- pened. At the beginning of the 18th century a large basket • of figs was sent from Smyrna to Lady Suffolk in England. The poet Pope was there when the gift arrived, so drawing one of the wishes from which the basket was made, he remarked: "Per- haps this will produce something we have not in England.' He took it with him to his villa at Twickenham and planted it by the Thames, where it grew into a magnificent weeping willow. It was generally admired and cut- tings were taken to all parts of England. Years later, a British officer leaving for this continent eat a twig from Pope's willow, Wrapped it in oiled silk and car- ried it in his baggage throughout the Revolution. After the wax he presented it to John Curtis, ;,ton of Martha Washington, who planted it in Virginia where it -became the ancestor of all weep- ing willows in the States. Last week as spring opened the door on what might well be the decisive phase of the conflict be- tween Britailn and Germany, the Battle of Britain—out of which has grown the Battle of the Atlantic— was still the main engagement of the war. But events in the Medi- terranean basin were receiving much more of the world's attention. There, the British conquest ot It- aly's African Empire, all but com- plete, was beginning to be chal- lenged by large forces of German mechanized troops in 'western Lib- ya; and the Battle of the Balkans was fast approaching the "shoot- ing" shooting" stage. Yugoslav Crisis The capitulation to the Axis of Yugoslavia's head men precipitat- ed a number of new crises: in Yugoslavia itself, where open re- volt and civil war threatened; in Greece, where the Allied -Greek military command had swiftly to revise their plan of defence to em - embrace a much wider front; in Turkey, where the country's lead- ers saw her independence menaced from yet another angle; and. in Russia, where German penetration of the Balkans had long beeu view- ed with growing anxiety. Russia Assures Neutrality The Soviet tTnien reacted to this situation by reaffirming friendship with Turkey and assuring Russian Guests in Wartime Britain ably are moving from Russia to Turkey, and it would be logical for the movement to develop gradually to a large scale ... Russia is mov- ing her troops and warships west- ward as quietly as possible, but perhaps with little idea of oteens- ive action ... It remains to be seen whether Stalin will neglect his op- portunities until Hitler is ready to strike. His military advisers should tell him the truth that until Ger- any has fought it out with Britain, Hitler won't have sufficient gaso- line and grease to permit large mechanized forces to drive far into Russia and that gigantic bluff reallyitler te is staging a g g p Russia quiet. The Russian armies possess a vast nu—erical superior- ity over the German armies and it is impossible for the German forces to guard every vital point that the Russians could menace. The Sov- iet air force could work havoc to German cities; Russian cities are so remote they would be compar- atively free from attack. Were Rus- sia to make common cause with the Greek, British and Turkish armies, the defeat of Germany within a year would be a near certainty. Whatever purposes were behind the 'Soviet pledge of aid to Tur- key, they portended ill for Nazi Germany. Even theapplauded U. S.taeDe- partment heartily Rus- sia's attitude. "Bridge of Ships" Presidenttithe` first financial st once appropriations under the Lease - Lend bill had been approved by the Senate, appeared last week to be: how the U. S. was to assure delivery of American aid to Bri- tain. Everything obviously depend- ed upon maintenance of the "bridge of shies" across the At- lantic. (Hearteningly enough last's week's British shipping losses were Own away down). A move to lend more destroyers to Britain was expected hourly; and large-scale plans were being .laid for the repair of Bri- tain's naval and merchant shipping in United States yard.s. Use of American warships in British t noton- was contemplated, planned until a more critical stage of U. S. -German relations should lie reached. Very encouraging news for Bri- tain came out of the U. Ss last week with the report, reliably con- firmed, that 15,000 bomber and fighter planes would be ready to go across the ocean to join the war by. July, By the end. of 1911, it was said, American production would bring r'withair Germany's, strength up level Japan Reconnoitres Japanese Foreign Minister Mat suoloa's sojourns iu Moscow, Rome, Berlin, were last week not yet com- plete. His parleys with the Axis chiefs were the subject of .much speculation—since no information about them was forthcoming— but it was generally thought that Mr. Matsuoka had come to Europe to see for himself whether the Axis partners were in position to neutrality should Turkey resist a German attack on herself, The agreement did not promise neutral- ity if Turkey should strike at Ger- many in the event of a Nazi move against Greece. On the contrary it stated that "in the event that Tur- key should be the object of aggres- sion and she found herself obliged to enter war for the defence of hen territory, Turkey could then, in conformity with the nonaggression pact existing between herself and the U. S. S. R., rely on the full comprehension and neutrality of the U. S. S. R." This was sensational news: The entering into of this pact with Tur- key constituted the first concrete step the Soviet Union had taken to influence the course of the war since the German -Russian agree- ment of August, 1939. This latest act barred further Nazi penU eStra. ra- tion southeast, along the R's western borders. (It also was reliably confirmed that Russia had halted shipment of all sugglies of oil to Germany since March 1). Bad For Germany Writing on the significance of the new Soviet assurance to Turkey Canadian military analyst W. R, Pievvmau said: "The dispatches suggest that Turk eyia will muchvas the ma- terial help to U. S. is giving material hell} to Britain. Some war supplies prob- Come and Bring Their $2,600,000,000 This Year Canada will spend $2,600,000,0 0 over the next twelve months on her own war effort and financial aid to Britain—$850,000,000 more than was estimated late in Feb- ruary—Preanler King told Parlia- ment last week. The Prime Mnn- ister declared that this sum, to be spent in a mighty drive of men, money and materials, represented 44 per cent of the whole national income of Canada. On a comparative basis, the premier estimated, this financial assistance to Britain for Canadian puchases would equal an expendi- ture of $15 billions by the United States—more than twice the Wash- ington appropriation for lend-lease purposes. Fin- ance Premier King, Firtn ante Minister Ilsley ed federal taxes of $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning April 1 which represented au additional $100,000,000 in revenue to be sought from Canadians by the Do- minion government next year. A billion dollars, he said, would have to be borrowed next year to cover direct war outlay and non:war ex- penditures including financing of the new federal wheat ularWheat Po Unpoplicy Western members of the House of Commons last week were urg- ing that they be given an opportun- ity to debate the goverument's new wheat policy which provides: a limit of 230,000,000 bushels to Wheat Board purchases of the 1941 crap; a continuation of the pre- sent 70,e a bushel minimum price; basing of delivery quotas on 65 per cent of the 1940 wheat acreage (which means acreage reduction); and payment of bonuses for sum- anerfallowing and seeding to coarse grains and grasses. Agriculture Minister MacMillan of Alberta had issued a statement saying that this policy was "highly unsatisfactory and inadequate" and that it would be impossible of acceptance by the Western wheat farmers unless drastic modifications were made. Farmers of the prairie provinces, he contended, should be placed in a position of equality with other classes of Canadian citizens in the war effort and not forced to live on an "income on the verge of poverty." Pigs are the only farm animals Which can be fed on a diet of all food. waste. 'The Book Shell "H, M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE" By J. P. Marquand "H. M. Pulliam, Esquire" is the story od a man whose life is shay - ed by lhle surroundings in a mould formed by home, school, society. even business infl�mfestof his day, breaks fe (Mng, men and women un- breakable. (Macy live in such moulds—more often than not without realizing it ---for it is the unique quality ot sueh a mould that one is not conscious of its existence until it chates). Mr. Pulham, on the occasion of the twentyfifth reunion of his college class, becomes awssre of what he has been missing throughout his narrow, circumscribed life. Ile real- izes hie ideas have not moved with the times-4eblenrsstrying to measure with yesterday's todayy''p s P' ' yardstick—but alas it is too late and too comfortable to change. Men who read this book will find themselves stopping to compare Harry Fulham's life with their own and Bring h wsl'l well the themselves wondering their own men.. "H. M. Pulham, Esquire".. - by J. P. Marquand . • Toronto: onto: McClelland and Stewart,Publish. ere ... $3.00. Visible Smells Neither gold nae platinum has any odour with can be recog- nised by the human nose, but most of the commoner metals can easily be recognised. by the cense of smell. Tin,, for instance, when freshly cut, has a strong sal unmistakable odour. Of the r metals, uranium and its eeMpouuds give out the strong - sot smell. Uranium is one of than radio -active metals and constant- ly throws off extremely small pattieles. Long ago 3, J. 'Thomson show - ad that these particles produce Shadows on a photographic film and can bedeflected by a mag - theyThocan tgh infinitsimal in affect our olfactory size, they hostesses in wartime Britain needs a s noxi longer g they fry luently worrabout bhnr eir friends' food fads. When week -encs goes • their rations along with thorn. LIFE'S LIKE THAT ✓ OICE P RESS LIBYAN NURSERY RHYMIi Mussolini-minyemo Caught a lion by the toe. How you'd love to let him go, Teeny weeny Benito! —Toronto Saturday Night, .—o— THE GREATEST FEAR The biggest drawback to farm organization is the fear of political entanglements ,and the suspicion that the leaders are working their way up to a soft, cushy job. —Farmer's Advocate. -0— WAR STYLES Dr. Stapleford, the director of voluntary services, says that the time will come when it will be "patriotic" to wear an old suit or drive an old car. That's comforting for all the people who are already obliged to do so. —Brockville Recorder and Times. —0— BEST ADVICE The Ontario Departments of Ag- riculture, Education and Labor,..,., have collaborated in the produe-' tion of a booklet of "Farm Maxims and Slogans" for -the else of stu- dents tudents registering for farm service, and probably the best advice glom in it is this: "Never trust a bull" —Brockville Recorder and Times. Europe's tallest ructure is the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. By Fred Neher /,-/0 "What part of any bill makes you sick . , . the part you pall or the balance?" (Copyright, 1098, by Fred NES BYR -----` BENE REG'LAR FELLERS That's Different y, G;: • 'WHAT' U , I PINHEAD ? PUD AN' 1 WERE IN A STREET CAR AN we FOUND A ()Ng ME ON THE FLOOR t 1S THAT .SO ? W E L.{.r z PpUND OUT X NAD A, µOL.. IN NIY POCKET Ate IT WAS 14Y omit . 4'; . ' MthJG 1� �4 Atm. a�I rt►nta ti�,ardrl•.....- - x.