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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-12-15, Page 6PUCK 1 CHASERS O NEWS NEWS OF C .H.A. DOINGS i Herbie "Sweets" Mortimer, is seriously threatening Harry Mc- Queston's regular berth as goalie for the Goodyear club, Mortimer held Hershey to a tie and scored a win over Atlantic City on their tour of the Eastern Hockey League. Port Colborne Sailors are scheduled to make the same tour in February. Jack McEwen of Oshawa G.M., is in for a great season as net - minder for the Motor City boys. He appears to have plenty on the ball. when it comes to controlling the puck during scrambles in front of his net. Ossie Carnegie came through with mighty fine effort for the St. Catharines Indian Chiefs as they defeated the Brights right in Niagara Falls. Only excellent goal -tending by Mowers, for the Falls, kept the St. Catharines boys down to a 3-1 victory. Doug Bunions moved over from his win position to centre -ice for Port Colborne last week and cele- brated the event with a scoring bee of four goals and one assist for a total of five points. Bunions is leader in the race for the fur -lined glass jar, an honor accorded to the individual player who gathers the most points in any one game. ST. CATHARINES ARENA Latest schedule points to the grand opening of the new hockey arena in St. Catharines on Tues- day, December 20. The Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League have accepted the invitation of the Garden City of- ficials to participate in the grand. opening ceremonies. St. Cath- arines' new hockey arena will be the last word in artificial ice palaces and the Senior O.H.A. cir- cuit is proud to have the Garden City team and its new rink as members of circuit. White Man Has Need Of Eskimo To Survive in the Far North, He Must Learn to Co -Oper- ate With the Natives Who Know Their Environmenet "Co-operation of the natives, who have lived for centuries in the environment that is new to the white man, must be sought if the present work in the Far North is to be successful," Major D. L. Mc- Keand told members of the Ottawa Junior Board of Trade last week. "They alone fully understand the conditions under which the human being must live in the North. They not only have survived, but have managed to make a great deal of progress." How They Live In a country where nothing grows except moss, the Eskimo depended on the animals of the sea for food, and the white fox as a medium of exchange. He was not interested in wood, but for heat and light had developed an efficient seal -oil lamp. His people lived in scattered groups of two or three families, eating •cariboo meat and fish, and wearing white fox clothing, and sealskin mitts and boots. Oysters Must Be Cultivated If the Industry is to Survive — P. E. I. Would Restore De- pleted Fishing - Grounds As far as Prince Edward Island is concerned, oyster fishing has been a declining industry in the last few years, but with the com- bination of closed areas, scientific experimentation and cultivation, hopes are held the industry will re- gain its former status. The beds in the far-famed Mal- peque Bay region, in the western part of the island, which produced oysters noted the world over for their quality, have been reduced to extremely low levels. Overfishing, Disease Do It According to A. W. L. Needier of the Prince Edward Island Oyster Experimental . Station, the decline Is a direct result of over -fishing, di- sease and the oyster's greatest en- emy, the starfish. Starfish eat the spawn and attack fully -developed oysters, open the shells and devour the meat. Only possible way to prevent ex- tinction of the industry, Mr. Need - ler said, is by cultivation of the oy- ster. Howlers ! Prize Errors Picked From Examination Papers Algebraical symbols are those us- ed when you do not know what you are talking about. In this country you have to pro- duce a certificate before you can prove you are born. Quebec Goldfields Acquire New Rouyn-Senneterre Railroad Line The rich gold fields of northwestern Quebec acquired direct transportation with the opening of a new railroad line between Senneterre and Rouyn. The new branch line was officially opened by Hon. Onesime Gagnon, Quebec's minister of mines, who is shown RI GHT, assisted by S. J. Hungerford, president and chair- man of the Canadian National railways, cutting the golden ribbon to open the line. The traditional gold spike, to mark the completion of the line, was driven -by Hon. C. D. Howe, LEFT, federal minister of transport. Canada's First County Airport Huron Council Takes Over the Operations of Sky Harbour At Goderich Huron County Council, at its closing session in November, made an important decision, after a long discussion, to take over Sky Harbor airport, just north of Goderich, Ont., and in future conduct it as a county municipal airport, probably the first of its kind in Canada. The county will only take over the private lease for the present and will take out the 1939 license in the municipality's name. It also will hencerorth maintain the landing field. The day was visioned when the airport would be a training ground, perhaps a testing field with a factory manufacturing air- planes. "This will go down in history as the first county in Canada to es- tablish an airport," said Reeve Turner, of Goderich. "We are setting the example and it is not without the bounds of reason, with the British Government spending millions for air defence, that Sky Harbor may develop some day into a large industry." Royal Itinerary Being Prepared Ottawa to be Centre of Activi- ties During the Visit of King and Queen to Canada Next Year Ottawa is proposed as particular ceremonial centre for the visit of Their Majesties the King and the Queen. The stay in Ottawa as now planned tentatively, will be the longest by reason of it being the national capital. Ceremonials At Each Place The itinerary has not yet been worked out finally and when it is the Royal sanction will be required but the present prospects are for arrival at Quebec on Monday, May 15, go, the next day, to Montreal and arrive in Ottawa Wednesday night or Thursday, to stay four or five days. The Icing's birthday, will be specially observed on May 20th. That week -end and probably Mon- day will be spent in Ottawa. There will, of course, be proper ceremonials at every place visited but the greatest number of func- tions will be for Ottawa. Both there and In other places, there will be care to ensure that the population at large have an opportunity of seeing the King and Queen. That, in fact, is described as the primary objective of the tour. VOICE OF THE PRESS UNIFICATION Those people who are looking for a man to unite all Canada can take hope. Santa Claus will soon be here. — Toronto Saturday Night. FEED THEM WELL Canada could take more advan- tage of the United States market if our live stock raisers would put more grain into their cattle. —Far- mer's Advocate BLOOM IN DECEMBER After being dead all summer, a large locust tree at Albuquerque, in New Mexico, has suddenly come to life and is now in full bloom. Most municipal candidates are the same way. — St. Catherines Standard. PROGRESS It was a news item when a church in Petrolia recently decided to pull clown the driving shed in which horses used to be tied during church services. But will the next news item from the same church concern the parking problem? — Kingston Whig -Standard. ROADS IN THE NORTH It is unbelievable that any sec- tion of the South should protest de- velopment of the North. Practically every dollar expended by northern industries finds its way to south- ern Ontario to keep manufacturing plants in operation and to sustain wholesale houses and contribute to the welfare of producers of farm products. What would Ontario be without the North? — North Bay Nugget. "AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING" A letter from Quebec reads, in part, as follows: "Everything loots gloomy with us; to all appearance the ensuing winter will be a very troublesome one . , . Emigration, the very lifeblood of a colony, has almost ceased; agriculture quite neglected; the ordinary trade of the country depressed; all energy and enterprise paralyzed, and confi- dence between man and man al- most destroyed." No, it was not written this year; it was sent to the London Times. 100 years ago, — Edmonton Journal. Automobiles of Japan may be equipped with a carburetor attach- ment, just invented by a Tokio man, which is said to greatly re- duce gasoline consumption. During the imposing of speed' limits in Bombay, it was empha- sized that Bombay City is on an island and has only one road con- nection with the rest of India. New Outlet Vital For Wheat Crops Place in World Markets Declar- ed Only Solution for Prairie Problems Unless Canada blasts a place for western wheat in world markets, the Prairies will not be able to support their existing population on a Canadian standard of living, Prof. Jacob Viner, of the University of Chicago, declared at Ottawa last week before the Royal Commission on Dominion -Provincial Relations. Subsidies would be a kind of al- ternative to new markets but they would be no real solution, he said, and Canada did not have unlimited revenue sources from which to sup- port its wheat. The warning signals had been gi- ven far back in the last century. He claimed "The people of the Prairies were trapped, were drawn in on the basis of prospects grossly exaggerated." "It is inconceivable to me that all the propaganda issued for set- tlement purposes was believed in by those who prepared it," Dr. Vin- er, appearing for the Manitoba Gov- ernment, said. "Source of these ag- encies still issue the same type of propaganda. Chicago newspapers even today are carrying advertise- ments of land opportunities in Western Canada." We Are Ignorant Of French Canada "One of the Greatest Barriers to Canadian Unity," Mont- rea Barrister Declares—Ad- vocates Understanding One Another J. Alex Edmison, Montreal attor- ney, addressing an audience in Ot- tawa last week said that "one of the greatest barriers to Canadian unity is the great ignorance of the most people, particularly Ontario concerning the French-Canadian." Mr. Edmison, told his listeners he spoke, "as one who has spent the last 10 years in the province of Qebec, after spending 25 years in Ontario." Many Misconceptions "When I lived in Ontario, I had a complete misuderstanding of the French-Canadians, and a prejudice against them based on current mis- conceptions. "The sooner the people of On- tario get to know the French-Can- adian, get to appreciate his view- point and understandings. his aspir- ations and ambitions, the sooner we will bring about interprovincial unity, which is absolutely neces- sary in the future if Canada is to take the leading part she should in world affairs." News Parade By Elizabeth Bedy MYSTERY PASSENGERS: The new Trans -Canada Airlines planes aren't carrying passengers yet. In fact, you can't buy a ticket to fly aboard 'em. Their sole cargo is His Majesty's mail, Before the inaugur- ation of the Trans -Canada service, it was announced by the powers - that -be that no "dead -heads" ("no - pay" passengers) would be carried aboard the planes. Who then are the phantom passengers who step out of Trans -Canada air ships ev- ery time one lands at Malton, say, or Montreal? Tho planes are full of them. 'S a funny world! TWO DEMOCRATS: What were some of the things that Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain and Premier Daladier of France talked about when they con- ferred in Paris? (Of course it's a miracle to us that they could even hear themselves speak above the noise of civil strife, threaten- ing voices from Germany and Italy). They decided to defend their countries by: increase of French artillery forces in the Far East to supplement British defenses; ap- proval of the Hitler-Daladier Peace Pact; purchase by France of 6,000 war planes, mostly in Canada (on credits extended from London); expression by Chamberlain of his resolve to try and get national mil- itary conscription voted in in the United Kingdom. THE PAY-OFF: You surely didn't think that Mussolini gave Hitler a big hand in the Czechoslovak busi- ness free, gratis and for nothing, did you, without any expectation of reward? If such was your naive be- lief, you underestimated the clev- erness of the Duce, or should we say the diabolical ingenuity of Mussolini plus Hitler—equals "the Rome -Berlin axis." The pay-off comes now, in the aftermath of Munich and the signing of the Ang- lo -Italian accord, when Hitler is helping Mussolini (in, olr, such a very subtle way) to advance his claims on France's Corsica, Savoy, Nice, Tunis. As long ago as the first of Aug - Favor Azores Route For 'Winter Flying Further investigation of the proposed winter transatlantic air route via the Azores is recom- mended by Captain George Thom- son, special survey officer for Im- perial Airways, London. He has returned to England after a year's study of flying conditions in the South Atlantic. Although the Azores Islands present certain geographical diffi- culties, Captain Thomson believes the route should be seriously con- sidered as an alternative in win- ter to the more direct route from England to New York via Ireland and Newfoundland. With co-operation of Portuguese meteorological and radio services to Horta, he suggests a series of flights could be usefully and safe- ly carried out during the coming winter. ust, 1938, a purported secret docu- ment sent by Mussolini to all his ambassadors abroad said that Italy "is determined in the near future to urge its claim to the Latin soil of Tunis, adding that construction of 14 airports on the Libyan -Tunis- ian frontier has been ordered, "which will make a speedy cam- paign possible." Mussolini's next objective is the complete domination of the Medi- . terranean basin and the Suez Can- al. Towards this he will be helped first by the reduction of France to a state of vassalage (with Hit- ler's aid); then by the overthrow of Britain as a .world power (with Japan's aid, too). SIGN OF THE TIMES: Is Premier Hepburn losing his hold in Ont- ario? We pose the question, made curious by the results of the mayor- alty contest in Windsor- David Croll, M.P.P., won out there by ma- jority of 5,000, in spite of the Pre- mier's intervention, personally, to oppose hire. THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What new type of legislation is likely to be introduced at the next session of the Federal Government, open- ing in January? Answer: Unem- ployment insurance measures and a marketing program. � THIS eua►ous ,�,i� ORLD William 1 VG �F�L© Ferguson I 1 Ti -4E -F 4fz -14'S GREAT POLAR (C -E CAPS AND GLACIERS ARE MADE UR OF SNOWFLAKES LIFE PLANTS, OR BIVOPHYLLOM, NOT ONLY SET SEEDS, BUT ALSO GROW TINY NEW PL,�N1TLETS ALL. OVER THEIR. LEAVES AND STEMS. COPR. 1930 BY NBA SERVICE. INC. 440W MUGS -t TIME ELAPSES ON EARTH BETWEEN THE ENDING OF FEB LST, AND THE BEGINNING OF FEB. 3•RD? ANEWER Tr:MOR OW. •a WE are apt to think of the mighty ice masses of the north as frozen from large quantities of open water. Yet all the great sheets that held whole continents during the Ice Age Were formed by the packing, partial melting and re -freezing of countless billions of tiny snowflakes. WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum Beside the path were paper trees all cut out very neatly and painted. a very brilliant green color. Back of the trees were rows of cardboard houses painted in various colors. the most of them having green blinds. Some were large and some were very small, and in the front yards were beds of paper flowers quite natural in appearance, Over some of the porches paper vines were twin- ed, giving them a cozy and shady took. As the visitors passed along the Itreet, a good many paper dolls :ame to the doors and windows of their houses to look at them cur- iously. These dolls were all the same height, but were in different shapes, some being fat and some be- Ing lean. Th girl dolls wore many . beautiful cos.umos of tics,' paper, malrtng thern quite fluffy: i„it their heads and hands worn 'no ihialt than the paper of which they we: e mule, Some of the ,paper people were on the street waiking along or congre- ;ated in groups talking, but as soon as they saw the strangers they flut- tered into the house as fast as they could go, so as to be out of danger. Excuse me if -I go edgewise,” said the captain, 0a they came to a slight hill. "I can get along faster this way, and not flutter' so much," That's all right," said Dorothy. "We don't mind hove you go, I am sure," On one side of the street was a paper pump and a paper boy was pumping water into a paper pail. A.ccidentally the yellow hen happen- ed to brush against this boy with her wing, and he Clew into the air and fell luta a paper tree, where he stu..k until the Wizard gently pulled him out. 'St the same time the pail went soaring into the air, Spil- ling the paper water, while the pa- per puma bent nearly double. "Grac- ious." said rillinn, "what if I flap-