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CANADA
STEEL FROM THE SOO
By equipping the Sault steel plant
in the last few weeks to manufacture
large structural steel shapes, up to
15 -inch beams and channels, and to
manufacture steel 'sheet piling for:
:dock and canal . walls, neither of
which producs. was previously made
do Canada, the Algoma Steel Corpor-
ation has put itself in a Position to
;take advantageof the revival in the
-eonstructiou industry which many be..
Neve is in the offing. -Sault Ste.
rlfarie Star.
A FAITHFUL FRIEND.
e 'What a grand, 1 et .fitting, tribute
was that paid by. the French Blue
''Devils of'the World War to Betty, a
three-year-old dog;' The troops pre_
'sented arm+;• 1n' a hollow square at
;Yalloire while an officer hung a silver
medal about the animal's neck. On
March 8, in a temperature of 22 de-
orees below zero, the dog lay for 18
ours across the body of a student
elder whose leg was broken. The
titan's life was thus saved. Betty'is
feet were frozen but happily, she
rurvivedT' after treatment.—Border
Pities Starr.
BETTER MOVIES
Some of the new and better motion
{pictures are proving more valuable
Os box office attractions than their
sexy predecessors ever thought of
eing. It has taken a long time to
ake producers realize that the pub.
c is even more willing to patronize
lean films than it is to patronize du -
ions ones.—BrockvilleRecorder.
THE INSECT WAR
There are some' 600,000 different
kinds of insects in the world whose
ays have been studied. In all the
rest" of the animal kingdom—birds,
easbs, reptile and fishes—there ate
a .e ... re than36,500 speb
t e� e, "•; ar u
iirect and relentless competitors of
star for a place in the sun. Hence
e are at perpetual war with the
[insect world.—Winnipeg Tribune.
WELL RATHER
Here is a poser. If a party with -
Out women is a. 'stag party, would
lute world without women be stagna-
tion ?—Guelph Mercury.
LOCK YOUR CAR
Judge McKinley, chairman of the
,Ontario Parole Board, urges upon
motorists the necessity of locking
kheir`parked cars. Many youngsters,
he says, find the temptation of an
euelocked car irresistible and decide
f o "borrow" .it. To counteract this
he judge suggests that 'insurance
nk nnpanies place a clause in their
contracts to pay only 25 per cent. of
4i ]aims when a car is left unprotect-
eeld by lock.
It is a sad commentary on modern
Tonditious when people have to "nail
own" their property in thds way in
under to prevent theft.
Yet Jteeiee , McKinley's advice 6s
food. A universal locking of parked
tears;, would probably prevent 75 per
s#tnf•of. the auto thefts or "borrow -
r 1 gs." Of course,. smart thieves can
f e"Yen get away • with a , locked car,
but the chances of their doing so
liCe small, because they are so much
ore likely to detection. Border
ities Star.
THE. HARDY PEACH CROP
A ten-yea't old- note in a Hamilton
paper says: "Niagara„ fruit crops
Were badly damaged `when the tem.
perature slipped 66 degrees to 28 de -
trees above zero ovei; : night." Mar-
(,ellous to relate there was. a pretty
`air crop in ; that year..
One of the, handicaps of late of
the growers of real peaches is that
the liousewEe: is scared early in the
yeason. Her; reason is: "Well, I see
1iy the papers there will be no peach-
es, so 4,741. certainly do down now
what I can get."
There is nothing Wheehe harts the
fruit • grower . more in the Niagara
eninsala titan fake newspaper re-
isorts, written by space commanding
Correspondents in the winter and
early spring:•season.t. Catharines
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tandard,
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HOW TIMES HAVE CHANCED
The repose that a large truck is
ito transport..' pigs, 'sows and chickens
o various New 'York playgrounds, so'
hat
tholtsa#ids of children .tivill be
able to see them fol• .the ;first time
in their lives, provb1tee the- thought
drat today "the shoe is an the other
foot," as it Were.
In the old daye the city youngst-
ers referred, to the farm lads as
"hicks."' Now it is the boy in the
metropolitan area who has much to
learn. Many a rural youth can conte
into a great city and pass by unno-
ticed in the crowd, because die knows
how to adapt himself to surroundings.
How different it is with oounties+s big
city boys when they visi`. the farm.
Some of 'them still wonder how• a
cow can chew gum!
The educational work undertaken by
bhe New York Parks Department
should bring to the "underprivileged"
children a better appreciation 02 the
men who raise livestock and : grow
crops.—Border Cities' Star. '
CROPS IN ALBERTA
While seeding is quite backward
this spring, prospects for a crop in
Alberta are better this time of the
year than they have been for several
years past. Fairly generous rains
have restored subsoil moisture in
Southern Alberta to a considerable
extent while in the central and nor-
thern areas the rainfall has been co-
pious. On the whole prospects for a
good crop are excellent.—Calgary
Herald.
THE TRAVEL CAMPAIGN
These Canadian Travel Bureau
campaigns already have 'produced re-
markable results, far beyond the ex-
pectations of those responsible for
the direction of the new national
tourist organization.
A. particularly striking piece of
Canadian Travel Bureau publicity ap-
pears as a rotogravure insert in Out-
door Life of New York—and is de-
scribed by a prominent American
publicity expert as "one of the best
pieces of advertising literature that
has ever appeared in any national
magazine."
Other agencies throughout the
country are co-operating closely and
effectively in this general national
travel promotion campaign, among
these the great railway systems.—
Halifax Herald.
THE EMPIRE
Flight Lieutenant Edward H. Flea
den, personal pilot to the Prince of
Wales, has taken delivery of the
Prince's new airplane, a Dragon -
Ra -Aide twin engined biplane capable of
a maximum speed of more than 160
miles an hour, and of cruising for
long distances at 140 m.p.h. It is
the fastest craft he has yet owned.
The usual seating accommodation
for eight passengers is displaced for
the Prince's journeys by six comfort-
able armchairs and special cabin fur_
nishings, including a writing table
and a cocktail cabinet. Navigational
equipment includes a powerful radio-
telephonic sending and receiving ap-
paratus, and a complete set of "blind"
flying instruments. Parachutes are
available dor every occupant.
The tanks carry fuel sufficient for
non-stop journeys anywhere within
the British Isles.
Like all of his previous 'machines;
thb Prince's new craft is painted in
the distinctive red and blue of the
Brigade of Guards.—British Aircraft
Society.
HIGH.SPEED RESEARCH
Nine hundred and seventy-five feet
a second -665 miles an hour — is
the speed attained by the airflow In
the new high speed tunnel which has
just been completed at the National
Physical Laboratory and is now be-
ing used for the investigation of
aerodynamical phenomena that occur
at speeds en the neighborhood of
the velocity of sound British Air-
craft Society.
Pijostine's Cycling Athletes
Twelve Jewish athletes from Pcstine arrived in Montreal aboard the Cunard White Star Liner
Alaunia to begin. a 16,000 mile 'rotor cycle tour of Canada and United. .States, from Montreal- to,
Hollywood and back to New York.
Cooking Rut Usually
At Root Of Family
Dislike Of Vegetables
A woman said the other day: "Veg-::
etables are stupid—buttered ' carrots
one day, spinach the next and beets
the day after. My family hates- veg-
etables!"
Well, and why? Because the
housekeeper is in a deep vegetable
rut.
To her a vegetable meal is dull
and uninteresting. To us at brings
visions of infinite well -cooked colorful
and flavorsome combination. Think
of tender young buttered beets, cell -
flower topped with golden Holland-
aise sauce, string beans arranged ar-
ound a mound of fluffy boiled rice.
Is that plate stupid and dull?
AUGMENTED.
Remember, that while all vegetab-
les contain at ]east a. trace of pro-
tein there isn't enough of it.. Be-
sides vegetable protein is of. poorer
quality than that found in other
sources. Consequently nuts, eggs,•
cheese and milk must be introduced
into vegetable plates to maintain the
proper balance.
Cheese may be used,, with some veg
etables,; if added to the white sauce
served with them. Cauliflower, pota-
toes and tomatoes are delicious with'
cheese. sauce Summer sq; asli and
ggefitfi ears lY vTtrf 15reet'e72' cig'l
Toasted cheese sandwiohes may'Oe
served with any cdinbination of -Veg-
etables.
Eggs poached, -scrambled or hard
cooked, combine with any good and
all vegetables.
Stuffed vegetables such as toma-
toes, peppers and potatoes may be
the means ,of taking care of the pro-
tein calories if the stffing is chosen
with care. Tomatoes or peppers stuf-
fed with a combination of rice and
peanuts are particularly good for a
summer dinner. Peanuts are cheap,
very rich in protein and combine well
with nearly all vegetables.
ANOTHER COMBINATION
Here's another vegetable plate:
New peas, diced carrots, brussels
'sprouts, small white onions and in
the centre scrambled eggs and stew-
ed tomatoes.
' Here are contrast of color, texture
'and flavor. Hollandaise sauce is pass-
ed in a separate sauce boat for the.
sprouts.
A simple desert of fresh fruit is
always good, with a. vegetable dinner
when the proper balance has been
maintained throughout the meal.
Warm Water
Boon to Fish
Speckled Trout Thrive in It --
Two WILLS Experiments : at Hatchery .
Frederick Abbott of Norton, Mal -
ton,
corn dealer, who died,aou;I?ecem•
ber -18, aged 85, left' estate of the
gross value of £,4,275, with net per-
sonalty £16,971. Among his be-
quests were; A grass field at Hut.
tons Ambo to his wife for life with
remainder to the local authority of
Norton for a pleasure ground for the
inhabitants of Norton forever; . aC60
for distribution among the soldiers
and sailors of Norton who were dis-
charged from His Majesty's forces as
wounded or invalided during the
Great War; 220 for division among
the postmen for Norton and Melton.;
220 for . division ' among the cabmen
and taxicab drivers in Norton and
Melton; e20 for division .among the
Boy Scott6s of Norton. and Mallon;
£20 to his trusteee for She deserving,
poor of Norton. B
Benjamin .Batchelor of BroughtY
Ferry, farmed; yvho died on February
9, aged 67, .left personal estate in
Great Britain valued 'at' 231,954. Ike
left £100 to the 326.111 Siege, Battery,
Royal, Garrison Artillery, the yearly
income • to Ile` ti -84,..',111 p,•r'bvidIng
smokes 'at the annual dinner of the
battery.—London Times. i
• Magog, Que,--Experiments_ mond
ucted at the Dominion government
fish hatchery here have increased by
25 times the growth of fish -from the
time they hatch to the fingerling
stage.
Last Oct ober some 100;000 -eggs were
obtained, from speckled trout and'
placed in the hatchery here, June 1
next 50,000 fingerlings, 25 times the`
weight they would ordinarily have
attained, will be distributed in wet-
ers of Quebec province,
The 'weight increase was obtained
ley keeping the spawn in a constantly
fiowing stream of water, maintaining
a temperature of 50 degrees, Auth-'
or'itles •scovered fish 'grew more
quickly in eeeter warmer than it would
normally be during winter montlis
Usually the young trout 'start to feed,
towards :the end of M,ay :end distribtti:I
tion takes place In "`October,. Under
the new method feeding starts aroutf
the first of January„blies thus allowih
over , four months of a.ddttioha'
growpth.
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Gulls Teach
Crows Trick
On Pacific Coast ----Black Birds,
Attempt to Swim in
Ocean
Victoria.—Antics of crows and sea_
gulls have aroused the interest of
students of natural history in this vic-
inity.
iai.nity. Under the watchful eye of the
sea birds the crows have become pro-
ficient in clam -retrieving and take to
the water for swimming lessons.
se The unusual performance takes
place on a log off the Dallas water-
front. A nature lover who prefers
anonymity Is authority for the story.
The gulls first taught the crows to
fly with clams to a height sufficient
'to break them when dropped on the
rocks below.
The procedure was not a huge suc-
cess, however. The crafty crows soon
discovered better results were obtain.
ed by waiting on the rocks below
;iri•liile the gulls flew in the air to drop
'the clams.
Swimming lessons .followed. The
inns would spring from the log into
'the water and `back on to bhe log.
After a raucous conversation the
crows tried'it. They managed to sail
on the water for a time, but with very
Tittle grace. They tried it repeatedly.
One crow hesitated. The ribbing
'.Crain _ the rest of.- tire . •flock was :al-
m.ost ,human. Eventually he was
goadeclt.into trying, made an ungainly,
jump, blit toppled head first and went
under the water. Its annoyance was
registered in a harsh cry as it came
to the surface and made a straight
Eine for the gull it held to blame for
the ducking.
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To Study Peat
Irish Will Send Group To Watch
Processes in Soviet Union
Dublin.—The government has de-
cided to send a commission to Rus-
sia and Germany to study -utilization
of peat resources in those countries
following a lecture in Lublin by Al-
lan Monkhouse, former chief engineer
of Vickers Limited 'in the . Soviet
l nion. .
]VIr. Mon'khouse, welcomed to Dub-
lin by the ministers of finance and
industry and commerce, described the
Soviets' methods, of using peat as a
fuel for generating stations. At pres-
ent, the Free State is obliged to im-
port coal to run the generators, which
supplement the Shannon hydro -elec-
trification scheme.
The Free State is among the coun-
tries of the world possessing the lax -
gest peat resources and tjiese are
practically undeveloped. An effort is
now being made to popularize . turf
(dried peat) instead of coal, Free
State deposits of which are practi-
cally useless.
Praises Gaelic
P,E.I: Minister in Favor of Re-
tention for. Value to Culture
Charlottetown,—"The Gaelic lang-
uage should.be preserved for its cal_
tura] value—it is a priceless heritage
embodying the true spirit of the.
•Gael,°' declared Rev.` D. M. Sinclair;
onee of the keenest students of the
language in Canada.
' The tall, youthful, niinister,educa-
•tionist in his little Church at Valley-
field, P.E.I., conducts a service once
a month in the Highland tongue. And
fortnightly lie perpetuates the fang:
tinge by gatherings called "C,eilidh_".
when villagers li c' t to sing and read
`and exchange -il, .i in Gaelic.
"Gaelto posse ses a rich and varied
literature Hi poetry and Prose, and
that, despite lar, Samuel Johnson`s
assertion that, 'there was not In the
world 'an parse. manuscript 100 yearei
old''', I\lr. Sir°eleir declared In ail
Address litre.
Fellowships
Royal, .Society .Of . 'Canada 'An..
Pounces ameSr,afj;;rirl;tnii1,ton'
VALUE OF NICKEL
EXPORTS ARE HIG.HEF►
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Ottawa, ---A eribstantial increase
:w.as ,.'s io}4i>.• in the value of ilickal
•exported in April when it amounted
,to $2,724,(10 against $2,446,40 u
year ago, the Dominion • Bureau . of
Statistics reported recently.
Nickel itt matte or spells was exe
ported as follows: United Kingdom,
$736,540; United States, $103,838;
Netherlands, $101,316; Norway, $11.G,-
132; iline nickel, I:Jutted Stats:, .$931,-
152; Netherlands, $272,505; United
Kingdom, $154,778; Japan, $47,0051,
Norway, $29,302; e, France, . $21,521;
nickel oxide; Called •ll ingdottz,; $5 e00;'
United States, $8,074. , . •
VOU.N G.. MONTF.EA'L-BORN
BESSBORQUGH. WANTS' •
i .Tea {STAY IN CANADA
Ottawa.—Because .he likes "tire
winter mere best,"• Hon. 'George St.
Lawrence Neuiiize Ponsonby, four-
year-old son of the Governor-General
and Lady Bessborough, does not want
to leave hie native,:,,,Cauada.. His
mother, who related the stgpt at
the. Joan of Arc In:titutf; recently;
had told' ]aim thee wile 'leavi-.the
Dominion.
Hamilton.—I'ellow:.hne wereaw-
arded recently by the Royal' Society
• of Canada • when tlieeannual •meeting
opened at {McMaster University. The
following were honored: if!. J. Sithe],'
graduate of McGill University; R. D.
MacDonald, of Queen's and McGill,
chemistry; John H. Creighton, Uni-
versity of Toronto, English literat-
ure; John K. Thomas, Trinity Col-
lege, Toronto, philosophy; James A.
Gibson, University of British Colum-
bia, 1"iistory; Andrew McKellar, Uni_
verity of British Columbia, physics;
Miss May Annets, University of To-
ronto, physics; Reginald Salt, Uni-
versity of Alberta, zoology; Dr. V -
J, Okulitch and George Langlois, de-
mography. -
Fellowships are for the purpose of
enabling students to continue research
work at universities in Great Britain,
the United States and Europe.
Blame Buffalo
Old Tramping Thought to Have
Distributed Rich Topsoil.
Saskatoon.—Large areas of land
across,, the ,throe . Pra rte Provinces
are reported lost to productivity and
the 'finger of suspicion points to the
buffalo. Over -pasturing and tramp-
ling by the monarch of the plains
have been the ' primary cause . of
"burn -outs" common over a large area
in southern Saskatchewan, Dr. J.
Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan
soils department, suggests.
The immediate cause was not fire,
he believes, but wind, which carried
away the friable, easily pulverized
surface soil down to the tough, com-
pact subsoil which is quite infertile.
The sod was destroyed and the soil
began to blow.
The trek of the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police to Alberta, in 1874;'
recalled reports which described "the
rolling plains everywhere trenched
and rutted by the buffalo." There
was plenty of buffalo meat fer the
men, but the horses faced starva-
tion.
Self -Studies
Saint John, N.B.—A valuable col..
lection of iself-portraits of 60 promin-
ent American artists 3s on exhibition
at Saint John vocational school.
The property of Elmer Adler, priv-
ate New York art collector, the group
includes etchings, lithographs, wood-
cuts, water color and oil sketches,
and was obtained by the Saint John
school through the College Art As-
esociation,
Among the artists whose self-stud-
lee
elf stud -lee are. exhibited• are: George Fel-
lows, Childe Hassan, Rockwell Kent,
Rob'er't S. Austin, Foujita, Eric Gill,
Augustus John, Marie Laurenein, An-
dre Zorn and. Diego Rivera.
Dentistry Not A
Good Career For
Women To Adopt
• 'i'Q32oiV;T'0,—Cataria has about 15-
women dentists and even among the
15 the opinion is, general that the
profession is for men. A half-dozen,
women attended the Ontario Dental
Association convention here recent-
ly.
ecently,
One woman delegate explained the,
leek of her sex's iuteresi in dentist-
ry as beim„ a aniiy i cause of the
great amount of tilechanicnl•seorir
volved, Women, she Said,: cloat';t,'Yjiake
o mechanics.
good met a cs.
"It's a long .anddifficult course---'
long hours and lots of stticlying and
iter mot zy career upon which to em•'
bark. if one's : ambition is to marry
and have a horne " said, another,
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Joliit e)#:'eiel -
writes: "Studer
vensity have r
est 'oks
e' the Baltimore Sun
tie of New York. Uni-
tAde. a lels}:: of the
"sixty best" noveleept}ti$EXigd •,in ii74@
United' States a.pd ,.Englran4 , in the ,
last, 35 years. ' There :is not •,ixiuch
that one can' say about such selec-
tions except that "one 'regrets" to
see the omission of this book or the
inclusion of that otherone: But I
cannot find any real ot•'revglant fault
with the choice that the N.Y:Ie,. stu-
dents have 'made. Both lists seem
well balanced and representative.
"Best" novels however, Ys a mis-
leading discription. It seems to me
that what have been chosen are to
be regarded as "important"' novels,
in the sense of establishing fashions
and expressing the snoods of a
period. Certainly, only on this as-
sumption can one explain the
choice of • "Mr. Britling Sees It
Through" instead of "Tono-Bungay"
or "The New Machiavelli"; the in-
clusion of Floyd Dell's "'Moon Calf"
and the naming of "Manhattan Trans-
fer" rather than "1919".
But I was chiefly interested to
notice how many women writers
were found in the two lists.
Out of the 60 names, 17 were of .
women novelist.?. Eight were Ameri-
cans — Pearl Buck; Willa Cather,
Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Kathleen
• Norris, Antro Parrish, Elizabeth
Madox .Roberts and, Edith Wharton.
Nine were English women — Clerm-
ence Dane, Storm Jameson, Shelia
Kaye_Smith, Rose MacCaulay, Edna.
Phillpotts, Dorothy Richardson, Ethel
Sedgewick, May Sinclair and Virginia
Woolf."
Own Airplane
Miner Pilots Self in to Goldfields
With Equipment
'Regina.—The modern prospector
travels the air trails into newly open-
ed gold fields in Canada's northland
One of these is Johrt C. Russ, pilot -
prospector, who deserted Northern
Ontario and Quebec bushlands to try
his luck along the welters' shores'
of Lake Athabaska. ..
News of a new find, 450 miles
north of Prince Albert, 'sent 'him fly-
ing north last fall,. He spent the
winter at the lake, staked claims at
Cracking 'Point' and returned by air_
plane to his home at Port Credit,
in Ontario, flying 3,000 miles lis ,three,
days:
He has returned, an'. independent
flying prospector. His plane carried '
everything the , te"edern miner needs,
from :drill 'fix condeneX milk.,"I'd be
lost without it," he said as he laid
plans to .open up, his claims,
The Cameron's Were Tough
ObseivJes the St Th m a Titres -
Journal: There' axe:'feany;Cariteronsi
in this district, and they iney ; have
been stirred by the fanious song "The
Camerons of old Scotland were hardy'
and they were,dopglity ,fighters' as
all the clansmen were. Here is an in-
teresting' story about Sir Ewen Cani-
eron, one ,of the greatest chieftains,
who liee61 In the 1.7t1i century, which
we cull fi•eei "Scotlttnel';e ,' Road''
lien iiee;" i7y Augus tis, ]Muir:
"One night he :'; o
g. tivas,.•,saxmb nnd•
among the,bills,'teed • he 'ordered
]tis followers to He down beside '
hiiit andep in the s w' -A he
hm self in his
wrapping i s
plaid, lie saw that one of his
young relatives had •rolled • a
snow -ball to rest his head srin.
Leaping to his feet, Sir Ewen
kicked the snow -hall :aside.
'What'] ire cried,roused to fury
at such degrading effeminacy,
'Can't a Cameron sleep without a
pillow?'sr a
We are somewhat afraid the 1935
race of Camerons would 'want not
Only
Only niliows but downy beds,
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