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The Huron Expositor, 1938-10-14, Page 6fN y�F 4ai est inn of }p %ndiers Started pronto Is Doing 7 Years (By 0. A. Lyon in Star Weekly) li„ ey Tanfield, London broker ty *lalite, was recently arrested Swindling charges and sentenced Gr ice seven years. He started his ear, et in, finance in Toronto. He aecum- la,t'ed en estimated $500,000 here 17 years ago in stock transactions be- ioro leaving for richer fields in Eng- land. He gainedhis trst experience with ,& finaneaial house ih Toronto and later branched out for himself here. In his luxurious suite in the Kixlig Ed- ward Hotel he was known as "Tan- field the magnificent." The case of Stanley Tanfield is get- tin'g bigger and bigger. 'Unlike most swindling cases, the putting of the swindler in jail has not closed the case, but has started it on a new and more important phase. It makes the ordinary man angry to know that while, by the sweat of his own brew, with long hours, with worrying, with the enduring of petty • reproofs, he himself can make but a modest competence, less scrupulous men like Tanfield can pile up for- tunes without n rking. But when be has good reason to believe that even after they have been exposed they can find cunning . ways• to • keep their spoil and make their heavy camels of wealth wriggle through the needle eye of the Iaw, then the anger of the ordinary man will reach fever heat. It is this that is going to make the. Tanfleld••case historic, and that makes it worth everyone's while to under- stand each detail of Tanfield's rise, roguery and fall. Tanaeld's personality must . be the warring ground of many conflicting influences, We was the son of .a Methodist minister, born 45 years ago in the village of gawkes, Yorks, a a * Tanfield says be had a strict up- bringing, and we can believe it. Tanfield left Hawes early. He came r to Toronto when he was 19, and be- came a .draper's assistant. At some period, we do not know Dentists recommend Wrigley's Gunn as an aid to strong, healthy teeth, cleanses them of food. ,par- ticles, massages the gums-Aidsdi- gestion, relieves stuffy feeling after meals. Helps keep you healthy! Take some home for the..children too —they will love it! cs s AAAAAAAAAAA the exact date, temptation came to bin. The temptation came in a re- alization of_ his powers. , H•e had a tripping and facile tongue, a tongue that could carry people ,with hien and make the worse side appear the better. Tanfield used to sell them leases and shares. His powers were astonishing. Go - leg through his records, 1 found an interesting statement made in court much later—it was in 1931,—by a can- on whom he swindled of $100,000. "I cannot see." said the canon, "why I was such a fool. Tanfielcl was an extraordinary man, he had such a v onderful fascination. "He always seemed to back up the prior man, and do everything that was eeilanthropic. "Ile showed me a letter from the matron of an orphanage and said how delighted he was to help them." • • s « s His swindling machine was not hap- hazard nor spasmodic; it was beauti- fully organized and shockingly effici- ent. I`:rst his clerks went through 'the re,eerds of company shareholders at Somerset House. They came , back to his fine office with its three commissionaires and its .luny of stenographers with lists and ;fists of shareholders. Here Tanfield's deep -laid plot to swindle thousands entered its next ea age. He . would doubtless show visitors, v ith a cerator's pride, the 25 girls card -indexing the suckers. After that rows of .typists typed 50.000 to 60,000 envelopes per fort- night. All . individually addressed— none of your duplicating "Dear Sir or Madam" machines. The story the letters told Was the old, old story that will go on deceiv- ing the simple till Doomsday. "Keen and astute financiers"—that bit's true, anyway --"were watching the markets and applying their well- trained minds to the vicissitudes of the markets." The money poured in. Twenty thou- sand dollars would clatter through the letter box in a day. A single in- vestor sent :;150.000.. About five mil- lion dollars came in altogether — and $1,500.000 vanished. As the prosecution said. it was sim- ply "put higgedly-piggedly in any ui the s'ven banking accouhts" of the firm Stanley Tanfield and his associ- ates set up. What did Tanfield do with his money. He practically burned it. what does it matter?" be must have said, "when there are thousands and thousands more in the bank, and thousands more coming in every day? "We have a house at Taplow worth $40,000. Let's renovate it at a cost of $200,000--tihat isn't really very much. "Let's panel the lounge in natural pine. If it costs $45,000 for one room—well, other men in my posi- tion have similar things. "Let's build an annex for the. guests who come to see me—plenty of CheSNAPSOT GUJL "OFF -GUARD" PICTURES For more natural pictures, catch subjects `off -guard" --unaware of the camera. MOST people like to have their pictures taken. In fact, they like it so well that when they see the camera they put on a special "pic - tnre expression." And as a rule this special "picture face" isn't what we want at all. There's a way to keep your sub- jects from seeming, camera -con- scious. Briefly, it is -,-"Catch them when they aren't looking." Don't let them know their picture is being taken. Pictures 80 taken are known as tr>rci" . snapshots. Such snaps at€r a attention becanee they pie- • t e the'rgubject In a natural,. char- rititier pose and get away from fig 'Vane' look -at the-camera-nd- :etri'ilo type of picture with which we are ill, too Pati hilar. An "off -guard"." picture can tell a real storywlige tho- ;Other type MOS a to Ole jest rederd,pictpr'e fait ;to �talce fheini? It's easy*. Sad„ dib yeti camera 'an- `untili tb> $l r chalantiy' and efficiently. The better you can do that, the more easily you can capture snapshots that are truly "off -guard. If you use a focusing camera, with fast Iens, try to anticipate picture opportunities, and set the camera in advance for distance and proper ex- posure. xposure. Then when the snapshot chance develops, all yon need do is shoot. Por example, to take the picture. above, the camera was get in ad- vance for six feet. Lens and shutter were set for anexposure of 1/50 see, and at L11 less than normal,'be- canse the'dyright, sunny beach 'vas reflecting plenty of light. On a grassy Iawn, which reflects little light,, exposures would have been 1/50 at L3. With his camera pre-set, all the picture taker had to do was wait for the ,fnelon to be cut, and e,ateh his companion's delighted expres- sien. It was hist a matter of lifting the camera and snapping the shut- ter. huttet: If ,you ii.a,'ireu.'t tried; taking. "oft. rd,” plots, try. it. tilt tun, aid the . dre al; delight, 04 , Jeli't an Cittilder' friends nowadaye=-and spend $90,000 on it. ' 'Why not a rock garden? It will cost $40,000,' but I shan't notice that. ' "I think I will wall the estate in. Fifty thousand dollars should I spend it or save it? Well, I shall make plenty more, -1've mastered this dodge and I can't go wrong. "Why not buy some 'more houses to live in At Paris . , . Antibes . St. Marne." He was well fed, well shaved, a little pudgy. He wore, good '''suits, a bowler hat, and horn -rimmed" spec- tacles. He was clearly what Ameri- cans call "in the money." And he was ,head of what the judge called a cruel and, merciless gang, and wbat the police call one of the cleverest and most dangerous gangs of. criminals they ever had to deal with. ,, s s s Then the sword of justice fell up- cn him and five of his lieutenants. He has gone to jail for seven years. In jail Tanfield, wtho was always so confident, so much the master of ev- ery key of the vast instrument he played, changes. He now says that his mind is a blank. It is to the trustee in bankruptcy, Mr. Phillips, that he tells this — Mr. Phillips, an accountant appointed by the creditors to save what he could for them out of the crash, Another thing Stanley Taneld tells him in jail makes him even more perplexed. Tanfield says he has no assets et all. Mr. Phillips remeniters that a few weeks earlier Tanfield bas said that he could raise $100,000, in, assets. Where is Tanfield's money? Mr. Phillips, perplexed at its ap- parent evaporation, clings as his sheet anchor to the costly Taplow mansion and its contents. But here, he strikesanother snag. A Mr. Abra+haan Kacher, a fur deal- er. of the 'city of London, comes on the scene. Mr. Kacher says that the mansion does not belong to Tanfield but to him, and the creditors cannot touch it. "4.1e says that Mrs. Tanfield sold the house to him. Mr. Kaoher's neigh- bors in the Golders Green ,districi must have been as surprised as Mr, Phillips himself to hear of Mr. Kase- er's sumptuous purchase. 3'r., Kocher lives in a typical sub - ban house, and no one ever sus- pected hien of the money to buy une c•' the meet luxurious meusions in the home counties. 'M-. i'1ellips sends a private detec- t.sa ere: an assistant down post-haste to Tap'ow. Tbev tale the house anu settle down to possess it in the name of the creditors. Mr. Kacher is left outside the gates with bis pickets, protesting ownership io the world, but locked out of hit property.. When Mr. Kacher tries to 'get air ir:janction in the vacation court it is : efi ed. * * « Now , the case resolves itself into a full-dress hunt for Tanfield's hidden teeny. Other methods are adopted. Court jewellers were circularized, and one brings,forwa;d the report of Tanfield buying thousands of pounds' worth of sovereigns, of dollars and of jewels. ,Mr. P flies, bis watchword "There must be a lot of property somewhere," threatens to have a couple of safes 'turned open. The affairs of Stanley Tanfield are lake a well -torn -up• letter. Recently a hoard , of sovereigrs, jewels, furs, old ivory and antiques were discovered by the trustee in bankruptcy of the .Tanfield estate, as e result of an anonymous telephone call.' Ever since Tanfield was sentenced to prison, rumors of treasure hoards Lave circulated in England and on the continent. It, was said that Tan- field, had bought gold, some from the proceeds of the sale of his wife's jew- elry, and that he had caohed it both in and out of England. Paris and the Riviera were named as contineu- tal biding places. Meanwhile, creditors are hoping for a higher percentage of return. Charges against Tanfield's estate are listed at $200,000, while his wife's creditors seek $100,000 from her. She is still in Paris. Facts Regarding The Restricted Area Plan King Zog Marks 10th Year of . his Reign in Albania Haran County cattle owners are to be given the opportunity this fall of voting in favor or against the "Re- stricted Area Plan" for the eradica- tion of bovine tuberculosis. Before the petitions are circulated in each sohool section, a large number of ed- ucational meetings are being field throughout the county, by the Agri- cultural Representative, James C. Shearer, to outline the rules ,and reg- ulations of the Area Plan. Every cat- tle ownerr is invited to attend the meeting nearest his ,home. The following questions and an - ewers cover two moat important points: Question: How many cattle are Huron County farmers likely to •lose through the T. B. Test? Answer: Itis impossible to an- swer this question but the results ob- tained in a -r •, s tested may give some idea of what to expect. Cattle County Northumberland Halton Peel • ttunbam Ontario York Tested Reactors 45,033 1,959 4.3 23,259 3,179 13.6 16,106 2,964 1,9.2 18,960 991 5.2 19,492 2,637 1.3.5 54,883 3,634 15.1 Results show that losses have been heavier in dairy than in beef sections. Abnormally high losses were eticoun- tered in sections of York, Peel and -Halton Counties. In most instances these .tosses Occurred cin arms where cattle of unknown origin had been In- troduced to the herd front time to time. Question: H film T. B. Serum Test accurate and ,square? Answer: it is the only edentate teat ,far tiiberculrinis in eattle so far discovered. An occasional cow may' he no- tad that she won't react but she then mnar, show ' the disease, by Zog I, King of Albantain has recent ly celebrated tbe tenth' ..:averse* of his occupancy of the Albanian'thraae amid general and sin0 1e =jtrbiliatfon. The most which little Albania can hope for 'is' to make the beat of a very hard situation, and that King Zog has done. I%ds was made the brightest and most cheerful of all anniversaries by the presence of a Queen, the blithe and charming bride of Albania's King. 'rhe choosing of a wife was one of the problems which Zog had to solve. During long years Albanians asked, "Shall our queen be an Oriental or Western woman, a Christian or Mos - ice, from a royal dynasty or a com- moner, a native daughter or a for- eigner? What kind of a new alliance will her coming mean?" Built Modern Albania King Zog settled the problem in a way which seems to have pleased ev- eryone. He wedded a girl of Ameri- can -Hungarian origin, whose vivacity and ability brings happiness to the Court and inspiration' to Albanian wo- men. In this wild, foreign, isolated country the life of Queen Geraldine will not be easy and she deserves the warmest admiration for the way in which she has undertaken her task. But the rdsks to which she is now expozed are far less formidable than they would have been 15 years ago, and the capital in which she will live ie a Bauch more pleasant place than it was then. It is her husband who has wrought this change. King Zog is the builder of modern Albania, of tee only Albania, indeed, that has ev- er been a united and independent State. He himself set up the throne which he occupies and has made it fairly stable. The most striking feature of the celebration cf Zog°s first decade of lover is the international good will which his kingdom enjoys. Ml Al- bania's neighbors were represented at the festivity-. Smiles were general and sir•ce'-e. Albania is one of those rare States with no acute foreign problem. This is in striking contrast to the ration a few years ago, when Al- har,ia was in conflict with every neighbor and constituted a world prcblem. Notes were frequently sent to the League of Nations and Al- bania's troubles were among the ]league's constant cares. This land wa.• then ono of more drama than- i-oetry; now it seems to be chiefly lyric. Many factors contributed to- ward this, but not least of them was King Zog. Intrigues Banished Observers remember that Albania bas freqeuntly been in sharp conflict with its protector and benefactor, It- aly, that Greece has repeatedly brought, compalints against Albania, and that Yugoslavia has been an op- en enemy of this country. Few plac- es lates in Europe have been the scene of more international intrigue than this little capital. But that` bas vanished. Albania has become a "tie" that binds. Yugoslavia and Italy clasp hands here. A substantial evidence of Yug- dslavia's friendly interest is the. new. air line between Belgrade and Tir- ana. Visitors, if they wished, could trav- el from end to end of this primitive land, through lonely mountain passes or in pathless woods, without incur- ring danger. For a decade, this has been a secure land witb little crim- inality and rare political upheaval. But this security is not a national Al- banian characteristic; it is largely King Zog's achievement. - King Zog has achieved this largely by bis firmness, and organizing abil- ity, which he has shown in the police and' army he has built. In this he has been a dictator. He is absolute master of Albania and there is no doubt about that. He expects to re- main master, too. He will brook no serious rival. Much Still to Be Done Yet • he shows leniency, too. At the recent celebration he granted amnesty to most of the political prisoners and exiles. On many occa- sions he has shown moderation and clemency, But a vast amount still waits to be done. First Albania is greatly :n need of more liberty. Many of the well-trained idealistic young oven find no way to contribute to the State. The land is administered by a email group of men, often called a clique or "the old guard." The rising generation do not feel that they "belong." The middle road be- tween authority and order on one side and popular co-operation on the other has not been reached. Economic progress is slow. That is not strange in such a poor land, but It might be faster. At any rate, mere might be done in that direction. Perhaps less could be spent on dis- play and more on agricultural im- provements. Education ale° could he made more practical. her condition. Many that react have only a slight amount of disease. One never knows when such a cow may break down following illness ,or heavy work and, become a spreader ,01 the disease. All animals that react have tuberculosis in some foam. The staff of veterinerlanh on this wont are at it all the year round and they hold their jobs because they are .skillful, accurate and honest. They are ante ions to have as few react as possible but they must be accurate. No gov- ernment inapeetor Is fool enough to pass tuberculosis animal. Someone would soon. .report .him acid his job wouldn't .last the month out. ,He must tag all the animals be tests acid ear punch all reactors, Angus: "Neo, Maggy, bere's a tick- et for the eonjurin' spew, and when, bhe conjurer eoxnes t' tete part ,where he snakes a t&aapoonfitl cl' !Our Into a dozen .loaves, match Vette,' venae'• 'Close.% Mail Courier Murder of'59 JMan Who Saved ling George Indicated Danger of Trails From Assassination . Is Dead Western Ontario mail, carriers through the various decades, whether journeying in the old mail stage coach, in the buggy, in the cutter, in the automobile or in the snowmobile, have at times encountered strange ex- periences op. the highways, conces- sions, and sideroads. Possibly so public servant could compile a more interesting' booklet than .. coulda the postmannwase, day after day, year ;af- ter year 'througl} storm and sunshine, over, bad roads \and good roads, has carried the news of the world, and messages of love and gladness, df sorrow and disappointment, of ,suc- cess and ,of failure, to the farm homes of the province. Turning back to the fifties, one dis- covers that the path of the mail car- rier was a hazardous one. An item, appearing in an old Brantford paper, tells of the murder of Adams, mail carrier on the Brantford -Paris route, in the summer of 1859, two negroee, Over and Moore,, having been banged for the crime. The account states "that it was a dastardly crime" com- mitted by three. riegroes, Over, Moore and Armstrong, who shot the carrier from covert on the roadside some •three miles from town, during his midnight drive. Leaving him they ran the horse, into a ditch and car- ried off the mail bags into the woods, where they cut them open and rifled them of their money contents. The three were first arrested on suspicion, but the gun with which the crime was committed and part of a hundred dollar bill was found ,on their prem- ises. Sealing wax was also found un- der their finer nails by miscroscopic examination. An early mail stage coach driver, who spent his latter days in the Township of West Nissouri, Middle- sex County, was John Orchard, Sr.,. father of John Orchard, concession 3, Nissouri, and Mrs. Edward Stinson, Tiorndale. A native of Devon, John Orchard, with two brothers, simon, a stone mason, who settled in Nissouri, and Nathan, who secured lands ;n Muskoka, came to Canada some time around the forties. For several years he drove the old mail stage coach on _the Hamilton -Galt -Preston corduroy road, changing horses along the way. Frequently he told his children of these ,pioneer days when hungry pan- thers followed the four -horse stage mile after mile through the dark for- est and of the "terrible roads." Eliminating the Ring Around the 'Bathtub Several -years ago, I sent in a small item to the Monitor, which was duly printed, dealing with that ubiquitous ring around the bathtub. Since this ring still figures in the papers and magazines as a major ,problem to the housewife, 1 venture to repeat the suggestion: Make a small bag, perhaps sax by eight inches, of Turkish towelling, with a generous draw -tape in the hem Put into it all the worn bits of bath soap and'tang it'on the fau- cet or the soap rack. Instruct the family to rub this bag around the sides of the tub at the water line be- fore beginning the bath, and then ring will not appear, unless in ex- treme cases, such as very hard water or a boy in. she tub who has been fix- ing over an old fiivver. This self-cleaning little bag is also useful to small ' children who are learning to scrub their own grimy knees. Put bits of white laundry or dish- washing soap into a jar of water. The resulting paste can be used in place of soap flakes. Such small economies take no time or effort, yet save other- wise useless bits of soap.—M. F. J. Organize Committee To Aid Blind From 360 to 375 new cases of blind- ness are registered each year in Can- ada by the Canadian National Insti- tute for the Blind, An average of. o'ne each day. So stated H.W. Henry,' Field Secretary of the Institute for the Blind, when addressing a meeting held recently in the council chambers at which ladies representing a num- ber of church organizations and Wo- men's Institute were present. Approx- imately eight out of every 10 of the, blind loose their sight in adult life, continued Mr. Henry, who is himself blind, and it means that they must begin all over again to plan their fu- ture careers. They must be taught a new system of reading and writing, a new method of doing things., The services of the Canadian Na- tional Institute for the Blind are de- signed to meet the needs of the blind as indicated by careful analysis of eacjr individual problem, stated Mr. Henry. These services include the care, training, employment, cash re- lief, Braille books, Braille accessor- ies, after-care, salesroom, and many other services of importahce to the blind, as well as a practical program for the prevention of blindness. ,According to Mr, Henry, the Insti- tute's service program for the thirty odd blind and prevention castes in ];Iuron County Balis for an annual bud- get of about one thousand dollars. Two-thirds irds of this amount must be be raised by private philanthropy, in the form of private donations- and tag days. Tag day's are held in Exeter, Clinton, Win'gham and Godericn, and the purpose of the meeting was to Organize for a similar tag day in Sea - forth. Those present decided to constitute :themselves`? as an executive tag day committee and to co-operate with the Institute for the Blind, in its great work, Mrs. Dale Nixon was appoint- ed ti°easurer; Mrs. ]!!erten A. Reid, convener of workers, with Mra, Frank Devereaua as general convener, to be assisted by Mr"s, Margaret Hay as co - convener. The date of the tag day was set for Saturday, Oct, pith, Citi- zens of Seaforth are asked to gine generously in Aid of the work for the blind. Only one appeal is made each' year. Ail workers are .Voluntary, and the 'entire proceeds go fete direet Oar - vice's for the benefit of 1$irtrfl nee -Ideate 01 ep .,etiliil'ty '\ As coiforfu3 a carom' as ashy that ev- er emerged from 'the patges of a dime thriller was ended October ,r'd with the .death of• Nildkolas (Nick) Power, retired Halifax police chief, As a de- tective with a photographic memory, Power won international fame. He died at hie home in (Halifax, ag- ed 96. He Chad retired as •chief of Halifax pollee is 1907 after 43 years son the- force. Most faeous of a dozen exploits that brought , „ world-wide acclaim. was lliIa breakf ( g of a conspiracy that was aimed at the .life of the prince later to become George V of Great Britain.. Beek in 1883, in theslays when a British fleet based at Halifax and roy- alty in the city was almost a monthly occurrence, Prince George was on one of the naval veassels going. through the mild as a midshipman. Ashore was Detective Nick Power with 19 yelars of service as a cop. On a routine cbeck-up of hotels, Power i notieed two men his instinct told him wouldbear watching. When they left their rooms .be slipped in, searched their luggage and found a bag 'of dynamite. With the baggage etubs for other luggage, he went to the ramiway station and found two diving suits and apparatus for Betting off the exploseve under water. Were Planning Assassination Power arrested the two. They were members of a ring who, dissatisfied with settlement of the Irish land ques- tion, had planned to strike a blow at England through assassination of the young Prince George: To his death ,Power cherished the bronze medal presented him by Prince George for his feat. Power was able to glance at a po- lice circular, sometimes unaccompan- ied by a pbhotggraph, and recall vivid- ly its information months later. Once he indirectly was the cause of the suspension of the extradition treaty between Great Britain and the United States. New York police • sent down, a cir- cular, bearing the description of John Gordon, wanted for forgery. Power remembered seeing a man of similar appearance boarding, a steamship for England two days previously. He in- formed New York officers who im- mediately got in touch with Scotland Yard. Treaty Broken off Gordon was arrested when be 'step- ped off the beat but because he was tried for crimes other than that for which he was extradited, the treaty was broken off and not resumed until 1887, seven years later. His fame as a detective once influ- enced the then Canadian minister of justice, letter Premier Sir John S. D. Thompson, to commute the death sen- tence of a young man who had been convicted of murder. Power believ- ed, it was suicide, .,not murder. A new trial acquitted the man. Bring Millions of Acres Back to Production (By Miriam Green Ellis in Family Herald). For the first tinge, Canada, has set its hand to a planned agriculture. True the planning applies only to a part of the prairie provinces, but ev- en so it means one-quarter of all the occupied land in the Dominon. Us- ually it takes a crisis to effect an idea of this kind, and so it was itt this case. Nine straight years of poor crops took the starch out of a natur- ally optimistic people, reduced their spending power to little or nothing, When the drought started in 1929, no one thought particularly about it, but when it continued year after year everyone thbught plenty. One year there might have been a crop, but a few days before harvest the rust took it; the market also gave a few kicks when the gallant fighter was on his back. In 1937, culaxfination of all the bad years, the average yield of wheat in Saskatchewan, heart of this great grain, growing area, was 2.7 bushels to the acre as compared. with 17.7 for the preceding twentyseven years, in- cluding the other eight drought and rust years. The Alberta average was cut in two. During the six years, 19130 to 1935, the average fares prices of wheat wan 48c compared to $1.03 for the preceding six years and the memories of $2.50 wneat during the war. • And the drought area seemed to be spreading year after year. "Give the, country back to the Indians," said some of the wise -crackers. Older heads recalled that seven billion dol- lars worth of wheat wealth alone bad been produced on those , prairies in the last twenty years, not to mention beef and sheep and cattle and poul- try. Tbat means a lot of railway and ocean tonnage, elevator storage, meat processing, new clothes, school books, toys, hardware and a terrific lot of new pna.chanrery• All Canada was geared to the spending of these bil- lions. With good hindsight, many pro- claimed that this and that land should never have been broken up, but when settlemdent was'.,puebing in, when there was plenty of rainfall, when crops were easy to produce, the presenter on, governments .for free bomesteads was severe. The Urge to Grow Wheat John Smith dame from Ontario and started to farm as he had done back there; Ian 'MacKenzi„o oame from Scotland and he turned up little sharp furrows as they: did there; folks came in their sheep -skins from Garcia and built their mud houses and ,barns un- der one roof as they had 'dome all their lives; the lads who 'had riot Me ade t good a success down on Elie prairies bf the and western estates moved in alongside and with there others who had money and the tfrge for organizing seattiement 'on a grand scale. Nearly all of theta and espec- ially those train; Ontario came with the finis determination that they would newer Milk another caw' sac fang as they , ived. That wan why they bad tett Cltttario. Apart front that, .rise settlere ,llratiklht' beth *dr god KI LI Pi EY PILLS ateso (;1� 4p nAcx,acrd� 4r lei g000R - ou yE< °87' '-Tzio PR and bad habits with them. In other , words, they tried to make climate flit agriculture instead of adjusting Meer agriculture to fit the climate. For a time nothing seemed to mat- ter and shoe -string financing was. plenty. Rains came, the 'crap detest- ed and that was ailthere was to it - They sent the money back East to buy binders and horses and then trac- tors. But times changed. The rains dist not come, but rust and' gragahoppers, and hail and frost did. It was a case of "awing 'high, swing low," and there was oensiderable of a thud as, she swung low. Then it was found that all these ready-made, hund-me-down methods of farming free here and' there were not good enough.; ,that the little, straight turned furrow that was good in a wet country was all wrong for a country that had a habit of go- ing dry on occasion; in fact that plowing at all in some places was detrimental, and as for the industr- ious habit of fall plowing—it ,just gave that much more scope for the ds- structive insects that lay their eggs in the loose soil in the fall or late summer. Some of this was discovered by the. old reliable trial and error meth- od; in many cases, a definite lead was given by the agricultural scien- tists who lied been working along- quietly longquietly onrust resistant wheats, soil moisture investigations, plant and an- imal diseases, and this and that. The staggering impact of this blow was due to the tremendous area 'if- f'ectede Of the 74,000,000 acres of Cultivated land in Canada 55,600,000 are in the prairie provinces; of the 40,000,000 areas of range or unimprov- ed pasture in Canada, 33,000,000 are in the prairies. Sixty per cent of this occupied farm and and was in the "drought" area, 31/2 per cent. of Manitoba's occupied land; leas than a third of Alberta and more than a third of Saskatchewan. It was just too' big a stake for Can- ada to ignore. It. hit every pocket. One does not wonder that the mail order houses stopped.sending out cat- alogues. The local storekeeper who supplied credit till . he himself was bankrupt, is ,the unsung hero of this" dark ,hour. By 1935, the effects of this .con, tinned jack of earning power in the West had so reacted on all Canada, that it was considered a national mat- ter, and when . an Act was brought into Parliament by the Bennett Gov- ernment that sought to study and re- habilitate Western agriculture, no one —East 'or West --Liberal or Conserv- ative, voted against it. It was Pres - tinted as a five-year plan. There was an appropriation of $750,000 for the first year and a million dollars a year set but in the Act to be spent in each of the next four years. The Bennett Government went out and the King Government came in but so well had this schemebeen received, so practi- cal was its purpose, that the Liberals went one better. They wiped out the five-year time limit and boosted the appropriation to two millions for 1937, and three and a half millions for 1938. It has 'become a settled policy and today this Act is just as permanent on the statutes of Canada as the Criminal Code. The only Iixn iting factor is the use that is made of it. The area wabich went under the P. F.R.A. in 1935 for study and reorgan- ization included some 88x/+ million acres ofjehich, more than 66- million was c esified as occupied. It in- cluded half -a -million people, nearly half the total`population•, and half tbe farm homes. But in these two years emergent conditions have been over- ocme, and a basis laid for a stabilized system of0 agriculture. "Now, Tommy, how do you know the world is round anti hangson noth- ing in the air?" asked the geography teacher. "flow do you prove it?" "I (don't have to prove it," replied Tomlmy. "I never said 'twas," • For two hours are had been a pest of the party. His imitations were terrible, ranging from George Arliss to a humming bird. In the far corner had been sitting the man with the screwed -up face. "What would you like to see me imitate now?" asked the bore. The man moved and spoke: "How about a ground hog that's seen ite shadow?" • The 'small boy was taking part bar Children's Day exercises. He' was only seven years old and recited se well that he was encored', "Well, Harry, and how did yon get on?" asked'this proud father wbeet he returned borne. "Why, I tbougbt I bad, done it alt right," replied Harry, "but they made me do it again." • A French mistress was instructing •a class of small ,people In the ele- eents of her language. One little boy, on' being asked to repeat a cer- tain sentepee, hesitated, and the teacher began 'helpfully : "Cess yeux. , The pupil's eye brightened. "Setts me," he answered tariumphantly. • 'X e Morning after the club dinner, the secretary was called up` on ,tbe telephone, "Ia in true that old Jfinmy' + m1Ah was at the dinner last might abne- lute'ly blotto?" "Yes," replied the secretary~., "Terrible. .,Amit v --was 1 there, toot"