The Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-02-13, Page 7ramaamesed
Ma'DogS •
If il e 1 By 'Bombs
Capin e" toIn Orttain 500,-
006 ;Since War Broke Otit
• Since the . outbreak of, .war, It
was - •estima-ted last week, a, half,
million dog. 4n 'Great Britaian harts
-been•in ,bom"b raids of athdt
waw -,:accidents, or J1a.ve' been 41O-:atroyed on their Owners' orders.
STILL x3,,000,000 LEFT •
'lie Royal Society idr the Pre•
ventipn of. Cruelty.` to Animals • re -
reeled that,,it is, destroying 1.0;100
doge, a month, usually -at 'their'
'owners' request. Officials of the
society •said; they were ,seriously
perturbed •by'this' wastage,,; because
new homes :. for digs cantaot - be
found,. •tn iieaeetime, .however,':8e-'
500 doge a• month were destroyed.
on the average= chiefly eged'pete.
British dogjovers', fearful of see-.
int their pets suffer, ordered Oa
00 .:dogs 'destroyed . at the start'
• of the war., '
EVA,CUATI:ON• ACT
'Another. ° 100,000were destroyed:
when Germany started destructive
air I raids, and many •persons 'bad •
to evacuate -"t'>eir' homes- The can
inti toll in accidents and 'bombings, •
,plus the destruction .because of ra=
tiont'ng difficulties• ,or owners' being
• called for military service, was, put•
at 300000. . •
e There,, .are ;still an -estimated' 3,-
,
,, 000,000 dogs in Great 1lritain, '
x •'-
Saving Ontario's
Natural
Resources
BOMBS AT SEA
Gi•
fit
Two -di emy bombs are shown'
exploding, beside the 'aircraft
carrier Ark Royal in the Medi-
terranean. The Ark Royal . has
been announced sunk by both the
Italians and Germans. ' on several
occasions, but • still seems to be
able to weather enemy bombing
' attackse, • ,
VOICE
•OF''T`•H.E
PRESS
IvICTURES SILENT'
Well, anyway, some of those
roup '•pictures of° provincial pre= •
miens looked . pretty good.,,
• —Toronto .Telegram.'
BOTH -'ARE INEVITABLE: --"
. The.P difference:..,betweenx;.deatli,_
and 'taxes is that death doesn't,
get worse every time parliament.
meets.
-"-Brandon Sun.
HOPE SPRINGS ---r•
The ' Ottawa Journal ' submits 'r
that there are timesto' test Can-
adian btatest?ianship. There is
some hope in -the `tsugg'estion that.
some atesmanship is surviving.
St. Catharines Standard.
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THE PLACE TO '. HEAR - THEM
• .At a_ recent'educationab'con-
t b ference one of the, speakers said
thatA he ' approved of telling fairy
tales to children. ,Let the young -
Stirs attend political Meetings,
then, and • listen to •dome of 'them.
Guelph, Mercury.
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000R. WOULD SUFFER
If the ' Itepburn-Aberhart soft-
money, crusade • were to succeed,;
not only, would all liked- .invest•''•
merits like life insurance suffer
st drop• in value, but .every' poor.
family in the nation would find
• itself'a" in" far more than its
P y g
just share of the cost of war.
'• =••Van'cauver Stith
r•
.,.�maWnv,
G. fv, Toner.
Qat-ario-=•Federatioii rf--A tilers
(NQ, 28) .•.
GAME BIRDS FEWER
In ihst . week's. ,column I .told
. Jiow a treaty was .signed between
• the United States and Canadafor
the protection of migratory . birds:
For 'awhile :after thie. became law
naturalists thought that the birds.,
were. amply ,, protected. 'Spring
$hooting ' had •b,eep stopped, close
seasons.' were lengthened_ ;and.: bag;;
limits lowered song • birds
and insectivorous' birds werero- '
leered 'at` all times and' 1.'believe
they have increased somewhat -
with -,this' protction. The, .game.
birds, however, did not seem- to
respond, the decline in, their' num-
biers continuing.. '' • •
T s .decline was due to ii -num-
ber of 'causes Many, more hunt-'
ers were in the T ifiarshes each •fall..
The development; of. the motorg.
car- enabled' .city dwellers to reach,
many areas that, were formerly.
almost 'sanctuaries. Last'' year,
in_the United State's, over 1,000,.
000' Minters, brought • duck stamps
to, place on their licenses as re-
quired by slaw. This . great army
'of hunters, are taking •morethan
he - an —. increa-se.each. :year,
-
A
N'umbee of Causes
:Another cause for the decline
came 'from' the spread of `agri
culttiu+e across•the prairies. Many
nesting grounds :were' • destroyed
bythe' plough Cr by ''the'• tramp-
ling 'of cattle 'Drainage 'schemes,
throughout' both the. Canadian
and American . west, helped, 'cut
down ',the breeding grounds. •
' About •:1030 a series of drought'
years' across, the prairies' helped.
to dry -up many lakes Viand sloughs
-where duck` forin'erly bred in
great nurmbers: The , birds: had
few 'places. left where they could. •
rear their young, undisturbed. Irl-
or:eased • ., nuinbers • di hunters,
re an . roug
were the.•three great causes of
the' decline in iiumb.e s of tire
ducks. -
Some Ducks Near., -E, tinction
The situation in the early.; thir-
ties became 'acute and dome 'kind
of -ducks were, on the verge of ex-
' tinction: Again the biologists,
stepped.in.•and; helped draw up' a`
program' that it was hoped would
save the birds. The seasons were
shortened;,baiting and, live decoys'
were •forbidden''andr most import-
ant of all, grat areas were set
aside asrefuges on the' migration
'routes. • Sanctuaries were estab-
lished .in the *inter homes ;of the
birds. There is still some ddub
as, to --the- effectiveness of -these—
meaures which 'are . still .inopera-
. nsl_ , .t be that -an en'
tirely closedseason foie a period
of years ;will be needed. if the
remnants of • •the ducks are to be.
' . keyed. r '1'j t
Caves Swallow'
Plane Factories
Swiss .Mountains House War
Industry. Safe From Air Raid-
ers
',The existence of aircraft factor--
les
actor=les in, Switzerland capable of 'dis-
aplienring into the sides, of moun-
tains during ....bombing ..raids .aud"
•reappearing • aft�•er, danger passes
Wee revealed 'last week hi an inter=
View by ,Aatoine Gasda;' Swiss
yentor . •
Mr. Gazda, who is a director of
Aire Oerlikon 'Machine-Toolworks•
of Switzerland;. makerV of the Oer•-
likon; rapid-fire cannon which has'
been installed in many Europpean
planes, said the disappearing 'fac•
' tortes were in the region of Lake
Lucerne. Several have been' hiiiit. •
-in 'the • lad. -•tsdo- years" for the Pi1-
atus • Swiss Aircraft Co,,_:..which.,.
his buiidfng both'. the Mersserschniitt
109 and'the French Morane purspit
finder 'license for the Swiss Air
Force, ' . •
ROIL 'BACKWARDS ON RAILS
The raid-proof,faetories, Mr, Gaz-
''da said, . consisted of* sheds 250
''by 82, feet built to.. will backward
and forward 'on ' six • iron. rails. In '
tithe' of raide, •'he • eyplained, • the
sheds rolled into Caverns like rani -
road tunnels excavated .'in • moun-
tain sides,
'• The fronts Of the sheds ,facing'
outward.. Were. armoNplated to pro-
' tett them from bombs, M'. Gazd'a
related. The sheds are Alloyed '11. -
all eleetric engine installed inside.
The Swiss Inventor .holds patents
On the• 'system as Well as for ;air- '
"•craft•' armaiiients, inclu:tling ' an •
automated Wing -tip gun which Pares ' •
a constantly` widening circniar pat.
teen Of rnaotiine-gun bullets in emit -
bat to; cover • an area on the sides .
of a pursuit inane 'carr'ing'fixed•
•
y g
w,irlg guns for ' offensive purposeAi.-
. Col. E essner•, president of the
Aero, Club of Sivitzerland, 'aided '
in `the . con,atructaon of the raid- 1-
.
a...lie.. +dfst f ctoi aes. .m
•
1,4 dd of l'Iazpl , .American Side,, of Now ,lta nbow Brei
emb e.. s r "the::< - • . -
of Niagara Falls Bridge •Comm,isstou and trio Niagara
'Frontier •State Park' Commstudying replica pission are stud . a one -ton licea of tit,'r
..
formal neoclassic• structures'':which will sweep in two' curves :across the•
plaza approach at the American terminal of the" new Rainbow Bridge:,'
The plaster model, of the .plaza, built to scale to reproduce archi-
tecture and''' sculpture planned' for the American approach, was;:,fash-
i'oned.'In'the . sculpture, workshop of the: New '.York 'City- WPA"Project.
'THE; W A.12 - W E E. K- (..ominentar • n Current Events
T L QF _.BRIT
•
- CIIN
- "There are • many indications
that, within a very.ahort while,
the enemy will make a tee. -
• mendous effort to destroy the .
British ,Commonwealth -,'by a •
series' . »f.' smashing:. blows of
unprecedented s e v e' r° i t y.."— ••
Prime .Minister Mackenzie'
...King.
-- "When Cie. -hone' cordes,:• •we_-. ,
will '•' strike decisively
• whoever "believes, they will be
able . to help .England must
know that in any case every •
ship +with or without, convoy
• that comes to..t'heir, help will
• be torpedoed."-Reichsfuehrer
Adolf; Hitler.. ' •
bn a .speech last week celebrat- `
ing "the eighth.'anniversary of his •
rise to power,' Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler assured the German people
that every, possibility ofIAmerican.
.intervention fo save Britain .' had
been foreseen and that its frustra-
tion was certain. "There'"will •be
victory within the year," jh•e preen-
teed.
romiced.
• ea or • it :-ower
How . Germany expect.ed to win
the .eight -month-old Battle .of Bri-
tain, was still 'a matter for specu-
;laion. Did Hitler hope to ttuai the
trick•by al?•power?•or.sea'power?
His ' anniversary'' speech' 'appeared'
to stress German tJ b'oate, as the
prime• Weapon .of Nazi • warfare; the
air force as secondary.
Ih any; event, n'e.utrel military ex
pe•rts last week were virtually all
agreed that both- would •be used•
in attempting to deliver a knockout'
blow to England, in the, eery near'
future. Invasion appealed inevit-
able, either with or without,. pro-.
liminary "aofteni'ng-np," unle•ss. Hit=
Ier made a. _ last-minute: decision
�thatthe "task was too :big for' him.
• • British Are Ready •'
A gloomy pieture,' that: "Time"
magazine, .1'nbruary,• 3,: was a bit
more optimistic. "No British ,Arley
even' • in °tike first world vvar-••has
even beenso (4,000,000 men un-'
der. arm's); '.none- has ever `had so'•
much practice for such a bitter ,.
defensive job. The J#ritis'h expect
' that the Germans:May *succeed
.:establishing 'a few heach-heads.,: If •
•they do, the 'defence counts en.'
(1) the Navy to,cutoff water -borne
suppIy; (2), the .R, 'A. i'':', to resist
airborne- supply .and reinforce-.
ments as Well •as'attacks from their
air armies. totalling 18;009 pieties;
.(3). the Army to crush .the. my ad-
e.rs. on 'tend."
Diversion To Ther, South •'
the, Canadian experton.xnilitary
strategy,. W. R. .Plewaran,' wrote
last week that Germany' was hav-•
ing -to divert so' manyfirst-line
planes to the southern front to
Italy's aid; that the: late' winter
or early,.spring attack prepared
.against. Britain could not helpr but.
be• weakened appreciably,or Poet: -
potted
ost=pone.. for soma t%nee.
To a great extent, the timing ot. .
lie 'Nazi invasion 'attempt would
five to be linked with the course
of events. "In, the Aieiite'rraneans
and in :the Balkans" Last week Hit-
'; ler,.could be seen trying to.b:row-
•a -beat 'France"''into allowing him
• trodp passage through the French,'
LIFE'S4LIKE TI '
Fred Neher
.,,•,�...-:<'-'.He "only,: -gave :mr'.-oBfa•-atraw °wtitk' �Pr.�_oe=eFeam _sorra `�"'ir,
•
colony of Tunisia, se that he cduld
reach Bengazi before' the Brafish
iced prevent, their gaining eontrol
of the whole of eastern. Africa. To•
Bulgaria, • Ger/nailY wee applying
.the screws afresh, demanding, a•
right-of-way through ,that country
�-to aei a Saiou#ka•�.an-d''outtiank the
Grfleks. 1 . • • ,
Men, Wolves Fight
For.OurReindeer
unceas nq Contest la Urged'
In • Northiand Retvteen Man
And. i9east, of Pray ,For Arc-
tic Animals
For years men and wolves
have been fighting an Arctic
battle ah the course of a Gds'-'`
ernment scheme, to provide Es.
kimos' with' reindeer herds. and.
'the fight •is still going on,
, Everett 'Hogan; Assistant 'fore- :
man at. the Federal 'Government+.
-reindeer reserve near AAkiavik in
the Northwest Territories for the.;
past three 'years, . said, recently
the wolves constantly tailedA the
Government herd • on:. . its -trek
from Alaska. Patiently, day and
.night;,' they, watched° for oppor- '
tunities to .'strike, down 'a deer.'
WATCH NEVER' RELAXES ' .
Wolves•are..the.,niain treason or
the •.24-hour watch kept on the,
reindeer .by the -fens Canadian•
employes and their Eskimo. and
Lapp helpers, . The. reindeer drive
from Alaska started in 1929' and
was completed ' in, 1935; when the.
round -up •showed 2,960 .;on the
Canadian. reserve. In 1940 there
were ".6,635 anima-ls.. •
Since 1929 the deer have never
been out: of sight of their guar-
dians,, even when huddled together
in screaming.' blizzards ,at 50 be.-
levy
e-low zero On , such . nights, said
Mr.o ••w.: „ -'`
Hogan, the- wolves• would
choose to strike.
• There now are 'three - Herds,
the maingroup. on 'the `eastern ..
channel of the Mackenzie :River,
No. 1 native herd on .the Ander,
son River; and No.'2 herd.•'near.,
Horton River. On each herd -the
same .increasing watch is kept.
`Beer' Barre. Polka'
War's Bggeot"I-lit
"$oath of the Bprdeir Rune.
A' Close Second in. England's'
9
•Song-HitParade
Bigggeat`.song 'hit of this war ;is
the "Deer Barrel • Polka.",
, Canadian soldiers sang it when
they 'debarked in ;England.",Ass-^.
tralian and New Zealand - soldiers .
sang :it when they filed ' `down the
gangplank in. the' Middle Nast, .Eng_
gang. they:trud fish soldi,e rs� s g g
ed- • throii.gh • the . mud of France
.__
-,And shelter -dwellers 7 in London-
.__. -sing jt while_ the _-.homtbs_; whistle
down about them.
Bunning a close second on Ent
land's "hit Parade" is the American
best-seller ."South of the, Border;'
which, .incidentally, •..was . written
by England's 'best known song-
writing •team•; Jimmy Kennedy and
Michael Carr. it has sold nearly a
half -million copies,
' Third • place probably goes; to
"Wish ;Me iuek as You Wave Me.,
' Geed -Bye," . •' with which Gracie
-theelnediene,__
sang, her way : into' the hearts. of
the . British • army; navy and air
fprce. ' Some :',450,0,00 copies' have
been sold.
NOTHING*LIKE TIPPERARY
Carr, working`- alone .wrote the
spng that., is en fourth place;
"Somewhere in' j .France.," whose
• popularity, waned after the British
retreat to Dunkirk.••
But none of the songs of this
. war ap-pi'oaelies-the•'-sale's of,:,Eng
•land's hits of 'the Great War. For
instance;""It's a Long -Way to Tip-
perary," . sold 5,000,000 :copies,
"Roses. of Picardy," 3,.000;000 'and
"•Keep. the ._Home_Fares Burning,"
inure than .1,000,000 copies:
hope fd'r better. days ahead are
finding a ready market. One pub-
lisher conuniassioeed •I'rving Bertin,,•:,
to write . a song expressing this
thought. Berlin produced "It's a
Lovely Day Tomorrow,". which Sold,,
100,000;:'; copies::
Others that have sold. .Well in-
clude "Itae a Hap: Hap Happy Day,'
and "We'll Go •Smiling Along.','
'Poet's. Licence .}
Years ago at a 'dinner, Robert
W. Service• heard a story of. the
Yukon which gave him an idea
for a poem. In a bank ledger.
Ire ,saw a name which struck him
as suitable for .his 'principal char-
acter, so. he Wrote, about-'re"Sar'
McGee from Tennessee," who
was " always cold, but the -Tana-
of gold .seemed •to hold; him like
a. spell," and 'told in verse• how,
at his cremation, Sam;. admitted
that he was`.eomfortably warns at.
last.. Through •this poem the dr
iginal Sam 'McGee became fa-
mous in the Yukon, althouigh he
was raining copper instead ' of
• gold, and came from Ontario in-
stead of Tennessee. He died re-
cently, .but was not cremated.
•
250',000 Viewed •
Quints in 1940
Dr. A. R. • Dafoe,' physician to '
the Dionne quintuplets, •announc-
ed that during 104-0 -approximate--
.
ly 2.50,000 personsvisited, the Da
foe Hospital at Callanderto` see
the five little girls, now ix'4,'years
old:
Dr. Defoe said that the number
of American visitors • declined
from previous years but that the
number . of ` Canadian visitors-
• showed an i'nerease. Of -the total
last year, 25 per cent of the visi-
tors were `from the United :States
and 75 per • cent. were from -Can-,
ada.' ordinarily, he said, the per-
centages were the opposite.
Some Troops Wear
�-
Old-- Pink Garters -,
• Canada's ' hockey -playing •solr'
. diers , ' •inthe . Canadian:Corps
••. leagues in• England' hold up their
stockings with swanky pink gar-
ters . that once, belan: ed, o wo-
men's girdles.
Oscar. Pearson of. Toronto .is
responsible. He 'runs the leagues
for the 'troops .on •behalf 'of the
11.
Y.X.C,A.• and 'found' hockey
stocking garters could •• not 'be'
bought in England:
•
So Oscar obtained dozens of
wornen's 'girdles, cut off the gar-
ter straps and seined; them on
•
cloth --belts. The; • players 'say • the
"girdle. 'garter" is, a "nifty:"
•
Modern `Fauntlero '
Keep
Can. • Lon
.g Curls
Ivan Barzela. •''Heiderich. can
keepliis, long golden curls
The 33 -year-old Marietta, Ok-
la., farmer• who feared 'he would'
lose his• long -cherished' tresses to;.
the United States . army was re-
jected•, by an `induction • board,
which decided the greater useful-
ness: lay in his 'present occupa-
tion.
ccupation..
"When
said, explaining his 'devotion to
his( shoulder -length, hair, "I had.
beautiful Curls and my mother
wouldn't cut them." .
.THIS.,.CifitIOU.S. WORLD.
By' William
-Ferguson
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Do PARACHUTE
HAVE A, HALE'
.11:1 THE 'CE7V7t-,;�
.ANSWER: Without a holehi the canopy of -a parachute, the com
pressed . air would be forced to escape from the edges, thereby
causing the passenger to awing back and forth ljke a pendulum.
" ' NEXT: Where do carrots get their "name? • '
WINSTON CHURCHILL.IV
Gallipoli aril Disaster
•
Outbreak of . the first wooed war ''rn -'
• 1914 found Churchill,.e-
r ady for the
finish fight with the new and,pbwerful
Gerniai y nary. $lit the war\ brought,
:too, iie•.first great disaster •in ' Church
ill's career the Galli ii earn i•
•i.
thagingter :of the 1918 Gallipoli camp i
�,. ,. ,,. i? . campaign,
Churchill u .:.. • , ,
n�ustiy•a as made the scapegoat when,
it ended in.has • . .. ,....
g , atly failure, due largely to ancorrr .
,pe. ent generals and (disunion at hong Churchill•
was forced to resign his officer
ya
But the irrepressible e Churehill could not long
be kept "down. He bounded back into pulilic'
office. ,in 1917 as 'minister of lnuniticns. . In
.1918 he was elevated to the position of 'sette-
• titry of State for war.
itoeftaVati
The post-wrtr collapse of the Coal- -
ifioYi , government. •
of DavedLloyd
George swePtC Churchill from offite,
when he Was• defeated for re-election •
147"a Prohibitionist After two defeats
Churchill found himself inclined to his
old party -�. a 'Dory again. .. -
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