The Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-02-27, Page 3t_
Canadian. Pulp
Saps Rocket
Publishers in Tree nations, cut
,off from other supplies, are de
pending on Canada for paper to . .
carry the story of , democracy's
.achievements;- -says- :James -Mee
Cook, Canadian Pres's staff • writ
GREATER THAN 'WHEAT
Commerci L��a
ere res avat�able iOttawa show-
ed that wood and 'paper a ports •
in._e.iq.40.linc_rA,ased..� er_ 100e-
,0.00,000 in. value to"'$348,000,-
;000. as. 'compared with 1999..
' Exports of .newsprint ,paper al-
one were valued at $151,000,004.,
at rpassing 'the largest agricul
titral item of ; export; wheat,:. which
was valued at .$120,000;000, u)i
$10,0 0000 from. -1939..
The widening market, for Can-
adian., weed products caused.' larg
ely byi; the loss of supplies 'from '
Scandinavian countries and' ad-
ditional . requirements in import-
ing nations, was "demonstrated
by the fact that -although the
Un:ted States: continued, to be•the
largest,` buyer its purchases. ac-
enunted for : only , 62 per cent., of
exports in ,1940 •as against 68
• per cent in 1939.
The Canadian' Paper and Pulp
• Association has announced that.
production of paper and pulp
products in 1940 was nearly 9,-
500,00.0, tons, an increase of 1,- ..
-_o. _ e.19,39
btl(1,00.0-..tans
MOST FIJLP TO U.S. '
e ': that
�i, '
The :. association stated:
1940pulp and paper exports were
Worth about' $225,000,000 an bi- •
crease of $75,000,000' ovee ehe
Previous year..:_ •. -
Over three-quarters' of wood-
pulp shipments. are made to the
United States. •.
S>i
orb Spaniel Still Champ
A repeater, My• Own Brucie,
who was . again chosen•best-of-
theishow' at annual Westminster
Kennel club dog show in Madison
Square ; Gardens, is :.shown. He
took, the same • honors • in last
year's show.
V,OIcE
o F' THS
5•
'THE FAMILY 'SKELETON
Ottawa, has started a .bone col-
lection. Bring out the f=ilea
skeleton.
—Toronto Telegram.,
TRY' • STICKING . TOGETHER
Farmers of Ciil'nada 'shave often
organized; • but their • difficulty
has always been to stay that way.
eaSt. Catharines Standard.
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• MUSSOLINI'S CHIN
We still think the Italians
'
should. not overlook the military
, possibilities of Mussol'ini's chin.
Remember what Samson did with
the- jawbone of to ass, -
• Toronto Saturday Night.
,FR10E ; OFPLES
We are wondering'Why a)iples`
• • 1' should be so• eatpe hive . in On-
tario. This 'home -minim fruit
has reached such a price that•ap-,
pies are po Ionger a• comped' or
with tropical or citrus fruit, etc., •I
which • are shipped 'in from great
.distances and on which additional
cost -is added for exchange. Since
the 'war there has been 'little, if
mix; export of . apples from One
time; and the Department of Ag::
ricalitire has been trying to as-
, -slat Brewers to sell their apples
by an advertising campaign to' eit-
courage the public to use more
apples. It• is going to be pretty
difficult , to convince the public ,
to do so when apples coat as •.much
as' tropical fruits. If tinder pre
sent conditons ipp
les cattiot bei
marketed at a.ower price, serious
et once
o or ro
-
wer9
will 'lave
stud should be given tb the prob-
quantities of apples left on their 4
hands this•,spring.,
Xi�p>
:.., .
9.yitriet egr',
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Ang
rtaro s'
1 atural, i,..
Resource. s.
G; C. TONER c,
Qnteiriio Federation of Anglers
(NO. 31)
;rag Rif -Hy l Vai..A s-
predatory •birds, hawks..and owl,
has been •Studied recently • by Dr
D" L.�Allen ofethe`Michigan, T -
Partment of 'Conservation. Much
o'if his findings are ' of interest
to people' in Ontario, for this• ".
,province is very like. , the Siete
• of. Michigan,. eta, . as climate
and soils are concerned. In this
article I' ain't going:to quote 'free
ly from Dr. Allen's ;findings.
We do know• that" life all :over
the ' earth . exists in roughly ' the
game pattern, •'althoughthe-spe-
ciee• differ from one• area' to ah -;•
other. •First .we have ,the plants
that turn the minerals of the
earth into living matter... These,
planta are used as food by huge
numbers of small animals . (and
fewer -large ones) 4n whose 'bod-'
tea the plant material is turned
Into animal tissue: These her'
bivores do not multiply' , indef-
initely and • destroy . their food
supply because their numbers are
held .in , check, at least ' in part, •
by other species adapted •to
ing:°uppn :flesh,, In every pail''
Of the , world ,these main types •
►.
of animals have: "grown up., up ,: tae..
gether• and bane developed mu
tual cheeks and balances to pre-
vent any one species from get=,
.ting_oat..gf hai}d-_...._w _L _.-
They' Do.Sood, Harm
We know perfectly . well that'
(some ,hawks and : owls' ,kill rab-
bits, pheasants; grouse and :other
gameanimals.. In Michigan
,vac
have beenvividlyimpressed with
the 'fact" that thegreatest mor-
tality among these genie 'Metres;
firom upredators;" occurs when
they .areyoung, and whenthey
are about equal Size to the. small
•
animas ' k..
'ores, habitually• prey during most
of the' year.. We also-. know.:that
then . is different in ' the ••food .
'habit of .the varius • snecies of .
carnivores.' . The, hawks differ
"widely in this respect: Iii gen
•eral the. larger, slow -flying; 'soar-
ing• species ,feed• - primarily upon
mead. ow "mice and' other . -small
rodents. `Ho ever, in' the spring
y
.the , may bring. young birds 'to
theenest to. feed their young and.
no. one. need be surprised ,t'o see
them. pick -up- a •rabbit: -occasion
ally. The proposition boils' down
to •this: ' If we are going to pro-
fit '.by 'Abe • immeasurable good
done. by these animals in 'protect-
ing , the .farmer's. 'crops; we are'
going. to ' have to. put• .'up with
some sof• the --things,: we- may. not
mucle we can regiment nature.
Jack Miner:
"A National
Benefactor
Kingsville Itiatuitaliet is Ae-
claimed by. Head of Canadian'
Travel bureau
•
• Jack Miner, famed Kingsville
• naturalist, was last week elected
president of the Essex County Tour-
ist Association at its annual meet-
. ,Ing in - Windsor.
BEAUTIFIOATION'•TJRGED
ch '
SAVE LEND' —
TO WIN
104 E.'
{lli' E E 1C—•Commentary on Current EveiltS •
cots •M
�Vln
Fade
r.
•
rtis� far s
kat:
.��•:ar Eas F
- u'Fhera ip a-gro vint belief 'n-
the, poesibiiityA•of• a world=wide
conflagration: involving an
of
Brita,aitn-
•tempte ..invasion,
timed :thrust t Suez. and
, Gibraltar and a Japanese thrust
at Singapore"—Prime." Minister
Mackenzie K�in'0• f~:,. f .:
,"The;'United States is- in the''
war,.' or' at •'least 'nearly*. In it,
and is preparing for
--Secretary' of-HC:e cim.erce--_.les=.'
H. Jones.
Non-political neilitary:.experts in,
Washington expressed •, last week
their cool opinion that actual .ln
vasion of Great Britain; now, . seem-
ed unlikely—chances 50=50` against
enstead,•they believed,• the•;Ger-
inane would hcrease,; their •opera=
tions iii the Mediterranean, in'ten '
sift' tlle''Wuar" oil British shipping,
concentrating:' -on the objective' •ot
"knocking .out Britain" without re-
sorting to invasion, before U. S.
lend-lease.`a•id could -becom.e...effec-
tive. _ •
"Let us see how mu we can
put into Essex County by .beautify-
ing it and forget for' the time being
what we can, get out. of It," Mr,-
Miner urged in accepting office. Ile
asked;for continued b• utifioation'
of highways and • farm properties
especially ;those bordering heavily
travelled . highway$. ' •
"PERFORM GREATEST 'WORK"
The 76 -year-old conservationist
• 'was publicly acclaimed ma a na-'.
tional benefactor by •D, Leo'Dolan, •
director of the Canadian Travef
.,_,.
Bureau, principal •speaker.
"I have .known .for ,many years
the value of the work you have
been doing," Mr. Dolan said.. "No.
man is better known and gone
more highly regarded than. Jack,
)Miner. I desire to pay you public
-tribute tonight for the work *filch
' you have done to. make Canada
knownthroughout the whole of
North America. You were at ,work
en this business o4, tourist promo=
• tion long before I was thought a '
and I consider your work in. con-'
servation to be among the great-
est performed anywhere ' on the
' globe!'
Grow . Carrots 1
A liberal planting. of carrots
eh'ould be• made in every garden
for not only is 'this crop easily
•g'r'own but they ace 'relished bye
everyone, and are rich in the vital-
mins • so essential •'to ' healthy
Sgrowth
in cti
dren.
Dominion,
eed•House, Georgetown, Ont.,
•
,. -
will tell, you, how to.grow "core-.
n..
tender a
wee
d
less
cattiotet
a t.
'
fiat from woody anfibre, Send- for
Nursery
,
their file. Seed: d Nursery Book
for 1941'-:- today. ' '
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Everything At Once
London military 'men; not quite
of'thesaiee..•inind,',_were' cpnaider-
ing the, possibility, of an attempteei
invasion of ' Britain' synchronized
with 'thrusts' ^'in tlie` Balkans, : at -
t--GS•bralta-:.
Mese move on' Singapore. They ex-
. petted •,that the 'Balkan 'and Gib-
• raltar campaigns might 'be tried
"'before: raid March. "
Squeeze Play on Greece "
Whether the British experts were
' right or.wrong;•events wouldshort-
ly bear -out, it was 'felt last week. °
B1tlex's :,drive:.; through . the Balk-'
ins toward Suez was 'gaining mo-
mentum—bis domination of.the en-
. ;tire peninstila: down' as- far as
Greece' and Turkey. by :"peaceful
. penetratiort;'. appeared to have be
come •complete, with the signing• of
tithe Turk -Bulgarian n•on.aggreeeion
pact,, and the jo,irney to Berlin of
Yugoslavia's' head men. His next
Immediate.; Aim ,'was ..'to.- smash
Greece, Ifoping thereby to eonsoii-
date;the Germen militaryd poeitien,
epd rescue the badly -pummeled
. Vegetate, before: the next •.phase 'of.
the. Battle, of th.o ltiediterraneen op
enedl
H•itIer's "Or.. Else :, .:'
In ' its ; preseeree fpr a . 4`quidJs
peace" last week between Greece
and •Italy, Germany. was said to'.
have. iveu. the • Greeks two. alter-
nativeO: 1. Submit,to• a quick peace .•
:with Italy, 2.,•'SSubmitto a, German
militarx occupation �f Greece be-,
' •x.
71014re Briiainv•°could •rush--reinforee-,
merits there' •frot'n' the North ASri- k
can;, fronts -Should -..the•- Nazis hot:
succeed in forcing the peace, -by
c{•acking Greek morale—they :would
,;bp faced with the prospect of mak- •
ing'a two -front. war (Greece Might
well become a batelegreqund for. the'
German and British' armed forces)
or 'backing 'down pritlr-se%itius toss
of •prestige in the Balkans.; '
Creeping Up'aen .Gibraltar' •
Preparatioris'for Hitter's. advance
• tern 4Medit• -
ranean stronghold, Gibraltar, were
ni.uch less.. In evidence last week;
although : every sort '.of • behind-
scenes work was doubtless being
done. before' he could :thrust in this'
`direction,, Iiitler': would have to
secure Petain"s permission to' allow..
:passage of .troops across''. France,
•Franco's• -co n s en t for Vassage
.through Spain. It: wbuld' be really'
something, : however; if he could
gain nossesS'ion of the French, fleet,
based at Toulon.
.
•Cdnfltct "At Any --Moment" -
. The . Far Eas tern situation wors-
ened appreciably last' week. The
asgan`of'the Soviet navy, Red. Fleet
declared the state of affairs` n•tbe
Pacific was 'growing more tense
day by day and that a conflict might'
• he. precipitated: "at any. moment "
The
?moving to the •south, massing heavy
• aval • concentrations around . Sale=
on: (French.. Indo-China), within
easy striking distance of Singapore
and the :Netherlands East Indies.'
'"The Anglo=American bloc,"; it con-
tinued, "Is • equally active, with the
Britieli, busily placing Singapore
on a war footing' while the British, •
American and Australians ate re-
ported . working out concrete de-
fence measures for the South Pac-
ific." .
Formosa . the Australian
Government issued extraordinary
_warnings of new, grave war stErgti
Japanese charged that the
landing of . Atistraliaii troops at
Singapore was a .belligerent 'act ,
Mustn't Touch.: Singapore
.Authoettativ-e--..infoi-niants-•rn- the
United States said last week that.
Japan was last testing how far she
•could go, niibble by nibble.. They be-
lieved that Japan did not want war
• with.. the United States; but that
in the event of her, .attacking Sings••.
--ra•pore, the Ani rlcan would be'
sur . ,to "go• into action, • and she
lfia : the'acSTt$?';•
lior04 ease -Lend! Convoys
.. Final ..enactment of the --"Britislie
.Aid" bill, now going through the
Senate,. was expected the first .of
the /month. As seen asthe measure • .
• was approved, President Roosevelt.
• was likely to make •an immediate
• request for $1:000,900,006iii approp•
riation .and cont ie$ authority to
build planes, ships, tanks, • 'guns
and munitions, much of lit to be
"leased lent" to Great, Britain for'
use in Europe, Africa apd the Far
East. ,It' the purposes of the, "L,eese
'Lend'• bill were to be achieved, ma-
terial readily available would. have ,
to be gut at Britain's disposal 'im-
mediately. The United States, ;then.
�i*as•certain either to•"lease-lend"
convoy` aid • to •.the' British in the
North Atlantic or directly enage
In convoy protection.
_ Hal._National Income •
• 'It waas.a'"shocked and atiamatic"
silence which greeted the close.'of
;••Finance . Minister's Ileley s speech
in the Reuse' of Commons last
Week on Canseleaew.ar wits. Never
before • had :• any . Canadian legis-
latiye. i e.a been asked to• approve
expenditure, ofsuck a•sum-$2,700; "
000.000 •for the coming fiscal year—
elmost two:thirde o. f• which- would
gp towards paying• for the war.
This colossal `outlay, Mr. Ilsley tri
timated'° represented, devoting' half
our:. national:ipcome.to war, and :oth
er governmental :.work ($225: fore;
Japan A .Stooge?'
Hitler might: be .using Japan to.
create a diversion in the Far" East
of 'sufficient . magnitude • to pre-
occupy the United States But -more
Plausible was the explanation that
Japan was seizing ]what ittnieated
•to be a golden . • opportunity to:
achieve her own purpose—domin-
ation. of Eastern Asia.
The. Far Eastern picture in more
details .Britain mined the' Strait of
Singapore to block the Main sea
•routes .,to Japan, Thailand, China
and Indo-China . . . the United'
States renewed its request to. Am- •
ericans ;in e China, French ,Indo•
hina and 'Japan to go home . .
e, phinese \reported 'Japan had
stationed', six divisions in •Canton,
Island,,
.__ :.en.,h,: _ ndo,China.
„ Ilainan Fri
and Spratlyf Islands, Tour 'd'ivisions
every man, woman and child in rife
Dominion). ':oTo carry out the war •
program;' he 'said, "will require
for many of us, drastic changee
;our mode of living and habits 0.4
life." Critics of the war effort conn-
tinued, to feel that expenditures) for .
m
governental .purposes. could be
much more substantially'cut. '
Coincidentally with the opening
Ote the sixth `.Session Of:•the 20tH'
Legislature; at Toronto,' tante 'the
forecast that Ontario's ', expends .•
• tures for the' coming fiscae year
would be incr.epsed by more than'
$1;00Q 000,000, due -'in 'great part to
the discontnuanee by the D;omi'it
ion Government of do ect-i°elie"f con-,
tributions to the provinces.' (Muni
cipalities' relief costs share„ for
1941-42 was expected ' to he advane-
ed efroin-- -20- to. -33 per--.cenit eof the i
total 33=66 with the provincial.'
'government).
anadian National
Railways Revenues
The gross revenues of the all-
inelusive 'Canadian National Rail-,
ways System for the week end-
ing February 14, 1941, were
$4,884;521
as compared with -w-•4,335,727
for the: correspond-
ing period of 1040, an'
increase of .----... 52$,.794'
• or 12.1%
fes„
•
'THE• FAMILY" • ,
(31O,000• Atleatc Monthly
Prizewinner). ,
-11y-Nine -Fiedor.ovs
•tis story is laaid in _China'.dur.
ing the "Japanese .invasion . in e
1937. The' Faintly is. White Rus-
sian— ; ex big; ' ex -great, ex -pros- -
pezou, s. • After: going • through
war , and ...revglution,•;,•-••,.eudur.ing._,
poverty ;a. $atix�ne and illness',
flood, fire, and evert . an '*earth-'
quake, there are five of them
';s y, et, .ny, Mother, and 't.
boards g ouse, -. ,e.. eco,,.
ttiert•�deors -, and their hearts.—
to thege
stranst' `collection of
"paying guests" `" ' ever gathered
'under Tone 'reef. ; You meet .a
Bessarabiah fortunteller,,.,.. an • ,
Englishwoman 'who •.hag taken to'
the bottle, a social climber, a titled
lady whose •,love..affeir is the talk
• and ' wonder of English-speaking
China, three, Russian ' nuns, an
menta. ou`�gl'iboy and a collec-
tion of hissing: and bowing Jap
/_
As -,the Family., widens ' its • • cir-
cle, , sharing .new •experiences , .rich'
in humor and feeling, :each mem=
ber, of the group. grows. stronger
emotionally, and . in :spirit ' until,
when war and . separation ' cloud
`their lives, t they'" •have• found' age
faith :that 'M staine&'-4hem'• When
they .need it` niosir `
• "The by Nina_
Fedoroia, ..Tor nte .... M .cClel-.
land : & Stewart•.';.:
Earl -.
Story.Recall
Episode of Huronia Re ; ed
By.. Author. of "The
plain Road" ,?
•Ontario has' a' share in bhe his-'
tory of 'French' Canada through
the atte'iript'•of Champlain to form '
a protectorate in t e--fittrd of-theLe
• Hurons (the. 'Georgian • Bay' dis..
strict) .Franklin. •Davey McDowell
author of -`The Champlain Road".'
pointed' :out in 'an address last
week to •the. Montreal. .W'otneti's
Club. The building 'of Fort Step •
Marie,'' near • Where Midland is:'
now, ;two years before- Ville Marie.
was. • founded; was a stroke • of
statecraft .on; the part of , Cham-
;plain• that ....approached ,,genius,
Mr. Mc.1 dwell . "declared. • Built
some _700• miles inland, the Mort `
was "intended`' 'us ;a`_base from
which the Hurons' eould invade.:
• the Iroquois 'country, , while, the
,
ham-,
Gerefailr.:;
Precaution. Lack '
Causes . Blindness
Aidressing ,a - recent• luncheon
meeting of, the Stratford Rotary
Club, Col. A. E. Baker,, ,Managing '
directed.' of the' Canadian Insti-'
tate of the Blind, Toronto, said
that. ,had 'proper . precaution and
care been taken half of the adult..
sightless in the country today.-,
would never have been blind; '
Tie ..speaker told his• listeners
there .are 11;900• 'blind persons•
registered , with' his organization,
30, of whom 'are more than 100
' years, Old, and added that the in=.
stitute - extends , its services to
person._ in_ 'Canadar ...
•e�ery� • blind
from the youngest to the •oldest. _
Bee Hive
0' " Syrup
•
French :and. Algonquian approacli-
•ed from another direction, catch- '
ing the Iroquois in a pincer move- '
meet. ' If the -sch me had 'suc-
ceeded it "would he led to a
French:empire from Acadia -% to
the - head ' of the ''Great `'Lakes; the.
*maker . maintained
IN LETTERS FROM PRIESTS
Mr.,, McDowell,telling of -.his re-
search preceding . the writing '•4;if
"The • Champlain.• Road", said
that . he had read' for his material '
the •Jesuit, Relations not as'
churel'r°•daetrina • but • as =ii;umait
documents' and a Pepys-like re
- cord of the adventure into Huron.
ia. Vivid descriptions were also .,. •
given . in • letters' from 'priests, eon
the •trail to Huronia. '
During the years spe'ht among •; ,
the Indians in Hui•onta Mr Me
Dowell' noted, • the Jesuit fathers:.,
had instituted certain , reforfiis in
the primitive : life of ' the people. • :
—They began -1 c first ;social
vice" work on the continent atilt" `'
attempted to teach a measure of
hygiene and. sanitation; Huronia '•
had
had 'the first "state ' triedieineye•
with the service' of a surgeon and e
:and ':free: •suplies. 'froth:lite phara.-
teacy as far, as they .existed The. M1
first experimental farm was at
Fort • Ste. Marie, to which. the
priests brought domestic ani
:mals, carrying them over '•nu-
znerous portages.' ,
les
.:.
• .One ton' of •-cider;-app s•_.elroP
• ped •' up and squeezed will yield„ i.
'.'140 i gallons of juice.
LIFE'S :LIKE THAT
By" 'Fr`e�l Neher
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"We• can't lied -the- army, fir, alike its liepti' cainauSlag"ed:
INST
RcHILL :.V
Retirement and Illness <V'
a, Mt
rvatives won
in.
•
..When., the Cense
102'44,• Churchill'sreturn tp the good
waces of the party became complete
ith•' his'.' being tendered the .post of
elua,,rieellor_ of ,the exchequer in the new
cahnnet bf -Stanley Baldwine served
,t, endo for five ,y-eat`s.•
M1
,
C
huicill,s
poli
tical careerappeared
eared
he retired to his hdniekin Kent,
end inl9'29and ,
to write and paint and to criticise the ftiinblings
of the men who had succeeded hini in exalted
offices of : public life.
at
; Always r stess and eager
ee
oox
e
•of
the
void, Churchill visitedthe
Vnited States. Dur-
ing
his/ stay to "the .States it : appeared that
Anterica Was delighted with him` ass he eras with
Aviaries,
In '1:932 the heac-.y' handl of illness
• struck Error: dati;n. Ile was stricken
with paratyphoid., But he managed
'to keep sthe Churchill- snli1e
• through
it 14
all. Soon again he was back 'chi his
feet are vigorous'and l.eeergetic as ever. .,
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