The Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-04-11, Page 7• e
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Caribou Come
• Farther South ,
Barren Ground Type.Most
hliatelettelaa„,efeAllektate Been .
' Seen in Greater Abundance
This Winter
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•Uausually large Migrations 'of
e , barren ground caribou are reported
by the Indians hiring in the !vicin-
ity of Nelson House, Manitoba, a
remote trading post anout 400. althea
.nerth Of Winnipeg- ' The caribou
came farther south this year, with
the result that the 'ethane secured
an atnele huaply of meet and. are
• better oft than they' have been to,.
-
igemene ,years. The Wiens, who dee .
dt'pend.,:eitr the -fur resources of the
• country . for tivelihOod; disc? re-
, Port :a better than 'useal ear .catch
'Nettle the Priceeremaining tair. •
, • • ,
Tne:narreee ground caribou the
• mos! numerous °fall eariboe, range
. in summer over the barren lands of '
•• theNorthwest. 'Territories, and nil -
grate south ,for the *niter. These
animals are now rare or missing. ,
from much of their forrher range
along the Arctic coast. In some
cases this shifting of range is caus-
ed • by northern development and in
others by the destruction of
win-
ter forage of lichens by fire. Until
a few years ago it was impassible
to get a very accurate idea Of the
actual range Or numbers of the eari-
bon as they Wandered, over. :wide
'areas', •but with the large number
of 'permanent white residents now
• in the North and airplanes passing
over much of the region in summer
and winter RIs possible to make •
fairly dependable estimates, which
place the number of barren ground
caribou at eboet three million. •
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High Commissioner
FromAustralia
Austratin's first high cominis-
tioner to Canada, Major-General
Sir William GlasgoW is pictured
here as he arrived in Ottawa to
assume his new duties.
Rural Pupils
Lack lipnefits :
• Most Attending One -Room
•Buildings in Ontario; Equip-
.
ment• Scant
•
The ayeeage size of rural schools
for 186143 boys and girls in rural ' •
districts of Ontarie .is one room,.
while 186,408 students in public
• schools in cities have buildings of
26 rooms on the average, a study of
educational opporttmitimi by M. A.
Catinibell, secretary of the Ontario
Trustees' and Ratepayers' Associa-
• tion, retreats. '
His • findings• also show that
seje. •the average woman teacher in the
. country' school gets $675 a year; in
the city school, $1,546. Rural
schools in Ontario have a total of
7,229 teachers, of whom 69 have
university degrees, while city '
•,scheols have 6,045 teachers, of
• whom 490 hold university degrees.
DIFFERENCE IN OPPORTUNITY
The average assessment per class
room in the country schools Is $121-
919. While the City classroom as-
sessment is $359,169. While 2,506
country children leave school when
they reach 14 years of age, only 39
ofthe city children • retire from
school at that age. '
Canada Has More
•Cattle and Poultry
eir Slight Decline In Number of• •
• Sheep Registered However
During 1e39
The Dominion Bureau of Statis-
;;N:et tics reports the *number of cattle
on Cana an arms on @cern er
1939, totalled 8,24,100, an increase
of 1.6 per cent. over 8,091,000. on the
same date the previous year.
• The number of 'milk Cows was 3,-
933,300 compered with 3,961,300 and
• of other cattle 4,290.806 cite:neared
• with 4,129,300?
, A slight deciene was shown in. the
number of sheep, the total being
2,60,00n compared with 2,671,600
•The Allien begen' fighting With.
their glove/eon on the economic
front— as the war with -Germany
•entered its eighth m‘onth The dech "
Ilion taken by the French and Brit-
hiense their economic and naval:
' superiority over Germany' in"an At -
'tempt to strangle the Reich, end
the Western Front stalemate -a4
recover .the initiative in the Ware
. carried the Conflict into a new
:ahase and:opened up possibilities
• of wan in the, north, in thee Balkans•
and in the Near. East. :
NEW, STRATEGY '
• Prime Minister Chamberlain's de-
claration that nhencefOrtli tne
Would wage eeonornie war to the et.
• most preceded tightening up of the
. blockade to ' pinch Germany where
• -it would null most -- interfering
with lid; supplies of ironore from
Scandinavia and edible fats from
• the Balkans. In this most important
action Britain was seen opposed by
the neutral . nations, chiefly the
_Scandinavian countries. (Sweden
• warned that any atfempt to seize
German iron ore shins in Norwege
fan waters would find the .Reich
• hitting back with a counter -block-
ade against the Allies). But the
Suprerne Allied War Cciancil decid-
ed that it preferredto run
• the reels of losing friends among
neutral "countries than to sacrifice
a -million liientryina to blast a ;path
••through the German" Westwafl. The
•strategy•adopted was to use econ-
• omic strength and sesPower ie,such
a way. as to squeeze Hitler into a
corner, from Which he would have
no choice but to try to fight his Wey-
.
• .
WAR. WITH RUSSIA?.
• ,„The fear of apprea.ching war with
11,11$08,' (as Well as with Germany)
•*hilted somewhat last week whet'
the affair 'of the seizure of,Ressian
vessels in the Pacific was soft -ped, •
Ailed; when rumors Of a new Russo-
•' Biltish trade rapprocheinent flew,
, anmit; had When -Spviet Premier •
• ;31olateiff proclaimed Ittssia's desire
te "maintain our neutrality and to'
refrain from any perticip-eion in
the war". At the semi?, tine. e,e4sia
denied 'intention to a -rest her lost
province of Bessarabia froth Ram-
• ante by war. . •
• THE WAR WEEK
Shortly after L. S. Underseeres
• tary of Seats Sumner Welles eerie- °
ed beak in Washington, 'President
• Raosevelt declared !he. "saw scant
hope for peace" in Europe at the
• present time. Germany officially.
charged: during 'tne •sante..Week,
that the United States policy' had,
had a big part in causing the war,
citing contents of documents seized:
Inthe , Palish foreign office arch-
, At home in Canada; publication
of the seldiees' vote results showed
that the election standing in no
• constituency was affected .. Pre-
.mierHepburn ef,pntailo 'declared
"tie complete solidarity" of his gev-
ernment;r1diculing reports of his
early.resigeation ... provincial by- •
elections Were postponed for the
• time being ... Rumored during the
week wereAppOintment to the Sen. •
ate of• Miss Agnes Maephall, defeat-
ed U. F. 0. - Labor candidate, at
some date in the future; signature' .
soon of the ',Great Lakes -St. Law-
rence waterway treaty with the
U. S.
•
• Says Plowing '
Best Exercise
•
•
Indiana "U" Expert Heide It
• Finest For Feet and Legs
Plowing, says Dr. Russel Jones
• of Indiana University School of '
Medicine, is "perfect exercise" for
feet and legs.: •
Be also advanced the theory
that, public speakers "shoold• sit
while • they speak; it certainly
wouldn't hurt their ideas and
would do their feet a lot of good."
DESIGNED FOR WALKING
Dr. Jones said in plowing, un-
even finrows tend to spread the
foot in all directiens. •
• The Indianian alSo, declared
that people "stand up. too much.
• The foot virs,.4 designed for walk-
ing, notistanding," he explained'.
About the only solutien-for foot
trouble is "shoes that fit," Dr.
Jones concludedi adding that per-
sons with aching feet should go
to bed and rest their feet, just as
• they would go to bed with a bad
cold. •
Ther Majesties After TrotaitiOnai M CerenPV
King George. and Queen Elizabeth are -shown .bidding good by to the clergy at' Westminster Abbey after
takin.g. pal$ .in the .traditional .Maundy ceremony in symbol of .the King's. •humility before •God. The royal
conple,at. high noon, on . March 24, stood . with 44 aged men And, 44 aged women while the King handed them,
pouches Containing. 44 pence each, in '-speOlallY minted silver coins—the 44matching his age. The ceremony
dates back 600 years in which the King was Obliged to wash the feet 'of the most wretched of his subjects
This
'This part of the ceremony, however, was abanchmed by King James • II. • • • ,•
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anything goes wrong • in your
..home. • , •,
•• Here, •also is valuable informa-
tion on hoy..? to. repair and keep in
working ord* ail of .the most
• common .of household applieeces,
from sewing machines and 'food
mixtures to butglar alarms. And
a complete picture is given of
your heating system, water sup-
ply, refrigeration and , air-condi-
tioning units, and electric power.
An .exeellent gift •for Father;
or t hat inechanically-ininded
• housewife! •
' "Simplified Household Meclian-
ics" . , . by A. Frederick Collins
••• • Toronto: Ryerson Press, 299
•Queen St. West, . . $3.00.
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Metes Fashions
Conservative •
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• Comfort and Quality Are Also
Essentials in Spring Mode
• Comfort, consercatiele and qual-
ity May be said to be the three es-
sentials most desired by men in
• thenesuits and topcoats this spring
e For -the first time in sortie years,
Americanfashion is coming into
its own. With 'Europe at war and
with its mills add manufacturing
• houses operating under wartime:
conditions, the A.merican fashion
originator has a great opportunity
• of producing .and popularizing his
own merchandise.
MORE ROUGH MATERIALS
Results of fhis condition are seen
in the decline o the English infle-
ence on men's Alothes. This spring,
suite are cut with wide shoulders,
lots.of arm room and trousers built
to wear wetland fit easily.
There is an upturn in the' use of
rough materials. Tweeds and shot -
lands that were seen in the country
and at sports events are now com-
ing into their own for office wear
and business use.
Ontario Boy 9, •1
Aspires To Opera
Newtonbrook • Lad Startles
• Music Critics With His Voice
'and Retentive Musical Mem-
ory
Bobby • Connor, nine-year-old
boy tenor, does not consider Atha -
self a child prOdigy but bee the
sante ambition as Eddie Johnsdn
of Guelph—to' sing in the Metroe
politan Opera.
' The' Newtenbreoh (Ont.) bey
has startled musie critics with his
voice' and retentive musicalmem-
ory. He sang over a Toronto radio
station when only to years old
and readily picks' up every rnusi-
cal instrument that, comes within
his reach. 'On his mother's piano
he plays classical selections by ear
• and his teachers have not yet
attempted to have hitn• read music
because his memory is so retentive
that he an reproduce any selec-
tion he has heard two or three
4.$
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NT111110
UTDOORS
•BY: VIC BAKER
CANADA ATTRACTS ANGLERS
Noyi• that Spring is here, dis-
• ciples .of Issac Walton everywhere
• are regarding their fishing tackle
• with contemplative eye and enter-.
• tabling vague ideas ,otwliere to go
for their first 1940 fishing expeih-
• tion. "With thisin mind, the Fish
and Game 'Department' of the Can-
adian National Railways have for
the past few months been amassing
information concerning the' better,
localities in Canada the sportsman
can visit and be bringing up -td -date.
particulars respecting the fishing
and hunting regulations as apply
• in the Various Provinces ,of the De -
minion" stated Ernie G. Poole, Fish
and Game Representative of, the
• company. "This information is con-
tained in the 1940 edition • of the
booklet 'Hunting, Fishing and Can-
• oe Trips in Canada' which will be
failed as accurate and co:tplete as
• any publication of this nature can
be" he said. ; • .
• NEW FISHING LAKES
la addition to the regular waters
7' for game fishing from boast to
coast, new fishing lakes have been
•diseovered and opened to sports-
• men; new waters have beenplant-
ed with genie fish and in Mane
ways the fishermen's map has been
roiled back, providing an empire of
fishing grounds far the men or wo-
man who seeks real sport with rod
and line.
In these unspoiled waters'from
• the Atlantic to the Pacific the ang-
ler will find unexcelled Sport for
many varieties of game flih; said
iMr. Poole, for there is in Canada a
species of fish to suit the taste of•
every class of angler. All t‘hese spe-
cies are not found in the same' wat-
ers, nor even in the same province,
but etich has its habitat somewhere
in Canada.
Gardening 5 1U
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Old oal4ciencrs spread out the
garden fresh vegetable season by
taking advantage of new, later
and earlier varieties.•
Corn is 0 typical etampie.
• one time it was only possible to
get one variety of :Golden Ban-
tam. Cobs were short and the see
-
soh also. Now there are offered'
three • or four different Bantam
types — some extra early, some
tegular season, some late. Cobs
hat4 been lengthened, kernels
made bigger. One can enjoy the
finest table corn for over a month
instead of but a week or two as
.in the old.days.
• Impatient Beginners .
• The beginner is inclined to rush
the • -season. It will not • hurt to
plant peas, spinach, lettuce or rad-
• ish, just as soon as ,ground is
•
• •
• . .
ready, or evVeet, peas and flowers
which •naturally seed themselves.•
'
For the medium, • hardy type of
plant, however, there-. is' no ad'
vantage whatever in sowing. too
• soon: There is little growth in any
nave with the. . really turns
warm. • •.•
Gardeners are advised to' divide;
their seed into at leadt three
parts, sowing a third as soon as
as
weather -permits; a. third a little
later, and the balance at the eery:
• toil -end of the. planting season. In
ttis way. if -frost does :cut down
the first •batch there .will be more
plants corning on :and the season
, will be lengthened by the last •
pat Of the garden sown., ••
1. : . Rock Gardens, • •
In recent years the reek garde
• en has' become so popadae that
..epeople .are• going out of their . way
to inake an excuse fer.. one.. They
will build their lawns up On two
different
different levels with. a roek gard7
..en in between. ,
•• ' These gardens ere made •to re-
• miniature' alpine .range4
and in them alpine . flowers are
• grown. These are usually tiny,
• short, sprawly things, that -require
little, moisture during =St .of. the'
year. They •are specially •listed in
the better 'seed catalogues. • To.
hold the s'haeplye sloping soil„ fahe
• siee.eocks of the roughest possible
• neture, preferably. weather-beaten,
boulders, are , buried.. to About
two-thirds their depth irregularly
throughout the Slope.. Good pock-
.ets. of sandy soil are arranged • be-
tween the rocks. The flowers. find
• a foethold here, and trail over the
boulders.
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•
French Army
Recruits Dogs
The French: army has opened a
• recruiting station for army dogs.
Dogs Will be. accepted either as
,gifts Or on loan for the duration 'Of
the war. They kill be concentrated
at a training camp, where they will
receive special instruction, which,
in a few'weekse will turn ehem into
specialists for patrol worn,. Red
dross. dispatch cerriers• • oe for ob-
servation duty: •
ALSATLeNS; . SHEEP 'DOGS ,
.Alsatian police and sheep dogs
are prefereedbecause they Have a
• natural camouflage Color and bee;
•cause their natural talents approach
• nearest to those •of wolves.
• During: training each dog is also •
bandied by only one seldier, who la-
ter controls hiin at the front.
,THEY CARRY ,DISpATCHES
Dispatch carriers are trained to .
run from advance posts to company'
battalion or regimental headquart-
ers, making use of trenches or cote
ered terrahievhere they escape be- '
ing seen or shot: • .
.. .
They carry mehsages in a' pouch
worn around the collar. Red Cross
dogs are. trained to find wounded •
• soldiers and lead stretcher bearers
to them. ' . 1 '
If there ere enough volunteers.
France will' maintain an army of
1,000 dogs. •
THEY HAVE THE TIME
We expect to hear any day P0r,'
'that the troops 'on the Western
Front are doing a little knittink
for the folks at home. ••
--Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
• •-0— •
• • L,Ers ALL. i.1PTEN IN
American- author says there
,isa"t enough 'Color in modern -city ,
life. Whir VW put all the tele- •
• phones .on the ord-style' . rural
'.party line system
• ' r—totaden Free, Press.
"
LOW srglp AFTER BARK '
• It is a well-established fact that
the majority of -fatal accidents
are due to speeding, particularly
at night. In Kansas City, where a
vigorous safetycampaign 'was cir-
ried•on last year, , cutting .the
death toll in half, it was found
• that positive results *ere not ob-
tained until an after -dark spend
limit' of 25 miles an hour was es-
- tablishecl and enforced. •
•
---Winnipeg Trihnne.
• WHY ARE APPLES SCARCE?
• . Several articles have appeared•
• in this paper about the apple situ-, '
ation and its illeoesistencies this
year. In spite of a large surplus.
Of apples- and the efforts ef 'the
'DoMinion government to help
growers market •their. crops, -ap-
ples have been scarce and highly
• priced and the quality has been-.
poor:
• There's- something wrOag seme• e
*here; If there Was such a suid.
• plus :of • excellent • apples, why •
; were they , /made available to
Canadians who would gladly have
taken :more 'of 'them if the price
had beet reasonableearid the qual-
•• ity good? • •
—Fergus' NeWs-Record.
No -Such Ailinent
• As Spring Fever
•
• Peculiar Feeling We Eaper-
ience At This Season Is Due
To Change From 'Cold • to ,
' vtirry: Weather ,
• • Grandmother probably will never
.believe it •but take the word of ex-'
.perts — she was all wrong_ when
she gave generous doses of sul-
' pitur and molasses as a cure for the
. "spring fever". 'There isn't any such
•thing.
That listless feeling you get
• around this time of year, three med-
ical authorities agreed this week,
lent something that you can ere-
• scribe medicine for, or put clown
In a, textbook, ce analyze' under
cause and effect. •
• Slaw Burning
CIGARETTE PAPERS
IVONE HAfER MADE' -
DOUBLE A U T,0 hil
BOOKLET
, •
The: reelinge you describe • as
Spring fever is probably due to the
fact that the body has become ac-
• cestorned ,to cold weather all win-
. ter and. toie suddenly is called ubOrt
to make adjustments to warm wea-
ther. Probably the' nervesk, controe
ling the blood vessels don't make
•'the adjustment without upsetting
you a bit. •
Die John C. Scott, profe.ssor of
• physiology, at Hahneinann Medical
College, thinks the change in blood
volume maw have something to do
• with the cate. •
"You need •more blood in Warm
weather to carry heat from the ire
• terior df the body out to the skin,"
he said. "It takes about five days
for the body to raanufacteee theed-
ditional bickod. Hence, in the .eret
few warm days r•-• before the extra
blood has been procliitid -- you're
'like an automobile • that doesn't
have enetigh water ln the radiator.
• "That •rilay partly explain what
• you call spring fever." •
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L. olives ••
-"tild after the •-
`disati-
A Grand
Sweetener
• for the
• Morning
Cereal
Bee Hive Syrup •
1..IFE's LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
"An' When You Get Through . There I've Got Some Buttons for You
Sew On." •
• REG'LAR FELLERS—Utopia
The Book Shelf..
• SIMPLIFIED HOUSEHOLD
MECHANICS• •
"By A. Freder1clk Collins
For the home handyman this
• volume is indispensable. In easily
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was at the highest Wel since 1935.
" The turkey population at 2,641,000 ;
: was 18 per cent. higher..
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