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The Clinton News Record, 1930-03-27, Page 6Churchill, the Farthest North Qpportunities Exist for Mat' ' Ready 'to Roughs .it—AC- colnriiod'ation ` Poor; Mpriey Can't Buy Comfort Although the Government' is pre - Paring to construct a town at Church ill,tee seaboard:terniirms of the :Fled son's Bay Railway, and alteongli it le anticipated that there- will bea lo of activity around Churchill in the next few years, anyone who wishes •to go up there with a view to doing business -of any kind had' better not . rely too'mucit on tits Power of money, according to'. Antony Dugal, who has just come' to Mcattreal on a shotty; business trip, after spending two. aud a half years In the. country between The Pas and Churchill. • The picture lie draws, of this pro- speotive seaport is of a place whims coal is obeap, water extremely Ecare9, money. almost worthless, game and fish abundant, houses rare, and hotels non-existent- the three months of • combined 8 Pring. and summer •uncom- 2ortably hot and sticky,- aud every- tiling verything during the other nine months frozen hard. A flue place for a young tdau to go and "eough.lt," witha very high chance tit his :winning out; but not a place ieviting to a neinwith as family, or to one who is accustomed to paying people to de, things for hen. "Anyone who is Making 01 going up there," says Mr. Dugal, "had :bet-, ter take all the beds and bedding be needs, and an abundant supply of food and provisions It is no use re- living on a pocket full of money, be- cause most of the time your money D ot no use up there 14 any case, I advise them to take a return ticket." The Town itself The principal work that has been done- at Churchill during the past year, Mr. Hugel said, !s the building of the' docks; awl harbor works. A Picture he brought back showed the main wharf extending out front the shore some distance, and then turn Ing to form a shelter bay. This bay he explained, is to be filled In with rocks and gravel, of which au abund- ant supply is available within a mile of Churchill. Three houses visible iu the foreground of the picture con- stitute the town of Churchill to date, and are inhabited by three of the en- gineers in charge of the work there. The workers are sheltered in bunk- houses some distance away. There is no sign of a hotel there Tet. In tact, the nearest 'thing to a betel between Clutrcltill and The Pas, aca'rcling to Mr. Dugal, is Bacon's Two Bit Plop, of which he brought back a picture. The "flop" costs, as the adeertisetnent says, "two bits," but the customer must take his own bedding, or else sleep uncovered on the Pocr. In front of the building are a few big buggers, which constit- ute Rio main dining room. Anyone wito has food can sit on a boulder to eat it, free n: charge. I1. he has no food, he is out et luck Money is not likely to procure It for him. Plan Model City The town of Churchill is being plan• net by the Provincial Town Planning Engineer 01 Manitoba, W. E. Hobbs, and it Is claimed that it will be laid out in ideal terra, so that its construe• tion end htyent will be of the most ntodcrb, and will allow for expansion for many yearn to come. "Condltionc there, however, are not dust what they ore said to be in some advertising bot•Iclet:i," Mr, Dugal con - Hutted "Ot course, the advance of civilization may improve living condi- tions there. But the Government has net .yet solred the water prob- lem, So far, they have been bring- ing water up from Lake Rosabella, but that will not he eneugit to take care of the demand for long. • "The rallweys and the Provhtcial Government And other organisations have already bed thousands of in - inquiries attd applications from people eventing to go up there and establieit busieesses, I believe when they all get there, there will be a lot of sat- ferhtg In and around Churchill unless the people take with them abundant supplies of beds, bedding, plenty of food, and so forth. They need not go there with money in their pockets, tor it is of practically no ttse to them, No End to Frost "With regard to water, they have dug as far down as 210 feet and still had net gone beyond the frost. The water will have to be brought in from at least 10 miles away, On, account of the cold weather and the continual presence of Croat, they will have to pipe storms against the water pipe, and encase the whole in a bigger phpe. At each mile they will have to pro - side another station to furnish steam eiressure, or else the water pipes will freeze and burst, "As an example of how the frost gets everything, last year a ,few men each - cat some pounds of meat to keep it eold and fresh. Some weeks later they wanted to dig it up, and, al- though it was only -six feet in the ground, they had to use axes' to get the neat out'ef tete ground and out of the frozen boxes A double brick roundhouse Is being built to resist the •temperature °binges. . The Govern - meet is building two radio stations, Quo In the Straits and one at the port" Last Summer Late r There were 1,700 men working at Churchill last year, • under the De- ;partment 01 Railways, but Mr Dtigal (points out that most of them were 13hlpped tit fie m abroad for the work 'unit shipped home again atter it was over. Weather in summer is very ttot and sticky. Spring andsummer start together about August, but Iast year, he says, the summer was late; and men were working in their shirt sleeves until the beginnng of Nov- ember. owember. Daring the summer period 'there is a very sale tang to the, air. Its Please nt. Side Asked regarding t.lte`really agree- ;ablea features of Churchill and its 'ri.elgh'tihhood, he side t'•nt one could ihiy ahilneant cpmetitit's 01 coal there fee ee a Um. The e' I rias shlpnod gu •throfighttlto btty'Pruut Nova Scotia. FI0 has lived tti.pr:e -twe .sluts a halt years, travetling'ha0k and forward be- tween Churhtil and The Pas, and now ands that he feels below ear 'when he comeesad far aoutb; especially in a big City like Montrsal. To, a young . man who wants to rough it, to take life as it comes and. deal with men whosees and no are as good'by word of Mouth as ou 1% sworn affidavit, this :torte ,country, in ills opinion, is a laud of golden op- portunity. If he has a big heart, and umfear of bucking adverse eondhtlons, and ignores physical discomfort, he has a 10 to one chance of winning out and meting good. " As a mining 'country., Mr, Dugal ,tltiuksthe territory served by the -1udson's BayRaii}way is ideal, aud a man, who lives iu the country Inas a wonderful. chance to achieve success financially, as well as In other spheres that he may value more higey than money making. No Cellars Suitt Owing to the frozen condition ot• the ground, a new method of house oonstruotion bas had to be devised. The foundations .are' built above the ,ground. Besenients start from the ground up. Then,when a few houses have been ,lluilt, . the space between them Is filled up,:and the surrounding land raised to the ground door level by dumping graver and rock on the fro- zen earth. This eitmivates the neces- sity of blasting through frozen ground which is as hard Ile reek, Even If, 8,s may yet happen, in Mr. Dugan .opiuton, there is ever enough grain shipped out of Churchill to make it worth while bringing ships there, he le convinced that the rail- way will ultimately prove a profitable enterprise, through serving the min- ing country. Praoticaliy right up to. the bead of steel, ores 01 various hinds are to be found in the ground, aud as the mines open up and begin to produce, they will furnisit freight for the railway, and will attract a mining population for which provi- sions will have to be shipped by rail. In this way, as a mining land, and as a railway devoted to the service of the mines, he foresees a great future for northern Manitoba and the Hud- son's Bay Railway.. As a seaport, he is not very hopeful for Churchill at present, although he agrees that the advance of civilization miglit change conditions in many ways. At present the Eskimos, who are very numerous around Churchill, are showing a great deal of surprise at all the activitiy that is going on, and are very musts iutereted. Whethey they will be able to adapt themselves to civilization, or whether they will re- cede as the white man pushes further DAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By 6 iscalbsgass Garden Talks . Testing the Soli Serious results are sure to follow the working a tite'soii too soon, 'Let the..ground become dry, it necessary work oil your laver oft indoor plant- ing or indoor plounings. It is a sim- ple thing to test whether the soil is ready or not. All that 15 necessary is to take up a handful and squeeze. If it compacts into a lump in the stand it is too wet to work, but if, on the contrary, it crudities when aqueezzed it is probably in just the right condi- tion for working. Pruning This is the time for pruning. All of the dead canes should be removed from the raspberry patch, as well as the spindly ones among the new north, remains to be seen. The Eskimo growth. Sone of the older wood finds abundant subsistottce in tbis die- should be rut away from the goose- trict, and so eau the wlttte man, if he berries and currants. Grapes uutst wilt follow the' Eskimo example, and be trimmed up early to avoid oxces- hunt and fish tor it, Baby whales sive bleeding, with grapes, one, maY 15 to 20 feet in length can be hat, cut away all wood but a mere stele• pooned any time, and fish of varioua kinds are plentiful. In the neigh- borhood there Is also plenty of wild life. But ytu have to go and get it yourself, There Is no store around the corner where it can 'be purchased. it Gets 'em All ton as the fruit is borne on the new year's growth. Iu handling fruit trees, open up to let in sunlight and air, and cut out branches that'rub agaiust another and remove weak crotches. In pruning roses one should _ sremember that these, like grapes, pro- Amongres is one of a Mr. Dugal ln duce flowers on the nw ewood of the brought from the the pictures Eskimo quivering with joy as he lis- 0118season, and atproduce good flowers1008, one must have strong growth of wood. tens to au old jazz record being play. Trint back to a few good brnurhes, ed on a portable gramophone. Ton removing all yeah stents, Prttuing of thousand dollars' worth of white tog the hybrid perpetuate should be done and silver fox pelts hung up on the early in lite spring just before tate wall of the trading post just behind new growth Is appearing, Cut each ithu do not give him the slightest cane back to six or eight buds from thrill. But the syncopated racket from a 50 -cent record sets ltim quiver- iug with excitement. Another shoins as Eskimo couple with then' baby. Availing himsolt of the Eskiuto'a lovee-of adornment with strange and unusual [hinge, the photo- grapher bribed the Eskimo to pose with his family by allowing him to wear his snow goggles for a few mo• meats. The sweater worn by the man and the skirt worn by the wo- man are at City manufacture, and were purchased by the Eskimos with preci- ous pelts. SMILES the ground, always cutting just above a bud pointing outward, The weaker growing hybrid teas are pruned more severely. If size and high quality of Rowers are sought, all but live shoots ate cut to the base and each of these remaining five is Cut back to three or four buds. Sweet Peas Sweet peas must be planted early or the results will be disappointing. In some parts of the country the vines aro probably up by now. 12 the sea- son is -later than usual do not wait until past the usual planting time but a appearnnees She l011111l secure some old berry boxes or eard- Of11 of R 1 countenances methinks a smile Is tits board boxes bought -for this pupose surprising agreeableness in the eye, in these Some people have used breasts out with ilio brighest distinct- halt egg shells with good results, rill 1011, and.sits like a glory upon the with flue soil, punt your sweet peas ,eountenauce. What stn is them with• well rimmed, water and place in a in us that shoots his beans with so sunny. window. When the ground is sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash fit for working outside, take these in the face at this rate one would boxes or egg shells, gently remove the thick would convert an Atheist; by bottom without disturbing the roots the way, we may observe that smiles are nutoh more becoming than frowns, This a081na an actual enconlagenlent to good tumor, as 11111011 as to say, it people stave a mind to he handsome, they must not be peevish and unto- toot growth. It may be necessary to Protect with little paper coins from cut-w01•ma. A few early hills of cora may be started in this SA1110 manner, the plants being started indoors where they are protected from frost and transplanted outside later lv€thout dis- turbing the roots. Simply remove the bottom o1 the box, the frequent water- ing will have caused the soil to stick welt together so that there is no shalt- big of the roots, and plant. most extraordinary. It plays with a front any seed supply house aud plant Weide and plant iu the open. The soil of course must not be disttu'bed• lirlten transplanting, place in a shal- low trench and heap soil well tip around them so as to develop a sturdy wards --Jeremy Collier. GREATNESS 0, it is great, and there is no outer greatness. To make some work of God's creation a little frttitfnller, bet - 01, more worthy of God•; to flake some human hearts a little wiser, mantuller; happier, — more >loosed, less accursed—it la a work or God. Thomas Carlyle. t f MUTT AND JEFF -- By BUD FISHED Carrots and Beets No vegetable gardene. of course, la complete without a few rows of beets and carrots. But we do not mean or- dinary beets and earnots. Nowadays one plants with (termite purposes in view. Titus, for calming and salads where the whole beet is used small round beets are considered the best, and for early carrots which may be used when they are as big as your thumb shorter types of this vegetable are advisable. Botlt can be sown just as soon as the ground is ready a d further planting for later use put in at interstate of two sveeits ftp to the first of July. They should be sown la rows about two feet apart or wider, where horse cultivation is used, aud thinned to about au iuctt and grown a little, using the beets, tops and atl, as greens, while the carrots may be used in the ordinary way. Late: en again take out every other root and still later every other one again which will give the vegetebtes a climnee to reach full development. Scsl.lag tee seed overnight before penning wilt hasten germination, and in piantIng do not cover with more than att gut haltulle an Inch of soft, Lair plr,tttlt,s can often follow early trope of let• tuce, spinach attd radish. Do not be afraid to grow plenty of Leets 011A car- rots as event cannot be used daring the summer and fail may be stered away for the winter and illy lar ar, coarses ones will be relt.0 fi by the chicicena,•rabbits or oRttt :tve ato_It, Bliss Askedth-.'-Whe d,t y011 Poets always speak of the moon as silver?" Mr. Scribbler—"It's heoauee et the quarters,and naives, I suppose." HELPING OTHERS To do something for someone else; to love the unlovely; to give a hand to tit unattractive; to speak to the uncongenial; to make friends with the poor and folks of lowly degree; to find a niche in the church of the Lord, and to do something out of sheer love for Him, to determine in his house to have His mind; to plan to win at least one for the Blaster, to aim to redeem past time that is lost, to will to let one's light shine, to cut off practices that are sinful aud costly; to add the beauty of hail- ness—this is to make one's lite a thing of beauty and titin is to grow In grace, for growing in grace is simply copying the beautiful lite of the alto- gether lovely Tnte.—Edward Ir. Reim- er, • • "To borrow money to tnalte n1Org, money is the effective way to -save. "— Katbleett Norrie. "It is possible to engage the ser- vices of people who are too good 101' their work."—Sir Russell Scott. War Novels �Make Appeal To the Public 1918 GERMAN PUSH The publishing season that has just begun ltas been marked by a few Eng- lish war novels of outstanding merit. Medal Without .bar, by Richard Bloker, la au account of the detailed experiences of one man iu war. Among the book's many merits, the outetand- ing one is the brilliant evocation of the corporate spirit, the sense of esprit de corps. In the early chapters this aspect of Army lite is personified in the young regular officer I3endersott, disabled at Bions aud henceforth devoting heart And soul to awakening lu the members of itis cadet corps his own crusading zeal, But the mater part et the story is taste up with the adventures of Charles Cartwright, first Henderson's priecl7,tal assistant at home and after• wards an officer at an artillery unit iu France. Ii'ltlt rare shill lir. Maker, white !melting Cartwright and his br etfter-otticere individually vivid, con - hives to matte the reader feet that' they ars all merged in the unit to which they belong; and it is the for - times of the battery that he follows even though tate havoc c t war re- moves its ofticsre one by one. Alt the book closes on the same nolo of corporate identity among the titan who passed through war—"the getteratien ot the brokettdtearted," one of Um young officers calls them, who are set apart trout their fellows but preserve their own companion- ship. Tats is one ot the very beet of the war books. Rotreet, by C. R. Benstead is grimly powerful. The story of the great German oZettsive of liarctt, 1918, is Presented. from the potnt of view of a middle-aged chaplain who arrives fresh from a country mitten to join an artillery brigade on tate eve of battle. His total inability to make any con- tact with officers ar men during the terrible days of the retreat, his own disillusion and ulttntate despair. the cottemptuotts tolerance et Itis brother officers, gradually turning to mere ex- asperation, aro draws with mastery. Heroism and Pity The survey of the trial and the years that tie behind it by so fine a mind as that of Mr. H, BI. Tomlinson Is Viotti to have & notable result, in All Our Yesterdays we have what we should expect—noble English prose, the sense of heroism and the sense of pity, and the large humane view 01 human things, Bir. Tomlinsott's subject is nothing less than the progress of tlte• soul of England from idateking night to the armistice of 1918. The war passages are the most impressive in tate beak, presenting with equal vividness the horrors of the battlefield and the pathos of civilian life. The account of the faintly in which the death of one son is known to the father, and of the other to the mother, and each is Iteoping the news from the < thee, is One of the most moving things in the literature of the war, Brave Fn hta>i°. Should They `..Goes Far in Poiltics 'Told? By Prof, Fraser Harris *' I hive been to half a dozen doctoes —and not tine of them can do anytiitgg 'tor lne Esq -Colonial Secretary , Has Had Hectic Career an. Risen to Heights Potent and .foremost among those who have begun ;to match against the jioste of Empire Crusaders Is Lord Beaverbrook's old personal and petit!. cal friend, Leopold Charles Maurice Amery, himself an apostle of empire trade, The cables quote hint as de- elaring that he stands by Baldwin's "Safety First" fiscal measures rather titan by the adventure proposed by the Baron of Fleet St. Amery, time once more in the empire 'spotlight, is one ot the most extraordinary figures on the stage of British politics. Ile began with` a reporter's note- book, He had no marriage bringing fashion and influence to help him, no clique ties ndtit men of ruling houses, 0 advantages of wealth or birth. But had quenchless euergy, limitless am- bition and a pretty thick skin, and from plckiug up odd bits of news around Whitehall, landed into writing leaders and "specials" frit the Times. As he was the kind that makes the most of every oportnnity, he plunged right into the fiscal controversy, turn- ing out articles aud pamphlets that were priceless to a hard-pressed Tory- ism, and coming to be regarded es an encyclopaedia upon anything pertain- ing to tariffs and Imperialism. His "Fundamental Fallacies of FreeTrade" became a -sort of text book for tariff reform advocates. Versatile as well as pugnacious, be was interested In things military, and in 1899 wrote a book called "Prob- lems of the Army." It was a' good book, got him the job of editing the Times' "History of the Boer War;" s task which he performed with the aid of that strange character, the Irieh rebel, Ilbskiue Childers. While writ- ing this history (it was in seven vol- umes) and turnhtg out leaders, he found time to study law, and in 1909 was called to the bar at Inner Temple. But he never practised. His chosen career was politics. Beaten in three successive by-elec- tions he finally reached the House of Commons front the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham, which re- turned him in 1011. Thereafter his progress was steady. Ile was a mili- tant Tory when militancy was the ice} to Tory preferment; and wbile he - never could be an F. E. Smith, he was at least one of those who rallied with Dieter anti Carson. In the Great War, too, he was conspicuous. He was on the state of the Fourth Atnly corps; on special service in the Balkans; served at G.H.Q. nt Salaniki. By 1917 he had lauded into the post of asslst- ant secretary of the war cabluet. After that his task was clear. There followed promotion to the colonial of- fice, and when the Caritoa club revolt sent Lloyd George into the wIliterituss attd brought Toryism to oiiic°, Amery, lima on the right side et the tepee -- and walked into the otltairaltie He went down with the Baldwin ntlnistty when Labor took office itt 1025, and re- turned whit it in 1921 to become secre- tary for the dominions. Since then he bas been around the world, all over the Bruise empire, turned ince more out of office, and one of Mr. Baltiwin',t boot light sftirmishers. He fs anything but pleasant la ap- pearance. Middle-aged, he !s short and thick -set, looking more like a pugilist than a politician, aud with a limp that 1a a legacy of a broken leg in our Recitles, Its Is a fanatic about physical fitness, is always in perfect cottditton, and two years ago punched the jaw of Bir. Buchanan, the Soclallst radical from the Clede. No one would take hint tor a successful platform speaker, yet he is formidable in dei bate, frrespressible itt argument, copt- Ons iu vocabulary, and with something of frau in Itis sti1T attitude, clenched hands, cramped little gestures, 'viten' he speaks. His voice is poor without cadences, but itis blain Is as cleat` as a bell, and his speech e8traordittartty fluent. And he fortifies all this with a dieconcerting memory and au amaz- ing talent for figures. Amery knows Canada better than most Canadians., and he married au Ontario girl—a sinter of Sir Hamar Greenwood. ' VALUE OF CHARACTER Wedgewood, though risen from a workman, was never satisfted till he had done his best. He would toler- ate no Inferior work. If it did not come up to Ma idea of what it should be he would break the vessel and throw it away, Baying: "Ttrat won't do L:a- Josiah Wedgwood." Character makes reputation, and Wedgwood pot- tery, with Wedgwood's character be- hind it, wort world-wide celebrity. There was no evasive secrecy; Ida aertd bewsst•witlilah holyopengbride,lory, aud Its espotte- How often do we hear that phrasal; front men and women who, for one 108500 or another, have been unable to find a cure or even a ipalliative Car their disease? When connplaining that their doctor. "tells them nothing"'they are apt to forget that sometimes the truth would be as brutal as tei be overwhelming: In the old days --yet not se vers' long ago—there was a blind belief in the infallibility of the medical man, and hence equally ttngaeetfoning bbe- dience to his advice. To -day he is no longer placed On a Pedestal. The patient is apt to take a "ntan-to-matt,'. attitude. Yet every siek man must put some trust in the ability of his physician, just as the litigant must believe that • his lawyer will pull himthroughsome difficult legal case. . Speaking generally, laymen .now lcnow so much about the broad prim chiles of Ityglene and even of elements cry physiology; that a doctor is justi- fied in departing from the older rigid lesions of medical etiquette. But the trouble is that baving'givet the layman au inch he demands Bev- eral ellst In many eases the doctor can poo- suede his patient to co-operate Intel, Iigentiy with him by discussing the benefits 02 certain treatmeut, but there are necessarily limits beyond which no' physician, surgeon, or con- sultant must go. The converse holds equally good, for there have been many instances of great suffering and hardship its. Meted through well-meaning .but toe outspoken' frankness on the part of the doctor. Not long ago an officer of a certain regiment in India requested a medical man to explain the reason of an inter- mittent pain and swelling in him throat. The sttrgeoa examined hit. with care, tate patient meanwhile scanning Itis tate anxiously for the verdict. At last he could stand the euspeuse no longer. "I think you'd Oetter telt me tke truth," he ,'aid. "Anytiting is better than this suspense!" After a certain amount of 8vasiou, the surgeon gave it as his opinion that the officer was suffering from cancer, ant] said that his ;iutmediate return to Euglaud was imperative. For more than four weeks that matt suffered tortures el mental anguish. IIe knew the reputation of the dread disease, and that he mlgits stare to face'years et treatment and expensive operations whish, in the end, might perhaps prove useless. 'When he restated London he went at once to a specialist who pronounced the "cancer" to be nothing. more seri. ons titan a tttntour which could easily,. be removed! Here was a cafe in which the motile cal flan -110t absolutely sure of lite diagnosls—should most certainly have kept his opinions to himself. On the other stand, there aro those terrible moments when the physlelan must tell the truth at the risk of en- tailing groat mental surforittg, In the ease of a fragile, nervous pa- tient that word enay be a virtual death - sentence; but where the patient is stricken with mortal sickness, it itt the doctor's ptaia duty to tie trunk. Even the worst news can be broken gently, for there conies a time when to hide the truth is to be guilty of a grave nttsdemeauor. The keynote of alt medical pi;ictico le, and must retnaht, "la it la tate best interest of your patient?" 'Any piny t-,'igitt knows that as on on is a strong idea in a garctett plot." Mutt's Lucky it Ain't A Cotnlnuntalion Ticket, TELL THE wot;LD• 1tiAT A. 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