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The Clinton News Record, 1943-08-19, Page 6,PAGE 6 TON NEWS -RECORD THURS., AUG. 19, 1943 Seeks , To Perpetuate Industry Forest Engineers Set Out Timber. Protection Policy aunamiarameasisio (From. The Financial Post) Being careful not to toss lighted cigarettes from car windows while motoring through forested areas is about the extent to which the aver- age person has participated in Cana- da $ ana-da's forestry problem. "A statement of Forest Policy;"I therefore, recently issued by the Can -1 adian Society of Forest Engineers is designed to embrace the interest and support of this public as well as that of government experts and industrial leaders. services and forest industries co-ordi- nated by a central body. Properly equipped and edequately staffed laboratories .should be estab- lished to serve as centres for invest- igation to provide essential informs- tion respecting losses caused by dis- Highlights of Policy Highlights of this long-range pol- icy of how wisest use may be made of our forest resources include four items likely to be of; personal concern to the individual. They are: 1. Establishment of a permit sys- tem of controlling travel and use of fire in the forest which, during per- iod of fire dangers, should be closed completely to minimize fire risks. 2. Farmers whose farm wood' lots Forest revenues should be augmen- are capable of, highly profitable de- ted if necessary to provide essential velopment should be assisted to im- minimum of protection and. adminis- prove them through educational means 'trative control. provision of demonstration forests, Lands should be classified to seg- technicaI advice and supply of plant- negate agricultural from true forest ing stock. . soils, the latter to be permanently B. Means whereby Canadian own- withdrawn from settlement as soon as ers of forest properties or forest possible, the society recommends rights can insure them at economic 1 Establishment of municipal and county rates. forests should be encouraged by legis - 4. Taxation of forest property must votive action if necessary to serve the be under a system that will insure material and ascetic demands of local against forced liquidation of immature Populations. timber. Surplus labor should be employed The statement of forest policy has in forest work, and youth training been formualtea with an eye to future activities of the national forest pro - requirements as well as to present, gram are strongly commended. Forest and is dealt with under six different improvement should form a major heads. part of any postwar rehabilitation Forest Protection plan, ease and to determine practical meth- ods of production and control. Forest Administration Provincial legislation and forest laws and regulations should be as uni- form as possible because woodusing industries are national in 'scope and must enter regionalas well as foreign competition. Staffs of trained forest engineers and qualified rangers, scalers, etc., should be provided, say the .wood- men, for the efficient administration of the forest. Conditions of employ- ment should be such as will attract and retain men of ability,Appoint- ment and promotion should be based exclusively on merit. .Adequate protection of the forest Forest Management from insects and disease, it declares, Attention should first be concen- is the first requisite of forest man- trated on securing'increased produe- agement. The best method is to reduce tion from the most accessible forest or eliminate outbreaks. Abnormal fire land of good quality. Accordingly hazards should be treated -likewise. those areas to which intensive man - this end, full co-operation between Do -'agement is first to be applied should minion provincial and municipal auth- be chosen with the least possible de - mites and private owners should be lay, established, with just and equitable! An inventory of forest resources. distribution of costs. !merchantable and immature, should In addition, po-operation of the pub- be undertaken immediately and kept lie should be sought through the press up to date. For taking them in large radio and the schools. ureas aerial photography supplemen- Strict enforcement of forest by -rows ted by field work is recommended. and prompt punishment of offenders 1 While forest management in Can - are urgently needed, the foresters ada should primarily depend on nat- urge. !ural regeneration, where forests in Systematic classification of areas the more accessible regions fail to re - to be protected from fire is neves- stock adequately, artificial regenera- sary, it is stated. The degree of pro- tion should be undertaken when econ- tection •afforded to different areas omit conditions warrant, In general should be proportional to the forest and other values involved and to ex- isting risks. Fire protection is an art requiring both skill and experience and there should he systematic training, ade- quate remuneration and permanent employment of rangers, look -out men and other key personnel, Practice of entrusting responsibility to untrained men results in costly and unnecessary ed to government authorities or to losses in the opinion of the contribu- private owners of forest land should The honor of capturing the first It - ting experts. be .economically justifiable. align general in Sicily went to a for - Efficient protection against insects Systematic economic investigations mer newspaper man of Toronto, Win - is unified, forest insects survey are essential to forest management.nipeg and Regina, Major Richard S. through ce-operation of government Industrial development, depending Malone. cutting of trees in immature forests should be restricted to improvement thinning. Artificial restocking of non -forest- ed land should be encouraged by payment of subsidies for such work, states the brochure. Economics The courses of action recommend - on the forests of any region, shoull not be permitted to exceed the came field capacity of that 'region, Adequate .statistics'; of all matters connected' with fores'as, including mar- ket prices, etc„ are needed for each: region. Diversification and integra- tion of forest industries lead to more completed utilizationof all forest pro- ducts and; to reduction of waste. Construction of permanent trans- portation facilities by land and wets: to effect economics in forest opera- tions should, be specially studied, it is urged. Means whereby Canadian owners of forest properties or 'forestrights can insure them at economic rates is essential if private capital is to be freely 'invested in forest manage ment. Forest Research. Forest research by governmental studies should be supplemented by, universities, industrial associations and private companies, the statement continues. Researoh projects should be entrus- ted only to men possessing genuine research abilities. Suitable scholar- ships should be provided to encour- age suitable '•students to enter the field. Proven results of forest research in any part of the Dominion should be available to workers elsewhere. A central agency to encourage cooper- ation and arrange for eo-ordination of research plans and findings is needed. Forest experimental stations should be maintained in each of the natural forest regions. These should be read- ily accessible and of sufficient size to yield reliable silviculture results and usable cost data. Public demand for forestry information should be met and stimulated by giving full public- ity to forest research methods and accomplishments. Investigations into the effect of forest fires on regeneration and stand composition should be initiated and silvicultural results of slash burning should be studied. Methods of rating fire hazard's and the evaluation of the insurance lists should be undertaken. Moreover, say the foresters, long- term studies of the inter -relation- ships of insects, animals, and plant life in the forest complex should be initiated to determine the factors in- fluencing the fluctuation of insect population, Public Relations Systematic training of junior for- est personnel including rangers, scalers, wood foremen and forest lab- orers should •be provided in ranger schools and in the forest. Special courses of training in the management of farm wood lots and the proper utilization of forest pro- duets should be made available to farmers and their sons. Thedevelopment of an informed public interest in the wise use of the forest resources is, of course, the greatest needs of forestry in Canada. Without effective public support a satisfactory rate of nrogaess is im- possible, the statement coneludes, V Part-time work these days is — eating at noon—riding home on the 5.45 bus: buying underwear—buying coal -+filling in income tax forma— gardening—replacing burned out ra- dio tubes—keeping up with the war bulletins—and trying to sleep, Desert Victory Tanks On The Heels Of Afrika Korps r �nF�'Yt Picture shows: British "Crusader" Army's first big push across Libya to tanks mounted with 6 -pounder guns El Egheila. Crusader` tanks were moving in hoot pursuit of Rommel's largely used for pursuit because of retreating.,forees during the Eighth their high speed; Armed with the formndable British 6 -pounder gun, they have made a big contribution .to the Eighth Army's desert victory. THE REO CROSS VISITING HOSPITALS Each of our Canadian Military hos- pitals has its official Canadian Red Cross visitors. These women work under. -a convener who seas that each patient in the hospital is visited sev- eral times a week. From his Red Cross visitor the patient receives cig- arettes, chewing gum,' chocolate, maple sugar, barley sugar, -The visit- or also brings a regular supply of Canadian papers, and when the men find their home town papers, their pleasure and interest is a any to wit- ness. Perhaps the most useful task of a Regi Cross visitor is the ordinary friendly contact which the' 'handing out of these small comforts establish- es. The patient soon realizes that the Canadian Red: Cross visitor is his friend and ally and will do allshe can to advise and help him. ' Red Cross visitors were very much on the job when our Canadian wounded were brought back from 'Dieppe. Some of these women work for twenty-four hours without rest, issuing comforts, sending' cables, taking messages .and carrying out a hundred and one small tasks to comfort or relieve the minds of the wounded men. When a man is badly injured or burnt and is much too ill to eat the hospital meals he is supplied with fruit juices, tinned fruit. Horlicks, Oxo and other liquids. In the R.A.F. Hospitals to which the Canadian airmen are taken, then visitors go regularly to see the men and to give them Red Cross delicacies, Many of these airmen are in hospital for long stretches of time and the personal contact with people from outside the hospital means much to them. Red Cross visitors do not confine their work to visiting the men, they very often find billets and make it possible for the friends or relatives to go and stay near the hospital. They write Letters, send cables, and something that means more than any- thing else, they invite the men to stay in their homes. In addition, the Canadian Red Cross has established in each Canadian hos- pital, handicraft workers who teach the men to weave, ,to make rugs, belts; leather articles, tapestry and many other things. This work is in- creasing steadily in importance as it is considered part of the treatment of many patients. All in all the Canadian Red Cross is proud of its hospital visitors, and the care and thought given the patients in its hospitals. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I knew a man, his name was Horner, Who used to live on Grumble Corner; Grumble Corner is Cross -Catch 'Town, And he never was seen with out a frown; He grumbled at this; he grumbled at that He growled at the dog; he growled at the cat; He grumbled at morning; he' grumb- led at night; And to grumble and growl were his chief delight. He grumbled so much at his wife that she Began to grumble as well as he; And all the children, wherever they • went, Reflected their parents' discontent, If the sky was dark and betokened rain, Then Mr. Horner was euro to com- plain. And if there was never a cloud about He'd grumble because of a threatened drought. His meals were never to suit' his taste He grumbled at having to eat in aste: The bread was poor or the meat was • tough, Or else he hadn't had half enough. No matter how hard :his wife might try To please her husband,- with scornful eye -He'd look round, and then, with a scowl At something or other, begin to growl 'One day, as 1 loitered along the street My old acquaintance I chanced to meet Whose face, was without the look of care And the ugly frown that it used to wear., "I may be mistaken perhaps," I said As, after saluting, I turned my bead; "But it is, and it isn't the Mr. Horner Who lived so long on Grumble Corner" I met him next day; and I met him again. In melting weather, in pouring- raih, When stocks were up, and when stocks were down; But a smile somehow had replaced OPENIINC OF OGOKI DIVERSIO ARKED BY SIMPLE CEREMONY Project Is. Acclaimed As Outstanding •. Hydro Achievement And As. Unique In - Annals a s Of Engineering i rtr r,, A simple but historic ,ceremony of water from one watershed over the of which provide only a few inches tools place recently in the wild and height of land to another watershed. It means that part of the Ogoki river water, which formerly rolled into the Albany and James Bay in a north- easterly direction has been "detour- ed. lonely wilderness of Ontario's north- ern hinterland, marking the official opening of the Ogoki ,diversion which has just been completed " by The Hydro -Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The ceremony was observed atthe control darn which spans the channel cut through the height of land be- tween the James Bay and St. Law- rence' watersheds. There, in the presence of a small group of Hydro and Ontario Government officials, Otto Holden, chief hydraulic engineer of the H.E.P.C., smashed a bottle con- taining water from the Niagara river against an 1,800 -pound log that had been raised from one of the sluice- ways. Those in attendence included W, B. Crombie, general superintend- ent of the project; David Forgan, construction engineer, H.E.P,C.; J. A. Brodie, chief of the Forest Pro- tection Division; and Peter Addison, district forester, Port Arthur. ' Outstanding Achievement The act performed by Mr Holden officially released the first flow from the Ogoki diversion which is acclaim- ed as one of the Commission's out- standing achievements and a project which is recognized as unique in the annals of engineering. Completion of this five -million -dol- lar undertaking which was commenc- ed early in December, 1940, will re- sult in the moving of a great body Changing the water level contours within a 300 mile area in this remote :section of Northern Ontario, the div- erted water is now following a south- easterly course, covering a distance of approximately 2,000 miles from Waboose Rapids to the shore of the Atlantic. Between Waboose and the ocean this water flows through ripp- ling chains of creeks, river and lakes including Lake Nipigon, the Nipigon river, the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, The Ogoki water and the flow from the Long Lac diversion—a similar but smaller project 120 miles to the east unite in Lake Superior, These two diversions whose combined flow from averages 5,000 c. f. s., make possible the developinent of 360,000 additional horsepower at developed and undeveloped sites between Lake Nipigon and mouth of the St. Law- rence. Will Benefit Navigation Over a period of time this ,divert- ed water will raise the levels of the Lower Lakes about 2 3-4 inches and thus benefit navigation. This benefit arises from the fact that the -capac- ity of lake freighters is determined by the ' depth of shallow channels, some clearance for the hulls of these boats. A higher water level will, 'therefore„ eventually contribute. to an increase, in the tonnage which can' be carriedl by these freighters in their many; journeys .over a period of a. year. Three of the key points involved in; the creation of the Ogoki project. are. Waboose . Rapids, where a 'massive main dam 50 feet high and 1,100 feet. long has been thrown• across the Ogo- ki. river; South Summit Lake, at the, height of land, where the control dans now stands; and Jaelfish Cross- ing at which point a new railway has been erected over , a deepened elan- nel that is designed to take care of the increasad flow of water. To close, points in the contour two auxiliary dams have been constructed adjac- ent to the main Waboose dam, while other auxiliary dams are located at. Snake Creek and Chappais Lake. Supervision by Radio Houses have been constructed at both Waboose and Summit where per- manent.operators are stationed. Con- trol and supervision of all operations involved in regulating the flow from this new diversion are maintained through a shortwave radio system which links the head office adminis- tration building in Toronto with the operators at Summit and Waboose. Completion of this unique project is hailed as another important chap-, ter in the annals of Hydro service to. the people of Ontario. Just completed by the Hydro -Elec- tric Power Commission of Ontario and hailed as an undertaking which is un- ique in the annals of engineering, the Ogoki diversion is now open. Otto Holden, chief hydraulic engineer, H. E,P.C. (upper left) smashes a bottle containing Niagara river water against an 1,800 Ib log which had been raised from one of the +Summit dam sluiceways, a ceremony that officially marked the opening• of the diversion. Upper right shows the Summit con- trol dam, while the new railway bridge at Jackfish crossing and the main dam at .Waboose are shown in the lower left and right reproduc- tions respectively. the frown It puzzled pre much; and so, one day I seized his hand in a friendly 'way, And said: "Mr. Horner, I'd like to know What can have happened to change you so?" He laughed a laugh that was good to hear;. For it told of conscience calm and cleat, And be said, with none of the old- time drawl. "Why I've changed my residence, that is alll" "Changed your residence?" "Yes" said Horner, "It wasn't healthy on Grumble Cor- ner, And so 'I moved; 'twas a change complete; And you'll find me now on Thanks- giving +street." Now, every day as I move along The streets so filled with the busy throng, I watch each face, and can always tell Where men and women and children dwell; And many a discontented mourner Is spending his days on Grumble Cor- ner, Sour and sad, whom I long to en- treat, To take a house on Thanksgiving street. V THE GATHERERS There were the leaning orchards and we found The apples scattered bright beneath the trees, Fallen in piles .of crimson or, the ground And we, the gatherers upon our knees Lifted the fallen largess, tasting sun Upon -0111 lips, the attar of the spring The honey of a summer that was clone - And this the full and mellow win- nowing. The Ieaves fell round even as we tasted The feast of fire and a hint of frost Ran down the air, .but summer was not wasted, Nothing of all its sweetness could be lost. But was distilled again in flower and fruit And the undying patience of the root, Harold Vinal, V A recent Canadian Army order al- lows other ranks to wear black ties with battle dress when off duty. Three hundred pairs of boots a day are repaired at the Royal Canadian Ordnance workshop at Kingston, Ont. Tea,ining profession (frozen)- lin, New Brunswick, What will it be in., January?