Zurich Herald, 1924-08-07, Page 2OUTDOOR RECREATION CONFERENCE
Importance of Recreation From National Health Standpoint
—Canada Participates in Wy.shington Meeting.
A great forward movement in con-. recreation. The crowdingof people:
nervation, end 'one that affects Canada into great urban centres on the one
Profoundly, was dnaugur'ated by Press- hand and the development of the auto-
dent Coolidge in the convolving at mobile on the other have changed the
Washington, May 22 to 24, of the first outlook of the people of North Awed -
National Outdoor Recreation Confer- ea in regard to outdoor recreation in
encs. At this conference,which em- one :generation.
braced national and state organize The great majority of the people no
tions, Canada was represented upon longer have; as they paid thirty years
the special invitation of the President ago,: open spaces near at hand for re -
of the United States, It was• intended creation, and the automat ile, has pro -
that Canada should be represented by vided the means by whichthey may
Mr. W. W. Cory,Deputy Minister of escape into the forests, the mountains,
the Department of the Interior, and and along the watercouraes. The hold -
Mr. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of ing of this conference indicates that
Canadian National Parks. Owing to people have suddenly awakened to the
unforeseen circumstances Mr. Har- fact •of which loaders iii both Canada
!kin was prevented from attending and and the United States have been
to Mr. Cory fell the duty of acting for aware for some years that the health
Canada at the various meetings of the and efficiency of the nation are going
conference. to depend in no small degree upon the
Canada could not remain aloof from maintenance of national parks, game
a conference of this kind even should preserves, game sanctuaries, forest
she desire to do so, because outdoor reserves, and other open areas, and
recreation, in the broad terms in which upon the wise administration of pro -
it -was dealt with on this occasion, in- per laws respecting the protection of
valves the international guardianship game animals, game and insectivorous
of fish, migratory birds, boundary birds, and fish. The view taken a few
waters, pollution of streams, interna years ago was that national parka
tioeal games, and international recrea- with their beautiful scenery and their
tienal travel. The Dominion is al- ' wild animals living in a state of na-
ready in touch with these -subjects at ture ministered only to the sentiment
-
a dozen points and the chief work of al side of life, but it is now seen that
the conference was to emphasize and: the very stamina of the nation is de -
organize the activities they involve. pendent upon these playgrounds, and
The personnel of the conference in Canada has shown that she does not
dicates the important place the sub- intend to be behind any part of the
ject occupies in the minds of the lead- continent in developing these sato-
ing men of the United States. It was guards for her people. This has been
called and opened by President Coo•I- evidenced by whathas been clone in
5 idge, and the executive chairman was I the establishment of national parks,
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant in the creation •of game preserves and
Secretary of the Navy. Other mem-
bers of the United States cabinet who
tco1 part were: Hon. J, W. Weeks,
Secretary of War; Hon. Hubert Work,
Secretary of `the Interior; Hon. Hf C.
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Above are shown the ,Duchess• of York, the Prince of Wales, and. the'
Duke of York (behind Pe photographed in a moment of fun on one of
the roller -coasters at We
aiscautornewsae
BEAUTIFUL GEMS ° i E
BUT COMMON MINERALS
G rnet Finds its Chief -Use as An Abrasive—Found in Many
Part'' of Canada.
n the New England Stately Dominion ' seriously i Eng -
Many of .our most beautiful an vale- two inches or more in diameter, which y njured� In the New
sanctuaries, both in the settled parts able gem stones are varieties of cone! gradually decrease to the size of a officers have carried on scouting to a land States too, pine and other cone
af Canada and for the protection of -paratively gammon minerals. The pin -head as the contacts are approach- limited extent in the province of Que- I ferous trees mixed with deciduous
natives in the far north, in the pre- diamond --one of the hardest sub- ed. bee. Without going into details it may growth have suffered severely.
servation of the buffalo as well as stances known, and the most highly- •At Chogaggin Point, near Yarmouth, be explained that insects like the gip- i Citizens who desire to receive fur-
other' large and small game animals prized of the precious stones—is a Nova Scotia, a 36 -foot dike, with a ay moth have their parasites which at- their information regarding this pest
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; and migratory birds, in the establish• form of the common soft black graph garnet content of 'approximately 40 lack and destroy them, and the breed -j should communicate either with the
Bon, Herbert Hoover, Secretary of meat of national forests, and in the rte, which occurs abundantly in Na- l per cent., outcrops on the sea shore ng o'f tbaee parasites and the icicle- Dominion Entomologist, Department
Commerce; and Hon, J. J. Davis, Sec- bolding of Empire and National Con- tune. Emerald is a rare variety of I and has been traced inland for several ing of them in infected areas is one of AgricuIttua, Ottawa, or the Provin-
retary of Labor, ferences on the 'conservation of for- the not uncommon mineral beryl, ands miles, Several other deposits are of the means used in fighting these tial •Entomologist, Department of Ag -
Arrangements were completed by ests, -wild life, and public health. Ac- owes its beautiful green color to known that are both rich and suitable pests. I riculture, Quebec
which the people interested in the tivity in these different spheres has traces of chromium. for
various forms of outdoor recreation never been as great in Canada as it is
will be fully represented ,on. the per- • at the present time, it; is intended that
manent organization by their acknow-' there shall be no slackening but an
THE MENACE .OF' THE Gist MOT1
The 'appearance of the gipay moth In dealing with the present situation,'
(Porthetria clispar) near Alburg, Ver- the Department of Agriculture will
mont, about half a anile eolith of the also place a domestic quarantine on
Canada -United. States boundary has the same area. Iu addition to tbo area
given rise to .conditions affecting nae upon which the embargo . v,iil be
Lural resources and their utilisation ' placed, there will, it is expected, be a
of which the Government of Canada, restricted area, also about 10 miles
, as well as that 'of the province of Que- in width, immediately ad}oinieg, Un -
ever on the alert to protect the dor the proposed regulation Cheistmas
interests of citizens, have taken cog- trees and Christmas greens away be
nizance, As a result of the discovery moved from the restricted area pro-
of this infestation, the United States vided the shipments are accompanied
Government intend to place an cm- by a Dominion certificate of origin
barge on that area of southern Quebec which states that the trees or ,greens
in general. about 10 miles in•width lin. were grown at some point within the
mediately adjoining the International restricted area 0'1' outside of the
Boundary to prohibit the. shipment of quarantined area.
Christmas trees and Christmas greens The 'Entomological Branch of the
to the United States. The shipping of Department of Agriculture will this
such trees or greens from the Ver- summer and autumn;, in close co -opera -
moat area to other parte of the' United tion with the Department of Lands
States has already been prohibited by and Forests of the Quebec Govern -
state legislation. I sent, conduct intensive scouting
The consequences which arise from throughout southern Quebec. Federal
this situation are important. In the and provincial officers will combine to
first place there is the danger to our form small crews to examine trees,
resources should the pest really gain' fences, posts, etc., along roads; 'rail -
a foothold in Canada and there is the ways, in orchards, as well as scout
immediate stoppage of• the sale of other planes:where it is thought- the
Oliristmas trees and Christmas greens gipsy moth may have become estab-
from this part of Quebec. No ship- lashed.
ment from such area will be allowed Few insectcs have been so costly as
entry into the United States of the has the gipay moth. Millions of d3-
following: spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, lars have been spent in its control dun
juniper, and cedar; and holly and ing the last fifteen years in the New
laurel.
' England States, and it would indeed
The importance of protecting our be serious -if infestations are found in •
forest and other trees from such a Canada. Important areas of woodland
peat as.the dreaded gipsy moth has trees have been killed outright in
been appreciated by the Department areas where it has gained a foothold.'
of Agriculture for many years, and in' Apple, oak, birch, alder, and . willow
addition to introducing into Eastern are the favored trees upon which the
Canada large numbers of parasites of caterpillars, feed. Other trees such as
the insect, collected in infested areas beech, poplar, hickory, etc., have been
r abrasive purposes.
Two of the common abrasive min- The market far garnet is limited,
erals, corunium and garnet, when however, and concentration and pre-;
clear and flawless, give us beautiful paratton are important factors. The
ledged leaders. These details need increase of effort, and that the work gems; the ruby is a red variety oY Mines Branch has paid considerable
not be gone into here, the point being already begun shall be extended and corunium, and the " sapphire a deep attention to the preparation of Cana -
this: that people everywhere now re-; made more far-reaching and effective blue variety of the same mineral,' dian garnets far market, and has made
cognize the importance to the whole . by further organization and co -opera- while many of the variously colored tests to determine the best processes
country of properly directed sport and' tion. garnets are extensively used in jewel- for different classes of ore.
ry and are c=as�sedas norm -precious lfa steady demand for garnet •should'
Dynan for a s-oaxselaold. Old Home Town Week. stones: Both corundum a.. •, t� develop many new deposits of suitable
occur in Canada, but no = material will probably be found, as
quality has yet been there are large areas in which the'
gem
In recent ,years the use s geological formations give promise of
of abrasive materials, 'Doti p l '
their, pro b1e a urrence, see
ee
and artificial, has greatly increased,
About As Usual.
and there are now very few articles, in Uncle Tybalt and Aunt Pretty led a
factory or home, ether than textiles, regular and normal life. They guar -
that have not been subjected to the reled steadily and, you might say, me-
actionh' of abrasives. On account of chanically, for many years, and doubt -
this increase in demand, the Mines
Branch of the Department of Mines is. less loved each other devotedly all
making special investigations of Cana- the time they were Being so. Of the
dian abrasive minerals, including gar family some members habitually sided
net. with hire and gathers with her, .and
Garnet is really. a very common thus aided in keeping the row going
' Lord Chrlst,r beneath thy starry dame Various . villages; towns and small
We light the' '-inkling • : cities have been, are or will be holding
town: ks, "this r�urnmer.
throng s' a• d old , rl'ay who hiive been
Uplift our prayer and evensong, 1 away from the place which saw their
Dost thou, with heaven in Thy ken, birth, which attended to their school-
Seek still a dwelling place -with men, ing or gave thorn memorable years in
Wandering the' world in ceaseless their early days, return after absences
quest? varying from one to sixty years and
O Man of Nazareth., be "our guest!
from distances running in some cases
to-' thousands •of miles. Those who
Lord Christ, the bird his nest has have been a long time away open their
found, {egos with surprise at what they see.'
The fax is sheltered in his ground, I In the years that have intervened the
But dost Thou still this, dark earth !
rocking cradle has never been idle and
tread in spite of the constant drain by large
And have no place to lie Thy head? f cities of the continent most of them
have either maintained or increased
their population. More than that the
macadam roads and 'board sidewalks
have given way to concrete pavements
and cement walks, the back -yard pump
and shabby stables to waterworks sys-
"� terns and garages. The trees, which
were always beautiful, have grown
The. Canadian National Parks higher, and as` the. old fences have
Branch, of the Department of the In gone with many other old things, life
terior, which is keeping- the file of in the old town apps -1s to the jaded
Canadian Bird Banding Records; has eyes of the old-timer as a much bet-
Canadian
received a band of a kind dif- ter thing than anything he eco ease
fering Prem the official bird -bands across outside it, But he recognizes
the e houses and:
physiographical si r '
p y o a hrcal sea.
g p
used in Canada and the United States
and an endeavor Is being made to , tures of the old town better than• he
trace its origin. It is, made of alums does'some of the n i boys and girls,
num' and has the number "57" stamped Itis hard to discern: in ;the stout body
on it. Mr, Arthur Shuttleworth, of and rubicund features of one man the
Plummer, Ontario, found the band on slim stripling one knew at school,
a young teal duck which he shot on While trees Have grown in the town,
Cariboo Lake, District of Algoma, On • hair •has fallen off or grown white on
g many a head.. Yet it makes no differ-
tarso, on September 12, 1923, The ence, The years ,fall away as though
band will be lent to responsible per- by magic and old times walk again'
sons who consider that they may be for a space.
able to furnish information concern- j It is • a good idea—a beau est
ing it, Application should be made to' , geste, as
the Commissioner Canadian Natio the, French say—and blessings on the
Parks, Ottawa. National man who first thought of it Alto -
Shepherd of mortals, here behold
A little flock, a wayside fold, •
That wait Thy presence to be blest=
O Man of Nazareth, be our guest!
—Daniel Henderson.
Unofficial Bird -Bands.
geth•er aside from the sentimental side
of it, I do not thing most towns and
b small cities could employ their money
i better, in advertising their manifold at-
tractions than in calling back those
with most reason to love then, be-
cause these, seeing how much the old
town has accomplished in their ab-
sence, will bruit it abroad without pay
or thought of it.
These occasions have brought home
to many people from the large cities
that the small towns and cities have
overtaken them in the matter of ads`
vantages. Except for theatres and
concerts and the University these
IIII small towns offer to the dwellers •�there_.
in every advantage that =the city can
') and for . less money. Lancs costs are
' d 'lower and therefore rents and building
costs• are not so high. Taxes as a con -
The Reason. sequence ` on industries are lighter
i` "Mal Gee, I hate t" git my face and workingmen with better helmet;
'arid hands and feet 'neverything , find larger gardens are more content=.
rt
di' I'm gle,d you do child, and why?"' + ed. -%Torn Saturday Night.
" 'Cause you always make me git in
+ Fully Equipped.
the tub."
1 A disabled soldier bad been so long
1 in alio hospital that it seemed like
} home and he was anxious to impress
City In the'Abyee. I+ it tiibrits on all eaglets,
1 There is a, quicksilver mine le Pent "Why," he exclaimed, "it's the most
`1,70 fatheene in eircuinferenoe and 480 completes lis the country. They have
meet deep., In this protiotind abyee are uti eye speoioailist,, a throat specialist,
titresta, squares and •a eliapel ivh^ie as t;ose specialist, and they even have
k•ellgions worship is held, lettrncs for internal dieeeSes.''
The Garment of Habit.
Our lives are a mass !of hibits•. It it
were not so, we could not live at all,
We wake and get up and dres -e eat
and walk and work, we , :, w i ' 'and
think and love andel eaten
sleep again largely by hi! .. ;If. we
were forced to perform all tats Inde-
pendently, originally, the efeort, of liv-
ing would be intolerable A' merciful-
ly small peat of our act"ion dependa .up-
on voilition and `deliberate reasoning:
In the main we do what our fathers
did, as they imitated• their fathers, and.
so back to the beginning of time.
Education. is the forming of habits.
They begin in the cradle, or before we
Of Course They Have Wheels. get to it. The one great business• of
Johnny — "Dad, have baseball 'parents and teachers is to• see that our
coaches got wheels?"habits are what they should be, and
Dad- "Mast of 'em have, John." with ail the mighty effort and nog ta-
--:�_- tion that are put into the task how of.
Oldest Haaadwritingof Ndaaa. ten they turn out to be what they
One small' temple has been found should not! How immense, how rigid
whenever uncle or aunt seemed likely in "[Jr of the Chaldees" (whence and constrainingy even in its subtle
mineral, and occurs in several varie- to slow down or give out. Abraham sprang)containing the old- pexibility; this encompassing mould
ties, having slightly different compass There was also an eccentric brother- .est works of art in metal yet known," of habit is we realize only when we
tion and calor, and varying consider- says a recent British Museum "tom- endeavor to change it or break it or
in-law who lived with them the meet
ably in hardness, toughnes , and of the time for several years and for munique." There is also a marble
method of breaking. Far abrasive•pur tablet, in the old.Sumerian language,
poses the mineral should be very some reason took sides with neither
hard harder than quart or sand but he died rather young. I giving a chronicle of kings; and dynes-
and it should break into sharp angu- They went on thus till their rages ; ties suggesting the date 4500 B.C. The,
lar fragments without curves, or were run and they were laid away,' report adds: "Even if that chronology
rounded edges, so the it will easily whereafter in due course their sorrow has to be modified, we have now the
cut or abrade the articles under treat-
ed
relatives erected a handsome stone oldestelated example of man's hand
over them, on which it was p fifty-eight
writing and the oldest known triumphs
went. Approximately 95 per cent. of ed that they had enjoyed fifty-eight of the art of Tubal -Cain. The mar
the garnet mined throughout the worlda cloud of discard darkenin their ble tablet records the building of true
is used on paper or olath, and the years. .happy married life wit.. never
! temple of the goddess Nin, in:the time
of the third dynasty of the kings of
Ur, after Noah's deluge. Tubal -Cain
was "the man o2 might in the days
when :the earth we young" who "fas-
term "sand paper" is often applied,
generally, to papers coated with sand,
emery, corundum, or garnet.
Little is yet known about the exist:
ence of commercial deposits of abra-
sive garnet in Canada. In Ontario,
the Bancroft Mining Syndicate has
been producing a good type of garnet
from a rich vein near Bancroft. A
promising deposit of larger extent but
lower garnet dantent at Parry Sound
has been well prospected and will
probably become an economic pro-
ducer. Near Sudbury, Ont, there is
another promising exposure, about 50
feet wide, and traceable for a con-
siderable distance. The centre of the
deposit contains well -formed garnets,
horizon.
Destroying Predatory Fish.
The destruction of nearly /8,000 people preach
coarse fish, principally squawfish, by hioned the'' first plowshare," as Charles ago inst 'habits,' and
the staff of the Cuitus Lake Hatchery, Mackay points out in his commentary some seem to have- a far hotter mas-
B.C•, is announced by the Department on Gen, iv,, 22. tery of them than others•,
sot Marine and Fisheries. This work
was undertaken as a result of thein-
vestigations that were made when the
sockeye yearlings• were migrating
from Cultus. lake to the sea. It was
noticed that the goldfish were feed-
ing
eeding on the young salmon and an ex-
amination of the stomachs. of a num-
ber of those caught gave an average of
three yearling salmon to each squaw -
fish.
throw It off. Get a bad habit fastened'
apon you, appreciate its badness, set
all the energy you have to geting rid ,
of it, and you learn the might,of habit.
We have all ,tried, arid we have all
failed, and we•"all know. '
The intensity of such an effort and
its too frequent futility impress upon
us the terrible danger of habit. It is • •
a fine thing to be an your guard
.against it, to keep your, life,and char-
acter as fluid as possible, responsive
to outward calls and stimuli, ready to.
answer in an instant to the controlling
demands of the intelligent will. Many
Kind Boy
Acable Visitor—"Well, and do you
do a good deed every day, Tommy?"
Tommy -"Yes, sir, Yesterday I
visited my aunt in the country, and
she was glad- Today I came back
home again, and she was glad again!"
If London's so £ one year could -
be collected in a pile it would cover
Westminster Abbey,
Competitors are shown in the heed -drilling contest at Cobalt, which was one of the many featut es of the Old
Boys Ieusiion held in the northern mining town recently.
All . the same, habit iv a beautiful
thing, and above all, a restful. . Mr.
Pepys's mother had an old :dressing
gown, which she called her kingdom,
because she took so much comfort in
it. The garment of habit Is one 'of im-
mense comfort and delicious ease.
Only it behooves us to see that it be
made of substantial stuff and that its
cut and fashion be such as will con-
duce to dignity and will not discredit
us in the eyes of those We love,
World's Fastest Trains.
The highest train speed, 120 miles
an hour, is said to have been made by
a train running frram Fleming .to Jack-
s.onville, on the plant system, in :the
United States, a distance of five utiles,
in 2 minuted 30 eeconds, representing
a speed of over 115 miles an hour,'
The record speed for a British tail.
way was a run en the Great Western,
in May, 1004, when, • after passing
through the Whitehall Tunnel, the
Plymouth to Paddington nail train
for a time ran at a speed of 102,3
miles an lroerr,
This run wee properly • clocked—
that is, It was roccedecl by an expert
taking the time with a split-second
chronometer, which gives the exact
speed within a decimal.
British railways hold the greatest
number of habitttally high speed inns.
over short distances„ regularly lock
ed by exports.
Core Grpwe -l•ilgh
Corn -Cows"' near II Jew, i:olivin;-at
elevations of 12,600 feet above sea
letrel.
Whales kill Seals.
Thousands of fur seals• are killed an.
uually by killer whales