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the .i.,highest point of, Wray
'we, 'that hump of land in North -
gm. -France made &eeriest by the thou -
o! Canadian .soldiers who
Plight and died on its slopes, the
gyeatedt monument raised by Canada I
th her soldiers, stands completed. On
hdy'20th the new memorial will be
•unveiled by His Majeity the King be-
tfore 6,600 pilgrims from. ,Catiada and
rePresientaaives.:from many natlions.
•• Three thand men from Canada
!who fought to, victory at Virny and
other battles will be there. and '
many al their families. Widows and
epee and daughters of the men who
went to fight aiali never returned will
also be present at the anveil.ing.
• iFront the crest -of the ridge the Na-
tional Mem,orial look.s out to the east
Over the Dcuai plain, To the west it
looks. ,on. -the posi.tions held by the
Canadians •before they s'urged forward
in the on•silaught • of April 9., 1917,
that brought the greatest glory in
the history of Canadian arms. Fight-
ing as a unit for the first time the
_Canadian Corps in the battle of Virnv
Ridge gained..one• of 'the 'greatest' st.ic
cess -es of the Great War. It drove
the Gennans, from their strong posi-
tion on !the ridge, pushed back their
line. for aver two miles on a fear mile
front and took 4.000 prisoners. Con-
edian sacrifices were also heavy. In
-that April fighting the 'corps had 13,-'
4g7 casualties. . . .
The Memarial on Vimy Ridge is
,de•dicatred. ve the 6:1,000 Canadians
wile died in the Great War and to
thevelar of their comrades,. who sur-
vived. On the front are" inscribed the
names of 11,285 Canadian soldiers,
whose bodies Were never fouadeSese
en thousand other names cif Canadian
Missieg are' already inscribed on the
Menin Gate at Yeiresd
Towering 140 feet from the ground
the Memorial dominates the sure
!rounding countryside from its eleva-
tion. It is 235 feet .wide and 150 feet
!deep from front to 'back, and. con
tans 50,000toes of stone. •The te-
tall cost wa,s 81,000,0g0.. The nionu-
ment • was recently completed by W.
.SdAllwaid.• the sculptor and architect
Who has been working on it fee a
numb,er Of years..
Constreetion , of the .merrierial eves
first decided ono by the Caeadian Gov-
emment in 1922. The„site. 250 acres.
•. of land on the height of V.i.111T Ridge,
was given to Canada in. perpetuity
-„isetne French Government,. To de-
terreine the de -sign • the, GoVerierient
;helcl a competition which was won
by -Mr. A•llevard.• •
The two pylons reaching u:pward
.freim the base symbolize the two al -
led armies,„ tine decorated with the
fiesidndearns representing the French
saint the 'otherecanfying a crown stand -
nig for the British. Betweenthe two
,ipylons stands the Spirit of Sacrifice,
whe is throwing the torch on to his
comrades. Above him are the figures
of' Peace, Justice, Truth and Knowl-
edge.
The 20scultpured figures, maleand
female, round the base symbolaz.e the
nation, its soldiereand iteId.eals. At
--Die brae VallS are -the 'defen5''.
ere onte group .showing the Breaking
ef the Sword. andoth,e other .pbrtrey-
ing the Sympathy of the nation for
the .H.elpleas.
The mouths of guns covered with
olive andlaurel appear above. On
the wall the heroic figure of Canada
eta:4s brooding over her dead and
laeiow her is suggested a grave with
helmet and 'laurels.. The whole mann
oriel is a "sermon in stene ..against
the.futility of war" in the words of
Mr. Allwaed.
• The walls surrounding -the ,m01111-
ment are from six to eight feet thick.
.Each piece of stone is dovetailed into
its neighbor and bound with bion.ze
clamps. The ,whole,is supported on a
concrete base going 30 feet into the
grc.-,.md. • .
The Vimy 'and Battlefields Pilgilan-
age,that will take he 6.000' to the en-
mies on July 26th has
been organizsci by the Canadian Leg-
ion of the British Empire Service
• League. Five Ocean liners will carry
the edignines from 'Mo.ntreal to Eur-
ope, The Acania and the' Antania
-et' the !Cunard -White Star Line sail-
ing on July 16th and the C. P. R.
liner !Duchess of Bedford', leaving oh
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duly. 17th, will take, then parties to
'le Havre. The .. Montcalm a.nd the
Montreee, also leaving on July 16th,
will land the Tinge:Met at Antwerp'.
All the ships except the Duchess ef
'Bedford are chartered exclusively for
the. tptilgrims.
After landing at 11-levre and Ant-
werp on July 241h, the peaties will
go 'by, train and. buesto visit e'er/Teter-
' ies',='-hattlefields And towns whose
names were familiar in war tone.
The Havre 'contingent will go by.4e-
ciel train to Line and from there me-
ter . •ceaches will take them on
tbroulgh the Ypeei salient, and to
Messines,' St. Elea, "Dickebuseh, Pop-
eringhe and Varnerthinghe. Later
they will „visit Canadian memorials
at Rill 62, Passchendaele, and
Juilien. On July 27th, the day f1 -
a,r -Memorial
On Vimy Ridge
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lowing the unveiling of the. Virny
m,enrerial the party will go to Areas,
Cambrai, Baupaume and Albert be -
fere entraining for' Havre. The par-
ties from Antwerp will go.- to the
Same plates in reverse eddee....Spe-
dal arrangements have been made
for 1,000 pilgrims svhe wish to visit
different ,oemeteries. , On July' 27ith
the parties will be, taken on their
ships t� London, 'where they will
spend fair days before 'sailing for
Canada, •
Many veterans will see for the first
oime In nearly 20 year the 'country
that they faught-ever during the
war.
,The thoughts of thousands of ex-
servioe men will be carried back to
that bitter cold dawn of Easter Mon-
day, April 9, 1917, when they stood
packed ie 'their trenches, below the
German defenhe system on Vimy
Ridge. On the dat ,of 5.30 a.m. a
series of single rackets sho upwa
through the lifting darkness.
Before the rockets had finished
their..ectaree " " thousand, guns creasia
ed out, sending a flailing blast on the
German positions. Waives ,of seldiers
,broke from the. Canadianetrenichee a
few minutes later to da-sh on the en-
emy defences opposite. The 75,000
strong Canadian corios went into ac-
tion.
In 40 . -minutes the first objective
had been Obtained. .Jump be jump
theinfantry moved forward, follow-
ing the !Creeping bairage laid down by
the thundering guns behind. The Sec-
ond objectives .had been gained in
meet sectors by -noon, end by two
enlock...
the 'Crinadiens, !twere e in pos-
session of the vvihole, west of the
ridge except a small part.
Only on theleftwas, the. attack
lield up. There -Hill 45, the 'side of
the !present Manorial, was a hard
nut to eta.ck and did not fall until
the second day. The nearbyrise,
"The Piniple,"' held out „until April.,
12th, three days after the opening of
the offensive.
The capture of Virny Ridge initiat-
ed the Battle of Arras, one of the
great allied • operations of the 'Great
War. On May 3rd Freeman slix,mileis
..from the starting point of the Cana -
(lien troOps, fell. Arleux having been
-metered five .days before . by the
First: Crinadian. Dilvision. • In less
than e. mentlesefi.ghting the Canedien,
.44:n1as, In addition to capturilieVimy
Ridge, 'had taken 5,090 prisoners, 55
field.' and heavy guns and huge grimn!
titieS ef war material. • •
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ON WARPATII.
AGAINST PEDLARS
(From Stylewe'ar *Review)
!It. is encouraging to note that
many of the daily and weekly news-
reapers•in 'variouspartsp±' Canada are
again aceively taking up the tu'dgels
on behalf of independent retailers
against the inroadsof pedlars. A
s.ach-newiananers...-112.13...re-
cently given consid•erahle space on
then- edit -alai pages to a discussion
of the position of the local merchant.
las dependence !upon local trade, and
his effort to 'serve the cameremity.
They have emphasized the point that
pedlars and transient traders should
not be patronized because for the
most part they•re,present an effort to
undermine the local rinercliants who
are paying' the taxes and contribut-
ing to. theupkeep of ,the town.
/It appears' there is considerable
'abuse of the regulations governing
pedlars. For instance, a house to
house salesman who has . written
,autherity to represent a• manufactur-
er whose prodeco is made ir Ontario
ie classed as a marerfacturede. .agerit
or representative instead Of a seed-
ier.
'Following is, 4 paragraph from an
editorial in the Picton, Ont. "Times"
on this subject:
"These transient traders • do irre-
parable .hatineto -the -local ,merchants
who. are the mainstay of this com-
munity. Every business in this town
.is subjected to constant sniping by
outside influen•ces. The local busi-
nesses pay taxes and the greet ma-
jority of those depending on those
businesses bay, we hope, in Pictan.
If this situation where local citizens
send their money outside, continues
to be aggravated, first one local bus-
iness will cease and then another, un-
til the vicious circle spreads' and en-
gulfs the very people who were re-
seronsiible for it. • When that condi-
tion arrives there will be only a need
for, say one ibank, one druggist, one
dentist who will strive to eke eat a
living fromthe remnants Of h once
prospermis town destroyed by tits loy-
al and near-sighted citizens."
The intereests o,f 'keel merehants
Alai local newspapers are one. Thee
are dependent upon each other and
can 'co-operate to good adlyantage.
The local newspaper is the medium
through which educational effort
must be applied to 'change buying
habits of the local people. Every
merchant 'bothered with this, 'type of
competition .shlould take steps to se-
cure the co-operation of his local
nareparper publisher so . as to fully
infrrm the townspeople as tc; how
they, themselves, are 'coneern'ect in
the. mafiter of where their ,shopping
is done.
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Cornwall Plowing Match
Plevernen and other inteeested eiti•-
zenis of Essrbern Ontario have plans.
weli developed to 'intake the 1936 In-
ternational Plowing Match equaIlY as
sucess.siful as these of previ•ous years..
The and to be Itowed and IlecatiOn
of (headquarters were 'approved by a
teinanittee of bitePevineij Associa,.
tin yiaited the •area •retently,
Very erithifaiastie johit Meetings
were ateld and prospect§ are very
anOtilter tinceettIttl ,tiiateh
Ottets1Der Eith- t Oth.
Did YouErKuw
(Contirked from Page 2)
nest on behalf of the Government and
Messrs, Downie, Fallerton, McGil-
livray, Logan land Galt; on behalf ef
the company, were contained in a
dispatoh to Sir Peregrine Maitland,
ther Lt. -Governer ,Upper Canada,
dated 'Downiag Street, 24th of May,
1326, and the general features may
be judged from" the following . ex-
cerpt from the original.
• . . In lieu of the abeve befare-
Af
neentioned 829,43.0 acres (on, Clergy
Reserves), His Majesty's Government
,grant and convey to the Canada
Company for the .sarne price of $1415,-
150 sterling and 'five shilling curren-
cy, a block of and containing 1,000,-
000 acres be, the territory lately pur-
chased :tram the Indians, in the Lon-
don and western districts. One-third
dpart of the above fore -mentioned sine
in currency, shall he !expended by
the Canada Company in public works
and improvements Within the said
block ef land; and the rerniaining two-
thirds part only of the sum in cur-
rency shall -be actually paid to His
Majesty's •Governin•ent. By the
terms "public works and improve -
meets," will be imiderstood canals,
thigh roads, churches,
wha ves, .schoolhouses, and ,other
Work undertaken for the benefit of
SPibiectS residenkwithe
,int t tportion of the Province of
Upp r Canada, in •oontra,clistinetion to
work intended for the u!se and acenne
mode on of ,private persons." • "
The ar,:ngement clid not in-
terfere wit the original one in re-
spect to &elm Reserves, which to
the extent of 1,384,413 acres, scat-
tered throu.ghout almost every eoun-
ty then surveyed in Upper 'Canada,
the eompany still . maintained as
agreed upon. .
The townships of. sy,lhich they be-
came possessed en bloc, under the
berme of the second agreement with
tatifurat, were Bos.anquen• in
flie'Counin. of Lambton; Biddulph,
(McGillivray and Williams, , in the
'County of Middlesex; Blanshard,
Downie, i Easthope, Ellice, Fullerton,
Hilbbert, Logan, In the County of
,Plerth; and Colborne, Godericih, Hay,
Hallett, Melqllop, Stanley,'" Stephen,
Tucker Slridith (it -was originally spel-
led that 'way and then changed to
Tuckersmith) and Ushorne, in the
!Oormty of Huron.
Elis
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. Director Hampered '
John Galt, as director for the
Canada dismpany, in, lie • Huron
Traen, was overzealously • watched,
!and as a result he was 'hampered. At
sone. time they shut off the supply "of
,moneyease _him. This happened vrhan
Colonel Van Egmond was building a
road. Galt then had to resort to
paying with the only cerniinie.dity
.wtherr he had . . I* wit, the land
owned by the company, •
The 'health an -leg the laborers
on Many. occasions was very .essor.
The fallowing is taken • from Mr.,
account -elf his, week, to show
this:
"But theaugh the magnitude of the
Caesarean operations on the road was
gratifying to the ima.gination, it oc-
cesioned ,s'onte. painful ,tugs to hu-
manity. One morning, upwartis of
40 of the men came in afflicted with
the eerie, They were the, color of
eaurrunies and, by the hardships
dresenllyeamacia.tede....L. had written
tosthe directors to let me 'hire a doe,
tor for a year do the settleinent, but
Ino attention was paid to the settle-
r:ler:Ire welfare; however, I ordered e
surgeon to he engaged as a clerk:3.1d
.raide Him conspereation for. his
akin."
teiptiniene are Veiled as to the
'Canada •!Corepane, end the particular
amount of credit whieh is due to it,
in the- case of its development of the.
Huron Tract.
An early historical sketch 'of 1879
lidoes not credit the Canada Trust in
a very high (way. It, deletes as fol-
lows:
"It shOuld be remembered by those
who offer, .as the chief argument in
their ,favor, the fact of their givieg
the people * many public improve-
ments, that the Canada Company
were spending thereby 'onlythe one-
third .value bf tihe land, as they were
bound by the origin.al agreement with
the Govermirent to 'do, and that a
very lenge proportion of these works
were paid for by the -sale 'of this yery
same land; which they had bought
for 3s 6d 'per • acre (payable one-third
in improvenients and the balance' in
money, in 16 years), at prices rang-
ing from $1.50 to $2.50e per acre. The
balance ief evidence, in 'fact, which
We have' been able to .obtain goes n
prove conclusivel•y that the "Canada
Comlpany" were, thro.egh and thraugh
an unconscionable . and unserepulaus
ring of "lancl-gra'bIbers" which this
country at least bad any knowledge
of; and it is the opinion lel all
candid -minded acquainted ••vvith the
circumstances, that the great suc-
cess attending the !early setement:
and subsequent, development of bhe
"Huron, Tract" was due solely to the
great natural advantagee 1tf, ter-
ritory and the enterprise
e Set-
tlers; a,nd was aceomplished rather in
spite of thie monopolists than by their
aid."
Opinions, are diversiged however,
from the memoirs of one of the earl-
iest settlers I quote the following ro
F..lhiow that at least in some eaves, the
company was respected and thanked
by the emigrees to 'the tract.
"I an: I•ogging the slash and as I
look around at my forest .h•ame I am
oftee reeved to exclaim: t"God bless,
the Canada Company, because if it
were not for them and Doctor Dun-
lop, 1 weuld etillobewithout a borne."
All old eettlers with vrharn i I have
eineoareed, however, have told me
that no matter whet the !principles
Of the company's Capitalistic direc-
'tors may have 'been, the men in
charge here. in Canada were '
particularly ,sympathetic nature,
wards the colonists, who had • to
brave the Agars of settlingirra new
and virgin section.
was at Garb -raid, Dr. Dunlop'si
11.07114 sense the river from the town
of Cede -rich, where' he entertained the
new settlers and ton more than One.
oeeasion idireoted them in .their am.
dertakings.
It was at Galt, on the everting be-
fore .the present 'city of Guelph was
foritided that Galt and Dotter Dina
lop fillat tnet. :Gallt in a. tater report
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with a reo er 5Q yeas as a most seas,
factory tree ea foe. piles or hemorrhoids,
yott osa positively depend on
px;$414.0.12L_Ttmer4
mentioned Dunlop as holding a "rov-
ing ciernmission •under the Canada
Cemtp.any."
Galt's life as director was
an easy one, because' of the many in-
stances when his profitslering em-
ployers froweed ,on hi a open-handed
generosity, because in many eases it
served to divert 'Portions of the pro-
fit flour their enterpritee. They ham-
!pered:htlin, and, because of their ig.
norance of the elemeInts with whieh
he bad to contend, they iststued order's
which he was unable to carry out.
Slow eenimunieation evith them AIX-
thered the difficulty.
The main contention against the
Canada 'Carnpany, was that they pos-
ed a's isatriet•ic philantro,phists. Early
En,elisli writers enhanced this, by
calling them sech, and if it were in
the present day* would be counted
as just so Much "free advertising."
All in all, we must rememberfi how-
ever, that Western Ontario owes a
delbt to Galt and Dualop, be,caus,e of
their intrefild courage, re.„.theatace
the gamey clifficultiess ea/Ugh, 'bes
them, " as 'wen 'ea.' the resperiathill
cast on their shoulders in the task'
of Colonizing and building up the
Huron Tract.
Some Reconections
of Ned Hanlan
(By J. W. Barry in The Mail and
- Empire) „ - •
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IElighty.-one years ago yesterday,
the World-famoui Ned Harden was
'born across at Toronto Island. and it
may truly be said that Ned, while
he lilved, 'was the Shekespeare.ef.the
meting warld, even though. present-
day 'rowing experts claim Sculler
Pearce super to the great .Ned him-
eelf-lbut that's another story. From
th; year 1876, when Ned, handeome,
lithe and strong e fikedeohis firste big
win. at Philadelelhia. Canadians affec-
tionately. ,called him the "Boy 'in
Blue." Then be weighed 166,.: was
'5' 7", high, and ,selperior mental fac-
t:rite enable him to easilyout-general
his rivals and establish that iminere
tal phrase, "Winner of, one hundred
races" that is chiselled on his splen-
did memorial ho Exhibition Park, To;
isintee--a memorial that .portray's Ned
looking wibh affection • across, the lake
toward. .his 4;„„...hOme at Ilanlan'.s_
Point. There .is dignity in this mem-
orial that Surpasses imost. memorials.
• First Recollections •
I first remember Ned Hanlan when
as a bit of a lad, I . was taken over
to Hanlants Point by my grandSather
to see the "Boy in Blue" stand up
In his shell in rough water; a feat as
•clicult to do es...Blondin walking
that rope acrose the Niagara Gage
-and all "single-scullers will verify
thie statement -bet Ned did it to
the Queen's taste that day, and his
skill remains pietured in my memory
these fifty Years. My first real con-
tract with • Ned -Mahn Wei 'When I
joined the 'Argonauts in 1900. At
this dee !Ned, then on the retired
used to frequent the Argonaut
Club, foot of York Street, because of
his high regard for Percy. Galt, Joe
Weignit and alil •things nautical. Ned
seldom •came on week -days, but Sun-
day maiming was, 'Ned's big rebeption
hour. Then, !sitting o a soap box
an the rear float, the able raconteur,
Ned, slime startling yarns while we
!amateurs, with eyes like saucers,
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marvelled' that one small head could
carryaall he knew aboilt 1:be science
of Towing, and how to win races,
hands down! ."Go to it, boys; it's
ease' was his slogan to us.'
.
Was Child's Play
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'Certa)inly, whenever Ned talked Of
the 100 eacee he bam
d won, he made
it plain to us that racingliad been
,child's play to him, and .not a tough
proposition as most oarsmen call it.
For instance, I well remember one
Sunday merning,Ned, !more tvivacious
and factedoute thanusual, told) of a
race he had in Australia, when, after'
leaving his opponent fax behind, he
met a man, in a boat with a load of
h1ay; .stopped the mart, climbed on
t :e bay.and after a good 'snoeze,:g
ifito his shell again alai won Mr 8
lengths! Vile kind of vivid yarn was
Ned's style 'when hitting on both
tonsils. Another time he told us that
!once when racing on Toronto Bay,
he got so far ahead of his rival that
he stolpped !rowing, and for awhile
fanned himself With a little fan be
carrlietl,nto the delight of his ad-
mirers, and to the chagrin of his
epponent. (This actually 'happened
at the time Ned was the talk, of the
world). Another . Sunday morning,
at another Iranian\ lestee J remem-
ber a !heated -dialogue 'between 'Ned,
squatting en a beer -keg, and the re-
doubtable Tommy 1Church. The sub-
ject under discussion twee *Fame -
which in our eyea, Ned baskedi. in,
as much as he did in the morning
sun.
Verbal Conflict •
After mach verbal conflict Ned
finally said, "Well Tommy, when you
die, eau% get a column in the news-
papers, but When I go they'll give me
pages and pages" . . . There Wes
moretruth than piety in Ned'e vale-
diefery, for when he dii•ed in 1908, his
prophecy came truer Of tourse when
Ned, at 'high -noon, migrated' from
the ranks of the hei-pedloi on the
float, to the upper. verandah of the
'Clubhouse, to perhaps debate ith
the docile Percy Gait, Ned, a e -
leen -like, trek on parliamentary cols
or as gentle as the gentile Percy him-
iself, foe Ned had Inalna Por more
than 36 year§ now, it lhas been -rear
proud boast that 1, More than onee,
rowed 'bow' iri a wankingefonr,
stroked ba Ned Hanlon . . . Ned
was the finestt strellte I ever rowed
'behind . . Ned Was a itt4oke who,
iby intelligence and experience, aaattld-
"feed" a arena to theynever' gleat
*m .
ei VeS, rato,:it $ok. to 015tv
behindNed itintio,,alta &bonito*,
of those spins acros§„ the ay *Oh'
NrrNor•••.••••••••••mr•Re.;,•,..0.0•9•••ehof.•••""ir
xperiences of -a Western
Censuo - Taker
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AnnTre- .1
(As Told to Kathleen Redman Straege 1 Toronto Saturday Night)
• If there's one thing this job has
taught me, it is something about wo-
men, and the Way they live. 'How
nice some womencan be about their
homes, and others -how unpleasant]
woman are the ones the census -taker
mainly deals with, for they are at
home\, all., d1J long, and even when
the hUsband le present too, it -is the
seamen who ustially does most of the
.(At one house I visited, the
wife even ordered, her husband out
of the rooin-and lie' went meekly
while, she answered my questions and
showed me how to fill out the form!)
happened. to be rather a de-
pressing neighiloorthead, though „many
of the peeple I .met were themselves
far from depressing. It was not one
orthe worst in the city by any means
but one %of those !districts that give
one the feeling of fallen greatirese-
streets of moderate-sized - houses,
with here and • there- a once -preten-
tious home, but mostof them dingy-
laokingeeeedly in need of paint and
repaii, wrt Setgging. verandahs, .brok-
"en window panes, littered front yards.
Now, and again, set down incongru-
ously among them, a smart looking
apartment house.
On these streets 'I went into hous-
es that, though small, were clean and
neat; where families with small in-
comes or on relief ;struggled bravely
to keep up the appearance of better
clays. I went into others that smelled
of -dirt and stale food or reeked of
cheep perfume; in them I'encounter-
ed doors that opened stealthily' and
dears that ,sometimes 'offered .no re-
sponse ' ••
Sone' of the. 'women who greeted
me were spick and span -good house-
wives. -who greeted -me courteously,
invited me inside ,with a pleasant
smile, drew up a -chair and sometimes
even offered me a .cup .of tea. On
the other hand, perhaps 'right next
door, I would come upon some .slat
ternly .woman, only half-dressed. at
,eleven in .the .morning, a womazi who
nOtivieusly spent her time.. reading,
dawdling and gossipieg when she
should have been washing the dirty
dishes that were still standing on the
table from breakfast: . • •
There iv e 1.2 women who met me
aggressively; 0:hers who s'lam'med
the'door in my face. alley took my
visit, as a personal affront and re-
garded me with ,sitspicion and dis-
trust. Some even •challenged msdim-
enideecessin ,s.!eiling at, all. "Isn't this
a free cannery thee'arould demand.
"What right have you to come but-
ting into our ,private affairs!" When
I explained that L personally had no-
thing to do with inthat I was mere-
ly an agent of the 'Government, they
usea113,- toped: down a little. The very
word Government seended to have, a
psychological effect, .especially among
the foreigners They would ask me
in then, reluctantly ereough,, and try
to make .rny visit as difficult as..pos-
sible by pretending to, be stupider
than they really were.
'There were other women who seem,'
ed to regard my visit in the nature
'of a-Q.:alai...cell.. ,They would. tellme
all about themselves and their fam-
ilies and the people on the street:
How such people wasted one's time!
Theyquite forgot that the census -
taker didn't get peid by the hour but
by the namea and it tdak a, good
many names at five •cents per to earn
hints, decent iremuneratien for 'along
sly'" work.
About' fifty 'per cent. of the 'people
with 'whore I came into contact were
able. to • answerall of the thirty-six
questions fairly' --T he
rather fifty per cente didn't have, to
think . very long to remember What
their name was, whether they could
read, write, .speak English .an d
French,. their own age and birthplace,
how .many children they had, and
!whether they_ Were -single, Married,
•divorced, or legally separated.. But
,when it came to. remembering bow
inany,• years -they Went 'to. school, Or
When they tame to Canada., or the
ages of their children, how many
months their husbands iwerked prior
to June Isit of this year, and what
their husband's acteal income' was,
then Almost allof them began to
scratch their .heaals.
"Now, let. inc See, I wentto school
hen I was ,six,, and then I was out
or one year after having the scarlet
fever -it left Inc with a weak chest,
you knew -and then I went up to till
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Ned, still refreshes me. .
I well recall one Sunday, after we'd
had dinner at the Walked' House
(marvellous Argonaut rendezvous in
thtose days tin the matter o' beer),
Ned Hanlan, stroke; Joe Wright, N.
W. Linton, and, Briery ea- hew -man,
eowed :round the' Ialand in -a .S.o.W.
gale . . •, Ned( was determined to
go', so we went .• . . ,and what a row
we had, for the crew -Was, top-heavy,
even for a 'working -boat.
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Never Grew Up
After getting' clear of the Eastern
'Gap, we struck 'high seas ozetaide,
but kept going. Well, to make a
long row short, we had to land on
the' Island theee times!. and empty
the boat, and I sighed a sigh of re-
lief, ak big as a ,ploUnd o' wool, when
we turned into tiliee.,W,setere Gap and
headed 1±' or biome. Mean afternoon
Ned's stroking in that rough water
Was Simply a poem. (To old-timers,
.1 ask; "Can you imagine the veter-
an Joe Wright rowing No. 3 behind
anyone except Ned Hanlan?").. The
,last outings Med Hanlan had with
the.Argonauts Were shortly before
his death, when,.. on the :Odd Sunday
mernieg bed piae er-feur
old tweeters • and stroke the club's
to the Hulmber. 'Off the, Old
,Port, from. lavieh ,sunalane and ex-
ercise. Nedts, .pores poured forth in
exultation, and in the 'midst of this
Turkish bath, the .world's Champion
Weald; dive ,overboard' ,and itokim and
MOW round the "gig",like walrus
drippfing and re:fr.-tallied; -.Je-
annie. Neal. the; "goy ittDiueA" was
alwarks bur tilce Peter
Pan and Itinling, was a lad Who nielv,i
.est gteiW. up!. • .
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seventh grade, only they didn't call
them -grades in England but stand,
ards. 1 had to leave thexi because pa
I,ost his job and we kids had:to get
)out and 'earn our own living. How
many years is that? Seven? ,Yes, I
guess that ,must be it!"
;Sometimes they canle to Canada
when they were so young that they'
didn't remember the date at all and
there were usually no records handy
tq provide the information. One or
two ,people Isencountered couldn't tell
Me exactly where they came from in
the nest 'place!
e Few wiamen seemed to know exact-
ly 'what their, husbands earned. "lie
never tells me, but he'll have • to
now!"
,Most people are proud of their na-
tionality, especially the English. "Yes
Pan,Engaish," they would say. "Eng-
lish to \the backbone.. Beenout here
forty years come next August, but
I'm still aiming to 'go back home
When times get better. Canada's all
right„ but •give me. !Englen.dr?' • • • •
. On the other hand, most • of the
.fereign born -especially the central
'Eteropearis-were .setiefied enough
with • this country. "I've done better
in Canada than I'd ewer do in the
Old Co/entry," they would tell me.
"And any ehildrerell get a doetter.
charice here, too!"
You'd ask them: "How inanY' chi&
dren 'have You?" and they'd begin:
'Well,. 'there's Joe. Joe left ;home
three years ago and we've 'never
heard from him since: Do" you think
the Government could !help us to find
dee?"
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"No, I'm afraid not," I would say.
"You, seer we're not interested in Joe
'at the moment. Only in the people
sleeping in this •house." —
'4Well, in that case there's only
eight altogether. No, I can't re-
member their birthdays. You sh,tortld,
have given me notice so I could have
looked up the.birth certificates! Come
again to -morrow and I'll have it ready
for you,"
The older people are,the better
they are able to remember things
that happened long ago. There was
one old lady -she told me she would.
he 92 next spring -who could remem-
ber herschooldays, and the !details
doncernling them, even to :dates, far
'better, than she could remember what
had happened in her middle age and
Tatea. When I called at her house
elle was sitting in a temfortable chair
•Isiiittilif;' her 1'11th...band,
two years .her junior, was !sitting bp-
posite her puffing en an ancient pipe.
The old. lady did all the talking. She
toldme how they had .cOrne out from
Ontario 'forty years ago . and 'had
traiielled across the prairies in a eov-
ered wagon tofind a homestead in
Saskatchewan. Her five chili:ken-
they were all away from her now,
comfortably married and settled
down in homes of their •own Were
born 'without benefit of either doctor
or. nurse. She herself had worked in
sties fields alongside her !husband,
standing in the sun until her face
had acquired the vveatherdbeateed tex-
ture ofan ever -ripe apple, which it
still bore to -clay. I could have sat
and Iletened to h.er for hears. . They
Nad inede enough, she told meet° re-
tire to the city and • end their days
in 'peace and comfort.
Right next door to these dear old
folks I came upon ,a woman Who al-
most precipitated me into a brawl.
She was the 'owner, of, a- large room-
ing house -ten rooms 'housing seven-
teen People. The owner herself liv-
ed at the rear. On the first floor
there Avere a• German family and an
Irish familY,. both -on relief. Alt the
top there was a •,Woman with three
Children.and a young Pole employed
as a aterhaalc. At ieast five differ-
ent nationalities Were represented un-
der that_ one orteof. - „. .
!i11 talked to the ,owner of the house
first of all. .She told me all about
her tenanes as,,.1. was ..taking down
her own Answers. !
dYou watch wet for the blonde in
No. 9," she warned Me,. "She's the
one at the top withthe three kids.
She's a hussy, if ever there' was one.
Says she's 'anemia% and her hu -
band's away, but if I don't miss my
guess there's no husband), at all.
There's letters cerne for her Some-
times addressed 'to Missus and then
again they come addressed to Mies.
You let me knew what she puts' down
onthe sheet!"
Of !course I paid no attention to
her and went about my business of
interviewing the tenants. Ner: n was
a worn -looking peroxkle !blonde,lout
she was pleasant and 'courteous, and
answered. my questions, more intelli-
gently than her ciarieus landlady had
!done. „Ae I descended the stairs the
lanellady shot eta from the baok..re-
gions: "Well," she demanded, "What
is she? Prm aiming to turn her out
she's the no account I think she
,apether house I found the hus-
band and wife both at home. • .110 was
a baker, on part-time employment.
asked him 'what,hi•s Wages were. Be-
fore he &end anewer, the, wife turn-
ed to him and told him; in German,
to "Make .lthe figure considerably loiw-
er than it really was DT he Might .get
caught on /the Meanie tax. • ...et
•Fortunately, German is a langnaige
with which I was familiar. 1. warn-
ed her, Much to her surprise, that
had understood what she was eaying.
I assured her that the figures on the
Sheet would not he treed for taxation
purposes and that her husband need
not be afraid to tell .me the correct
amount. She maintained that 1 had
made a mistake. -the figure her hus-
band had given me, was the ri.glit
Only, when I told her that he hus-
band' would be liable to a fine of $20
or even as thigh a $100, for giving
a wrong answer, did sho relent and
Permit' hint .to tell the truth,
. One of the funniest incidenti, .haw -
ever, Was in one house where, when
I ,aisleed the haaband 'what his occu-
pation was, the Wife ariewered:
"Bill Wes „a bootlegger -until the
COS got blin .and, fined hirn MI And
ihtin eat1t "timplitg tO earn an honest
Mine" •
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,J.E;M. GENEST
SHERBROOKE. QUE.
ECONOMICAL' EFFECTIVE
Farm Notes
Henho.use Ventilation
The, reanoval of Moisture is a mai
jot ,problem in poultry houses. Poul-
try have no sweat glands', but they
give off relatively large .atmoents of
vapour in reapiration and 'through the ,
skin. ,. at was found at one experi-'
mental _.station that Maximum egg
.prod-uctioa was obtained when tem-
peratures (were not permitted to fluc-
tuate widely., A henhouse tempera-
ture at 50 degrees F. is toohigh to
he maintained on most farms in win-
ter without 'artificial heat. Hence a
lower temperature held uniformly
would be desirable. Increasing num-
born of .poultrymen have had •suocesig"
with artificial heat' properly ,•tagolat-:
ed, but failure' has earamenly result-
ed when temperatures, were allo'w'ed
to go tob thigh ,or to fluctuate wide-
ly..
• 'CutWorm Control
At this time of Year all gardeners
should he prepared for attacks „ .of
eutWorms. A limited number of
plants may •be saved by a wrapping
of Ibriowe paper armed each. Appli-
cation may be 7iliade at planting time
and the paper should cover the plant
from one inch beleas,;, the ground sur-
face to one 'half or one inch above.
For larger !plantations a poison
bran mixture is reconeinended. Bran
25 lbs.; Paris green lb.; Molasses
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1 qt., and water 2 gallons. "-The bran
and puison should 'be mixed together
while dry, aftee which Molasses
should' be added. Use enough watet
to bring the mixture to a crumbling
cOnditiont The Mash should be
aprinkled lightly around pleats in the
evening, 'Phis mixture is poisonous
to chickens, and ibirds, as well as cut-
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- Heed Crops and Plowing
Competitions
The Markham Agricultural' Sec' iety
is centemsdating a detpartu.re, , from
the neld erop competition as usually
conducted'. Instead of choosing one
(nor the 'Directors have ,decided to
.accept enitaieS 'fb?" fiet4S Of -heed-
crepe. Such fields may berequired
to have a minimum acreage of corn,.
the other crops to include petatoes.
memgels 'and turnips, all ales/inch are
usually' grown lin the "heed crop",
nelds ef the 'district.
The enterprising, -Richmond 'Hill
Agricultural 'Society which last year
conducted a, very successful competi-
tion nor "Beet 'Mainaged Farms," this
year year is planning a change. It
is now proposed tohave a contest
for the "Beet Plowed Farms." It will
be . interesting to learn' if .the York
,Connty faemers who win so many
p_riaesereeepliewieg enatehess
equally successful in this contest to
include !All, ,plading. the home
farms. ...
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• The Cabbage: Worm ,
• The cabbageworm. is a velvety
green • caterpillar tommonly found
feeding on cabbages and 'cauliflowers.
It also attacks turnips, Tape, Brus-
sels sprouts, kale and radish. It eats
large circular holes" in the cabbage
leaves and frequently bores into the
centre of the cabbage heada,.mak-ing
the cabbages :unfit for imarket and
spoilingthem for •heme consumption.
Control measures should be 'applied
as soon as injury to the plants be-,
&Ames evident.
IDusiting with ,arsentate of lead and
hydrated .lime isotheamostewidelyeres-
commended remedy. One -parteof the
Poison. Should 'be mixed with eight
parts of hydrated lime and the mix-
ture dusted on the plants in the early
morning, or late evening, when the
leaves are wet withsdew. Particular.
care should ihe paid to the ceetraI
portion of the !cabbages And mull-
stlawere since it is usually the favor-
ite 'spot for feeding. Two or three
applications of the mixture should be
made as required, care, being taken
to apply the (dust imin.ediately feed-
ing becomes evident. Due to the
waxy .condition of the leaves, the usa.
of a peison sprd)y has nit given sat-
isfactory results.
\ War Against Weeds
I Dry weather and bright, hot sun -
&fine ,are the farm,erel )greatest allies
in the war against weeds. Jnly and
August are busy .months for the
farmer, and it is during these months
.when the weather is usually hot and
dry, that the" maximum damage can
be -done to. weeds with the mtininvisni
of &leff.l;r ow
ing
and ,eresly after bar-
vhsit cultivation is to be highly re-
emlmnfideeldd'
Hay s known to be dirty should
be ploughed immediately -after hay-
ing, the furrews left to bake and dry
out fbr ten days or two 'weeks; then
cultivated frequently as a summer
fallow ,and seeded to fall wheat early
in September. This. do called dry
cleaning inethed is very effective on
Sow Thistle, Twit& Gras's, Bladder
empires and other 'perennial weeds.
Straight sumener fallow is also
very effective, ahltiOUgh* somewhat
inert expensive.. Late &own buck-,
.wheat Tolllowed the next year with
rape or roots is a splendid naethod of
cheeking argieed.S. .
....The cleanest fa:rmis, it Ontario are
operated by 'farmers Who practice a
short three or four year crop rota-
tion, who are particular in the use of
clean, well -graded seed and 'who
praetice thlorOugh and adequate cul-
tivation Methods, ,.
As weeds are Cut, crop loasee are
cut, and hi order that' the worti
a,
seeds mar be preivented.'front spree&
ing,' itAiis_necessary that' %very ocett-,
paint dif land, rural •or urban, expend
every. effort in digglOg,
soaping, tutting, or burning. wee&
botoro *toy go to seed, , • .
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