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Orono Weekly Times, 28 Aug 1941, p. 6

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Natural 1 Rtes cuJrces By C, C, Tourer (Ontario Federaiorn of Anglers and Hunters) No. 55' FOSSIL F!Si-ilS IN ROCK The lievonliani formation lies 4ust above tbe Siluriain and is mnade np cof sedimentariy rocks laid do-wn in water. It conu'sts *f limestonesq, sandetence and shaIes andi centainemayecn oyuic products,.Iia Ontariont- ural g-as, L'il andt"'sait are fremu the :ýconian roc-ks as w,,eýll a gypsum anid othen quarried rmn- terial. This formnation extends lu the province over most of the mouthwestcrn poninsula and ean tb'e k en almiost anywhera aleng- Lake Many fossýi l cs are fonnd lun the Devoniian formation ne are învertebrate. remains firt noted ài tIse carlier rcs Fishes at- tieneçl great himportance ila these tnies butwod hardly be receg- mized as fiches if seen alive to- qlay. orle type wIý Vowqa Ostracoderm, at i haid ucither $aws uer fins. Over its heati andi Sorward pat f tbe body were gr'eat bony plates. Yen eau se ihat sncbi a creature wonlti be quite different te modemr fiches yet we know it was ancestral te lnany (of our nmodem vertebrates. reat numbers Of fossil eak gre founti in tlie Develan- rocks, lunigfishes 01f vaions types were tommirov n atiganloide hanve beeni :Pound in grTeat van,-ziety ardntinu- bers. ShiarlKs, cf course, exiet te- day, net dfferm'ng greatly from thieir long ago ancestors. Tlie lungfishes are mostly extLinet thougb tbree types are stilIl founti bl varions paï;rts of 'th-e worud. If ia the ganoitis that are really iu- teresting te the bioleg-iet for scv- eral species are comimon in our wvaters to-day. Tbe garpike is a gauoidl that b as com-e dewa prac- tieally unch-angeti from those long- ago times, Bcause of this I l For thse past eight weeke this columu b ac been on the gooelogy ef Qtarie. It bas been a very ,ene-ral sketch cif the rPocks andi their formations, just enough tec umertand cme of our, problems ofnatumal histor-y. Those of -my yeaders wbo wish te kno-w ,more- tainot do better than renid Cole- nian and Par' "Gcology of Can- da'This came eut iu 1923 but kz stilli the best elemcentary tLext that -ie have. Scouts Collected F ood For Brîtain Many T-ins cof Food Gathered By Toronto Boy Scouts for Relief 0f Bombed Civlians in, Great Britain The civiluan population in, the ijomibet arcons o! Great Britalin vHii receive 92,784 tins o! fooi tcllec"tat by thse Boy Scouts cf TPoroiito ant i dstrict. Valuod roughly at $î0,00, tIse, tins werd tuei over te thie Can- adlian Reti Cross Soeiety forý safe delivery iu Englanti. EacIso!fise 2.392 caseswaFn stanripeti: "Go ed- YLiict anti Chr-Up-Gift fromn To- ronto, Can ata-coilectoti by Boy More than 8,000 Scouits took part lu tue drive orle Satunday wbka they wrestatieneti besitie ;barreIs lu grocen'y stores anti f000 esops IluToreito anti noarby is- tviets, peady to receive cane freux Teironto cbbepers. Meest of thse le;- aeue timne o!fihe Scouts lias beei, m ,pent frorù that day packing the thouisautis o! ins e! loups, vege- tables, fruit, fisli anti milk lu theï( oartonis eatiy for shipmnent. Battie Huns i, in aun Alxandria receutly timat 1,0010 anti marines lhave gluerilla unr! are lu than tworo mthe;. -troos, living ýl ,have been raing very uIglht,- ppu thf-ni by day, filcIs- a nd ureapons andi iem annelleýS. t h e Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt From the stately castie "Blenhleim" and its rolling, well-mani- pmured gree-ns, came Winston Spencer Churchili, acutely con.scious o)f APfamoussodeanstr the Duke of Marîboro .', . From thùIe ÏOO-acre estate, perched high above the Hudson, ancestral mnanor- kýouse of the soýlid Dutch ,Roosevelt family, camne Fraiukîja nDehino . P s-vlt Financial cýomfort, tbe best educationn]l advantage-s vwere open ýo botb. . , . Roosevelt took the civilian rond to law through ,pr'îva,,te echooIs, Groton and Harvard . . . Churchillli the military, throughi $a-ndhurst. Eloquenee, energy, love of the sea,-love for politica-l comba,-,t linkiý ghese Ymen , . , Churchill tbrusting bis way uwr as warcre- pondent and sýpectacular subaltera in the Boer war . . . Rooseveit etering politics in 1910. . . . Both wvere ia responlsible lead4ershIip 1117)ing World War I ..ý . Cburcbill1 as organjizer and seer,wo plnnned thie Dardanelles Campaiga which was se cocstly a fiue...Roose- ýelt -as assistant secretarýy of the Navy. Sharp-tongued, bluff and.abrupt k Churchull. , ,Smîooth, persuasive, courageous and visienary is Roosevelt... FigitLîrs ugaînst odds, Churchill maintaîned a ýstubborn-"lon-e-wvoil" opposit ion to Tory policies for years. . . . Roosevelt refused tLo yield to paralysis which lamied bis legs, built himself back to robiist, fighiting health, euided 133,000,000 people through nine strenuonus yeaýrs. Alike masters of the written and spoken word . .. oth have lhad nnusual opportunities to see and knew the world... sbort, stubby, ~oiunyielding "Mr. England". . tal, facile, loquent,adpbl ;"quarterback" of tbe Ameican Team. te san tsec aeve Ho nro N reav cou Lo twise tSeL hevu ff doto THE WVAR - WEEK- Co-mmentary on Current EventsJ riMin ster Churchili of basis fon a better future for the at Bitainlî eft 'Elglanld for, an wonld form HgaentAsum- mendetnain AbouitIthe mary of them is a fllws le time Peiln Ro eto!f .N triora r te g- tlnited Shtats embjarked on gadzretby Itbe 1Un-ited -1Stat's acatien eruise. Atta1r a week or Bian ?umor a tnd cojectuitethean- 2. TrioilcIl a 1nge s only mcement wns -made that the tbrOuýgb efdee nain leaders hakept a draimatie ."Alpeples" haarih iezvous somnewliere on ihe bgh Choose their own-ormeof!govern- mlenti; those forcibl1y dpivdof Peace Offen-sives the righit sbould bhave t reetored. Io flou:bt tie,,most iîmpelling 4. Frea nenainltradle. 7on for, tiLs meetinýg wns that 5.Wndwd ooeaion to Se- a manlii-to,-man i contact tbey ere"iprve 1lbr sadrs b' more s-atisfactorily consider econoýmic adIjustments n sca great matters at saa auiy kstenisibly thle mor)lale fac>tor 11,Ater he finail destuction of spretýading1 war strugg'le was the Nazi trnnofasrac si chli!subIj.ct for Ciscusqsion, Vori cr e eco! fred from fear el mnh nowthr have and wan1t." D, rum rf a fortbicom-iing peace 7. Fedmo! thie sens. nsive by the Axis powers.ý If 8. "Abandoament o!ftha use o! er shudcomrplete bis conl- fre"dsrigof !nggrýessor ina- st of Europe and indvanc- pencce fond ligbitenjig "for pence-loy- oeamls, wýhnt woui]d be tbie re- ing polsthe crushîng buriden o! [o of a w,-a-w e ary wonld ? arim,ý n Centsý. 114d a penceý movemlent gain a These pinciples consitute a rolO l Egn adWould .a joint'Anglo--Americani statemnt of ~e-t-nyprcecause spread in wralms, and pence aimes. They United States? form the fne of o!a demo- ut now Mr, Churcb,,,ill and M r, ri programmne for peace and savpeIt have forestnlled Hitler rcntuto.Tbey soud e- speainig firet. They have ani- cm the basis o!f vsfront co! iied Vie pence terms iupni freedo-io-1ving, paebePeople eh Great Britain and the Uniited eve(rywhe' Who are prepared fo es ilil inisist. These termis, fight fer the1r f ithlu freedomi wuf up b)y the leaders of the and self-govýerniment. Theýy fila _greatest demnocr-acies il-, the grent gai) la the Briti.sh wnr effort Id !3hould hav'e a hjeartening amIÎ and are a necessaryv counterstroke !tÉing effect lnanl Germian accui- to 1Ritlerý's new ordier. 1conatries, 'where ah peopflea The ermphasie on the econoia have resisted Axis ggreszsion aspects o! the fuiture le. ceea as f oboeau troddean down by the îin- particular importance. The promise, e. that both countries agree te furthler and whien Axis pence pr-opos. the nccess te trade and raw mater- are made the world will now bce !iîs on equal termis te ail states, to conide in.mlacompai-- ictoror vanquislhed, is considlered wlth the pence aime of the a master estroke in forestalling a locracies. repetition of what hnppened àfter The- Eight Poinits the inst war. The fifth princiffle, ght common principles as a foreha-dowing, full collaboration 2! REG'LAR FELLERS-Fragile A Ai oIi nations for the o-Pject of imi) )po- cd labor >standard[s, -cüiiomie 'as- van1cemnielt, andi social sebm!rity> ite also Sean1 as an eýffective answer teO the Axis poaadeswohv offar nothing ila lace o!f lle aewrdler. The lant three or h egtpr- ciL) e canbe 1s-id e1 onttue h platfor o!e a po)S-wrpîtclys tam of penceandcurt.I sa agr-eemanlt for, "the inadstuc tion o! _Nazi tyrannY1y" nd ai se fo the coiaunaý1: lce o!fooeato ! tei-,rward ntil the peceswela The ste.r,1y 1f this meigi rb aly 1ne t flly tolO yt.Perap moepr tant MP1,ýUthan th- 'Ue th;ing- w have ba.told are tings about which slnei nnand, That both leaders w vere ncm pnnjidby the 1highast imilitary, naval, and air ffcrswulbdi- ente that pr'essing rebamewr discuissed. It is «qite(rbalta Ctha tO lead"ers agreed on-how1t hlp l)thie Rssanow tlop tbe Japanese - hlinInde-Chlii, h fow te1 Iineet t'he tbreat to!'Nazi ezuee Dakan ani ibrltar thog Vichy's inew olbrtnnd! low fte deal w1ith a ptniiN peace offensive. U. S. Planes to AfrïCa It I evidenit tatspacilic planls were osdre yte nOn mnen-t that Amierican iviinplt -Would ferrly UieiS tateswn plane Ps from ltho Uniteti States te- Britjsiisn ras lie MdleE by way of Ws fia It is uadarýlstood thiat soeaïo! the air fielde te be elo(yati will lie close te Daýkar aimothar lpohits le French West Afrîcaý, wha-re, it haIs _been faed ermuany imighit es'tai- lish air basas colnstitting a threat te this heispher)eý. Presidant]- "'the Importance o! this direct huie o! communiltiiication bcetwean ou11r1 Country and strat0eg'ýic.outpotsts inl Africp caninot h va-stmtei "Tha ferry system ni tha traný0s. port services,' Mn, Rooseet said, "provida direct and spieedy d1elivery o! aircrnaft !rom the 'aÀrsýenal o! de- mnocracy' te a critical point lu theý front agnint aggressioni." Witbi regard te' tha ferry anti transport routee, "tIse route o! dle- livery is seü arrangeti that itll nowhiera ps thirough thea zone 0f actuLn Iwarfa"re." Ila Afruiica tIe route probnbly would mnfrem BPathurt lu _B1t- iek 4aWia u~t~oa-Iso! Dàm te Kfrtm ilathe AgoEyta Sudanl, andti tbnce perbaips te Caire, Egypt. It was unierstood that fr'om the Uniteti States te Afica the trans- port route wudpsstruhSan Juanii Puarto Rico; Tiiai aa Bratzil, and Na t alBzitise "juminlg-of>f" place for, Africa. Fighitar anid otharshr-ag planes will ba transporlted te Afri- cai by ehip), and bombiers and ail othaer longer-ranige phlnes m'il! be flown nîll the wny. Quie vany.ý important aspec2t o! thils davelopmieat i le tat Bn-,Itisbi pilote would1 be relenïset for fgt ing,, Service. Japan 18 Warned ItLe in l the Far Eneit that the meeting ile axPactad tehav'e lm- mediata anld profounti meprcts-- clone. If Japjan isrould tat a ,war iin the South Pncific it le ro ,dicteti tbat thse Soviet -UnieinwouldL openl up the njorthaera froat wt a Siberian Red armiy o! 1ý1000J0l) meon. Japan night thieafiti ,wise te abandcon hanear rassiex- pansqioniet ,ambiitins since the re- cent aremet a clearwann that the twe gmatctdmorce mnenu lbusinless. Wini War and Peace> Great Britain aiid the Unite(ti States have peieiteevste Win tIse war andt t wia the pne The recanit agreemeat nmakes it clear te the world wha,-t we are- fightinig for and what thaeemiiy l, llighting againet. t te alSo made dleat that thora will be nii pence by preseut nagotiationbu a pence that can coma onily affer the dowa- VOICE OF THE PRESS New developments in Cnd aýre raking Dom-iinion citizenis mi-ore and mîore aive, to tbe trslt that this rmodem wor011ldwar 1knowm rio frontlie There are phatses vf thswar whicb m1-ust be fou7;gh1t witb 'in, the borders ofCa d- and must lbe wvon bere. Ca-nadians are discoveï-ing, tbthc an takIe part in ctv w arcven bl carrying out tbeir ordLlýinay civili- anlives. The urgent necessity o- cuLtting gaoieand oi! c-nsuimption dras- tically is anliothler factor in ýbrin- i rngus0to that fullerrlizat-Z.Iion Of theý fact tht we are al in tbe T'he ttnae som,-e timne ago by A. G. Gariner in John- Buillnow his aP.w, mnnig i this conry le said: "Thie waýr wvifl be won b-y tbe side tbat b as the last are of oil.", Ili we accept theý truth in jthiîs statemenlt, we w7ll finde it just a little easier toa forego )someIC of the comlfort adpesr to 'be deriv- ed from theli operation of a pas- -Kithenr laily Record. AIR TRAI-NING PLAN Sucb b as been 1th~pe d-pin ûIperationi of the Commi!ionwiea'ltl ArTraining Plan tbat it will reacb iîts peakla ýnSeptemher inext insýteadl of ini April, 1942, as or- iginally îintended,, It will then be producing as 1many a ,50train- ed air fighters a mnt. Thart explains why-, n -lotwithost an ding beavy enllistment in thec air f«orce, moread more mnen are stea-dily re-quired for it. BrokvileRecorder a imes. THIS "CE-BL"WAR This is n scýrew-baillwr Frs we sympathized with thliF inl thleir bra-,ve stÈanrd against the Russians and, tbrougb th-e Red Cross and other agencies, sent alI possible aid to th,,eir country. For thnis Finnis oferd eartfelt that tle e -etinig atsea ef the twoý grent leaders "wirak luwii c sigiif1iance mith the sîgninig o! the iv-agna ti~t Rnym ao thle dttofo!the Conlstitumtion 0of the 'United Sae. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By FredNee r "It was such -a nice day we decided to walk." By GENE BYRNES onediéatoshi, as becom1-e [the aly fanthrfar mnore d tetest- ales MAndtocp itoff hasbroken (off rektons ith us. - BIGGCEST SALARY To a brathess world it is an- nouned tat Gary Cooper, the mnovi e ator, drew the largest sal- arin tïhe United Statesý, $4S2,. 820,in 189,Not included in the top flibt1ka nanwho livs fin. WasingonBut, of course, hePC h only the President, and bi ssa- ay is a ere $75,900 ayer -Windsor Daily Star. -o- SCOýýTLAND FOREVER A -correspondent, woerca enginmustbe apparent, wie in te suggest that that Song ougbt to reaýd, "Tber-ýe'll Alonys Be' An England as Long as Scotlds Thue e" -Toronto Saturday Night. TIMES HAVE CH-ýANGJED "neupon a time,ý"rmak theVacuePrvne"aed. toù oudwit, eaigarticle on the international situation for Monda'a paer1onSaturday."ý MonstePtofTuesday. --The Ctzn taa FrU.S.'A. ýArmny Th Uied States rmynova Il oa-ts Tw-way pgon.They carryn messges oingandcomiing. Major John K. Shwvan., heaci wf thrai alecops'pieon breed- ng nstraining svice at Fort MomuhN. J., silnan initer- 'Forenlïy we hiad tu have oui Iof ma the rear of the Unes, send tue pieonsct the, front in pas- kets, ad relea e hemto tly back tte loutsNom- theytravel both ways" The rethd oftraiing isf, sec cae ï0, OhA irman0 000, ustraia bs eniisted its 200(,n Oh ar frevoluinteer. This is on dd tioa to the 48,000 utina late utrla Imniîýal force an ievounte detnce crs 2~0~Auntaiias deencepro -wa utl h edofnxtJn

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