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So ? ha 1 '_~ _tobaccos _.* Jhe-crop by one week. Todacco im- -- EI. At Thirty, Too | Old To Learn Instructor Pessimistic About Women's Aptitude for Fly- ing : 4 "Once women reach the age of' -80, they can never learn to fly," + + 8ays Captain "H. J. C, Gray, chief . flying instructor of the Rand Fly- * ing Club at Johannesburg, South Africa, "It a woméan is young, healthy, keen, and indulges in a fair am- ount of sport ~~ and has somg in- telligence -- there is a falr chance, of making a pilot of her," he add- ed. "But once they reach the age of 30 years, it Is hopeless." JThere are a few .women In- structresses who do ewll, But thero again, they are usually the ones-in-fifty who make reliable fliers." They're Just Learning Miss Doreen Hooper, South Af- rica's leading woman flier and in. structor, thinks that Tommy was exaggerating. "You nfust not for- got that women are just. leariing what men have known for years," sho says. "Aviation is like motor car drlv- ing, When a woman is good at it, she usually beats the men, But when she Is bad, she is very, very bad." ; Tobacco Crop ~~ + Tops Average Burley Crop In Ontario Is ~. + Good : The tobacco crop of Ontario has nmiade marked recovery since the. July drought, according to a re-- port on Canadian tobacco crops lIs- sued by the Dominion Bureau of Stalistice. The burley crop is good and is above average. The flue-cured to- bacco crop was reported above av- 'erage also. Harvesting is well un- der way. " ' Several 'tobacco plantations in Noythern Quebec were damaged by wind and hail storms, Growers. in Joliette and "Montcalm districts suffered losses of 20 per cent, and"; about 100 acres of pipe and cigaret were flooded, retarding proved 100 pet -cent. during the early part of August, but alte fall Is needed to save a good por- tion of the flue-cured crop. Prospects in British Columbia pre for an average crop, with acre- .age slightly reduced from 1933. No Lights May Shine Le ¢ One phase of London's air raids' precautions js the masking of all . street ligh ANY TAY O and signe to prevent ness of a target, London munici- pal workers are shown here put-~ ting masks over an illuniinated 'sign post, Fawn Startles ! Bathing Beach .. The appearance of a spotted fawn caused great excitement in the town of Oakville recently as . It pranced down the main street and Jater ran onlo a bathing beach on "the outskirts of the town, : - It first appeared in the busi- ness section of the town, but dis. appeared when two men and. & crowd of children chased it. Later at the Reservoir Park bathing beach it darted out of the woods and broke up a baseball game. It, rushed. back Into the woods and disappeared. when nearly a 100 people stacted afier it. . . L] light giving a clue to: "visiting" airmen as to the near- NEWS PARADE Te UNWELCOME NEUTRALITY: A story has been going the rounds that it would be cheaper for Brit- ain apd France to have Italy an en- .emy in this: war than an ally be- cause the Italians are notorlously poor fighters and would have to 'be marched to the front, so it is sald, and spied upon at home. But to have Italy nelther an ally nor an enemy! This strategy of the Axis powers is. presenting Britain and France with a difficult prab- lem to solve. Had Italy come into the war on the side of Hitler, then France could have attacked vulner- able northern Italy first thing, ta- ken over {its industries, and gone at Germany from the south, So far the French army Is confined to the © heavily-fortified western front, has no excuse to attack Italy, Britain also Is unable to go after Italian shipping in the Mediterranean, $460,000,000 WORTH: Canada's role In the Second Great War may not become important by virtue of our sending an expeditionary force useless) but because we are able to supply In limitless quantities, foodstuffs, raw metal, planes, small arms, tractors,. . , Almost half a billion dollars in gold has been de- posited 'with Canada by European financiers which may go to pay for the 'above-mentioned purchases here or across the border _in the United States. We are to be a res- ervoir for supplies, not men. 3° AMERICAN OPINION: A survey made by "Fortune" magazine just before the war broke out showed that the majority of Americans op- pose intervening In a conflict to save England and France, "even if they are losing." 65 per cent. of persons Interviewed In the survey were 'opposed to the United States entering a war "at all" 24 and a halt per cent. said they favored émn- tering the war if the democracies wero 'losing., The sinking of the "Athena" may change this propor- tion, but it would feguire a rare combination of circim_t nces, we belicve, to effect a right-.bout-face in American public opinion. MILITARY "GUESSES: he ex- pressed opinion of neutral military observers and some retired British and French officers in London last week had it that: Germany's Sleg- fried Line and France's Maginot Line will stalemate cach other all "along the old Western Front for at least a year, perhaps longer; Polish resistance will require the attention of at least halt-the Ger- man army for six months or more, (tht annihilation of Poland's army is the primary German objective); ~~ Sénding of British and French ald to Poland will be a tremendous task --- due to difficulties of access -- supplies might have to go around by the Mediterranean and up through Rumanii. To Drive Car C. s. Palmer, 81, 'Discovered How To Get Gasoline [TE Ld Modest Charles Skele Palmet has "just turned 81" still refusing to own one cf the automobiles sible. . Palmer, described as_"a merc pit- tance considering what it was worth to the of! {ndustry." First Peppermint Cosumercial Crop Being Turn- ed in Port Franks District The production "of -commerclal peppermint for the first-time in Ontarlo was started late In August at the new peppermint plant estab- lished at Port Franks, Ont. "sev- ' eral months ago. According to Mr. Petro," manager of the plant, the peppermint is cut and allowed to «. dry for at least 24 hours before it can be put through the plant. It is then taken to the still where it is put into a large, underground tank. forced into It. In-about 15 minutes 'goes through a coil that has. cold. water around it, As tho mixture goes through condensation takes place and the oil and some water como out at the end. ofthe coil where {t.is, separated. +All the peppermint used in Can- ada fs imported and it is reported that the new industry is finding a ready market for "its.product. Waters off Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are di- vided into three temperature-lev- els during summer----an . upper warm layer, a middle cold layer, 'and a bottom warm layer. In the winter time the upper layer gradu- ally becomes cold but the other two do not change greatly. I ' (such may yet be found next to' "Inventor Refuses : --whoso development he .raade pos- Being Processed The tank is closed and steam 'fs - "the ofl rises with the steam and It'. \ areas 1 - \ o Dorothy Hobson -and Gordon Devlin, each other in the Ontario Senior On two champions who swam against ¢ Mile Race at the C.N.E. for the beautiful trophies presented by Wm. Wrigley Jr, Co, Limited, are shown here 'taking off" their big effort, into the water at Gus Ryder's training camp prior to These two are rivals--but friends! ob 2 Canada Attracts Many Tourists The attractions that Canada has to offer to the tourist are gradual. ly-becoming known in a wider sphere, to judge by the license markers that are seen on the streets of the larger cities in the Dominion. Tourists 'are to be seen In cars bearing the registrations of every Stato in the Union, but ac- cording to the National Revenue Review, issued by authorily of the Minister of Revenue, Ottawa, there are those who have come in cars from far more distant points In June 170 cars from 16 forelgn countries, exclusive of the United States, came in -under a 60-day tourist permit, Six were from the Philippine Islands, 64, froin Hawail 37 from Mexico, 27 from Panama, 14 from Cuba, 12 from the United Kingdom, seven from Alaska, flve. trom France, one from China, and others from the Strait_Settlements the Dutch West Indfes, Venezuela, Newfoundland and Brazil. 'Tourist travel showed a big In- croase -in June as compared with June last year. Cars that entered Canada for stays of ifrom._a few hours to six months numbered up to 464,327, as compared with 435,- 166 in June 1938, an increase of 29,161. -. Two Princesses' Study Woodcraft. ~ Elizabeth and 'Margaret' Rosé Continue Guide Pursuits in Grounds of Beautiful Scot- tish Castle z - On thre mountains that surround their lovely Balmoral Castle, Prin- cess Elizabeth and Princess Mar- garet 'are carrying on their Girl Guide pursuits in the spirit of the Guide code. They are on their annual Scot- tish hollday there. A large part of their free time is spent. in "wood- craft" practico in tracking and col lecting wild flowers, 'Collecting Wild Flowers Princess Margaret" is "Brownie" being under 10 years of age, Princess Elizabeth is a "sec- ond-class" Gulde. Both are ordin. ary unprivileged members-of the -No. 1 Buckingham Palace company of Girl Guides. Their companiqns are children of friends of the royal family, members of tho royal. household, or servants who live in- the royal mews. ! : '.=Princess Margaret is learning to *|>-'sharé her sister's keen interest in 'nature study, Together they have . - added many new spocimens to a growing collection of wild flowers and plants. Elizabeth writes the names in the book, because her writing is. by far the better, the friends of the family say. ~ solld flesh and blood." "win . . . Tororito: still a" Books And You ' 'BY k ELIZABETH EEDY "WHITE MAGIC" by Faith Baldwin lero is a romance on skis in a setting of snow and mountains and the brilliant frosty nights of Sun Valley, where three groups of peo- ple are drawn into close and-dang- erous personal relationehips, Garda Allen , .. was surrounded it was.sald by bodyguards. Larry Martin: . .. catching Fortune's train . .". and never missed it. Ellen Mitchell: "She was real Franz . . like Hans dancing. could teach skiing, or riding... or The heiress, the sclt-made man, the setretary, and the German nobleman 'come to know each other and out of their acquaintance in- 'evitably comes conflict which reaches its climax in a blizzard far from the luxury of Sun Valley. "White Magic" . . by Faith Bald- Oxford 'Univer sity Press ... $2.25, Traffic offences' in London's metropolitan area last year to- talled nearly two and a half mil- lion, an increase.of 1.7 per cent on the preceding year's figures, - lan Rockies, a stone monument has " Women Make -1,000 Kilts For old Mrs, when she heard a few weeks ago -made Army kilts during the war, was always Tribute To Early Trail Blazers Monument to Mark Site of Kootenae House In tribute to the dauntléss ex- plorers and fur traders who blazed the first trails through the Canad: been erected, at the site of Kooten- ae House near Invermere, B.C, by the Department of Mines and Re- sources. The unveiling of this mon- ument, which marks the site of the first trading post of the white man on the Columbia River or its tribu- taries, will take place on Septem. ber 3 next, with Judge F. W, Ho- way, of the Historic Sites and the Monuments Board of Canada, and E. N. Russell, Superintendent ot Yoho National Park, in attendance. Built by Early Explorer Kootenae House was built'in' the year 1807 by David Thompson who has been acclaimed as "Canada's Greatest Geographer." Thompson --trader, astronomer, pathfinder and mapmaker- -- spent twenty- seven years in trade and explora. tion In the West. It's The Wig-Wag Waggle 2 0' the Kilt . Highlanders A band of kilt-making house- wives is being gathered together at Clydesbank to help Army chiefs overcome a kilt famine. Their leader is small, 44-years: Alico McColgan, who, that there was a shortage of kilts for Highland regiments, wroto™ to the War Oftico and offereds her-- help. With her father she' had and she was abld to persuade-the War Office to let her tackle the Job. : Two and one half tons of tartan and an order for 1,000 kilts arrived at the little shop which she has opened, But Mrs. McColgan was faced with a problem, for there are-no unemployed kilt makers in Scot- - land and sho had to have help. She remembered the women with whom she had worked many years ago In her father's business. Most of them were. married, but: sho traced 15 of them and asked them to help, Leaving Homes: "Most of them_have families, but they are all patriots and were all eager to help," she said. "Arrange- ments havo been mado for house- koopers to look after their homes. "They are coming here and we are starting at once on kilts for the Seaforth Highlanders." When the housewives have com- pleted the 1,000 kilts It Is expocted they will receive another contract. 'LIFE'S LIKE THAT ~V/ DULL LL ZL LL, "SN {Copyright T988 "Let's put it this way, then . .. Make believe we're sitting in the park--- up jumps a goblin, 'an' you're scared!" By Fred Neher V3) - 7 ZY J In the pan Farmer Can Be A Real Pioneer As Much as His Grandfather Was Declares Head of O.A.C. A farmer today can be "as much- of a ploneer as his grandfather was," G. 1. Christie, principal of 'thé Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, fold 500 farm people at the Junior Agriculturists' 'dinner in commection with the Central Ca- nada Exhibition. : Tho early ploneers made farms where there was once only wilder ness, and now their descendants could ploneer in. their turn by av- alling themsolves of new develop- ments in agricultural science and "reap dollars where their grand. fathers reaped cents," sald Dr, Christie. It the purchasing power of the farmer could be raised to a proper level, there would not be a single industry idling in the Dominion, sald the speaker. The younger gen-' eration of farmers and farmers' * wives could do much to raise the purchasing lovels' by Increasing tho productivity and by following the advances made in agricultural sclonce. Supply of Bags For Kitchen Use ' Cheesecloth Muslin Is Very Useful A valuable addition to kitchen equipmerit is a supply of bags that aro made of cheesecloth muslin, These bags, whicli should be of dif- ferent sizes, ranging from about four by eight to six by twelve, inch- es, serve various purposes. When marrow jam is being made, the lemon.rinds aud pieces of ginger used for flavoring should be placed in a bag and tied to the handle of the pan. A similar bag holds pips and "pulp during the | making of orange,. grapefruit, or lemon marmalade. To Make Clean. Coffee Tho crust of bread that is placed- with a boiling cauli- tlower, to keep down the . smell, should be tied up In a bag. Fat for basting meat may be placed in a bag and hung above tho roast in the oven, The melting fat will drip gradually dn to the roast and keep It well basted. good clear coffee may be made by placing the ground coffee fn a bag and suspending it in an aluminum pot full of boiling water. New Oil Fields Seen For West Alberta Has Ample Supply but Qutput Depends on Market Extension . Discovery of major crude oil fields in Alberta and greatly ine creased oil production for the Tur-_ report prepared by J. L. Irwin, stg tistician for. the. Alberta depart- ment of lands and mines, "The prospects for Turner Val ley appear to be as bright as ever for vastly increasad praduction," the report said. "The prospects for securing - additional major * fields within the province, with the wide- force, are equally bright, Mr. Irwin reported Alberta pro- duced 3,264,269 barrels of ofl in the first six months of 1939, an In- creaso of 424,899 over the corres- vondiiig period of last year. % NEW SAFE Made Ma 478 new method of tirc buj tread j, aentifically toned under foPPing and fong mil © tread add, even I ' Eroater ave th ' ma an entirely rari Iding b, advanced meqh d_interloc! og 2.53 which ey, - od of ed for gp. t Cry part of yt}, od tuper-safe, nsopameioping walt or safety, w and 4:3 unit of amen? Part of the gre sharp.edge | and toughey, » NOW, strea " Appearance, \mlined tires Firestone Ing strengyh, angles pha) irestone's g" Ex marvel for strength and safety, Pion Tire, g, © Dealer py : © nearest ©: car and give it n your REG'LAR FELLERS This Modern Age IM SEAS . 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