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Port Perry Star (1907-), 23 Nov 1939, p. 7

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Prisoners Get Beef, Pudding U-Boat Crews In British Prison Camps Also Play Football Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding aud football are not exactly what Adolf Hitler ordered for his U- boat crews, but many of them are getting it in British prison camps, A glimpse of one camp in & dis. used mill in the north of England shows' German prisoners have to run the kitchen aud prepare theirs own midday meal of roast beef, vegetables and sweet: They serve © lable and wash the dishes, @ Dig Soil, Fill Sandbags After morning parade they dig In the fields--the irony of men sent out to starve Britain now till. Ing the soil to help feed Britons. They also fill sandbags. During their spare timé football matches are organized. Prisoners not playing sit on the sidelines, _All the men are well clad and ap- pear in good health, They wear civilian clothes with a distingulsh- Ing circular mark sewn into the backs of the coats and the knees of -the pants. Britain Wants , Canada's Bacon Will Take All She Can Get. in. of Packing Official _ Great. Britain will buy all the bacon Canada can ship, in the opin. "lon of J. A. Law, Wilsil, Ltd., who was questioned by the Montreal Btar last week about Canadian ex- ports of bacon to the United King- dom, He sald that business was good and getting better. "Do you think Britain will buy all, Canada's bacon?" he was ask- ed, $ "That is my impression," he said. Opinion "I understand that Britain will buy ~ a]l the bacon duce." For Army Purposes It was also learned that Cana- "dian packers are no longer export: Ing Canadian bacon to private _tirms. The British Government has requisitioned all imports of bacon, and so the Dominion today is ship- ping her bacon to the British Gov- ernment exclusively, What bacon the Canada can pro- Government does not use for army purposes is' sold to' the retail trade. Child Should Play To Prevent T.B. Outdoor Play -and Exercise Widens the Chest Physicians examining - récruits have 'found that the youth whose chest was too small to be accepted was usually a boy who had not played much as' a8 youngster be- cause he disliked play, or was del- cate, or his. mother-was afraid he would get hurt, It is not only because play en- larges or widens the chest 'that physicians advise parents to sce that their children play outdoors, 'but because, other things being equal, the boy or girl with the wide or normal chest -- proper propor- tion of width to depth -- js less. likely to develop tuberculosis. Tuberculosis Chest Undgveloped Some months ago, says Dr. Jas. W. Barton, doctor-columnist, I quoted Dr. S. A. Welsman, Minnea- polis, in the Journal of the Ameri can Medical Association, who re ported his investigations showing that "deep" chested children, that is deep in proportion to the width, were more lkely to develop tuber- culosls, This is because the tuber- culosis chest is not a mature chest, _ Jt is a baby chest. These children, 1,324 girls and 1,399 boys, were all tested with. tuberculin, and the «-,nu; ber of positives (likely to de- ~ yelop tuberculosis) was greater 'among the narrow hut deep chest. ed children. Another fact discover- ¢ ed was that the narrow and deep. chested children were moré num- numerous in the poorer districts of tha city than in better districts, due, fn part, to lack of fresh alr and proper food." A) 'Gadgets To Keep You'Warm In'Bed With the approach of winter, in- ventors have turned their talents to keeping mankind warm, : The United Statés patent of- fice has recently sent out patents for the following: A bedclothes adjuster--a gad- get\ which promises, to keep them straight. It is the brain child of Herman B, James of Los An- geles: which makes kicking the covers off or losing them in the night - Impossible, "An electric hotwater | bottle | heater--eliminating that horror De iddle of.the night. when hot water Bottle has lost its JAI patented Riley Emery Larkey of Kansas Clty, Mo, = A coverlet with flaps-- device ~\, PARADE ... he Big Push That Didn't Come - overshadowed in dramatic interest all other "European events in the tenth week of the war, Belligers Shor neutral, each one armed to the teeth, the nations stood ténse with apprehension weiting" for a smashing Germon- attack to come "from some quarter, nobody khew where. But day after day passed* and no offensive began. It was: still a "war of nerves." What 'was behind the delay? Reports continued 'to pour in of great concentrations of German troops in the Rhine-Moselle sec- tor, whi along the Dutch border. Was a double push being planned by Germany coupling the invasion of Holland with a swift blow at the Maginot Line? Or was Hitler in- deed the "cornered maniac"--which British First Lord of the Admiral- ty Winston Churchill labelled him --caught in a trap of his own mak- ing, secking in vain for a way out? Again, was Hitler using a psycho- logical strategy never tried before, whereby he would hold off his ex- pected offensive for weeks, months, perhaps years, leaving the Allies to stew in their own juice and forget al] about Poland, Czecho- slovakia? How long could such a "war of nerves" be successfully waged? Bids For Peace During the week important bids for peace came from Queen Wil- heimina of Holland and King Leo- pold of Belgium, neutral sover- cigns whose territories were di- rectly menaced by German aggres- sive purposes. - The heads of the warring powers listened politely to their pleas, but gave little indica- tion of willingness to consider the culling of a conference at this time to examine the 'bases for peace, ; President Roosevelt from his corner warned that the world needed a "new and better peace" than that which followed the first CGréat War. ™ The most sensatiznal single event of the week «i: the sup- posed atiempt on Ndol Hitler's life in the shrine of Nazidom at Munich. The mystery surrounding the explosion led to a number of interpretations and questions: Was it the work of anti-Nazi Ger- man patriots? Was it the result of 'internal intrigue among the Nazis themselves, one faction try- ing to kill off members of the other? Was the explosion perpe- - trated in order. to enlist the flag- ging sympathy of the masses for the Fuehrer? One theory the ex- plosion did substantiate: all was not well with the Nazi regime. + Bulgaria Wooed The most courted nation of the week was Bulgaria, long regarded as a strategic 'doorway' to south- ern Europe. -wSimultanedusly wooing her were the Allies. Ger- many, Soviet Russia and Italy. Ger- 'many offered economic conces- sions; Italy signed a trade pact with her (striving to stem both Soviet and German expansion in "the Balkans); satisfaction of Bul- garia's dreams of getting back Do- 'bruja from Rumania was held out "as the Soviet lure; while Britain took steps to improve Turkish-Bul- garian relationships. It remained to be seer', which would be thé successful suitor. West, East In Canada, preparations began for the regular session of Parlia- ment in January. Financial ap- propriations were being planned with the object in view of devot- ing the large part of all expendi- tures to the" prosecution of the "war." 'Rhe -St. Lawrence Water- way scheme nevertheless was slat- ed for consideration by the House, While the interest of the west- ern world was centred on Europe's theatre of war, new plots were being hatched in the Far- East, and coming évents cast their shad. . ows before, Japan threateningly predicted that during or after the European war a conflict to acquire territories and resources in the South Seas would be fought in the Pacific, and the United States would be expelled from Asia, At the samé time rumors flew that Britain "would support a peace in the east based on a division of China into spheres of- influence, Japanese, British, Chinese, In the "village of 'Bullendorf, in Germany, a hen has adopted twelve baby mice, and was dis- covered sitting on her nest, warm- ing them with her' feathers, Un. natural adoptions such a8 his. avo not so rare as one might imagine, Recently a black-and-white éat at. Rock Farm, Nettlestead, England, was foundcurled up in the! farm J: barn watching over her five kittens and two mice. Yet, in the past, she had proved herself a ruthless killer of rats. Btocks of creamery butter in Canada-at- the beginning 'of Oc. tober amounted to 57,418,639 lbs., of which 66,818,839 lbs, were in storage and 604,800 lbs. in rail- "qualified seed standard, and that -MICKIE SAYS-- way transit, Issuing an appeal to the women of the Empire to "keep the home front stable and strong," Queen Elizabeth is shown seated before the micros phone in Buckingham Palace as she made a Remembrance Day broadcast, : wg Buy Certified ~~ Seed Potatoes Now's The Time To Make Pur- . chases If You Can Store All Of Them Throughout The Winter It Is not too early for Canadian potato growers who can store po- tatoes throughout the winter. to consider the advisability of buying certified seed potatoes at ouee. Befere:They're Shipped Abroad Potato dealers and growers in many other d¢ountriés appreciate the value of "Canadian certified seed for they make no delay in buying up a large part of the Can- adian crop every year. Generally they take the sced as soon as it is ready to ship and store it In heir own countries, From the 1038 cer- tified seed crop, for instance, well over 1,717,000 bushels were ship- ped to 17 different countries, while only just over 465,000 bushels were sold In Canada. That. means only about one bushel in every twenly bushels planted in Canada was of v is one very Important reason why more Canadian growers are -not producing bumper crops of those fine mealy potatoes which easily - grade No, 1 In size and quality. - Produce Grade No. 1 Canadian potato growers should make thelr reservatio® 3 now. The address of the nearest - certified seed potato grower, If it 1s not al- ready known, may be obtained TEL WE CAL TH' WANT ADS OUR MIGHTY' MIDGETS" BECUZ THERE SMALL BUT THEY GET RESULTS «Aw TH' BENEFITS OF OUR BIG CIRCULATION FER A FEW NICKELS men who will soon King, from the office of the local ag-icul- tural representative, or the near- est Dominion Experimental "arm, or from the Plant Protection DI- - vision, Production Service, Domin- fon Department of Agriculture, Ot- tawa. Building contracts awarded throughout the Dominion in the first 10 months of the year total- led $165,010,000, compared with $161,672,700 in the corresponding period of 1938, a gain of 2.1 per cent, The October total was §14,- 228,100 according to. figures com- piled by McLean Building Reports Limited, Toronto. Totals for October by provinces were: Ontario $7,233,390, Quechee $3,257,000, Dritish Columbia, $1,- 618,200, New _ Brunswick $948,- 000, Nova Scotia $548,100, Sas- katchewan $346,600, Manitoba $298,600, Alberta $154,100 and Prince Edward Island $23,700. VOICE PRESS NEW WAR COMING, "forth in many places. We hate 'to remind you, but "even if this war of nerves ends, there is that other war of nerves approaching. -- Christmas Shop- ping.-- Saturday: Night, : hefty NEWS THAT'S NO NEWS Dr. Dafoe says the Dionne girls know nothing of the war, If the little dears could read the censor- ed dispatches, it would be prac- tically the same.---Stratford Bea- con-Herald. « Oty THERE'D BE A ROW! In Canada there are 1,380 teachers receiving less than $300 a year. If that many factory workers or salesgirls received as little wh¥t a public outcry would be raised!--Ottawa Journal. -- BUILDING GOES AHEAD Despite, the "war of nerves," the building permits issued in 68 Canadian cities during the first nine months of this year approach- ed $44,000,000, the highest figure since 1930. There are good times ahead and there is no reason why the building industry should not prosper with the vest.«- Toronto Star. x ---- GOOD ADVERTISING FOR CANADA A woman tourist, returning home from Canada to New York State, writes. The Christian Sci- ence Monitor an advertisement for Canadian, courtesy of very great value ~to this country's tourist industry. Fifty miles back she had left her purse, tickets and car ownership cards, and only dis- covered it when she went to pur- - chase some cherries at a roadside stand. She told the owner she could not take the cherries as she. had left her money behind, some | 50 miles back. He provided her with a dollar to buy enough gas, also the cherries. And he found his reward on the prompt return of the ~ grateful woman. was a good deed which will shine -St. Cathar- ines Standard. Exports .of Canadian fisheries products totalled $14,860,600 in the first seven months of 1939, an increase of almost $741,000 over the corresponding period of 1938, Yhousands of persoms assembled on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Armis- tice Day to honor the men who fell in the great war and pray forthe take up the torch once again. Lord Tweedsmuir are shown here during the two minutes' silence. Pda Premier Mackenzie Here ~the age of 73." Premier Kin | -leading the procession of Presbyterian church, Ottawa, following t Hot Tempers May Mean Cool Hands Anger is not all beat, for it also makes the fingers cold. Experiments in which uot ope exception of this. cooling was found were reported to the Ameri can lustituto of Physic"s sympos- fum on temperature by Hela Mittle- mann and H, G: Wolff of the Coun- cil Medical Centre Tension, Anxiety Accomplish It Tension, fear, anxiety and de- pression also lowered the temper: ature of the hands. Somo persons showed large drops in temperature, others small, but those who "cooled" only a lit- tle with emotion never went to the opposite extreme. The finger tip cooling seemed to be fixed lke per- sonality. The largest drop in temperature of fingers in rooms ranging from 65 to 65 was 20 degrees. In one case the emotions took the finger heat down to nearly four degrees under even thls cool room, In a room just above freczing emotions cooled the fiugers of one person by 36 degrees, ERE | Colleagues Pay Tribute To Former Canadian Minister Of Justice LTE A High government officials gathered to p ag at the funeral of Hon, Hugh Guthrie, chairman of the Dominion Boare --of Transport Commftsioners and former minister of justice, who died ai and Rt. Hon, Justice Lyman Dulf are showy ersonages from St. Andrew' funeral service. Sistin ay tribute to a former ¢ LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neha Th 0, ED NEHER "My mother wants to know the address of the store that sold ladies hats for B9¢ in yesterday's homework," REG'LAR FELLERS--A Bargain a Cr W Pe sis "Y An 7 By GENE BYRNES

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