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oa pra---- Be 8 __ers while he was flying as: 'T. B. Death Rate Highest In Que. For 1936, 1987 and 1938 Ontario Average Drops In Past Three Years Quebec led all provinces of Canada in the death rate from Jubertulosis in 1936, 1937 and 1988 In 1936, Montreal had a death rate of 86.8 per 100,000 while To- -Xomto reported only 42.6. The all. adian rate was 61.4, In the following year, Montreal led with 82 and Toronto repotted only 86.9 deaths per 100,000 while the Dominion rate was 59.9, In 1988, Montreal's rate had dropped to 714.8 while " Toronto's showed a slight increase to 87.4, The Do- minion rate had eased down to While the Montreal figure dropped to 70.1 for the past year, Toronto's showed a greater de- cline with only 27.9 deaths per 100,000. The average for the 1936-87-38 period was 76.7 for Montreal, 89 for Toronto and 68.6 for all Canada. - A comparative table for the 8- year period for different provin- ces follows: Province 1036 1937 1938 Ave. Quebec .......... 93.3 88.3 82.7 88.1 P, E. Island 66.3 69.9 86.2 74.1* New Bruns. 82.1 87. 76.6 81.9 Nova Scotia* 89.1 84.3 75.2 82.8 British Col. 74.8 79.9 70.8 75. Manitoba .....59.1 59.4 48.6 55.6 Alberta .......49.4 43.6 35.8 42.9 Ontario 36, 36.4 33.2 34.8 Sask, ..20.8 31.6 28.8 29.9 The British Government Honors Her Husband Mrs. Rose Bingham Fiske is shown as she arrived in New York from England, She is the widow of William Meade . Lindsley Fiske, III, American bobsled ace who died of wounds sustained in an aerial fight against German raid- em- ber of the British Royal "Air Force. Fiske hadighot down sev- eral German planes in the Battle of Britain. In an unprecedented gesture, the British government is to honor the memory .of the young American 'hero by install _ing a plaque in Westminster Ab- bey, where the national heroes of England are bufied. Find Fall Babies Have Better Bones Born In October or Novemb- er They Have Improved Chance--Discovery May Rev-' olutionize Diet of Expectant Mothers ' Scientific evidence that babies born in October and Novemb. have better bones on the average than those born in other months was | announced last week at Pennyslvania State College. The study was made by the division of home nutrition, ', It is not magic¢ in'the fall wea- ther, but diet:and sunshine which account forthe better bones. Tha expectant mothers' diet is more varied in summer than .any other season, Sunshine in summer makes up for Jack of vitamin D, a motherhood essential, often ne- glected in diet. MORE SUNSHINE HELPS The fall babies' bones have more mineral 'density and great- er maturity, From November on- ward, the newbotn bones are pros "gressively.worse in these two re- sects, fll, June or July. practical importance of hes Penn State discovery f3 in the possibility that better diet will ring infants of 'all. months up to the bone standard "of October and November. Saving Ontario's Natural Resources (NO. 12) SMALL MOUTH BASS More anglers seek the small muoth black bass than are after any other fish. * In this Province our northern lakes make an ideal home for .these fish where they find suitable conditions and plenty of food. So, year after year, the angler returns taking countless thousands of these fish from Muskoka, Haliburton and other regions. In fact, I would say that black bass are the mainstay of considerable of the revenue we receive from tourists, The small mouth bass requires clear, cool streams or lakes, not too deep and preferably with shoals that almost reach the sur- face. Gravel bars or rocky inlets, protected against wind and wave action, are necessary for spawn- ing. The bass requires plenty of food. There must be plenty of | minnows and crawfish, the crea- tyres that look like miniature lob- sters. A lack in one or other of these requirements means a low yield of bass. The spawning habits of the small mouth are quite different to most other game fishes, Trout or pike can be stripped, the eggs removed by the hatchery men, fertilized and the young fish rais- ed in tanks until they reach a size suitable for planting. But this cannot be done with bass for _they must be allowed to pair and the male must remain with the eggs and young bass for a con- siderable period. When the waters warm in the spring the male bass clears a pro- tected spot over gravel or small rocks. He then finds a female, drives her onto the nest where she liberates a number of eggs which he fertilizes: This Is re- peated until several thousand eggs" are under his care. After spawn- ing the male stations himself over the rest, slowly fanning a stream of water across the eggs. He re nains on guard until the young are ready to take their first food. This may take several weeks and _during this time the male will strike at anything that comes near his home. The law rightly says that we must not fish for bass before July 1st for if we do we will catch the males that 'are guarding the nests. If these are taken hungry enemies will soon eat up "the eggs or. young. So, the best conservation we can practise is not to go near the bass waters early in the season and to sce that others -do likewise, Rent Control Canada-Wide Government Has Appointed' An Administrator to Investi- gate Complaints and Super- vise : Housing Rentals A Dominlon-wide program of rent eontrol.and appointment of an administrator with absolute powers ~bave been announced by Hector B. "McKinnon; chafrman of the War- time Prices.and Trade. Board. Mr, 'McKinnon's board, recently was given power to control rents after complaints had been recejv- ed' that (they were being unduly raised at certain points where the- war has brought an influx of new. residents to fill various new jobs. "A scheme of rent control is be- ing worked out applicable to all parts of Canada," Mr, McKinnon explained last week. The board chairman .sald time had to be taken for planning rent supervision because it had been found "that the problem of rent control Is shot through with fine Tegal points posing a great -equa- 'tion between-tenant and landlord." Points from which complaints have beens received Include Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax and Vancouver, , Needed A Duck' 'Rather Than Boy A writer 'in the Toronto Daily Star tells this eyaeuee story: .A small war guest in-Toronto, not too used to' baths, submitted iin * _ silence as his hostess bathed him twice a day, but it seemed a bit thick. Finally, one diy; lhian éx- uberance of spirits, as she bathed the little lad, she. exclainted, "My but I wish I had a little boy like you," ' «Quick as a flash, he we- "pled, "What you want 1s not a boy, (lady, but a ruddy duck." Double Trouble _. Edward Green: of Boston, own. er of two automobiles, kindly did a favor for his friend James O's . Donnell by lending. one of * his . cars, 'Shortly afterward, as Green was out driving one day, an aus "tomabite s crashed into hig. It was {Q'Donnell, at the wheel. of Green' (] 'dther car. - Queen Elizabeth shares a joke with Air Raid Prethutiony workers as the 'beloved ruler makes a tour of West London to inspect air raid dam- 'age, Hitler's aerial blitzkrieg doesn't seem to have had much effect on the morale of this group. THE WAR-.-WE E K--Commentary on Current Events U.S, Britain, Co-Operate In Far Eastern Situation Last week's events in the Far East furnished new evidence that the United States and Great Brit- ain had begun to act in concert to check the plans.of Germany, Italy and Japan for woxld dom- ination. Step by step they could be scen working togethe series of moves that apos appeasement a few months ago would have shuddered to contem- plate. y U.S. -Risks War Things happened fast. At time of going to press, the United States had clamped an embargo on iron and steel scrap to Japan; Great Britain had declared the Burma Road re- opened; American consuls were urging their nation- als in all parts of the Japanese Empire to leave for home; Lon- - don was reported to be consider- ing the cvacuation of British subjects from "certain Far East- ern areas"; the Japanese navy had landed forces on Liu Kung, British-leased island off Shan- tung peninsula, China; the Do- minion of Canada had placed a ban on export of copper to Ja- pan; the Japs had declared they would close the Burma Road by bombing; diplomatic talks were being renewed between the U.S. -and Soviet Russia; Japanese au- 'thoritiés were pressing French Indo-China with further = de- mands . . . A Showdown, Now * That the United States would enter the 'world war via the Pa-. --cific- was seen as an ever-increas-- ing. possibility. Washington, of course, hoped to break the power of Japan by measures 'short of war", but was risking the real thing, nevertheless. Commenting on the situation, U.S. Rear-Ad- miral Harry E. Yarneli, retired, declared: "The United States Navy now is equal to anything in the Pacific, and the British can be depended upon to take care of the Atlantic ... . We may be better prepared for a show- down with Japan now while she is bogged down in China, than we will be six years from now ., when the two-ocean navy is com- pleted." Next American moves forecast were, progressively: an embargo on shipments of oil to Japan, ar- ranged with the co-operation of the Netherlands Indies and Mexi- co; closing of U.S. markets to Japan -- refusal to buy raw silk, éte.; blockade of Japan in the Pacific. "Don't Forget Invasion" Referring to the aid: being re- ceived from "the New World", Prime Minister Churehill of Great Britain in an historic speech be- fore the House of Commons declared that Britain was strik- ing back more powerfully than ever against the Axis war ma- chine. Nevertheless he warned that the danger of invasion was ever-present -- Germany had madsed 80 crack divisions in northern France, with enough ships to "throw half a million onto the salt water (around Brit- ain) -- or into it!" Although the German . Air Force kept pounding the larger cities of Britain last week (8,600 had been killed and 13,000 wounded since the "skyrieg". be- gan), no one believed that the Na- zis would long confine their ac- tivities solely to the Battle of Britain. Everybody was waiting to sce where Hitler would strike next, following his chin-fest with Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. The war-scene was expected to shift at any moment to the Medi- terranean Basin, beginning, per- haps with a German drive through the Balkans to meet the Italians in Egypt. Germany Gets Rumania The groundwork for this type of push was being prepared last week. German troops were taking over the Rumanian ollfields while Brit. ish officials and nationals got ready to leave the country; Hungarian and Bulgarian troops were being schooled in blitzkrleg technique, re- ports sald; six divisions of Italian troops were massed on the borders of "Greece, A blockade of Greece 'was rapidly being put into effect by the Nazls, to prevent tho Drl- tish navy from using Greek bases for refuelling purpooses. Out of the question, apparently, for the time being was a push by (Germany ugh the Bosporus, or the Dardanelles, across Turkey to the Near East, The Turks wore nat- urally opposing such a move and were backed up In their attitud€'by Soviet Russia, with whom Naz! dip- lomats continued to bargain fur- ously, Everybody After Russia "Time," October '7, sald: "Russia, long the most hated nation in the world, became by virtue of the Jap-Axls treaty the most sought. after power in the world." Last week her favor was being courted not only by Germany and Japan, the U. S., but also by Britain who gave evidence of wishing to resume trade parleys. A despatch from Lon- don to the New York Times told the story that Britain had offered to increase its trade with Russia in the hope of enlisting Joseph Stal: in"s support in the new campalgn to increase the flow of arms lo Seized Horses Taught German German soldiers and farm- ers are busy teaching the Ger- man language - to horses re- quisitioned from Holland, France, Poland and Belgium. The intricacies of German grammar have been making it difficult for the Germang to handle the horses. The 'Berlin Zeitung has urg- ed drivers to use "utmost. cau: tion" in handling horses which don't understand German, and the Nazi Society for Prevention of Cruelty to" Animals is advis- ing drivers to 'spare the: rod and apply patience. China. (Britain, it sald, to keep Japan entangled in Far East by supplying more war apparatus to Chiang Kai-shek, bat was unwilling to release supplies needgd 'for the war in the West). Canada's Army In Canada, 30,000 young draftees began 30 days' military training. 'Be Defense Department made a ruling that all land forces would be called the Canadian Army and that was eazer the term "non-permanent active militia" to describe conscripts would be discarded (the change must be confirmed by Parliament). Almost at the same moment, Col- onel Ralston announced that a change would be made in the dis. position of men drawn into the army. Did this medn the idea of the "home defense force" was beipg abandoned in favor of send- ing more troops overseas? What, No Parliament? Parliament, scheduled to met November 5, will adjourn immed fately until a date early In Jan- uary. No business will be trans- acted at this assembly and only sufficient members to constitute a quorum are required to bo pre- sent. Discussion of the wheat 3it. uation, the VU.S.Canadlan de- fence board, the St, Lawrence saa. way plans (now believed postpon- ed), problems of Canada's war eof- fort, will have to wait for the New Year, : In .Ontarlo, Premier Mepburn named Robert Laurler, nephew of the late Sir Wilfred Laurler, as Minister of Mines; and promised that no new personal income or cor- pordtion taxes, or increases fn tax rates would be levied for the tiscal year beginning April 1, 1941. Ancient Cures Now Out-moded Old-Time English _ Remedy Was Usnca, the Moss From the Skull of a Man Who Had Died Violently Jacques Cartier, on his voyage of exploration up the St. Lawrence River, found his crew seriously af- flicted by scurvy. The ship's cap- taln got Into conversation with a native of the country who said he had just recovered from the same pestilence, The captain asked him what remedy ho used and he told him of a tree, the leaves and sap of which would bring about the cure. Some of the leaves of this treo wore brought, boiled in the form of a tea and given to the men who promptly recovered. The tree was called the. ameda tree, and was probably elther sassafras or spruce. James -Lind, who introduced the practice of making all men on long voyages take lime juice 'or lemon juice dally to prevent scurvy, stud- fed tho account of Cartier's voyage carefully when he was making his preliminary primitive communities in the United States as a spring tonic. Other remedies of long ago havo mercifully fallen into disuse. What our ancestors used to endure at the hands. of thelr medical men makes us shudder today, An old time Eng- lish remedy was Usnea, which was the moss taken from the skull of a man who has died a violent death, It was easy to obtain in the olden days because the bodies of crimin- als who were hanged were left sus- -~ pended in a public gquare or at the crossroads ns a warning to others. Sympathy was a remedy much esteemed. The "powder of sym- pathy," which was nothing more than copper sulphate, was used for healing wounds, the Visibility Is Vital Factor In Modern Warplanes -- Greatest Possible Field of Visloh Is Necessary For Ave iators in Combat In modern warplanes, ranging the skies of Europe at thrice the speeds of their last-war ancestors, visibility has become a vital fac- tor. An enemy craft, "sitting" in clopds far above a low-flying bomber, can plummet to within machine-gun range in a few sec- onds. Lynx-eyed R.C.A.F. fighter, bomber and interceptor 'plane crews must therefore command the greatest possible field of vis- jon, from pilot's cabin and from nose, tail and top turrets. Wind resistance -- at six miles per minute -- has become a solid force. Hence protection and visi- bility for the pilot of today must be built right into the airplane body. The chemical industry first made this possible a few years ago 'by developing transparent plastics. TRANSPARENT PLASTICS Aircraft designers "were. quick to seize on this new material and recognized it as the substance they had been waiting for because of its lightness of weight and the "formed to curved frames, could "be There was no more need for awkward wind-resisting angles and today the pilot's cabin and the fuselage have become transparent stream- lined affairs virtually a part of the modern "tear-drop"" design, Optically dlear plastic sheeting is today an essential material in air- craft construction and does it serve so vital a purpose as in affording protection and visibility to the crews of present military airplanes. i This hard, crystal-clexyr sub stance is shipped to aircraft build. ease with which it ers in flat sheets about one-eighth -- of an inch thick, where it is cut to template shape, moulded to re- quired contours under héat treat- ment, and cemented into position in airplane cabins, turrefs' and bomb-aiming windows, VOICE PRESS COMPETITION'S THE THING | Come to think of it, where will the city people get red-ribbon Christmas beef if we don't hold any winter fairs? --TFarmer's Advocate. 000 A PREDICTION _ Undoubtedly, next. year, all of Ontario will be on daylight sav- ing time, by statute of the pro- vincial government. --Niagara Falls Review. 000 INDUSTRIES OF THE WEST The assumption that Canada's prairies are almost exclusively ag- ricultural in their production is not borne out by the latest fig- urés available at Ottawa concern- ing manufacturing in Manitoba; Alberta and Saskatchewan, Theso point to a manufacturing prodie- tion worth £279,474,000 furnish ing employment for 12,314 people yoann salaries and wages amounting to $45,0 ern Canada may be one of the great granaries of the world, but it is also, apparently, developing from ~the standpoint of manyfac- turing. ~_ Brockville Recorder & Times, LIFE'S LIKE THAT (SH Zt By Fred Neher SE ---- "Whaddya mean | stole the election. , . 1 oid Tak for it, didn't 1211" REG'LAR F ELLERS -- What a Baby! By SENE BYRNES TELL RARELY E, HOW OLD A B, HASTA Fie i rore. IT CAN LEAVE IT8 MOTHER § nowhere 51,000. West- +