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0. - little publication, Ld MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE "Canada Today" Tells Story Of Canada Abroad 4 +'One of Canada's chief grouses that many people in Britain and most Americans are entirely ignor- ant of her geography and way of life," says Mr. Punch's special cor- respondent in a recent issue of that inimitable publication under the title of "An Innocent in Can- ada". ¥ The correspondent goes on fo say that the Americans, it seems,. "have the most fantastic notions about their northern neighbors, visualize them as a gang of semi- civilized nomads, Red Indians and poor whites, scraping for edible mosses in the perpetual snows of the tundra. "I am told," the correspondent impishly continues, "that Yankee tourists sometimes arrive in Winni- peg for their mid-summer holidays lavishly equipped with furs and ski-boots and prepare to exist solely on pemmican and old boot- S, While we have plenty of Ameri- can friends who know better, it is a fact that this great country of ours needs a campaign of enlight- enment abroad to tell the world what an up-and-coming place Can- ada really is. ! One real effort in this direction to come to our notice is a fine called "Canada Today", recently published by the Bank of Montreal. It is a pocket- sized brochure of 100 pages copious- ly illustrated. It tells, with an amazing number of facts-- and not too many figures--the story of Canada, her resofrces and her ple. Here is an immensely readable story of Canada which shows this country as living on a standard to all intents and purposes the same as that of the United States--as a country which has made major contributions to industrial, scienti- fic and cultural advancement -- a country of almost unlimited re- sources and an industrial output that has trebled in value since 1939. We understand that the B. of M. distributed thousands of copies of "Canada Today" to visitors at the recent Canadian International Trade Fair and that additional thousands have been sent to all kinds of business and financial peo- ple abroad who may be interested in trading with Canada. It is also receiving some distribution to tour- ists and prospective emigrants to Canada. The effort is a commendable one that should help break down the ignorance about Canada abroad. While the publication is intended primarily for. distribution beyond Canada's boundaries, it can serve a real purpose at home in selling Canada to Canadians, and we are glad to know that limited quanti- ties are being made available to school libraries .and to teachers where class-work includes the study of the eéconomic and industrial development of the country. Champion Baker Dofzs His Hat To Canuck Pies LONDON--(CP) -- Charles Law- ton, 45-year-old London baker, has just been crowned champion bread- maker of England and Wales but he thinks more of his Canadian wife's pie-making ability than his own prowess. After Lawton's loaf was pro- claimed best at a baker's exhibi- tion--he also used to be a cham- pion cyclist--he would say" little about 'himself. But he was eager to tell of his 48-year-old wife's lemon and pumpkin pies which she learned to bake in Tavistock, Ont, as a girl, As for bread he considered the perfect loaf should have a good appearance with crisp crust. It must cut well and the crumb must not break or tear; it must be easy to butter and when a wife runs her finger over it, it must give the same velvety feeling she would get Jom the feel of a good silk stock- 8. The Lawtons have. been operat- friars area of London since before a their bakeshop in the Black- the war. They kept operating through the blitz and 'thousands of Canadian and United States ser- vice men came to know Mrs. Law- ton's pies on invitations to their home, They still correspond with many. \ : The couple still have a Canadian connection through two daughters --Mrs. R. Yaeger of Aylmer, Ont. wife of a Canadian airman, and Miss Eunice Battenburg, a daugh- ter of Mrs. Lawton's by a former marriage. Lawton, who won the gold medal for cycling at Herne Hill in 1924 took time off from his baking dur- ing the Olympic Games to act as starter 'in all the Olympic cycle races, FROM ARABIC Alfalfa is probably a Spanish ver- sion of the Arabian word alfacfa- cah, which means "the best fodder." 7. GETTING UP Growing a garden is quite a trick, if you have to spend a, year or two gathering enough soil to do it. That's what Mrs. S. Phill, postmistress at Churchill, Man., had to do to create the garden shown above. It measures 10 by 33 feet, and consists of scores of buckets of soil laboriously gathered in rock crevices along:the rugged shores of Hudson Bay. Mrs. Philbin mixes a little peat (known as "muskeg") with the earth and produces a fine garden where the common vegetables grow quickly. Hours of sunshine are long at the far north of Churchill, and growth is often spectacular, Seedlings often show through the ground five days after planting. --Central Press Canadian Business Spotlight By The Canadian Press Stock markets continued gloomy under the pressure of unfavorable international news but there seems no real reason why markets should not enter upon the advance long- predicted for late summer or fall. In the words of a bullish short- term trader, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "there is nothing wrong with the stock market that a pleasant cable from Berlin would not cure." Domestic strikes in the United States constitute one discouraging item just now. Also cited are anti- inflationary moves towards higher interest rates. Though good world harvests are forecast, shortages continue in vital materials, including steel, copper, lead and zine. Security exchanges were closed Saturday but grains made good showings in Winnipeg and Chicago. In Winnipeg, hedging sales were well absorbed in oats and barley and rye was firm. In Chicago Sep- tember shorts whp need corn now put the September contract up two cents, but there was little demand in the new crop months with a bumper corn harvest coming up. Wheat also did well. Village Doomed 'By Hydro Project Mackey, Sept, 13 -- (CP) -- This Renfrew County village will soon disappear undér the damned waters of the Ottawa river. Victim of Ontario's expanding hy- dro developments, the village will be moved. Downstream about six miles at Des Joachims, the Hydro-Elec- tric Power Commission of Ontario is building its new $60,000,000 power pooject. When the dam is complete, water wil] flood the land now oc- cupied by Mackey alongside the ri- ver, Hydro officials are completing compensation arrangements for re- sidents, It is planned to move the school house and the Roman Cath- olic church. The railway station, post office and other buildings will be dismantled. Officials say, however, it will take more than two years to store enough water to inundate the village land. NATIVES GREW COTTON Columbus found cotton growing in the West Indies, and the natives cotton cloth. 2 COLD DRINKING WATER On Tap All The Time Install this Cordley automatic electric water cooler in your office or plant. GE) Inquire today at Norriern Electric * COMPANY LIMITED 131 Simcoe Street, Toronto A Picobac smoker will tell you that it's one of the mildest, coolest tobaccos grown and therefore particularly suited for a pipe. And because of the texture of the Burley leaf, it burns slowly . , . smokes cool . . . stays lit! In short, it's a pipe 'tobacco that new smokers welcome . . . that veteran smokers swear by. Taste will tell. Try a pipe of icobac The Pick of Pipe Tobaccos RCMP Probes Radio Thefts Ottawa, Sept. 13--(CP)-- Royal Cunadian* Mounted Police are inves- tigating theft of special radio equip- ment in Winnipeg but Transport Minister Chevrier does not believe "a foreign power is involved." Frcm aboard the Empress of France en route to England, he told the Canadian Press Sunday night: " It is my belief that amateur radio operators, who might break parts up for their own use, are the cul- prits." Mr, Chevrier is on his way to the Paris meeting of the United Nations, Confirmation that the spare parts for a government radio transmitter hed been stolen came from C, P. Ed- wards, Deputy Transport Minister Saturday. The transmitter is part of a new instrument janding system at Winnipeg's Stevenson Airport. The theft was made from a small, unguarded building several miles from the airport about three months ago. The thief, Mr. Edwards believ- ed, was someone "who knows some- th about radio.' Commissioner S, T. Wood of the R.CM.P. was "skeptical about the suggestion that it's anything more than an ordinary theft, The Winnipeg Free Press, which first reported the theft Saturday, suggested the possibility that a for- eign power might be involved. Mr. Edwards, confirming the re- port of the theft, disclosed that the transmitter had not been fully as- sembled when the building--locked but unguarded--was entered. How- ever, the thief did not domage the transmitter. . Looking Ahead ro In Ottawa Ottawa, Sept. 13--(CP)--On the shoulders of Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent will fall the main respon- sibility of preparing legislation for the next session of parliament. Mr. St. Laurent, elected last month to the leadership of the party, will take over the Prime Ministership from William Lyon Mackenzie King permanently, prob- ably some time in November. It is not known when the next session of parliament will be called, but Mr, King indicated at a Fri- day press conference that it will not be this fall. He said he saw no possibility of a session this month or next. Last year the session opened Dec. 5 and ended June 30, At the press conference, Mr. King announced that L. B., Pearson, Un- dersecretary of State for External Affairs, was succeeding Mr, St. Laurent as Minister of External Affairs. Mr, St. Laurent said he wished to be relieved of his external affairs duties so he could devote his time to the preparation of legislation for the next session. He did not indicate what measures the govern- ment might introduce. Possibly one of the first things will be ratification of terms under which Newfoundland will join Can- ada as the 10th province. Representatives of the wholesale and retail ends of the men's shirt business will testify this week be- fore the Prices Commission. The first two days of the shirt probe were taken up with testimony by officials of the five biggest shirt- manufacturing companies. Next week the commission will examine the other side of the picture. Highlights last week were the manufacturers' expression of deep interest in their retailers' profit margins and the statement of one manufacturer that he thinks the prices of top-quality shirts are away out of line. He and other witnesses blamed the extreme cost of United Kingdom shirting material for some of the big 'rises in retail prices. Pulpit And Memorial Missing From Church Castleton, Caithness, Scotland-- (CP)--The oak pulpit. and war- memorial plaque have disappeared from the Established Church here and parishioners invite assistance in finding them. The building was requisitioned for the R.AF. and Polish troops during the war, after the two Church of Scotland congregations had united and were unable to can- ry ou} plans to worship alternately in each church. 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