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Saving Ontario's Natural Resources C. C. TONER, Oolario Federation of AngUrt. (NO. 34) FOR ALL. ENEMIES In my dUcussiun on bird* for •vvocvl wi'i'ks put I have beun ••trvaMinK the iclations between « predator and its prey. That is, aramala or birds that feed on other creatures are said to bo predatory or predatora while lh« animals upon which they feed are knifVii CD prey. Tiie yi.o^i is a pre- dtitor on the dfor, while ihc deeer 14 the wolf's prey. We are just ijcg-innin; to understand many of the relations thai exist be- tween predator and prey but it l::i:> been suggested that to have « healthy .--toek of any animal it 15 necessary to have a predator itrding upon it. We have a fauly Kood stock <'f deer in n-.any areas of Ontario. In some places they might be said to be abundant. Like every other creature on curth they are sub- ject to disease, accidents and old age. One of the ways among human kind to control disease is to isolate the .sufferers. This can- not be done in the wilds so nature lias substituted a predator, the wolf, to keep the herd healthy. Wolves kill and eat the diseased, the maimed and the old. It may seem cruel iu human eyes but it is nature's method of keeping a healthy stock of deer. Maybe Mica Ara Necetiary There is a similiar situation in the relations between predatory birds, hawks and owLs, and mice. Of course, we do not want mice like we want deer but as they are fust breeding, little animals they occasionally become very numer- ous and Jiiust be controlled. Na- ture is never at a loss so whan the mice become very abundant di:;caae will break out among them. This disease may be suck tiiat it will spread to other crea- tures so it seems to me that na- taid reserves disease as a last resort in the control of her small- er creatui-es. Hawks and owls arc the normal predators that keep the population of mice be- low the level where disease ap- pears and wipes them out. So, as I said above, it seems to be necessary for every crea- ture to have the proper enemies. Normal predation means that na- ture does not have to resort to more drastic forms of control, such as discaso which if allowed to spread might wipe out the ani- mals almost entirely aa has hap- pened in some parts of the world. This migQit be desirable from wail's point of view but mice have Iheir uses in the scheme of things and wa might find that we needed them if they disappeared completely. The Book Sheli "THE MAN WITH NO FACE" By Margaret Armstrong ThLs liair-ralslng thriller, among tixs best in current mystery lllor- atujc, concerns the American cous- ins of a rich Australian whose con- •k!e>:«ble fortune Is left to them In bte will. They are scattered throughout the United States and live in completa Iterance both ot tlie bequest itself and of a name- leas peril which hangs over them because Oif It. An unscrupulous ad- opted son has hpen cut out of the will, and he Is bent on destroying b9iieficiarles before its terms can Im carried out. ThI.s aoonymouB killer trails bis victims ell over the country beforo Ive Is unmasked by on uriiaue New Yorker In a thrilling and original climax. If you Uav(» never"T)een an odge- of-chc-ohalr loader bt'-fore, "The Man With No Face" will teach you tho luiliit. "The Man With No Face" . . . by Margaret Armstrong . . . To- ronto: Macmillan Company of Can- ads .. . $2.50. Canada's Flour Mills Tlierc were Sfi8 flour mills and !*25 feed mills in Canada in 1940. The flour mills had a total 24-h'iur capacity of 08,553 bar- rels. Thirty-five of the flour mills, CO per rent of the feed milk, and 4(5 per cent of the flour milllnic rapacity in Canada art located in Ontario. Quebec ren'KH second as far as the num- b-T of I'lojr and feed mills is concerned, but in flour milling capacity .Saskatchewan i^ "econd Ut Ontario, followed by Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba. The Maritime Provinces and British Columhia have a small millins oapscity. The bioycia as we know it to- day, with two wheeN nf equal she. was produced in I87f>, when, known ss the "«afety bicycle," H «ttperi-fded the old hi(rh or "prn- â- V-farthinc" machine. TASK WELL DONE, TACKLES NEW PROBLEMS Having completed his task of imahanizing the Canadian Army in Britain, Brig.-Gen. G. P. Loggie, Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General has returned to Canada to tackle new military problems. He is here seen with Mrs. Loggie on liis arrival at the C.N.R. station in Montreal on their way to Ottawa. THE WAR-WEE K â€" Commentary on Current Events NAZI SPRING OFFENSIVE * IS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY Activity stepped up sharply on all fronts last week in the war between Britain and Germany. The long-awaited Nazi spring of- fensive appeared to be under way, spurred by fast approach- ing spring weather and the pas- sage-in the United States of the gigantic British-aid bill. On the side of Britain, vast preparations were being made for counter-of- fonsives wherever the Nazi ma- chine attacked â€" lon land, sea, or air; or on the diplomatic or econ- omic fronts. Balkan Front The air war over Britain was resumed, its intensity in many instances equalling the frightful days of last September when casualties were highest. The war on the sea grew steadily more serious (Britain lost 118,038 tons of shipping the last week in February). But the biggest de- velopments, from the militai-y point of view, were shaping up in the Balkan peninsula where the chief belligerents were align- ing their forces in readiness for the battle of the eastern Mediter- ranean. Yugoslavia and Turkey had not yet joined fight. Yugo- slavia's problem was far from easy, since she was all but sur- rounded by Axis forces. A di- rect challenge to Hitler could mean her quick e.xtermination as a nation. Her answer to Axis demands evidently depended to considerable degree on what sup- port Britain gave Greece. The same could be said, possibly, of Turkey who waited also to see what Yugoslavia would do and how the Soviet Union was going to take it all. Turkey Can Take It Writing on the Balkan situa- tion. Associated Press correspon- dent Dcwitt Mackenzie said: "Greece might fall, and Yugo- slavia be compelled bo acquiesce in Hitler's southward sweep, but if the Turks hold to their alliance with Britain and stand astride the Dardanelles, the Anglo-Al- lied cause isn't likely to suffer irreparable disaster in that the- atre of war. Should the Turks by any chance go over to the Germans, however, it might me.in the loss of the Battle of the Mediterranean for the British . . If the^urks fight, they should bs able to put up a very stronjf defence. The Turco-Bulgarian border not only is protected by mountains, but is strongly forti- fied. To the south, between European and Asiatic Turkey, runs the Dardanelles, one of the most powerful strategic positions ill the world. This, too, is heav- ily fortified." And last week the Turks learned that their north- eastern frontiers were safe from any encroachment by the Soviet Union should they choose to fight on the British side against the Axis. Might Turn Against Russia Highly-informed opinion in the United States last week advanced the theory that Hitler, instead of fighting his way via the Dardan- elles through Turkey to the Middle East might turn against Russia and seize the rich Ukraine, moving onward to the Caspian Sea and the Russian oil-fields. Be that as it may, grave alarm was felt in Moscow over the mas- sing of German forces in a threatening manner on Russian borders all the .way from the Baltic to the Black Sea (a mil- lion Rumanians were said to be lined up, "their fields left un- tilled," along the common bor- der with the Soviet Union). News came of Russian troop move- ments in the Caucasus, coincid- ent with the strengthening of Red Army forces along the Prut River frontier of German-occu- pied Rumania. The Russians were going to be ready for any Nazi attempt to force the Dar- danelles or close their outlet to the Mediterranean. Russian Air Force, Factor How much the threatened clas between Germany and the So- viet Union was affecting the Battle of Britain was pointed out last week by the British United Press military analyst J. W. T. Mason: "Hitler must give much thought to Russian air strength. He has now to consider the pos- sibility that if the war goes into next year, Russian air power may be added to the British which then will be augmented by the expected peak production of American factories. Last sum- mer ... tho Fuehrer was able to concentrate most of his air squadrons over Britain in seek- ing to knock out the Royal Air Force. Henceforth he must keep a considerable number of his planes near the Ru.saian frontier, lit well us in the UalUans. His adventure into southeastern Eur- ope by arousing Russian suspic- ions has weakened his air straf- ing ability against the British." Battle of Atlantic Tho British Parjiament last week voted « huge new secret appropriation for "many more ships" â€" warships, merchant ves- sels of all kinds â€" to combat the tleadily intensifying German sea offensive promised by Hitler in his January and February .speeches. The Germans were looking for victory on the sea and it was there that they must be met and conquered. This ap- peared to be the view in London and Washington last week. The Battle of the Atlantic was on. An alarming new situation w-ich reference to the war on the sea confronted Britain last week when the French Vichy govern- ment, no doubt under Nazi pres- sure to do so, threatened to use tho French Navy to convoy food" ships to unoccupied FranceT through the British blockade. The French flee^ ever since last June has been a troublesome and uncejrtain f^tor* >for Britain. Arnied conflfrt with French foodshi)^. convoys definitely was not iMltl^d at such ap hour as this. â- '. . â-  U.S. To Turn Tide The lid was off on American aid to Britain the irtstapt thfe- Lease-Lend bill passed Congxess in Washington last week. Wot â-  a moment was fost in' releasing a vast quantity of war materials to go across the -water; "flying f'urtresses" were quickly dis- patched ; and President Roose'?- velt pressed a demand for $7,- '; 000,000,000 in immediate^ cash to finance the help-Britain pro- gram. Some sources said that in addition to flying fortresses, the equipment to be sent over- seas at once included naval bombers for convoy 'duty, tanks and machine-guns for the Greek campaign and small craft to com- bat U-boats. 99 warships alto- gether would be released to Britain before the end of lS41. To Meet Early Crisis Authoritative circles in Wash- ington appeared to be acting on the theory that the coming three months would bring the great "crisis" in the war which would indicate the ultimate winner. The best militai-y opinion there held that 1941 would not see the end of the conflict, but that American aid would be suffici- ent to bolster British resistance and prolong the war in the hope of defeating Germany in 1942. No Later Than June The Canadian military expert W. R. Plewman, noting that ma- terial aid from the U.S. to Bri- tain would be assuming colossal proportions by September, esti- mated that Hitler could not pos- sibly make his supreme attack on Britain any later than June. At least two months before Sep- tember, he declared, Germany, if she would win the war, must strive to get the upper hand of Britain and isolate the British Isles from America. Tablet Diet Insufficient â€" # No Short Cut to Proper Nourishment According to British Expert Most oif this talk about feeding people by tablet alone Is without foundation, R. A. Bachai-ach said In his presidential address to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on Nutritional Problems. "At present there Is no short cut to this business of taking en- ough food In tablets to supply suf- ficient nutrition," Bacharach said. "It Is practically Impossible to con- struct any kind ot diet unless on thd basis of one pint ot liquid milk per person per day." KXAMPLE OF IRON DIET As an example ot an "Iron diet" he listed one pint of milk, eight ounces ot wholemeal bread, eight ounces of potatoes, four ounces ot ouMneal, two ounces ot meat or fl."!h. two ounces of carrots, one ounce vilaminlsed margarine, one ounce ot sugar and one orange. One human tear will destroy 80,000,000 of te germs which are found in the air around us. VOICE OF THE PRESS HIGHLY SATISFACTORY A little while back no one would have believed Halle Selassie would ha ttwund when the League of Na- tions was forgotten. â€" Brandon Sun. THE FARMER'S DAY The Ontario farmer cannot cora- plain too much. He is never the forgotten man In a year In which thtre is prospect of an election. â€"St. Catharines Siand.nd. SOME MUST LISTEN Ottawa talks. Eve-rybody in Ot- taHra is gabbing from morning to night. I have got so that my mouth d^ nMupy^loscd except from the ex- .^wl^ot listening to other talk «r»-It„,l8 the great indoor sport of USe plac e. the unlve-rsal hobby, â-  the general vice. â€"Bruce Hutchison in Victoria Times. COUNTY LIBRARIES Tho librarians of the public and associate libraries in Simcoe are evidently unanimous as to the value and the splendid service giv- en by the County Library Associa- tion brought about a year ago. Dur- ing 1940 It rightly earned a title to a place' among the activities ot tlte dlftefefit inuiiicipalities. Handi- capped to some extent by llmit-jd finances, it neyorthtdess brought to the, libijaries, ;C<>ljingwood not ex- i\cepB^, maHiy of the better class . di' \x^^ 'Uiat in all probability might .not have otherwise been at '-'the ctiBuaand at. patrons ot these llkstitatlons. i With more , funds it undoubtedly could and. would ren- der even a greatii:" service. Well might the County Cottncil be gen- erous in Its treatment of the or- ganization. â- â€¢ •-. . . â- â€" OoUlngwood BntejrP«>Srt»Bulletln. Legends Help Tourist Trade • 1 ^ for baby'ftNVjy iOTTLf, .s. I O ' For Infant Feeding! , Canada Filled With ' -l-ore That Traveling Public .lust Lol giants, forlorn lu- yanishing dogs and e all part of ade for tour- Stumbllr dian maic poetic romanl Canada's stock in" ists. -., Ottawa Parks department and. Canadian Travel Bureau officials last week said it was too early to estimate what the tourist busi- ness would be like this year, but they emphasized that the story of Canada's attractions was being told far and wide. * MANY COME FROM INDIANS "It is clear that the holidayer, ' in this time of stress, has a lively interest in the romantic legends which surrouiid many of Cana- Bee Hive 6o\4«'* Syrup da's playgrounds," said one offi- cial. "There is no guaranteeing the truth of many of these stor- ies but they are an intriguing as- sociation with scenic beauties available to the visitor." Most of Canada's legend; como from the Indians. The Georgian Bay Islands were explained with the tale of a stumbling giant, rumbling over the icefield that was Canada with a massive bouU der in his hands. He stepped on the body ot a huge fish, the boulder smashed to the ground and splintered into 30,000 piec- es â€" to create the islands. STORY OF EVANGELINE "Poetic stories like that of Et- angeline have brought countless tourists to Canada," said one au- thority on tourist travel. "In Prince Edward Island the house Green Gables, made famous by the novel "Anne of Green Gables" is an unfailing point of interest." Super-Alarm Clock An alarm designed to awaken the soundest Ot sleepers has been assembled by Herbert Dupuis of St. Catharines, Ont. Its fundamental principle, of course, is noise. This Mr. Dupuia has obtained by attaching a string from the winding bar of an ordinary alarm clock to a va- cuum cleaner switch, with a po- lice whistle attached to an aper- ture on the vacuum cleaner. When the alarm goes off its mo- dest ring is lost in the combined wail of the vacuum cleaner and screech of the police whistle. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher A^fi^s^ Ms^eS»s::?, n- '* (Oirricki. itM, b; ms **v> "Here's a pie your wife sent yoi^ Bubbles. tKa tool shop." . We put tha filling REG'LAR FELLERS â€" Within the Law By GENE BYRNES FOR ' ONLY »• V >&â-  ri s \ â-