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B IREDA» ..AU WRITE .. FOR YOU I By John C. Klrkwood 1PROVINCIAL CHAIRMAI Talk about astronomical f ig- ties - lightness, resistance and ures! Astrophysicists have calcu- softness. This plant is called lated that the sun has been radiat- "candelabra suphorbia", and the ing its life-giving heat or energy wood derived from it is being used for 5,000,000,000 years! This may extensively in aeroplane construc- be the saine as saying that the tion, and for the making of musi- universe is 5 billion years old. cal instruments, pencils, plywoods, And these same wise men say veneers, stethoscopes, orthopedi- that the sun burns up about cal appliances, tennis racquets 4,000,000 tons of its mass a sec- and packing cases. ond! It burns, but is not consum-** ed. Or, to put it another way, in In Great Britain millionaires the language of these same as- are on the increase, according toý tronomers: the carbori in the suri evidence provided by the Inland is orever being devoured in Revenue Commission. For the! ~3~mes of hydrogen, yet resurrects year ended March 31, 1939, the ~l n its full original state number of persons whose incomes every 2,550,000 years. This whole exceeded £30,000 annually was; ______________ wonderful matter is one that is 1024, or 107 more than the pre-1R.V eur not hikely ta make any of us con- ceding year. Persons whose in- R.V euu tentious. comes exceed £2000 numbered who has been appointed by H( 102.022, an increase of 3290. Those J. L. Raîston, Minister of Finani Here's an idea, namely: The liable for income tax in 1938-39 as chairman of the Ontario Coi 1929 slump or crash was due to totalled 3,900,000, an increase of mittee of the War Savings Coi our changing appetite. This view 200,000. Those exempted totalled1 mittee to launch the sale of W is urged by Frederick Strauss, 6,200,000 - an increase of 200,000. Savings Certificates. spokesman for the National Bur-*** eau of Economic Research of the Who invented glass? The ans- eighteen foreign cafes - those r United States. Mr. Strauss argues wer is, Nature. Nature's way of presentative of Belgium, Braz that the agricultural depression making glass is - and was fromi Great Britain, Czecho-SlovakJ of the 1920's in the United States the beginning - pouring lava f rom FinlIand, France, Japan, Hungaj was an immediate cause of the the world's volcanoes. Known as Iceland. Iraq, Norway, Polar idustrial depression of 1929. The obsidian, this lava glass has some Roumania, Sweden, Switzerlan decline in the consumption of of the translucent properties of Turkey and Venezuela. On ti wheat and the replacement. of man-made glass. It was this Na-! Swedish menu will be cjîayfi! wheat with other products - dairy ture-made glass that was a chal-, and pancakes smothered in hii products, eggs, tobacco, chickens, lenge to the original glass-makers ganberries. Hungary will ser, and staple foodstuffs other than of some 4000 years ago. lits famous goulash, and will hai wheat - had a very disturbing ef-*** a gypsy band to entertain yc fect on the economy of agricul- At a recent meeting of an as- At the Swiss Chalet you will ei ture; the shift from a coarse bulk sociation of teachers of Latin and bratwurst and aromatic chee: diet to a varied quality diet was Greek the subj ect of Latin as ai fondues. In the Italian place yi too abrupt, Mr. Strauss contends. school study had, of course, a i ill, of course, get spagheti Our millers tell us that the con- great deal of attention. It was Venezuela will feature its ha sumption of bread in Canada has said by one teacher that the great- lacas and long, cool rum punche greatly declined from former le- est factor in the successful stimu- 'Peland will serve its noted han vels, and our farmers know that lation of Latin is "the teacher who and l00-year old honey win the public's consumption of beef feels herself or himrself a crusa- Czecho-Slovakia will serve pri and park is nothing very much ta der in the preservation of the Munich Pilsen beer along wî depend upon. So, you see, it is classics" - that the stimulation of roast goose and knoedels. At th what we eat that gives prosperity the study of the language is de- Finnish cafe yau will be able1 to, or takes prosperity from, aur pendent upan good teachers - not get piirakka (small meat pie basic industry - agriculture, arid scholars - who know and love served with bouillon), kaal that when agriculture suffers, in- the subject and who have a win- kaaereita (stuffed cabbage roots' dustry suf fers.* ning cîassroom personaîity. and reindeer sandwiches; at th Retention 0f Latin as the living Belgian cafe you may have egg Adults are beginning ta do ju- language of the Catholic faith, in a la Bruges, and at the Braz venile things - such as playing Catholic colleges and high schools, restaurant, spicy feijoada (a blac with scooters. You are not likely by reverting ta the classical La: bean, pork and rice dish), whil ta see them skipping and scoot- tin as used by Catholic scholars, Turkey will offer you shish keba ing on your street, but if you go was advocated at this convention (skewered lamb). ta Jones Beach's Fun Fair, on of teachers. And when you return ta Ca Long Island, near New York.City,*** nada, it may be that humbl you will see many grown-ups - in- For the first tîme since the fif - spinach and turnips and butter cluding grandmothers! - playing teenth century the Lord's Prayer milk will aid you to recover fror with see-saws, skipping ropes, was presented a fortnight or so a gastronomic spree. wheelbarows, pogo-sticks, scoot- ago in a mystery drama, with ers, wagons and such things, af- each of its petîtions portrayed on To launch a torpedo from ter the manner 0f youngsters. the stage of the Protestant Epis- subinarine will cost for the toi Perhaps some day not far off the copal Church of the Incarnation, pedo alone $10,000; and the bomb oldsters in Canada may be doing New York City. It was sponsored dropped by a single bomber on; what they are doing to-day at by the Religious Drama Council single flight will cast $4000.1 Jones Beach. of the Greater'New York Federa- costs $1000 tai train a soldier. Hi * *tion of Churches. rifle costs $30. To fire aircraf The Italians may some day find Each petition of the prayer was guns at enemy planes fromi their African possessions an as- dramatized in scenes from the Old tingle battery costs $3500 a min set rather than a liabîlity. In Ital- and New Testaments. ute. A tank will cost fromt $5001 ian East Africa grow a billion* * to $50,000. A plane will cost fror trees - or plants - on sali from Perhaps you will be attending $30,000 ta $200,000. In the las 3500 ta 6000 feet above sea level, this year's New York World's great war it cost $25,000 ta kill whose trunks are said ta produce Fair, and if sa, you may dine there soldier. A battleship of majai wood appreciated for three quali-- at some one or other of the size costs $40,000,000. THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 1940 PAGE THREE r THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO No Hydro Rebates Until War Over* SurplusProvides for Contingency For the duration of ' the war, WAR SAVINGS PLAN the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power BEN R AMT E Commission will flot return to the EN OR A I D gunicipalities any surplus funds acquired from supplying electric- Ottawa, May 15 - Plans for the ity to cities and towns of the sale of War Savings Certificates province, Dr. Thomas Hogg, Com- and the widespread acceptance of mission chairman, said in an in individual thrift programs as a terview. war effort are now being organiz- Electrical power is supplied by ed. Hon. J. L. Raiston, Minister the Commission at cost and for- of Finance, has announced the merly if a surplus showed for appointment of W. H. Somerville, any municipality at the end of. Waterloo, Ont., and de Gaspe Ithe year this surplus was return- Beaubien, Montreal, as national e'd. chairmen of the National War With accelerated industrial ac- Savings Committee. tivity anticipated during the war, R. V. LeSueur, Toronto. has Dr. Hogg stated that revnuecol- been appointed Ontario chairman - lected from the municipalities will of the War Savings Committee. exceed cost of the power. Provincial committees, to be an- on. Under normal conditions this nounced in the near future, will ce, surplus would be returned, but be representative of agriculture, :M- now it will be added to the sta- labour, industry, finance, educa- m- bilization of rate fund and con- tion and the professions. Arar tingency funds to guard against War Savings Certificates, to be -any decline in Hydro load after sold in multiples of $5, are de- the war. signed to give everyone, includ- re- "There will be no cut in the ing school children, an opportun- tl, base rate of power despite these t to share tn the war effort in kia, surpluses," Dr. Hogg stated. Canada's fight for freedom. In ry, addition to making a very effec- 1 tive contribution to the mobiliza- nd: RECORD TOURIST tion of Canadian resources, War he TR FI X E T D Savings Certificates provide an sh T A FCE P C E opportunity by which every Ca- i- nadian , old and young, may build ve As no changes have been made up a reserve of purchasing power. ve i the generous regulations per- The Ontario Chairman of the ou. mitting the free and unhampered War Savings Committee, Mr. Le- eat interchange of tourist traffic be- Sueur, is a native of Sarnia and ese tween Canada and the United a graduate of the University of 7u States, it is confidently expected Toronto and of Osgoode Hall. Mr. ti. that the coming summer tourist LeSueur represented West Lamb- d- season will be a record one in the ton in the House of Comnmons ýs. entry of American citizens into 1921-25. In 1933 he was elected ns Canada, according to C. W. John- Vice-President of Imperial Qil ne. ston, general passenger traffic Limited, and Vice-President of re- ma~nager of the Canadian National International Petroleumn Comp- th Railways. "'Operators of Canadian any, Limited. 1e resorts, merchants and others Mr. LeSueur began his active to conducting relative activities may association with the oil business es, therefore expect unprecedented when he went to, England in con- t- business to come their way his nection with the purchase of pro- ssummer as millions of Americans ducing fields in Peru for Inter- ,.e cross the international 'peace national Petroleum Company, Li- Is border' for a vacation holiday in mited. Subsequently, he took zil the Dominion." charge of negotiations with the ek "Canada, with a wide variety Peruvian Government. le of interests and attractions to the In addition to a nuýmber of Di- ab tourist, should be more widely rectorates which he holds, Mr. known as a great vacation play- LeSueur also takes an active in- grud"Mr. Johnston said, "and terest in public affairs and in r- wt thi idvew, borisfolders philanthropie matters. ýr- n coor, escrbing Canada's 'm' finest vacation lands, have been distributed ahl over the continent by the Canadian National Rail- a ways as a reliable guide to the E >rvacation seeker." As a resuit of >s this distribution, inquiries have W O R K IN I a been pouring into our passenger Sagents' offices throughout the SUnited States seeking further in- tt formation about Canadian resorts, a added Mr. Johnston. oon "Following the proclamation of m the president of the United States, ,t the greatest travel year i Amer- a ican history is about to begin," or said Mr. Johnston, "and with path- ways from aIl points i the United States leading northerly into fri- endly neighboring Canada, we have an exceptional opportunity as Canadians to benefit from this great migration of vacation- ists.'" "There is also the important duty of extending a cordial wel. come to, visitors from the United States and tc, maintain a strictly Canadian atniosphere," added Mr. Johnston "which is what the Am-erican visitor wishes to see when he comes to this country." GAIN 0F 8319000 SEEN IN VALUE 0F VEGETABLES Major commercial fruit and' vegetatle crops raised in Ontario last year returned producers $18,018,000, an increase of mýoreI than $600,000 over the previous year. Statistîcs revealing this increase were released this week byS.H H. Symons, statistician of the On- tario Department of Agriculture. Lest some of our readers are not aware of the fact, Mr. Symons is a native of Bowmanville, being the son of Mr. Frank Symons and the late Mrs. Symons. The figures are compiled from returns for specified fruits and vegetaibles, and only the comn- mercial production is counted. average crop of 770,000 barrels, IRO' but last year's price average $1.41180 a barrel and the average price for several years has been $2.33. 6 The apple crop, largeat single item i Ontario fruit production, was worth $1,425,700k last year and smaller crops usually produce $1,797,000. One of the greatest peach crops in Ontario history yielded $792,- 000 as prices average $1,05 a bushel, nearîy 50 cents lower tlian FRANK WILLIL average. The Western section o! OntarioMage produced fruit worth $3,722,000 in 1939, with the Eastern section yielding fruit worth $1,011,000. WALLSANDCE 1LI NGS ONMA ICM/94 eLà Get Gonuine Gyproe -identif y If these tw@ Ways: 1. Look for the name GYPROC on the back of every board. 2. Look forthe Green Stripe on bath aide edges. Accept no substitutes. d in choosing a wallboard, whether for walls and ceilings of a new building, or for renovations, alterations and repairs, it will pay you to consider these outstanding reasons why Gyproc is superior to ordinary wallboards: 0 FIREPROOF-therefore sale 0 PERMANENT and DURABLE-therefore economical 0 WILL NOT CRACK, WARP, SHRINK or SWELL 0 INVISIBLE JOINTS-panel strips are unnecesscary a SMOOTH, DUST-FREE SURFACES-easy to keép.cleon 0 TAKES ANY TYPE of DECORATION-no monotohi. 0 The LIGHTEST WEIGHT gypsum wallboard mode In Canada GTO 'MAKE TELEPHO.NE SERVICE 0109 PAGE THREE 1 Jf -, j !:j ami 1