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$1,250,000 Will Be Spent On Mining Roads The Dominion Government pro- poses to spend $1,250,000 toward new roads into mining areas" in Northern Ontario and North-West- ern Quebec according, + the supple. mentary estimates tabled inc the House of Common: by Finance Minister Dunning. : 3 The estimates contained the, fol lowing appropriatio for Post Of" | fies in Northern Ontario: Chap. leau,, $20,000; Kapuskasing, $27, 000; Mattawa, $21,000; Schreiber, $18,000, and South, Porcupine, $35, 600. : Appropriations for Post Offices . in the Ottawa Valley are as fol lows: Barry's Bay, $5,000; Cobden, $5,000; Cornwall, $30,000; Gatin- eau, $15,000; Thurso, $14,000; Mont Laurier, $12,000, for addition to post ofiice, She's A Young Lady -Now Sg spares Sia: ~ Parliamentary = Doings With Ontarlo's Legislators, Spring, 1088 There's life in the. old boy yet cane Ex-Premier George S. Henry enjoyed a field Uay in the Ontario Legislature last week when ju the courso of a five-hour speech he locked verbal horns with half the members of the Cabinet and man. aged to touch the political sore spots of many a leading Liberal +++. Tho major fncident of his ad- dress came when he succeeded in taunting Premier Hepburn into making one of the stitfest attacks he has ever levelled against Prime Minister King. " Mr. Henry made reference to the arch erécted to Rebels of 1837 (at Queen Victoria = Park, Niagara Falls) which bearz. inscribed: lo- gether on it the names of Premier Hepburn and Prime Minister King .... The premier retorteil that he wished Mr. King was possessed with some of the qualities ativibut. ed to his illustrious Krandfather, the "Little Rebel)" 'Willlam Lyon "Mackenzie, Ontario's ready now to imple- ment Unemployment Insurance... . an enabling bill has been brought down in the Legislature which al. lows the Province to take immed- "fate advantage of any job insur. m that may be adopted al Government this year. (Toroato's session prorogues ~ before Ottawa's) . ... Would this, by any chance, be another play at passing the buck? , ... for Ottawa may do nothing abowt unemploy- ment insurance this session. auce progra by the I' DO YOU KNOW: That a most 'commendable piece of legislation has been drafted, that will, permit the judge presiding at any divorce hearing to order the- exclusion of the public from tho court "where he deems it to be in the interest of public decency and morals"? (Judi: cature Amendment JAct). J .. To. Wed Ontario Girl it_all off, he w this summer. Bruins' Goalie 8 = fb BEIT If ever a goalkeeper had as triumphant a season ast Frank Brimsek of the Boston Bruins enjoyed during the past winter, it has not been It was Frankie's first year as a major ~ing-it-he won the National league's Vezina trophy for fewest goals scored against, was voted the year's outstanding rookie all-star team and played on a Stanley Cup winning team. And to top + himself a bride in the person of Miss Peggy MacMillan, with whom he is shown ABOVE. / uck-stopper, and, dur- named goalie on the ac) L They, expect to be married some time Miss MacMillan, 21, comes from Kirkland Lake, Northern NTARIO UTDOORS By VIC BAKER --Act) That fruit stores throughout the Province may shortly be exempted from 'the provision of early 'closing by-laws? (Statute Law Ameniment popular with many shopkeepers in small centres who .sell lots ol -other things besides fruit . ... ___ That the Government will not + This may not-be-at-all--|- Dominion were ANGLERS MIGHT FIGHT FOR . CANADA! : is destined to become as 'important a symbol. in international polities as Chamberlain's umbrella, Ontario's Deputy. Game ana Fisheties; D.~J« "Jim" Taylor, thinks Canada's game fish might prove an inducement to the United States to intervene if the invaded by foreign Minister, of oxpenditures received fru credit balanee on int ic count fram any source but uncertain balance in years. the nortliern hinterland, embark upon highways expendi- tures and other projects on borrow- -ed- money. {this_year)? .., , . Said tho Premier: "I may say for the benefit of delegations" who avill be besieging us in a few weeks that 'we do not propose to build high- . ways on borrowed money. Certain highways developments . alteady "favorite We' In an address to the Northern Ontario Tourist Trade Association --~annual-dinner-at Toronto recently (Mar, 31) he was heard to say: "What good fisherman down in the "United States is going to sit idly by and see some Nazi sitting over Canadian never thought of it out". ments can be appreciated when fit is realized that during the. same five-year period net credits arising "from exports of 'gold have slightly less at $658,S80,000, gother, the export of fold andthe | , RED SCHOOLHOUSE GOING ists exceed our favorable balance of trade in most years. 'her than these three ftems, Canada has no except sales and purchases of securities abroad which have provided a & © Wilt Never "Pcter Out" From east to west but chiefly in has secured a source of revenue such as its mines have never pro- --duced before But-the-tourist-trado-- is less stable and assured than is our gold production. But in years of prosperity "If 18 ore "important ~ than gold bullion. in our national economy, It is, in fact, a veritable goldmine that will never "peter 'VOICE PRESS NO BILLBOARDS, EITHER "In hoise and buggy days, when we tr: velled we saw something bes sides the road,--~ Quebec Chronide- Telegraph, - "RURAL FRONT DOORS A contemporary speculatés as to why farmers do not use the front door of their homes. Probably that is where the wolf is hanging around. --Wodstock ~~ Sentinel-Re- view, ' TRY IT ONCE AND SEE Chief Draper of Toronto says. that lawbreaking is not due to hunger, cold or unemployment, But General Draper is neither hungry, cold, nor out-of a job.-- 'Stratford Beacon-Herald. THE "STOP" SEASON Stop Hitler and Stop Hepburn have been familiar cries in recent weeks. With summer coming on it might be well also to remember to Stop, Look and Listen at rail- way crossings.--Fort Erie Times- Review. _ WE'RE NATURAL TALKERS "= Before Canadians accuse their --{-- politicizns of talking » great deal and doing nothing they might re- flect on the recently published statistics which show that the Ca nadian _ people génerally make more telephone calls than any oth- er people in the world. Talk may be a national characteristic.-- Kingston Wi ndard. _ Apparently the famous old "ljt- tle ved schodlhouse' is on the way, out. - Better communications and. | the falling birth-raté-in rural com- munities have accelerated = this process. The primitive educa- "tional facilities have: produced-men who attained remarkable success in every-walk of life. It is to be =hoped-- thatthe --more-- podern te cquipment will enable the oncom- ing. generation-ta deal with the even more baffling Jroblems with which they will soon be confront ed.--Londen Free Press. "Huge Egg Mart | 'Open In Britain 'The war in China did not appar ently affect the hens of that coun- try, for last year it exported 8S. 000,000, pounds of frozen eggs lo, 3. A recent snapshot of: Princess Elizabeth, who on April 21 cele- - 'brated: her 13th birthday with a party at Windsor Castle. As evi- dence that Elizabeth was leaving childhood behind her, the King presented his daughter with a dia- mond-studded bracelet, while her mother's gift was a box of silk stockings. one . Where Corn Borer. started, howe ver;--witt--bre--complet ed" - a. : That bears may be taken in On- tario by licénsed hunters (resident and non-resident) for their own use without paying a royilty (Game and Fisherigs-- Amendment Act). Pardon me, madam, could you use an extra bear? ----y .A special ten-day. session of the Legislature to deal with the "trialg: and tribulations of TordMto" was _ pki Hits The Hardest 'Damage Done In Western On- tario At Worst In Elgin Co. --Inspectors Urged To In-: crease Vigilance. ar SATE that damage "dotie "by *T the corn borer in Western Ontario, as a whole, .was greater In the - summer -of 1938 than in previous years, Prof, I. Caesar, of the en- - tomology department, Ontario Ag: 'tlculture College, urges increasing advocated in a budget debato speech by F. B. Brownridge (Lib., Stormont) . . .. te referred speci fically to the Queen City's bld for government assistance in building a sewage-disposal plant. , .. The Legislative Chamber will shortly be completely redraped at a "costot $4,872.64, in preparatton-for the inipending visit of Their Maj. estles. . . . Nothing like a Royal Visit In the offing to get that paint Job done. . , . Too bad the reform wave couldn't go a bit deeper. . , . Conservatives and Liberals could | "vigilance as a means of curbing | both clean house, junk all the skel- the inroads- of the destructive -In- sect, Prof. Caesar, who-is in charge of corn borer eradication work in On- tario, declared that with the "ex. ception of Essex and Kent Coun- tles, Increases in corn borer dam- age were noted throughout that section of the province. "Elgin county, he said, was the hardest hit of the Western Ontario counties, Increased losses were found fn Lambton and Middlesex, while damage in Kent was confined to small patches through the coun ty. Li * Roy 1 Visit Seen : s Trade Impetus ~ The visit of the - King and Queen to Canada next month is expected to résult in a big in. crease in trade between Canada. and the United Kingdom, the (London) Sunday Reteree said. This boem will chiefly affect the fashion trade, Victor Stibel, one' of London's ohief dress designers (told - the "paper in-an interview. "Hitherto Canadian fashion buy-- ers have never, visited | London model houses, bulb they lave re. cently been impressed by the Queen's choice of British-design- ed diesses," he 2afd. etons In the _closets, . , . But 'twould_take more than a- Royal Visit to accomplish that. ... What do you think? LIEN Dictators Can't Stop Pedalling A dictator is up against the same proposition as a man on a bicycle. "Hé can't stop pedaling," last week sald Jan Masaryk, former Czecho-Slovakian Minister to Lon. don and son of the defunct democ- racy's founder. "He's got to keep on pedaling or he'll fall off." Mr. Masaryk, who was suffering from a cold and was so hoarse he was barely able to speak, drew his comparison when reporters asked him it Ke thought "public opinion" in the democracies would "stop Hitler", \ A» : - He hurried oft 'to his hotel suite. 'Later Mr. Masaryk. sailed aboard the Normandie for London, whers he will take up his residence, - Wool is taken from the pelts of abattoir-killed speed and lambs in wool pulleries. The Manitoba crop . report estimates that from 89,000 Manitoba sheep and lambs sent to the markets in 1038 a total of 267,000 poun¥s was-taken, This is'on the basis of three pounds of wool per pelt. ; ' ONTARIO CLUB HUNTS CROWS The Skinner Sports Club of Fo- --ronto -held its first crow hunt of the season the other day, but judg- ing by the raucous "caws" eman- ating from the fields. and ravines in the vicinity of Hogg's Hollow, scene of the fray, after the hunt was over proves it wasn Some 40 sportsmen took part in --the_hunt for the . elusive black . birds just north of Toronto. "No count of the victims was made af- - ter an afternoon of good, clean sport but"it was certain that-al-. - most all the thousands of crows seen flying about cscaped the con- eentrated fire, Hospitality Is - Good Business 'Foi Canadians-- Tourist Trade _Mefins Big Revenue--* Try Courtesy During tho past five years Can- ada 3 received an estimated $661,800,000 of revenues from tour. ists In excess of the amount that tourists have abroad, says the Financlal® Times, How very considerable this Item Ig in the balance of international -pay- Good Advice clalist at State College. "tity of milk. Cows On Pasture 'Need .Grain Feed Dairy Specialist Offers Some When cows are turned on good pasture in tho spring and early" summer, tho amount ol graly fed in' their ration can be reduced, sald John-A. Arey, extension dairy spe- Grazing on lush grasses, a cow can obtain enough nutrients with the roughage to sustain her body ~ weight and produce a certain quan- Conipensate For Extra Milk _~ A Holstein cow can eat enough grass. to maintain body weight and Great-Britain,---which isthe largest importer of poultry and e¢ggs in the world. Annually Britain requires 300,000,000 dozen - fresh eggs and _roughly 86,000,000 dozen frozen eggs: Canada, it was disclosed at the Fa®ern. Canada Marketing conference, supplies the Mother _ Country wifh only 1500000 dozen of fresh eggs and has not been able to compete with China in the pricé for frozen eggs. hi Dressed Poultry, Too In dressed poultry Britain im- A. ports around 60 million pounds a . year from 25 different countries. anada was fourth fu the list in 1937 wlth 4,000,000 pounds and sixth last year; and was second in thle supply of 120,000 pounds of canned poultry, Increase Size Qf Flocks W. A, Brown, chfef of the Poul: try Division, Ottawa, suggested Destroy Hitlerism Through Isolation Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, Of « Toronto, Holds Nazis Should "Be Outlawed If We're To "Stop Hitler" Effectively. Peace hopes of 'the world roasts in tho - destruction - of IHitlerlsm throngh ui unconditional economic, diplomatic and moral |solation of . tho Nazi regime, Rabbl Maurice ~ Eisendrath declared at Holy Blos- som "Femple,--Foronto; last --week.- Ho "warned debiocratic nations to take heed : Sy 'In emphasizing that western democracies must take serlously the detalled program of Mein Kampf,-or they 'would speedily lose thele civilization; he urged all those . who love freedom to call on the Dominlon and on the Emplro to cease muddling through, to cease the misleading of the people" and to optlaw any conceivable contact with "this demonic regime" Ho quoted from the HI to- show 1 every Gorn a abr? vue made dhe advance gu aniversal conguest." daa a The 00K SHELF -..0y, ELIZABETH BEOY "ee > ee e000 000000000000 "ZISGRACE ABOUNDING" ~ By Douglas Reed M. i people who have read Roug- las Leed's book, "lnsunity Fair," last voear will want to see its sue- cess o, "Disgrace Abounding." The accucaey of Mr. Reed's forecasts concerning the fate of Austria and Czecho-Slovakin served to win for him an amas Iv larze audience, "Since "Thsant Twas publishes | ed in the Spring of 1938, Me. Reed has been travelling through Czecho- ; Slovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and tudying the spread of tentacles, and in his es the methods sing Germany's "new book ha indie by which Nazi prop: developed throughout F . a similar fi ope, 3 a Czechoslovakia in store for Hun. gary amd Rumania, and suggests that this is merely the preliminary - to Nazi domination of Britain. Iis exposition of, and comments upon, N zi propaganda are rele ved by a Tes of brittantlywelttenpie of' various- snkiller European na- tionalities and thelr way of living. "Disgrzce Abounding" . . . . by Douglas Reed . . .. Toronto: Thos. Nelson & Sons , . . . $3.00. Nation And Bird Are Not Related - Turkey Had Nothing To Do With Naming Of Turkey Perhaps the most widespread. er- ror concerning birds is the vague {dea shared by thousands of people that the turkey . came originally trdin Turkey. This is utterly false, Just why the bird should have been called "turkey" -in the English language no.one seems to know, "writes a correspondent to jhe Rue al New Yorker, The Pealm of His Sultanic Majesty had no more to do whth the futroduction of the bird _to polite society than did Greenland or Kamchatka, The Noige It Makes y The -turkey was introduced fato 'Europe by Columbus, who took 'it to Spain, It is possible that an {ll advised public concluded that (ke many other thingy, itcame fom Turk © the Far Hast, ~ Axain tho bud may have named between the bird and the countey itself, since the call of the hen wo her chicks sounds v much like tur-rrk, tur-rr-k, tarreek. At any rate, there is no actual connection of the same name. TYPICAL OUTDOOR © GENTLEMAN Robert Montgomery, Matro-Goldwy Mayer star, besides owning a farm' In New York State also has a stabl of excellent ¥ding horses at LY Southern California estate. Montgome ery Spends threo months of each year' on his eastern farm and even while working In pletures finds ample time for 'outdoor activities. ' _LIFE'S LIKE THAT ® = By Fred Ncher 17 Vi GI 7 YA 57777 Zz produce about 30 pounds of milk a day--a Jersey cow 20 pounds. But when producing more milk, caws should receive enough grain to compensate for' the extra milk _dogiven-- 0 t. A Holstein on good pasture needs about two-fifths of a pound of grain for each pound of milk shé pro: | duces daily above 30 pounds, A Jersey on good pasture, be- "cause her milk 13 richer in butter fat, will need abont three-fifths of a pound of grain for each pound of . milk she produces above 20 pounds a day, - that Canada: should expand its poultry industry by 25 per cent. and set itself an export objective Tt of 50,000,000 dozen" eggs, 30 to 40 © million pounds of poultry and 500, --=000-pounds-of canned poultry. Can--- ada's production of eggs in 1937, 'according to the Bureau of Statls- ties wag 219,443,000 dozen eggs _ produced from "3,861,000 her Mr. Brown suggested that should increaso the size of their [Mocks aid that producers should strive to export 31% 1b. to 4 _Ib, dressed poultry for the British nfarket, = . x (© iA 4 ar) "Mind if I bunk with you tonight . . . I'm afraid to sleep alone afte» reading that detective story." EA | the Tin Wéodman." "Where next?' asked the Wizard they left Fuddlecumig, and started back along the road. "Why Ogma Iald out the Rk trip" replied Dorothy, "and she advised ~ Pafh/i-assorted, Unc us to seo the Rigmaroles next,'and then 'ey 'That sounds good," WONDERLAND OF OZ EA i ter _go bac as "Then why need we go back to the "Lot's branch off he to the sign post and make sure ot our. way,' sald Dorothy, But 'after. they had gone a short distance the Saw- sald the. Wizard, "but how do we get to Horaé stopped and sald, "Here is a path." the Rigmaroles?' "I don't know exactly," Sure enough a dim path seemed tao branch ; they passed a few returned the girl, "but It muat be some. where just northeast from here." ted sfiafght northeast. off trom the road they 'were on and it T By i Frank Baum \ Copyrighted 1943, Kallly & Las On. to take 'us there "That looks like a path," sald the Wis- ens than you do," "Pshaw!" said Aunt No one made any ob: km, "I'vs iralsed jection, so the Saw.Horse turned onto the you've got; to Ruff them to make good , path, which proved to be good. At firat brollera" ¥ "Brolleral" erled Billinpa. "Eat As they rode along -Aunt Em started an 4 crossronda?' asked "the Captain (eneral, ard. "Let's try ft." "All right, answered argument with Billina about the proper "There Isn't any Dorothy. "I'm anxious to see what the way to raise' chickens, "Well, sald Bill. i a Henry, "Then we Rigraroles are like, and 'thls path ought Ina, "I think I know more about chick. "oy chickens for years and form houses, but soon my chickens?" "Ex¢uss me," interrupted 1 these dwellings were left hehind, and only tha Saw-Horse. the meadows and trees were before them. ['d like to know RLS - "The ath ls-ended and hich wh 'way to go"