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S==SS Ty And Schools oN i Alta, $204,900, $50,000, Collins Bay, Ont., $486, 0 iH) a 1 Sa A Ir. & ety Sr" » FAFA 3 =e aa 443405 Td re 8 $ '13 b 4 ELEY) 37 * 4 a 5 § «x tA f ly a » LR LIAS r)) PARE RIE : ad eh " BellsonCats Help To Birds rd-- . Movement Grows in Alberta To Increase Protection Songsters More than 800 citizens of the central Alberta town of Red Deer have signed a petition re- questing a by-law 'requiring all eels to wear bells while out of doors, : The petition was circulated by: the Alberta Natural History Soc- fety; officials' of which 'annoyng-. ed there are 320 Red Deer resi. dents who have erected bird hous- es, . N. Finn, .social official, said Red Deer has all the natural con- ditions to make it a bird paradise but prowling cats have destroyed many fledglings and even cat owners have agreed belling of the animals would result in some pro- tection, Mr Finn hopes the city will follow the example of .Stavely where a by-law requiring belling of cats was passed in 1936, In six other Alberta towns--Nanton, Coleman, Stettler, Turney Valley, High River and Camrose--cats are belled either voluntarily or by-law and A.N.H.3. officials re- port the bird population in these centres has increased due to this protection, dea, Made Ready - Heydey of Construction Is Going On In Canada at This Moment -- Work Against .. . Time To Complete Jobs With a drive never equalled in the construction history of Can: ada, not even in the heyday of railway building, airports are being made ready and airdromes erected from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Contractors have been no- tified ~to- go all-out; irrespective of the schedule on which they were supposed to have been work: ing, to get the jobs completed at the earliest possible date. AIR TRAINING PLAN Elemenfary flying training schools, air observers' schools, bombing and' gunnery schools, service flying training schools, equipment and repair = depots, wireless schools, air navigation schools, initial and central flying schools are being made ready at a hectic pace. The speed is- designed, in respect to fields and other facil- t' ities, to have the commonwealth air training plan effective in its ultimate largeness' not only to meet its general purpose, but to provde for emergencies as they develop in Europe, As originplly planned, the scheme was worked out to have go many training fields ready this ~ year, s0- many-next and so-many- in 1042, All this has gone by the - boards. Airports which were to be ready this autumn are now to b® ready in June or July. FOR AIRDROME DEVELOP- : MENT The money allotted, up to June 8, for airdrome development, in various parts of Canada is as fol- lows: Calgary, $409,647, Moss- bank, Sask, $380,890, Windsor, $17,500, Lethbridge, $27,760, 'Fort William $90,389, Prince Al- bert, $17,600, Edmonton $48, 282, Regina $280,209, Saskatoon $368,800, Airdrie, Alta, $89,000, Vanscoy, Sask., $177,90, Osler, Sask., $46,400, Penhold, Alta, $24,250, Malton, Ont., $70,500, ' Brantford $486,165, Hagersville, | 'Ont, $268,300, Burtch $72,000, Ottawa $221,950, London, $120, 410, Windsor Mills, Que. $78, 406, MacLeod, Alta., $340,500, Granum, Alta, $207,400, Pearce, Alta., $62,800, Jarvis, Ont., $348, 600, Fingal, Ont. $372,260, Char- lottetown $243,000, Mount Hope, Ont.,, Edwards, Ont, training - schools $86,600, Dunnville, Ont, $398,360, Well. and $69,000, Kohler; Ont., $262, 500, Quebec, $68,865, Rivers,' Man., $266,288, Three Rivers $98,270, Summerside P. E. I, . "$241,800, Wellington, P.E.L, $86,- 500, Carberry, Man. $498,000, - Petre), Man., $288,600, Oberon, Man, $76,600, Camp Borden $15,- 900, Edenvale, Ont., $249,100, Al- liston, Ont, $90,8 Fara oO a $160,000, 0, Salisbury; N:B.; $160,000, Medivdine Hat $862 olor, hurst, Ont., :$106,0 0, Po .bert, Ont, Gonirie 3 $42,100, $44,838, Moose Jaw, $628,000, Buttre fask., $276,000, Boharm, Saki, $66,000, Picton $861,000, Bt. Catharines $69,726, Bwift Cun. rent $32,685, Brandon $77,200. Total--$12,458,389, Pulp and paper manufaetur- ing in Cagade. Stes approximate- . ly 1,800,000 horse-power of hy: | draulic power, 00, Moncton . V'ofts a far cr | Major Fred J rewster, mountaineer, pack now cover the old pack Lodge (lower right) to the 16 miles to Banff Park. Aoaept + standin train for Canadian and national events, Icefield Highwa, chapter in the Lodge in this, and trappers itive camps. from the days noted ed freight 'through the Canadian Rockies by horse as shown in picture (left above) and the ease with which visitors to Jasper National Park train route over the new Columbia Ice- field Highway which will be of- ficially opened July 1. One of the world's most scenic drives, the Columbia Icefield Highway has been open from Jasper Park © feld, a distance of 756 miles dur. ing the past two years and has now been extended south another From Jasper Park Lodge the highway leads to the foot of Ath- abaska Glacier (right), where is located the new Colunisis doe. now hessisy = that some of the continent's out men and women skiers inter- The completion of the Columbia marks another istory of Jasper National Park, 4,200 square miles In extent. The Canadian National Railways' Jasper Park merica's largest National Park, now offers visitors every modern luxury where in the early days explorers, traders , set up their prim- THE WAR -W E E K--Commentary on Current Events A blitzkrieg of taxes struck bte Dominion last week following the bringing down of the Budget. ~ With drastic increases in income + taxation reaching virtually every earner, almost prohibitive taxes on automobiles and several new tax- es, Finange Minister Ralston ask- ed tremendous sacrifices of the Canadian people for war purpos- es. For the first time, the cost of .the war was. carried direct to the packet-baoke of every Income group in the country. Affects Eyerghody Highlights of the new taxation: Income rates increased so sharply pendents, paying $86 onia sal ary of $3,000 under present rates, will now pay $195 . . . A new tax on automobiles start- ing at 10 per cent on manufac- turers' value up to $700 and increasing sharply -to 80 'per cent on value in excess of $1,200 (used 'cars are taxed, too) . . . Anew national defense tax of two per cent flat rate imposed on all salaries over $600 in the case of single persons and $1,200 in the case of married persons, increasing to three per cent for salaries of single persons above © $1,200 . . . a 10 per cent tax imposed on all imports except those «commodities entered under British preferential tariff . . . gcigaret tax reised from $5 to $6 per 1,000, manufactured tobacco from 26 to 35 cents a pound, cigar taxes doubled, ete. . . imposition of ten per cent tax on phonographs, radios, cameras and wadio tnhes Lp The Ontario Government, fac- ing a possible revenue loss of $3,000,000 arising from the in- creased Federal incame tax lav- po was expected to make a re adj some time this year to bring 60, 000 mere persons, hithexto. ex- empt, within the category. 'Meantime. everywhere in Can- ade rents were going up (due in great part to an inerease in coal prices) . . Food prices remained at approximately thei .same level as in the past couple of months but gains were recorded for beef, bread, canned vegetables, pota toes, tea, coffee, onions, pepper and salt . . . Clothing was ex- pected to rise as a result of the new tax on imports and the di- version of textiles for war use . « Unemployment Insurance Prorogation of the-first session of the 10th Parliament of Canada was looked for around July 20 ++ « The main item remaining last week for consideration was un- employment. insurance (contrib- uted to by employers and em ployees); but before such a 2 measure could be brought before that a married mun with no. de-_ ustment of income brackets Aax-paying France Signs Herself Away; Budget Brings Heavy Taxes the House, the Parliament of Great Britain would have to am- end the B. N. A. Act, transfer- ring to 'thd. Dominion, from the provinces, authority over unem- ployment insurance . . . The people of Canada prepar- od last week for the reception of vast numbers of evacuee children from Great Britain, .. Thous- ands of homes were thrown open + + + placement of children to be handled by the Provincial Gov- ernments. . . Battle of France Ends "On June 5 the Battle of France began, the Germans tak- _ing off southward from the Somme-Aisne line. Against all the material and manpower General Weygand could mass, the Ger- man army under General .von Brauchitsch hurled 40, then 60, then 120, finally 160 divisions. By June 10 they were within 3b miles of Paris, with pincers curv. ing down from east and west. On June-14_the pincers met at Paris and it was surrendered." June 17, Marshal Petain, newly-elected French Premier, indicated that the fight was hopeless, asked for an armistice. June 21 French plenipotentiaries met Adolf Hit- ler in the Forest of Compiegre (in the same railway car where Marshal Foch in 1918 announced the terms under which Germany laid down her arms). June 24 the "cease fire" order came in the war with Germany. The following _ day France laid down her arms against Italy, too. The Armistice Hitler's object, apparently, in forcing the particular terms that he did upon France was to secure every possible facility for his blitzkrieg on Britain, All the French Channel and Atlantic Coasts were occupied by German forces; French warships and nav- al equipment were to be turned over to Germany for use against Britain; -all military equipment surrendered, all aircraft ground- ed; all roads, trains, railways giv- en up; 'all radio stations had to stop operations; all military fore- es began demobilization with the exception of troops necessary for maintaining order. The armistice was 'only an expedient, Berlin in- dicated . . . final peace talk must await the Battle of Britain . . . Mussolini Waits With Italy, France signed an armistice granting Mussolini a small portion of territory 'along the Alpine--frontier. The French also agreed to demilitarize: 1, a strip of land thirty-one miles deep on the Italian border; 2, a strip of territory in Tunisia on the African Mediterranean coast; 3, a portion of French Algeria bor- dering on Italian Libya; -4, the French .Somaliland port and rail- road terminus of Djibouti, key to Italian Ethiopia. These zones were to be kept demilitarized for the duration of the Armistice--until the end of Germany's and Italy's. -- war against -- England, and--until- a formal peace treaty is conclud- ed to satisfy Italy's territorial tlemands against France. No One Can Tell" All the countries of the Medi- terranean basin were 'seriously affected by the collapse of France and the signing of the two arm- istices . . .. Turkey in particular was agitated by the thought-of a powerful drive by the Axis in the eastern Mediterranean (aimed at cutting off Suez and grabbing the harbors and rich oil districts of the Near East), and feared a Fascist attack on French-man- dated Syria_. . . In Egypt, resig- nation of Ali Maher Pasha could mean the early entry of his coun- try into the war... In a message "to the pedple of North Africa," the French High Commissioner in French Morocco declared that his crack Moroccan troops would not yield one inch of French North African territory without a fight, . the armistice notwithstanding . . Vernon Barlett, British mem- ber of Parliament and writer in the London News Chronide com- mented: "The French surrender involves polifical changes all over the world. and no one can yet tell their magnitude." ' Britain For It But all the world kmew that [0 Say Nighthawks Like Dive-Bombers Quite a vommotion has been caused in Leamington, Ontario, during recent nights by night hawks that frequent the town's business section, Sound of the birds as they dive after insects has been compited to that of dive-bombers, Great Britain was next in line for -a totalitarian attack by Ger- many, that the moment Hitler's preparations were complete, the blitzkrieg on the British Isles would begin, proceeding with bombing, submarine warfare and an armed invasion. The people of Britain braced themselves for the blow, * . . 'The balance of power on tie sea depended on who obtained the French navy. It was known that the addition of the French fleet to the navies of Germany and Italy would bring 'the Axis to tonnage parity- with Britain and to numerical superiority, with 90 per cent more fighting ves. gels . . . Prime Minister Churecn- ill, voicing his anger at the mannér in which the Petain regime had violated its "many solemn assurances" in ceding sea power to the Nazis, acknowledged that the ultimate disposition of the French fleet would "powerfully though not decisively affect" Bri- For Better Desserts Durham Corn Starch Pradvet 1, Lawraace Storch Co. Lid Bagpipe Music Is Different A Lot Mere Spacing and Few- er Notes -- People Who Do Not Like It Should Not Be Condemned There are lots of people who are not Scots who say they enjoy hear: ing the bagpipes, although some qualify their appreciation by saying' tho pipes round best when the op- erator 18 a long distance away. Others, real Scots perhaps, says the Stratford Beacon-Herald, think that thero Is no grander or more inspir- ing music than a hundred pipers an' a' an' a' at close quarters. Wo learn, however, that there is a reason why one likes or dislikes the pipes. A blind Scottish piper 4-33 oo momulas YL Te T tains safely . . . In the war wilh Italy, Britain was aware that loss of the French Navy would seriously endanger her position throughout a vast 40,000 miie theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea . . . . Japan In Ascendancy The effects of the European: war, actual and anticipated, were seen last week as exercising a dynamic influence on Japan's in- ternational policy. A change in the world balance, Japanese lead- ers inferred, might mean that Japan would not only be inter- ested in an alliance with the Axis powers, but in making her position in the Pacific and the Far East impregnable. It was expected that Japan would shortly " issue a sweeping pronouncement amounting to an "Oriental Monroe Doctrine™ warning all powers against inter- _ ference of any kind in all terri- tories in East Asia. "The dream of decades -- a Far East dom- inated by Japan----was on the verge of climbing into the realm of action." ("Time," June 24). "The - only force which could turn that dream into a nightmare has always been the U. S. The big question taking shape last week appeared to be: could the UL S. summan enough diplomatic adroitness to make friends with Japan without: 1. selling out both - China and the Allies in the Far East; 2. being double-crossed herself if she attempted too much appeasement. Failing either al -ternative; could the-United States- | risk a war with Japan?" Many Materials For Housecoats Dotted Pique, Sharkskin, Sen Muslin and. Printed Voile Pique, sharkskin, dotted swiss muslin and printed voile are favor ite fabrics for morning housecoats. Even the most Inexpensive seen In New York are charming In color and very well styled and cut. A white plqua-with wide, squared-off collar, cuffs and pocket trimmed with bright red rickrack braid will make any one feel cheerful in the morning. ALL WITH FULL SKIRTS Swiss musling, trimmed with del- fcato lace edging, or more tailored types in sharkskin may be had, not only in white but in luscious pastel colors. Almost all c+ mado to fas. ten with zippers, v..:h keep one looking neat no matter how quick: ly one has dresied, and all have skirts with plenty of room, and wellcut sleoves, so If there is a train to bo caught after breakfast,. you ean fly around: comfortably. while you make toast and coffee, though the note scale is similar to the ordinary scale, tho spacing Is sometimes different, eo that to those who have not been brought: up with the sound of the pipes in their ears_tho music sounds atroc- tone, Therefore, ho generously add- At Calgary Convention H. E. Rice, publisher of tho Huntsville Forester, is President of the Canadian Weekly News- papers Aszoclation whose ~ con- vention is Being held this week in the Palliser Hotel, Calgary. ow Noobs Sraberetentiy tee ade ed, people who don't like it should not be condemned. SKIRL OF THE PIPES Undoubtedly there is something "different" about bagpipe. music, and this is the first time we learn- ed what it is, We hopo some of our friends who are insultingly critical will make allowances and adapt themselves to the skirl of tho pipes and wo fear it wouldn't do them * any good anyway If the notation wag standardized. You really have to have Scottish blood in you to en- joy the full flavour of the national fnstrument of Scotland. If you have not -- "that's your misfortune. The Book Shelf | "STARS ON THE SEA" By F. van_Wyck Mason A spunky girl, a fine lad com- "bine to make hi§~ historieals | novel by van Wyck Mason a rousing story. "Stars on the Sea" fs the tale of the U. 8, Colonists, who, in the face of an all-powerful foe, dared to flaunt their thirteen stripes and thirteen stars on the sca, It is drama, gripping and authentic. One of the major novels of the year, the book presents a new version -of the War of In- dependence as seen in a north: ern olony,: a southern colony and a tropical island ecolony-- Rhode Island, South Carolina and the Bahamas. Historic char- acters come alive with all their anguish, hope and suffering. No Harmony Bennett of Newport, Sam Higsby, the Pennsylvania rifleman, or "scholarly Nat Cof- fin of Nantucket. "Stars on the Sea" . . . by -F. van Wyck Mason . . . To- vonto: Longmans, Green & Co. «0s $3.00. 1 & 8-Egg-Per-Day Hen Wins Note Mrs. Chris Olsen of Bellevue, Wash., reported her Rhode Island - Red hen laid eight eggs Thurs- day, rested Friday, then rallied with two Saturday and five Sun- day. 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