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EA gle Vs Ed Danish Home Industry Lags Because War Has Cut Off Supply of Cotton, 8ilk, Linen and Wool For Handmade Ar- ticles One of the minor effects of the ropean war is the scarcity of cot- , ellk, linen, wool, yarn and read which the Naz! invasion has ought to Denmark, This seems of ttle - importance "in comparison With the death and desolation Which the war has caused, Never- eless, the'situation is causing not only inconvenience but distress to many Danish familles whose wo- men have been accustomed to create beautiful handmade articles. NEEDLEWORK -- FOLK ART Among the Danish women skill in the creation'of these articles, useful both In the household and for personal wear, is traditional, 'With her handwork the Danish ma- tron takes her place at the win: dow, often on a little platform rals- ed a step above the living room floor. It enables her to follow what is going on in the street, For out: eide her window you are likely to find--what you occasionally come upon in Philadelphia or in Baltimore--a "curiosity mirror," called Gadespef, In which you can look up-street and down, It keeps her posted on neighbors' coming in and going, on the children return- ing from school or father home from ° work. - Fine needlework is of the folk art of Denmark, and hardly a town of any size in' Denmark but has its embroidery shops, clearing houses not only for material of every sort, but for patterns, designs and in- struction. The isolation of Denmark by the Nazi invasion has mow made it impossible for this nationwldo home industry to be carried on "British Will Hold" On his 80th birthday, General John J. Pershing, commander-in- chief of the American expedition- ary force in the world war, broad- cast from' Washington, D.C., and predicted: the British will "hold out" against the German legions whom his strategy helped - rout in 1918. On his lapel is the Dis- tinguished . Service Cross pre- sented to him by President Roose- velt earlier in the day. Tulip Ration ls Predicted Canadians Won't Be Able to Secure Many of the Bulbs For 1941 Planting Tulip bulbs will likely be ration- ed out for Canada's 1941 spring flower beds, an Agriculture Depart- ment statement said, unless there is a sudden change in Holland's international status, In peace time the Dominion got 98 per cent of its tulip bulbs«from Holland, now controlled by Ger- many, Of the 32,000,000 bulbs of other ants formerly imported, 26,000,000 came from Holland, 8, 000,000 from France, Belgium, the Channel Islands and Germany. It is expected seedsmen will have available for sale this fall only about 10 per cent of their bulb sup. ply. Other bulbs fmported by Can- ada last year were about 2,260, 000 from the United States, 500,000 from Great Britain, nd 1,250,000 --mostly Easter liHgs--from Japan, Nature's Ya-ton Shell / , A gopher, turle, estim to be 30,0000 years old, has been found in fossilized stato at Se- bring, Florida, 'The arched shell, which is believed to have weighed nearly half a ton, is 4 ft. high and b ft, long. | J Saving Ontario's Natural "Resources. » (Neo, 9) » By G. C. TONER, Ontario Federation of Anglers IMPORTANCE OF BROOKS The headwaters of most rivers are little streams, These streams and the tributary feeder brooks are very important in the con- servation of the brook trout for they are the nurseries of the young fish, Here, the trout find cool waters, lots of the proper kind of food and, most import- ant of all, protection against many hungry enemies, Fishing clubs and anglers are so often only concerned with the main stream when they should be pro- tecting and fostering the tiny brooks back in the hills. Of course, many anglers realize the value of these streams and where they have control, oftentimes close them to all fishing. Our speckled trout spawn late in the fall, usually after the rains have filled the streams so that they can reach the spawn. ing grounds. The male and fe- male trout may go into small streams that have only a few inches of water normally. Here, the male. selects a gravel bar and fans out a depression. Next, he chooses a female and a few eggs are deposited. The male continues to fan out the depres- sion but on the upstream side, "and more eggs are laid. The dig- ging of the hole the second time covers the first lot of eggs with gravel. And this continues until both male and female are ex- 'hausted. WHERE TROUT LAY EGGS developing, protected against hungry trout and birds by the gravel over them. Early in the spring the young trout hatch and wriggle free. - For awhile they lie quietly but soon they start to stream, sential if we are. to h-ve normal reproduction in the speckled trout. There must be plenty of water in the small streams for nearly the whole year and there must be gravel bars in which the trout can" build their spawning depressions. Without these the natural crop of young fish will be a failure and artificial stock- ing will be needed if the angling is to be kept in good condition. If we are to maintain the trout in our streams we must see that the forest is not cut away at the headwaters of our rivers, and, if it has already been cut, we must reforest. 'This, I believe is the first and most important work in replenishing the speckled trout waters of southern Ontario. F amed' Sam McGee Dies In Alberta Celebrated - By Robert _ W. Service's Poem "The Cre- mation of Sam McGee" -- Native of Lindsay, Ont. Sam McGee, whose name became. renowned through a sourdough poem of Robert W. Service, is dead. The "Sam McGee from Tenneés- see," who actually was a native of Lindsay, Ont., dled In the little southern Alberta town of Beiseker, early in September. His death came 30 years after Service wrote "Tho Cremation of Sam McGee." The poem told how McGee from Tennessee was always "cold but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell" and he finally admitted he was comfortably warm when his frozen body was being cremated. WASN'T CREMATED AT ALL -McGee, 73 years old 'at the time of his death, wasn't spellbound by the search for gold, either, as his chief occupations in the Yukon were copper mining and road: bullding, And he was not cremated. He was burled in Rosebud Church cemetery, a few miles from Belsek- er, § After McGee left the Yukon in 1909, he gave up his northland pur- sults and went to (Great Falls, Mont,, where he lived for 28 years. Three years ago he came to Bel- seker, f . McGee always found "it difficult to convince people he was the "Sam McGee" of Service's poem but he usually did with a valedictory ad- Yukon, Two years ago he visited the. Yu. kon and discovered that a two- room shanty he had bullt at White- horse in 1900-had been converted into a tearoom that urged passers- by to "havé a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee." : gag brn {Largest Library 1 Largest library in the world is the rary of Congress, at Washington, D.C. It contains 1,421,285 maps and pictures, and 8,828,126 printed books and pamphlete, : All winter long the eggs are feed on the minute life of the - Two things are abselutely es-, dress presented when he left the majesties' private chapel (A great holes in the paving an King and Queen This photo-diagram of Bu was completely wrecked by one great bomb. damaging surrounding walls. C) that fell between the statue of Queen Victoria and the tom of the area inside the dotted lines is the -swimming poo y ckipgham Palace shows how the royal residence has suffere The front of the palace, at TOP front entrance, facing towards 1 demolished in the first assault on the palace. Carry On Despite Repeated Bombings of Buckingham Palace a St. James' Park, d from repeated German aerial attacks, "Two more bombs fell last week in the quadrangle (B), tearing of diagram, was pitted by another pair of bombs Their The building shown at the bot- THE WAR-.WEEK--Commenlary on Current Events The desperate battle for air su- premacy over Great Britain con- tinued last wéek. Upon its out- como and upon the vagaries of the weather hinged a colossal invasion attempt by the Germans. Would the R. A. F. retain its mas- tery of the British skies? Experts agreed that three factors would de- cide tho war In the air: the num ber of British pilots; the amotint of aviation gasoline the Nazis had: the strength of the Russian air force (which potentially oppesed Germany's). "Yes" and "No" Should the worst come to the worst, superior Nazi air strength might break British civilian morale and bring victory without invasion. Should the air battle end in a draw, it was expected that Hitler, committed to produce something soon to pacify the German pcoble, might order the invasion anyway with resultant terrible casualties to his own men. Would he invade? Anybody's guess was as good as the next man's. Louis P. Lochner, Associat- ed Press correspondent in Berlin sald "no." He foresaw the possib- lity that Germany's plans against Britaln would concentrate on air war with abandonment of the In- vasfon scheme. "The German air force," he declared, "will continue its relentless acts until the British government acts" surrendering. ~~ "Impossible unless German air mastery is established within a definite and limited period" editor- fallzed the Soviet Navy newspaper, Red Fleet. The article read: "Bri- tish air strength has been grad- ually Increasing with the extensive ald of the United States. If the Germans do not succeed In reach- ing their goal -- conquest of full air supremacy -- within a definite and limited period, and the British alr fleet Is able to achieve numer- fcal equality with Germany, then any German landing operations are out of the question." Bearing out the predictions on Axis strategy voiced from timo to time fn this column, the black shad- ow of Mussolini's legions began to move across Egypt last week, driv- ing towards the Suez Canal. It was obvious that the two dictators were working together, the Duce to pre- vent the British from withdrawing warships and alrplanes from the Medlterranean area for defense of the Mother Country; the Fuehrer to keep British ships and planes engaged at home while the Duce did his big act. They evidently be- Hoved that by striking sinmultan- ieously In two most vital spots they could clean up on the British Em- pire. -- presumably "TO INVADE OR NOT..." QUESTION FOR HITLER Franco, Too As if this weren't enough for the Government at London to be fac- ing, General Franco last week gave signs of wishing ty join Germany and Italy. to get his prize, Gibral- tar. He sent his brother-in-law Ra- mon Serrano Suner to Berlin to . confer with Hitler and von Ribben- trop following upon Axis pressure to allow soldiers passage through Spain, More War In The East The crisis- in tho Far East grew more acute, Japan had demanded treop transit across French Indo- China to enable her to strike at China along General Kai-Shek's southern berder, and a naval base at Haiphong, strategic port on the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vichy Govern: ment of Marshal Petain had agreed in principle to the demands, but China had declared that if they were granted, Chiang's troops would counter-invade Indo-China, The British and U. S. Governments had issued diplomatic warnings . . Would Japan gain her ends peace- ably or would there be new war in the east? "Time" (Sept. 16) said: "The end toward which the Japan- eso Army had worked since 1937 was at hand: a direct challenge to the western powers to fight or pull their stakes out of the Far sast . . . Few doubted that war was delinitely-in the saddle and headed south toward Thalland, Bri tish Malaya, Singapore, and the rich Netherlands Indes," ~~ To safeguard their own rear, the Japanese last week were making special efforts to reach an under- standing with Soviet Russia. De- clared the- newspaper Kokumin (often a spokesman for the Japan- ese army): ' The United States pre- paredness program Is directed against Japan. We are the potential enemy they have in. mind, not Ger- many. The leasing of British ter- ritorles In tho Atlantic for naval bases will be followed by similar moves in the Pacific. Relations be- tween Japan and the United States are now fraught with the danger of war." Trouble In India Trouble for Britain was also brewing In India, The powerful Con- gress Party, headed by Mohandas K. Gandhl, passed a resolution laat Week rescinding an offer to co- operate with Britain in prosecuting the war (Indlan Independence. had been asked as a price). Neverthe- less Gandhi expressed his deter- mination not to embarrass Britain at this time by pushing independ. ence claims, his desire not to order civil disobedience among the mass- es of India until he deomed it ab- solutely necessary. SCOUTING... Emergency Public Service The effectiveness of Boy Scout training for emergency public ser vice is impressively, illustrated by a recent summary of 125 dif- ferent types of wartime good turns found by the Scouts of Great Britain. The list includes general assistance in A.R.P. work, policing air raid shelters, filling sand bags, acting as blackont guides to the aged, infirm, mothers, children and new ar- rivals. In some places they are relieving telephone operators. In the Thames River Emergency Service they are stretcher-bear- ers, signallers, ete. They serve in hospitals, make splints, collect spagnum moss. They assist the police in traffic control; older Scouts act as special constables. In the task of evacuating child- ren they are invaluable, their tireless feet running hither and thither doing a host of things, from acting as escorts to clean- ing out empty houses to be used as billets. They are orderlies for air raid listening posis and balloon barrage units. They ave most alert coast watchers. On the farms they-are helping with the harvest, repairing hedges, -milk- ing cows, picking hops, colleciing or chopping firewood. One of the strangest Scout jobs is gathering acorns, chestnuts and rowan ber- ries for animals in the zoos. They have found numberless' ways of assisting the refugees from Hol- land, Belgium and France, meet- ing them at the stations, supply- ing them with food and guiding them to their billets. In a word the Scouts of Britain have met the greatest -day-after-day test that has ever faced Boy Scouts, and "have more than vindicated the aim and motto of their Scout training, "Be Prepared." The Book Shelf BUILDING THE CANADIAN WEST By Prof, James B. Hedges This attractive book written by Dr. J. B. Hedges of Brown Univers- ity, Providence, R.I, gives us the first complete account of the part played by the Canadian Pacific Rall- way In the settling and develop- ment of the great Canadian West. Based on an exhaustive study of original documents, it adds a new chapter to tho pioneer history of British North America, Without Dr. Hedges' work, perhaps, tho story of that adventurous undertaking, the colonization. of the West, might have been lost to succeeding gener: ations. The volume, most interestingly written, Is divided into thirteen chapters--The Background, the Or- igin of the Land Subsidy, Locating the Land, Beginnings of Land Pol ley, Advertising the West, The Land Boom on the Prairle, Launching the Irrigation Project, A Policy of Colonization, The Department of Natural Resources, Later Land Pol. icles, Promoting Better Agriculture, The Department of Colonization, Summary and Conclusion, . "Building the Canadian West" . . By Professor James B. Hedges . . Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. VOICE PR ESS THEY'RE HARD ENOUGH Incidentally; couldn't a lot of thoso summer resort mattresses be put to a useful purpose in building highways?-- : Stratford Beacon-Herald, A GETTING THE FACTS Tho Ottawa Journal is right when it suggests that the "Facing the Facts" broadcasting gerles should broaden out and take in more ter- ritory. The country should bo told about the wheat situation from the Government standpoint and the Western farmers' position. --Lethbridge Herald. --0-- OXFORD'S CHEESE Oxford has done more than any other county In Western Ontarlo and more than any In Eastern On- tario "except Ieceds, to increase cheese production this year. The July total was 895322 pounds, Engine Baked Em Here's a new one. A tourist, who halted his .car of 1925 vintage at Point Pelee's Na- tional Park and decided to turn back because of the ad. mission was not tempted by the offer of outside stoves in the park. He lifted the hood of his car and displayed three cans of beans in the process of being cooked. against 740,176 a year ago, and for seven months 4,197,360 pounds, compared with 3,515,800, Woodstock Sentinel-Review, min _TEXT-BOOK CHANGES One' of the most annoying things In the world, as far as parents are concerned---and It fs also a consid- erable expense to them--{s the hab- it of the education authorities in continually authorizing mew text. books and discarding old ones. Is It possible that they are secretly In loague with the publishers or aro they unable to make up their minds from year to year about the books from which schoolchildren should obtain instruction? Brockville Recorder and Times. Panama Folk Stay Home for Census By official decree everybody in the Republic of Panama had to slay at home one day last week until the census taker called. The alternative was a $56 fine. Automobiles, trains and street cars didn't move. Even ships were tied up until all aboard were counted. Ten years ago the census showed 467,459 Panamanians. Auk or BEE HIVE LIFE'S LIKE THAT oO ~ o Se & AZ Ney sR. (008 (Copyright, 1038, by Pred Nobu) "Hit me again! If I'm goin' home tonight, I gotta get used to it 1 1" °* REG'LAR FELLERS -- Preparedness -- By GENE BYRNES = ' IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET _BUT MISTER HEINBOCKLE 4 15 Jus' EXPLAININ' TO MY s P'HOW L TH PF x Ro > Ere po ms ETI PAA > re 2 ee A a HT To SE CT a VA SA He En rT an ~ Sans id NT IX ? % \ AR i Al ) ¥ "WN { tN ha ra Ni } iS 3 pA \ AN INE (EX : Ny RR A \ ALS SAR Ne