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_ able of Canada's Record Mineral Output AllTime High, Reachedsin 1940--Dominion Holds Strong World Position as Producer, Especially. .of Gold, Nickel, Zine -- Accelerated by wartime de- mands, . mineral prodiiction in Canada . during. 1940 exceeded a value of $500,000,000, according to the Department of Mines and Resources, This, is an all-time high,"and compares with the pre- vious record of $474,602,000 in 1939, and | with $457,859,000. in 1937 GOLD RECORDS" ESTABLISHED New records in both quality and value of gold have been es- tablished, with the evalue of the 1940 production «of the precigus metal estimated well in excess of $200,000,000 as compared with $184,000,000 In 1939, Most of Canada's gold is exported, prin. cipally to the United States, and ' the increased output largely ve- flects the policy of the mines to produce the metal at a rate as high as 'scund mining. practice. will allow in order to provide for- eign exchange. for the purchase of war materials, Base metal production figures cannot be disclosed, but the out. puts of copper, nickel, lead and zinc were greater than in 1939, Canada holds an exceptionally . strong world position as"a pro- ducer of these metals, ranking first in nickel, second in zine, third in copper, and fourth in lead. In addition to meeting the inckeasing demands . of wartime industries in the Dominion, huge tonnages of Canada's base metals are exported to the United King- dom. ; Canada "also produces large quantities of silver, platinum, as- bestos, gypsum, coal, salt, petrol- eum and other minerals. The list of minerals produced in commer- cial qualities includes 23 metals and 20 non-metallics, as well as clay products, structural mater- ials and fuels. He Likes Mad Music Lew A tries his hand atl some .. pd inhi) Flpving a xylophone is one of many hobbies which Ayres keeps himself occupied be. Sween picture assignments. Longevity Said Just Hereditary Doctor of 74 .8ays Kind of Life One 'Leads Not Govern. Ing Factor In How Long One Lives - Whether a man will live to a ripe old age 1s: deterniined before his birth and does not hinge on the kind of life hé Teads, says Dr. . L. F. Barker, professor emeritus "of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, "Longevity 1s exquisitely here ditary," he sald in a paper recently read at the New-York School of Boclal Work. "The best insurance of long personal existence Is de- rivation from long-liyed ancestors." | Dr. Barker, 74, was too iH to read. the paper himself and a physician - in his early thirties was scheduled . to deliver it. But the substitute became ill, too, and it was finally read by George Lawton, 40, who kept his fingers crossed while: reading, Japan-has's buget of. $362,000, 000 for 1941; and 40 per cent, of that is for war, which ~ means' about $140,000,000: But the war with China and elsewhere is cost-- ing $235,000,000, ko at the start there ia a deficit of $95,000,000. Prof. 'J, B, 8, Haldane, eritlc of the British governmentls air: raid shelter policy, has designed & shelter which, 'he claims, is eap- dng <a direct hit' ab und bomb. boc has culminated in ,jof his current 'r plates 16 'subscriptions for "each" Saving -Ontario's Natural. Resources G. C. TONER Ontario, Federation of Anglers read (NO. 26) EXHIBITS TELL STORY It was not long before the or. iginal Royal Ontario Museum building was found to be inade. quate for: the 'rapidly (expanding exhibits and research material. A néw building was. projected and completed in 1983. . The old part was used as a wing and the main ' entrance now: faced on Queen's Park, The Museum of Zoology was given the complete upper floor of the .east wing and laboratories and = workshops on thes ground: floor. These exten- sions of space enabled the insti- tution to organize as a properly constituted: museum, ; In the development .of the Royal iOntario Museum of Zoo- logy, it has always begn the aim to keep a proper balance between exhibits and research that is, be- tween the popular and the scien- tific phases of museum work. On the exhibition side, the aim has been to make the exhibit tell its own story with the minimum of descriptive label. This is me- complished in part by the provis- fon of accessory material design= ed to suggest something of the habitat in which animals live. This trend in museum exhibition the habitat group which depicts an - animal amid a representation of its na- tural surroundings. Usually such a group includes' a - panoramic picture as a background. Only two large habitat groups have so far been attempted, these illus- trating the black bear and the passenger pigeon, but a series of twenty-four smaller exhibits of the same type illustrate the ha- bitat of a number of common Ontario mammals, birds and rep- "tiles, Not all the museum's speci- mens are on exhibition; in' every large natural history museum; there are hundreds of specimens preserved in the rescarch collec- tion for every one on exhibition in the public galleries. One of the primary functions of a mus- eum of Zoology is to study the animals life, particularly rof the _region it serves. The specimens on which such studies are based are secured chiefly by field sur- veys carried out by the Museum's own staff, but some material is obtained by donation, by pur-- chase, and = by - exchange; The need that existed prior do the. establishment of the Royal On- tario Museum for an institution to investigate the animal. life of Ontario is shown . by the fact, that,- since its inception, nearly | sixty species of vertebrates not: previously known to occur in On- tario have been found within our limits; Thi Book Shilf "CONFESSIONS OF "AN IMMIGRANT'S DAUGHTER" by Laura G. Salversom . -v-. This Is the tale of a stormy=life; . the autobjography of a great Can. adlan, Mrs. Salverson is descended from the last of the Viking nobles. Her parents--Icelanders' who made" the voyage to Canada In "87--"were settlers: who never- settled: down: The. account. of thelr: wanderings over the North American contin- ent, from one city and pioneer settlement to another, and as far south as the cotton country of the" Misslssippl, Is a book in itself. The writer was a delicate child brought up on the old Norse legends, who was taken in hand by an extra. ordinary woman, Aunt Haldora. There follow her experiences as a professional dancer, her first love affair and several years 'of gruel ling _work-in Canadian houses and factories. Finally she is happily married to a compatriot and she 'herself becomes one of the most successful of Canadian novelists, winning © the = Governor-General's gold medal last year: : "Confessions of an Immligrant's Daughter, . . by Laura G. Salver. son", . . Toronto: Ryerson Press soo $2.50. He Who Flies - May Read:News | On an overnight trip by air across Canada, a T.C.A. passen-- ger can read the news in a dozen daily newspapers if he chooses, + 'all in the space of 16 hours, al published the tame day in nine different cities. Twelve maga-. _aines -- Canadian, British and --American--are aboard each air- eraft to keep the traveller abreast » TCA to meet the irements of its. various hi It subscribes J BS Dr. Allan Roy 'Dafoe, who brought the Dionne quintuplets into the world and is their. medical guardian; looks uncomfortable at the receiva ing end of a barrage of questions at the N.B.C. studios in New York city when he appeared as guest observer with the Quiz Kids. The Quiz Kids, whose program ordinarily originates in Chicago, were in New York making.a movie short, PY } THE WAR.WEE K--Commentary on Current Events War Awaits Spring Drives; Sirois Report Is. Ousted "Do not regard the present lull In operations as meaning that Germany does not know what to do next. The present pause Is creative and only ap- parent.' --German'- Propaganda Minister Goebbels, "A final victory over 'total- Itarian Intolerance' depends up- on Anglo-American co-operation' --British Prime Minister Churc- hill, "A- spirit of mutual under. standing and confidence Is char- acteristic of the friendly rela- tions existing between the U, S. 8. R. and Germany."--Tass, of- ficlal Soviet news agency. "The war.will move to a clim- ax In the next few months . . . perhaps:in the next few. weeks." --Hugh Daiton, British Minister of Economic Warfare, "My persohal and private -op- Inlon Is that on Jan..1 Britain stood a 58-45 chance to win the. war."--U., 8, General G. C. Strong. * & 0 Read together, these five utter. ances depict for us in broad; gen: eral outline the stage World War II had arrived at last week, Both' parties to the conflict were taking, stock, feverishly preparing for the climax spring was sure to bring. Nazi Objectives v GERMANY. The whole. world knew (sald "Time," Jan. 13) that it would be to German advantage to strike, hard and quickly, for many reasons: to relleve pressure 'on backtracking Italy, to batter down the last resistance In the Balkans,» to bring France and Spain solidly. into the German orbit, .to,sgmash. the. centre of the British Empire --and its No. 1 fleet base--before American help to Britain could reach declsive proportions. Beyeral of these moves were for the moment stymied--Yugoslavia, Bulgaria (with the tacit backing of Russia), Turkey, were as firm In their stand against the Nazis as thelr relative strength would allow; Spain' for the moment "wasn't having any"; the French Cabinet held too many trump cards (the fleet, and Weygand in Africa and Syria) to lose so early the gamo against Hitler, With regard to Naz! chances of Successful in- vasion of the British Isles, official circles in Washington were of the opinfon the odds wero definitely agairst It. : Offensive and Defensive BRITAIN: The British were s(ill In the main fighting a defensive war with Germany, awaiting the hour when they would have the full weight of American produe- tion behind them. Against Italy they were conduéting a highly- successful offensive which gave promise of broadening out to wipe Mussolini's African Empire off the map, and weaken his position In Eurepe beyond repair. Choice of Two Campaigns In the Battlo of the Mediterran: ean, the British had the choice of two major moves, of pressing the offensive in north and east Africa; or of waging war in the Balkans In earnest--perhaps gain- Ing Turkey's adherence. The first of these two planned campaigns would be the more likely to .de- velop. ' . LI J Bread From Russia RUSSIA: The new trade pact signed last week under which the Soviet Union undertook to Increase | her. contributions to Germany's wartime breadbasket was viewed . ds of tremendous international Im- portance. Besides broadening trade relations between nthe itwo coun- tries, the agreements were said to have - fixed mutual- boundaries in newly-acquired territorles and set- iled resulting re-patrlation prob. 'lems (50,000 Germans in Soviet- held" lands would return to the Retch). The signing of the pact followed weeks of increasing ten: slon in the Balkans whero the massing of troops and reports of disagreements over: control of the mouths of the Danube gave rise to speculation that German-Russian relations might be badly strained. With China, the Soviets signed a new barter agreement exchang. ing Russian military supplies and machinery 'for Chinese tea and manufactured products, * 0 0 In Legislators' Hands UNITED STATES: The Pres!- dent's "lease-lend™ bill of allout ald to Britain was in process of passing the House of Represent: atives, from where {t would go to. . the Senate. Debate in the Upper House was expected to continue anbther three weeks at least. Such delay In legislation would do little harm to the British war cause, it was: thought, since by practical standards -American war ald: to 'Britain, was. going ahead about as fast as facilities permit ted, and past British cash orders for-planes," munitions, were mean- time being filled, The Convoy Question Still © considered: of paramount {mportance, though : not talked about freely In the: open, was the question: of the U. S. strengthen. ing ,the British convoy system. averyone knew that thd American ald program would be futile unless the goods produced could be de lvered safely to Britalmn, It was expected that much would be done temporarily to rellave British ship- ping for war hauling, hut the use of American warships In convoys would become a hot issue very soon, = * * » so » Shelved CANADA: The mountain gave birth to a mouse--stillborn, Three years of work, millions of dollars in cash, huiylreds of volumes of - research material, months of pub- licity, 'appeared - to have gone for naught when the confereiice of nine provincial premiers meeting-in Ot: tawa last week threw out the Rowell-Sirois report (with {ta Tec- ommendations for reorganizing Canada's financial structure) after only a few hours' conslderation, Time alone could tell what effect this rejection would have upon the future of the Dominion. Per- haps not as moinentbus as we might now think. Many wondered who was right--Mr., King, who maintained that the adoption of the report would assist in the war effort; or Mr. Hepburn, who viol ently opposed It, saying that the timo was altogther inopportune. Now that the report had been shelved, the machinery of our governments would doubtless con- tinue to function as in the past-- until a worse crisis forced the re- vamping of our set-up in its entire: ty. + +.» Unappeased A crowd of angry farm folk taxed London, Ontarlo's, biggest hall to capacity last week ahd heckled Dominion Minister of "Ag- riculture Gardiner when he en- deavored to explain .to their satis. faction the policies of the Federal Government regarding wartime dif- ticulti€s of Ontario farmers. Un- 'appeased was the gathering which asked for a bonus on hogs (now' being raised at less than produc. _ tion costs); an increase:in the price of cheese; removal of the Veg on the price of butter; ship- ping of low-grade grain from the west as feed for eastern live stock. The reaction to Mr. Gardiner's small concessions (a "floor" for 'butter, slight increase: in the price of cheese) from Ontarlo farm lead. erg was not favorable. The provin- clal Minister of Agriculture was "considerably disappointed." The president of 'the United Farmers' Co-operative said Mr, Gardiner's recommendations were "very un- satisfactory." The president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture sald the whole farm situation would be threshed out at the Federation convention thls week in Toronto. To Increase 'Army A report issued at Ottawa last week by the -inter-Departmental Committes on Labor Co-ordination revealed that the Government Is planning an Increase of 117,200 men in Canada's armed services during 1941, Canada's munition. making army during the same time would be increased by 76,000 to 225,000, More than four new di- visions. (80,000) are to be added to the army this year. VOICE F THE PRESS FIRST BOTTLENECK The original bottleneck problem started with the catsup bottle,-- * ~-- Brandon Sun --Q BETTER IN 1041 Unless you are a better man in 1941 than you were in 1940 there is not much chance that your reeo- lutlong will long survive, --Peterborough Examiner. -- 0 SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY Most of us are really sincere when we ask heaven to help the poor. We feel that it relieves us of the responsibility of helping them ourselves, --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, LORD HALIFAX A contemporary hopes that cen- sorship regulations will not require us to allude to the new British am- bassador to, the United States as "Lord Eastern Canadian Port." --Woodstock Sentinel-Review. --0-- FORT ERIE DID IT Chlet Constable of Fort Erle is justly proud ot the town's record --seven years without a fatal mo- tor accident on its streets, Which shows what can be done, --Owen Souphl Sun-Times. : World Hockey Meet Planned ------ Dr. W. G. Hardy of Edmonton told the semi-annual convention of the Canadian Amateur Hockoy Association that plans are under consideration for staging world hockey championship in Canada after the war. Even before the war ends, world tournaments might be held on.a smaller scale, said Dr, Har- dy, past president of the C. A, H. 4h. He @xplained that the ehiet purpose of the International Ice Hockey Association was to trans- fer the centre of world hockey from Belgium to Canada where it rightfully belonged. - Organiza- tion of the LL.ILA. was, prompt- ed by the outbread of war in Europe and virtual the Old World body. Ligue .In- ternationale de Hockey Sur Glacal Great Britain, Canada and the United States make up the new world body and Dr. Hardy said that "the Olympic henceforth must take us on our own terms." collapse of" committee - Canadian National Railways Revenues The gross revenues of the all inclusive Canadian National Rall | ways System for the week ending January 7, 1941, were ...... $4,422,889 as compared with ....... 3,620,164 + for fhe corresponding period of 1940, an In- OTERBE OF +o ursrireirmbinmere 802,725 or 222% Fishermen-Farmers Harvest Eel Grass Eel grass in demand for in- sulation and packing is furnish ing a market for great quanti- ties of this marine plant which is strewn along the beaches after every high wind. The fishermen- farmers of the sections of the South shore of Nova Scotia near Shelburne ~have been harvesting the plant and obtaining good prices, The Canadian National Railways line follows the Atlan- tic Coast along this south shore from Halifax to Yarmouth, an area which annually attracts large 'numbers of visitors. Shel- burne possesses interesting links with 'the early history of New England and during its early. settlement provided accommoda- tion for Loyalists who had lef: New York. 0% i \\\ 17/7 ENERGY: TO"LAUGH Add to Milk-- Serve URRY on Puddings--Spread > on Bread and Butter. LIFE'S LIKE THAT yaar -- | By Fred Neher '2-1 ERNE db >. "ft ge €\ \ 1 500) 3) No % "Let me have $500,000. ess My gle Friend is coming down this noon : and | want to make an impression." ous ancestor o r Winston urehill, = Mes sughs, da ){ 's day, on Engla ¢ statesmen, Ean John Churchill, the Duke of Marl. ugh, England's greatest , Feperal, the fll Prim Churchill fam. many soldiers - Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born "I Nov. 80, 11874, third son: of Lord: Rardolph-: , - Ohur¢hill and Lady sChurchill, the former Misy: : Jennie Jerome of New Yofk. His grandfather was the sevénth Duke of Marlborough, ¥ YE NESTA Za [7 ho [Se b¥ Mh = Py mg nd, b 75 Vp 9 |} 5 UA ye oo 3 \ y : A His school days 'at Harro of his parents. Winston: was: last-in his class.: Aftér 'two unucecssful tries he finally was ad- mitted to Bandhurst and immediately showed a great enthusiasm for military life. NRXT WEEK--Churehill in India, Captured by Boers, Escape. Politics and romance. His Bo Akl Ped 8 w were the despair regment, served in India, played much polo. yhood and Youth Entering the British army in 1895, Churchill first saws. action when: -he ran away to Cuba'and joined the Span. ish" forces vas an officer in a Hussar During 1896-1898 Churchill SEY { RA Sed =? 43 oe OE rial 23