wo Q Lo . x "Super Flour" Canadian Millers Not As Yet Adding Vitamins for Home Use a Canadian millers are fortifying the flour they ship to the United Kingdom with synthetic health- Joaded vitamins but so far vitamins bave not been added to flour com. 'monly used for domestic consump tion, a trade department spokes: 'man' sald recently at Ottawa, TESTS BEING MADE At the same time, cereal experts of the agricultural department, the milling trade and outside scien: tists are co-operating to see wheth- er it would be advisable to add vit. amins to the white flour from which the bread eaten by Canad: fans is made, At Chicago the Millers National Federation announced processors in the United States are prepared to fortity thelr flour, déscribing it a8 the most revolutionary step in bread making in 76 years, The fed eration sald processors of officlal standards revisions to make the "gupertlour" conform with legal re- quirements, ' In these days when the people of the United Kingdom are under terrific straln, the British Govern- ment 1s insisting that flour from Canada be fortitied by the addi tion of artiticlally-made thiamin, which chemists declare has the same properties as the natural yit- amin B-1, ¥ STUDY USE FOR CANADA The study being made by Can. adian scientists is to ascertain whether, since Canadian wheat is 80 strong in yltamins, it is advis- ale to fortify 1t with synthetic vit- amins or whether there should be adjustments in the processing of flour to leave more of the germ in the flour which now goes Into tho bran. There also is the danger of affecting the keeping qualities of Canadian flour it more of the germ was left In, by G, C, TONER Ontario Federation of Anglers (No. 27) VANISHED SPECIES tA museum, to most people, is an institution where exhibits are displayed to interest and enlight- en the visitors. This is an im- portant function any Museum but back of this is the funda. mental task of bringing together objects and facts and devising methods of preserving these for generations to come. As an ex- ample. Take the case of the passenger pigeon which has been a special activity of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology for quite a number of years, The passenger pigeon was once looked upon as a bird whose numbers would never be serious- ly disturbed. Millions upon mil. lions of these trim, swift wood pigeons passed from one section to another of wooded eastern North America in the days of the early pioneers," At that time it seemed impossible that they could vanish from the earth en- tirely--but they became extinct as a wild bird at the close of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons Established museums immedi-- ately set about to gather speci. mens that had been preserved by private individuals, It might have been thought that the salvaging of stuffed birds by an active campaign would soon have ex- hausted this source of supply so that the museums to come later would find it difficult, if not im. possible, to obtain specimens, The Royal Ontario Museum of Zoo- logy opened its doors in 1915, "many years after the wild pigeon was doomed. To-day, however, it "5 a valuable collection GIVE YOURSELF A MANICURE fri " Virginia Groy uses an orange stick to' | atches cares 4 angnail or mer fiemave with a clipper, the latler with light rubbing 1of a pumice stone. of these birds. ud The collection of passenger pigeons is the result of an en- thusiastic private collector .and naturalist, Mr, Paul Hahn of To- ronto. Mr, Hahn has peosistent- ly sought out-specimens of this _extinct species. Old cases of stuffed birds in attics and cellars, ctiy and farm, have been explor- ed and from them many, many species have been rescued from dust and vermin for the Museum where they are safely stored for posterity. I _ In the matter of saving speci- mens of a vanished species it is a case of "now or never." Regret- table instances have come to light where good suecimens have been destroyed by fire, rats and insects. This is the ultimate fate of all specimens thit do not reach the perpetual safekeeping of some museum, The museum's function in our society is to pre- -serve. material which constitutes the irreplaceable groundwork of human knowledge, and passenger pigeons definitely belong to this class of materlal. VOICE . OF THE PRESS Middlesex Top Butter Producer Oxford. County Led Ontarlo : In Cheese During 1940 Perth County took second place to Middlesex. in butter production during 1940, the year-end report of the Ontarlo. Departhent of Agri. culture shows. Middlesex and Perth - were first and second respectively in the province. Oxford continued in the lead in production of cheese, Butter production generally was a Jittla_lower In 1940 than in 1939, Western Ontario countles' showing increases were Middlesex, which topped the list, and Bruce and Qrey, which were third and fourth respectively in production, PRODUCING MORE CHEESE In chéese production In 1940, Wellington County, while not one of the high producers, had the greatest percentage of Increase, production being more than'20 per cent, higher than production in 1939, : Superfluous Parts An electric clock in the District Attorney's * office, Albuquerque, N.M., stopped, * i Assistant Cusfodian B, B. Mor gan removed some of the "works" and sent them, to the factory for repair, : y Noticing the clock was idle, Un. fted States Commisalomer Sam Juss volunteered, "Pshaw, I'll fix " 'He tinkered a bit, Now the elock's running as well as ever-- the parts en route te the Aactory, ' ' THOSE 17,000 VOTES Since the outbreak of war there have been 17,000 new po- sitions created across the coun. try in the service of the Domin- fon government, And that looks almost good enough for the hold- ing of another election. - --Peterborough Examiner, --0-- MASTERLY INACTION About 74 per cent of Toronto- nians failed to vote in the muni. cipal elections, including 78 per cent who thre¢ weeks before were vehemently denouncing .the City Hall for the state of the streets after a snowstorm, : --Toronto- Saturday Night. ene CHILDREN PROTECTED "When, for three years out of tén, a city the size of Toronto can show a record of not a single , death from diphtheria, ,no argu. ment against the method of im- munization in use 'can be very. effective. Nothing could more elearly demonstrate the benefits - of 'the toxoid inoculations\ which 'have been given to schoal child- ren, Sn e ------==Windsor Star. y LIVING THROUGH IT In years past it has been our fate to read in the history books "of those tremendous periods when the world was In flux , , « when the Asiatic invasions of. Europe were finally hurled back « « )\ when: the Roman Empire at last. Yell pray to the northern bare barians . . . when the Moors 'wero driven from Spain . «a | when Napoleon's name became & charm to frighten the ehildren of a continent. And always we "wondered: What must It have been like to live in such drift ing, dangerous days? Well, now we know, ~--Guelph Mercury, . : oo "ed, without antagonizing th viet Union, -- or Turkey, who' IN LIGHTER VEIN: "A Time and Place for Everything" HAT JESUS odin JEN a VE "This is H.M.C.S, Minesweeper alright -- and we appreciate your 2] offer -- but ., Tg THE WAR- Ww EE K--Commentary on Current kvents Hitler, Mussolini Confer; Speed Mediterranean War "Against a coalition of en- emy forces the Axis is oppos- . ing a coalition of its forces." --Virginio Gayda, in 1l Gi- ornale d'Italia. . The fifth historic mecting be- tween Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini took place under much less auspicious circumstances, for "| the Axis, than any of the four previous conferences. The two dictators faced last week the pos- sible loss of both the Battle of - the Mediterranean and the Battle of Britain -- the one through the threatening collapse of Italy; the other through the &pproach- ing peak in Anglo-U.S, war co- operation. The Questions Discussed _ The seasoned Associated Press correspondent, Dewitt Mackenzie, said that four questions were likely discussed at length at this meeting: (1) What "Hitler could do to save Mussolini from being knocked clean out of the war; (2) What the Axis could do to repair economic and supply fenc- , es, badly damaged by the Brit- ish blockade; (3) What policy they would pursue toward Ameri- ca, in view of the all-out program of aid for Britain; (4) How to make a killing of Britain within the next four months, before American aid could put the Al- lies beyond the danger mark. With regard to (1), it seemed likely that Italy would have to let the African Empire, victim of 'a masterly three-fronted "squeeze play" by Britain, pass out of -its hands for the time being, and that the Axis would concentrate upon gaining control of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean -- with the two armies and air forces undoubtedly under Nazi command. Balkan Turmoil To settle question (2) the tu- mult in the Balkans would have to be quieted, Rumania taken over and temporary peace res stood ready with 100 divisions to oppose any German move across the Bulgarian border into "Thrace." With regard to (3), Hitler and Mussolini were thought to have laid plans on the assump- tion that the United States would enter the war before nest sum- mer. ' Sea vs. Air Power Before the paramount question, _(4), could be solved, and a-final decision in the war thereby reach- ed, a great test of British sea and "Axis air power would come in the Mediterranean where, last" week for the first time, Hitler was turning- loose his dive-bombers (Stukas) in direct attack in suc- cessive waves. Whether or not the Nazis would go ahead with the invasion of 'Britain depended to a large extent on the results being achieved by the new 'tech- nique in the Mediterranean, speci - fically in channel the strategic Sicilian gateway. Hitler had * not been using his Stukas in di- rect bombing of Britain, was evi- . dently saving them for use at the moment when he would, chal- lenge British sea supremacy in the English Channel. : Aid by March *- Expressing" the fear that a grave crisis would develop in the war within the next sixty or ninety days, Frank Knox, United States Secretary of the Navy, urged the House of Representa- tives Foreign Affairs Committee to approve the Administration's bill authorizing President Roose- velt to lease, lend or transfer American-made fighting materials to the nations battling the Axis, (The defeai of Britain, he said; tculd come about through the German submarine can.paign or the effect of the continued Ger- wan bombardment). Passage of - the bill had already been delayed fr a few days in the House, but 'its final enactment was believed possible by the middle of March, the thirtieth at the latest, During the same week, U. 8. Secretary of War, Henry Stim- son, hinced at the early transfer «of a .rotion of the American navy to Britain on terms 'very advantageous to us" . , , and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in- augurated . as President of the United States for the third time, di : . \ IVER Aid ' a 2p . x d Bog it? A 5 PEE SPER SESE ASI RIA 1) LENA U RI SS) Aigod Loos declared: "Democracy is not dy- ing..." . . . Japan Issues Warnings Frenzied consultations between the Japanese Premier and high military officials in Tokyo last week reflected "the increasing delicacy of United States-Japan- ese relations" .', , Jap newspap- ers exhorted the government to be ready for resolute action to offset British and "American in- fluence in East Asia, accused Great Britain and the U.S. of in- stigating the current border war between French Indo-China and Thailand (Indo-China is viewed as the keystone of Japan's new "southward program") . ., But Japan's biggest warning to the western world came from the lips of Foreign Minister Mat- suoka who called upon the United States to revise her attitude to- ward Japan's ambitions in Great- er East Asin. A modified Ameri- can attitude was essential, he cautioned, "both 'for the sake of peace in the Pacific and the sake of peace in the world in general. Should the United States become involved in the European war, he continued, and *'should Japan, too, be compelled to participate," the resulting conflict might spell "the downfali of civilization." U.S.-Soviet Rapprochement? The United States moved to- ward friendlier relations with the Soviet Union last week following the remova, of the "moral em- bargb" on shipments of strategic war supplies to Russia. TRis ac- tion came the day after the Jap- anese Foreign Minister recom- mended closer friendship ~be- tween Japan and Russia, and was interpreted by many informed Americans as an effort by the United States to draw the Soviet away from the Axis. se Farmers Organize The amazing phenonemon of 4--the Canadian farmer emerging from his cocoon of rugged indi- vidualism was scen last week at Toronto where hundreds of ag- ricultural leaders of the Domin- ion met, under the auspices of the Canadian Federation of *Agricul- ture, and decided ~ to organize themselves into one mighty body" from the Atlantic to the Pacific, - War-time stress had accomplish- ed what a hundred years of peace-time drift had failed to bring about. At last the Can- adian farmer had realized the truth: "Your strength is in union. Organize." . . Hepbyrn Holds Spotlight Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn of Ontario, the figure who best represents the forces in Canada who want to build up the power of the Provinces, weakening the power of the Doinion Govern- ment, held the spotlight of public attention here for most of last week, First, he was instrument- al in breaking up the Sirois Do- minion-Provincial Conference at Ottawa; next, he upheld the cause of Ontario farmers in the face of © 'the Dominion Department of Ag- riculture's refusal to do anything, by announcing that a bonus of two cents -a pound would be paid on Ontario-manufactured ched- dar cheese; then he came forward with a new program of war fi- nancing, recommending that the Bank of Canada issue new cur- rency (approximately $480,000,- 000) to take care of the increas- ing needs of wartime and that the 3 per cent scale of war borrowing be abolished. 'On top of this he spiked every rumor current about the country that there would be an election in Ontariv this year. Other Problems to Discuss One of the other two provin- cial premiers who opposed adop- tion of the Rowell-Sirois Report, William Aberhart of Alberta, ex- pressed the disappointment, felt by many péople- throughout the Dominion, that there had been no further discussion at Ottawa on Canadian problems between the Dominion and the provinces. Mr. Aberhart said: "I thought when we decided there was no poasi- bility of adopting the principle of the report that we would have D. 0. Finlay, well known to the sports world as Britain's Olympic hurdler, is shown getting into the cockpit of his Spitfire plane, Fin- lay is now a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force. His squad- ron has shot down more than 100 enemy planes, according to the records. : been invited to talk over present problems of Dominion-Provinecial - affairs together . . , I looked on the solution of these problems as more important than the final adoption of the report itself." Farm Notes . . . Top-Grade Wool Must Be Clean Since wool is an essential war time commodity, its production should be receiving "every won- sideration, particularly at the pre- sent time, It is estimated that thirty per cent. of wool marketed annually is unfit to ehter the top grades, due to the presence of chaff, seeds, burrs, and branding materials such as tar and ordin- ary paint,-and -is-thus sold at a considerable reduction in price. All of these contaminating ma- terials ean be avoided if propes management practices ave follows ed. ) oo At the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; states S. B. Wil- liams, Animal Husbandry: Divi- sion, Dominion ~~ Experimental Farms Service, the sheep are fed from slat-fronted, V-shaped feed racks, The slats are closely enough spaced so as to prevent the animals putting their heads into the hay when feeding, while the top part of the front'i rd- ep up to prevent seeds and chaff ~~~ from falling on their necks and backs. When the racks are being filled the sheep are shut out of the pen so that it is not necessary to carry the hay across their backs, While in the ordinary course of events sheep will usuals Jy keep. burdock grazed so that it is unable to set seed, there are certain burr-producing plants that are not relished and should he kept cut. In thé late summer and fall whenever sheep are turned into a pasture not recently grazed it is inspected for bur- docks, which are then cut and burned. . Since tar and common paint will not scour out of the fleece, a commercial sheep branding paint is used when sheep are to be marked. This fluid gives a permanent mark and yet is easi- ly removed by the manufacturer in the scouring process, The sheep are kept free of dung locks ~~ and urine stained wool by trim. ming at regular intervals, Radio receiving licenses issued in Canada to the end of Novem- ber, during the current fiscal sycar totalled 1,355,711 as against 1,345,167 on March 31, the end of the fiscal year 1939-10, MAY \ 1 (1 ENERGY: for PLAY! \i/ Serve Their ij. Favourite Energy ® - Food Regularly! LIFE'S LIKE THAT "I told you, Henry, evely one In the house would catch your cold if you ' . weren't more caréfull 1" : literature, The Life of Winston Churchill-II J) ". \ Transferred to South Africa as a correspond: ent durlog the Boéy war, Churchill obanced to bo on a train captured by the Boers. Takeh to Protorld, He became unpopular with the British * military 'because of his oriticisms, Winston Churchill begat his journ- 'alistio career as a war correspondent in 1809, attached to the Thirty-first Pun. jab Infantry in their campaign fn India 'against the Pathans., During this period he 80 A voracious reader of classic » Adventure and Politics * Plunging into politice fn 1900; Chbirenil] cone ducted a unique campaign for a seat In par lament for Oldham by making speeches from the top of omnibuses, The flery 26-year-old captured popular fancy and he was elected, The year 1908 was 'memorable for Churchill, He not only was elected presi dont of the board of trade, but was mare rled to Miss Clementine Hozler, Four children were born to the Churchills, one son and three daughters, As Nr" NC Ag I PPP Pe XZ oo