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ol Ay a / Ee i Guard Children From Pneumonia Keep Other People With Colds Away From "¥our . Youngsters To the question "how can I safe- guard my child against' pneu. monia," the answer is simple, says Dr. Nelles Silverthorne, writing in the current issue of "Health," ors gan of the Health League of Can- ada. Dr, Silverthorne urges: "pre- vent both children and adults with colds from coming in contact with the baby or the healthy child." People with sore throats, too, should be kept away from babies and children, the doctor advises. "It this Is not possible, wash the bauds frequently and wear a mask," he urges, Doctors should be called early in cases where pneumonia is de- veloped, the writer gays, "Call him when the infection fs in the early stages so that he may treat it be fore it is too late." '"Common Cold In Lungs" In plain language, pnenmonia is "the extension of a common cold into the luvgs." Dr, Silverthorne explains, "Every year many babies die with bronchopneumonia, an n- fection in both lungs." Any nasal or car discharge Iu members of the family should he "carefully handled and all handker- chiefs or dressings shou!d be boil ed or otherwise disinfected, it is advised. Feeding utensils should be properly sterilized by boiling. In recent years very active and acute gerums have been used in the treatment of many severe- in: fections, pneumonia being- one of them, ho concludes, "By this means it is possible to limit the spread of the pneumonia and the patient responds to the early treatment. Instead of dying or developing a prolonged illness, the child is well on the road to recovery in a very few days. Strategic Greek Port Prime object of a German blow at Greece is Salonika, above, a 'port on the Aegean which lies .close to the Turkish, Bulgarian, - Jugoslav borders of Greece. Weigh The Baby Every Two Weeks It You Want To Be Sure You're Feeding Him The Correct Diet There are several reasons why It is not good either -to feed chil dren irregularly or to give them any bits between meals, It is bad Training and tends to make them self-indulgent; it spoils their ap- petites for their nocessary meals; It may upset their digestive sys- tems. If Baby is given nothing but water or' fruit juice to drink be- tween meals, he will never expect "anything else. If however, you feed him constantly while he 1. tiny, he will be one of those fretful babies who will never settle down, and as he grows older he will always, be worrying you for "bits." To ba sure that Baby is taking sufficient, but not too much, food sui' ** for his age from birth, you should welgh him undressed every fortnight, If he ga' 3 an av- erage of 134 lbs. a month for the first few months, and 1 1b. a month " Jater, you can rest .agsured that he is taking sufffelent food for his weight and-age. If ho is restloas be tween hig bottles, hoi may be suf- fering from wind, and you should help him to get rid of this during and after each feed, Rer mber that ov.r-feeding may cause rest "fessness by . distending 'Baby's stomach, 'Baby will probably .gain too rapidly In weight and may el ther pass.large bulky motions with difficulty, or may develop ~onstipa. tlc or -'*"uness, The remedy of course, 18.10 reduce elther 'thy trength. or.quantity ot food until by: doesvnot gain .in excess of 6 ozs. weekly. Most of the .colourings in our textile industry are prouced by the .dyers of Yorkshire, i Saving Ontario's ' Natural. {, Resources ad > . G, C. TONER, Ontario Federation of Anglers. . (NO, 34) FOR ALL, ENEMIES In my discussion on birds: for several weeks past 1 haye been stressing the relations between a predator and its prey. That is, animals or birds that feed .on other creatures are said to be predatory or predators while the animals upon which they feed are known as prey. The wolf is a pre- dator on the deer, while the deeer is the wolf's prey, We are just beginning to understand many of the relations that exist be- tween predator and prey but it has been suggested that to have a healthy stock of any animal it is necessary to have a predator feeding upon it, We have 'a fairly good. stock of deer in many areas of Ontario, - In some places they might be said to be abundant. Like, every other creature on earth' they are sub- ject to disease, accidents and old age. One of the ways among human- kind to control disease is to isolate the sufferers. This can- not be done in the wilds so nature has substituted a predator, the wolf, to keep the herd healthy. Wolves kill and eat the diseased, the maimed and the old. It may seem cruel in human eyes but it is nature's method of keeping a healthy stock of deer. Maybe Mice Are Necessary There is a similiar situation in the relations between predator, birds, hawks and owls, and mice, Of course, we do not want mice like we want deer but as they are fast breeding, little animals they occasionally become very numer- ous and must be controlled. Na- ture is never at a loss so when the mice become very abundant disease will break out among them, This discase may be such that it will spread to other crea- tures so"it seems to me that na- ture reserves disease as a last resort in-the control of her small- er -creatures. Hawks and owls are the normal predators that keep the population of mice be- low the level where disease ap-' pears and wipes them out. So, as I said above, it seems to be necessary for every crea- ture to have the proper enemies, Normal predation means that na- ture does not have to resort to more drastic forms of control, such .as disease which if allowed to spread might wipe out the ani- mals almost entirely as has hap- pened in some parts of the world. This might be desirable from man's point of view but mice have their uses in the scheme of things and we might find that we needed them if they disappeared completely. The Book Shelf "THE MAN WITH NO°FACE" By 'Margaret Armstrong This hair-raising thriller, among the best in current mystery liter ature, concerns tho American cous- ins of a rich Australian whose con. siderable fortune is left to them in his will. They are scattered throughout the United States and live in complete Ignorance both of the bequest itself and of a name- less peril which hangs over them because of it. An unscrupulous ad. opted son has been cut out of the will, and he is bent on destroying beneficiaries before ils terms can be carried out. This anonymous killer trails his victims 'all over the -country before he is unmasked by an urbane New Yorker In a thrilling and original climax, If you have never been an edge- of-the-chair reader before, "The Man With No'- Face" will teach you the habit, "The Man 'With No Face" , .. by Margaret Armstrong . . . To. ronto: Macmillan Company of Can- ada . . , $2.50, : re Canada's Flour Mills There 'sere 868 flour mills . and 925 feed mills in Canada in 1940, The flour mills 'had a total 24-hour capacity .of 98,5563 bar- rele, Thirty-five of the flour' mills, 60 per cent of the feed mills, and 46 per cent of the flour milling capaeity- in- Canada are located in, Ontario. Quebec ranks second as far as the num- ber, of flour and feed mills 4s concerned, but .in flour milling capacity Saskatchewan is second to Ontario, followed by 'Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba, The Maritime Provinces and_ British - Columbia have a+ small milling capacity. The bicycle as we know it to- day, with two wheels of equal size, was produced in 1876, when, known ias the 'safety :bicyele," it superseded the old high or "pen- "-nystarthing' -machine, is here seen with Mrs. Fer is A Off x PISO S, YAU A WSS oar Having completed his task of mechanizing' the Canadian Army in Britain, Brig.-Gen. G. P. Loggie, Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General has returned to Canada to tackle new military problems. He Loggie on his arrival at the C.N.R Montreal on their way to Ottawa. . station in THE WAR. WEE K--Commenlary on Current Events Activity stepped up sharply on all fronts last week in the war between Britain and Germany, The long-awaited Nazi spring of- fensive appeared to be under way, spurred by fast approach- ing spring weather and the pas- sage in the United States of the gigantic British-aid bill. On the "side of Britain, vast preparations were being made for counter-of- fensives wherever the Nazi ma- chine attacked--on land, sea, or air; or on the diplomatic or econ- omic fronts, < Balkan Front "The air war over Britain was resumed, its intensity in many instances equalling the frightful days of last September when casualties were highest. The war on the sea grew steadily more serious (Britain lost 148,038 tons of shipping the last week in February). But the biggest de- ..velopments, from the military point of view, were chaping up in the Balkan' peninsula where the chief belligerents were align- ing their forces in readiness for the battle of the eastern Mediter- ranean. Yugoslavia and Turkey had not yet joined fight. Yugo- slavia's problem was far from easy, since she was all but sur- rounded by Axis forces. A di- rect. challenge to Hitler could mean her quick extermination as a nation. Her answer to Axis demands evidently depended to considerable degree on what sup- port Britain gave Ggeece. The same could be said, possibly, of Turkey who waited also to sce what Yugoslavia would do and how the Soviet Union was going to take it all. . Turkey Can Take It Writing on the Balkan situa: tion, Associated Press correspon- dent Dewitt Mackenzie said: "Greece might fall, and Yugo- slavia be compelled bo acquiesce in Hitler's southward sweep, but if the Turks hold to their alliance with Britain and stand astride "the Dardanelles, the Anglo-Al- lied cause isn't likely to suffer irreparable disaster in that the- atre of 'war, Should the Turks by any chance go over to the Germans, however, it might mean the loss of the Battle of the Mediterranean for the 'British , be able to put up a very strong -- Jf the Turks fight, they should: NAZI SPRING OFFENSIVE IS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY defence. The 'Turco-Bulgarian border not only is protected by mountains, but is strongly forti- fied. To the south, between European and Asiatic Turkey, runs the Dardanelles, one of the most powerful strategic positions in the world. This, too, is heav- ily fortified." And last week the Turks learned that their north- eastern frontiers were safe from any encroachment by the Soviet Union should they choose to fight on the British side against the Axis. . . Might Turn Against Russia Highly-informed 'opinion in the United States last week advanced the theory that Hitler, instead of fighting his way via the Dardan- elles Middle East might turn against Russia" and seize the rich Ukraine, moving onward to, the Caspian Sea and the Russian oil-fields. Be that as it may, grave alarm was felt in Moscow over the mas- sing of German forces in a threatening manner' on Russian borders all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea (a mil- lion Rumanians were said to be lined up, "their fields left un tilled," along the common bor- der with the Soviet Union), News came of Russian troop move- ments in the Caucasus, coincid- ent with the strengthening of Red Army forces along the Prut River frontier of German-oceu- pied Rumania. The Russians were going to be ready for any . Nazi attempt to force the Dar- danelles or close their outlet to the Mediterranean, Russian Air Force, Factor How much the threatened clas | between, Germany and the So- viet Union was affecting the Battle of Britain was pointed out last week by the British United Press military analyst J. W, T. Mason: "Hitler must give much thought to Russian air strength. He has 'mow to consider the pos- sibility that if the war goes into next year, Russian air power may be added to the British which then will be augmented by the expected peak production of American factories. Last sume mer . . . the Fuehrer was able to concentrate most of his air squadrons over Britain in seek- ing to knock out {he Royal Air Force. Henceforth 'he must keep a considerable number of his through Turkey to the planes néar the Russian frontier, as well as in the Balkans, His adventure into southeastern Eur- ope by arousing Russian suspic fong has weakened his air straf- ing ability against the British." Battle .of Atlantic - The British Parliament last week voted a huge new secret appropwiation for "many more ships"---warships, merchant ves- sels of all kinds--to combat the steadily intensifying German sea offensive promised by Hitler in his ~~ January and February speeches. The Germans wele looking fof victory on the sea and it was there that they must bé met and conquered. This ap- peared to be the view in London and Washington last week, The Battle of the Atlantic was on. An alarming new situation with reference to the war on the sea confronted Britain last week when the French Vichy govern- ment, no doubt under Nazi pres- sure to do so, threatened to use the French Navy to convoy food ships to unoccupied France through the British blockade. The French fleet ever since last - June has been a troublesome and uncertain factor for Britain. Armed conflict with French foodship convoys definitely was not wanted at such an hour as this. U.S. To Turn Tide The lid was off on American aid to Britain the instant the Lease-Lend bill passed Congress in Washington last weék., Not a moment was lost in releasing a vast quantity of war materials to go across the water; "flying fortresses" were quickly dis- patched; and President Roose- velt pressed a demand for- $7,- 000,000,000 in immediate cash to finance the help-Britain pro- gram. Some sources said that in addition to flying fortresses, the equipment to be sent. over- seas at once included naval bombers for convoy duty, tanks and machine-guns for the Greck campaign and small craft to com- bat U-hoats. 09 warships alto- gether would be released to Britain before the end of 1941, To Meet Early Crisis Authoritative circles in Wash- ington appeared to be acting on the theory that the coming three months would bring the great '"erisis' in the. war which would indicate the ultimate winner. The best military opinion there held that 1941 would not sce the end of the confiict, but that American aid would be suffici- ent to bolster British resistance and prolong the war in the hope of defeating Germany in 1942, No Later Than June The Canadian military expert W. R. Plewman, noting that ma- terial aid from the U.S. to Bri- tain would be assuming colossal proportions by September, esti- mated that Hitler could not pos- sibly. make his supreme attack on Britain any Jater than June. At least two months before Sep- tember; he declared, Germany, if she would win the war, must strive to get the upper hand of Britain and isolate the British Isles from America. Tablet Diet Insufficient No Short Cut to Proper Nourishmént According to British Expert Most «f this talk about feeding people by tablet alone is without foundation, R, A. Bacharach said in his predidential address to the Pharmaceutical Britain on Nutritional Problems. "At present there is imo short cut to this business of taking en- ough food in tablets to supply suf- ficfent mitvition," Bacharach sald. "It is practically impossible to con- struct any kind of diet unlezs on the basis of one pint of Hquid milk per person per day." EXAMPLE OF IRON DIET As an example of an "iron diet" he Hsted ono pint of milk, eight ounces of wholemeal bread, elght ounces of potatoes, four ounces ot oatmeal, two ounces of meat or fish, two ounces of carrots, one ounce vitaminised margarine, one ounce of sugar and one orange. One human tear will destroy 80,000,000 of te germs which are found in the air around us. ' VOICE THE PRESS "HIGHLY SATISFACTORY A little while back mo 'one would have believed Halle Selassie would be around when the League of Na. tions was forgotten, ~-Brandon Sun, hE. THE FARMER'S DAY The Ontario farmer cannot com plain too much, He is never the forgotten man in a year in which there is prospect of an election, --8t, Catharines Standard. (he 'SOME MUST LISTEN Ottawa talks. Kverybody in Ot- tawa is gabbing from morning to night, 1 have got so that my moutn is never closed except from tho ex. haustion of listening to other talk. erg. It is the great indoor sport of the place, tho universal hobby, the general vice, --Bruce Hutchison in Times, Victoria Qe COUNTY LIBRARIES Theo librarians of the public and associate librarfes In Simcoo are evidently unanimous as to the valuo and the splendid service giv- en by the County Library Associa- tion brought about a year ago. Duy ing 1940 it rightly earned a titlo to a placo among the activities ot the different municipalities, Handi capped to some extent by lHmited finances, it nevertheless brought 10 the libraries, Collingwood not ox- cepted, many of the better class of books that in all probability might not have otherwise been at tho command of patrons of these Institutions. With more funds it undoubtedly could and would ren- der even a greater service. Well might the County Council be gen- erous in {ts treatment of tho or- ganization, -- Collingwood Eunterprise-Bulletin, Legends Help Tourist Trade With Lore Canada Filled That Traveling Public Just Loves Stumbling giants, forlorn In- dian maidens, vanishing dogs and poetic romances ave all part of Canada's stock in trade for tour- iste. R Ottawa Parks department and Canadian Travel Bureau officials last week! said it was too carly to estimate what the tourist busi- ness would be like this year, but they emphasized that the story of Canada's attractions was being told far and wide, i MANY COME FROM INDIANS "It is clear that the holidayer, in this time of stress, has a lively interest in the romantic legends which - surround many of Cana- ron ny for baby's\ I BOTTLE / BNE 1 is For Infant Feeding! Bee Hive SOARS TT da's playgrounds," said one offi- cial. "There is no guarantecing the truth of many of these stor- ies but they are an intriguing as- sociation with scenic beauties available to the visitor." Most of Canada's legend: come from the Indians. The Georgian Bay Islands were explained with the tale of a stumbling giant, rumbling over the icefield that was Canada with a-massive' boul- der in his hands. He stepped on tho body of a huge fish, the boulder smashed to the ground and splinteved into 30,000 pice- es -- to create the islands, STORY OF EVANGELINE "Poetic stories like that of Eve angeline have brought countless tourists to Canada," said one au- thority" on tourist travel. "In Prince Fdward Island the house Green Gables, made famous by the novel "Anne of Green Gables" is an unfailing point of interest." Super-Alarm Clock An alarm designed to] awaken the soundest of sleepers has been assembled by Herbert Dupuis of St. Catharines, Ont, . Its fundamental principle, of course, is noise; This Mr. Dupuis has: obtained by attaching a string from the winding bar of an ordinary alarm clock to a va- cuum cleaner switch, with a po- lice whistle attached to an aper- ture on the vacuum cleaner. When the alarm goes off its mo- dest ring is lost in the combined wail of the vacuum cleaner and screech of the police whistle, Society of Great: LIFE'S LIKE THAT 72 Rr . pr 1-14 By Fred Neher (Copyright, 1538, by Fred Fadw) "Here's a pie your wife sent you, Bubbles. . « » We put the filling in the tool shop." . * REG'LAR FELLERS -- Within the Law . og _ By GENE BYRNES. IPR ( Nha A } < [LN iW 1) '